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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1930.
"SEPOY" DISASTER POET LAUREATE'S ARRIVAL OF NEW
FUND..
CONTRIBUTIONS STILL COMING IN.
NOW $7,471 & £52 10.
DEATH.
DR. ROBERT BRIDGES PASSES AWAY.
An excellent response continues MOST AMBITIOUS WORK IN to be made to the Navy League Fund for the relief of the depen- dents, of those who lost their lives
The
In the "Sepoy" disaster. fifth list, given below, shows the
HIS OLD AGE.
GOVERNOR.
PLANS FOR RECEPTION AT THE CITY HALL.
WELCOME ADDRESS.
When His Excellency Sir Wil- liam Peel arrives in Hongkong on May 8 he will be met at Queen's) Pier, the arrangements for this being in the hands of the Govern- ment. He will then drive round the
total to have reached $7,471 and FORMERLY A DOCTOR Colony for about three quarters
£52 10s. An outstanding feature of the list is that donations totall- ing $750 have been. received from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company's interests,
It should be stressed that the Navy League appeal is addressed the primarily to
civilian coin- that munity, as we understand local naval circles are raising
of an hour before proceeding to the City Hall when there will be reception, arranged by the Pub- lic Reception Committee.
London, Apr. 21. Dr. Robert Bridges, the Poeta Laureate, has died at the age of eighty-six. He leaves to the world a collection of poetry of which there are two things to be said first, its studied finish and second its unfamiliarity to the average reader. The best edition of his works fills eight volumes, but it may fairly be The following contributions have said that the public knows com- been thankfully received:
paratively little of his verse. Previously acknowledged
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their own funds.
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The National Anthem
mony,
will be
The whole of the Theatre Royal will be thrown open to the public except that the stage will be re- served for H.E. Sir William Peel! and his party, H.E. the Officer Ad- ministering the Government and his party, including Lady Peel and Mrs, Southorn, representatives of the Army, Navy, Air Force. Extens
Dr. Bridges was orginally a doc- tor. He was born in October 1844, 100 being educated at Eton Corpus 20 Christi College, Oxford. He stu
died medicine at Bart's where he became casualty surgeon.
afterwards assistant He was 100 physician at the Children's Hospi- tal. Great Ormond St. and physi- Kocian at the Great Northern Hospi-tive and Legislative Council and
100
50
tal, London. In 1882, however, be- fore he was 40 he retired and went 20 to live a quiet life at Boars Hill, 10 Oxford. Two years later he marr 30ed Monica, daughter of Alfred 50 Waterhouse, R. A.
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DEATH OF SIR G. GUGGISBERG.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Ifis Early Poems
He was an exponent of what George Moore called “pure poetry,"
the heads of departments and the Reception Committee. The first two rows of the stalls will be re- served for the Consular Body, etc., and the first two rows of the dress
circle for ladies.
The address to be presented to H.E. Sir William Peel will be on vellum paper and will be enclosed in a case similar to that presented to H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi on his departure from the Colony.
The decoration of the City Hall and Theatre Royal will be in the hands of the Public Works Depart-
ment.
NEW PRESIDENT OF HAITI.
BANKER BECOMES ONE MAN GOVERNMENT.
Port-au-Prince, Apr. 21. The Council of State has unani- mously elected the local American banker, Mr. Eugene Roy, to be temporary President of Haiti.
This follows Mr. Hoover's ap proval of the recommendations of the Haitian Cominission that a one Government man Provisional
should be appointed from April 13 when the term of office of Presi dent Borno expired.
The occupying force will be re-
will
Acera, Sekondi and Winneba with the result that the colony lost its. evil reputation as a "white man's grave." The Achirota Institution divesting himself as far as possible duced, the United Staten ligh was started to provide a complete of subjective appeal and seeking Commissioner will be recalled, and education for West African youths to isolate objective beauty. His the Provisonal Government in their own country and
will early poems were privately printed remain in office until it is possible eventually become the university and his work for a long time was for the four West African colonies. not known outside a select circle to hold elections to the legislature. Transit facilities made a great of admirers. It is characterised which will elect a President for a normal term-Reuter's American change in the life of the people, by its restraint, purity, precision
Service. who have turned in large numbera and delicacy and stands somewhat from porterage to production. On apart from the current of modern the political side Sir Gordon drew English verse. up a scheme for the employment His chief critical works are "Mil- of natives in Government posts ton's Prosody" and his essay on hitherto held by Europeans and Keats. His best verse is to be the total rose from three in 1919, found in his "Shorter Poems," to 38 in 1927.
an
LINDBERGH. BREAKS A RECORD.
"Prometheus the Fire-Giver," | FLIGHT But his most notable work in "Eros and Psyche". "The Growth this field was the new constitution of Love" (sonnets), "Nero", giving the natives a large share in historica! tragedy: "Achilles in the government, the chief feature Seyros", a drama: "Palicio", a ro- of which is the provincial councils, muntic drama in the Elizabethan Some of his measures were criti- manner; "The Return of Ulysses". cised, but his great work was a 5-act drama; "The Christian appreciated and he had a big Captives", a tragedy; "The Hu- ovation on his departure. In 1905 mours of the Court", a comedy: he married the actress Miss "The Feast of Bacchus" and "De- Decima Moore who ably seconded, meter, a Mask". his efforts. He was knighted i (K.C.M.G.) in 1922.—-Reuter and 1.B.S.
FIRE HORROR AT A PENITENTIARY.
THREE HUNDRED RELIEVED DEAD IN AMERICA.
Columbus, Apr. 21.
Little Inspiration in War.
FROM
CALIFORNIA
TO NEW YORK.
the
New York, Apr. 21. Flying generally at a height of ten thousand feet in order to de- termine whether a great altitude favours. more rapid transportation, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, famous Atlantic flyer, has arrived here with his wife from Glendale in California. He made one stop in the 2,446 mile trip, his time be- ing 14 hours 22 minutes.
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Lindbergh thus breaks the re- In 1913 he was appointed Poetcord of Captain Hawks who did the Laureate. He found little in-same journey in 17 hours spiration in the war years, but he minutes.-Reuter's American Ser- did, however, publish some occasion-vice.
al poems during the war, including "Ibart Obscurion." His other works
include an ode on the Shakespeare Tract on the Present State of Eng- tercentenary, two anthologies and
Beveral addresses on poetical sub-lish Pronounciation," ending in an jects. In the summer of 1920 he exposition of the author's curious originated a letter which was sub- views in the direction of spelling sequently signed by many Oxford reform. Dr. Bridges also com- It is officially estimated that at tutors and professors and some piled "The Yattendon Hymnal." for least three hundred people, most-heads of colleges and was addressed use in Church services, and had it ly convicts, were killed in a fire to the learned world of Germany, printed in accordance with the al- at the Ohio Penitentiary.
being intended as an olive-branch, most Ruskinian passion he had for In 1924 he paid a long visit to the good workmanship in book pro- The flames were fanned by a United States.
duetion. His poetical works-- strong wind and swept over seve
On his 85th birthday Bridges minus his plays-were published ral buildings which are still burn-published a very lengthy poem, last December in a single volume ing, apparently without any con- "The Testament of Beauty," the by the Oxford University Press.
trol.
Reuter's correspondent himself counted ninety bodies in the prison yard at seven o'clock this evening. -Reuter's American Service.
Fire Victims Trapped.
Later. The fire victims were trapped in old cell blocks on the west side of the penitentiary where scenes of indescribable confusion were wit- nessed.
The doors were finally opened and about five hundred survivors
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The Poet's Province.
most ambitious of his career. The poem, which reaffirms the ancient
As a statement of Dr. Bridge's faith in the divine guidance of life and the divine destiny of man, auf-conception of his poetic mission, a fered somewhat here and there passage which occurs in one of his from its attempt to put philosophy "Shorter Poems," Book II may be and science into verse, but its non- ftly quoted.--. argumentative passages are often of rare beauty. It was written in an unfamiliar metre with mild- ly phonetic spelling. In June, 1929, Bridges received the Order of Merit-Reuter and I.B.S. ·
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Essays in Criticlem. Dr. Bridges also wrote essays in were then able to make their way literary criticism and on the re- to the prison yard-Router's form and analysis of the English American Service.
language. One of these was "A
Rather while Reason lies To mark me from the beast, I'll teach her serve at least To heal the wound she gives: I hato not, nor despise The work my lot accords; Nor fret with fears unkind The tender joys, that bless My hard-won peace of mind, In hours of idleness.
Then oft I turn the page
In which our country's name, Spoiling the Greek of fume, Shall cound in every age.
Love-Hate
Laughter Tears
Hope-Despair ....Courage-Fear
Gaiety-Gloom Passion Shame .......
Mirth-Madness
Boiling, Exploding-
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Seething.
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