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Locksley Hall writes in the Daily Chronicle:
3
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920.
THE BOOK WORLD.^
THE CANTON INSURANCE
*Q* ON THE ART OF READING.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch opens the course of lectures which he
OFFICE LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given shat
an Extraordinary General Meet ing of the Members of The Canton Insurance Office Limited will be held at the Offices of Messieurs
THEATRE
Commencing
ROYAL.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SATURDAY, 18th Sept. at 9.15. QUEEN'S DISPENSARY. MAURICE E. BANDMAN
presents the
delivered at Cambridge in 1916 Jardine Matheson & Co. Limited BANDMAN
And 1917 under the title "On thee General Agents of the Com- Art of Reading" (Cambridge pany at No. 16 Fodder Stre University Press. 155. net) by Victoria Hongkong on TUESDAY reminding his hearers that among the 21st day of SEPTEMBER
COMEDY
the examples of unirtentional 1990 at 12 o'clock noon when the COMPANY
wrong-doing mentioned in Aristo-
awe
MONDAY, 20th **THE NAUGHTY WIFE."
TUESDAY, 21st "A VOICE FROM THE
MINARET."
WEDNESDAY, 2nd "GENERAL POST.””
THURSDAY, 23rd "THE YELLOW TICKET.”
tle's "Ethica was the case of subjoined Resolution will be pro
posed as an Extraordinary Re- In a repertoire of latest London
plays. "the man who only meant to
salution via:- show how it worked, like the
SATURDAY, 18th fellow who lat off the catapoll" "That the Now Articles con-
tained in the printed doen-"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.""; Sir Arthur is afraid that in his
mant submitted to the Meat- earlier course "On the Art of
ing and for the purpose of Writing" he repeated this offence;
identification subscribed by "Another professor in fact, (Emeritus, learned, sagacious, the Chairman thereal be ard venerable)" told him so we hope the same are hereby appros- ed, and that such new Arti in good English and bade him for the future toach young man cles be, and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the how to read and not divulge how
Company in substitution for what they read was written.
and to the exclusion of, all tha the To this advice we
existing Articles thereof." excellent course now (says the the for published Times)
Should the above Resulation be enjoyment of a wider circle. passed by the requisite majority, Yet the catapult, we fear, has it will be submited for confirm- gone off again, and more pro-ation as a Special Resolution to x fessors of literatore will have further Extraordinary General been stung by it. Sir Arthur Meeting and such Meeting will Quiller-Couch is an incorrigiblebe held on THURSDAY the 7th Humanist: ba will never be day of OCTOBER 1920 at the same brought to confess that literature time and lace for the purpose of is not there really to be enjoyed: considering and if thought fit con- be would never be glad of the arming auch Resolution as spectacle of that estimable Special Resolution accordingly.
10 alluded young man,
Copies of the proposed New Mr. George Moore's "Con-
present Articles and of the fession." who would tell you. Articles may pocket-book in hand, "Last year
in
be seen at the
FRIDAY, 24th
** BILLETED."
SATURDAY, 25:h "LORD RICHARD IN THE PANTRY."
411
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1 read 10 plays by Nasb. 12 by Offices of the General Agents crP. & O. S. N. COMPANY.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
at the Offices of Messieurs Peele, six by Greene, 15 by
Deacon, Looker, Deacon and Beaumont and Fletcher, and 11 anonymous plays-54 in all."Harston the Company's Solicitors no: unbend has spoiled the flavours is to the frame of mind of No. 1 Des Yeux Road Central,
Victoria, Hongkang. of many a delicious meal. Would the King Edward VII. Professor
Dated this 17th day of August any host hesitate a moment to of English Literature at Cam
1920. selecting his guests between bridge. Out of the three elements Adam Smith and Theodore Hook? which, following Browning, he Mr. Jerome, we are told, is not discerns in life he frankly sets little ashamed of his early What Is" above "What Does." The sixth sense is almost as essays in humour, but his best and even above "What Knows." enigmatic as the fourth dimension. monument would be another and holds that but in its own good time this irresponsible face. "Father Eo-
To purse that spark, common undefined quality will. I believe, deavour" Clark, on launching the reveal itself as the
sease of great Christian Endeavour move to the king, the sage, the poorest humour the nonsense. Most of ment, grew terribly ashamed of child-to fan. to draw up to a us are brought up on nonsense his cold levity-the levity which ame, to "educate" What to for a few delightful years, and produced his deathless. Hurls-recognize that it is divine, set frail, tender sometimes easily the remainder of our days are burly" papers.
tired, easily quenched ander piles spent in a vain endeavour to live,
Knowledge, accuracy, sense of book-learning—to let it run a it down.
fact logic are excellent things in play very often, even more often their place, but it is a comparto let it rest in what Wordsworth baring arrived from the above atively small place in the world of calls." happiness, as may be illustrated by that Sae humorous tale of the happy man withot a shirt.
Yet how grateful we are to the brave spirits who, perhaps in an idle boar, possibly ic & mood of revolt, throw more rubbish on the fire of fun, and light up the ridiculous pictures on the walls of memory.
To stiff literary people. Tom Hood-usually dubbed "Poor" is the author of "The Song of the Shirt" and
The Bridge of Sighs"; possessors of the girth sense worship bim as the Prince of Punsters. In like manner we initiates canonise Lewis Carroll, not as the stuffy mathematician.
THE NONSENSE AGE.
..the nonsensc
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pany
KB.
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of children When he
has lost
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the trifles
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filaments
more
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA-
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1
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at 3 o'clock in the afternoon by
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THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty cents per share has been. declared for the half-year ending 30th June, 1920.
Such Interim Dividend will be payable on and after FRIDAY, 17th September, 1920 at the Offices of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants..
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed from 6th to 16th September, 1920 (both days inclusive) doring which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO:
General Managers.
NOTICE.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
CO., LTD.
The property consists of-ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situste in the Dependency of Koston and Colony of Hongkong and known and registered in the The Ordinary General Meeting Land DEce as Section H of Kor- of the above Company will be loon Jaland Lot No. 410 together held at the Company's Offices BL with the messuage erected there- Noon on Saturday the 25th inst. 102 bundles plain Galvanized on known as No. 15 Hankow (1920.
The. Transfer Books of the Road, Kowloon. Term 75 years Wire
from 24th. June 1892 created by Company will be closed from the Consignees Knappa Crown Lease dated the 11th. 17th to 25th instant both days
& Baxter November 1892. Proportion of inclusive,
Annual Crown rent $20.12. Area 3,594 Square feet.
Marks: B. J. Caple 8.6.19 Hongkong
The above-mentioned cargo 5. S.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers, Hongkong. 9th September, 1920.'
porta. Consignees of Cargo are bereby notified that their goods to mother it, in short, are being landed and placed at as wise mothers do their children their risk in the Hongkong and But it is not enough that a few this is what I mean by the Art Kowloon Wharf and Godown choice spirits should be encouraged
Company's Godowns at Kowloon. of Reading. to keep alive the divine spark of
There is a touch of mysticism where delivers can be obtained
The interest God responsibility comedy. We are too apt to treat recalling the 17th-century Cam- as soon as the goods are landed. homour as we treat football, to
Platonists
Sir about bridge
Goods not cleared by the 19th of the undersigned in the business watch other people at it. Some Arthur's view that in literature, inst. will be subject to rent hitherto carried on at No. 34, of the saddest and sourest com through the agency of "meo Damaged packages must be Queen's Road Central under the panions send Punch religious exercise, but how few of whose minds and souls throw our left in the Godours for examine name of Abdoolrahim
delicate than tion by the Consignees re-Architect, Surveyor and Civil os ever really try to live Punch.
Professional fun is apt to lose ours, vibrating to far messages presentative and the Company's Engineer, ceases as from the 8th
which they bring home, to report Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and das of September, 1920. but as a master of ridicule. In its sparkle. What horribly wise them to us." man understands Douglas, at 10 am on Wednes due time his disciples, men like people were the old kinge jesters."
Hongkong. 8th day of Septem proper place in the day and Saturday. All Claims Stephen Leacock
and Adrian 1 am certain King Hal was s Ross, will take their places by merrier man than his fool. Some verse, this great sweeping must be presented within Thiry ber, 1920.
circle harmonious
of which, days of the steamer's arrival here. his side, not as scholars but as of us are born dall, some have nevertheless, he feels himself after which date they cannot be people's jesters.
dullness tbrest upon as: But the
the diminutive focus." recognized. No claim will be to bo man who has no small talk, no
But. like many mystics, the admitted after the goods have At heart the world is even re-ense of the Littleness of life, runs author of this doctrine keeps a left the Gedowns. newing its youth, and youth is the risk of losing his own life and firm grip on common sense and No fire insurance whatever will!
Any man making the way hard for his fel
never for moment loses his be effected. real bis may discover
age flows.
pense of humour. Nothing could Consignees are requested to) the getting into
THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS. Women somebow, know instine-be wiser than his triple maxim send in their Bills of Lading for
that "literature cannot be countersignatures immediately. the art of pretence. tively bow very little life really divorced from life." that since it
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, the taste for playing bears, the is; how the universe revolves is so personal a thing, "you cannot
Y. YASUDA, belief in fairies, his sole place in round a hat or a recipe; bow understand it until you have some
Manager. the real, living, growing world is vivið and real are
personal understanding of the the lethal chamber of a decent that never count. They have no men who wrote it," and that "the obscurity. He acquire sense of humour, someone says writing and speaking of English Hongkong, 13th September, 1920 having arrived by the
may knowledge. make money, freme Nonsense-tor that is nonsense. is a living art, to be practised and
M. S. Dollar' on August 18, laws; but spiritually he is a dead if you like. The man who can (if it may be) improved." Because songht frantically to give it 1920, and remaining unclaimed,
watch a mother with her baby
onsignees of same are hereby The fact that Ford Beaconsfield and deny her the sixth sense has people will treat literatore a way-board and birthright.
Therefore Sir Arthurpleads for notified that it is being stored at "sabject" separable from daily found a Gilbert and Sullivan lost his own. Next to the child's life and practice. Sir Arthur com- the continued teaching of Latin their risk and for their account
"bad" is a proof that the ridiculous behaviour its mother's- great statesman had, in the pres nonsense is the saving grace of plains, you get such things as the and even (without compulsion) of in the hazardous. and/or extra Would she lose an argon of official correspondence, Greek, and shows that if he is hazardous godowns of the Hong- & Kowloon Wharf & sure of affairs, allowed his sixth humanity.
of which be quotes a delicious io-a revolutionary at all, it is sim-kong hour of her little one's entertain stance. Visitors to a well-known rly, as he says, due to his having Godown Co., Limited, and the sense to become strophied.
Our British distaste for small ment for B whole season of English coast town this summer a love of the past, which, be-ondersigned reserve the right to talk is one of the evidences of an professional folly?
may have been equally amused at cause it goes down to the roots, sell same by Public Auction to undeveloped sense of humour. In father, that she cannot see your the tangled skein of ungram-bas sometimes been called Radi-defray all charges should it not the so-called lower classes the joke, or chuckle with you over|matical periphrasis in which the calism." Moreover, his attempt to be claimed within a reasonable Hoogkong, 9th September, 1920. sense is stronger, and its expresyour comic journal; but that you tramway directorate tried to tell defend examinations in literature length of time, sion more spontaneous. It is are utterly incapable of seeing the public that, as the repairs to on bis own principles is such a crude form of the sixth sense that her humourous side-the side of the line were finished, the cars gallant, though absolate, failure) enables Martha and Mary Jane the angels.
would return to their old routes that the other professors ought discuss their neighbours' The matter with most of our again next week. Sir Arthur really to pardon him, in spite of idiosyncrasies over the garden professional humour to day is does not, of course, carry his dis- his catapults. The outside world fence, and stimulates a bank holi-that women take so slight like of "io reference to" and "the will have nothing to forgive. ItHongkong, 9th September, 1920, day picnic party's hilarity. Un-share in its making. If, instead circumstances of the case" to the will not only enjoy and, accord- trammelled by convention and of worrying about recording our point of trying to drive Latining to the measure of the indivi "manners," the proletariat can votes for us, cleaning our win forms, as sach, from our language. dual who reeds, profit by there find immense enjoyment in the dows and running our businesses. So much of English prose would sane and entertaining pages. discovery that one of their party women would write our, revues have to go with them!
will also, we.believe, feel entire-
The business hitherto carried -wears a wig or aspirates his and produce our pantomimes, we
If years ago, there had lackedly at one with a professor who on by Mr. A. Abdoolrahim as ab aitches.
I bave just been reading of a of these fork-bearded professors that-
A liberal education is not an Central will as from to-day be From the 1st September Mir. L. Charlie Chaplin," who derived our prose from the 30 many years ago, for news" female papers to publish dinner table Grotesque 'pitiful, it seems that atacco of Anglo-Saxou: prose, it appendage to be purchased by a carried on under the style of Gain his been appointed manager topics, with hints on their treats woman should not recognise her would have been their foolish de few that humanism is, rather, a abdoolrahim ment, the educated Briton's sixth own superiority in the wondrous liberate, practice of composing quality which cab, and should, undersigned at the same address, pisce Mr. Gaujoin, former man ein rehndin/in this Colony sense was shown in a land light, art. If a male homorist cannot whole pages of English prose condition all our teaching; which And when ene reflects on his last make a good woman laugh, be without using and word de can, and should, be impressed as dinner out, is it not to recall had far better sell sugar to her zivative from Latinor Greeks character upon it all, from aber, 1920. when the dotientini nonsense, be and make her happy. The true Esan when he sold his birthright poor child's first lesson in resd Robes Reges of woman will be signalised had the exouse of being famisteding up to a tutos's last wont to tupdeity of our furth. These pedants, with a full board! his pupil on the sve of a Tripodio
MAD.
opera
to
DINNER TABLE TOFICS.
When it became necessary, not
It is not.
It
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.,
Agents.
NOTICE.
men might not see the jokes, but they would do as a world of good. anything to sharpen my suspicion proclaims so frankly his faith Architect, Surveyor and Civil
Engineer at No. 34 Queen's Road
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HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
An Interim Dividend of $5 per share has been declared for the balf-year ending 30th June 1920.
Such interim dividend will be payable on and after Tuesday, 14th September 1920 at the Offices of the Company, where Share- holders are requested to apply for Warrants,
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from 7th to 14th September 1920 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By order of the Board of Directors.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. Hongtong, 31st August, 1920.
LESSONS:IN CHINESE.
& Co. by the of the firm in Hongkong 10 16 in mestures, has been a teacher, id kaevg
He had good method of
Hongkong, 8th day of Septem-sger, leaving Hongkong for their twenty sign
Head Office in Tiantain
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