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(In this cofem will appear from time to time resines of books and chat on books and wrifera.)
Michael Fairiess.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 1912
istic that this revision commonly took the form of completely ro writing instead of the correcting' and filling which less impulsive authors employ. Some hints of this mothed already well enough known, for that matter with some "Michael Fairless" was the fragments from his manuscripts, "author of one book, "The Rond-wo got in the Introductions to menler," which, first published two other volumes in the present ten years ago, is now in la instalment, "Sigurd" and "Love twenty-ninth edition. Inner-Enough." The important man- ablo guorios have ligoninult as to seripts of the former-are-in-the the identity of Michael Failles," British Museum, and from one but those who know guard the of the Miss Morris quotes a secret well-Mr. Arthur Machos, long rejected passage from the however, has been permitted to dialogno of Sigurd and Brynhild. give, in a contemporary, certain in Brynhild's elumber: Saino of particulars of the strong woman those lines flow with splendid. soul which produced the book.passion, but even more inforesting "The Rongmenler" is on it wore, in a way is the ballad stanza from an avangol of tho faith that dies the first draft of **Signed,” show- not proclaimed in thi shpose of ing how the poem started in his death. The writing of it occupied wind. ; — nino days; the author was so ill that the right land was meless, and the pencil that fraved the words was held in the left; and during the whole of that ting the author
There was'a dweBug of Kings Dze the wbl won wisen old
us, we e thas de in-warsha thi re Aruk the, fad wc. Puteh d with gold Miss Morris tolls us that
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look no neurishment of any kind. “Sigurd" was always' regarded" }, Twelve days later she passed by her father as his crowning through the "white gate" be- | achievement. Not often does a youd which is a "darknees act estimato his own work so greater than light." This is not justly. The fourth volume con-
ragedy it is trimmiple
Hain twee, Northern--Lava: Stories" and "Beowull "The An Angry Paet. Dr. Johnson, writing of “Co- fillustrations, oxenilent photogra
·riolanus," said: "This is one of vures, give pictures of Mors is and sur author's most amusing plays," his family, Borno-Jones's designs Johnson has often isen lowled, ant for the great "Mucid," etc. for his judgment of Shakespeare,
but few of his critics have shouted
at him in verse. This, however, FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS.
the pendonymous author of a res cont look of soumets dons. The unconscious Doctor is assured that the uss's owl not Bottom mors hecaine" than it would bis "nowl," and the incensed nuthor concludes:
**For while I quailed roi as
the noble ago
Of Culis Mareins, when he
stands at bay, Thy snuseless glozo. by ill- -hop caught my sight Hat profanation of this
fulminant play.
With such sat's words dist
then insult the puget Thst with the darkari didst
font his light."
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Segond Prize of five dollars- Miss Elfrida Osmund,
Special mention must also be made of Mr, F. T. de V. Sodres who sent some excellent photo- graphs of the proposed garden city at Kowlegn....
His Father's Faterpreter The late Mr. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, win récéndly dieil in Now. York, was wathy inter-
The proprietor of the "Hong pretor of his father's works, though those in England had kong Telegraph "laas decidon to 11/8 fow opportunities of hearing his famtin during March roadings. To Australia they offer of two prizes for the best were exceedingly popudur, us was Mr. Dickens himself. We are photographus, submitted to thio told that he was so immersed in foditor by amateur photographers, the Dickens trulition that be luring the month. used to dress like Mionwber; anyl. one aspect of his Bohemianism
a Bobomianism now almost dead
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It 1 con decided to widen of the Boleuitum, of course, in Charles Dickens, though it, never the sen & of the competition. Tu appeared in his dress, unless we restrict & largely to active life in admit as Bohemian a certain the Olsby excludes many alni- kind of self-conscions dandyism tours who are not yet experien- Perhaps tho no-collar type and ced in this class of work. As the | whole purpose of the competition"
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tion and to magnificent edition half-way to complotion. In running over the Give Everyone a Chance. Introductions of Miss Moy Morris; the eye is caught, by the first Pictures of active life, then, words in the volume containing pictures of still life, pieturos "The Anoids of Virgil": "Now recent or pictures takon months and then amid these notes I try go, pictures of life or arones in 191 to pause and fake breath; but longkong or pictures taken in the post, translator, designer, en-jany part of China, pictures taken graver, illuminator, scribe, allows Home-any picture, general or ono no time." It is this ulti-local, may be sent along if it plicity of interests that forms the possesses interest at all. With chief interest of Morris's 'ife and the competition of produces the chief characteristic prehqusive a elaracter there is o of his work, at least of his literary chance for any amateur photo- work. Woure carried on breath Brapher in Ilongkong to win one lessly, but cry out at times for of the prizes. The rules of com- relaxation of energy: Miss Morris, petitios appeared in the issue of
Minroh 1. it must be added, has been happily successful through these contributions in keeping her father's manifold interesta in sight without confusing the roador. In the volume just montioned, for instanco, bosiles giving the proper data in regard to the translation of the "neid" and the great illuminated book in which it was to appear, she writes an interesting account of Morris's activities as a dyer and of his difficulties in procuring durable dyes.
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