respects, but its merits completely overshadowed Its defects. Made up to resemble a combination of Daniel Edward Båndmann and Henry Irving the face was a rather too good looking presentment of Trumpetblower, the form was that of Irving and arrayed in wondrous attire, which, by the bye, was not altogether ap propriate to the character, Mr. Holme indeed poked as if a temporary blight had fallen upon him. The actor appeared to thoroughly un- derstand the requirements of the part, but at times he seemed unable to give full expression to his ideas, and was
also seemed to find his arms and hands rather in the way at times; but these are only minor faults, which ought to have been corrected at rehearsal. With a capital face, which he has the power of using with effect, a fair knowledge of stage business, and a good notion of grin humour, Mr. Halme succeeded in ingratiating himself imo the good graces of his audience, and was deservedly applauded for what under all circumstances was a very meri torious performance.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1882.
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Some friend of mine at Hongkong has kindly forwarded me copies of the Daily Press and China Mait of 14th and 13th September con. fong, on the Boswell Reck near Long Yit Island. it has very frequently struck me during an ex- perience of ten years on the Coasts of China and Japan how criminally careless both captains and owners of steam vessels are in the last.
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Beyond an occasional visit by a captain, of soine coaster with information that leads to the discovery of a sunken danger, we surveyors are absolutely ignored. Newspaper reports rarely help us, so that we have given up searching their columns. In the same issue as we read of the above vessel's loss we also read of the "Loss. the British steamer Europe" with the vague information that she struck on a rock about four tailes from Woga Island. Now to find a pinnale rock with that amount of information would truly be to search for a needle in a laty stack...
There has always been a surveying vessel in China, and if she is deflected elsewhere, as to Korea or Borneo, it is only as a temporary
Incasure.
Then why do not captains, owners or their agents, harbour masters, and I may add Insur- ance Companies, sent all such information to the only department that is prepared to deal with when they once know of the danger they are careless of the rest and probably only inform their own company. Harbour masters usually post up news that is given thern in writing but do not specially seek after it. It has been our custom to acquaint the consuls of the nearest port to the danger, to publish the notice in the Government Gazette of Hongkong, or in one of the widely circulated papers of Shanghai or Yokohama,
As a rule, other papers copy such notices from the Gazette and from one another.
But not only should Harbour-Masters' offices be provided with a large notice board, but would also recommend that they should keep in their offices a complete set of Charts connected with the station, and corrected by themselves, and accessible to all captains of vessels. The corrections made by surveying vessels, and in fact all trustworthy information, should be entered in red ink, which will readily meet the eye when comparing Charis.
What shall we-what can we say of the very latest edition of "the Lady of Lyons ?" We might imitate our morning contemporary, fancy we were criticising Hamlet, or some other great part of ancient or modern times, and write nonsense like the following. "The part of the Landlord of the Golden Lion (a re-publican) was taken by Sergt. K. Pocock, who sang "A landlord's life is net a happy one" in good voice and excellent style, but a little more facial ex pression and a more complete merging of him. self in the character he represented would have been an improvement inhis performance taken as a whole." But that is hardly good enough. Anactor whowould follow the advice of the critic() of the Daily Press and try to merge himself in a ridit? Captains of steamers do not do so because culous character in burlesque a direct carica ture on nature and art-would indeed be past all hope. "The Lady of Lyons" was, as origi. nally written, a very humourous work of its class, and had a long run when first produced in Lon don. Candidly, our friends of the Buffs did not improve on Byron with their smart local. bits." Sull their intention was evidently to create fun, and this they undoubtedly suc cceded in doing. It can hardly be said, however, that from a histrionic standpoint the burlesque was a fegitimate success. In those special qualities which areabove everything else essential for the extravaganza line of business--we mean musical attainments-the Buffs were sadly lack ing. In fact, the singing-cenic singing as it may be termed was really beyond criticism. Lance Corporal Bransgrove, who appeared as "that hateful Beanscant," carried off the honors of the performance. This gentleman is a first rate actor, and he was the only one whomadeanything like an attempt to tackle the music. Capt. Davis was exceedingly funny as Claude, and the terrible combat with Damas in the old Vincent Crummies style was one of the best things in the piece. The old Colonel, capitally “made-up" by Mr. Holnie, was, of course, prominent figure. In the minor parts Sergeant Desland worked very hard as M. Deschapelles, Private Gardner proved an efficient Gaspar, and Sergeant Pocock at most amusing Landlord. Mrs. Blake was quite at home as Madame Deschapel les, and our sides ache even now with laughing at the vagaries of Corporal Bates as Pauline and Mir. Somerset as Widow Meinotte. If applause may be considered as a criterion of success the whole of the performers who appeared in "The Lady of Lyons" have reason to congratu
late themselves. We must not omit to give a
The passage used by the steamer Hongkang is. word of praise to Mr. H. Quinn, the Bandinaster unsurveyed, and more rocks may exist; but it is of the Buffs, for the careful and effective style in improbable that there are any more in Mid Chan- which he had selected and arranged the music nel, for it has been freely used of late. I feel persons connected with the safe pas: for the burlesque; and the members of the Band are alsodeserving of commendation for the efficient sage of merchant vessels, in China will do well to nervices, they rendered throughout the evening.
see that all Hydrographic information be imme. The evening's entertainment may be described diately forwarded to the vessel especially de- generally as a successful one, as it is quite certached by the Admiralty for the survey of Chinese tain the audience had nearly three hours genuine Waters, and I hope that your giving publicity to fun. We also have little doubt that the chari- this letter will induce them to do so in future. table object for which the performance was organised will be greatly benefited by the sum realised on the two evenings. The members of the Apateur Dramatic Corps of the Buffs are, however, capable of doing better dramatic work than this. We hope to get a taste of their real abilities in comedy during the ensuing season.
On our next passage to Hongkong we shall have two more rocks to search for, but provided we had received all the information that has pro bably transpired since our last clearance of re- ported dangers, there would probably be thrice that number.
followed the same illustrious example, as duly re corded by him in the sonnet beginning "Todas as almas tristes se mostravan," and written "on the occasion of his first seeing D. Catharina de Atayde in church on Good Friday and losing his heart." She was a lady of the
poet, just returned from the University of Coimbra, found lavour in her eyes. Unfortunately their mutual passion was discovered, and Cam-ens. banished to Santarem, some 50 miles from Lis- bon, on the banks of the Tagus. It was here
his great poem, and from hère also he set out on that career of adventure by land and sea so vividly reflected in The Laisiais. It is by no means impossible that the sentiment, although not the substance, of the beautiful love episode in that song of war and discovery--the story of Inez de Castro-was inspired by the poet's early dis. appointment. Certain it is that the Donna Catharina was taken away in the prime of her youth and beauty, leaving a permanent void in the poet's heart. in a sonnet written in prison at Gon, and, as is expressly stated, after the denth, of Donna Catharina, he bitterly bemoans the loss of one who to him was more than "neighbour or friend," and another sonnet referring to the same sad event deserves quotation, as, perhaps, bis
masterpiece in this forin of poetry-
***The eyes where I live in chastësi fire would glow,
** [gying to be consumed amilst their tight a **The Lice wherein with wondrous fasts bright. **The purple rose was bħashbig o'er the snow? **The hale whereof the sun would envious grow,
I made his own les golden to the sight z **The well-formed forly and the hard na wfiste, *** All to cold earth redkice i lies here below!
4* in tewfer age, a beauty all entire,
** E'en like a Blossom gathered are its line, ** Lies withere 1 la the hand of hearties Death, **To doth not love for pity's saka expile ? **Abfunt for her who flies anlife sublime,
** But for himself whom night extinguisheth,”
Our quotation may at the same time serve as à specimen of Mr. Aubertin's power as a translator. That power is of a peculiar, kind. The original poems added to this voluine are not in any sense remarkable, and one or two translations from French and German poets are scarcely more successful, Mr. Aubertin's rendering of Heine's Du bist wie eine Blume being, perhaps, the least satisfactory among the numerous attempts at reproducing the sweetness of that simple lyric in English. But all this is changed when our translator has to deal with Cauocas. In contact
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with his favourite port his language gains sing THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA lar felicity and strength, rising at times to poctic elevation. The explanation of the sceret lies in the fact that Mr. Aubertin absolutely identifies himself with his original. A prolonged residence in Portugal and the careful study of its literature have made him a perfect master of the idiom of Camoens-a qualification as rare as it is impor tant in the case of a language so little known as -Doubtful information, requiring caution until Portuguese, where the translator has to perform further investigation, should be entered in pencil, all the functions of an interpreter in the true sense When a certain danger has lain in the track of of the work. In addition to this, Mr. Aubertin vsually sent them an extra notice so as to pre-details of the poet's individual style, with all its vessels of some particular company, we have has been intent upon reproducing the arinutest vent accident before general promulgation; thus
peculiarities of grammar and diction. “My am- bition has been," he says in his prefice to the a few years back we were in continual communi cation with Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., and Lusíads, to introduce Camoens to English litera received some valuable information from their ture in his own language," or, as he says in the captains.
introduction to the present volume, to study his truthfulness and his simplicity, and to endeavour to render him faithfully; not riding off from his occasional peculiar turns of thought, in order covertly to avoid difficulties, nor introducing some commonly received parochial phrases instead of his own peculiar expression; especially not affect
at all." It is the uncompromising adherence to ing to be very poetical where he is not poetical this principle which gives a kind offinality to Mr. Aubertin's rendering of "The Lusinde, and, in spite of many shortcomings in matters of detail, constitutes its superiority to all its predecessors, We may add that these predecessors, five in num ber, are by no means of a despicable kind, com- prising as they do a curious version undertaken by Sir Richard Fanshawe during his imprison- ment at Tankersley-park, and printed in 1655 'during his absence from England. In the case of the sonacts, no rivals of equal merit had to be contended with, for to most of these, including Lord Strangford, Byron's remark justly applies, that "the things given to the public as poems of Cats are no more to be found in the original l'ortuguese than they are in the Song of Sole- mon." From any such charge Mr. Aubertin's version is entirely free. He seldom, if ever, de- viates from the substance or even from the diction of the original, unless the different spirit of the this is the case, his expression is sometimes even two languages absolutely requires it, and where FROM THE MIDDLE OF DECEMIER UNTIL MARCH,,
sure that all
THE SONNETS OF CAMOENS"
more felicitous than that of Camocas, as, for instance, in the following lines, where the anti- thesis intended by the post is more forcibly ren- dered in the English-
Mr. Aubertin has followed up his translation of Camoens's great epic pech by a rendering of some of his sonnets, which in a manner forms a supplement to the more ambitious effort. Such a supplement was, indeed, required to complete Mr. Aubertin's self-imposel task of making the English reader acquainted with a poet who, but for the language in which he wrote, might claim in international literature a place by the side, if not of Goethe or Shakespeare, at least of Tasso or Ariosto. The name of Camoens is, of course, in the first instance identified with "The Lusiads," even as that of Cervantes is with "Don Quixote " and that of Dante with the "Divina Commedia."-than was, for etymological reasons, possible in With the knowledge of these representative works the original Portuguese —— the general reader is satisfied. But the more careful student, who is aware that the greatness of a poet is often seen in his minor productions
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**Somente em ser mulavel tom fennesa." Mr. Aubertin has signally failed only in a few instances where, without any excuse, he has de-
Camoens from Petrarch. As to that form, Mỹ Aubertin, like other recent writers on the subject, to consider the reverse of satisfactory, for the "Vila Nuova," and to him Camoens's sonnets
entertains somewhat hazy notions. He scams to somewhat singular reason that, with the ex-" will be of psychological no less than of literary
think that the English car" requires at the end ception of the stroke, the men are not quite interest. For herd the poet has to a great extent of the sunnet a couplet of rhymes which he com good enough to give them a chance of success. pediments in which the dignity of the epic, as thrown off the allegorical and symbolical im-
pares to the cola in Rossini's music, evi- It is said that a mixed crow would have stood a
dently mistaking that team for the stretto, the understood in his day, had enveloped him, and invention of which is sometimes attributed to that much better-prospect of winning; however, withstands before-us-in-his-own-undisguised-form compoter. The English or any other carrequires, out losing sight of the exceedingly sportsmanlike Of the 352 sonnets Mr. Aubenin gives us only
of course, nothing of the kind, not at least in the 70, leaving the rendering of the entire number, Petrarchan sonnet. It is quite true that the final character of the objection-a feeling which we are glad to see so prominent in these friendly pitavas, to his friend and rival in the interpreta-fire of the sonnet form generally identified with as well as of the cancoes, sextinas, odes, and couplet occurs, and is, indeed, the metrical raison contests-it is to be presumed that Mr. Kultzau tion of Camoens's works, Captain Burton, to Shakespeare, although the Earl of Surrey was pro- knows what he is about, and possesses every when he piece ne lotion since typical power ten bably its inventer. But this form is structurally GOOD ACCOMMODATION FOR ariel it will without fall arrest denying confidence in the prowess of his fellow country. Portuguese poet is shown beyond a doubt. Camoens, and Milton, with which, indeed, it has in this limited selection the of the quite different from that used by Dante, Petrarch tuen. The International Race, which has been He does not possess the intensity of Petrarch or nothing in common except the number of lines. a complete failure for years past, gives some the sweetness of Tasso, and although a master In the classical sonnet the rhymes of the eight wlight promise of rising again like the oft quoted of form, he indulges even here in that occasional opening lines are strictly limited to twe, and the Phoenix. If any of the United States war vessels peculiarity, not to say eccentricity, of expression neglect of that rule must necessarily lead to such
which makes "The Lusiads"
anything but ensy ill-shaped productions as the so-called sonnets should happen to be in harbour about the middle reading. But, in spite of this, his truth of feeling found at pages 13, 17, and 27, not to speak of the of December, the Club committee might be able and commensurate power of language will always metrical monstrosity into which one of Camoens's to induce an American crew, as in olden days, to secure Camoena's position among the maestri most mellifluous sonnets, No. XIII of the present d'amore, the "master-singers of love," as Dante
take part in what ought to be the most interesting calls them. Qualities such as these are not to collection, has been turned.-Tintes.
"Si vis me flere, dolendura est **Primusim pel tilA,”-
race of the inecting. With crews representing be acquired; they spring from personal emotion. Germany, France, America, England, Scotland, Ireland--and why not Wales (?), we should expect says the Roman poct, and we accordingly find to see something like an international contest. that in the life of Camoens, as in that of other The coxswain difficulty has again arisen; but no
bards, love plays an important part. Several of doubt à sufficiency of steersmen will be found all these sonnets, indeed, are known to be, and many in good time. It has been settled, we are in- more may be, addressed to the lady to whom the formed, to hold the regatta on Friday and Saturist misfortunes of the poet's troubled career were day, December 15th and 16th The general arrangements, which will be duly announced, are in several important respects different from those of previous years. The following are the crews selected for the Chairman's Cup:-
Falconer Rucky
Fiber (Sroka),
"Rose"
Prosch.
· Hughes (8th
Kufrau (Stroke);
(EGAT NOT HAKED YAT), Osborn,
Enlow (Siteuka,
due. This was Donna Catharina de Atayde. The
manner in which the poet made the lady's acquaint- ance is typical, so typical as almost to make one inclined to doubt of its individual truths Ital- fans," Guerrazzi fententiously states, fall in love at church," and the maxim might well be extended to other nations of the South. Our readers are aware that at the Church of Santa Chiara, in Avignon, Petrarch for the first time set eyes on the divine Laura. This happened on the 6th of April, 1327, generally believed to have been Good Friday, although it was really a Monday in Holy Week Not, many years afterwards, und in exactly similar circonstanceBy: This friend and admirer Boccaccio met the lovely Fiammetts, and two centuries later Camoens
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