RECENT BOOKS ON CHINA.
Language, Travel and History.
We make no apology to our readers for reprinting in full this excellent review under the above
heading from the current Athen
acum. The books surveyed are the following:
Chineas and Sumerian.
O. J. Ball: Milford, £2. 24. Unknowa Mongolia. By Dong.
net,)
-las Carruthers.
2 vols. (Hutchinson and Co, el. 10. net.)
A Naturalist in Western China
Lexicon
THE HONG TELEGRAPH.
of Sumerian
The last list contains
EXTRA
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914.
the
CRICKET.
Kowloon C.C. v. R.G.A.
were :**
THE NAVY,
14 Pte, Dawson, c. Kennedy, b.
'Donnelly
B. D. Evans, o Ross,
Bagnall
b
W. T. Elson, o Owen,
b
5
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0
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J. H. Mend, b Bagaai! N. L. Railton, Rougell, b
Willisme...
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cook, b. Donnelly
Fleet Pay Pearson o Ken.
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Lt. Buxton, e
Eng. Lt. Archard, retired hurt 8
Total Bowling.
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Wodehouse, b
0.
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R. G. A. Capt. H. Smith, a Elson, b
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Capt. Matthews, e Robinson,
b de Rome...
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9 A.G. Stokes 1 12 2
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derived from a common hypothe antiquaries, and travellers who of such sentences may be open to tical parent in Central Asia. The|
have naturally outdistanced those aritioiem, and they have tried to book consists of an Index of tion of the borderland of their ever, no part of their object to of other nations in the explora-steer the right course. It is, how- References and Abbreviations, on own Siberia, and they are, in a show-by-quctation that there is These teams met at Kowloon the Nature of Somerian Writing, sense, of inferior interest to those nothing which a Chinamen will on Saturday in the 1st Division of a Preliminary List of Similar which describe Words, Initial and Final Sounds original observations and ex- periphrasis, and we could point in a victory for the military men, the author's not on occasion speak of without the League. The match resulted (their correspondence sad parallel changes), the Chinese Classifica- pleteness to what i give com- to three or four passages which thanks largely to the fine, batting tion of Characters and the Sarondable and valuable addition to without risking any approach to well-played 85.
what is a thoroughly might well have been omitted of Lieut. Bignall, who put up a merian Parallele or Prototypes, our knowledge of a very little the ideal of those who would
The scores and Progressive Transformation known part of the world which demand the utter exclusion of By
of Characters in Sumorina and has been in the past a kind of "concubines, secondary wives," F. Sutton, o Ross, b Bagual
KOWLOON C.C. Chinoso. These introductory distributing centre of the in- or other forms of immorality-an F. J. de Rome, c Smith, b chapters are followed by a long fluential races of Asia, and has, exalasion which would make the
Essay towards a Comparative since Mr. Carruthers visited it, history of an Eastern Court im-A. R. F. Raven, b Baguail... 5 Payne
PAYDO
32 Edgler Chinese, and A Siga-List in revolt from Chinese control, and, haautiful picture, of the Goddess
and risen to prominence by its possible. In a lean degres the W. L. Weager, o Roupall, b Williams which old forms of Chinees its consequent position as a nomi- Chang is marred for as by Eve J. Stalker, b Bagnall
Berry.. with Vasculam, Camera, and Sumerian congeners or proto- between
characters are compared with nally independent state standing needless words, and the style of J. P. Robinson, o Berry, b Gun. By Ernest Henry
great opposing the whole book is blotted by types. Wilson. 2 vole. (Metlined
Williams about 110 Sumerian signs, each author is careful to explain that Prayer, Book-some of them eure- powers of Russia and China. The incessant tags from the Bible and and Co., £l. 10a. net.) Annals and Memoirs of the with its sound, meaning, Chinese his book refers to Mongolia as it ly Eзtraying à taste that may Le few exceptions, no foreign public
the sound and was just before those quite recent regrettad, Court of Peking By E. Back equivalent, ans house and J. O. P. Blaad. meaning of
la parallel changes. The chapters on sport In the Introduction and Con- in view. We are taken from the Dr. Berry, c Mead, b de Rome (Heinemann, 16a. net.).. columus. The aged likenesses by Mr. J. H. Miller will interest olusion the authors make a secret hengste reign (A.D. 1506-1522), Lt. Bignall, 1 bw, b Riven The origin of the Chinese Vary greatly i dagree. Thus sportsmen, but few, we trust, will of their biasa bins which few through the close of the Ming Sgt. Owen, b Raven people and their language has under No. 100tle Chinees form care to read: "After watching sympathetic dwellers in China dynasty, to the downfall in their L. Taylor, o Mead, b Raven 19 T. E. Pearce, b Hunton' long boon the theme of wonder and sound, and meanag-ie identical them for some time......playing joan wholly miss towards paaa-establishment of the so-called
"turn of the Manchus and the Cpl. Ross, st Robinson, b 8. 8. Moore,,b Dawson ingenious speculation, and it does with the Sumerian; bat a highly on the hill-side, I shot two of the innate love of the civilization of Republic, not by means of con-Gr. Edglor, not out...
5 P. P. Wodehouse, o Rapley, b not ceace to exercise ita fascina-expert eye would be needed to cubs
the East as it stands facing the tinnona narrative, but by a series Gr, Payne, o Railton, b
Pearson" detect any resemblance between There have been times the pair of signs which follow. western China' deserves con hipe that the bok might be read Mr. Wilson's Naturalist in barbariem of West; and we could when the immigration of the Not much weight, however, can aiderable notice. The first volume and laid to heart by all (and Court life. The chapters are, Sgt. William,
of roenos, and those not exclusive- Stalker Chinese from Western Asia WUB
be attached to the likeness of the 'spoken of aa'if it warn a domon-
Raven leala chiefly with the author's they include thousands of course, pot all of equal interest, strated fact; but of recent years sigas or characters, for
find travels in Western, China that Chinese) who feel satisfaction and possibly some of the Mancha our disappointment, the tendency has been to view
that of the 900
the or 1,000 is to say, principally in Sauch'uan, at prospect of a Euro emperors' decrees (except those the question in a more agnostic
on the Tibet border, and in the peanized Chins. The rather curtailed, though there is a fas- of Ch'ien-lung might have been words in the Comparative The wisest perhaps, ara those who pay that questions of Lexicon,' only 91 Chinsed worda little-known and rarely visited unfortunate description of this cination in 'the very profundity | "Christianity's of their dullness; and the scenes are marked as having characters western part of Hupsi and con-barbariam 89 origin belong not to the begin which show traces of possible taine his observation, original or civilization," and one or two of the last chapters are such as ning, but to the end, of science and the science of sinology is connexion with the linear form of borrowed, on the history, customs gentle criticisms of Christian tell us little or nothing of the the corresponding. Sumerian and religion of the people, and missionaries, are counterbalanced effects of which they were the very far indeod from maturity
the Chiarung by other phrases which recognize oauses in the history of the nation. Laven es yet, even among the French word." Time will show whether especially of
sal other non-Chineas tribes that Christianity itself and its really auc- Others (with a touch of odiam Dr. Bull has
The picture is, on the whole, whi h ceeded in making a
are дот attract- Founder are very different from great theologicum) seem openly to
eno of gathering gloom, growing The the practice and modern idele in the later Manchu days to a first stop towards
aftention. rojice that the fact, as they the Chinese language to a foreign second volume is more particular- of nominally Christian races. hideous blackness of selfishness
tracing ng much regard it, of the strictly indigen- Que nature of the Chinese in source. That the parallels, as hely devoted to botany, agriculture, The rosy picture of Eastern morale and vice almost unrelieved. The League, the Police were at home Fleet Pay. Pearson 14 1 88 36; fatal blow to the theory of the State them, between the two and sport: the last we should suggested in the Introduction 18, book, is full of morals, of lessons on Saturday, and went down Stoker Ripley.
rather have called natural history alas! not fully justified. When not only for China, but also for badly before the Civil Service. Lt. Buaton dispersion of mankind, from any merous, no one will dony; and of birds and beasts, since these the authors say the daily the.modora world at large. It is The scores are as follow:-- Tower of Label. Between the main the first to perceive chapters give careful accounts of recorde of our divores and full of incidental corrections of two parties come those who de- that Chinese alone is able to the chief birda and animals, with police courts have no parallels in what appear to be popular mis-E. W. Dawson, e Kent, b
CIVIL SERVICE.. "olare" "that" the Chinese are not
mentioned ia
provido parallels to some of the mercifully few stories of their, the East," they may mean that the ancient
conceptions about China, ea- there was till lately no daily press records of
phonetic and other peculiarities of slaughter. nation any.
Sumerian.
The whole book is ex-to record the revelations of pecially about the "despotic A. Foster, b King but "their Own, and tha!
well Besides the likeness of isolated tremely
illustrated courts which did not exist; but freed for ever on February 18th, O. Brawn, st. Pitt, b Mo-
government" from which it was AE, Wood, o Pits, b McLennan 10 apart from the Book of Genesis
delightful photographs of more than that. When they 191:-of incidental testimony to (which, it must be granted, does words with which Dr. Ball is by only the monuments and docu. noticed, any attempt to show simi- the photographs of a specialist to, instinctively profers death to of the said despotic government, C.T. Higginbotham, c Elwarde not specify the Chinese) we have chielly concerned we have not (how wonderfully enperior are speak of "a ruce of women which the unsurpassably noble ideals. J. Tacchi, b McLennan".. 01
tion.
way.
;
fudioation of the date of the
itself.
We
to
languages are striking and nu-
do so.
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100 0
Pearson
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11. A. G. Blokes, o Swanston, b
... 43 R. Hanocok,*6* Ferriss, b +2
13 Extras 15 C. C. Clarke, o Rapley, b
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b Pearson253
Bowling.
M. M. Mans, b Rapley
0. M
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R. 10 1 48
W
D. E. Donnelly, b Pearson ...
3
P. H. Cobb, not out
8 2
35
1
9
0 28
10
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Extrag
5
0
23 0
8 0 32
0
Total
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Bowling
Ö. M. R. W.
Evans Dvery
Weaser
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Police v. Civil Service.
In the Hongkong Cricket Pte. Dawson 12 1 55 2;
McLennan
Lennan
b McLennan...
...15
32
We wish we had space to dwell F. J. Ling," c Grimmett, h
Alexander.... in more detail on the many thoughts suggested by a book W. Bradbury not out which no one who cares to know
only seven years since a well but for Chinose he does not seem trees and flowers, the grand as this wenoble China should leave unread. There
the to
8. únda thousand years
of
terror,
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POLICE C. G.
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those of the amateur tourist!): dishonour," we must compare, and the unfailing patriotism and ments of the Chinese themselves larity of syntax), Chinees pre-
b McLennan sents some vague affinitieswith Su-some, which contrive to be really both for confirmation, and quali- to guide ue, and these supply no evidence whatever as to the place merian such as the use of one sign interesting, of glorious scenery; fication, the words of the Maccharage which would have taved W. Hill, c Pitt, b King ... 2
China in bar darkest hours if the JM. Mackay, e Kent, b. Mc- or time of the nation's origin, to express words of like sound bat some of specimens of animals or soldier at Yang-chou
corruption of eanuohridden and Loonan though they do seem to give some unrelated sense, some trace of birds (with exact measurements), "During the Korean campaign vennl Curt had allowed it to WH, Edmonds, c. Grimmitt
"male" and "female" dialects, such as Reaves' pheasant, (814 hardly a woman bought per life beginning of civilization in Chinx and arbitrary inversion of syllan. long), or the Tibetan eared in the price of her virtue. Who Lles Dr. Ball's Sumerian authori- pheasant, with his antidy tail would have believed that the ties appear to be recent, the feathers--the delight of Chinese in babit ints of this great Empire Coming more particularly to
dates ranging form 1884 to 1913; artists; and best of all, portraits of of China oculi be as chameless the language, wo find that it is known French schlar wrote in to mention anything later then maidenbair tree or the rambler She, was not alone in that time of
are, of course, statements which one of the best summary accounts Giles'a 'Dio ionary' of 1892, and rove. Notable illustrations of
With two sentences from the all will not endores. It is a pity of the Chinese language with we wonder, without venturing to another type are 'A Bamboo
judge, whether Korean and Suspension Bridge, 70 Yards Introduction, which will serve to that original sources" fail the which we are acquainter:-
authors just where they would Kelly "Chinese is a primitive langu- Japanese and Chinese dialect-Long. Irrigation Wheels' (quito show the author's position, we
have bron most interesting in Kent age. That is to say, it is derived forms are necessarily safe guides different from those of Eastern pass to the book itself:
aix China), and Peasants transplant "Beneath, the cruelties and showing the real light in which Alexander... only from itself. Dig down into
ngo (ing Rice The last is a perfect rapacities of life, the brooding the opiam question was viewed McLennan its most ancient monuments; you millennium before the legendary representation of this singe in the soul of the East preserves, with in 1841. The revelations of the King will find nothing but its own native foundations. French is beginning of Chinese history), laborious production of rice the its infinite capacity for suffering, later chapters should surely have derived from Latin, Celtic, Greek; and whether, indeed, all the staple food of half the Chinese the dignity of a philosophy and deprived the Empress Dowager K. C. McLennan, a Hill, b
Edmonda, but no ancestora are known for words quoted (e.g., seng, a monk) people, and when growing, one off and beauty of ideals which the Tz'n-hai for ever of the oft-
Nor A. Edwards, b Ling. Chinese. Whence are the sounds stretch back as far as that. Such the most beautiful crops to b3 West has never equalled, and repeated epithet "great, derived? We do not know, and a book as Dr. Bill's, if it does seen anywhere, Not a little charm from which it has derived many can we, with the beat will in the E Kelly, bling, the compariecns made with the nothing else, en phasizes the fact is added to an interesting anri of ite noblest inspirations and world, altogether share the op. E. Vincent, cand b Edmonda
timism which is "content to W. Pitt, bLing, sounds of the most ancient langu- that there is etile for sa'we are useful book by the evident religions."
The Chinese, with ictionary of fact that the writer liked, and
wait and see, only hoping T. B. King, remain barren of results, aware, no Earo ages.
China, natives, desire to argue about worlds that
Edmonds,.. oage which was liked by
protected by Or do we sek about the writing? the Chinose
me the etymo, Mr. Bickhouse and Mr. Bland unseen or thin rond thereto, her poverty, misy escape these C. F. Alexander, o and b The study of its development even attempts t through the ages leads us backlogy of the worls, or trace the give us in "Annals and Memoirs would be more than human if undeserved calamities [telephones, Edmonds,
and of the Court of Peking the they... failed to perceive the moving picture shows, appendioi- W. Kent, c Ling, b Edmonds, 6 to primitivo drawingsof the things history of their forma
sounds and usage.
second of what; we hope, may be undeniable fact that (as de ti, sanitation, baseball nines, and A. Grimmelt, b Ling,.... which surround man emerging
Unknown Mongolia' and 'Amany contributions to Chinese Tooquoville observed in America) bachelor maida]."
E. Booker, b Ling, from the savage state, and such
"The greatest dangor [they J. Carpenter not out. lementary designs might have Naturalist in Western Chins are history from original sources. democracy affords neither time
threaten the
Extras been made ideatically at any excellent specimens of a familiar Extraordinarily valuable as the nor place for that profitable say which can
lies not in foreign point on the face of the earth, type the scientific explorer's bok is, we are left in some meditation which makes for the nation
nation's, invasions, nor even in alien rple, the models being the same for all popular account of his travele.doubt as to its exact ambition. peace of a man's, of
bat in a weakening of those Certain graphic resemblances The first, accompanied by excel-Is it meant for the study or for soul."
The illustrations are not too ethical restraints, of that ancient between two scripta in no way leat new maps and good, but the drawing-room? The cover: compel us to conclude that the surely too numerous, photographs, the qurions, inconsistent, and many, and for the most part, of moral discipline, upon which has Edmonds, writings had a common origin or describes the exploration of the sometimes ludicrous forms of quite unusual interest; even the rested the world's oldest civiliza Ling. that one was borrowed from the unknown basin of the upper Chinese words; the absence of six rather similar views of the tion of those qualities from Hongkong C.C.V. The Navy.
On Saturday the H.K.0.0. Yenisei, lying on a terrace of references even to the titles of "return from the wilderness" which the race draws its uncon- This view has been endorsed the northern slope of of the Mon- the published or manuscript serve the intereste of historical querable strength." anite recently by, perhaps, the golian plateau, and the journey sources; the many misprints accuracy,There are twelve We trust that this book will ground, winning by 98 runs. most prominent student of the thence through Mongolia to all suggest the latter; while, on photographe of Chinese paintings, go far to silence the foolishness for the winners T.E. Pearce Kumul or Hami, ending with the the other hand, the greater part and thers carry out the idea of the of those who imagine that the Boored a useful 62, while other ancient Chinese script....
But all this while Dr. Ball has survey of the Karlik Tagh and of the contents is worthy of the at whole took that salto say, they very word "republic must good scores were A. G. Stakes been making his slender book" Bakul Mountains to the north and tention of the most serious, stud allow the Chinese to tell us about bring a reign of "unexampled 43, M. M. Mana, 23, and, for the Chinese and Sumerian a serious north-east of the latter place. ent, and we confess to being old-themselves, or rather, to let us felicity," and strengthen those Navy, Stoker Rapley, not out 29, collection of evidence to support The historical and antiquarian fashioned enough to regard some overhear what they have to tell who are trying to lay in China and Bub. Lt Fawcett, 20. Dar- the conclusion--which he thinks chapters which such a book sentences as making the book one another, for the pictures we the foundations of true Chrising the game Engineer Lient. inevitable--that Sumerian and usually includes are based, we unsuitable to be left on the draw-look at of grave statesmen and lianity and restore the dignity Arohard received a nasty hit
while Chinese are to a great extent gather, largely on the learned ing room table. The authors are gay ladies, and the diaries, annale, and wisdom which underlie the the eye with the ball, identical, or, as he anggests, works of tho many Russian not unconscious that the inclusion and degrees we read, had, with a weather-beater, but unconquered batting, and had to retire. The
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