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HOW DISARMAMENT STANDS
DAY BY DAY
TO BE WISE BEFORE THE EVENT IS STATEMANSHIP OF THE HIGHEST
OEDER--Disrarti.
vertino that Whist Drives will be
ARNOLD BENNETT
HOW THE MAN CREATED
THE AUTHOR
By EDWARD BOLLAND.
the Draft Convention, which the whole Conference has accepted as a basis of discussion. But a serious obstacle hitherto, has been the claims of France and Japan for special consideration. There are obviously great dieulties still in
epithets uned buy the way of progress towards renl
The Civil Service Cricket Club ad. FROM 1896 until shortly before traditional
his death, Arnold Bennett irritated authors. He could up- disarmament. There is still a kulf
not down hin thoughts, preciate a new genius at Arat between the "prohibition" and "In held on Tuesdays, at 8.80 p.m. instead emotions und impressions in night. For example, ho was ternationalisation" views, and be- of Fridays as hitherto,
Journals, running to
Housman's a entranced by A. E. over million words, which constitute a "Shropshire Lad," declaring that bind this is the gulf between the
Attempting to slight from a moving continuous diary of the consider it contained verse "which must French and German claims. Ger-tran ni Hennessy' Hond, n young ed (Evelyn) type. In The be immortal," long before any many claims "equality of arma- Chinese was injured yesterday when Journals of Arnold Bennett, 1896- professional critic recognised its he lost his footing and fell. He was 1910" (Cassel, 10s. 6d. uct), edited true value. Sometimes he ta ments"; Franco refuses. A sue-admitted to
the Government Civil by Newman Flower, which is just off a famous writer's characteris- cess of the "prohibition" view would Huspital.
published, we have the first of tic gift in a brief phrase-na when mentions "Balzac's superb be a step towards bridging this
From Saturday, June 18 (full three volumes, which will be a he gulf.
moon) Lane Crawford's Kiosk at Re complete record of his character digressiveness.”
career from within. Mr. Political, economile and financial pulse Bay will remain open until 11 and
p.m. nightly, up to and including Flower has brushed away all the
Though he would certainly have issues all retard progress towards Sunday, June 26, Music will be promere dust of circumstance, so to
spenk, from this record, and also agreed with the slightly-changed disarntiment, but It has been shown vided by radio instaliation.
cut out outspoken comments and sentence of Pope: "The proper beyond all doubt that disurnament
Wong Yu-fong, a widow, living at statements about people well-study of mankind is-woman!" he is not a simple, isolated subject 11, Kwong Wah Road, has reported known and otherwise, which could is convinced that men and women But can never fully comprehend one which can be handled alone. It is to the police the theft of jewellery and not be left in with prudence.
money amounting to $25 from her he has not "bowdlerised" the another. "The chasm between inextricably bound up with other cubicir, entry having beeu effected by diary, much less the diarist, and male and female in Infinitely wider commonly problems, and no real, lasting dis-the thief forcing the padlock.
excellent and deeper than
roaliae.. A woman might draw, Armament is likely to came about
At the annual election of officials consideration of these for the ensuing year, which was held I think this first volume will and probably has drawn, women without
at the Chinese Gold and Silver Exprove the most significant of the with justice and accuracy for her own sex. But n woman's portrait other allied issues. Amongst these change on Wednesday afternoon, three, because it covers Arnold of a woman is not of much use to Messrs. Chung Tat-ching and Chong Bennett's life during his serent Shiu-ping were dected Chairman and creative period. It shows how to him--a hieroglyphic--or it tells a man. Either it is meaningless vire.Chairuṇan respectively.
himaclf; him only things which he knew ... A woman cannot possibly be aware of the things in herself which puzzle us; and our explana-
The two sexCK
may be mentioned the principles of the defence of each member of the Lengte by the corporate strength of the whole, which is part of the Covenant: the need of strengthen ing the League's machinery so 4. to provide effective means for the peaceful settlement of all disputes; and the economic interdependence of the civilised world, which
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great novelist created how the artist was evolved from Chief Inspector. Peter Grani
the artisan, the man of letters leaving on June 22 on six weeks' vaention, which will take the form from the journalist. of trips to points on the China count. The man's industry is amazing. tions of our difficulties would During his absence, Inspector E. He gives us surprising statistics, simply worry her.
Centrul, Bloor," Divisional Instmeter
of his unceasing productiveness. must for ever remain distant, will net as C,L, while Inspector R. Shannon wil perform the duites of Thus, on December 31, 1899, he antagonistic, and mutually
tells us he has written 336,340 explicable," The italien are oura. Divisional Inspector Contral."
words during the year, and has had Perhaps it is just ag well the A godown coulle was charged be- 228 articles and stories published. gulf exists; for it is the matani directly opposed to any policy of fore Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon Magi. His total earnings were £692 s. mystery which makes love roman-
strney this morning, with having 1d., of which sum he had still to the stolen 22 pairs of hair clippers from receive £72 10s. This prodigious Now and again we find him in The Kowloon godowns. Sub-Inspec- activity Was maintained or Elstan said the secured was seen after year without a break, and seldom comes to anything. "Town year tending a poem, but the intention trying to pawn one pair of clippers, on the last day of 1910 the follow and country" is an example of and be was arrested. Hidden in hus by entry is found in his Journal tousers were 21 pairs of clippers,
successful gestation which be-
rationalism
is
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narrow econamie isolation. The Lausanne Confer-
ence has one of the thorniest ques tions of all to take up the question of reparations and war debts, its success or failure in grappling with this great probien may well have important effects
the dis.
results.
"Paris
which were later found to have beenis year I have written 355,900 a month's hard labour was imposed. The Great Adventare," stolen from the godown. Sentence of words, including "Clayhanger," | Nights," "Night and Morning in "Good Sport" max being shown at Florence," and probably about 80 deals with the other articles."
the King's
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given
God mate the country and man
made the town
And so man made the doctor,
God the down
and concludes with the couplet:
For me a rural pond is not
more puro
Nor more spontaneous than
my city sewer.
For which familiar to Theatre problems of n renson it is to he hoped that this faithful wife and a faithless husband, He sometimes gives us details
of her vital gathering will be fruitful inuation and the means by which she began "The Old Wives Tale" he way of looking at the new sit-of his daily task. Thus when he attempts it solution. We are intimate shots of gin parties and of had to, re-arrange his timetable, inebriate women being fondled by rising earlier and lunching Juter inebriate men. The picture is in- in order to get a clear three hours clined to drag in parts. The next every morning for his novel, Of more use of his gift for entirical change of programme at this Theatre the first chapter he says: "Re-verac. He must be the only great is on Sundus, when "Ambassilaor garding it objectively, I do not see English writer who never made a Bill," with Will Rogers dispensing that it is very good, but from the sonnet. humour in bumptuous measure, will pleasure 1 take in doing it; it must!
{be." It was.
the
Noise and Nerves.
Helmholtz once said that human eye was so badly construe- ted that, if he had ordered it as a laboratory appliance, he would have promptly sent it back to the instrument maker. Though mach concerned with the problems of sound, that fumous physicist never told us what he really thought of the human ear
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space
which
far
be screened.
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It is a pity he did not make
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With the opening of the Lau-armament question. sanne Conference, world interest will for a time be shifted from the disarmament problem to the more immediate question of reparations, The main work of the Disarmament Conference has been suspended until the discussions now taking place between the representatives of the Big Powers are roncluded.
This volume takes you into the workshop of the novelist'a mind. It is an opportune moment, there-
It is full of brief impressions of fore, in which to take note of the
multi-millionaire of things seen and heard, sume of progriss already made. The Gen-
words one feels inclined to apply which appear in a more elaborate eral Commission of the Conference
Edison's epigram concerning the form in his novels, genesis of his own genius: "One has been much occupied in the insk
per cent, inspiration and ninety- nine of getting some concrete agreement
cent.
Anecdotes are as plentiful per
perspiration." Anthony Trollope's reference to these Journals as plums in on the main principle in advance, worse instrument. varying in sen The following eable at the close "beeswax" is also recalled-it plumenke; they stick out all over thus Incilitating the work of the sitiveness and often unable to de- for the sugar market yesterday has was a similitude for the power it. The curious. Instance of special sub-committees which have
teet the farm and direction of been received by Messrs. Pen- of sitting tight till the morning avarice (from Calvocorossi) of an been entrusted with the working sound waves, Still, it is the only treath and Co..
task of so many words in so many old lady living in a 9,000 franc half-hours had been accomplished. flat. who promenaded on the stair- hearing apparatus we possess, or out of technical details. Various
With Bennett, the creative and case at night to save electricity nre likely to possess, and it must proposals have been put forward to prolected as far as
critical faculties were broken to was utilised in "Riceyman Steps." possible
double harness; he never had toj Staffordshire canniness is illus- by the representatives of the from the moderu plague of noise,
take the whip to either. An trated by the story of a minister several countries, amongst which which not only injures it, but also
omnivorous reader, he was quick calling on a rich man for a sub- special importance attaches to the seriously affects the nervous sys-
at grasping the vital quality of scription to a Burslem chapel. an English or French book, and When the latter refused on the British suggestion that the pro-tem. Complaints in Hongkong are
he always found something that score of having had a very bad posal for the formation of an in- unceasing but the efforts to com-
helped him to advance his own year, the former said "We'll have hat the major causes of atricular ternational police forco shall not be disturbance are spasmodic and in
literary art. He was a penetrat-a word of prayer," and at once fell ing critic-at any rate until the on his knees. "None o' that non- prejudiced by the principle of brief
of time the
last few years of his, life when, Renae," shouted the platocrat, qualitative limitation. The Con- mckel is again in full blast.
as a weekly reviewer for high pay,"none o' that nonsense! Here's ference has, in fact, approved, the I is not the same everywhere.
he was often "indolent" and some-half a sovereign for ye.” times "insolent." to repeat the) British proposal of qualitative die- Already successful efforts have armament, ie, the selection of been made to lighten the London- certain classes or description ofer's burden of nerve-shattering weapons, the possession or use of noise. The infinitely irritating which are to be absolutely prohibit-business of whistling up taxi-cabs od to all States or internationalised law against noisy vehicles is being has long been forbidden, and the
by means of a general convention. strictly enforced. Recently, a This definite acceptance of the provincial tradesman Was fred principle of qualitative disarma for jangling milk-cans. Worst meal can be regarded as one of the of all London's troubles, however decisive stages in the work of the is that implement of excruciating car-torture known as the pucu- Conference. The special com-
malic drill, a specimen of which mittee on naval, military and air
was procured by a negro potentate problems is now busy examining vafting London-so they say, but what are "offensive" or "defensive" they will say anything!-ns a Much confusion is un- agreeable addition, to weaponn.
his regal fortunately being enused by the orchestra of trumpets and tom- most secluded by- Loms. The two terms. The rent issue is the
streets, again, are invaded by un- prohibition of those weapons which employed singers out of time and will cause Insecurity by enabling 1 tune, and are filed in the evening their possessors to deliver a sud-by a confused chorus of gramo- den successful attack, Once the phones and loud speakers. The special committee has reached its the 'Nineties, where the mild clut- comparatively silent London of conclusions, the General Commis-ter of horses' hooves and the tink- sion will have to decide the method ting bells of hansoms were like a "Prohibition" or "transference Scarlatti Fugue played on a spinet, to International control" to be has vanished alast for ever. But adopted for dealing with such wen- it is some consolation to know
which pon as shall have been defined that science, especially "aggressive."
photograph sounds, is now dealing Also with the problems of noise and general agreement has to be reach-experimenting with sound-proof ed on the subject of quantitative walls and hangings. In time, it disarmament (the restrictions on may be, the aclontista will make numbers and amount of material), a allence, and we shall call it to some extent already adopted. in
peace.
can now
TAXI
"Faster! Faster: Don't let that black cat cross our pathi"
There is touch of the macabre in the story of a lady who was in the palace courtyard when the King and Queen of Serbia were murdered, and asked: "What are they throwing bolsters out of the window for The little boy's remark at the central meat mar- kets in Paris: "Manjan, il doit y Rvoir pas mul d'accidents fel," wants some beating as a child's unconsciously horrible saying,
The wine of wit in these re- miniscences needs no. Tree, but none the less there are two or three stories about the greater Max's lesser brother. He went to the Comedie Francaise to ask for free tickets, saying: "Je «ul M. Tree, l'acteur de Londres." To "Ab. which an official replied;
i yous savez, 80 nous donnions des billets શ tous les acteurs de Londres,
1"
are
Many celebrities come and go in these packed pages, and deftly' defined. But the character of Arnold Bennett himself most clearly emerges from the medley. Not the personage with a stylised facade of his later yeara, but n very human creature of poise rather than pose, kindly, cautious, "not so much interested in money. an Phillpotta and Wells" (his own words). bating snobbishness. honest with himself, rejoicing in his gigantic toll, a cordial panion for all mon" and most women, and always something of "The
· Card.” Thanks to hla Journals he will never„Bo the victim of the adago Do mortuis nil nisi bunkum in a monumental blography.
com-