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DINNER DANCE
(in aid of H.K.W.G. and M.C.L. Charities)
WILL BE HELD ON
SATURDAY
December 5th, 1931,
8.30 p.m.
UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HE. THE GOVERNOR
AND LADY PEEL
IN THE
HONG KONG HOTEL
on the occasion of the opening of the
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5th December, 1931.
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MR. GUEDALLA'S LIFE OF WELLINGTON.
constructed to engage the attention of the ordinary reader, as well as those who look for literary quali tios.
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The Duke" by Phillip Guedalla, (Hodder and Stoughton, 23/-.), In The Duke" by Mr. Guedalla Deliberation in the keynoes of we are approaching, at last, the per-Miss Philpotte' new novel, Tho fact type of history book. The book Youth of Jacobi Ackner," It is very is adequately bound; the pages are well done; but Jacob & cansumptive comely, unmarred by those irritat of difficult temperament, and some, ing signs in the text which refer to
what impractical vision, is on the footnotes and which can appeal to whole rather a dreary person, It few but pedants, and helpful, with is his development as a psycholo-" each opening telling us of the your gicul problem that is the chief mat- concerned and the age of the "hero" the "Authorities should He loves and marries a girl of Batisfy even the mest donnish of charm and quiet strength, to wheu the death of their son as a baby historians and there is an odex. in Spain, and Jacob's death there The illustrations LTG good-the shortly afterwards, moang the end panorama of Waterloe being espect of life for her, and who thenceforth devoted herself to nursing in the ally interesting, but the end-papers Spanish hospital As a study of are particularly unhappy. If one frustration, as an intimate dissec- must have pictorial end-pupers lation of a nature warped by disease and poverty from its legitimate ex- then be done with decency and res-
pansion together with some able traint in black and white, bus let portraits of the members of an ar- them act display a schoolroom vul. Itistio and idealistic coterie, it is garity of blue and fleshy pinks. te sxceedingly clever. is almost presumptious to critters Mr. Cuedalla's graceful and pie turesque style unless one is able to pay a graceful and picturesque compliment; but, the author's sense of the picturesque-often charming. | as in the Symphony in White on 3. 380-is apt in places to degan erate into mere affectation.
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*To most people the Duke of Wel-at the mystery surrounding the mur lington was a beak-nosed gentleman der of Randal Foss and later who won the battle of Waterloo that of George Glynne, the on- owing to his opponent's mistakes, necting link between the two crimes whe was vaguely connected with being hard to discover. Sydney politica in later life and who was Foss" nephew and heir to the mur the hero of several rather liverish dered man, finds himself mixed up anecdotes, such as that of the rain the tangle, and has some sur- and the bottle of port. In "The prising adventures before the fun Duke we learn more and meet a expected denouement is renched. A man who, unlike the good kings, bad really well ecnocived and gripping kings and weak kings of the "Little story. Arthur school of thought, is re- freshingly manlike and interesting, We meet a man who was a marty! to colds and to his necessity of answering letters; a man who was partial to women (His comment on the granting of local leave to his officers in Portugal is illuminat ing), hunting and children; who was full of odd sartorial and me chanien ingenuity His anti-insect mattress and his fitting to enable one, to read newspapers in the bath would be popular to-day), a man who was gruff but at bottom kind-
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queror," it become important" to know what had become of the Cassel treasure. Inquiry showed than before iris, departure the... Elector had passed a whole day with the Jew Rothschild. An im- perial comission visited him and minutely examined his safes an his cash books; but it was in vain: no trace of the Bloctor'a deposit" could be found. Throats and intimidation had no SUCCOK and the commission, feeling sure that no personal interest could induce a man so religious as Rothschild to perjure himself. proposed to administer an vatni to him, He Fofused to take it. There was talk of arresting him. but the Emperor, thinking this a useless set of violence, forbed it. Then they had recourse to a not very honourable method. Unable to overcome the banker's resistance, they tried to gain him? over by the bait of profs. They proposed to leave him half the trosaurs if he would give up the other half to the French admini-I stration. A receipt for the whold, accompanied by a deed of seizure. should be given him to prove that he had only yielded to force and to prevent any claim from lying against him; but the Jaw's hones-- ty rejected this suggestion also, and his persecutors, tired out
the loft him in peace. Thus 10,000,000 Francs · remained In Rothschild's hands" from 1800 till the fall of the Empire of 1814, Then the Elector returned to his states, and the banker returned him his deposit as he had received it. You may imagine the summ which a
capital of 18,000,000 francs would produce in the handá of a Jow banker of Frankfort. From this time dates the opulence. of the Rothschilds, who thus owe to their ancestor's honesty the high place which they now hold in the finance of all civilisad coun- tries.
Against a deliente sketch of the period in which he lived, we have SIE, The following, which is an aa admirably focussed picture of extract from the Memoirs of the Duke. His youth and "educa Baron De Marbot" translated by tion, his remarkable achievements A. J. Bulter, may be of interest in India, that queer interlute be to many of your readers. It is tween India and the Peninsula and particularly intoresting because it his post-war career are aptly predates the afflucucs of the Roths portioned and suitably stressed. childs who apparently owe all to With a charming background (What the honesty of their ancestors. fun a house-party in his grandfa ther's house must have been !) and a clear portrait, even including the great man's booke, we can perhaps excuse the fact that his purely martial exploits seem somewhat blurred, with only the phrases.
bullocks and rice
"and" blind alopes" readily visible. After all these things may be read of in other books, and his chief service to his country may well lin. like a fine old man of our times--President Hindenbury-in his efforts to main- tain peace rather than in his pro- secution of the war that went.che fore.
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Mrs. Mordaunt's literary hero is built on singularly unheroic but life-like lines Leverson. Hurle used every relationship of life as pure copy" for bins not very inspired talent. He is, in fact, an uplovable personality, but his career is drawn with skill and ruthless understand. ing of his make-up. Part of the story swings to the islanda of the South Bons, and no reader of Mrs. Mordaunt's works.needs, to be told of her ability in such descrip- tions. A book that is out of the ordinary, and, of course admirably
The victory of Jena had im- mense resulta..... Besides the territory conquered from the Prussiaus, Napoleon confiscated. the
estates of the Elector "ül Homo-Casach, a punishment which hia duplicity deserved. This prince, though summoned Home time before the war to declare for Prussia or for France, had put both off with promises, wait ing to array himself on the sids of the conqueror. The avaricious large sovereign had amassed a treasure by selling his own sub- jacta to the English. They were employed to fight the Americans in the War of Independence. Disloyal to his relatious, he had offered to ally himself to the French, on condition that the Emperor would give,,him their states, so nobody regretted him. But his hurried departure wag the cause of remarkable iner dent which as yet is little know. When forced to leave Cassel in a hurry to take refuge.in Eng. land, the Elector of Hesse, who was supposed to be the richest man in Europe, being unablestu bring away the whole of his trea- sure, sent for a Frankfors Jew, obscure named Rothschild, an banker of the third rank, known only for the scrupulous practice of his religion. This seems to have decided the Elector to en- trust to him 18,000,000 francs in specio. The interest of the money was to be the banker's, and he was only to be bound to returt the capital.
When the palace of Cassel was occupied by our troops the agents of the French treasury seized" pro. perty of groat value, especially pictures, but no coined money was found, yet it appeared impossible that in his basty fight the Elec- tor could have carried away the whole of his immense fortune. Now since, by what are conven- tionally called the laws of war; the capital and the interest of securities found in a hostile coun- try belong of right to the cou
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