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NEW MEMORIAL SCHOOL AT CANTON.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 15th, 1928.
OUR PRINCE'S DRESS.
AN AMERICAN COMMENT OF
APPROVAL.
The sturdy independenco of the | Prince of Wales, displayed in his) adiction to the dangerous sport of steeplechasing and more recently still in his choies of the acresplane as a means of meeting his many official engagements, 'hna fonnal its Inleat expression sartorially. Pio- tures have appeared of him wearing gray flaunel suit without a waist- cont. To Americans this may sound like the mildest of rovults against convention or na revolt at all. But in England, where the weather usual. ly favoure its presence, the waist- eunt has been a sacred symbol of gentility, 80 much so that the Prince's appearaner without it ever. on a hot and sticky day has set the;
Wilde tailoring fraternity shaking their
next!. dirmay. What tongue. fra Is in
Note the fino wide motor road which
Evidence of the progress of educational institutions in and around Canton is afforded by the above photographs showing the now buildings recently opened on the Sha Ho road, near Tung Shan, of the Jub Shun Memorial School.
runs in front of the new Institution....
A MODERN' PROPHET, is a man of genius with a
spiritual message for his
MR. G. K. CHESTERTON.
Wost. Mr. Julius
recently wrote Fi book entitled “G, K. Chesterton A Critical, Study." And Mr. James Donetas has eri fieised that Critical Study in suh wise that its writer must be sorry he did wht leave Mr. Chesterton adom. The subiest of the study, in Mr. Douglas's opinion, bega Tyroon uncompréhended. Over the body of the writer of the Critical Skader the 'rific thereof, proclaims aloud. the largenees of the Chesterton in- fellect and the dignity of The Chestertonian pol It is a An estimate, and deserves giving hero as a sincere endeavour to explain a prent and truly English mind to these who, for one reason or zone other, have been unable to moder ita neonatulunce or. if so, for ap. preciate it to the falls...
age.
The spiritual message delivered by Mr. Chestertori is mightier than any other sounding in our cars. He is bigger man than Macter- Back or Bergson, though we know it not. As a prophet he is larger
Gilbert K, Chesterton #
The tragedy of literature is that a prophet has an honour in his enuitry. We starve and stone our prophets. The central Mr. truth to be uttered about Chesterton is that he is the 'greatest prophet of our gearraibur He is as great as Tolstoy or bar I may seem rash to set him beside These great prophets, but time will ratify my rashness. A prophet by our failure to perceive that he
every way than Mr. Shaw or Mr. Wells or Mr. Arnold Bennett, because he deals with the 's They deal with environment.
in as a social animal. He deals with man as a spiritual being.
Our failure (o salute the prophet is complete, and it is emphasised
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is the authentic voice of that gory. He la the Bunyan of para-sim buzzing on the Loudun English soul which lately wrestled with the Tentante soul for the soul of the world. Ho is the soul of England. He expressed the English temper which you trace through Wordsworth, Blake.
can
Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer,
right back to Caednion, This English temper is sub- lime in its spiritual heroism, and that it is alive to day in the demonstrated by the race wis stupendous selflessness of the in articulate masses who laid down their lives dumbly for an ideal which they divined but did not discern. Our people died for the soul of man. And Mr. Chrg- terton in his essays and in his poetry is the prophet of man's soul. The form in which he bas cast his message has been de- termined by Byles De Butcher, He has beaten his brains out upon the stones of Fleet Street like that other great Englishman, Dr. John-
ብኝ,
He is as fragmentary as fsalab or Nietzsche or Blake, but genius dames in all his fragments. His Excesses are sublime and his faults are erlestial, for 'they' are the laughter of life and the foliage of enérgy. His imperfections are the flourishes of his perfections. To ask for one without the other is like asking for an oak without leaves or for a sea without waves. His paradox is a new thing in literature, for it in a spiritual parable and the old spiritual alle-
What next!
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The paradox of is
the trick of
of The paradox
Chester- ton is a trick of the soul. Wilde
As a matter of fnet, the Prince turned phrases upside down, but Chesterton turns visions upside was rely adapting his dress to the down. Wilde Invented
climate, which, contrary to general turvy words, but Chesterton In- Velief, in a well established custom vented topsy-turvy dreams. Wildeang bis countrymen. If, to an: is rococo: Chesterton is Gothic.
topsy
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