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specially manifest in his life, but as M. Fagust urges, in an age shamelessly fagitious, the mare Advertisements. oult of virtus was a virtuo. On were an attraction, because, M. the other hand, his very foibles Foguet maintains, it is the difficult men, not the easy men, that women love. Finally, he was the author of "La Nouvelle Heloise," which put woman on a new pionnels,
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It was in fact, {\\JANTED a Godown fasing the only after the publication of that es, in East of West P dat, book that his "amies" rapidly capacity about 50.000 ob. ft. Ofan multiplied. Rousseau's heroins to P. O. Box No. 472. women could survey the feminine was a new looking glass in which Hoogkong. 18th Oct, 1912 soul with a new interest and
TO LET enthusiasm. And so it came 4 ROOMED BUNGALOW at the about, says M. Fagust, that Peak with tennis courts to let Rousseau, who, in his personal furnished for month of November, pos conviction, was "anti-feministeibly longer if desired. Alod at. radical," became the father of Apply "Rex," de Hongkong Tele- modern feminism.
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Sad Death of a Soldier. The death took place at the Military Hospital, Colombo," on September 20 of Gunner Rippie Mr. Holbrook Jackson is one of Among our younger essayists, of the 93rd Company Royal the most agreeable, and not the Garrison Artillery, under very die least interesting. He has the tressing circumstances. Accord pleasant gift of being serious ing to the "Ceylon Independent," without being pompous or pon Rippie took part in a 15 round derous. And even if one does not boxing match at a Tournament agree with all his opinions, one with Petty Officer man of the H.M.S.
Small feals that his opinions are generally "Alert" worth listening to. In this for the Championship of Ceylon. volume, for example, ho has The fight was a capital one, sympathetic little essay on Rippie giving a very good ne- Thorosu. One regarde Thorean count of himself in the first twenga trivial egoist, who mistook his Ive rounde, but after this Small-provincial Now England senti- man began to assert himself and monts and moralities for an thrashed Rippie badly in the original philosophy. That may thirteenth and fourteenth rounds be wronghended prejudico. Mr. and just before the end of the Jackson's easy has not convinc: latter round knocked out Rippio,edus that it in But wo the latter dropping like a stone. are bound to admit that Mr Jack- He was picked up unconscious son has made out as good a case early issue a new book of timely OFFICES TO LET Fint Class, and all efforts maile to revive for Thoreau as could well be interest entitled recent eventa him were without result. He was made.
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Mr. P. Amaury Talbot's book finition of the subject. We may, on Nigerin will be published by tam obtained at the Offoon of Messrs, The plan can be seán and all particu Indiced, describe Hans Anderson's Mr. Reinemann next month un- PALMER & TURNER, Alexandma fairy tales and parables as non-der the title of "In the Shadow of Buildings, Brd Phor. The Kaiser and China, ведно, According to a sensational roa misuse of language. And it in lescribes Mr. Talbot writes that
if we choose, but it is really of the Busb." Of the country he | Anasuna», 80th Sept., 1919. 1706 port published in the Ori de only by such a aisuse of language Paris," which bears all the evid that we can clars Andersen, Lewis surpassed..
For sheer beauty it can hardly MODREENAGE, 21 The Paak. for six months from 1st Novem- ence of the working of a very Carroll, and Lear, or Rabalais vivid imagination, the Gorman and Swift together as
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Mr. John Galsworthy's new that the object of his visit to the It appeals to us not b-oause it is volume, "The Inn of Tran- Baltic Port was to obtain the Tuer's meaningless, but, on the coun-quillity", is to be published on floe, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. consent to this plan, and ask his trary, because it has a sort of in- October 3rd. It is in a way a com support also in France and Eng-credible plausibility, the fantastic panion volume to "A Motley" land. For the same reason also, it reality of the dream-world, or issued two years ago.
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is stated the Baron Marschall was fourth-dimensional, mathematics. sent to London. The great ques- And it is imineasurably above the tion is, adde the journal in ques-stupid jingle of Lear's nonsener tion, what will be the attitude of
versos and nonsense-ballads,, Japan? Shanghai Timos." · Death of a Former Metropolitan because they are devoid of
General Booth himself sooom- intelligonco. But this is an The Right Rev, Edward Ralph
plished his vast results in the Johnson, formerly Bishop of Cal-exceptionally bad break for Mr. Cecil Ithodes was a remarkable face of a physician's prediction Jackson. As has been said, mana sort of soor. He seemed that he had only a few years to and Coylon, died on Setember shrewd, and cutts, and Metropolitan of Initia his judgments are generally able to see ahead in certain live and that ho should, in justice to himself, spand those years in Ilth at Lynghmore Vicarage, illuminative. What he has to say
not infraquently matters. Halalemere, where he was stay of such contemporaries as J. M. South Africa, Ceoil Rhodes, was
One Sunday, in Cape Towa, quiet and retirement.
The world. knows what he did ing, at the age of eighty-four Synge, Minx Bourbon, and Ed-talking with a man for grestor Educated at Wadham College, ward Carpenter is particularly than he, or than any of his com
with the many years that were his thereafter. The world knoWB, Oxford, the late Metropolitan was well worth reading, and his ex- peers, evon. curate of Farnborough, Warwick-
He was talking nor will ever forget, how he hire, 1851-00; Minor Carson of position of Nietscho's ideal Super with the late General William threw himself with all his might Chester, 1880-66; Rector of man, if open to objections, should Booth, founder of the Salvation into a holy work that had there- overlooked and Northenden, 1806-76, and Arch- nevertheless do something to cor- Army, of whom Queen Victoria tofore been deacon of Chester, 1871-76. He rect popular misconceptions,, once said: "I feel more insig- neglected,
became Bishop of Calcutta andations and Studios, By Holbrook All Mannor of Folk. Interpre- Metropolitan in India and Ceylon Jackson. London: Grant Ri- in 1876, retiring in 1808. Hankow Police and the Boundary
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empire builder of the Christian the hands of the Lord God of was aslight collision this altar-
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"I will make answer in my for the bettering of mankind, and Chinese police over a disputed
address this afternoon," said he was given strength and years boundary of the French conces with the later history of the General Booth. And that after-sufficient for the task. sion. A wook ago an agreemont Portuguese colony of Macao, noon he chose for his text the He lived tɔ so his work firmly was renohed with the Chinese been received. For over words, "What over thy hand founded and accepted by all
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This is not HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. Switch Apparatus, Steam Dynamo Sets, Motors, Are Lamp Carbone, progress, point. Since then the majority him as one of the principal liter- That was the secret of the un-jalways the case, even when we
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fessor of Chinese at the various been the secret of the success of vice before we have more than allotted to the French. Hence the government institutes. For stime nearly every man or woman who began what we set out to accom- plish. It is given to fow to see the fight to-day, when batons were time he did valuable work in has done much for humanity. used. The Chinese police retired straightening out Gnancial It would seem that in his divine and attained. But that is not the and a body of French Annamito difficulties in which Macao found plan the Creator willed that we point. police, fully armed, now guardable institutions. He was the wayness.
itself,and promoted various charit should find no reward in half- the boundary.
Departure of British Troops
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and edited The Echo do Povo, purpose and then, haring selected Mouarn. Butterfold and Swire's Echo Micaones and O Macaensa. a goal, press on to it with all the findeth to do.” 4.8. Poyang arrived at Shanghai For several years he was chair- on the 14th afternoon from fan-man of the Macao municipal kow having on board the detash-council and was instrumental in ment of the King's own York-securing the organization of an shire Light Infantry who have electric light serviss throughout beon doing duty in Hankow sincs the Portuguese colony, the outbreak of the revolution.
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