NEW PACIFIC SERVICE,
Hongkong The Terminal Port.
THE BOOKSHELF.
("By Librarian.”)
SWINBURNE
When the United States Ship- ping Board vessel Creale Stats
The world has absorbed all the arrives in Hongkong about the end of May she will be the first volumes and essays that have 522 type of combined freight and poured forth regarding the re- pamanger liner that has made markable household at Putney this Colony a terminal port. wears lived Meredith, Swinburne Advices have been received by and Watts Dunton. Later (aiser)
had sought fresh the local offices, of the Pacific Meredith Mail Company, who have bean quarters, through "disagreement appointed the Agents, that a new with Swinburne) came Watis service has bean instituted be Dunton's youthful wife, who has tween Hongkong and San Fran- now published her record of "The cisco, and that two 50's bare Pines," and in particular of the been alloted to it.
poat with whose life her husband's Following different route to was so closely linked. Swinburne, that which is now being main-though of dexible character in tained by the three 335 passenger some respects, had a will of his liners of the same Agents, the town, he was a literary lion, and Creole State and her sister ship, he was Watts Dunton's senior; the Wolverine State, will touch yet the latter exercised a remark- only at Honolulu and Manila onable sway over the author of "Atalanta in Calydon," terminal- both runs and thus maintain a
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ELSGRAPH. „FRIDAY, APRIL 9
one day “smashed by a caralda u barmaid."
Swinburns was greatly “puk, out by the scaldant He did noë,alish Bais from any other ∙vessel; was moody and allent during his stay, leaving the place abruptly after but a very short rest.
The poet had horror of drawing small cheques.
Only with difficulty could ha be persuaded to draw one for five pounds; below that he abso lutely refused to go. Periodi- cally he got the bookseller at Wimbledon to change him " chaque for twenty pounds. Tha money was obtained in gold from the bank at the other side of the street. He took it away in the little canvas'bag used by bankers, and this bag when he returned to The Pieces WAS placed on a shelf in the corner cupboard where he kept his manuscripts.
Swinburne bad по end of
service which toling only with Swinburne's death-fads," says his biographer in al
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In "The Home Life of Swin- some travellers may be more pre-
japecial chapter devoted to them. (Philpot, 15). MrIt was a whim of his, for in- ferable to the more northerly buras" route. With a two to three days' Watts Dunton offers a volume stay in Hongkong at the end of that is sure of many readers, both stande, never to allow himself to sach outward trip from San Fran-on account of the directness of and he refused absolutely to be messured or fitted by a tailor," cisco the time taken by these her knowledge and the lucidity
open himself any letters address- vessels to cross the Pacific and sad picturesqueness of har
ed to him except those from the China Sea will be 27 days. parrative. This biography seems members of his family."
and Scrivelbaye and of Tamworth The return vorage will be of only to make it impossible that any
further book on the personalia oft the table," which "were of the A note on the poet's "manners
Tower and Town." Generations of 23 days' duration.
Marmions, hereditary champions Details of the two 522's that are the poet can be published con- old courtly school," seemed es-
Palace Hotel Tourney.
of the Dakes of Normandy ai to initiate this service, confiem taiping any new facts of this sential to record. We are told.
their coronations, were lords of what has been pleasantly anti-much-explored household.
Only one game was played last Tamworth's ancient castle before cipated of these "State" vessels. We are told pretty neatly
of helping himself until he night in the above Handicap, the historic pile, originally built In accommodation for passengers everything about Swinburne that!
was quite sure that you had owing to one player being sick.by Ethellreda, the last Queen of the Creole State and her sister the most hopelessly curious quid- ahip, which will follow her on the mune could desire to know. The everything you wanted. The The game played was between C. Marcia, passed to the De Fre salt or the mustard he would Bond (75) and J. C. Achimiles, and later to the Ferriers Fun to Hongkong, are said to particular brand of soap he used,
pass to you with a little smil(-150). Bond, playing a
family. In olden times the castle) compare favourably with the the daily paper he read, the type
ing bow and an air of genuine consistent game, ran out an easy
dominated the town; now thef finest ships afloat. Special care writers he tapped, the bear be
courtliness.
winner. The final scores were :—
town rules the castle, for Tam- has been taken in the designing drank, and so on. of the furniture, drapery decora-
The worth's "Tower" became by pur- Mrs. Watts Dunton-to whom For Algernon Swinburde "was Bond, 230; Achim, 133. tions and conveniences through-Swinburne spoke in "an angelic. punctilious over the small ob-highest breaks were:-Band 40, Chase a civic possession some 201 Gut the passenger sections Inally kindergarten manner "basservances of the table." As an 22, 21, 20, 19, 16; Achim 23, 21, 20, years ago, and what was once the Royal bedchamber was con- all, the Creole has three decks barrested and gleaned to the last instances, "it would never occur 18.
To-night's given over exclusively to travel-straw. At her first meetings to him, as the end of the repast,
municipal art games are:-W.verted into lers, designated respectively as with the poet, when she met him to throw his napkin down in an Atkinson (~75) v. F. T. James gallery. the promenade deck, bridge deck in the hell or the passages, "he untidy beap for a servant to col-(-50) at 6 p.m. and A Greensett and shelter deck, and the arrange-would stand like
The Duty Chronicle says: AL 2 sentinellect and adjust. It was the hero, (scratch) v. W. 5. Haslett at ments of the public rooms and while I passed. his arms stiff so to speak, of quite a little 19 p.m.
though it is generally assumed that the Attorney-General has staterooms provide every luxury against his sides, with the palms ceremony. The rolling-up of it) that may be found in's first class presented butwards... a cations- seemed to afford him a real plea-i
the right of succession to the hotel ashore.
ly mechanical appearance as of sure. He would fold the ends
position of Lord Chief Justice ap- All of the staterooms area toy-soldier."
together and smooth out the
pointments on these lines have furnished with beds instead of A conspicuous object in Swin-creases with religious solicitude
been the exception. Lord Russell of Killowen was a Lord of Ap- berths, a comfort that should be burne's orderly room was the red before slipping it back into its
Per 9.9. DONGOLA from appreciated in warm climates. and yellow checked duster which sing
Landon etc.-Mr. & Mrs. F. T.Lord Chief": Sir Alexander peal in Ordinary when he became On the promenade deck, which is hung over the back of a cane-
These do not appear to be
Harris. Mrs. H. Nash. Mis. Cockburn and Lord Coleridge closed in with plate glass to give seated Empire chair. Says his matters of any particular impor-O'Brien, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. W.
tance, but they are just the things Nash. Mrs. L. Stanton, Pre-Justiceship of the Common Pleas it the appearance of a Pollman biographer:
raised from the Chief car, is located the beautifully ap-
that interest us. I learned that it was one of
Ashbury, Pte. Cole, Mrs. E. Lord Campbell was Chancellor of pointed smoking room, a feature
the poet's little fads to have bis
Stanton, Mr. J... AS. Greet, of which is the great open fire-
the Duchy of Lancaster; Lord own special duster always in
Two books full of excellent fun Mr. A. J. Rea, M&M Tenterden and Lord Trevethin place. The social hall with its
sight, and easily got at when ara Mr. Peter Blundell C. L Evans, Mr. Ewere both paisne judges, and Lord beautiful and cosy furnishings ever he had occasion to use it."Lunatics Aboard" (Methuen) Deacon, Mr. D. C. Brodie, Pte. Alverstone was Master of the and decorations, and the verandah!
And this was very often. He and Mr. Morley Roberts's The Dollaway. Mr. Holtzman, Mr. Rolls. Among nine Lord Chief cafe are both located on the bridge
had a horror of even touching Mirthful Nine" (Nash). Readers C. Essen, Mr. W. C. Hawkes, Mr. deck. The shelter deck is given
a dusty book.... If he want will laugh heartily over Mr. Kwik Bak Aij. Mr. Chse Sian to the rest of the staterooms, ex-
ed to show you any particular) Blundell's account of * Ling, Mr. Inglis, Miss Augusta cept in the forward part in which book he would first of all see voyage to Africs during which Jamanes, Mr. & Mrs. Tapou, Mr. is located the dining room, ex-
passengers and tending right across the breadtb of the vessel.
Christened in honour of the State of Lousiana, the Creole: Srate is considered by American engineers to ba qne of the fices!! vassels built in American yards.
I the
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PASSENGERS ARRIVED.
were
Justices of the past century or so Lord Reading and Lord Denman officers at the date of their ap were the only two who were Law
that not a speck was on it.
Crew W. L Barker. Mr. A. H. Tong,pointment." But it is correct to Can see him now, duster in are at cross purposes. And the Mr. L. T. Ming. Mr. Ma Hop. Mr. hand, going carefully over the old skipper, Captain Shanks, will Tak Chum, Mr. A. H. San, Mr. A. say that the Attorney-General is edges and cover to satisfy him take his place among the most H. Mao, Mr. J. Frank, Mr. H. assumed to have the right of salf that all was as it should be amusing rogues of fiction. Of Fersing. Mr. Wing Soo, Mr. H. before placing the volume in the collection of farcical stories H. Hart Mr. & Mr. Chue Pob your hands.
by Mr. Morley Roberts, a versa-Chas, Mr. F. Friedmann, Miss tile writer, the first and the last Coelho, Mr. Davis. are the best. The latter, "The Owl and Great Aunt Paimela." for sheer absurdity and undiluted humour is a particularly enter- taining story.
Ste is twin screw. displaces He read, we are told, by the 21,156 tons, and has a gross ton-light of three candles, no more, nage of 10,500. Other dimensions 30 less. These be would light ara-Langth between perpen- bimself in a manner fully de- diculars. 520 feet: beam moulded, scribed. And when he read aloud 62 feet: draft. 30 feet. Her speed to favoured visitors:
is 14-1/2 knots.
There was a weird and subtle charon about Swiuburce's de-
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
succession to the Lord Chief Justiceship? The Senior Law Office has a prescriptive right of succession to the Woolsack.
Needless to say, the following is attributed to & Scotsman :) Returning home from London, he i tock his mother a barometer as a present, and explained that by it she could tell whether the wea
ther was going to be wet or fine. Aye, ssid his mother, "it's a fine thing. But ye ken ye've been wasting yer money. What do ye the theumatica for?" think the Lord gave yer feyther
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Mr. Hugh Walpole, (who, al- It is an interesting coincidence, for handling cargo has been in-:
livery of the poetry that he though he is the son of the says a Home paper, that may be stalled. Dack plans show that both loved. He had none of the arts Bishop of Edinburgh, is not a of the new vessels have no less than or affections of the elocutionist. Scotsman), is the possessor of the Lloyd George's birthday, that appropriately recalled on Mr. 34 winches, with a similar number
There were indeed, qualities in famous Abbotsford correspon three of his five immediate pre- of broms, singly and in pairs, on
his method which the elocu-dence," whose 23 volumes contain decessors in the Premiership have four twin mas's arranged in thei
tionist would decry as unsound 7,000 letters received by Sir entered upon their sixtieth year same way as on the other State and accentric. The fact, how-Walter Scott from his friends. while at the head of an Adminis- boats we have seen in the Har-! ever. remains that his delivery Until last year the collection re-tration, as he is doing today. It staff dinner is to be imitated at a Mr. Punch's famous weekly bour. There are nino batches, captured the imagination of the mained at Abbotsford, when they was in 1911 that Mr. Asquith was humble distance by the Scouts. large and small. An excellenti hester, where the art of the were put for sale and purchased 59, and in 1889 that Lord Salts who, having taken up the Trail- feature of the freight facilities is i elocutionist left him cold. by Mr. Walpole. His announced bury reached that age, bile in a magazine, not a badger have the accommodation for refrigerat- Coming to more personal parti. intention of eventually restoring 1868, when Mr. Gladstone com- instituted a weekly editorial tea ed cargo, enabling these boats to culars, the fair biographer tells them to Scotland has given great pleted his 59th year, be had just and paw-wow. Trail, now four carry Pacific Coast farm products us, "I had ample opportunity for satisfaction to the Sir Walter been called upon to form bis first years in perfect condition for Far knowing a good deal about the Scott Club in Edinburgh. This Cabinet. The two exceptions are official organ of the London Scout old, was formerly the Eastern importers. There iss pace footwear of the House-mates." year is the 70th anniversary of Mr. Balfour and Lord Rosebery. Council. It has just been sc- |
and the toast of "The Immortal the death of the famous novelist,
quired by a little co-operative Memory* st the club's annual Lincoln Cathedral, whore in society of scoutmasters, in the dinner will be proposed by its secure
condition demands a spirit of the open air and the open The Trail's foreign new president, the Bishop of expenditure of £50,000 within mind." Durham
the next five years, glories in a service is to be published in beautiful Rose σε "Wheel" Esperanto. window, sa Angel Choir of the Founded twenty years ago to Transition period of architecture, bis "tiny feet" is absurd, Swin- encourage Irish working girls in a Galilee porch, and, of course,
of
were
The same tootmaker made for both of them. There was but little difference in size, Swinburne's feet being a trifle larger than Walter's (Mr. Waita Douton). The poet took what| in the trade is called "an eight and a half." so that to write of
for 1,300 tons of such shipments. Captain J. E. Miller will bring the Creole State into this harbour at the end of May. He has a distinguished record, judging by the story that during the war, whilst in command of the Cacique, he drove sway a. Hun submarine which threatened destruction to his vessel. The method which he
furnished daring Lord Lytton's
Knebworth, which is to be let}
adopted was at ingenious my it
burne bad bia boots made of arts and crafts, the Cala Prens "Great Tom." the famans bell absence in India, is a beautiful! was simple. Dummy guns
calf leather, while Walter preis still controlled by Miss Eliza.which was recast early in last house, which has been described ferred a soft kid. Keemingly large calibre
beth Yests, a sister of the post, century. The cathedral, founded" disfigured by beraldic mon- uomasked "at the approach of Although always plainly dress some of whose works are issued as the seat of the ancient and now strosities and Wardourstreet faral- the submarine and these gave the led and when at home offering go from it. The work done by the forgotten bishopric of Lindsey, is ture." In the days of the first enemy craft furiously to think bemark for the caricaturist, the girts on a hand press, has played regarded by experta se the earliest Lord Lytton, who thoroughly en fore it decided to show its stern to post on his walks, it seems, useful part in the Irish literary example of the pure Estly joyed these monstrosities, it this powerful looking adversary. braced his trousers too high revival, as we are reminded by English styles, and its reparation was curious place in other The Creole State and the Wol-in his absence of mind he would the editors of the Master Printers' demands the practical support of respects. In the middle of break- verine State were engaged on the pull them above the ankles, Annual, issued by Ballantyne. all lovers of our fine oldfast the host would appear in an service between San Francisco showing several inches of white One of the first workers at the cathedrala irreplaceable monu- old dressing-gown, pour bimself Cuala Press was Miss Eileen ments of varying phases of out a cup of tea, and walk off to put her on the Hongkong- Of Swinburne's daily walk Colum, sister of another poet, ecclesiastical architecture in this without speaking to anyone. Ban Francisco run. They will across the common to Wimbledon Padraig Colum. Her speciality country.
Someone remarked that this was bring the number of the trans- a vivid and detailed picture is is the hand colouring of special
odd, and got the reply, "He Pacifio passenger boats operated given. It ended at the Rose and designs. Irish Hinen paper is used, Tamworth, which gives its believes himself to be invisible." by the Pacific Mail to five, in- Crown, where the post was and what Englishmen would con name to the scattered consti- Sure enough, after an interval, cluding the three slightly larger regaled with a bottle of Bass, in sider the Irish method of con- tuency where a by-election was Lord Lytton would appear proper 595's already in operation on the a replica of the peculiarly thick tinuing lines of verse into the held the other day, owns a link ly dressed and greet his guests as Hongkong-Shanghai-San Fran- tumbler which the bard used at margin, to avoid "turning" lato with that Sir Robert Marmion if seeing them for the first time pizoo line.
home." His "sacred beaker" was another line.
Lord of Fontenays that day,
and Calcutta before the decision sock."
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