HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END-SECTION
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1939.
Poetic Status Quo
Bolitude, by V. Sackvillo-Wert, New York:
Doubleday Doran,
THE poetry of V. Sackville- West has possessed, above all clso, a Theme. Her work continues in the tradition of the hoary rural English poets. This is not to say that she is imita- tive of anyone of the great past. Her work bears a close affinity, however, to the kind of poetry called Victorian. The discrimin- ating critic need not be a hope- less modernist to deplore: "But silence meets me; all my prayer is vain," as u faint and dusty echo. Fortunately such phrases are few in this volume.
Miss Sackville-West offers in "Solitude" a rather lengthy nar rative poem in which sho ex plores the delation of man to the material, earth, his earth- bound experience, and his spiri- tual aspirations. Her conclu- sions bring little more than the reaction of a sensitive and cul- tured individual.
As poetry the verse is dis. tinguished by cultivated crafts: manship. To many readers it is likely to sound strangely re- moved from the present century. Such poetry as this maintains the pootic status quo with old world grace and distinction.
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A new volume in the contem- the porary blography section of National Cyclopedia of American Blography has been published by James T. White & Company. It Includes biographies of 800 Ameri- can celebrities who are still active, and 300 biographies which appeared in the volume published in 1928 bul now obsolete. The contemporary volume series was Inaugurated in 1924 to solve the problem of keeping up to date data on living persons in a permanent work of reference. The present volume starts with an extended account of John
Jr. A Rockefeller,
few ol the familiar gures treated are Grover Whalen. Henry Ford, David Sarnoff. Helen Hayes, Frederick S. Converse, Paul Whiteman, Kenneth Roberts. Photographs and facsimile signa- tures necompany many of the blo- graphies and
there is extended Information about the enterprises In which they are interested.
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Lord HALIFAX
Foreign Secretary
Bir SAMUEL HOARE Home Secretary
Mr. LESLIE BURGIN Supply Minister
"Lord CHATFIELD
Defance Minister
Lord STANHOPE
·First Lord of Admiraliy
Sir KINGSLEY WOOD Air Minister
Mr. M. MacDONALD
Colonial Secretary,
Because
One Man
Would Not Pay-
For twenty years motorists paid | Locomotives Act, 1801, which fixed 4d. toll to go over Shard Bridge, the toll at 3d. 80 TO-DAY-
All motorists will pay only 3d. br- car Fleetwood, UNTIL
Mr. Trevor Treharne Jones, thirty-cause Mr. Jones asked Blackpool seven-year-old Town Clerk of Black-magistrates to confirm that the toll pool, earning £33 a week, refused to should be threepence, and they did. The Shard Bridge Company, how- pay the 44d. INSTEAD
He read out to the tollkeeper the ever, are lo appeal against the Shard Bridge Act, 1862, and the decision.
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War Time News-Reel
Crowds in Downing Street during a war-time Cabinet meeting were the largest since the September crisis days. Hun- dreds flock there dally to watch foreign representatives. call at the Foreign Office, and the British Cabinet assemble to dis- cuss the war.
ABOVE: A section of the throng included a baby in arms, who found the proceedings very dull, and turned its gaze elsewhere.
BELOW: In spite of the troubled days, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain take their customary walk-unnoticed-in St. James's Park,
Tried To Change
With Hitler
Someone once remarked, "Lucky indeed is the man with a hobby." One of the most popular appears to be collecting, judging from the tre mendous enthusiasm shown in this absorbing pastime.
Mr. F. Bason, who recently broad- cast, is a collector of cigarette cards,'
over.2,000,000. and clairas to have
He has travelled thousands of mulles both here and abroad either to buy or exchange them, while ho has even tried to do business with Hitler, who is also interested in cigarette zards.
Mr. Thomas Hudgell rollerts rail- way tickels, and has over 400, every one of which has been clipped by the inspectors, as he can only retain a ticket if the inspector forgets to take it some Idea of the great num- ber of journeys he must have made can be imagined. He claims to have travelled 305,000 miles on main lines, spent £1,376 in fares, and £1,500 in hotel bills..
One woman is fascinated by cigarette ends, and estimates that she
quarter, Then a Belgian who keeps
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Did Crusaders Go Nap?
LL ye who call grand slams, declare abundances, turn up na...... turals, hold full houses, and go nap-do you know the origin
of the little bite of paste-board with which you play?
has gathered over a million and n Lady Charnwood wrote in "The Times" recently that she was jokes and files them systematically told in her youth how cards were invented by the Court Jester to claims that he has over 2,000 from 1 Charles VI., the mad King of every country in the world.
France, in the end of the XIV. devised, century. They were
Rys this tradition, on the follow- ing plan:
80,000 FLEAS WEIGH- Another man garners queer facts and figures such as 'one ounce is the total weight of 80,000 fleas, In every,}- acre of land there are 800,000 worms and they bring ten tons of soil to the surface every year.
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There are thousands of collectors all over the world, and many them belong to societies and clubs where they can buy or exchange articles. A great inany also exhi- bited at the Royal Amateur Arl Society Exhibition.
4 sulls represent 4 seasons.
13 cards (in mult) represent 13
lunar monilis.
12 court cards represent 12 calen-
dar months.
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52 cards (In pick) represent 52
weeks.
If you add up the whole pack of cards, counting one for an ace, two for a two. 11 for a knave, 12 for, n aucen, and 13 for a king, it comes to 304. Add one for the Jester-Or Joker and you have the number of days in a year.
CHARMING LEGEND, BUT`.
Just what happens to Leap Year, the tradition does not relate.
Royal Gift to U.S. Church
NEW YORK. President Itoosevelt, as senior warden, of St. James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, presided at a vestry meeting, al, which the gift of a Bible by the King and Queen was discussed.
The Bible was sent as a memen- lo of the occasion when their Majesties attended divine service at the church,
It is now in die Congress Hbrary at Washington. 'A special caso la being constructed for. Its display at the Hyde Park church,
cens playing cards, game,
Mr. HORE-BELISHA ・War' Alinister
Above: The
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Foreign Minister. Richard Sandler,
greeted by Prince
de Ligne of Bel-
glum on Arrival
at · Brussels Air-
port. (Left): Mr. Joseph Ken- nedy, the Ameri- ean Ambassador, at Croydon.
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But perhaps the most beautiful of all hobbles in that of Mr. Max Ber- man, who has travelled the capitals of the world, making working draw Ings of royal towellery. He has spent months in the Tower of Lon-.
The legend is charining, but cards. don and London museums on them, were known before the reign of Spain, and the Spaniards also capled and is confident that it would be Charles. VI. Mr. Bernard Westall, a them, whence they drifted through possible to substitute his coples of director of De la Rue, said to the Europe."
"The Saracens took the cards to
the Imperial State Crown and the News Chronicie · recently; • "Tho. The advent of the Joker has no St. Edward's Crown for the originals best authenticated tradition states traditional origin, and it may be that. without the diflerenes being de- that cards came to Europe via the the Jester of Chueles VI, created a tected. He estimates that his hobby Crussiles. Crusaders were great now card to amuse his crazy master has cast him, £30,000.
gamblers, and they found the Sara- and named it after himself.".
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