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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921.
in
is hoped may form the basis of
The
THE BOOKSHELF.
(By "Librarian
To
pictures
Hutchinson's list. Miss West's atory has the title "The Judge," and we are told, what quite well- may be, that it "breaks down many of the old traditions," and rings with the "voice of the new
of
REPORTED DEATH OF DR. BERTRAND RUSSELL.
generation." Mise Delafield, un- Stated to Have Succumbed
dor the titlo The Heel
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to Influenza.
matters after his death.
Dr. Russell was invited to China
te lecture by the Peking Univer- sity and arrived in China at the end of last October. After a lecturing tour through the South, he arrived at Peking a week
KOWLOON MOTOR
SERVICE.
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THERE'S NO EASIER WAY TO FOOLISHNESS THAN TO Apart from their value in other CUBE
MAN directions, the reports which have GIVE A
LEAVE TO BE been issued in connection with FOOLISH, AND THE ONLY WAY
18TH CENTURY LONDON. the investigations which have TO SHOW A FELLOW THAT HE'S
London of the eighteenth Achilles," makes a study of an been made into the economic CHOSEN THE WRONG BUSINESS IS resources of the Colony have an TO LET HIM TRY. IT-0. It is sufficiently remote from us to by Miss Willcooks, is a Cornish March 28, states that Dr. Ber
century has a charm of its own. astute egoist. "The Keystone,"
A Peking despatch, dated interest from the fact that they Lorimer.
have attained dignity as history; tale, with a smuggling element.
trand Russell, the well-known indicate wonderful possibilities in
it is sufficiently near for some
British sociologist, died there on the way of developing the New Torritories from an agricultural by the s.s. Monteagle.
Col. and Mrs. Humphrey left of us to have conversed with In the days of his youth, Lord the previous day from acuto People who lived in it. It is rich Curzon went to Persia and wrote pneumonia, caused by influenza. point of view. Of particular
in literary associations right from a very good book about it. Since Dr. Russell was taken into the utility in this connection are the
the start, for its beginning then there has been a deal of German Hospital at Peking on voliminous notes by Sir Rebert We have received from the synchronised with the Augustan literature on the land of Omar, the 25th ult, and his condition Ho Tung, showing the success Standard Oil Company a number Age of English letters. Addison its history and its future. The became so critical on the night of of certain experiments carried of useful celluloid pooket and Steel, Swift, Defoe and Pope central work of this literature the 26tb ult, that he could not out as a result of the enterprise | calendars.
lived in a metropoils that had but has been a history of Persia by recognise intimate friends who of Lady Ho Tung and himself.
a single link, (Old London) Bridge, Sir Percy Sykes, which camo out were at his bod side. The Doctors It is well-known that Lady Ho
In connection with the pro- to connect its northern and a year or two before the war. announced that bis Tung is deeply interested in posed Dog. Cat, Poultry and southern areas.
condi. Fielding had Since the peace Sir Percy has tion was hopeless and subse- flower, fruit and vegetable grow- Pigeon Show. Mr. B. L. Frost, choice of two, and old Sam John-been revising the history and quently Professor Dewey, of the ing, and we are told in one of the the Hon. Secretary, would be aon, who stridos through the bringing it up to date for a new Chicago University, took down reports how she and her husband pleased to hear from any in-century as the prototype of the edition which the Macmillans his will. It is understood that by were responsible for the establish- terested persons qualified to act City's social aspect (though not are to publish. What will hap-hie will Miss Belloo, his privato mont and development of as judges.
A native of the Capital), pen to Persia ?-where there secretary, is entrusted with all al experimental farm at
lived to see three bridges span have been dramatic happenings village of Kam Tsin,
Father Thames. Then the Clubs, of late. Sir Percy is a soldier, the New Territories. The water return dated April Coffee Houses, and Taverns are a not a prophet, but he does his Some ten years ago, this place ist shows that there were 1,237 never ending source of entertain-best to answer this question. wag over-run with weeds to a 67 million gallons stored in height of from three to four feet, Hongkong reservoirs, as against meat, and of instruction too.
this period belong Lloyd's coffee but years of toil and perseverance 1,017.94 on April 1st last year house, out of which the famans The essay still holds the po- and also great expense have been The respective figures for Kow: maritime corporation grow, and pular sway it attained during the before his death, and was prepar rewarded by results never antici-loon were 254.74 and 20166 Garraway's, the Stock Exchange war, when people found it helpfuling to lecture at the University. pated at first, in the creation of million gallons.
in embryo. They may have been to thought, and perhaps consol-It was expected that he would an experimental garden, which it
started a little earlier, but it was ing. Two essayists, in particular visit-Japan in the coming summer Yesterday's health return in the oighteenth century that have new volumes appearing at to lecture. further experiments in the future shows three cases of plague (two they flourished.
Sir Algernon Methuen's house. As one reads the notes of what fatal), two of enteric (ons fatal),
In "The XVIIIth Century In Mr. Clutton-Brock writes further. has been done in the face of great two, of diphtheria (non-fatal) and London" (London: Batsford-on books, and on famous authors the tenacity of Sir Robert and and paratyphoid fever (both gives us a fine picture of the Old Vaughan, and Tolstoy. Mr. J. H. difficulties, one cannot but admire one each of cerebrospinal fever 358.) Mr. Beresford Chancellor like Walt Whitman, George- Hor
bert, Meredith, Poe, Marvell, Lady Ho Tung. Apart from non-fatal). The last-named was London-the London of which Curle, who might be described as sericulture, the cultivation of tea British; the rest Chinese. and tobacco has been carried out,
the remnants are daily fading. and rouults are also shown
panorama is helped by an essayist of action and actual- of experiments in growing Last night a dinner was given no fewer than 191 reproductionsity, calls his semi-autobiographic- sugar cane, rice, wheat, cotton at the Hongkong University in of contemporary paintings and al collection. "This World of
Qurs." and onions, whilst the breeding honour of Sir William Brungate. prints. The author bases his of pige has also received atten- Covers were laid for over 200. Dr. text largely on the
variety There has been a notable tion. Incidentally, it is noted Jordan presided and was support themselves, and the that Lady Ho Tung was rosed by the Hon. Dr. Claud Severn, of London life and buildings, revival in Victor Hugo. This ponsible for the introduction of and Sir William Brunyate. The roads and resorts, is excellently gives point to yet another book about his private life. It is made, The very thing that we have all been experting has the first rickeha to ply in the catering was done by the Hong-treated in seven chapters.
Some of the finest illustrations from some of his unpublished me to pass, and our buses, smokes and drinks are going region of this experimental farm. kong Hotel.
in Mr. Chancellor's volume are thou, the French stateman and at, and the tenders will have to manuscripts, by M. Louis Bar- cost us more. It was all kept very, very secrel until Free Trade.
A gang of armed men on
from Samuel Scott's oil-paintings author. A Post's Loves' 18 e last minute and Hongkong's public was probably
Hongkong is, in the main, a Wednesday evening entered the and drawings of the river showing the title of the book, which is ministering the Government. arprised to learn from last evening's newpapers that the distributing centre for mer premises occupied by a Chinese the early bridges or
Hodder Whore announced by overnment had increased its taxes on houses, tobacco and chandise. We presume it is this woman at Un Ling Village, Taipo yet unoccupied sites.
Bridge Blackfriars
Stoughton, Broadly, it tells us quors. These taxes were imposed without a single protest fact whics bas caused the district, and after making the
of the relations between Hugo now, the Fleet the part of the unofficial members of the Council, for Economic Resources Committee usual display of weapons, which
and Saint-Beuve, and between and in Scott's view it most be very simple reason that the Colony's finances are in such to express itself, though in rather, had its desired effect on the received and emitted coalbarges, and his wife, between his wife
titrorous language, in favour of nerves of the woman, drove away interesting feature is the graceful himself and Juliette Drouet." bad way that more revenue is a matter of absolute the continuance of the Free two bullocks valued at $50,
Rialto-like bridge, apparently of ecessity. When the Budget was introduced last autumn. Trade policy of the port. Though
I is stated that the CP.O.S. gleaming white. Portland stone, "My Cricketing Life," by Mr.
8. Methven will be laid up shortly, was openly arranged to spend more than the estimated stating that they would hesitate
Advices recoived at the local which sprang high across the P. F. Warner, in the spring list of in consequence of the depression any American avome, and the Colony was plainly told that further to commit themselves to
Consulate General stream at what is now Ludgate Hodder and Stoughton, is a ources of revenue would have to be found. In the interit question of Protection versus ation that the expected visit to view of old Blackfriars Bridge, When "Pium" has ventured into
definite pronouncement on the from Manila contain the inform-circus.
in freights. Elsewhere is a pleasant treatise that speaks for itself. hose sources have not been tappeil, and so the Government Free Trade, the members of the Hongkong of the big American with its semi-circular atono print before the result bas been as had to fall back on existing sources and has adopted the Committee say: "We would fleet under the command of Vice- arches. In all these views by quite delightful. imple procedure of increasing the levy. But it is worth rather leave well alone, confident Admiral Strauss will not take Scott, Canaletto, and others one hile looking into the matter a little more closely than that. foundation of Hongkong's pros- was given for the postponement and vivacious beauty in the fulfilling a lecturing engagement in the conviction that as the place this spring. No reason realises the Thames had a homely Prof. Bertrand Russell, who is On the estimates for 1921 (as drawn up in the last perity was built on Free Trade, but it is thought that the fleet eighteenth century that is utterly at Peking University, is respon- Budget) it was anticipated that the year would close with there is no reason to believe that which is at present in Manila is lost. So many boats and larger sible for a volume, "The Analysis he Colony just over $2,000,000 to the bad. To avoid that, on Free Trade it will not continue awaiting the arrival of General vessels, of all kinds, ride one of Mind," which is nearly ready he Government was going to increase the stamp duties. to enjoy a greater measure of Wood who with a Commission is stream that the very buildings in Allen and Unwin's Library of ncrease the rates charged for buoys and put water meters prosperity in the future than it making his departure from New seem to ride on it too,
has in the past." Well, leaving York on the Wenatchee with a Thames carried and mirrored n Chinese houses and charge for excessive consumption of well alone in this instance means view to investigating Filipino London life in a way that it can
But not one of these proposals has yet material-approval of the existing policy. Independence. It is probable never do again. sed. Our shipping and mercantile community made a which is Free Trade in the sense that the fleet will come here after great fuss a little while ago even when the present charges that there are no protective tariffs the necessary honours have been it, was merely a thickening fringe for harbour buoys had to have their continuance sanctioned, operation, such as one firm rendered the General.
advocated should be enforced. nd a promise was extracted from the Government that no But the port in not wholly "free," ncrease in these charges would be made for the present as it was some year ago, for in The Wanchai Police were the gardens. The Elephant and year. Our Chinese friends very legitimately protested the intoring we have had the victims of a ghastly joke perpet-Castle was a country inn. When, against the use of water meters in tenement houses, tobacco and liquor taxes imposed. rated on them by a European on as late as 1782, Rowland Hill wing to the domestic friction to which the collec-But these are merely revese. Wednesday. It being the custom began to build the Surrey Chapel
raising imposts, to which all to send all dead bodies picked up (now, by a ion of the rates would give rise. We do not know importers are liable and which in in the streets, to the Station be boxing-hall) in Blackfriars-road, AB 1 passed our fountain this day and most of the night for a whether the Government has definitely abandoned due course are passed on to the fore their ronoval to the Public he was going not into a populated morning I could see from the mere pittance. Shame, say all of the idea of water meters, but certainly nothing has been consumer, Still, in the main, Mortuary, the Police made the cus-district, but into the highways peanut stalls, the black shoogly us. But hold on a minute. tomary examination of a dead box and hedges. From its windows stuff and the democratic coolie Didn't I read just the other day done yet. Then the question of Stamp Duties has hung Hongkong is even now a
port. One business man who sent to them by a European, and the Chapel windows flashed the sitting astrido the lion that the about the masters of these right-
qua puru.
THE NEW TAXATION.
kong.
"free
their
river
The
South London, as we now know
of streets along the river, break- ing back into fields and nursery
curious irony, a
Philosophy,
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Mr S Havelock Ellis left a ook on a social subject, "The
Between
Two Tenders Received.
Tenders for the Kowloon motor service were opened this We understand that morning. only two tenders have been received, Limited, and the other from a Hongkong Tramway Company,
private individual.
No decision has been arrived
оце
from
the
be submitted to the Officer Ad-
It is stated that no time will be lost in deciding the matter, and an intimation will be sent out to the tenderers early next week.
C.P.0.8. LINER TO LAY UP.
New Horizon," which Black will publish, with a preface by Mr. Edward Carpenter.
an English translation of Pro- fossor Halevy's "History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century."
Mr. Daniel O'Connor promises
中
"The Puritans in Ireland" is a not untimely book by the Rev. St. John D. Seymour, (Oxford Press),
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
fre very badly and although it is expected to have a con-arrived here yesterday told us were subjected to a shock on sunset blaze across St. George's fine weather had set in in real hour-day-seeking printers scoffing pleted scheme of increases ready to be put into operation that it was a great joy to him to discovering it to contain the Fields and their ponds, and for earnest. For the fiftieth time I at the idea of the type-setter sometime next month, a third of the year at least will have feel that in coming to Hongkong carcaeu of a pig instead of the nearly half a century it stood in got to thinking of the short- really working more than eight been wasted. Meanwhile, revenue hasn't come up to ex he would at bo bothered with human remains they were led to a district in which bricks and comings of a fountain that never hours out of an alleged thirteen On enquiries it was building slowly closed the land-founts when the procession passed or fourteen hour day? Didn't pectations. Opium is a constantly decreasing source (it Customs officials pulling about expect.
his luggage.
He added that revealed that the remains of the scape. Hill's first congregations wi' the roast pig in its midst, and they, after deducting time for will possibly be half a million less this year than last). Hongkong was just like a bit of pig were picked up in the street, were drawn from the taverns and then I knew that verily Spring hunker-squatting, expectoration So, in the common phrase, our Government was "up England planted down in the East and a European, who made the ten-gardens around.
time bad come and Ching Ming and smoking, chow atall visitation wasna' far off. Right enough and friendly street corner confer- against it." Without doing something, its estimated but minus the miners! Yes, discovery, had the dead box sent deficit of two millions would have been increased to some Free Trude is all right for Hong-for from the Sanitary whose books on London squares, Times my worst fears were con- better off loafing the longer term As a London topographer, when mid-day brought the Canton ences, prove that they were really quarters of the district, and in it thing over three millions-a serious deficit when compared
the pig was transferred to the the private palaces of London, Ermed. To-day," it said "is the than wearing their fingers off in with the value of the Colony's Budget. Even now, there Incompatibility.
Police Station,
the Strand, Fleet-street, and the the beginning of the Ching Ming the deadly rush of the more National Art Galleries are of holidays when the people are democratic period? will be a shortage of about $1,300,000 because the new A fow weeks ago his Majesty
great value, Mr. Chancellor has returning to their nativo hones taxes will only bring in about $900,000 and the savings in the King of Siam announced by
When we come think of it, been able to elucidate with to pay annual homage to their including his Ching Ming Picnic, expenditure cannot be more than about $800,000. Doesn't Royal Proclamation that "with But, as with the Crown Prince clearness nearly two hundred ancestors." Truly one swallow Ah Fat doesna' do so badly these it all show that the commercial interests and residents of a view to the good of the country" of Japan, whose matrimonial pictorial records and to supply a may not bring Spring, but by the days in the way of holidays. By this Colony have to prepare themselves for something and for other worthy reasons, he difficulties, however, seem to have great deal of connective and Hokey Fly, when ye seu roast pig the time he gets through his own different in the way of taxation than they have experienced intended to take unto himself a been composed, a rift appeared, interesting matter besides. We in the streets then is the time to Chinese feast days and has, in
wife in the person of her Serene culminating in a dramatic an-have here innumerable facets of prepare for the amsh having "too many cases, the European holl-.. hitherto?
Highness Princess Vallabha Davi, nouncement, This later Pro. eighteen-century London; streets, muchos hot inside" in order that daye thrown in as a make- Hongkong is one of the must lightly taxed places in whom he therefore raised to the clamation notified the annulment aquares,
toll-gates, she may depart Canton side littee weight, he's no such such a the world. We have nothing like the burden to bear that rank of her Royal Highness-as, of the betrothal on the ground of markets, tea-gardens, great more far and be happy among the slave as e' that. Of course, I people have in the Old Country. We keep crying out for by the way, was done in the case incompatibility of temperament. houses, old Government offices, neighbouring hills where her don't blame him, mind ye, for the development here and development there, for better public gratulations were forwarded by the mind was that hor Royal coach-roads, street-sellers, and generally have a good time among he will occupy ground floor spaos
Con- A momentary inference to cross furniture, ornaments, taverns, progenitore are buried and foster a man works the quicker: services, for endless improvements. True, there is plenty King George, the French Presid. Highness did not relish the much else. Even if the author the joss money, facense and suc on some lonely hill side. of room for them, but we've got to face the fact that some-ent, the Mikado and others; and prospect of such humble fare. bas occasionally included features culent tithits left over by the dead. No, I'm determined this time. one has to pay for them. And so long as we can pay as Bangkok, the royal bridegroon explain, howover, that the incom- date, he has given us a werk that Joss and Labour it's easy to see in our back premises and hauls in s speech at the Sports Club, The Proclamation proceeds to that belong to an earlier or a later In this continuous war between If the artist that lives. rent free go, we ought. It's cheaper in the long run (because we elect, replying to A coast, patibility" may be accounted for can be read and re-read with which side we are on. The out- in eighteen solid bucks a month ave interest on loans) and its better in principle. We said: "With A Consort by by the obronic indisposition of uncommon pleasure.
for maltreating perfectly good don't like this new taxation of houses; they are dear hi side to share his her Royal Highness." Seeing The woman novelist in to be Popular fallaoy hath it that the chope and dropping my shaving hough already. There was talk some time ago of a loaf of bread and jug of wine, the that the indisposition is chronic, as busy this spring as she possibly Chinese work day and night the brush in the dust of a morning, if Company tax, and it would be interesting to know the wilderness (of his palace) would it is surprising that it was not could be, for every publishing live long year. Friend Fartington that son of gun begins ony Government's view of it.
be paradise snoo," His Majesty noticed before. At all events, we urge our
the betrothal house announces stories by her. a while back has already told us premature kind o'talk about his readers to reconcile themselves to the fact that the days of the anter of day to satisfy in Thero resine the consoling Miss Rebecca West, Miss Dela- and a wondering world agape, old mother and her health, TH diet-unless it is feature-the incompatibility has field, and Miss Willcocks, all through the medium of his fire bim, and take him on again ludicrously light taxation in this Colony are gone that is that the sovereign of Sian has a been discovered bofore, instead brilliant writers, with a very favourite journal, The Financier, when he comes back. Isn't that if the desired development is not to be interfered with. propensity for picturesque simile, of after, marriago.
modern note, figure in Sir George that the Chinese slavos, work all what we all do odybow
of our own Queen Mary,
parks,
Bide.