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SONGS AND SOXNETS FROM THE SPANISH.

Cupid lay dying, bow strung and riven,

reataing our lands and meadows far away To regions where the san-lit gates of day Shadow the purple depths of distant Heaven. In faney, Parche fading into light, With longing guiding glauco her fond Love

coyed. To follow where bright hopes her conl em

ployed

by nook every Saturday, in au euvolopo Chasing the sombre shroud of envious Night; Who round the pair bad shed her mouraful

gloom

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We have instituted as an experiment ble." What a jumble of Inaguago eta VISITORS' COLUMN, which we trust. in the ons link for which you are responsi there must be some beauty in a system which will prove successful, and be found uso. even Mr. Alabaster's Eaglish cannot dis-ful. To it will be relegated from time tork

We shall reserve the serious study of the to time such items of infirmation, lists, other parts (this is No. 6 of Mr. Alabaster's tables and other intelligence as is con- Occasional Papers" until they shall have sidered likely to prove valuable to per- been respectably printed. Meanwhile we sous passing through the City, and we have opened would suggest that Mr. Alabaster might in connection with

AND BUSINESS aBuLECT forbear teaching us what to do, and how to European ean master all departments of Chi- Rose Literature. Let Mr. Alabaster choose into which we are now ready to receive His own field; and, instead of indulging in vagne generalitics and sweeping condemen- tions, let him carefully examine fucts and texts, and point out in detail what he admires; what new facts he has discovered; in what then we shall like him mera.-Contributed.

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A new Acrostic will appear every Saturday, to

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"Jack and Jill."

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Till be in anguish lest her, and world fain Quench Life and Love in dark Oblivion's

tomb. A sobbing broken murmur stirred his breast And gentle Love and Life had sunk to rest.

SANCHO.

THE CHINA REVIEW ON RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Occasional Papers in Charte Philosophy, The Chines Bible. Is Xo. FI. Chaloner Alabaster. Shinghai, 1870. Mr. Alabaster you to us to be fighting for a mere empty name when he mys, "It is time that the ridientes mistranslation by which the Kog und Slewo are sendered the

particular putut Dr. Legge is wrang: and

of

Erb-Tan-Mei ou les pruniors merveillent

Roman Chinois, traduit et 'accompagné de notes philologiques, par A. Theophile Pirs, do sarvino das douanes impériala de Chine, 2 Tomes. Paris, 1880.

Tho moved which Mr. Piry selected is one the hurt romances of its class to be found the whole range of Chinese belletristic literature. It is conched in the usual col-

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ista goner nevulista means a book, translated from litle known poetry with which Chinese

the easy

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The narrative only interrupted by the beautiful, one part at which tells us the

genasional

pratical composition exercises law t history and et people different in

which the heroes indulge in to exhibit so to thought, colour, and habit from our ances tars and ourires,

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proclamations or quotations from of the

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of which the Peking Gazette, indispensable in a povel like this, which is laid entirely on the lines -hike wine a tells us the history of

life of the oficial classes. Mr. of the of the social i Ex of complete forget to the

and of his disciples: also of the won-Pity translates freely but not unfaithfully derful

humanity and

object evidently being to write as if the Lenttempt of ceremony;

ian French. China were Parisian the democracy, the matchless gentleness and

Thus for instance where the riginal mokes Beautiful sets and

Thas

We sing of Priam's woful fate, Of wise Ulysses' constant mate, In stirring measures oft havo toll The wondrous deeds of mun of old : And when another theme wo choose, (Bo way ward is the fitful Muse), Of groves and gardens, ladies fair

Languishing in summer air,

Full oft we chuyat in coletan hyman, In liquid notes of seraphim

The dole of martyred blood, which shed, Earth couuta ne her illustrious dead, Transition strange! we now becorae Conscious of tap from martial drum, Of flashing steel, and canton'a boom,

The echo oft of antion's doom.

Turn yet again, and in the sea,

In rivers, torrents, found are we

Death is our tow, yet weak man's life Oft hangs on this our murderous strife.

Creation was my cradle fair; With winged feet & speed mid-air, And lighting down on mossy brink

I quickly pierce each hilden chink,

Lay wide earth's treasures, try the caves

Which Deene's restless bosom Juves,

Then soaring, leave the starry host, Til in eternal distance lost. Though wide my kingdow, yet I prize More what is hid from mortal eyer. From every land, from pole to pola, When burst the fetters from the soul, When spreading forth its joyful wing

The spirit sonra where acrophs sing,

Safe in its guide, serenely flies

To its repose beyond the skins.

1.

Make what you can out of this and of that; So stupid w I that I'm always a flat.

Yon circling cloud aronud is gathering fast Whilst loudly brays the warning trumpet-

blast,

A sound too soon the Baittoli evlidior's kpell

on prent

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any jealousy all round, int complies is when we speak of it. For instance, we wituut and until the dottile marriage is ella Consul it China andaret-business-

filer," which is Lut the east meaning of a concluded, when, we presume, things are

likely to

to take too impracticable turn to Consul," who agais nut what Mall further soupe for pleasant writing Buonaparte was, for what Cicero and Man-

The author of our novel, however, though hus were.

It is very pussilde that we may find in by works to this love story a series of the Chines Casa wendrous theury official intrigues connected with the usual the material formation i le anivers; hot game of promotion, and describes minutely why do not Mr. Alalter induc us into the busy bees of a Chiness official life in

no solo Yan and at

Rul n and at Court, gatisfied with the mysteries at in raft? it

We have, in tinue. gue has as yet attained the knowledge of writing and novel at The Clans Liberature without which the act, hero two novels based on the same attempt at its translation would be he lines worked into one-two beloved heroes,

wiched

Ministern tour loving heroines, two less," how does Mr. Abbuster know any state, four patristic Imperial Censors, thing about it? it foreigners so and to Chinore is, it is lost a sealed political cabals and love intrigus, stately book," and i we are to attain the know-diet

adiols and proclamations and touching love- d the thiness Literature and banga- Biuk yearning in

#style of Werther's Lei- to divest

Lat of the der, scenes of judicial investigations with The

beral use of bamboo and torture, with ermentators," se sound by ignorant

scenes of sweet whisperinge behind the suggest that, with the west of the Yamen. In some instances the

the best

author riscs hacks and teachers wo ano get, we Chivers

to a height of dramatic power which no Quesan'eifeis not may well what we come Que suficient to understand what Mr Alabaster other Chinese novelist has over reaulied to says no Chinese or foreigner has ever yet un our knowledge. The farewell seene on the Jerstood. Morrison begins and does what he lower at the frontier, where one heroine, who sanriticos her happiaras to the interests Legge uthao his can: Williacus, Eitel, and here is what the

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Who nobly for thuir Queen and country foll.WET:

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Boaven that tends the opening flower And all that move or fly. Will spread o'er thee its sheltertug whog And shield thy infancy.

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Clog to aspiring minds! you source of all The knowledge we poor mortals ever reach; Of things terrestrial bo they great or small, To my poor intellect thy wisdom teach.

6.

'Tis often seen upon a lady's dress-

I think 'tis made of silk, if I may guess.

HIONOR HAUMPIUSTIBUS.

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The tragic element is whilst quisitely touching. man who held il, wa elimbed up, because he was not at or represented by the same berdine jumping.

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en the eve of her proposed marringe to the down from a rocky height Alr. Alabaster appears to belong to the Tartar school of Mr. Kingsmill: ho stands looking into a fathomless abyss whence she is safely

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Di but as yet we ontuot help remarking vague- the wrapt devotion of the heroine, the in- Tea Coulies, ...

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invisiblo omnipresence ness and mysticism

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divine providence in it.

human wicked- faiting is speaking, still less what he says of

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Woman as man'. whied of thought or

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1. All correspondenes posted before tul-(sic) of feeling beneath, which makes us good genius wields in Words squared with ordinary English wonder how such mon could be before the ard iu polygamic domestic life, die read three hours, each Coolis will be entitled to p.m. on any week day for addresses in

ness with which Coaineianist words will receive three credits, those when Printing, Railways, Telegraphe,ices wey to a superstitions faith in eaper Day Trip) Peak,.........$0.75 each Coolie. and generally within two houra, unless the

Then gives and Telephones had one to being?

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ocive twa, and those squated by using the year, 1840 espeare a, and Harvey's this

Where were the ems in life of China como out most powerfully

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squared by employing proper names will re- what savages wa oil must have been before natural powers, all theso traits of this national this novel, Me, Piry has done good acrvice by placing this typical novel within the foreign words one credit. These credits will thoughts? This reminds one of fieneral preson of all who are interested in the be accumulative, and successful answera Grant's sagacions remark that pork easy reach

workings of the Chinese mind. As when the French and Germun would rise will bo published. No word will rank as Woute

sentence

atence: English character and social life may be war broke out. a common English word unless it can "Such is the oldor Canon as now accepted studied by a course of reading Dickens, so be found in a modern English Dictionary, some bucks once admitted into it have been the life and manners of China may be sne-

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Clavertones, 8,8, Hongkong Post Office.

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6. No compensation can be paid for ware damage to fragite articles such as portraits, watches, handsomely bound books, which reach thoir destination, although in

a broken or deteriorated condition.

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New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia Glamorganshire 4. and Port Darwin, the Straits Settlements, Golwen

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3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to residents at the smaller Porta in this way. An application for an order is filled up, and in

In enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest issuing office." The

application must be accompanied with the fall amount (including commission) in cheque, postage

stamps, or other equivalent of cash,

little margin should

be

for variations

fons. Imiku Jans Gibson Jeddah, ..

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Encounter

Palmerston

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Patterdale, 5.9. Pendragon

Pizarro

Prince Frederick 2 Prosperity

Romilus, ., Bouthern Cro

Sarah Scolt

Seator, B.A

Staffordshire

Star

Star of China

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Stone, S.

Stonewall Jackson

Towyan, 8.1.

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Titan

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Ventriloquist

W. A. Holcomb

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Lats, Fap.

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Books, eto, without Covers

Aberdeen Jamal

Alliance News.

Australasian

Australische Christenrota,"

Biblioteca del Pianeta,

of exchange. The Fortmaster issues the British and Foreign Evangelical Review.

Bands it on in the envelope, and British Medical Journal. order, FL returns the change, if any, by first oppor. British Messenger,

with a receipt for the latter, if it Chambers's Journal. tunity, were to be registered, as it always should Christian Herald. be. Care should be taken to send these Christian.

applications in linte, as the Money Order Offices alone some hours before the depar. tures of the malls,

4. No order must exceed £10, or $50,

Collection of Opinions of Laws. Comptes Rendae des Beauces, &e. Contemporary Review. Cosmos Deutsch Bandschan,

or include any fraction of a penny, nor will Dagbladet.

more than two such orders be issued to the Daily Rovies.

sams petion, in favour of the same payee, Daily Telegraph.

by the same mail. Orders will be drawn De Aarde,

at the current rate of the day and paid at bashorner Norbrichten,

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The Retur Face sunbraces a trip of not more than three boura.

For every hour or part of an hour above

the

Victoria will be delivered the same day,

an ad sional payment of 5 cents.

(12 hours) Qap,30,60 each Coolis.

...to conta. 35 conta. ...50 cents.

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BOAT AND COOLIE HIRE BOATS,

Let Class Cargo Bost of 8 or 800

picule, per Load,

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Madla.

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all of

Figaro,

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Glasgow Herald,

Good Words:

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Horsekeeper.

India Portuguesa. Iran,

Ironmonger. Lan

Jeune Republique.

6-Lists of Money Order Offces in the Jersey Weekly Press. United Kingdom may be consulted at

Journal de St. Petersbourg. Hongkong and Shanghai

-Names must be given in full (exoopt Journal des Debate, when there is more than one Christian Ketsing des Museums.

Jame weight, to addresses la name) but the name of the Payee need not Konigsberget hartungsche Zeitung,

the order be crossed (as cheques la Flandre Laborale.

Bangkak, or the Ports of China oro) d may afterwards be 'Echo in Parlement-

piouls, per Day,

Juboxs at home are very frank with one another sometimes. We fad the following in the Guardian of the 4th February:

and Class Gargy Boat of 600-

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In a case which came before the Master 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600

picals, per Day,

2.60

Hongkong,

of the

and Japan

piouls, per Load,

300

1.80

batch must consist of at least ten.

500

1.00

It is at the same time to be nuderstood lust, and others once bound up with it have cessfully explored by a study of Mr. Puy's 1st Class Cargo Bost of 8 or 900 bean rejected as apocryphal as with out translation of the Erd-Tou-Hei. that many words to be found in modern | Boriptures."

Whether this involved ser English Dictionaries are not common words. tense is to be laid at Mr. Alabaster's owR All answers should be sent to the Editor door, or at the door of the printer's devil, ir that sinalogues" -to-expect

all round take lecturing China Mail by noon on Saturday, and a will quietly.

of the Rolle on Tuesday, a judgment of the new word will be given each week. such English us that,

Lord Chancellor was cited as an authority, 3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kau Boat of Mr. Alabaster says of the Chronicles of what Sir George Jessel remarked upon

piculs, per Day "SMOKE,"

the Chinese Scriptures that "it is a number

pisala, per Load, what a The eleven answers received are classified of short notes of what appeared to himassage in it that-it-was-extraordinary 3rd Class Cargo Beat or Ha-ken Best of

a little knowledge of business Lord

One would have thought 3rd Class Cargo Boat or Hakan Boat of 800

world rind exending from B.O. Y to 10. Cairns bed.

pisals, Half Day, B.C. he

all his he had lived out of the It would seem as though Mr. life. On Friday morning another cass in

Bampana. Alabaster had evolved all his theories first, the House of Lords was stret, to which and reserved enquiry into fouts and dates for judgments of the Lord Chancellor and Lord or Failsway Busta, per Day, some future occasion.

Bulborne were referred to. Mr Darby said

as follows:- Midge," "Jill," Parva Paella," "Arethum," "Joan," "Janet"

and "Caterina," first class; "Nine," second class; "Kria," and "Charlotte," third class. -Galop is not an English word.

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No order can be paid till the Payee Music

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A Nationstidendo. 4. Boxholders may also sond Patterne has signed it in the proper plaos. to the same places in the same way. En order cu be transferred to another office New York Herald, Pall Mall-Hadget. volopes containing Patterns may be wholly on payment of an additional commission 50eleted if the nature of the contents be first In case of loss of an order, necasity for Pooley's Catalogus. exhibited or stated to the Postmaster stopping payment, or the like, application Readsker's Schwela,

rest Money Baturday Bristol Times and Mirtor, should be made to the

to the nearest lo General, as he may consider necessary, and

Office for instruction

Saturday Berlew ka

One Hour,

inserted in such Fattern Packers, His-an-Hour

six months an additional commision will Bouth London Observar. Mr. Alabaster's view of what Confucius that Lord Selborne's practies was to speak

After 6P.......10 cents extra. PARCELS. The public is reminded that be charged's if hot within twelve months Booth Puedo Timãe,

Temparancs News, the money will be forfeited. When the Times. understood by Piety, usually rendered "Fi- from notes, but Lord. Cairns did not.

thing a Parcel Pos has our

Nothing in this Heale provente private ngres there is no Much trouble and disap. order if onto paid no further olaim can bo our complete approval: Thereupon the Master of the Rolls said,

Unirates, lial Piety,"

to Europe, do. **Every raud or family or individual is but And that makes it more necessary for ments..

Unsere Zeit Denische Rovare dos Gegenwart. strand in the cable of humanity," and Lord Caicos to revise his speeches very

pointment is caused by persistent attempta entertained.

9.—No order can be paid until the advice Unterhaltunga Blatte through the to send small valuable trifles allowance for involved

Warehousemen de Draper's Trade Jouzial. (making mental

I which I believe he does not.'"

Fans, Curios, Articles of Dress relative to it has been rockivod. Post, thereof and never if he

Weekly Irish Times, vi Lord part language)

Cairns is an Irish add that Watch Protestant, and that Sir George Half Day

· One Day,~~

Fancy Work, and similar presents are con- would live on. and baro continuanos never Low

Linnally being rofused, the senders having *Made out on a printed form which is supplied Western Wookly News, for a moment independent of what come be-

the Master Jessol,

of the Rolls, JA a Jew.

19: often spent more in Postage than would gratis, or follows after." You are to carry the Judges of the High Courts in India are Three House,

One Hoar,....

5 31 have paid the freight by seamer.

•Half Hour

refund can be made on zuch parcels of the T. Logal Orders on thanghai ere drawn at á per Printed and. pablished by Gro-MURRAY Nothing in the above Beslo to afoot private value of Stamps obliterated before the agreemaalar

nature of the contents was discovered

for

on the thread passed to you by your parents, free enough, at times, in their remarks on The next word to be "squared" is till your sons shall take it from you are each other's work, but they have not yet BUSBY."

ful in every duty of your life, and jealous learned to rival the great dignitaries mou- for the development of every power in you | tiered above.—Pionee",

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BAIX, at the Otting Mail Offios, No. 2, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.