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THE BOOKSHELF,
(By "Librarian.")
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
close, his Austrain wife, Marie- Louise, was making ber escape from Paris. In the Tuileries, i
a little appears, she dropped manuscript book which, pioked up by a page. passed through several bands until it came A CHINESE ON CHINÄ
ut into the possession Lady "China. Awakened. by Dr.Thompson. Thus proved to be the M. T. 2. Tau (New York: The Empress's diary. After a hundred Macmillan Campany, Price, is years it is now published under the work of a well-meaninger-the title of "The Private Diaries thusist, but it has all the evid-fot the Empress Marie-Louise"} encar of herary immanity (Murray, 105, 64 Sequing out to show that China li is a notable contribution to has really awakened, the subog Napoli literaton, and is is in practically every subjset «lrcbcued wider the era.orship of M.! ho toucher, has seain aní wwir¦ Pennerie Masspa, e of the to admit that no actual regenerar fare views sutisethies an. Napot un But war bista M. Masso, has no tion has taken place he uncounters failure and lek off doubt of the amenuchs of the progress, he adopts the method of jears, which contains the Em airily dismissing the matter br press's account of three journeys declarations of confidence that he made,twobeing with Napoleon. all will come right in the end The light thrown on the life of The hot teams with canadie- that period, especially as it can. tions, fasicating that it is the cerns travelling, is highly in work of one who has allowed bis teresting. M. Masson supplies a enthum to carry him away number of informing chapters and to ignore hard facts. Let us that reproduce the atmosphere of take some of the more outstand-the times and supply a suitable ing instances of confused writing setting to the diaries. The Aus with which the book shounds. Inician marriage was a political
the
chapter on
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Auctioneers. Tenders are invited for the Educational one, but Napoleon appears to have purchase of the remainder of the Reforms, Dr. Tyan says bad some affection for Maris-lease of the Astor House Hotel. the Manchu Edict of September. Louise. They both had bot temThe lease expiring on 30th. 1905, inaugurated a libeul syspors; and the fallment of many September 1924. tem of modern education, and duties of state left them little that, for the Erst time, & proper time to indulge say natural feal- Government department was est-ings. The Empress's comments on ablished. Since then, he says.ber situation, however, are emin- the Ministry of Education has ently feminine and occasionally discharged its arduous duties quite amusing. courageously. A little further on After Waterloo, Marie-Louise have rejoined in the same chapter, we have the would gladly author telling us that the country Napoleon, according to one ac has not settled down to serious count: by another she would not reconstruction, and be supports Jo so upon any terms. Her sub- the Presidential mandate of 1918.sequent lite was a strange one. which stated inter alia-Edu- Cation has made no decisite ac-
"The Price of Exile," by W. J. vance. In the provinces where military operatione bave taken Makin (London: T. Fisher Ca
win.
Overseas Edition), is one place, education has be neg- lacted; school houses bare been of a new series of books called taken by force; books and ap-the First Novel Library, which paratur Lestroyed, whilst the consists of the first novels of such new authors as show exceptional; funds allotted to education
used for other talent. This particular story is have bend
one of Anglo-Indian life, in which And here is purposes.**
seditions movements and a streng typical way the writer bas
love interest are very cleverly circumventing an ANTWard fact after remarking that the interwoven. The author knows Government's budget for 1919. his India well and writes with The 20 set aside for military palposes Conviction and emphasis.
tale is one that grips the reader's * sum of $198,000.00, as gaizst $6,500,000 for educatior, Dr. Tran interest from start to finish. observes: "Such an anomaly, of so be thoroughly recommended Courre, will soon pass away." as the work of a covelist of whom How the writer even deceivas more should be heard in the himse may be showe from his statement that the Ministry of Education bas prepared in arabi- tions scheme of compulsory unfverss) education, merely awaits the magiclouch of adequate runde to translate it!
Three hundred and fifty-three! into reality.
Bet is on the question of Members of both Houses of Par liament are thus far registered in China's form of government that Peking, says a recent message the author commits himself to the from the capital. The roles say, most glaring contradictions of ali.
dats quorum shall consist of! He speaks in one place of the
two handred and ninety-nino change from a Monarchy to members of the House of Repres
the substitution ofį Republic as
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un effete despotism by a demo thirty-eight in the Senate. In cratic form of representative order to accomplish Consti- government" whilst & little Insertional reform, three-quarters of on he asserts that the Republic be members must ratify. There exista superficially actually the fore, the Speakers of both Houses TIE powerful militarists have it
ate having a canvass made to see
Demand all their own way. In another if deaths have occurred among 30 da chapter he refers to Chies as "a the members, and if any have so da formal democracy, in name as died, their places will be filled. well as in fact," and still later he observes that "the March:s have cone never to return and the people are living under a Re-i publican regime, even though it is more in name than in fact." Here is another comment which hardly suggests either that Chine
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In the chapter on the Student king. Movement, the authorsays thati "oot only has the country teeni awakened, but it has also been the north of Korea. reunited on the altar of common Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 the nomical bours ending at 10 am, to-day, breach between the so-called 1.96 inch Total since January North sad South." In the very next sentance be sposts of "the protracted. disunion between North and South."
A depression is also shown to 30 da. San Francis
It would occupy too much time to further analyse the author's misinformed observa- tions, auch, for example, as bie ramark of the Chinese labourer that be "demands no increase in wages, accepting weekly what ever his employer may be pleased to give. The motives of Dr. Tyan in representing Chína as a -awakened sad, reformed country are beyond question. But, un- happily, he himself disproves the title of the book, the best features of which are its attractive yellow covers and the title stistically done in black Englished Chinese Characters
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