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M. DESCHANEL'S ELECTION.
Paris. Jan, 18.
Yesterday at "Versailles when M. Bourgeois an- nounced M. Deschanel's election the whole assembly at once rose and acclaimed the result with cries of "Vive France; Vive Deschanel." President Deschanel, who was much moved, stood up in his place and returned thanks.. "Our hopes of 1918." he said "are not yet fully realised." The people of France will overcome all obstacles on con- dition they are kept in touch with affairs. As Deschanel left the Congress Hall he was greeted by loud cheering. He drove through Paris by motor car. He first went to the Palais Bourbon, then the Elysee, and paid a call on M. Poincare. The interview between the Presidents lasted forty minutes which is without precedent. It is believed that after the usual congratulations the political situation was discussed. In view of the present trend of events it is probable it will be necessary to adjourn for a few It is understood, days the second peace conference. however, M. Clemenceau will continue to be French delegate on the Council of Three until the new govern- ment is constituted. 1. Millerand will probably be Premier-Havas.
FRANCE'S THANKS TO "THE TIGER”.
Paris, Jan. 19.
31. Clemenceau handed yesterday to M. Poincare the resignation of all Ministers, 31. Poincare expressed to him the gratitude of the whole country for the work he had accomplished in the past two years. M. Clemenceau will now carry out his plan of visiting Egypt where he will remain two months. On his return he will be officially received at the, Academie Francaise. M. Poin- care has officially requested M. Millerand to form a new cabinet. M. Millerand accepted and begins immediately political consultation. He himself will take the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An expert financier selected outside Parliament will be Minister of Finance.---Havas.
EMPIRE STATISTICIANS AT WORK.
London, Jan. 19.
The Imperial Statistical Conference, which holds its first sitting at the Board of Trade on Jan. 20 is the out.. come of the recommendations in a report by the Royal Dominiors Commission, 1917, that a conference of statisticians of the Empire should be called as soon as practicable after the war in order to consider the question of improving statistical returns, especially with a view to securing greater comparability and uniformity and the question of the formation of an Imperial Statistical
tce, to prepare statistics relating to the whole of the British Empire. The Imperial War Conference approved these recommendations and laid down that an inter Imperial board control should supervise the proposed statistical unice. The overseas delegates attending the conferencer include G. H. Knibbs. (Australia), M. Fraser, (New Zealand), C. W. Cousins, South Africa), G. Findlay Shirras, H. R. Sailey, C. W. Cotton, (India), F. Bowes, (Eastern Colonies), J. C. Davies, (East African Protectorates), and D. S. MacGregor. (West African Colonies.)
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
(From Our Own Correspondent) THE "CHINA" REPORTED WRECKED.
Shanghai, Jan. 20.
"A wireless message from a passenger on board the steamer "China" received here says:-"China wrecked." Shanghai is awaiting details. The local agency has had no advice of any disaster.
{The "China" is due in Hongkong on or about the 24th inst, and presumably the above messege was received'
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the Mountain," will be produced for the first time in the East by the students of the Hong- kong University Union on February 18th, 14th and 18th at Theatre Royal, and that the bookings open at Moutrie on Monday, February 2nd.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lork Dunsany, is the eighteenth member of his family to bear the title which gives him s place in the Irish peerage. He was born in 1878 and revolved bi education at Eton and Sandburst. In 1809 he succeeded his father to the title and the family estate in Meath, Irelagd. During the South frican war he served at the frou: Coldstream Guards. He is with the.
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His work proves, however. Wh he is as fond of spiritual as of physical exercise, and that he is an inveterate traveller in those mr. sterious regions of the partly known where the or wholly unknown imagination alons can pukle us, It was the Bible that gave Ed the Hmpid se which makes his most fantastic tales as real as govern ment reports or rather much more
For years no style seemed to ne natural but that of the Bible" he said not long ago, and I feared that I would never become a writer when I saw that other people dirij not use it. For something like Ten years he has been a pretty me- quent and increasingly valued con- tributor to English and Angle
English periodicals. He has pre- viously published five voluines. The Godds of Pezena.'' 1985; * Time and the Gals," 1tas: The Sword of Welleran," 10 A Dreamer's Tales;" 1910 and The Book of Wonder, 1912. All are collections of prose pieces that deip accepted classificatione. They are fairy tales and short stories and essays and prose poems at the same time.
One bas only to take a brid glance at these works to make the astounding, discovery of being intro- duged to worlds of which "bonne ever heard before. Even the Arabian Nights" hate a clearly definable background of popular legend und myth.
Nothing of the kind is to be found in the writings of Loni Dunsany. He may be said to have created a new mythology wholly his own. "If you cram s boy's knowledge- He is not only the master but the maker of the countries to which he takes us on such fascinating jauzts, His curionest name for them is the Eige of the World, but some- times he speaks of them as the Loads of Wonder. This latter name is doubly significant, for the whole movement of which he forms such a striking manifestation has been defined as a renascence of wonder."
The names of places and persons appearing in the stories of Lord Dunsany are, worth study in themselves. "There are hundreds of them, giving evidence of an in- exhaustible imagination: and each one of them is us aptly suggestive | as if generations of met had been at work shaping them. To hear of Sardation, the city built by the Gods of Old, is to see its domes of marble rising sky-high in the sunset lighted air. Τα hear of Slith and Sippy and Slerg, the three thieves who went to the Edge of the World in quest of the Golden box, is to feel as if one were dealing with historical characters like Aaron Burr or Chinese Gordon. And as we learn more about them. these funciful creatures of Lord Dunsany's brain assume still more familjar characteristics, as if they had been studied in 'some Irish village or English street. It is this fact that reveals one of the main secrets of Lord Dunsany's appeal: | behind all his exuberanti imagination lies a solid basis of observation, enabling him to endow the most impossible adventures with a homely and convincing air.
His five great plays have all been produced. "The Golden 'Doc' and The Gods of the Mountain" have been staged most success- fully at the Haymarket Theatre, Locdon. King Argimenes" and The Glittering Gate" have been In given by the Irish Players, America, the first three bave been in the repertoire of Stuart Walker's Portmanteau Theatre, and "The Tents of the Araba" has been given by the Neighbourhood Players.
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