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HONOURABLE AND PECULIAR Wars....! ~~By—PálŸDer Chan-With-a Foreword by Erngst Bramah and 12 Illustrations by Harold W-Hailstone--74×8);-224«ppit
Hamish Hamilton: s. n.
CHINESE VIEW OF
ENGLAND
SEX AND SOCIETY
THE NEW MORALITY" By G. E
"Nowsom." Fror Nicholson-and-
Watson. 65.)
It
sorption of an infinity of data. It is probable that no side of the
atage by a too confident presenta tion.
A TALE OF 'MESPOT.
"ADOWN THE Tion18 I WAS BORNE. By Shalimar (F. C.. Hendry). 7x5, 313 pp. Blackwood. 75.
Bd. n.
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At the end of 1918 the "Journal
retids
I received (less, agents com missiona) about £16,000 during the year, which may be called succeso by, any, worldly-minded author. It is apparently about as much as I had earned during alt the previous part of my life. And I bought car and a yacht and arranged to buy a house.?!
At the end of the following-year- (1913) he wrote:-
Barrie's First Smoke,
paying
Good short-dinner. He told
to the book is good, but perhaps 1913-Books, £6024 188 1d; plays, The story which gives its nameNet earnings received during slightly out of key with those that £9384 198-total, £16,440 178 1d. follow. It tells of the retreat down The gross sum before In this collection of some thirty
The Master of Selwyn takes up the Tigris of a crazy gun-carrying agents' fees was £17,106 108. id. In short sketches Mr. Peh Der Chen, the cudgels vigorously against steamer after the failure of the addition £105 11s 3d on invest- gives his impressions of England. those who disparage the institution first attack on Baghdad. The re-di He is a Chinese. We know this of the family and advocate the remaining tales are of merchant from the foreword written by Mr. cognition of sexual freedom. ship, many of them sailing ships, Ernest Bramah, to whom the au- would require very unusual gifts and of the men of the merchant Bonnett knew innumerable people thor applied for it a one Chinese to make the defence of existing in service. When all are good, it is and those the most interesting, and to another; otherwise-one-might-stitutions as readable, as the on difficult to make a choice but the he was a great entertainer. The doubt his Chineserie, for he writes slaught upon them, for the icono clearness and restraint of A Journal is in consequence full English as idiomatically as Mr. clast can take his fun where he Secord Mate with the Senussi" are of good things. This concerns a Bramah writes Chinese, and but finds it, using ridicule or pathos very effective. In "On Time Char-dinner with Barrie for au accasional lapse such as: 05 happens to serve, making inter the author explodes the popu- "Are-carriage and his knowledge finite capital out of hard cases, of what Confucins said in 72, one and sure of the passing attention, might think it his native tongue. at any rate, that every would-be His method is to examine things revolutionary can draw. Orthodoxy them delivers a much more sober brief to English
to contrast epigrammatically to their disad its counsel, since he must admit the vantage with things Chinese, imperfections of the accepted code, "What curious Ideas of a holiday while seeking to show that there you have? We swim to become euel: would be loss, and not gain, either you awim to get hot. I have heard of happiness or of other values in it said that you English take your changing it, - pleasure sadly. I say not sadly. || but madly. We go on a holiday, The writers to whom "Mr. Now- glad of its leisure. You stress a som makes reply cannot say that holiday as though sorry of its le he does not give them fair play, saro. You agitate yourselves in for he quotes freely from them and the name of joy. It is our joy not, deals directly with the inferences to be agitated."
they draw from social history and anthropological research. But the
and
It will be gathered that ofr Chinese critic does not confine him self to such superficial differences! as those of apparel. When he does
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feeling will probably grow upon some of his renders that social po- icy has as little to hopa ns religion itself from dialectical treatment.
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lar theory that the merchant skip me that he did not smoke until 23, per is invariably a simple, God- and that he wrote My Lady Nico fearing, unsuspicious soul: the captine before he had over smoked. tain who trades to the South Ameri-
" He said when he can river ports must swim at times came
first to London ho dined in a shoal of commercial sharks and
ed day (four half- he capable himself of shrewdly on occasion. How simple else. He found at the end biting penny buns or scones and ate little Captain Browne was caught in a of the year that he needn't have net by Pizarre and Co., how, help been so economical; but he was ed by Captain West (who had a afraid of the rainy day. brother a bishop and who looked himself like a bishop), he extricated himselves and sailed away with all his owners' bills, satisfied and with considerable pickings in his own
pocket, makes capital reading. The stories have about them the quality of style; and even on the mind of the non-nautical reader they leave the impression that the author is
He said it took a long time for him to ses that there was any material in Scotland."
The last two entries in the "Journal" "concern his separation from his wife, Marguerite, in 1021, when over 50 years old,. Frenchwoman.
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There is no hint in the preceding pages of an impending separation
discusu clothes it is not really the The persistence or decline of the not spinning out "Alm stuff," but and no axplanation of it.
clothes which have caught his at- tention. For this view there is the authority of his countryman, Mr
family will never be decided by telling of men whom he has known. species of argument, but by and of events that have been in a
Bramah, who points out that the cumulative force of human ex- large measure within his own ex- perience. At the present time it
Although Mr. Peh, in dutiful compliance with his traditions, is all for putting women in their pro- per places (three paces behind men when walking together...) he is peculiarly unable to get away from the trivial subject, and time after tit returns to the wonder of their flagrant immodesty
." He had
is recognised more frankly than it parience.
used to be that conventional mora.
lity is widely ignored, and that in certain circumstances and with
certain
Both evidence of the
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President Hoover may still be president when he leaves the White House. He has been offered, and is likely to accept, the presidency of exhis old university, Leland Stanford
in California
types of character its claims are hard to demonstrate and impossible to enforce, with any good result. The gradual relaxa tion of the divorce laws and the his experiences. In one of the more humane front shown to illegi lustrations contributed by Mr. timacy are
A Book of Pastimes for Every penees of the City Government and Hailstone he is to be seen suffering change of view. The practical
body. By. M. Abraham.ita various bureaux has been adopt acutely under the mistletoe. He
With an Introduction by Lord ed. Furthermore, the Central Gov. seems to have studied or tried his question is whether society is wise
Baden Powell of Gilwell. Con ernment will be petitioned for hand, at all our chief sports and to concede respectability to only one type of sex-relationship, and games, and has a word-usually a whether the social system is really
funds for the upkeep of the newly most pertinent word-to say about strengthened or weakened by the Lord Enden Powell in his intro-organised peace preservation corps,
ny of them. His epithets for taboos and far-reaching repressions duction resents the author's state ment that the book is for people cricketers seen at the Oval would commend themselves to Mr. Car
No greater problear presents it between the ages of ten and seven- dus! But he is not flattering about self to modern thought, and none
ty. He knows, he says, & man of: our boxers: What foolish jok is surer of-being-obscured rather aventy-five who has enjoyed learn- ing was this. There were great thin clarified by the oridinarying several new parlour tricks gloves over the hands of the fight methods of debate. In the com- from it; and indeed it is a book
which that involves.
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ers! Now, how can a man fight munilies of today the destiny of a which will give pleasure to the with gloves on? He might just as moral systent is settled by whether well be tied in a sack. Is it posit" works," and that is a matter sible that you have not yet learnt on which
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the value of the human, fingers as makes itself up by the gradual ab
(Continued ́un next eplumn) a weapon?"
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ARNOLD BENNETT'S £17,000 A YEAR
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REVEALED IN HIS
JOURNALS
The late Arnold Bennett was ons" of the most prosperous of modern authors and playwrights, and in the second volume of "The Journ als of Arnold Bennett," published by Cassell, it is revealed that as
Kfar back
Was still
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his
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reach the
inla
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Hoover's treasurership of the. university football team has figured in all his Presidential publicity Hoover entered Leland Stanford campaigns, but his undistinguished university was new creation, built year with a baseball accident. Ia as a freshman in 1891, when the athletic career ended in his first by Senator Leland Stanford as a Gelding a hard ball he sprained the third inger of his left hand. The memorial to his only son
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