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BEAUTY IN WORDS.
INTERESTING LECTURE TO ENGLISH ASSOCIATION.
An Interesting paper on "Beauty in Words" was raid by Father Byrne S. J. to the Hongkong branch of the English Association last night at the Cathedral Hall. Bir William Hornell presided.
Referring to Browning, Father Byrno said that Tennyson had re- Procelain Vases, Bowls, Plates, Browning seemed unaware of the marked that It was strange that Flowe Bowls, Jade Vases, Amber,
splendour of words. Doubly Crystal and Agate Ornaments, strange, we may add, when we re- Lacquer Screens, Joss Tablen. call that Browning was a post Blackwood Joss Tables, Oplura who was a musician. A metaphy- Stools, Bronze Wart
sical writer might be satisfied with broideries, Chinese Hand Paint-mosaics worked out of the harmony inga, etc., etc.
of words, with no care for their melody, but we should expect the musician's ear to be keenly alive. to the charm of melody. If
poets may fall in their appreciation of words, we can easily imagine that ordinary man may give con- the stant cause for the lament of Mat. thew Arnold: "What a touch of grossness in our race, what an original shortcoming in the more delicate spiritual perceptions, is shown by the natural growth amongst us of auch hideous names
Higginbottom, Stiggine. Bugs." We sympathise with Arnold, in spite of the fact that the word bug' originally meant goblin or clf and is found in a sixteenth century version of the Bible to replace the Hebrew word 'terror: "Thou shalt not need to be afraid of any bugs by night." (Ps. 90. v. 5; Rev. vera. Pa. 01).
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Words tremble with human emo- Goldtions, with human thoughts, since with they are the means deliberately chosen to convey these thoughts and these emotiona from one soul to another. They belong to the material world of sense in being and moral world by the soul of sound;
they are of the intellectual
meaning breathed into the sound.
There is a beauty or an ugliness, a harshness or a softness in the utterance of the word which reacts Emerald upon us. We may consider words our creatures but, as Bacon re- marked, "words, us n Tartar's bow, under- do shoot back upon the standing of the wisest, and mightly entangle and pervert the judg- ment." (Advanc.
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We naturally look to the poets for the most delicato expression of the beauty of the sound in words. They are the professional weavers of words, marked by refinament of elevated diction. A worker in clay will make a different model from a worker in iron or in silver, so the poot will select his words to sult the light or heavy effect to be produced. When R. Mulholland sings:
***
shad my feet in their golden sandals,
And I looped my gown with
ribbon of blue, And Into the garden went
singing.
The birds in the boughs fell a-
singing, too."
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Shipping.
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Mining.
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B' que Ind. G. Bonds, $674 b. H.K.G. Loan, 62% Prem.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Too Dolorous.
To The Editor of Hongkong
Telegraph.]
can't
My dear,m simply prostrate with grief. Tubby anys that some horrid nan suggests that if the Government really
play Sterling Contract they ought to get them to wave the military dis tribution to bridge the deficit..
we
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I don't quite understand what ait means but Tubby says there's a law that a fifth of everything pay in taxes goes to England and for this the dear General allows us so many soldiers cach and if they step this military distribu- tion there wouldn't be anyone to Straits and Calentia dance with because the Navy wouldn't stay if the Army didn't. I think that's noble of the Navy because you must have hora de combat in the services but isn't it
we follow her lightly tripping, expecting music everywhere; but, when Chesterton rolls out the Ines;
Strong gonga groaning as the
guns boom for,
Don Juan of Austria is going totoo utterly unfair to us we don't pay taxes to havo elvil servants to dance with.
the war:
Stiff dags straining in the night.
blasts cold,
In the gloom black-purple, in the
glint old-gold; Torchlight crimson on the cop-
per kettle-drums, Then, the tuckets, then the trumpeta, then the cannon,
and he comes
we line up instinctively, and honr the war-hounda bay. The pleasure quality of sound in the words in both cases is largely due to the chosen,
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