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THE LOST DAUPHIN.
offers no new prooh. His Inoki norrakire sad ressoned con josturas, however, make the work of more than ordinary intarpes.
Christian Confederation In a time of depression, any
· Conference. aurbor who can maka us abantonf Coursalvex to langhter for an hour
What promises to be the largest What fate evertook the little or two on end deserves a decora- International and interracial sno of Louis XVI and Marision. Mr. W. A. Darlington is gathering over bold in China will Antoinette a theme that bas hardly wit or a humorist noment in Peking April #9, when shared with the Man in the Iron much as that more mtely amus the Conference of the World Mask in the chief attention of ing agent, a man with a superb-Student Christian Federation is füvestigators into French sense of the ridiculous, as he to be held at Tsinghua College. torical mysteries, Did the shows in ""Wishes, Limited" (Jen- & letter recently received from he Prince's custodians, Simaa Kine, 7, 6d.) His solicitor and Dr.J. R. Mott, Chairman of the and bis successor, so neglect their harassed fairy godmother and Federation, states that Lot only charge that the child died, as most austers secretary and involan will all the national student of the histories tell us or did the tarily improper novelist are all morements of the Federation Royalists contre to smuggle the ridiculous up to a point which bave delegates in Peking for the Dauphin out of the Temple by compels laughter. Anstey might Conference, but a number of substitution, as several writem have imagined him and placed countries not yet in the Feder- (have asserted ?
No evidence of him in his perforated cigar-boxation will also sand delegates. final character one way or the To have hit upon a new fanny of barikas been produced.
The lamet inquirer into the vetery in kom G. Lenoire, who social qualifications for the saak, having devoted a number of was to ressarche amid the by-
situation and to keep up its fan without dagging to a hilarion depenent is to be a joy to avery reader
-
In connection with the recen' If publication of "A Revision of the
"Economic Treaty," the sequel to Mr. J.
of the Peace
as well as tije highways of Bountry's history. Deck rightly, be has applied que amongst other subjects, to Keynes's Play of the Diamond Neck sequences
Con-
i: is interesting to rocal! which played such a tragic the remarkable history of the fate of the Dauphin's the latter work. First publish Snd consecnantly of the
fed in December 1919, in England Thimmell.
bad it' For the sal
Terthe And Amaries, by Mears. Mac- millan, it was afterwarde issued Necklac
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A. LARGE GATHERING. H. E. President ran Shih- chang has requested Dr, W. W. Yan to send a cable to Dr. Mott extanding the welcome of China to the Federation delegates, In addition to the delegates from the foreign countries there will be 600 delegaten frazs China top- resenting the Men and Women's Stodent Christian Association of 189 different colleges and middle schools.
AT TRINORDA COLLEGE. The Conference to be held at Tringhua College is the 13th, in the in Freneb, German, Italian,history of the Federation. Other general world conferences have Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Swedish, Ruma ian, Russian, and
been held in Vadstena. Sweden; Chinese These various editions Williamstown, U.S.A: Einach,
total of
Garmany: Versailles, France- sero, Zeist, Switzerland; Tokyo; Japan: Oxford, England; Con stantinople. Turkey: Mobook, U.S.A. ULasual interest centresin Form of Edith Wharton's brilliant' pic-the Peking Conference as it is the where ture of New York society. The first held by the Federation since lived a House of Mirth” (a novel which he outbreak of the World War. homes so strikingly enhanced her re-The central theme of the roofand any truth putation in England), will abortly ance, Christ in World Dans
gh there be published in Macmillan's|straction," came origiatly:BRAN robs Elles of his Three-and-Sixpenny Library, suggestion from tha." Do wall-known) and should find many additional movement. Tailge
the discusstore it the, e farsace pare ever to have readers. undry claimants,
on this subid rent recon- appreciated
Templa
have spored at one time ar The book of short stories. “I striction - đất ngờ another, most of them obrious Have Only Myself to Blame," be) whom dà in redebered that dele- Imposters The Nanndorf famil; Princess Bibesco (cache, deco France and Ger-
A fallonin, unanhl, bat, Pr balo Aquick mid, growing. That the been a good deal “ nern, of other countzien had America, ja beisie v dop as to the dedib of the Measın. Heyw-zh
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India and England, Japan, and China, the Philippines and bythe United States, Russia and Poland, will be found in the gathering.
SE CUSTOMS REVISION.
Sir "Beilby Alston as Chief British Delegate.
The Federation was founded in August 1895, when copresent- atives from North America. Great Britain, Germany End Scandinavia met in Vadstena Castle on the shores of Lake Veteran, Sweden. From those small beginning the Conference to claim to
It is reported that the British has grown until it now embraces ach'can decide
Government intends to appoint some 2,500 stodent associations at he builds up for Sir Bailby Alston sa Chief British or unions and has total member- line of conviction a teresting asme. Bo aasid Pelegate to the Customs Tariff ship of over 200,000 students and
Professors. Revision Conference shortly to be senious is be in Etting held at Shanghai, and has inform- together Jõetails of fact, polky,ly approached the Japanese and sharecter that one feels, if
Government to ascertain whather' the official records of the Faris the latter agrees in principle. It Commune of 1792 had not perishis understood that the Japanese
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