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To celebrate His Majesty's | Birthday on Friday there will be a review of the troops by HE the Governor on the Hongkong Cricket Ground, at 9 o'clock; there will be a reception to foreign consuls at Government House, at 11.30; and in the avaning a TROOP- tion and ball will be held at Government House, private entre at 9 o'clock and public entre at 915.
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
"Have you no kinsman to help [you?" was asked of a poor map who applied for relief in Brussels recently. "My only brother died 150 years ago," answered the applicant. Amazing as was -bis statement, it proved to be true.; A still more extraordinary lapse, of time between the birth of two brothers is recorded by Henry Bellenden-Ker, a well-known English lawyer of the early nine- teenth century. One of the wit- nesses to a probate action in which Bellenden-Ker was engag-| ed was asked if he had any brothers or sisters, He replied: that his oals brother had died 152) years before. A murmur of incre- dulity ran through the court, get} documentary evidence was pro- daced to confirm the old man's statement. His father had mar- ried at the age of nineteen, sad by this wife had a son who died) in infancy. He married again at the age of seventy-fire and had another son, the witness, who was ninety-six when he gave his evidence.
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But the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy has the pleasant know. ledge, year after year, that it is certain to do the wrong thing. that the majority of the rejected will charge the rejection either to prejudice or to sheer incompet- ence, and that the public, which has really no means of delivering a proper verdict, will endorse the complaints of the rejected by declaring that what has been left out cannot possibly be worse than what has been accepted. In vain bave various members of the Hanging Committee left memoirs
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INDIA'S LOVE OF SHAKESPEARE.
popularity of Romeo and Juliet- its likeness to a similar love- story. connected with Rajsh The Dramatic Instinct.
Rasalu, which had passed into At the Shakespeare But, now European romance and gave the the Indian Students' Hostel, the most widespread source for love- chief centre of Indian student tragedies before Shakespeare's life in London Sir Israel Gollancz.genins touched the theme of the founder of the Shakespeare Rome and Juliet. He alluded Hot and chairman of the to Bocaccio's story of Tsacred Shakespeare Association, deliver-and Gismunda. Similarly, as
ed a lecture on "Shakespeare regants The Merhant of Venice, it and India." Sir William Meyer, was of interest that the Caskets High Commissioner for India. Plot weht back to the Indian presided.
orizal of Barlam and Josaphat- The Lecturar said that during Christianised version of Gaute- the war the Shakespeare Hutma Siddharta the Buddha. bad ministered to the comforts of well-nigh a million of our fellow- subjects from crer the seas; and it was well that during this time of peace Indian students were making it their home. while learning the best lessons of Western civilization. Happily, Carlyle's question-pot in 1840 had now lost its application:- "Will you give up your. Indian Empire or your Shakespeare?" India's pride was deep in being able to claim Shakespeare as at once the British Empira's and the Indian Empire's common prized possession.
But it was not merely the plots that caused Indians to be attract- ed to Shakespeare They were drama, and the classical drama, from ancient times devoted to
dramatic literatures of the world, of India belonged to the greatest
Middle Ages it bad declined. Its though from the period of the history, its characteristics, ita relation to poetry, its almost re- ligious position, showed how high a place was accorded in ancient India to this form of literature, which 钩挂告 said Divine origin. to be of It was, how- On Saturday a movement bad var, not a national form of art: The dra- been inaugurated in India, likelystic instinct, side by side with
It belonged to a cast. to grow from strength to strength, that philosophical outlook of the for the annual observance of Indian mind, co-existed through Shakespeare Day throughout the whole of the Indian world-the ages, as it still exists, and fitting sequence to the unbounded India had all along instinctively enthusiasm for the puet's work place in the recreative life of the sought for drama worthy of a which has manifested itself in
It would seem that renderings of many of the plays people.
whether in the into the Chief Sanskritic Aryso Shakespeare languages of the North and the original or by means of tranala. Dravidian of Southern India. Sir tions, is likely more and more to Israel Gollancz set forth a classi-satisfy this aspiration. fication of some of these dialect After passing in review aspects renderings, and from the survey of the relations of Shakespeare's it would seem that the order of age to India, and pointing out that Elizabethan enterprise first preference placed Romeo and associated England and India, the Juliet in the first place. Merchant of Venice, Othello, and lecturer dealt with certain refer- Hamlet following. This was the ences to India in Shakespeare, result of an inquiry made (but not concluding by quoting the follow printed) in 1916 for the Tercening lines, applying them in a tenary "Book of Homage," which sense other than Shakespeare gave a large place to tributes could have dreamt of from India, headed by Rebind.
To-day the Frenob. ranath Tagore, who wrote "how the palm groves by the Indian Bea raise their tremulous branches to the sky, murmuring Shakespeare's praise."
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