INTERESTING LECTURE
Romanticism And Works Of Alessandro Manzoni
GREAT MASTER OF PROSE
An Interesting lecture on "Romantķiam. Manzoni and I Pro- messi Spoel" was given by Mr. G. P. de Mastin, in the Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday evening when the second meeting under the spices of the Dante Alighieri So- cloty was hold,
Among those present were the Italian Conqul-General, Comm. Uf. A. Biancol, who presided, Sir William Hornell, Mr. G. B. Sayer, Director of Education, Professor K. M. Simpson, Professor and Mrs. W. L«Gerrard, Mr. H. C. Macnamara, Mr. H. J. Cruttwell, Dr. and Mrs. O. M. Pfister, Father G. Byrne, Father G. Rosal, Mr. A. B. Laborinho, Portuguese Consul-General, "and: many others.
The Chairman, introducing the; speaker, said that it was the the Society second meeting of which was trying to develop a very modest programme of musical
Birth of Manzoni Romanticism in Italy reached its high water mark with Alea sandro Manzoni. He was born in 1785. After some years spent in
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937.
KOWLOON
RESIDENTS
ASSOCIATION
MONTHLY MEETING
DISCUSSION
Coronation
Celebrations
TOLL OF THE ROAD
Traffic Department Report
In the Colony of Hong Kong in- cluding the Island, Kowloon and the New Territories during the week ending at 8 a.m. on Batur day, the 9th inst, there were al together 18 traffic accidents, as the The monthly meeting of the result of which one person was General Committee of the Row-killed and 15 persons were injured loon. Residents' Association took place on Monday evening at 8t Andrew's Church Hall, Howloon.
Those present were: Messa. B. Wylle (Fresident), F. C. Mow
Fung (Vice President), E. P. Phil- Lips (Hon. Treasurer). R. Baldwin (Hon. Secretary).; L." d'Almada e Castro, Junr., T. B. Wilson, Lam, Ming-lan, W. C. Paishow, C. E Terry, J. M. Alves, R. Pestonji, L N. Apologies for absence were receiv Murray and Dr... Ip. Kam-wab. dom Mrs. E. W. Gardiner,
Manners and Rev. J. R. Higgs. Mears. Li Chor-chi, H Gittins,
The person killed, a Chinese female medicant, aged about TO years, died from injuries received when she was knocked down by a private motor car whilst stepping
of the footpath.
Of the persons injured, 11 were pedestrians, who were either walk- ing or running across the road or stepping off the footpath and were struck by vehicles.
TAXI DRIVER FINED
Sequel To Motor Accident
An accident in Kennedy Road on Mr. J. V. Roberts, of the Office Ap the evening of December 13, when pliance Co., Ltd., was knocked down and injured by taxicab No.
680, had a sequel at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon. taxi, was summoned before Mr. J. when Pau Shin-ting, driver of the
A. Fraser for driving without due care and caution,
Mr. B. B. Hobbs, of Mesary Mc--- brief on behalf of Mr. Roberts, Callum and Co., held a watching
while Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for the defendant. Traffic-Bergt. G. Youe was for the Police.
Mr. de Paris he settled down to a quiet! D. W. Munton, F. HL Loseby, O. M| cyclists were injured as the result December 13. He was with his
and cultural services. Martin, he said, was a very valu- able asset to the Italian culture in Hong Kong. He
WBS Vice- President of the Society and a valuable member of the English Association.
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retired life in Milan, then the capital of an Austrian province. and devoted "mself to literature.
Correspondence was read and
what he always regarded as an He took no official position under approved concerning the local celebration of the Coronation of allen government nor did he seeks Majesty the King, Bus Routes in Kowloon, the proposed Guide tonours from it.
Kowloon City, and Leprosy, in Book, Drainage and sanitation st
Kowloon.
Kowloon Guide Book
One bus passenger and a tram- car passenger were injured whilst alighting from a moving bus and a moving tramcar respectively. Two
of collisions between vehicles:
Of the 48 accidenta) 20 were col- lisions between vehicles; 16 were collisions between vehicles and Pedestrians; and 10 accidents were due to other cause........
Type of Vehicles.
Private Motor Car Motor Lorry Public Motor Car Motor Bus
The subject of the lecture, he added, was very near to the heart Although Manzoni was the fine and to the mind of every Italian flower of Italian Romanticism he in Italy and abroad. All British stood aside from the violent pole- people had heard of the name of mics of its advocates and op- Manzoni which lived for the Ita-ponents but he showed by his lians not only in the 19th century plays and by even the first version but also to-day."
of the "Promessi Sposi" on which side lay his sympathies and in-approaching Government in the Tricycle
Ideas And Ideals
In the course of his lecture, Mrclinations. de Martin said that romanticism la the name given to the early nineteenth century revolt against the ideas and ideals of the sette cento.
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After mentioning the chief events in Manzont's life Mr. de Martin briefly referred to his more important writings. His high ac
A letter was read from a mem ber drawing the attention of the Committee to the advisability. of
matter of removing boulders in Shan Tung Street. It was agreed to write to the Public Works De- partment on the subject.
With reference to the publica-
Tramcar Bicycle
It was alleged at the previous hearing that Mr. Roberts Was walking along the left side of Ken- nedy Road, from Garden Road to- wards the Courtland Hotel, where he resided, at about 6.45 p.m. on
wife, and when they were about 60 yards from the hotel, Mr. Ro- berts noticed the lights shining be hind him, and moved his wife to the left edge of the road, at the same time turning round to see. If the car was coming in their direc- tion. He then continued walking and the next thing he knew was that something (struck him in the back and knocked him ground
to the
Nos, of Accidents.
16
15
4
3
3
8
1
the scene, this being acceded to.
NO ONE TO BLAME
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Mr. Bilya asked his Worship to
adjourn in order to go and Inspect
Mr. Bilva said that the evidence which was given by Mr. and Mrs. Roberts was not reliable as it should be. The defendant's evi-
hievement was that astonishing tion of a Guide Book of Rowoon ASSAULT CHARGE dence was that he did not see the
tour de force "Cinque Margio," an ode on the death of Napoleon.sion on After grand vicissitudes of power and glory-was it really glory? Manzoni asks-like everyone else he ends in nothingness,
illustrate
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Keen Student of Shakespeare Manzoni wrote two plays which the effect of Roman- the Italian stage. A ticisin keen student of Shakespeare he followed him in discarding the unities of time and place which had cramped the French as well
and the New Territories, discus- this subject, (deferred from, the last meeting), ns to whether the Association should continge with the project alone, o should assist the Hong Kong Travel Association to produce such being made to adopt the former a 'book, resulted in the decision
form the Travel Association of this course, and it was agreed to in-
decision.
STAN
AGAINST SIX CHINESE MEN
Christmas Eve Squabble
Six Chinese, Wong Lo, Tans San, Tang Chung, Wong-Leung/ To Kwan and Wang Kuen, all of 20 Hing Lung Street, were brought before Mr. K. Keen at the Central mons for having assaulted Tang Magistracy yesterday on a sum- Kee, of 391, Hennessy Road, on board the 8.8. Kam Ma, anchored
steamship wharf on December 24.
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, was present for the complainant while Mr. dants. Peter Sin appeared for the defen.
party. "I am in a hurry and I did not see you" That was the reply to a question put by Mr. Roberts to the defendant. Mr. Silva said that there was no SVÍ- dence given as to how Mr. Roberts fell, how he was struck and what portion of the car hit him. The was also contradictive, evidence as to how the accident occurred. Mr. Silva added that it was an acci- dent but nobody could be blamed for it.
A fine of $10 was imposed.
TALK ON HEALTH
Church Women's Fellowship held
The study of the great writers of Greece and Rome which in the days of the Hallan terary Renaissance had been the hobby of wealthy princes barely outlived that brillant period and literary persons tended to drift away from originals and become concerned rather with the form and style of their own painstaking imitations. Upon the vernacular languages this pre-occupation with style had a préjudicial effect. for the fastidious literati had no regard
The sub-committee appointed to for what they considered bar
deal with the matter of Leprosy in barous tongues. The result of the Italian theatre. In this he Kowloon submitted a letter and
questionnaire this was, not only that the poetry was followed by the French zo-
which they felt of Dante, written in a language mantic Victor Hugo, Manzoni -taining more definite information would assist the Association in ob- and savouring of a period that tained the Chorus and, ranging on the subject. It was agreed to were about to become unfashion- himself with Machiavelli rather have this letter and questionnaire able, disappeared in an eclipse than with Dante, admonishes Jasting some three hundred years, Italians to put no hope in foreign printed and circulated to medical opposite the Hong Kong Macao in the Church Hall yesterday but that it was not until quite help but to rely upon themselves. modern times, that any consider-i Manzoni was mildly reproved for able prose work again appeared in
some passages in the "Adelcht" the Italian language. It was the which were deleted by the con- current of the Romantic move- ment setting violently against the classical affectation of the eigh- teenth century which not only restored the lost star "of the "Comedy" to the iterary Arma- ment but also moved men to value the priceless heritage of their vernacular languages and, to re- newed study of modern tongues generally, folklore, sagas and na- tional epics.
80%.
Mr. de Martin then proceeded to tell in brief outline the tale of the historical romance "I Promess Sposi one of the world's great stories. In the first version of 1827 Manzoni was still under the infuence of his early education. It is" full of literary preciosities and the affected elegance of the Set tecento. Fortunately he was not satished with it and in 1842, gave it to us again in the simple and natural form in which we have it, clothed in the forms of the lingus toscana of which he became the foremost champion.
An Importation Romanticism was not a pecu, liarly Italian movement but an Importation through France from Germany which country, perhaps in opposition to the classical Imitation which was the French vogue, had declared for a return zoni's
Historical Value The historical value of Man- account of the Ipod
men
perience of work with lepers,
and other who had ex-
New Gas Lamps
A letter from the Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, was read, ask- ing for the Association's views on the new demonstration gas lamps in Jordan Road. A special sub committee was appointed to deal with the matter.
Complaints regarding postal facilities were considered, and it was agreed that the President should Interview the Postmaster General on the subject,
The date at the Annual General Meeting was provisionally fixed for Thursday, March 4.
DUKE OF WINDSOR'S NEW YEAR'S EVE
alleged that on December 24, some At the previous hearing; it was time in the morning, the com- plainant and his brother were en- gaged in unloading some veget~ ables when the defendants attack- complainant was struck with dif ed him without provocation. The erent instruments, and fell to the ground.
After evidence was given the case was adjourned for week.
NOTHING DONE
Tin Wan 25-year-old unem- ployed, was brought on remand before Mr. J. A. Fraser st the to primitive sources, to national riots, of the plague, of 'the pass-
Central Magistracy tradition, to religion, to nature ing of the mercenaries are re-
yesterday: All the old Austrian customs were charged with the larceny of a principles which cat right across cognized by criticism but this followed at the New Year's Eve
iron steam pipe, valued at $18, the orthodox canons, then pre-value, though not negligible, is of celebrations at Schloss Enzerfeld, from the Wah Yik building con- valent in poetry and literature little
moment alongside the in which the Duke of Windsor took | tractor's matshed in King's Road, generally. These principles Intro supreme human excellence of "I part Two of the most important on January 6 At a previous performers in these were the local hearing. Inspector T. O'Connor chimney sweep and a small pink pig, which were both brought into the castle ballroom directly after midnight had sounded so that every member of the house party could touch them and "acquire good luck."
duced into France by Madame de Stael passed thence into Italy and especially to Milan the first cen- tre where they were discussed, welcomed or opposed,
Romanticism was not a purely literary movement: it had poll tical and religious reactions. The arrival of the new ideas in a was the signal for a controversy in the two leading reviews there the "Biblioteca Italiana" and the "Condillatore."
Promessi Spost" and this too whe ther his characters are drawn from archives, as in the case of the Cardinal, or, as in that of Don Abbondio, the Sancho Panta of Italian literature, are creatures of his own imagination,
Tala vitality extends to the things of nature, and Benzo's The post office at Enzesfeld was passage of the Adds, his devastal open all night in order to relay ed orchard, the rainstorm after midnight telephone calls to and the plague are, as vividly real to from the castle. All local records uss the human beings who talk for the New Year mall were broken with 6,000 letters for the Duke of Windsor fram all parts of the world.
The "Biblioteca" which was sub and love and sin and suner sidised by govemment, that is byt į Austria, did not at first realise
Master of Prose that the movement could be twist
The "Promessi Spos!" revealed
"The Duke of Windsor is very touched by the many kind thoughts
At a meeting of the St. Andrew'à
gave a most interesting talk on afternoon, Dr. (Mis)-L. L. Nash
how to keep well in Hong Kong. In the course of hef address, the speaker dealt with various - dis- Kong foot, Hong Kong "dog" and Gase common here, such as Hong
car trouble and pointed out re medies for them, mi
LANTERN LECTURE
An appreciative audience listen- ed with much interest to a lantern lecture on the subject "Formosa→→→ the Taland Beautiful" given by Pro- fessor C. Grisan in St. Andrew's Church Hall last night. The nar- rative told by the lecturer was in- terspersed with clear explanations of the picture: flashed on the screen. Some of the slides con- tained beautiful scenery. To those who had seen Formoss the lecture to those who had not seen this recalled pleasant memories while
scente Teland it was an education.
HEROIN PILL CASE
said defendant had rendered the Pipe useless, and defendant was
Thrys women, Bo Ma-chuen, remanded as he offered to make Chung Chin-yau and Wong Lin, good the damage by repairs. On were arrested on Wednesday and being brought before the Court brought before Mr. K. Keen at the nothing had been done by defen charge of possession of a large again, Inspector O'Connor said Central Magistracy yesterday on a dant. Sentence of one month's quantity of heroin pills, found at
was imposed.
PROFESSIONAL!
"Defendant is a professional van when he prosecuted, 2san 300, tree-cutter," said Bergeant Bulil- aged 68, before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday for unlawful possession of 50 cattles of tree branches. Defendant was arrested in Pokfulam Road carry-
their house in Pokfulam Road after a raid by Revenue Officers. Revenue Officer: &. W. Grimmitt asked for a week's formal remand, saying the case was for the Sessions. The remand was grant- ed. Ball in $2,500 each was fixed.
PARTIALITY FOR SILVER
ed into very pretty nationalistic Manson as the great master of propaganda and in the beginning prose Italian and so, when in 1888 of him this Christmas." said a published an article by Madame the government appointed a com- statement given to Reuter's corre de Steel who is usually regarded mission to explore the means of spondent at the castle. "He re as the herald of Romanticism in disseminating a sound national greta that it is not possible to ac- Italy. Understanding later the language, it was natural that he knowledge personally all the letters ing the branches. With a long spoons, a silver dessert spoon and For stealing nine liver coffee tendency of the new ideas to stir should be placed in charge of it. he is receiving, but He wants to up the Italian national conscious Manzoni's formula for a national thank all who have kindly written against him, defendant was order- Officers Mess of the Seaforth string of similar convictions a silver dish handle from the ness the "Biblioteca came out as language was this "uns lingda and to wish them a happy need to pay a fine of $60 or undergo High'andera, Murray Barracks) a a stout defender of the classical realmente parlata, da una deter-year."
adition. The "Conciliatore" the minata gente, in un luogo deter iberal review threw in its lot with minato," and this could in the the romantics until it was sup- event be none other than the pressed by fovernment, and its language of Florence and academic style, and the de- writers exiled or Imprisoned The Manzonian example brought termined language was such as Among them was Silvio Pellico about the rapid disappearance men use when they talk of things the author of "Le Me. Prigioni.”; from Italian prose of the precious and not of words,
two months' rigorous imprisonmess boy was brought before Mr. ment. Another man, named Wong K Keen at the Central Magistracy Hung, aged 52, was sentenced to yesterday on a charge of larceny, labour, for unlawful possession of pleaded not guilty, and w a of $10, or one month's hard Defendant, Pau Eing-ling, aged 24, 55 cattles of tree branches. Demanded for 24 hours on the appli- fendant was arrested in Beymour cation of Detective-Bergt. Davies, Road yesterday.
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