FOOTBALL.
Regimental Contest.
Thirteen matches in the Battal-
on the 7th instant..
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE - 9- 1922.
THE BOOKSHELF.
[By
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Librarian."]
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One thing is certain abonf the ion League, 2nd, Bn. The King's anticipating with hopes and fears,
naw Budget which we are now ANOTHER APNOLD Regt. have been played during says a London journal; There
BENNETT NOVEL the past week, one matob being will be no tax so odious that its cancelled owing to bad weather records will have to be destroyed.cellaneous writing Mr. Arnold After an incursion into mis- This was oare done, Henry IV.Bennett is back at novel writing. The only undefeated team in was the miscreant. Ha extorted He has written little handbooks the League at present is the
list of taxes, and then went ona telling us just how successful M.C. A Team. This team.better.
Besides all this," noted novels and plays are written and which is at the top of the League the old chronicler, "of all he took how life table, has not scored a goal in a contribution so grievaus that it efficiently.
be organised their last two matches and ther was only granted upon condition delightful novels of young men has written wara very fortunate to draw that it should not be made a who from humble beginnings in against No. 16 Platoon, the result precedent, and that the evidence the Fire Tonne rendered familiar of the match being a draw 0-0 after the accounts given in should by his "Anna" have won fans and The Drummers, No. 3 and No. be burnt." In this connection, fortune. Mr. Bennett is at home 13, are only two points behind the too, it may be recalled that, when with leaders and will no doubt put up the income tax was "dropped "having made a study of the Self- a good fight for the champion-after the Napoleonic ship.
ware, Made Man, the New-Rich, and The Band have considerably the records of it
Brougham secured an order that the like.
should be improved their record during the destroyed. week, having obtained the maximum points from both their matches.
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these theme, evidently
In his latest novel he begins with the New Poor, and though he makes them rich he clearly does not approve of wealth that Guildford Workhouse, which drops into the lap without effort, The interest of the competition still attracts a large number of has come into prominence as 50 that indirectly bo still spectatore, both civil and mili- the residence of a scion of a preaches the beauty of individual tary, to the Murray Parade wealthy house, can lay claim effort and the self-made fortune.
Mr. Proback is a Civil servant Ground, and to judge from the apto having sheltered a former
plause the Drummers seem to be owner of Johannesburg. James of the higher grade. universal favourites.
The week's results and the league table are given below:-
No. 6 Platoon, 1. No. 2 Platoon,
D.
0.
Band, 2: No. 11 Platoon, 1. No. 4 Platoor, 1; No. 15 Platoon, No. 5 Platoon, 0; No.3 "A" Platoon, (
0.
Outterson Pratt born in 1833,, went to the East, saw service in the Mutiny, and commanded the Calcutta Naval Brigade, known
4.5
Pratt's Own." and later was
a resident magistrate in the Bom- bay Presidency. His wife and two children, who were sent to England, lost their lives in a wreck of the Cape, and Prati basing sunstroke was landed at the Cape. Engaged on land survey by the Cape Government, No. 11 Platoon, 1: No. 13ho went to the Transvaal, and for
No. 13 Platoon 3: No. 7 Platoon,
Drums. 2: No. 1 Platoon,
Platoon. 1.
0.
Drums, 7; No. 10 Platoo", 2. No. 2 Platoon, 1: No. S Platoon.
No. 15 Platoon, 0; M. G."A" Platoon, 0.
0
0.
Band. 2; No. 12 Platoon, D.
No. 14 Platoon, 2; No. 7 Platoon,
No. 9 Platoon, 0: No. 15 Platoon.
Club
No. 13.
No. 14.
Band...
No. 9.
League Table.
P. W. D. I..
Goals.
Agst.
...12 6 2 4 30 12 16 11 6 1 4 20.8 16
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MONARCHY AND DEMOCRACY IN JAPAN. Evolution of the National Genius.
He had been for more than twenty years at the Treasury, in which organism he had now attained a certain importance. Shakespeare, who is surely He was a Companion of the universal in his appeal, is repres- Bath
Scarcely known eated only by five songs, where- beyond the Treasury, within there are eight by Blake, six the Treasury be bad acquired by Mary Coleridge, and ten by a reputation as the terror of Mr. de la Mare. And, apart from In The East and the West there! the departments."
Shakespeare and Blake, the is an article dealing with the Proback reckoned that be per-whole of English poetry up to subject of Monarchy and Demo- sonally had saved to the coun-about the year 1890 is represent- cracy in Japan, a subject that bas try five hundred and forty-gixed by only ten poems. Needless been a good deal debated in recent millions of the country's to say, Sir Henry has not includ-times. The author is Mr. K. £300 purchased 20,000 acres. On
ed anything that is bad; but Hosokai, a member of the Angli-} this land the township of Johan
what mental picture of English can Church in Japan. In ibe But with his fixed salary, and poetry as a whole, even in its nesburg now stands. When the the increase in the cost of living, simplest and broadest aspects, is
course of this be writes:- Bcers revolted, all Pratt's
The counted bimself one of the Colonial or Indian student telongings were seized. and be was bundled
New Poor. Then suddenly comes likely to gain from this selection? 2CT095 the border. Crippled physically speedily increased by s lucky well enough; it is the perspective wealth-a bequest of £100,000. The quality of this anthology is and financially, and nearly
speculation to
2 quarter of in which it is speechless through an essega million-and the novel is co-wrong- wound in the throat, Pratt came cerned with the effect on himself to England, and, being unable toj obtain redress, went into Guild-daughter.
and bis wife. bis 500 and ford Workhouse, and died there) ia 1901.
money.
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How to reconcile the ideal off democracy with loyalty and filist piety has been the special feature years. of discussion for the last few The Government isi sern that is cautions or even nervous about it. Open discussion is not quite hushed, but is restrained, though Sir Eyre Coots is a soldier who for no reasons given. They seem He does not altogether relish cannot be said to have received to bave forgotten the truism that the change when Eis wife dings more than his mead of fame, and ruth is established by reasoning. herself into society. He dislikes Colonel H. C. Wylly's biography, Such is a very shortsighted policy her receptions:---
which has just been issued by
on the part of the authorities. the Clarendon Press. is, net),
Recently, however, A You collect here half the will introduce many of its readers
device
bas beca hit проп notorious smart people in Lab to an altogether fresh portrait,
anticipate and don. Fifty per cent. of them besides giving them more wa-min, dochi" for governing remove The term go through one.or other of the intimate impression
possibla desdlock, of the courts; five per cent. end bromantic and bewildering India the State by the union of Ruler being detected criminals, and goodness knows what per cent. One is tempted to say of those Granted that the Ruler is vested of Clive and Warren Hastings, and people) has been adopted to
with end by being undetected crim times that the Western tempera
democracy. inals. Possibly two per centment had not yet learnt to adapt
with the right to govern by treat marriage seriously, and
"Heaven" (whatever may itself to Eastern conditions. It
be
debt.
to
barmonize
new
M. C. "A"...11 7 0 421 4 18
The appearance of the 85tb. 11 6 14 20 716nual issue of the English cat- So. 5.
alogue of books enables one to Drums.
calculate the mathematical sid~; 11 6 2 3 12 4 15 of literature. During 1921 11,095 11 13 116 11 15 books were published, an advance 11 5 1 5 17 7 15 of 22 on the previous year. Fiction was the most numerous M. C. "B"...1Q 5 2 3 12 5 13 No. 6.
...10 5 3 117 8 13 class, though it showed a decrease 11 4 2 5 23 13 13 compared with 1920. But it is. ...11.5 3 3 15 13 13 urprising to find sociology and religion second and third on the ...11 2 5 4 9 18 8s, and biography fast. The
shared by bim with the people of the company's administrators constitutionally, and both Raler In his treatment of Mr. Pre that bear out soch a view, but and people are united in adminis output of poetry increased during the year, as oid that of travel and back, Mr. Bennett does not seem the light-hearted way," to quote books devoted to the fine arts, always kind or logical. Here is Sir Charles Monro's Introduction,ration, although as a matter of 113613 while history, geography and lawa Caiversity man, occupying &in which the combatants a principle the Ruler alone is the
No. 11.
No. 1.
No. 3. No. 12.
...11 2 4 5 13 11 9
.11 2 6 3 13 18 7
I 3 7 1 7 18
No. 8.
No. 16.
No. 2.
No. 10.
11 2 2 9 22 6
No. 7.
1 1 8 2 429 4
all fall off to some extent.
"
No. 4. No. 15.
.10 2.8 0 2 22 4
. 1 9 1 8 25
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CANDID CRITICS AT THE ACADEMY.
possibly one per cent, is not in is not only the splenstic quartels/meant by that ward), the right is
"J.
head
good position in life, member of ferred their allegiance. Several
of the Stale and sole two good West-end clubs, and British names are mentioned by scientific or logical ground for
fountain of power.
Is there any yet when wealth comes his way Colonel Wylly 43 defend- he behaves at times like a Kippsing Lord Atholatan, who set aside frightened of his own batler-while
fortresses against
denying a monarchical regime 13 160,000 dollars for the discovery aot quite sure how to treat
Coota systematic-
being opposed to democracy? A of a medicinal cure of cancer, is chauffeur, and betraying
his ally enlisted French deserters monarch who constitutionally no: the first person to set aside a eral lack of ende jare,
1 gen for service against their fellow.
shares Government with his Fortune for the person who can
countrymen," Coote was with
loyal people is pot one stamp out a disease. The award of the idle rich has no charm, who gained the victory over the At last be decides that the life Clive at Plassey, and be it was
bit lesa democratic than left by Sir John Bean many buys a half-share of a big busi French at Wandiwsshot in-
the president of • republic. years ago, amounting to £35,000ness concern, and determines, inaccurately
The consternation which had described as in Government stock, for the dis the last paragraphs, to throw battle which gave us ladis." the population seems to have sub- overtaken the nervous section of "the coverer of a genuine remedy for himself into a commercial career. More than twenty years later he sided. Nearly every "ap-lo-date" in the comments at the first public consumption still remains un- "I've got a sort of idea that some-strack (under every disadvantage) newspaper or magazine now open- day at the Royal Academy ex- hibition last month than used to to be ratified by the College of productive. It may kill me, but power when it threatened greatest national genius of Japan, and one ought to be economic and the blow that shook Hyder Ali'sly endorses the democratic cause Ie the case.
Physicians and the British
as quite compatible with the Perhaps the quality which one Medical Council. It is estimated And so Mr. Bannett concludes spicuous absence of disaffection there is little apprehension that
die prodceing, anyhow." danger to our own, and the con- elderly woman called sheer that about 80.000 persons in that, even if you cannot have the from his forces shows that he was its discussion will be restrained, so Bolshevism, which is in the Great Britain die annually from luck to be born a poor boy in the not without grounds styled "the it used to be. Academy pictures for the firs.consumption. The mind is Five Towns, & strenuous career beloved of the British Army in time this year, is responsible for bewildered to think what awards is better than idle wealth. the chauge.
would fall to the fader of a The well-known types of vis-remedy for the white scourge.
'Sheer Bolshevism.". There was rather more energy
itors were all present-elegant!
women who criticise with the aid!
better.
claimed. The "core" will have
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"For Ruler like that of Japan India, as well as "the nearest or elders, whose experience in a group of men ontitled "Genra," imaginable approach to perfection Sir Henry Newbolt's new an-
as a soldier."
statesmanship is mature апа whose interests would be thology, "A Book of Vorae of lorgnettes, girls who scribble
entirely for the State, not for any Women were particularly exger
Chosen for Students at Home "The Recilor's New Treasury class or section of the people, commente on their catalogues: to compare Sargent's stately por-and Abroad." (Bell, 29. 6.), is of Prose and Drama" (Routledge, seems indispensable in young men whose interest is con-trait of Lady Rocksavage with intended primarily for the use of 6s. net) is compiled and edited by administration and management the fined to scrutiny of portraits, the that of her in a more domestic readers in India and the Dom- Mr. E. G. Pertwee, who is of Government, at least so long as more easily recognisable the setting by Charles Sims, R.A. English thought and language." musical authorities. Mr. Pertwee experimental stage."
inions as an introduction to examiner in elocution to the chief parliamentary politics are in an Catalogue in band, they ranged But this year there is an addi-between the galleries, discussing The editor Las aimed at exclud rejects the view that passages This article is followed by tion of keen, informed criticism the pose, the draperies and the ing all poems difficult of under-chosen for recitation require to be another on "Japanese Newspapers which is quite a new feature at painting of the two portraits.
standing, and all poems that "popular" in the derogatory sense, and the Academy.
need for their appreciation the and be presents the student bere W. H. M. Walton, who, after the Gospel, by Rev. VIEWS ON AUGUSTUS JOHN.
DV MAURIER DEVOTEES. Bort of upbringing that is peculiar with nearly six hundred pages of briefly surveying the political Some of the lorgnettes, indeed, he Producer, always had a leles; he has attempted to bring literature. In the way of drams, the whole a marked respect for The Hou. John Collier's picture, to people bred in the British what is in the rain-excellent aratam, says: "We see on seemed a little disconcerted at. hearing pictures pulled to pieces clustering group of admirers. together "a bundred poems so besides selections from Shake authority and a strange lack of so severely by keen-faced young Devotees of Gerald du Maurier broad, so universal in sub-speare,,
Sheridan, Goldsmith, sense of the rights of the in men and women. The quite were glad to see his portrait in aject and in mood, that they Maeterlinck, Gibert, Shaw, and dividual, both of which good" of former years did not theatrical setting.
may be readily understood and Pinero, there are a few passages undoubtedly reffes of the feudal aru seem so effective after listening Portraits of beautiful women in welcomed by all, even by those from Jane Austen, Dickens, and age. As a result of this, the to the reasoned criticism of the all their evening glory of satin to whom our creeds, our classice, Dumas thrown into dialogue. rights of labour in the main get young men and women of the and lace and velvet and pearle our old wars, and our social For his stock of "serious prose," but poor recognition in Japan. schools.
were as popular as usual. But customs are unknown or un-Mr. Pertwee calls from from The vote and, consequently, rep It was round Augustus John's people who admired them ex attractive in particularity." It Boswell, De Quincey, Lamb, resentation are denied to them. -picture of a very modern woman, tremely seemed puzzled to find is plain, therefore, that this selec- George Eliot, Ruskin, Stevenson, Strikes are illegal, and, though Vivs," that the battle of views them neighbouring the Bolshevik tion cannot be criticised by the and Lord Rosebery-to mention generally permitted, can always raged most keenly.
pictures.
ordinary standard; but, even only a few: Carlyle's picture of be curbed by the authorities, and "It is wicked," was the in- Many were surprised to find the after all allowances have been the fall of the Bastille should be frequently are!" dignant opinion of women of innovations not altogether so de-made, Sir Henry's choice seems a good test of vocal narrative. the older school of Academyites, vastating as was expected. rather a strange one. Though The humorous section, samples as she peered throngu ber glasses
"I quite expected to see the the book is, apparently, intended many contemporaries, such a -at the lady in a magenta gown portraits all draw in squares this to cover the whole of English Sir J. M. Barrie, Mr. Chesterton,
outou very up-to-date lines.
year," said one visitor with poetry since Elizabethan times, Mr. Anthony Hope, Mr. Wells, "Para Joba," was the delighted Cubist memories, as she waited half of it consists of poems by Mr. Wodehouse, and M. & A comment of the professionals, ¡ for her carriage,
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