THE BOOKSHELF.
LIFE AS SEEN BY A DISCERNING "IDIOT."
CHINA COAST OFFICERS.
The Latest Changes. Captain C. W. Puckest, of the |Sinkiang, is on`lsave. Du
Captain A. McDowell, from reserve, has *gone master,{ Sinking.
Captain R. Umpleby, of the Kasking is on reserve.
Captain P. R. S. Purslow, from reserve,
has gone master,
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Without that pipà which one the same thing in the end. would straightway describe. 'as
Despite its witty satire. likely to hold the interest of the it is a book for the serious reader. graal reading public, yet with an JUNGLE MEN OF BORNEO. appeal to the mind all its own, is Mr. W. F.-Alder is the latest "Told By An Idiot," the saw book writer to contribute to that grow- by Rose Macaulay which Messrs. •ing literature dealing with W. Collins Sons and Co. have Borneo, In "Men of the Inner brought out in their Colonial Jungle" (Leonard Parsons 106 Kashing- ecition. It is a satire, partly net), which the anthor describes Mr. E. Williams, second officer, historical and a very clever ons, as the "narrative of a: ramble Changsha, is on reserve. and can be summed up as the with the genial head-hunters," Mr. O.. T. Harrison, bas best contemporary description of we have a foe "description" of been appointed second officer, English life written from the the type that appeals 50 Changsha angle of a supposedly unbiassed largely to people who like Mr. W. J. King, second officer, observer that we haya sean. adventure stories--and do not Sinkiang, is on reserve.
Miss Macaulay divides her worry over much about the Mr. B. Steffensen, chief officer, book into four periods-Victorian. Istrict truth of the narrative. Tungting is on reserve. Fin-de-siecle, Edwardian, and Those who know the country Georgiaa. the last-named being dealt with-and its people-will subdivided into three parts, pre-decide most probably that Mr war, war, and 'peace." The Alder has toured a great deal reader is introduced to a remark- of the territory (the Barito River) able middle-class family of the which he describes, but that year 1879, the head of which is some of his adventures were ! the Rev. Mr. Garden, whose kink more vivid in the telling than in is a failure to decide definitely the experience. However, it is what his faith should be. We a good tale, and throughout a, find that his spells of bolief readable one.
rival tribes.
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Mr. A. L. Struthers, chief engineer, Pakboi. is on reserve.
Mr. T. R. Pringle, from reserve, has gone chief engineer, Pakhoi.
Mr. R. G.-Palmer, from reserve, has gone second officer, Tuckwo, Mr. R. F. Carey, second officer, Tuckwo, is on leave.
Mr. A. B. Osmond, from reserve. has gone acting chief officer, Chipshing.
Mr. W. Parry, from reserve, has gone chief officer, Yue Ying Wa.
Mr. M. W. Cartwright, chief officer, Yue Ying Wa is on leave, Mr. A. W. Best, from reserve, has gone chief officer, Anjou.
Mr. J. Websten chief officer, Anjou, is on leave.
Mr. E. G. Thomas, sup'y second officer, Fatshan, has gone second officer, Kalgan.
Mr. N. Founder, second officer, Kalgan, has gone acting chief officer, same ship.
Mr. C. H. Thompson. chief officer, Kalgan, is on leave.
Mr. J. F. Johnson, second officer, Telemachus, is on leave.
had embraced the offices of The men, the author mat, Anglican clergyman, aas it 'bappens are laiturian "minister, sometimes a no longer headhunters, but they Mr.W.W. Hipkin, chief officer, Roman Catholic layman (he was. are a picturesque race under Chipshing, is on leave." by nature, habit and heredity, a Dutch governance, and have en- Mr T. Hughes. from reserve priest or minister of religion, but tertaining customs. The author, has 'goze suply second officer. the Roman Catholic church makes wtih a gift for story-telling, is able Lee-sang. trouble about wives and children), to hold one interest in many Mr. J. K. Lindstrom, third sometimes a plain agnostic, who ways-whether a friendly dance engineer. Fausang, has Konc believed that there lived more be described or a battle between, third engineer, Wingsang. more faith in honest doubt than
Mr. D. C. Philips, third in half creeds (and as to this he Here is a good idea of one of engineer, Wingsang, is on leave. should know, for on quite half the the ceremonial rites-the head- MM. R. C. Barkas has bean ap- creeds he was by now an expert)." dance at a Baptism: The wild pointed supy third engineer. "A remarkable man, and one savage, booming of the drums Tuckwo.
decides it is going to be a stirs the blood, and it is with remarkable tale, and so it proves quickened pulse that we watch to be. There is another will-the girl with the skull begin to licined character the wife of the dance up and down the clearing. eccentric Mr. Garden. She pre-She has a mandau belted about her sents the picture of perfect wifely waist, which she draws and flour- resignation. She has takan, him fishes as she dantes. In her dance for better or for worse. Her long we can see the cat-like spring of experience of changes coming the wary fighting men and the without much warning has dull-cold courage of the wounded, of whatever independent spirit who, despite their hurts, contlaue she might have had.
to battle until conquered. She Then there are the children - tells in pantomine the story of the and they, and their offspring, historic, battle, and then, bring us down to the present day. casting the mandau aside, Miss Macaulay gives us a clever takes the grisly trophy be study of this family. Victoria.tween both hatids, elvates the eldest girl. is mildly protestit above the level of her eyes ant against these changes of faith. slightly, and dances to it, at first involving as they do alterations slowly, then with rising tempo as in the mode and comfort of their the drums beat a quickened time. life. Then there is Maurice, the until her twisting whirling body rationalist: Rome, the clever darts about so rapidly that the ex- sceptic: Stanley, the soulful girlpression of her face is lost an ethicist; Irving, the somewhat She drops the skull upon the thoughtless schoolboy; and Una, ground, spurns it, and the dance the youngest, and therefore
is over. Unattended. she returns the least perturbed. In this to the bouse, but the others all Victorian period we have turn to the river. The chief has intensive view of the family's picked up the skull and leads the life, in which the author's wit way to the platform of logs which and satire bubble forth continu forms a canoe landing by the ously as we find later, through river bank. Here we watch the the rest of the book. The rescer baptismal.ceremony. Several of can take comfort from the philo-the kiddies accompanied by their sophy herein expounded that parents are in waiting, and the there is nothing new under the father of each takes the child and suh-even the Sex Girl is a totally immerses it; then, while old problem, after all, and our the riother holds the youngster. political crises merely show how he dips the decorated skull, raffia history repeats itself.
and all, into the water and allows The next part of the tale brings it to drip upon the head and us to the threshold of the nineties, shoulders of the infant." and to life as it was, lived then. Here we can study the lives of the grown up children as they come into contact with the larger world, their experiences, good or bad, their loves. Later is the period of the Edwardians, "a gay and yet an earnest time". portrayed with a critical touch,'
Mr. G. W. Carpendale, from reserve, has gone second officer, Telemachus.
Mr. J. Ibbotson. chief officer Kasara, is ou reserve.
Mr. J. W. Vick. second officer, Fu Kwang, is on reserve.
Mr. J. M. Anderson, from re- serve, has gone chief officer. Haitan.
Mr. O. B. Wilks, chief officer, Haitan, is on reserve.
Mr. L. V. Rowel from reserve, has gone second officer, Huichow. Mr. F. H. W. Graybrook, second officer. Huichow, has gone acting chief officer, same ship.
Mr. W. E. Liley, chief officer, Huichow, has resigned.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ACCOUNT BOOK
Some interesting manuscripts There is some interesting folk-were disposed of recently by lore and many references to tribal customs of a quaint dature.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOFT.
Messrs. Hodgson, the auction- eers, of 115, Chancery-lane, in- cluding a volume of considerable sentimental and antiquarian importance, namely, the vellum "Accompt" book of the Princess Elizabeth afterwards Queen Ignorance of the English lan- Elisabeth from October 1, 1551. and the sure descriptive power of guage is blamed by safety work-to September 30. 1552. during B brilliant diarist. Finally ers for half the accidents occur which time she was at Hatfield. comes the period embracing in its ring delly in New York factories. Evers leaf of this manuscript midst the years of the Great War. Such mishaps mean a loss of hears Elizabeth's signature, as The Garden children, and the about $50,000 daily, to say no-well as that of her Chamberlain, grandchildren, have their varied thing of the loss of life and limb.. Sir Walter Buckler.
expericdce of it--as V.A.D.'s, as
fighting men. as critics.. Those hectic days leave their mark, und some have sears to nurse, per haps so slight as to be for gotter. The author reviews her trend of philosophy in the final chapter, where Rome's thoughts on life are given scope. Rome is nearing sixty-four. "Life was well enough, she thought; well enongh and a gay enough business for those who bad the means to make it so and the temperament to find it so.
We come and we go; we are born, we die. this poor ball, thought 'Rome, serves us for all that; and, on the whole. we make too much complaint of it, expect, one way and another, too much of it.
Funny, bustling, strutting, vain, eager little creatures that we are, so clever and so excited about the business of living, so absorbed and intent about it all, so proud of our achievements, so "tragically de- ploring our disasters, so prone to talk about the wreckage of civil-- tastion, as if it mattered much, as if civilisations had not been wrecked and wrecked all down human history, and it álkcame to
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