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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22 1920.
MRS. ASQUITH'S BOOK.
Times" Says it is a Scandal.
The Tires
says of Mrs. Asquith's Memoirs-The book is à scandal which cannot bel justified or excused. It will doubt less "sell," as Lord Midleton foretells, but it will sell, not on its merits, but because it is a scandal. It is not "bright with real know- ledge of the world," and the life on which it may be thought "rich in point" is a narrow, unwhole- same hot-house life, with its | faults exaggerated and its features
travestled.
We are obliged to suppose that she is not conscious of the real character of her book and of the) impressions which it must convey to ordinary minds. We must assume that she is as insensible! to many received standards of conduct as #1 Mind mac is to. [colour.
We are inclined to believe that much of what Mrs. Asquith says. about her "inner self" dosa no:! correspond with what she really) is as much what she says of others | 15 distorted be the medium through which she sees it. We believe that long indulgence in the corrupting habit of "dramati sation" with herself for the pria-
ipal figure has so blunted her. sense of moraltazi, as of all otherį act, that she has not realised the offence of this publication. Tha: might raigate the fault. but it would n.: absolve her, for 40 years ago she knew that the habit is evil It has its roots in vanity and in self-love.
That the book will do mischiel is, we are afraid, inevitable. Sille and underbred young women, may he led to faney the tone and the manners it describes to be those of good society and to take the career of its heroine for their model: will be cited by our domestic Bolshevists and accepted by many ignorant workers as proof tha: our statesmen and politicians and the circles in which they move live lives of philandering frivolity: it will be jer at on the Continent and in America as a revelation on the highest authority of the corrup tion and the hypocrisy of British
manners,
We vers deeply regret the issue of a publication which must cause widespread scandal, and which will furnish new weapons to our calumniators by present- ing a wholly false view of many things and persons, including, we may hope. the story and the reall self of the writer.
"MALICE IN BLUNDERLAND,"
Tha: is the beading of thel Morning Pos's article on Mrs. Asquith's Memoirs. and the criticism is a piece with thei heading.
The flagrant interest of this amazing book says the crinal, which would have made Pepr feel secretive, and Rousseau tot! the "Confessions") boast himselfi reticent, has been largely dis-i counted-fortunately for the reviewer-by the publication of it in Sunday journal. from which almost every newspaper in the land has taken succulenti purtions.
Mrs. Asquith's account of the political life of the nearer past and its protagonists, is now known to be no revelation of hidden truths: it is all a mirage of falities and fallacies created by a blazing egoism, which is unique in the history of English literature. It should have been
if you need Pinkettes. If your veiled, of course, in a cypher such face is pimply or yellow, if you see slime upon your tongue, its Pepys, who was a most capable and patriotic Admiralty official, The Bishop of Bradford fuced auswer is you do, because these conference of Labour representa. 33mptoms usually indicate a dis-and knew what a public road tives for two hours in the Trades ordered condition of the liver oroes to his character and career. Hall at Bradford, and answered a bowels.
volley of questions on points aris-
ing out of a sermon he delivered;
at the Cathedral a few weeks ago.i
For twenty minutes questions
PINKETTES
invented to hide bis self- revelations until his friends and he himself had become the dust of history.
But we have it all here and relating to the Church's attitude are laxative perfection and act as now, a direct and unabashed por- on social problems, on nationalza gently as Eature, Of. dealers trait of a woman's self-a portrait tion, extravagance, and everywhere, or at 60 cents the which will certainly survive as a canos" were hurled at the Bishop vial from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai.
from all quarters.
Ca
He was allowed th similar "length of time to reply, and the
remainder of the time- davoled to full expression views.
was
of
so there must have been waste and extravagance somewhere.
literary curiosity, & triumph of feminine Creevrism, as long as any of the famous chronicles of super-egoists.
It is impossible to accept any- thing in the book as true avidence. Already the validity of the lead- ing episodes, conversations with "Weste and extravagance, the elder statesmen that have
The Bishop thoroughly enjoyed whether among the wage-earning passed away recently, have been his experience..
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for the capitalis: classes, was denied by relations and others Look for that Gold Seal Tab "BONBONS CAILIER.” Asked to give specific instances morally wrong. When one walk-
He condemned the
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of extravagance among workers ed down Bond-Street and other must be regarded as far more the Bishop quoted over-indu-places the reckless spending of gance in strong drink, adding, the rich was appalling, especially Take my old perish, Plymouth. when they compared it with the During the railway strike several want in the East End." women came to me and said that
persons of importance in their intime of politics and are not in was the first time they bad ever
The Banque Industrielle de day are as much inventions of the character. policy. If a bricklayer could protagonist in the puppet show 58
China beg to inform the bolders of lay 1.000 bricks a day he ought the speeches of generals and regard the book as
The most charitable plan is to the temporary bonds of the Credit to be allowed to lay 1,000 bricks. statesmen in Livy's history. But twenty-five shilling stocker, in subscribed through them, that "There was a surplus of some- He could not imagine why a the former are neither historical fact, in which the only personality same must be exchanged in their a novel, a National 1919, which have been thing like 21s. per week. The man should be stopped from nor dramatic-for they do not fit that is really meant to matter is Paris Office for definite bonde! men's wives were not getting it, working his best by any rules.
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