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mistrust the clerical element. I feel hampered by the restrictions | which the nature of the rabject A REVIEW OF ROOSEVELTS places upon my freedom of
LIFE
t action. Gilbert's taste, in- Lord Charnwood is the sympa-deed, seldom misled himi thetic author of "Theodore ASTO in "the familiar gibe Roosevelt," which Constable at faded or charmless woman- publish at 36 The study is a hood," which inisted on so fre finely-executed one. There has quant a vent in the operas and always been a sub-current of appears to have been equally in- depreciation for Roosevelt among veterate elsewhere.
intellectual Englishmen." dua "I prefer a woman to be as long
I locked the gold sun with a
key
That lasting joy might dwell
with ma;
The sun did scorch my hands
and feat.
But to my heart refused his
bost:
So the Swift flame with captive
rage
Consumad me in his glowing
cage.
A woodman's faggot pu
ablaze--
He has, however, a very dis- largely to his vociferation. Haas she is broad," he would say,tinctive voice of his own. He had, as the present author says, and even of a motor accident he makes poems like gay coloured "a great facility when he chose wrote: "Happily, the lady who figures in paper, little marionettes for doing things in a way that was run over was not much hurt. of poems which move with a stiff made a stis." But under the She good-bumouredly explained and conventional grace. conditions of democracy there it was only her legs. She seem-feeling in them is also rather con- The are many things that without ajed, from her way of speaking, to ventionalised, but it is not facile stir cannot be done at all, and infhave but a poor opinion of those nor insincere. One of his -best America more so perhaps than in limbs, and Nancy (who saw them) poems reminds us of Beddoes in European countries. But if the said they were not up to much.” [its concise quain mess 2--- result proved that his forceful! The Freudians would have to ways had the effect throughout be called in to account for this his life
of evoking and curious "complex" in one who encouraging mora! heroism was in so many ways the soul of among his associates in difficult generosity, who as a magistrate enterprises, it would be hard to was the unbridled foe of cruelty, say that the sacrifice of a more and whose correspondence shows classical soluteness
not him the tender and thoughtful atoned for. The curious thing friend of many individual women. that in his earliest political days: The book is sprinkled with his he was taunted with the reverse crispness of voice and pen. When quality and labelled the ex-the Savoy was sold he felt sad quisité Mr. Rosevelt.”
to think of the old show being
Wax
He seems to have vercome handed over to the Philistines." this as deliberately as in earlier and he had no polerance for the days stil he had subdued his rowdy conventi-as of "the gods." physical strass. He was never"If I were a manager. I would above mastering the technical else the gallery on first nights.": weapons by which bis idea!- in
POLITE IN A NOVEL. public life were to be attained. In The familiar
of H.A. this he was sharply distinguished (iwynne appears as author of From the unpractical stamp of reThe will and the Bill" (Fisher formers who preferred to keep Unwin. 76. As Home review: themselves unspected from the jer says, the political noveliszare world rather than wrestle with its enough with us for it to be judg rather miry actualities.
A cage all gold and windy
praise,
A twisted pack that glows
-cntire
And palace built of sound and
fire --
A strength, a rage, a pride, a
Cost:
So love is that; and that is
lost.
A star-deep water folded
.bare.
Ar aspen thin in golden
air,
A sign, a memory, a bird
flown.
A wild bird's clawprick
in the moon.
The woodman's dream of
fallen snow.
And the wind fallen:
love is so.
There is imagination as well as
the
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Led rather as a capric or as an fancy in that, and in other poems Lord Charnwood examines excursion ad alaram. Mr.Mr. Scott displays a real gift for some episodes in detail notably H.A. Gwynne's little fantasy rich, compact description, which the Alaska arbitration, in which is indeed hardly to be called is refreshing enough to place his the International Commission satovel at all. It is a mischievous work outside with the menace of the Presiden-is told Story in which political mediocrity.
plane tial "big stick overhanging it onls and political type;, are The ethics of this transaction | prounced with obvious enjoyment. were undeniably virenitous, but The irony is too light to sting Lord Charnwood, wis approa- much. We chuckle instead of ched its study with feeling being indignant, and the deliver- of intense indignation againstance of the Prime Minister and Roosevelt." has reached the thu of his colleagues who,, absolute conviction that he didjike him, had promised to supe both a very able and a most right|port Dyson's Bill, by the sudden and friendly thing" in his private intervention of Mrs. Stanton the Portoluese in China than the ultimatum to the British Governeomir rather than satiric. ment. That, of course, could only f There are three brothers Stan-writes M. Rodney Gilbers in the revival of the port of Macao,
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be endorsed by those who holdjton. the Professor, the General Nowth Chim Daily News. This that the Canadian side of the and the Admiral, all rich and all ancient and picturesque settle-China. When this if boundary dispute was quite with genuinely patriotic. Edward, thement went into a decline with rempli much that is picturesque out moral foundation.
felt Professor, by his The last chapter of his career psychology has developed a will-the opening of interior ports in because of its native wickedness,
studies in the
decline of sailing ships, and attractive, in Macao, chiefly is in many Wuy thu illuminating, for it was devoted servants and his wife so much so of Hongkong. Mecao's two most pense will be a rich new field for power that he has proved on his Kuangtua and the inevitable.rise will disappear: but the recom to proclaiming the truth as he that Mrs. Stanton indignantly obvious weaknesses are that the commercial endeavour which will saw it, with the full realisation leaves him. that it could bring him no political honest ma
When Dyson, the harbour is full of silt and will ac- very quickly find ways of com- recovery: the peopl
who has given up comodate nothing bigger than pensating the sentimentalist. whole are heartily tired of me shady a game. drafts a Bill that has no direct line of land com- politics because ther are too river steamers and that the port and my views." Having re-penalises any M.P. who tells a lieunication with the immediate strained himselfs long as there his constituents in the interior. For these two very good appeared any prospect of Presi House, it is den: Wilson's engendering declares that
the Professor who reasons this historical Portuguese virile policy, he then applied him the Bilinething more than kept up running expenses through make settlement bas for many years self to advocating the cause f the Allies with an assiduity aston
joke. He tries his power local taxes upon opium, game
Lord William great as either youthful zeal whom, by mere, "willing he in-which have cared a community.
yacht bling and similar enterprises Try This Simple Remedy. ambition had ever Inspired induces to resign. Then (the plan that deserved better a bad name.
Almost all the ailments of in- him.
of campaign being arranged by
fants and young children arise in the conspirators. Dyson and the authorities bave taken this situs-bowel troubles.
In recent years the Portuguese the first place from stomach and A wide reading public will wel Stanton brothers) the come "W.S. Giltert: His Life Minister, the Lord Chanceller ernor of Macao and the Portu- food properly and the bowels are Primetion seriously. The present Gor-cause the child is not digesting its
It is usually be-- and Letters." by Sidney Darkand and other Ministers of the Crown guese Minister in Peking. His failing to do their work that the Rowland Greg ethues 150re made to promise in writing to Excellency J. B. De Freitas, have little one is fre:ful and unwell. In It is evident that the Great Pport the Bill. They are hor worked indefatigably to Victorian humeris: may have had tied later to remember what their
have cases such as this nothing is as Home Government re- good as the Canadian children's
BIOGRAPHY OF W,S, GILBERT,
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Sometimes it is difficult to dis- tinguish between a desire for original expression and the "little
BABYSOWNA Knowledge" which it is often a
ITALY'S TOURIST VISITORS.
dangerous thing to display. Thas
la musical critic in a Home news- paper recently referred to a
a patema! favour for his serious they have done, but even the engnize the importance of re-remedy, Baby's Own Tablets. plays which the admirers of hisingenuity of the Prime Minister's establishing Macao as
& fent opera librettos could we share, creary seems baffled by the
commercial community. Sullivan he is found amenable to "been brought up in the old and and. with a very short line but in his correspondence, with awful situation. They have all Maran has а rich
hinter- all the requisites of collaboration,chool of speeches that can be of railway, might easily be as always ready to adapt his own interpreted either way." The important a work and to appreciate the all know that half the answers if the harbour were prepared to difficulties of his colleague. If questions in the House are receive ships which could take
i pianist's "stance" on the plat- the verses won't do, send them inaccurate if not deliberately de-out accumulated heal produce made for children; can be given find a
These Tablets are especially form and it is not surprising to back and I'll try again." That is itful and if such a Bill become and bring in supplies for the ad- freely without fear of harm to the periodical Lowien Opinion seiz- writer in that bright a typical sentence, the substance law they are ruined. of which recurs like a refrain. Their deliverance comes by
youngest infant. They are an ing the opportunity to perpetrate He appreciated both his compriser means of Mr. Gibson Percival,
everready remedy for infantile the following merciless skit: and his company. He wrote to the the secretary aforesaid, and
indigestion, constipation, colic, I trust that such a use of sport. former, on the moming after" The Mrs. Stanton, who said her with singular distinction as Dean colds and worms.
Mr. De Freitas, who has acted diarrhoea, teething pains, croup, ing parlance will not develop into Gondoliers had been product-husband on an earlier occasion of the Diplomatic Body for many them, or post free. 60 cents the assembled at the Queen's Hall Chemists sell this sort of thing: “A good crowd ed, "I must again thank you was a natural will subduer," months past, was to leave Peking vial, from Dr. Williams' Medicine, yesterday afternoon to witness for the magnificent" work while the Professor was the for Lisbon, on December 11, osten- Cq, 60 Klangse Road, Shanghai. you have put into the piece. scientific, synthetic article. The silly on leave but principally to
Senor Thumpski play a 20-round It give one the chance of reward given to Mr. Percival by bring before his Government his
contest with Chopin. Opening shining right through the twen-the grateful P. M. was well earn plans for the rehabilitation of
from the Gasworks end, Thumpski tieth century with a reflected ed. But we hear of no reward Macao.
drove off with an arpeggio stroke light." And, suggesting a new for Mrs. Stanton an occasion strongly seconded by those of the (1922) 567,000 foreigners entered and piled up forte or 50 points Through his efforts, It is calculated that last year at the rate of 20 to the minute, feature: Wyatt and Barrington feminist outery, if ever there present Governor of Portugal's Italy, and benefited the country are both such excellent dancers was one.
with a succession of dazzling that it seems a pity to miss so It is all very gaily managed, it has already been possible to milliard lire of paper money,
delightful little Chinese colony, to the extent of two and a quarter upper cats to the crescendo. good a chance of utilising them.. and the story is never let down." start harbour dredging, upon equal to about £22.000.000 at pre-in & B Flat
After being badly bunkered Artists with such a sense of re- There are comments and in-which a Netherlands firm is now sent exchange. Strange to say it pose-dived into the bass leitmotif, Scherzo, be lativity are not too common. cidents that have the pungency employed. Once Macao is avail-was neither to Rome nor
As he put it himself, he of something pretty
leaving one up and two to play. "brought up a family of sixty.actuality but the manner of i will be required to convert & flocked, but to Venetia. Possibly the band of the official who was near able to deep ses ships nothing Florence that most travellers He then shook back his hair and three plays, apart from the is always more mischievous than sleepy pleasure resort into "Bab Ballads." of which the pre- Junkind..
the double interest of the new
tuming over the music. Ob sent authors have rescued from
living port but adequate connec provinces and the war zone may
viously winded, he swung a the files of "Fun" some examples
tion with the interior. There is a quaint mixture in present political conditions it is this. Piedmont was, as usual, his hand on the woodwork. At Under have bad something to do with savage right to the rails, banging hitherto re-published. The operas A. Box of Paints," by Geoffrey obviously impossible to discuss somewhat in the rear for popu- this period his footwork was frequently elaborated a theme Scott, which which had been already outlined Journal publishes at 8/6. Mr. but when the inevitable adjust strangers who visited Turin were
Bookman's railway enterprise in Kuangtung, larity, and the comparatively few noticeably good, and he frequent- in "Ballad" form. "Patience" Scott writes simply; but his ment comes, it is hoped that some mostly of French nationality.
Iy drew rounds of cheering by was based in this way on a com-thought is
untishying his feet at the pedals. sophisticated, his arrangemant with the Chinese position called "The
Warming to the attack, be bang-
with a dazzling zig-zag run along eda barcarolle to the boundary in exquisite style, finishing up
the touchline, which brought him fairly between the up-rights of the treble clef."-Ex
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