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It is difficult to believe that èrime, vice, and madness are the inevitable results of not being fir taught your lessons in the old, Demand haphazard way just os in that 50 d Whenever (25-Johnny Ga80 capable and wise a woman at 30 ds is mentioned, we think of The Mrs. Occlare would have engaged 4 m/s Beggar's Opera. A volume just a governess without asking what
Danielber religious views were. published by Messrs. O'Connor introduces us to him
The best thing in the book are more formally as Mr. John fias, the explinations, through Mr. Johnny Gay or Mfr: John Gay, be Aubyn's wo
at the mother's shows himself tru
his knee" childhood, of her patronymic. The present volume is passionate desire for freedom and Gay's "Trivia: or the Art of Walk-independence, and certain little ng the Streets of London." Thosudies of minor characters in thoroughfares Gay knew well which Mr. Hutchinson attempts though, despite the title of his to follow. with soma exagger coam. he preferred riding through ation, the method, of Dickens. them to exploring them afoot.
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"Trivia" is still a very entertain
The convention which makes ing poem-entertaining enough to j justify the publishers in putting it fof the Japanese woman & quaint out on large paper, deckle-edged, jand child-like figare is faithfalls! illustrating it with a number ofphserved in "Sunny San.” by Onotei tascinating old engravings from Watanna (Hutchinson, s. 6d Hogarth and others, and getting net) Sonay San is no more than Prof W. H. Williams, of the one-quarter Japanese by blood: University of Tasmania, to write] but her up bringing is in a Tokyorala France. a disceraing, joyful, and sufficient tea house, where her mother mand, Germany. he learned introduction. Mr. the reigning favourite until her Demand, New York 5744 Williams tells bis readers how death, which lays upon Sunny T/T Bombay Gay meant to salinze, in this "arc San, at fourtson, the obligation to "of walking," the various "arts"- take her place. From that fate of pleasing in conversation. ofstre is rescued by a party of
Americans, krowing oneself, and so forth-young
It is that which were fashionable at the quaint childishness of hers, and time, and how the genial poet had the pathetic disadvantage at his dig also at the mythological which it leaves her in the midst a classical frills which were all of the unfamiliar American civil the rogue in literature. It is goodization, that makes the greater fun, under Mr. Williams's guid-part of the story. at to see how neatly (isy used!
Virgil, his Horace, and others!
in the burlesque style.
The principal rascal in "Rogues"
by Roy Bridzes (Hodder! In the end, however, the main Havan
is that it tells and Staughton. s. 6d. net) is a charms of " insta vividly of Old London the Old man of breeding, who values a Landon of which much, good and fine manner far shove mare reci bat, survives in ihe Landor of titude, abou: which in teed, he er own time. He addresses the has an accommodating theory
which releases hira from th goldens, Trivia:-
Dersity to feel shame even for The blackest treachery. He is one of the vivid figures in a who house full of picture que acoun jurels, headed by a splendid olri
And
there 1 hidder treasure the frais of the old
· pirate's-lurid– past the craving for which see all these picturesque zeres scheming against earl
To pare the Heath, and -innoth the broken Way-.
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Ang. 31d. 167, 60m.--Warning: to Mangkang ibast Parts &e :-
Mr. Reginald Glossop, in "The id
It is all very diferent us, yer Catal Globe" (Odhade. 7. 64 Lat. 3e X. Long 10:
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sit very much the same. We done introduces us to the Society moving N.W. aut need patiens now in the Lion of the Yellow
Sept. 14. 11h. 33m.-Pressure not yet naturally enough, in China. It is highest over the Bonins. It tom streets; but i MİWITH Psy to walk clean by ituembers are anxious to recover has increased slightly over the Day."
Itaws of Dammers no the Hobe, which has magica Philippines and from Formosa to
properties, fruin the English peer Hongkong. thio whom possession it ha passed. For that task they are
longer
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The depression over S.W. Chinm)
Aard with their Vellam Thunequipped with the bland cruelty is slightly farther souch th
der shake the Pilm, Tgreet the new-made Bride; cor quarrel and beg as they do in Hogarth's print. But there are
bands tof *German ampinyed),
miliation s
piano.
Ed the
which distinguishes the Chinese morning. of fiction, and with certain super. normal' powers, which proze toj
China
The typhoon passed near Ning-i
be deridedly useful when it bgpo at 11 am yesterday. British commes desirable to remove a Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 the young Englishman fract his bome nours ending at 10 m. to-day. without arousion 1.08 inch. Total since January DiaDo. :0 urgan. and worst of sil the suspicion, but which it Over Is 56.76 inches, against gramophone, still with ustoenrage, occurred to the Legation kidnapjaverage of 66.27 inches. ensicians and to murder sleep pers to use when they tried to Reading in Gay's Trivia one get Dr. Sun Yat-sen awa7.
get a sense of the continuity of, used, be'aved London, no!
nt in huidings let in the war of her inhabitants. Mr. Williams's aptes parked with information about Old London, help to bring her closer to modern Luarlon, and: exhance the value of a delightful; book
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Pers. ANGKOR Mme. A. While discussion of Mr. Hutch Putbod. is. Puthod. Mr. V. M. į inson's remarkably uccessful Hast. Mr. A. M. Nemazes. Mr.
If Winter Comes " i stil! Rosgelet. Messrs G. W. Sewell.: raging he has produced another! Mr. Busschaert, Mr. GJA.V. Hall, novel "This Freedom (Holder Mr. D. Laing. Mr. D. Lyon, Mr. and Stoughton. 7. 64.) The J. Johnston, Mr. M. A. R. Sours. theme is the home, which seems Mr. J. Stewart, Mr. G. Jack, Mr. wide enough until you observe D. Noronha, Mr. Sam S. Kirkman, how Mr. Hutchinson is narrowing Mrs. Norma Kirkman, Mrs. H Mayhew. Mrs. Ko, Mr. down. The bore, to him, the B. place where, no matter whether Runjhun & Mr. Huang, Abe bas any gift for it or not, married woman with childrer
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