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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914.
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NOVELIST RECOGNISED.
Mr. Hardy and the Nobel Prize.
"We understand on the beat'! authority that the Nobel Prize in Literature for the coming year will be granted to Mr. Thomas Hardy, says the Pall Mall Gazells.
It would be interesting to as rules the United States attorney-vertain what the earstid pinion General, in response to a requeat provided such things xis for an opinion from the State of the opponents of hi ra rnoing Superintendent of Education. really are when their passara The Attorney-General quotes an rend of the immo-aims of ft was generally expected that opinion by Attorney Gotoral H. money that are both paid and in English writer would be the W. Ohilds, of December, 1895, flared for blond sirok. Rays next to receive this high honour, holding the opening of schools Sonex" in the Pall Mall Gazetis, and the British Academy, to with prayor unconstitutional, and it would be very difficult for whose judgment was entrusted Bays that he can see no distino-bem to depreciate the national the task, were practically nn- tion between reading the Lible importance of such an industry animous in their oboice. Mr. and opening with prayer, Rays breeding thoroughbreds, and the New York Tribune.
This being, as many of them are, men opinion bas never been question of strobg.commercial instincts, ed by the courts,
the most rabid of their number could scarcely expect that much ympathy would be obtained for a crusade against a great source of revenue to the community.
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Some Enormous Offers..
Largest Electric Holst. There is now builling at Schnectady the largest electric hoiat in the world. This hoist,
Within the past few days some which is to bo installed in the enormous offera have been made Crown Mines at Johannesburg, is for stallions, the magnitude of designed to raise 16,0001b. of ore the bids being sufficient to turn per trip from a depth of 3,450 the head of even a millionaire, feet at a speed of 3,500 feet per bat, happily, to their infinite. minute. The tore weight of the credit, the love of sport has skip is 8,700lb., and the winding triumphed over financial COD- rope, which is 2 inches in diame-siderations, and at least ter, weighs B14lb. per 100 feet. famous Derby winner, probably The total weight of the winding two, will still romain in the motors, ex-luding bearings and natry to the advantage of shafts, will be 284,00016, and British breaders. the maximum intermittent output from those machines will be 9,000 horse-power.
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Edmand Gosse, we are informed, has been mainly responsible for this selection.
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Few" will criticise or quarrel with the judgment so wisely and unanimously cost, and dispute the uniform eminence of Mr. Hardy's contributions to English literature. Since the ap Madding Crowd" in 1874, no pearance of "Far from the
has maintained a literary out- writer of our age, perhaps,
and so high a merit; and no pits of Ra varied a character
an of our time in any nation hus, in bis old age, stepped from The ranks of fiction dramatic poet in the same way lace of honour" as an epic and that the author of "The Dynasts" has done.
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At all events, I am in a posi land-scape, or as the road that Thomas Hardy Las seen life as on to state positively that Mr.winds past his own house in J. B. Joel, who by the way ia the Wessex, brightened often by the only living owner who has won rags of the sun, more often surf-
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Sunstar, Capt. Barclay has just returned the Turf in 1911, but declined 100 insistont in Mr. Hardy's to Melbourne, bringing with him the bid with the intimation that creations to planes many of five tons of luggage, including no money would buy his horse, the tragedies of the Bible, and his critics, but no man who knows soientific"
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the great debt its literaturo owes aud us it is about an inch long, cellent authority to have recently 10 Thomas Hardy. He is the All the world has recognised with a venom, and the means to declined an offer of 55,000 guineas list, hat not the least, of the apply it in proportions, makes its violitaa writhe under of 1910; and it was an open and the British Academy must it for Lemberg the Derby winner Titans of the great Victorian age, the puncturo. The most secret at the time that he had re-bo congratulated on its true immediately effective, though fused 50 000 guineus for Bagardo primitive, means of securing relief previous to his retirement from
perception. is to rub one's back against afthe Turf, Mr. J. B. Joel also tree!
declined BB offer of 40,000 gaineas for Your Majesty after
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The record price for a yearling he had won the St. Leger of 1908; stands at the 10,000 guineas paid Preferred "English Food,' and quite recently negotiations by Mr. Sievier. for Sceptre at the The departure of the Italian were opened on basis of 35,000 late Duke of Westminster's sale; four-masted barque Italia, coal-guineas between Mr. William and 3,000 guineas for fouls for laden, from Newcastle for Allison and Mr. Belmont for the the colt by Gallinule out of Flair, Caldera, last month, w preced-purchase of Tracery by the former, paid by Sir Ernest Cassel, ed by trouble with the crew. The but no business was concluded,
sailors, bad' complained that the although it was probable that the
vessels was not seaworthy and offer would have been increased
that they were not being given had Mr. Belmont displayed any BELOW PAR; THE IDEAL proper food. A survey of the desire to part with his hores.
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Horses Actually Soid. The sale of Prince Palatine by
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The complaint concerning the Mr. Pilkington to Mr. J. B. Joel Despite all ordinary precau- food was that the sailors, very for 40,000gs, which would have tions, people constantly get run few of whom were italians, were been increased to $5,000gs, hut down, with the result that work, given loud that people other than for the unfortunate occurrences and play alike bresmes irksome those hailing from Italy did not in connection with the Good wood in the extremo. At such times. relish. Maccaroni appears to Cup, which earned for both the tonic par excellence is Sanato- have been the principal dish, to gentlemen the sympathy of the gen. because, ne a physician which the Scandinavian and entire racing world, representa writes in the Medical Press and British sailors objected. The the highest price ever actually Circular: "Sanatogen is readily difficulty was overcome by the paid for a stallion, but there re-absorbed by the stomach, and bas captain promising to give them mains the fact that the consegna a immediate and remarkable "English food," and that satisfied of opinion is to the effect that efect, shown by a steady increase Prince Palatine will prove to be of body weight and of muscular worth every shilling of the sam strength and energy, At the
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Rabbi Davis Dead-
Previous to this the record price same time, the colour is brought was the 37,500gs. paid by M. back to the patient's cheeks.” Blane for Flying Fox at the sale These statement prove Sanató- of the late Duke of Westminster, cena power in improving th and the horse, it may be added, blood, revitalising the nervous remarkable ligare in Australian undoubtedly proved to be a very system, and restoring the physiol 'Jowish life. He arrived in Aus profitable investment.
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