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THE BOOKSHELF,
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(By "Librarian.")
A VIRILE PERSONALITY.
Jack London's book roll is a
lengthy one, but it could easily been doubled, perhaps
have
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
selootion from the library of the lato William - Sharp (Fiona [knologi ""), arranged in 181 laśmy prodnoed 22:25. A presentation set of the collected works of George Meredith, 1895-93, 12 volumes, inscribed by the author to Willian Sharp, fetched £10 (Spence) a copy of A. Symons's “The The Loom, of Daezms, 1501, inscribed to "Dear Miss Macleod," brought three guîmes;
■ copy of George Moore's "Con. fassion of a Young Man, 1889, in- scribed by the author "to William Sharp ic all friendship_and estoom-£5 5a. (Hafferk W. R Yeats, "The Tables of the Law," 1897, with sulhograph inscription | from the author to W.Sharp-£i; a similar copy of the same
FRIDAY, JANUARY
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
BUTTER
OWING TO FALL IN PRICES
IN AUSTRALIA
we have reduced our
"In the Seven Woods," 1903-E1"DAISY" BUTTER to $1.10 per lb.
17. 6d. (Beffer). A collection of first editions of the writings of H. G. Wells, the property of the late Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson, mostly autograph presentation copies in the original cloth as issued, and some with the Iste owner's bookplate, produced £75. 35. The copy of "Love and Mr. Lewisham, 1900, with affec. tionata regards from H.G. Wells," sold for £4 78. 63. Messrs Sotheby's book sate included a fine copy of the first edition of Boswell's "Life" of Dr. Johnson- £26 (Pickering and Chatto); one! of George Moore's "Flowers of Passion, 1578, first edition, with
poem in the bandwriting of the author entitled "The Ballad of Lovers," and addressed "To Flaffe,"
signed and dated February 11, 1878, brought £50] (E=lkin); and R Kipling, "Letters of Marque." 1591, first complete, edition-£17 (Thorpl
It is a queer, rather mordant! satire that Miss May Sinclair gives us in her new noval," Mr. Waddington of Wyck" (Cassell). Mr. Waddington is a large person, both in physique and in self- estimation. He imagines he has
a gift for writing, and that he is irresistible with the fair ex. Re one lack is-a sense of humour. This is a real deficiency, for all those about have this saving grace rather over-developed, and Waddington becomes their bort. A Falstaffan figure on a smail| scale, the obese Waddington has no redeeming qualities to relieve his rather aasttractive per-- sonality, and this bas the effect of making the ridiculo of the three women in the book slightly cruel.
WARWICK COMEDY CO.
"The Circle."
On the occasion of the Com- pany's first presentation of this piece at the Lyceum, Theatre. Shangbai, they were greeted with a house full from floor to ceiling, and on the rise of the cortain not seat was available. The play is at present running in London. and so great has been the recop- tion accorded it in the provinces that no fewer than eight com- panies have been put on the road. Recently also it was presented in Americs and is playing to big business, and shortly it is being
in which I made more money played in Australia and New
in one week than I do in
* year now." He took with him
Zealand.
On account of the Chinese
a girl of his own age as misteress: holidays it is not possible for and it gave him a position among booking to be opened before Tues- his Associates that he, the youngest of them, sloge sailed day morning on which day the with a woman in his ship. Then plans for the season will be open-
ed at 8.30 a.m. followed a year in the Fish Patrol
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trebled, had bis life reached the of hunting the poachers. At 17, THEY WON'T TREAT YOU HONGKONG HOTEL COLD STORES.
allotted span. A glance at his partly oct of a love of adventure,
physique suggested that he might
partly as a cure for drinking
HARSHLY
The ever, sustaining the hard usage ettes banish constipation, dispe! A FURTHER REDUCTION|
sick
casily go beyond. it, but the (about which be wrote in "John like salts, or oil, or the old- "abhorred shears" cut his life Barleycora "), he went sealing in fashioned purgative pills-Pink- short in the forties. His vigorous the three-topmast
schoonerettes are too tiny and dainty for tales, often concerning the ring Sophie Sutherland, without, bow. that. As gently as nature Pink. as in "The Game and
liverishness,
headaches. Abysmal Brute" and sometimes to which the tone of his sea animal-life as in "White Fang," stories is sometimes ascribed. On bilions attacks, keep the skin numbered their readers by the his return he turned tramp. For clear and the hundred thousand. In some a time he was one of "two thou- *A cases he touched a higher key, and stiffs," whom General Kelly, "Martin Eden" being an example. on a magnificent black charger, At other times he introduced aled from the Pacific Coast. At scientific element into his fiction. first the army did not walk, it la "John Barleycorn" he gave us travelled in captured trains-each an autobiographeial work. It town on the march abetting its might serve as an introduction to departure for Teasons easily the Life which Mrs. London hasjunderstood. The railway com- Medicine Co., 95, Szecbuen. Road, written of her husband, though panies only stopped the com- Shanghai.
this latter is explicit enough in mandeering by refusing to move
itself.
any trains. With this exploit in Jack London was born in Son his past London's bitterness Francisco in 1876. His father, against the authorities, who whom he described as the best some time later sentenced him man be ever know. was not with- without trial to a month's im- out means, but could not keep prisonment, is explained. This his money; and the boy was put was an extraordinary preparation to such shifting as selling news for work with the pen, yet it can papers to help the family budget.easily be understood how valuable. Later on he worked long hours he found it when he came to in & canning factory, where the write his tales of adventure. Mrs. conditions mada hiru on enemy London's two volumes, it need of capitalism. He had no child-scarcely be said, contain an hood; and as his biographer says, abundance of fascinating matter, be learmed the worst too young. related with the freedom that At the waterside he met oyster characterised her husband's writi pirates" men who poached un-ing.
der the eyes of the police patol.
At 16 he owned his own pirate The London book sales last ship, the Razzle Dazzle, and month had some features of in- "lived "--as be says seven years tereat, Two consignments were later"
'a year of wildest ziek, sold at Messrs. Hodgson's. A
girithe
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"Dad"
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Of druggists, or post free at 60 cents the phial from Dr. Williama'
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BOOTS & SHOES $12.75
(ALL SIZES)
PYJAMAS
UNDERWEAR
$3.75
(WOOL)
3.75
DITTO (COTTON)
1,25
WAISTCOATS
4.75
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COLLARS (30Fr)
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GOLF HOSE TIES
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FELT HATS
3.75
1.00
GLOVES
1.00
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SUITINGS and OVERCOATINGS at HALF-PRICE.
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GUIMARAENS CROWN VINTÅGE $48 per case duty paid
GUIMARAENS DRY WHITE PORT
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