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kind to his dependants. He was the nicer sort of anob: the civil sort...He was sympathetic to the fallings of others. He was loyni modest, a degree. Ho Was humorous and wise." We will pass over these words and proceed to take note that Mr. Partington's work has served to recall the tre- mendous number of letters with called upon, to which. Scott was
deal. Day after day, it is shown, heavy bags of mail would be dump ed at Abbotsford, costing the re cipient some £150 a year in postal fces. Yet, we are told, Scott was
DAY BY DAY
himself from the ferry Man Wai.
OFF THE GOOD MANNERS By DOUGLAS JERROLD STANDARD
Musical Comedy Test.
AA. Un-
MACH ago faces life in a different casional assistance in pronunciation EAC
backward from the pacudo-Oxford accents of PEACE OF MIND IS FREEDOM OF M manner. Looking MIND, IN THAT IT SUBMITS TO THE over history we recall England ad- the B.B.C. announcers, give me the Elizabeth and impression of being moral by com- NECESSITY OF EVENTS, AND FOLLOWS venturaus under THEIR LAWS AS IF THE HEART ITSELF timid under the first Stuarts; Eng-pulsion. A few broad jokes would
NO CONCERN IN THEM and puritan under Cromwell and clean the atmosphere.
The great race of music-hall HAD
broad under the Restoration: Eng- Auerbach.
land drunk under the four Georges comedians is extinct save for a few A woman earth carrier was injured and sober under Victoria; England veterans. It has been. driven off yesterday in a fall from an upper making a public display of virtue the boards by anemic double-jointed storgy of a house under construction at Yuchow Street. She was admitted from 1850 to 1890, and making a young men laping their double en
explanation. to the Kowloon Hospital with a public display of levity from 1800 tente in accents, capable of only one
to 1914. fractured arm and other injuries.
But if the manner altered, some-
The simpla vices are Fr. L. Banchio, of the local Italian times for better and sometimes for fashionable as the strong drinks; Mission, left for Naples on the worse, manners remained, to testify always kindly in such matters. lakona Maru on Saturday, He has to the robust integrity of the Bocin the modern hero prefers bath salts treating the importunate with been invallded home on modical ad-frame work and to a fundamental to beef steaks. The most damning
vice to entor a sanatorium for
the reality and the imitation alike, amazing
the friendliness. By
nervous diseases, and may be expect agreement about the fundamental indletment of the whole thing, of
loyalties.
To-day munners of any kind are is that it took Mr. Noel Coward thirteenth letter book, Sir Walter's ed back in about a year. post bag became a thing of terror:
A corpse recovered from the water out of fashion. We say what we only two minutes of dumb show in "it bores," as Mr. Partington aptly near the Kowloon Godowns yesterday, think and not what society thinks the Night Club scene in "Cavalcade" The pre-war convention had its think has been identified as being that of we ought to think. We do what we to get it all down-and out. I shudder to drawbacks. remarks, "become more bering, its Leung Ping-hang an unemployed sea-like, and the more it displenece our
how many votes the late George Ed- boggars more brazen, its tondies man, of 20, Park Street, who com friends the better pleased we are
mitted suicide on Sunday by throwing with ourselves.
wardes won for the late Lord' Ox- toadier."
ford in his House of Lords camp- What is to be learned, from these
All generalisations are faulty,aign by his invariable habit of lettera,
of the character of Sir It is requested that members of the public interested in the ceremony
the student of dude in every musical comedy he Walter Scott? To quote the re-connected with the distribution of and this one perhaps no less so than giving an hereditary title to the viewer,. "It is clear, in the first police medals by H. E. the Oncer the others. But
Administering the Government In the mannera is particularly fortunate staged. But at least the dude was of the Central Police in one respect: he has one dig gentleman and behaved as such. place, that serious people trusted compound
most faintly com him with their most intimate con- Station to-morrow, be in their places interested guide, ona almost inlt took the arm of coincidence
into even the fallible, because impersonal, source stretched to its utmost to get him fidences. It is clear also that men
of reference. Not his friends, not and women of distinction realised
his acquaintances, not even his promising situation. that behind his vanity there exist-
enemies, but those whose business it is to hold the mirror up to nature. ed a core of dignity, pride, and ex- cellent sense, It is clear that this darling of the public' could flout in the the public whenever, as Byron scandal, loyalty was in volved. It is clear also that he was politely bored by the adulation offered. M. Charles Nodier, no in- considerable figure, sent him some ndulatory verses. Scott docketed this effusion as follows:--'French (eloge. Moonshine in water. Three pass blue beans in a blue bladder.' Con- trast this sort of sense with the hysterical complacency of a Victor Hugo. There is no comparison. Scott, as a character, emerges at His centenary virile and supreme."
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Old England Disappearing. The battle in England between mellow old beauty and insistent
THE SCOTT CENTENARY modern utility has recently found
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"Something Different." 17, four cases of cholera, with three deaths, (two imported) were report ed. Of the cholera cases, two were
As for what the modern librettist To study contemporary, mannera from Victoria and two from Kow loon. There were also three cases of
but to the theatres of Piccadilly-radiant Innocence would have made typhoid, with one death, one case of We go not to Mayfair or Belgravia would call his "girl friend," her diphtheria, and one death
EL veryparison. She too, of course, was a meningitis. Deaths from pulmonary circus and Shaftesbury-avenue. The Dickens's heroines fast by com- the truth peur's daughter, when tuberculosis last week totaled forty-play's the thing. And eight. On Monday there was a clean strange thing it is too!
We must take our cue, of course, was known, or at least she was an bit of health.
not from the theatre proper, which heiress, and it was a convention of apes the manners of the epoch it those simple days that heiressen is representing, but from the were unfailingly aristocratic. And musical comedy and the farce. And as with famous men-according to their official biographies the other what do we find?
All our old friends are gone. The girls-circus girls, Quaker girls, innocent country girl with a voice country girls and what not-hnd nil of silver and a heart of gold; the jalong noticed "something different" Impecunious Eart and his insepar-about her. How Idiotic it all was. But was it? William of Wyke- equally im The following table issued by able friend; the the Kwangtung River Conservancy pecunious but slightly more in-ham, when he founded Winchester Commission shows the height of telligent younger son: the sinister and New College, Oxford, some cen- the stern celebrated "Manners makyth man." water in English feet on the dates company promoter with designs on turies ago, chose as their motto the named in the West, North and the heroine's virtue; East Rivers:
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To-day for the first time the tide others are but so many supers in is turning against him. We have, that legion of ghosts which wanders gone off the Gold Standard, and so insistently, perhaps too insistent the Cabinet standard, and the two- ly, through this strange modern Power standard without any very world.
disnatrous results, and so there is No Man's Land.
a certain superficial logic in our With their corporeal presence has slide from the manners standard. gone their language, their idioms, Bat is it really wise to cut our- selves off so quickly and so com- and their accent. "Mine's Scotch," I actually heard a musical-pletely from the habits of other and The following cable at the close comedy hero say a few weeks back, certainly more prosperous days?
There is a case against romanti- We need our bohn said, to make the ridiculous Shaws, our Maughama, and our sublime. But not in that language. Lonsdales to take the gilt off the gingerbread occasionally. Nature Sez you? Oh yeah? I don't profess to have this patois has two sides and, the mirror must of the half-world at the tip of my reflect them both. But there is no Longue. Indeed, one's only pleasure justification that I can see in visiting the world of the modern idealising the second rate, for musical comedy is to feel that one romanticising the vulgar, and for ia getting an authentie glimpse of gilding the suburban hollyhock and a world where no white man has housing it as an orchid. ever penetrated. We might even say "no man."
after mile of the country with of the sugar market yesterday has Shades of George Grossmith, whose nothing short of horror," Pro- been received by Messrs. Pen-privilege it used to be, as Max Beer- cism, of course.
Hongkong Scotsmen do well night to honour the memory of Sir Walter Scott, the great novelist, historian and poet, the centenary of whose death is being observed in all parts of the world to-day. It has well been said of Scott that he exalted and purified the novel and made the name of Scotland-known throughout the world. Prior to his into advent, Scottish history was vir-get about quickly! Out of the way with these old hindrances!" tually an unwrought mine; Waverley novels changed all that. Thus are beauty spots butchered to make omnibus holiday. What is more, by his erudition, his
Desecration of rural scenery in unconventional manuer of writing recent years has called into being a Ronds Beautifying Association and his total freedom from the academic point of view, he exer- which is striving to endow high- cised a vast influence on the intel-waya with something of the beauty lectual life of his country. In of old English roads and lanes. In one or more of the English character, courageous, generous and
housing laws in which compulsion genial, he made a deep Impression was used against reluctant land- Parliament inserted a on those who enjoyed his friend- ship. Of his works, it is sufficient clause saying that "regard should to say that they have won him last-be had to the amenities of the
reas, the motor car, the char-a-treath and Co. bance and the packing of 75 per cent. of the English people must towns, about, "We
ing and worldwide fame..
holders,
neighbourhood." So with roads and and other "improvements" "developments." The bludgeon' should be used aparingly by those engaged in carving England for the new speed, . England is'in a peculiar position in this matter. She is small. There is the story of "the American visitor," who is said to have remarked, "In Eng- and I'm afraid to go for a walk before breakfast for fear of falling off the island." It is not a small as that. But the more of her rustic charm she loses, the less she has. And the earvers of Eng- land for the new speed might well remomber that the country of Sul- grave Manor and Boston, Lincoln-
The centenary in being marked by the publication of a wealth of Scott literature which is sure to and ready market. find a wide Amongst these may be mentioned a "Pageant" in which the best passages froin Scott's novela will appear in an anthology selected by Mr. Hugh Walpole. Then there selection from further Scott's Letter Booke, which Mr. Walpole has enabled Mr. Wilfrid Partington to produce. It is en- titled "Sir Walter's Post Bag," and it includes those letters which were omitted from the earlier volume, "The Private Letter Books of Sirshire, and Stratford-on-Avon can-
ia ถ
not afford the loss of her quiet Walter Scott." In passing, it may countryside. The more turbulent be noticed that Mr. Walpole Intends
the sparking plugs of progress,
to bequeath this his acquisition to the greater the value of the leafy
the National Library of Scotland-peace that is England.
á gesturo which is most welcome,
seeing that the letters are of sur
In connexion with the rodecoration passing interest and value. The of the King's Restaurant dining-room publication of these now letters has and dance hall, which has won much raised some interesting comment. favourable comment, it may be noted Harold Nicholson, the well-known that the curtatas and pelmets of modern design artificial silk, in shades reviewer, for example, claims that of gold, orange, green and blus, and Scott was a snab
adding "I like the charming gold, parchment lamp's
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The Modern Hero.
women
speaking
+
Bright Young Things.
for
"Manners makyth man." But bad manners do not even make bad men: These yearning young suburbans, they only make gigolos. Let us get with their pertly sophisticated back soon and for good to our silly the romantle world where every girl no young
language of Hollywood with nc-speaks with the tongue of an angel and every man is brave and strong Manners may be and chivalrous.
are the virtues. artificial, but ao Hearts of gold may and do beat under rough exteriors, but a man who deliberately refuses to learn or sets aside manners has a heart of brass.
Great men in every generation have spoken to their contemporaries in the accents of the common people, but never in the argot of the con temporary bright young things.
We are not here to express our- selves, but to help other people. Manners are the grammar of virtuo. Conventional "good manners" may only be an imitation of this reality, but when good manners become a habit the Yahoo became a citizen. An age of bad manners is an age of bid citizens: an ago which trents unpleasant vices as jokes is an age without a sense of humour, and an age without a sense of humour is an age which will never learn to criticise itself.
Better than Haarlem..
When we regain our sense of humour we shall reallee that the language of Shakespeare is superior to the language of Haarlem; that the accents of Gladstone are superior to the accents of a love- sick saxophonist; and that the re- ticento of our parents was more sophisticated and more expressive than the "frankness" of Blooma- bury. In which connexion, as they Bay in the House of Commons, students of sociology may note that the fall in the birth rate from 25 to-12 per thousand in seven years in the most catastrophic fall ever test. sorded in the whole history of the