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be removed and the road paved to a general agreement,
In the strict sense of the term, of course, there can be no actual |.Anglo-American Agreement at this stage. The most that can be dono at the moment is to compose
DAY BY DAY.
RUMOURS ARE NUISANCES WHICH IT IS WISE NOT TO. MOLEST, AS THEY WILL DIE OF THEIR OWN STENCH:— Chatfield,
any differences of outlook which It is notified that the name of exist between the two nations and A. G. Waller and Company, Limit to evolve a concrete plan ready to ed, has been struck off the
Register, be placed before the other Naval Powera when they come to con-
sider the whole question. In this Instance, there should be less fear of any "outside" opposition than ut the time of the attempt made by the Baldwin Administration to reach an agreement with France: first. There were fentures about thie Anglo-French effort which were bound to arouse suspicion in the minds of other nations, even though the suggested formula was character. purely tentative in Whether the latest report from Washington can be taken as a true index of the course which the con. versations between Mr. Mac Donald and General Dawes are following or not, there would appear to be grounds for thinking that the Labour Government does
not intend ignoring the Imperial aspect of the problem. That, at any rate, is cause for thankful-
ness,
The Cotton Award.
His Excellency the Governor
transit.
for
LITERARY TENDENCIES.
The Perspective of a Century.
mere unbal
The mere passage of a hundred pursuing the best thought of the
for the cor-we found at last no formula years in time does not provide any past. Just as fully in Shelley havo magle rection of false estimates or the fanced onthusiast dominated by the absurd Utopin of Godwin, but the establishment of true ones
inspired spokesman of the ideallem lterature. Yot perhaps, a whole of Plato and Spinoza transformed century must elapse before we can into pictures of unearthly bril hope to see the achievement of any liance.
in
has accepted the resignation by Second Lieutenant Ronald Dudley
in adequale perspective. What a profound and clarifying Read of his Commission in the ago Hongkong Volunteer Defence Half a century will not suffice be- change is this in our outlook upon Corps.
cause an immediately succeeding these five grent figures of that generation le not only too close to time! Yet even more important The silk forwarded from here the period in question, but almost perhaps, as it is certainly more corrected perspective of the vast 31st July arrived in New York volt against the temper of that movement which they represent- by the Empress of France on the inevitably shows itself in some re-comprehensive, must appear our...
011 the 21st period. Another half century must ed. Only within the present cen- (St. John's Park) August, having been 21 days in pass for the dispassionate and tury have we come gradually to thorough gifting of the facts, which see that Romanticism expressed no is the necessary foundation in the sharp break with the thought of the eighteenth century or earlier times; that it was not so much a' an evolution, Al- The summons brought by Mr. formation of fair' judgments.
If this be accepted as a critical revolution as Blok against Mr. Maher abusive and insulting language, axiom, then the passage of the years though the general temper of has been adjourned for hearing to alone has at last placed us in a neoclassicism was dominant for 11.30 on Monday morning, before position to discover that complex two or three generations before call the Romantle Movement in itsstand that the most apparently Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg at the Cen-and brilliant achievement which wo Blake and Burns, we now under- tral Magistracy,
true light for the first time. It is unregenerate Augustans in some now a century since the last records what restrained manner really of English Romanticists were writ-admired most things romantic It is notified that at the expiraten. In 1829, among the greater "from moon-light to Milton." Wo Lion of three montha, the of them, Byron, Shelley and Kenta now regard Romanticism as the Connaught Investment Co., Ltd. had passed from the scene. The expreanlon of the questing urge and the Kong Ah Co., Ltd., will, characteristic work of Coleridge, in human nature, voiced in vary unless cause is shown to the con- Wordsworth and Scott was done. tag degrees in different times and trary, be struck off the register Others, like Southey, Lamb and finding singularly complete and and the companies will be Hazilit had spoken their most im- exuberant outlets in a group
portant messages to their Lime.
Now, in 1929, it is we only who ean, as it were, listen to the accent
dissolved.
geniuses a century ago.
of
more
As the men and the movement in view of the sorely depressed A Chinese girl, seven years of of their words through the amplifier
age, was seriously injured yester-of a century, and understand what now emerge in the full light of state of the Lancashire cotton in- dustry, a condition which has been day through failing from the they were trying to say. And this the appreciation so hastily sketch. verandal of the second floor ofis one of the apparent paradoxes ed here, we need hardly remind only too apparent for many moons, No. 41, Austin Road. She was in the interpretation of literature: ourselves that the values of this the Anding f the Court of admitted into the Kwong Wah we lose certain lesser values vaitly enlarged and more accurate academic meaning. The Arbitration that the employers had Hospital where it is stated that special idioms and temporary allus-interpretation have far
fons-only ta win the larger values than A NAVAL AGREEMENT? made out a case for wages reduc- her condition la serious.
which loom up in truer proportions events, both visible and invisible, against the expanding background of these momentous decades con tion was almost a foregone cónclu-
stitute one of the turning points sion. It would have been nicer for
While endeavouring to repair of the years,
in human progress and have of In view of the conversations all concerned, perhaps, if the parties electric wires which had been
Even a casual glance at the pre-course determined the direction between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had made full use of the opportunity blown down by the typhoon out- and General Dawes, concerning afforded by Mr. Justice Swift's side his home at Mallory Street, Yailing views of the great Roman- of a swiftly changing civilization which the utmost secrecy is being dramatic interruption, and had Wanchai, Chu Kan, an electricien ticists through the nineteenth cen in the century which has just
reached an
agreement between yesterday received a severe shock taty shows how limited and distort passed. Expanded by the rapid enlightened critics. Such critical Influences of the Romantic period observel, more than ordinary in-
themselves, but the absence of auch and dropped to the ground, un-ed was the outlook of even the most developments which followed, the removed to astigmatism resulted in two fundu have largerly moulded our own terest attaches to the report accord will make no difference to conscious. He was
mental misinterpretations: the sup thought. emanating from Washington the award, which both have under the Government Civil Hospital
position that the chief Romanticista
It is therefore important for the latest suggestion for taken to accept. The Court has not
were eccentric geniuses with unruly The Harbour Master notifies emotions and undisciplined imagina-each one of us at the present time solving the Anglo-American naval granted in full the demand of the disarmament problem. The iden mill-owners. The reduction pro-that vessels are prohibited from tions which made them, to say the to understand as clearly as pos- is that there should be parity be-posed by their Assċelations has mooring to that part of the least, hazardous guides to profound sible the elements of the thought tween the two nations so far as been reduced by a half, and the southern sea wall east of the suní- thinking and sound conduct; and which is in the very air we breaking radically less values in the greater litera- abeiter. To that volutionaries Lyphoon 10,000-ton cruisers are concerned, operatives will find a shortage of tary dumping station in Yaumati that nsumption that they were re-breathe, not to speak of the time Int that Britain be permitted to stover six per cent. in their part of the southern sea wall west with the past and announcing in- ture of the Romantic perfed. With maintain a large number of small/wages envelopes three weeks hence, of the sanitary dumping station surgent doctrine and aesthetics.
of
countries.
to
Wordsworth himself,
od revery and complete reliance upon the feelings. Only in very
full recognition of the human'
•
we are so deeply indebted have
Movement in lis true proportiona and meaning.
# •
•
have
As illustration of the first error values thus revealed we shall also Instead of 12.83 per cent, as con- vessels are allowed" to moor in
we need only recall that the patient wish to pay homage to the army cruisers for "police duty" in contemplated by their employers. It is single line only.
accumulation of the facts within a of obscure scholars whose minute This important note, however, that
seant decade or two has trans and countless researches have nexion with the Colonies.
the Mr. Justice Swift, in announcing
formed our knowledge of at least slowly recovered and arranged the The police have received according proposal, Washington message, is now being the decision, laid great stress on
the fact that the Court was not, in report from Mak Chung-yee, a five of the major personalities of the facts in the patterns of true inter- partner of the Tai Kat Cheong Romantic period. Within that time pretation. It is through their considered.
a perspective' The assumption is
any way convinced that wages piece-goods shop, in which the William Blake has been practically efforts alone that we can now see that it represents one of the plans curtallment was the only remedy latter alleges that Kwong Sun- discovered, and is now simost uni-this crucial age in which have been debated by the for the present state of affairs. It kwan, another partner who had versally acclaimed as one of the ex-illumined with full light. They British Fremier and the Americanmay indeed be read into his brief been acting as manager, abscond-traordinary poelle geniuses of the have grasped the opportunity pre summary that the Arbitrators con-ed at 11 m. on the 20th instant, world. Not so long ago the distin-sented from the vantage point Ambassador,
Esuys dismissed him as a bizarre and insight have utilized the self-deceiver of most questionable necessary passage of the years for the illumination of what time In the event of the United demned the operatives to bearing taking with him the funds of the guished author of the Shelburne which we enjoy. Their patience
the initial burden of rehabilitation shop, amounting to $345,
sanity. States being prepared to consent with the greatest reluctance. Im-
in the alone can bring. to sonte such adjustment of the meriinte casement in the cost of pro- Local estate to the value of $17,-
As I remarked at the beginning, issue, we can see nothing Hkely duction was necessary, and the 700 was left by Leung Tsu-ahi, academic world at least, was sus to stand in the way of a complete Court could see no solution to this widow, late of No. 314, Cauton pected of a dangerously, senti- the clapse of decades does not underetanding between the two end open, except the reduction, or tond, first floor, Yaumati, who tied mental obsession for simple coun-produce any magic formula for Previous attempts to some part of it, suggested by the No. 17, Po Shu Sam Lane, try folk and for all the fancied the correction of false estimates
year. Probate has been granted to bridge the gulf between British employers. It is obvious, however, Mon. Canto, on April 4 this mennings of outer nature. He and the formation of estimates that a vast amount of reconstruc- her son, Leung Sing-cho, ship's was supposed to urge unrestrain-ments, but the scholars to whom and Amerleon ideas have largely tion and rationalisation alone offera compradore, who is the sole execu- failed because of a disinclination a prospect of a return to former tor of the will and to whom every late years have we come to underused the simple magle of devoted
to political thought and the rich- on the part of the United States prosperity. The mill-owners will thing is bequeathed, including No.sland, his profound contributions research to show us the Romantic
ness and depth of his ethical wis- to take account of Britain'a special have to accept the position that cer-7, Staunton Street.
It happens also that we and peculiar needs. With a seat-lain losses must be cut, and capital
For the theft of a quantity of dom. We have disproved Arnold's tered Empire, it is essential for placed on an earning basis, how- Britain that adequate provision ever heavy the first writing-off may copper, a coolie employed at the view that his poetry had no philo-to-day still another advantage in should be made, in any disarma-appear. A great deal is expected. Taikoo Docks was sent to prison sophy and, the more widespread our effort to understand the from the special committee of en- for three weeks by Major C. Willson belief that when he tried to philo-Romantic outburst of a century ment agreement, for the defence quiry appointed by the Premier this morning. The police stated sophize he ceased to be poetic. age. For we are living in an age that the man had a very cullar Even more aweeping perhaps in which shows surprisingly close a time which keenly scrutinizen and protection of overseas terri-with Mr. William Graham, the Pre-wait when seen walking out of the the change in our estimate of parallels in temper. Ours too is tories. Britain's position in this sident of the Board of Trade, as Docks. It was discovered, on a Coleridge.
Of. Coleridge as a poet we no the standards and conventions of regard is entirely different from chairman, and Mr. A, V. Alexander, search being made, that he was that of America, with a large self- the First Lord of the Admiralty, as heavily weighted down by a plece longer shake our heads dolefully the past, which frankly revolts his right-hand mnn, The com-of metal being secreted in each over the fragmentary and misty against much that is traditional shoe, with a further ten pounds of visions, for in such an exhaustive and which is determined to ex- contained country and practically |
mittee's terms of reference are ex-similar metal tied to bis legs.
study as Professor Lowes' "Rond periment for itself. Contemporary no possessions abroad. By neck-tremely broad, and cover the con-
to Xanadu" is revealed one of the poetry which is a significant index most omnivorous and systematic of the mood of the time showed ing to safeguard that position,dition of the industry as well as the
between 1910 intellects, with an incredible com- an exceptionally sharp break with one hundred- Britain is in no way animated by problem of its power to recover the
mand of literature in all fields, prevailing forms a desire to snatch an unfair ad-home and export trades. This, to
striving to Interpret the best and 1915, exactly philosophy of the ancient world years after the Romanticists were vantage over the United States; gether with the state of the coal,
Iron and steel industries,
in terms of the new German reaching out for new and richer. she is merely asking for a re-
stitutes the dominant issue in Bri- CHOSEN FOR KOWLOON TONG idealism. Instead of regarding modes of expression.
The programme of the Imaglste ESTATE.
him as a capricious dreamer we cognition of the actualities. The
have at last recognized his insis announced in 1910 is almost principle involved is precisely the
a great feather in the cap of the
Typically English names have tenco upon the rational power that Identical with the now poetic same as that implied in the pro- Labour Administration If the pro-
Wordsworth's age. So in other vision of the new Anglo-Egyptian blems are properly handled. The been chosen for various strects in "controls, determines and modifles creed of the greater poets of spheres of literature and thought Treaty which permits British matter is one of urgency and it in the Kowloon Tong Estate, accord- the chaos of association,"
issue of the Government Gazoite.
For Keats and Shelley "The only our time is marked by the same troops to be stationed along the to be hoped that Mr. Graham willing to intimations in the current.
privacy left is the privacy of glori.daring and questing impulse. Not Suez Canal, and it is also recounts soon be released from his other Here are some of the new names: great tasks at The Hague and
ous light" Culminating in the only then through the illumina- well-known exhaustive biographies tions of the scholars but through which have appeared within five the light from our own time.can years, our increasingly thorough we appreciate with peculiar understanding of them has dis-sympathy that great period which wo.find strikingly deflected in ours. pelled universally held misconcep- sometimes we can imagine that. tions of a radical nature. Instead the century had not passed, but of the sensuous visionary with a that with slight changes welour preternatural gift of melting selves were living again in the image but quito devoid of intel- days of the Romanticists them- lectual and moral vigor, the elves P. K. In: the Christian younger poat now stands forth as Science Monitor, an original, virile thinker eagerly'
con-
tish domestic politics, and it will be
ed in the reservation which Bri-Geneva. We are not at all certain tain felt compelled to make in that he could not afford to let some adhering to the Kellogg Pact. Of the of these things rest in other hands. reasonability of its application to
disarmament. there
can
navai
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