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JAPAK'S KEROSENE
The average output of crude kerosene in Japan shows slightly downward trend.
THE MOTOR-CAR MART.
Motor-cars valued at £5,000,000 have been sold at the show of motor-cars at Olympia (London).
MINERAL DISCOVERY, Valuable phosphorous deposits have been discovered in an unin- habited island in the Loocho Archipelago...
JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL
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The depression of industries in general is still keeping the [Japanese coal market compara-
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A SITRATE PRODUCERS'
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A SEW CORPORATION. A New York, report states: The Equitable Trust Company, in conjunction with several westera banks, has formed a new banking! corporation for the conduct of business in the Far East. The new corporation will be known as the Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation and bas been ganized with a capital of $2,000.- BOO.
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ARMY HORSES,
Endurance Testa.
America are trying to find the correct type of barse for the army and efforts are being made to test the endurance and efficiency af different breeds.
Experts in England, France and
The Novel of the Fature. into three classes: (1) the heavy, Books may be roughly divided (2) the light, and (3) the special The beary includes conventional biographies, such as the lives of politicians, scientific books, books of travel written by professional There have already been three author-travellers, educational testa in America and another will works, writes Mr. Keble Howard.take place abortly. The competi-
The light consista almost entirely of novels. Books of verse and plays would also come into the second class.
The special means books written by non-professional authors who bave one book in them on some subject or another usually themselves which they must publish or burst,
A few weeks before his sudden and very sad death I was privileg- ed to have a long conversation ith Mr. William reinemaco. universally admitted to be one of The astutes: English publishers. Tais article is based party on the opinions, in co way private, ex- pressed by Mr. Heinemaan, and partly on my own fairly lengthy experience.
Heinemann startled me by be- ing tremendously down on the conventional biography. He said nobody wanted to read the lives of people merely because they had occupied prominent public positions. The only lives worth publishing were those teeming with romance. In other words, I take it he would have preferret, as a publisher, the life of Mrs. Asquith as written by herself to a biography of, say, Sir William Harcourt compiled by a faithful
secretary.
HEAVY AND LIGHT HEADING.
toms have to cover 60 miles in 10 hours each day for five days "Al- lowances are made for covering the distance in a shorter time. The condition of the borses when they arrive at
their baiting places, and also at the end of their journey each day is care- fully considered by the judges. At the end of the five days, thei borses have one day's rest and than have to cover A certain distance. The way in which they do it has considerable in- fluence on the decision
Each horse in the American test has to carry at least 145lb. live weight, and 10016. dead weight, or a total of 17si, 71b.j Mr. Worcester Smith, one of the | judges, states that "it is this dand weight which calls for a horse of perfect conformation and balance with bone, size. mascular development, nerves and tendons in proportion to breathing space, heart action.) and determination.” Five breeds are entered for this competition, Įthoroughbreds, Arabs, Morgan horses, standard bred trotters, and Kentucky saddla borges. One
| important omisaon is, bowever, a total absanca of any trial over fences or ditches.
An endurance test is also going on in England, but it is of an ex- volumes will always be in de
Of other heavy books, scientificperimental character and only mand by serious libraries and
one breed the Arab, is taking part. An endurance test between students who wish-or are com English, French, and Americaa
breeds, is well worth considera
At the recast Machije Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia great interest Was evinced
the ja
remarkable "Coventry
invert-d-tooth. noiseless, high-speed powerchain transmission exbibited by the Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., of Spon Ead Works, Coventry. chain works, with an effectivepelled-to study them. Books, of smoothness suggestive of ex- travel have a certain" limited traordinary ease and strength. sale. Educational works are always with us, nor is this the The Time says: The final re-only way in which, too frequent- port of the Sub-Committee aply. they resemble the poor. How. pointed to inquire into the costs ever. pupils come and papils go, and profits of motor fuel is whilst the authors of educational practically complete. It is under-works rontinue to push their own stood that the Committee strongly wares for many years, and he is bold that the prices of petrol are unjustifiably bigh, but recognise that in the absence of internation al action, which now appears out of the question, the combines can for some time to come control the situation. The Committee con- Turning to light books, what sider that the only course to hope is there for the novel? When pursue is to develop as rapidly as you put that question tonovelists, possible all the oil resources of one or more will immediately the Empire, and, above all, to raply: My dear fellow, the yarn assist in every way the produce will never die. It is as old as the tion of alternative fuels such as world, and will last as long.” benzol and power alcohol.
SHANGHAI SHARE MARKET.
A wise student who buys the works of the men who is to examine him. A fairly harmless and, in my day at the Varsity, a gonerally recognised form of gentle compulsoin.
tion.
be
The novel of the future will have to be, as Mr. Heinemann phrased it of "compelling interest," It will
have to # Lorna Doone," or a Prisoner or Zenda," or a-well, never mind; but it will have to be a book that you will be compelled to read or feel partially cut off from your kind for six months. And those novels do not come even to the novelist of genius. every day or every year. To the people who write because writing is so easy to them, and have nothing else to do, it never comes at all.
PLAYS AND POEMS,
Books of verse are already That is doubtless true, but the becoming race, and will become form in which the yarn reaches rarer. Nine times out of ten they Messrs. A. D. Anderson & Co's the public varies from time to fare paid for by the poets them- share circular dated Shanghai,' time. Boccaccio's ladies and selves, and thus, in the case of 11th December, states: The cor- gentlemen knew not the cinematopoets with afluent husbands or tinued and accentuated fall in graph. Jomping forward to the parents, will continue to appear. sterling exchange would, in the days of Scott Dickens and For published plays there will be ordininery course of events, im- Thackeray, you had then a con- small but steady sale, toore prove local share values by, siderable fireside public. To-day | particularly in the case of thokej retaining investment fuads in the there ate no leaping and crack- plays that have had a London port, but it is to be feared that ling fires, and nobody butan, and are suitable for present- no such improvement will, in this the old and enfeebled would (ation by amateurs-the real back- case, take place, since the vast sit by them if there were. tone of the British stage. quantities of foreign piece goods. The evening meal over, it present and to arrive, will have is up and out to bridge, dancing, to be financed by the banks, and billiards, or the "pictures." When money promises to be very tight are novela to be read ? throughout the winter. On' Chan-
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Special books will always make their appeal. Spicy tit-bits about vary well-known people have failed any publisher yet. Alice! 14 Wonderland, again, -was a specialbook; it is, of course, E classic, and, deserves to be, "Tho Young Visiters" was a special book; I doubt whether it will become a classic. I read it aloud and ached with laughter over it, but I feel no desire to read it again, wheress I know" AliceTM by heart from cover to cover. Every character in Alice" is human, White and Grey Flannel, thoroughly including the Gryphon. "Charac-|
ge there has been the usual dearth Mr. Heinemann sasured me of business, and there are nơ that the novel of the faturs would features, in the few transactions not be sold at a profit for leas recorded, to call for special notice. then 10s. 6d. Who is going to pay The only shares to show any, 10s. 6d. for the novel that comes improvement are those which not by trus observation, not by being practically sterling issues, sympathy with all things buman, automatically improve with the but is bred by Vanity out of drop in silver. To-day's opening Caconthes Scribendi ? rate for T/T on London was 3/1134 Nobody. I admit there is E the Dollar Tate being 15 large class of people who do not Chinese Reorganisation Losuma gure a rush - what they, road The British issue bas retired to so long as they have x-Xat follows, then, that the 5914 but recovered to 62, and the "story" in front of them. Did I lant quotation for French was 57, not once 186 2 young woman bat the price has probably fallen hand 3, to a zailway po little since. The German issue instructions to bring
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