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cess of the "prohibition" view would Hospital.
this be a step towards bridging, gulf.
ARNOLDBENNETT
set
HOW THE MAN CREATED THE AUTHOR
over
*
the Draft Convention, which the whole Conference has accepted us a basis of discussion. But a serious the obstacle hitherto has been claims of France and Japan for special consideration. There
By EDWARD BOLLAND.. obviously great difficulties still in
epithets ♫ROM 1896 until shortly before traditional
teod by the way of progress towards real
The Civil Servico Cricket Club ad- his death, Arnold Bennett irritated authors. He could ap disarmament. There is still a gulf
nt first 11{s down
thoughts, preciate a new genius vertino that Whist Driven will be
impressions between the "prohibition" and "in-held on Tuesdays, at 8.30 p.m. instead emotions
For example, I was and
in Bight. of Fridays as hitherto,
Journals, running to
entranced by A. E. Housman's ternationalisation" views, and he
million words, which constitule Shropshire Lad," declaring that hind this is the gulf between the
Attempting to alight from a moving continuous diary of the consider it contained verse "which must French and German claims. Gertram at Hennessy Road, a young c (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 Ita be lost his reating and fell. He was 1910" (Cannel, 10s. Gd. net), edited true value. Sometimes ho hita ments": France refuses. A auc-admitted to the Government Civil by Newman Flower, which is just off a famous writer's characteris published, we have the first oftic gift in a brief phrase-as when three volumes, which will be ahe mentions "Balzac's superb. From Saturday, June 18 (full) moon) Lane Crawford's Kiank at Re-complete record of his character digressiveness."
and carcer from within. Mr. Political, economic and financial pulse Bay will remain open until 11 lower lins brushed away all the!
Though he would cortainly have p.m. nightly, up to and including
Music will be pro-more dust of circumstance, so to inaues all retard progress towards Sunday, June 26.
speak, from this record, and also agreed with the slightly-changed "The propor disarmament, but it has been shown vided by radio installation.
cut out outspoken comments and sentence of Pope:
well-study of mankind is-woman!" he beyond all doubt that disarmament
Wong Yu-fung, a widow, living at statements about people is not a simple, isolated subjeet 1, Kwong Wah Road, has reported known and otherwise, which could is convinced that men and women which can be handled alone. It is to the police the theft of jewellery and not he left in with prudence. But can never fully comprehend ono
"bowdlerised" the another. money amounting to $26 from her he has not inextricably bound up with other cubicle, entry having been effected by diary, much less the diarist, and male and female is infinitely wider
the thief forcing the padlock.
wo commonly he has provided An excellent and deoper than
realiac... A woman might draw, problems, and no real, lasting dis-
At the annual election of officiuls
and probably has drawn, women anament is likely to come about
I think this first volume will with justice and accuracy for her without consideration of these for the ensuing year, which was held
at the Chinese Gold and Silver Ex-prove the most significant of the own sex. But a woman's portrait cn Wednesdny afternoon, three, because It covers Arnold of a woman is not of much use to other ailled issues. Amongst these change
great a man. Either it is meaningless THE HONGKONG HOTEL may be mentioned the principle of Mesars. Chung Tatching at Chang Bennett's life during his
Shiping were elected Chairman and creative period. It shows how a to him-a hieroglyphic or it tells the defence of ench member of the vice-Chairman respectively.
great novelist created himself him only things which he knew how the artist was evolved from. A woman cannot possibly be League by the corporate strength
Chief Inspector Peter Grant
the artisan, the man of letters aware of the things in herself of the whole, which is part of the leaving on June 2 on six weeks from the journalist,
which puzzle us; and our explana- Covenant; the need of strengthen-vacation, which will take the form
difficulties The man's industry is amazing. tions of our
would of trips to points on the China canst. ing the League's machinery so as During his absence, Inspector E. He gives us surprising statistics simply worry her. The two aczer Bloor, Divisional Inspector Central, of his unceasing productiveness. must for ever remain distant, to provide effective means for the will act as C.I. while Inspector R. Thus, on December 31, 1899, he antagonistic, and mutually in- peaceful settlement of all disputes; Shannon will perform the dultes of tells us he has written 335,340 explicable,” The italics are ours.
Divisional Inspector Central.
words during the year, and has had Perhaps it is just na well' the and the economic interdependence
228 articles and stories published.guif exists; for it is the mutual of the civilised world, which is
A godown roolle was charged be; directly opposed to any policy of fore Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon Magi. Ha total earnings were £592 38. mystery which makes love roman-
stracy this morning, with having 14., of which sum he had atli totir.
Now and again we And him in. stolen 22 pairs of, hair clippers from receive £72 10s. This prodigious
WILH maintained year tending a poem, but the intention the Kowloon godowns, Sub-Insper-activity Lor Elston said the acc
was seen after year without a break, and seldom comes to anything. "Town trying to pawn one pair of elippers, on the inat day of 1910 the follow and country" to an example of and he was arrested. Itidden in his ing entry is found in his Journal: tousers were 21 pairs of clippers,
successful gestation which be- gins:
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HOW DISARMAMENT STANDS
With the opening of the sanne Conference, world
Lau-
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 place between the representatives
or
accared
index.
narrow economic nationalism isolation. The Lausanne Confer enee has one of the thorniest ques- tions of all to take up the question of reparations andi war debts. Its sikerss or failure in grappling with well have this great prabiem may
elig "Good Sport" now being shown at Florence," and probably about 80 the 4) effects important
thu King's Theatre, deals with the other articles." For which familiar matrimonial problem of a armament question.
reason it is to be hoped that this vital gathering will be fruitful in
results.
Noise and Nerves.
which were later found to have been This year I have written 355,900 talen from the gown. Sentence of words, including "Clayhanger," one mouth's hard labour was imposed, Nights," "Night and Morning in
"The Great Adventure."
"Paris
"The chasm between
God made 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 pure
Nor more spontaneous
my city Rewer.
than
Ife sometimes gives us details faithful wife and a faithless husband, of her
and the means by which union way of looking at the new sit of his daily task. Thus when he she began "The Old Wives Tale" he attempts a solution.
We are
givenhait to re-arrange his timetable, intimate shots of gin parties
und 411 inebriate women being fondled by rising earlier and lunching later
"ያ Inclinte men, The picture
not make It is a pity he did is in in order to get a clear three hours clined to drag in parts. The
Of more use of his gift for satirical next every morning for his novel.
"Reverse. He must be the only great change of progromne at this Theatre the first chapter he says: is on Sunday, when "Ambossdeer garding It objectively, I do not see English writer who never made a the BEI," with Will Helmholtz once said that
Rogers dispensing that it is very good, but from the sonnet. human eye was so badly einstruc-hamour in bumptious mensure, will pleasure I take in doing it, it must
be. It was. of the Big Towers are concluded, to that, if he had ordered it as It is an opportune moment, there-a laboratory appliance, he would fore, in which to take note of the have promptly sent it back to the Though much progress already made. The Gen-instrument maker.
taking
be screened.
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eral Commission of the Conference concerned with the problems of sound, that famous physicist never has been much occupied in the taskuld us what he really thought of of getting some concrete agreement the human car which is a far on the main principle in advance, worse instrument, varying in sen-| The following eable at the close this facilitating the work of the sitiveness and often unable to de-of the sugar market yesterday has of been received by Messrs. Pen special sub-committees which have feel the form and direction
round waves. Still, it is the only, freath and Co.. been entrusted with the working
hearing apparatus we possess, ar out of technical details. Various
are likely to possess, and it mu proposals have been put forward protected as far as
possible by the representatives of thefrom the modern plague of noise, several countries, amongst which which not only injures it, but also special importance attaches to the seriously affects the nervous sys- British suggestion that the pro-tem. Complaints in Hongkong are posal for the formation of an in-unceasing but the efforts to com
bat the major causes of auricular ternational police force shall not be disturbance are spasmodic and in prejudiced by the principle of
n
briel
space
DI
time the
111
qualitative limitation. The Con-racket is again in full blast. ference has, in fact, approved the It is not, the same everywhere. efforts have British proposal of qualitative dis- Already successful armament. i.e., 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 |
has long been forbidden, and the ed to all States or internationalisudaw against poisy vehicles is being by means of a general convention. strictly enforced. Recently, a This definite acceptance of the provincial tradesman WAN fined principle of qualitative disarma- for jangling milk-cans. Worst ment can be regarded as one of the of all Londan's troubles, however decisive stages in the work of the is that implement of excruciating ear-torture known as the pneu- Conference. The special coni-
matic drill. a specimen of which milton on naval, military and air was procured by a negro potentate problems lo now bugy examining visiting London-so they say, but what are "offensive" or "defensive" they will say anything1-as weapons Much confusion is un-agreeable addition to his regal fortunately, being caused by the orchestra of trumpets and tum- most secluded by- toms. The two forms. The real issue in the streets, again, are invaded by un prohibition of those weapons which employed singers out of time and will cause insecurity by enabling tune, and are filled in the evening their possessors to deliver a and-by a confused chorus of gramo- den successful attack. Once the phonies and loud speakers. The special committee has reached to the Nineties, where the mild cint- comparatively silent London of
conclusions, the General Commis-tor of horses' hooves and the tink- sion will have to decide the methodling bells of hausoms were like a -"Prohibition" or "transference Scarlatt! Fugue played on a spinet, international control-to be has vanished alaut for ever. But to know adopted for dealing with such wen-it is some consolation
that selence, which can now pans as shall have been defined photograph sounds, is now dealing especially "aggressive"" Also a with the problems of noiso and general agreemont has to be reach-oxperimenting with sound-proof ed on the subject of quantitative walls and hangings. In time, it disarmament (the restrictions on may be, tho scientists will mak numbers and amount of matorinl), a silence, and wo shall call it to some extent already adopted in panco.
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This volume taken you into the workshop of the novelist's mind. It is full of brief impressions of
To this multi-millionaire of things seen and heard, some of words one feels inclined to apply which appear in a more elaborate Edison's epigram concerning the form in his novels, genesis of his own genius: "Onel
per cent, inspiration and ninety- nine
per
in
Anecdotes are as plentiful perspiration." cent, Anthony Trollope's reference to these Journals as plums in "beeswax” is also recalled-it plumcake; they stick out all over The curious instance of was a similitude for the power it. of sitting tight till the morning avarice (from Calvocoressi) of an task of so many words in so many old lady living in a 9,000 frane half-hours had been accomplished. flat who promenaded on the stair- With Bennett, the creative and case at night to save electricity critical faculties were broken to was utilined in "Riceyman Steps." double harness; be never had to Staffordshire canniness is lus- take the whip to either. An trated by the story of a minister omnivorous reader, he was quick | calling on a rich man for a sub- at grasping the vital quality of scription to a Buralom chapel. an English or French book, and When the latter refused on
the he always found something that score of having had a very bad helped him to advance his own year, the former said "We'll have 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- last few years of his life when, aense," shouted the
Here's
plutocrat,
as a weekly reviewer for high pay."none o' that nonsense! he was often "Indolent" and some-half a sovereign for ye." times "insolent," to repeat the There is a touch of the macabre
TAXI
"Fastor: Faster! Don't let that black cat cross our path!"
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: ""Maman, Il dolt y avoir pas mal d'accidents tel" wants some heating as a child's unconsciously horrible saying.
The wine of wit in these re- minlacences needs no Tree, but
or none the less there are two three stories about the greater Max's leaser brother. He went to the Comedie Francnine to ask for free tickets, saying: "Je sula M. Tree, l'acteur de Londres." To which an official replied; "Ah.. vous savez, Ho nous donnons des billets n tous les acteurs de Londres,
P
Many celebrities come and go in these packed pages, and arc deftly defined. But the character of Arnold Bonnett himself most clearly omorgon from the medley. Not the personage with a stylised facade of his later years, but a polse very human creature of rather than poso, kindly, cautious, "not so much interested in money. as Phillpotts and Welle" (his own words), hating snobbishness, honest with himself, rojolcing in hia gigantic toil, a cordial com- panion for all men and most women, and always something of "Tho Card." Thanks to his journals he will never be the victim of the ndage Do mortuis nil nisi bunkum in a monumental blography.
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