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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14. 1912
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The proprietor of the "Hong- A reviewer has found fault and thenceforth ho was a broken with Mr. Saintsbury's treatment, He retired from active life kong Telegraph " has decided to and developed eccentricities. continue during February his of Milton in the last volume of Notably ho intorested himself in offer of two prizes for the best "Cambridge History of the discredited sciences of the photographs submitted to the editor by amateur photographers the Middle Ages. Ho dabbled in IT on
· Literaturo English
astrology; he experimented in during the month.
It has been decided to widen ground that be "does not appear the transmutation of metals, and to have formed any unified he sought for the elixir of life. the scope of the competition. To notion of Milton as an individuul, The last he found, but not in the restrict it largely to active life in the the Colony excludes many ami- crucible. He discovered or oven to hayo recognised the scientific fast above alluded to, tours who are not yet experien- need of trying to form one." He and, calculating that he who ced in this class of work. As the does not further explain himself, went round the world thiroo whole purpose of the competition 7.80 a.m. but apparently his menning hundred and sixty-five times is to stimulato' interest in photo 8.00a.m. to 10.30a.m. every 15 min. that Mr. Saintsbury has detached gained a clear year, concluded graphy in Hongkong it has boon 10.80 s.m. to 11.00 am.. felt bettor to remove all restric-11.45 am, to 12.00 noon that it was necessary only to keep
12.00 noon to 1.00 p.m., the poetry of Milton from Milton's this up to add indefinitely to the tion and to
1.00 pm, to 8.00 p.m., Give Everyone a Chance.
5.00 p.m. to 6.90 p.m., character and considered it upon years of one's life. This con- iis morits as thus isolated. If so, clusion he confided to certain of Pictures of active life, then, 8.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. probably Mr. SaintsImry would us friends, who were so little pictures of still life, pictures 7.00 p.m. to 8.10 p.m. 10 min. struck with the momentousness recent or pictures taken months take the charge very lightly. No of it that they quietly walked him ago, pictures of life or scones in doubt he has in his own mind as off to a "maison de sante." Hongkong or pictures taken in clear and unified an idea of M. Maurice Dekobra has been any part of China, pictures taken Milton as an individual as his applying to some of the loading at Home-any picture, general or predecessor Masson, the Milton comic writers in Europe for a local, may be sent along if it definition of humour, and the possessos interest at all. "With scholar, hat, but he would con-article into which he has woven the compolition of so com-JOHN foss that to consider the poetry their replies makes entertaining prehensive a character thero is a in its relation to it was no part reading in the number of "La chance for any amateur photo- Revue for the first half of the grapher in Hongkong to win one of his critical method,
month. Of course none of the of the prizes. The rules of com- To those who are all for what definitions is satisfactory. Ilu- potition appeared in the issues of has been called the physiognomicmour is too clusive and subtle a Feb. 1 and 2. treatment of postry two concos-spirit for definition and is not to sions may be made. For one be caught, even as the soul of thing, all literatura is physiog-Onuphrins was by the mage, between two brushes.". Some nomic. No writer can absolutely keep himself out of his work of the writers accordingly fall back upon describing the fu- Even the thoroughgoing realists mourist, and even so, it is apparent who have made it a point of that there are, two different consciones to try to do so live conceptions of humour in their Jminds. One set of writers are for only partially Bucccodod,
limitingit to its manifestations in revealing their conception of irony and satire, the other would section of life they have revealed, limit it to what is called "pure at any rate, a corner of their con-humour." ThusM. Dekobra warns ception of life as a whole, while us that the humourist is not n more "fungy man"; "he is a sago other elements, although who consciously sots himself to visible, must in the nature of things have oozed in. Further, the utilisation of poetry as a means of exploring the poet's literary charactor
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destroy our illusions, having first, dispelled his own, and who, to prove the relativity of all things, saddong our gaiety and enlivens Mr. Courtney dis our sadness." tinguishes wit, as the effervesconce of a light character, from hu mour, which belonge "to a more moroso and sometimes a deeper temporament," and is often only!
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