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THE BIOGRAPHER.
INTERESTING REVIEW BY PROF. SIMPSON.
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Much amusement was caused in
A very interesting review of the the case in which a Chinese Reworks and of the art of the blo- venue Officer was charged on regrapher was contained in an ad- mand before Mr. T. S. Whyte
Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy dress by Professor R. K. Simpson, yesterday afternoon with assault-M.A., M.C., of the Hongkong Uni- ing an employee of the China veraity, which was broadensted Travel Service, when a witness was from the Radio Studio last even- asked to demonstrate the nature of!
ing. two blows which he alleged wore struck by the defendant.
After considering the various to the attention of the day, the claims of other forms of writing
Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the complainant, while Mr. J. M. Remedios represented the defen-speaker said that a biography made an attractive book because dant Mr. B. G. K.-Hawkins was it stood half-way between litera- present in Court watching the case ture and life, appealing equally to on behalf of the Imports and Ex- those who read for Information ports Department.
and those who read for criticism:
A Chinese, who described him- self as a carrying coolle, gave evidence corroborating that given by the complainant and a witness at the previous hearing.
Witness said that the Revenue Officer struck the complainant in the chest, and when asked to show the nature of the blow gently waved his left arm. causing his Worship to remark that such a blow could not even knock u book over.
His Worship, to the amusement of those in Court, walked to the witness and gave him a mild tap to show that the blaw which the witness described could not have produced the signs shown by the complainant.
Later "witness said that there were two blows struck altogether, the other being in the face.
The Demonstration.
Recent biographies had acquired a new feature, that whereas for- merly they were stories of the great written to inspire the young, they now appeared to have been written by the middle-aged for the middle-aged. In their youth peo- ple did not, study the lives of the great men and the great women, because they expected to become great themselves, and that in an original way. Models might cramp their style. When people became keen about the lives of the great, It was usually a sign that they had outgrown the hope of becoming great. Falling short of realising that hope, they could not but be satirical about those heroes whom they could not imitate. They learned to be satirical, and that was the new style which had crept Into recent biographies...
Old Form of Literature.
The speaker said that biography was an old form of literature, and that most of the Bible was bio-
His Worship said that they would have to start all over again and naked, the witness to demonstrate the second blow, although witness had given a futile attempt to de-graphy at its best. Literature scribe the first,
After several efforts it was SUR gested that a Court constable should stand beside the witness for demonstration.
His Worship: Is the canstable Insured?
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Mr. Remedios: I wonder if my client will stand the test?
Mr. Lo: From what we know o your client we had better not be- cause he (witness) will be frighten-
ed of him.
The constable stood next to the witness box but after the witness showed how the blow was struck by waving his hand towards the constable his Worship remarked that it was hardly a fair test. They could hardly expect the "Wit- ness to hit a constable. Remark- ing that they had exhausted the test, his Worship allowed the ques- tion to be dropped.
The defendant went into the witness box and said that he had been in the Revenue Department for two years, during which period he had had a clear record und had
been reported
his
never
superiors,
to
Exemption Pass. Describing the incident at the godowns the defendant said that when he asked to search the com- plainant's luggage he was shown a pass exempting the bearer from search, but he pointed out to the complainant that the document was issuer In Shanghai and was not valid in Hongkong.
His Worship asked if there was such a thing as an exemption pass in Hongkong.
Mr. Hawkins replied that the Police sued, these passes, which his Department book cognisance of. Continuing, the defendant. said that the complainant asked him what he knew about it.
The defendant denied that he tore two of the books. Whilst he was searching the luggage the com- plainant said that they were both Chinese. The defendant, he said. was merely an officer in the Hong- kong Government but was very Bucy, Pointing a finger at the defendant, the complainant said that he was D
dog to the foreign devils.
Witness said that the complainant was rather indignant because he was searching his luggage.
Continuing, witness said that he pushed the complainant, who
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would be dead without novelty, the earlier biographers, a lighter and in departing from the style of,
Introduced by Lytton en was Strachey. The speaker, in quoting the various works of this blo- grapher, notably the one entitled "Eminent Victorians." showed how they could be appreciated from the new angle.
He went on to refer to the works Guedella, D. E. Enfield, and Harold Nicholson." He presented points for comparison and dif- which points served to show that ferentiation between these books, recent biographers had not cramp- ed their style by adherence to the staid presentation of facts by their predecessors.
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Such satirical blography, in the view of the speaker, led almost inevitably to burlesque. A writer called John Erskine had realised that the readers who were keen on "Eminent Victorians" were ready for burlesques of legendary heroes. He scored a great success with The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by casting the Greek le- gends into the style, and tone, of a modern novel.
Professor Simpson" concluded with a few comments on the more perious styles adopted in the cash bf two modern biographers who dealt with the lives of military. Agures.
staggered backwards, fell over a truck and then rolled on the ground. When he got up he threatened to report witness for the incident.
finder cross-examination witness said that it was because the com-
plainant was saucy that he pushed him. It was not because he was afraid of the complainant and was only acting in self-defence. The object of the push was to get the complainant away and not to knock him over.
Defendant Convicted.
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Witness said that he did not know how the injuries were caused but thought that they were the re- ault of the defendant coming in imagined that the complainant had plainant a push." As a contact with the ground.
Govern, was not convinced with the evidence been very ofeious and was trying ment Officer he should not, how of the complainant on that point nor to get his luggage past on an ever, have pushed the complainant, with that of the witness who had
had pro absurd pass which he
It was rather difficult, continued given evidence yesterday. It was In convicting the defendant his duced but which was valid for his Worship, to decide from the impossible to decide whether the worship said that there had un-Shanghai only, "He thought that evidence what the nature of the blow had been a serious one or not. assault of a rather trivial nature, annoyed. He doubtedly been an assault but an the Revenue Officer had got a little blow had been. He thought he was. As he had said, a Revenue Officer He thought that the complainant be annoying if a person tried to get plainant's spectacles were
thought it must rather inclined to think the com- had no business to give a blow at not all, even if the complainant was probably gave a zood deal of pro-his luggage through without search broken by a blow on the face but making a pulsance of himself. vocation.
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Proceeding, his Worship said rather by accident.
The defendant was fined $5 and His Worship waid that he that he thought the defendant had The evidence of the blow was ordered to pay the complainant $5.
got exasperated and gave the com- very unconvincing. His Worship compenention.”....
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