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severance of Wordsworth himself and all aus moral qualities that are needed for excellence in not. Thit thows aro wasted, In this world at loss, because they only help to maintain a delusion; and the best The speech at the recent dinner of that car he dons for such men is to keep the Royal Literary Fund, says the them from starving in spito of them
Times, have no unnaturally covived i selves.
Lood Morley spoke the other night of discussion of the unequal and procarious the danger of distantion in literature; rowards of literature Tet, whatever may and it is the chief danger for those be sail aguines literaturo as a means el writers who have not genius and koo arting a living, there are in every. Nothing is easier for a clover youth generation mors, writers than the world than so write elegantly about nothing in particular, and nothing la more fatni. for needs. They know all that line been said the mind than a confirmed habit of doing against it. The examples of neglected sc. A man may not have genius and yet genius aru notatious, and no less notori, may become a good writer, saying, what is valuable at least to his own time, if our is the averlasting perversity of the only he will trun himself to write a a publie, who are equally blind to the merit Pressible mini talles: if he will not pretend of their own tigo and contemptuous of to know more than ho dous know or to feel more than he does feel; it he will the same blindness in their ancestors not affect a cultured frivolity or lofty And yet, knowing all this, there are now scern of the vulgar; if he will not give mere youths than ever eager to be writers.himol? the air of Anatole Franco or of There are more, indeed, than the public Nietzsche. A cover youth, when he bo oceld posibly read, even if it regarded conding as a anered sluty's and can only protect itself against their import milies by n dazed indifference bike that of
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his manuscripts he has also given ignorant, falls into bad habits of style public proots of incompetheee. The world is sil before him, and not only the world but the asthe immeasurable future that exists for Dante and Shakespeare.
Most young writers discover proter so that they have not genius, at any rath at present though they may always keep the hope that, like Cervantes, they will flower late and wonderfully. Mean while, common sense or the pressure o circumstances Usually makes them give! up tragedy and opic for jouzalism. But there are two kinds of writers what neither common senso nor sircumstances. ean force into this compromise—namely, those who have genius and then whom nothing can persuade that they are with out it The writes of genius must say what he has to say; and that is usually not what the public is neccstomed to hear, Be may of course have the miraculous cleverness of Shakespeare, who could
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WONDERFUL NEW JAPANESE "SYSTEME
At the invitation of Mr. S. Morimoto, agent of the Toya Kisen Kaisha, a party of local journalists titfined this morning on the company's liner, Shiryo Maru, and afterwards inspected a hew wirele-stole phonic installation which has recently been fitted, and was asc1 for the first time on the last outward yage. Aftur & splended titin served on the breezy bridge deck had sunde his public that Hamlet was a popi- beno enjoyed Captain W. C. T. S. Filmer, Iar moledrama; but,ba is more likely too was in the chair, conducted the
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Head
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have the churlish obstinacy of Words visitors to the proteas mom, where the Pigeons, Canton-Pak Küp
worth; and conselve what the fate of vow set was explained by one of the ship'. Hoihow-Hoi How Tak Kup Wordsworth would have been, either in
his own ago or in curs, if he had had to
operators. Unfortunately a demonstration Quail-Um-Chin
was impossible, as there was no duplicate ice Blide,Wo FA Cher
set available for the transmission or receipt
messages..
lve by writing. The man of gerius may
of
Salpo, S4 Choy
Turkeys Cock-Phor Kai Kung
Hop,
be ready to support himself by journal
The syetem, which was invented laat ism; and no doubt Shakespears would year by three Japanese engineers in the have been the finest jouralist in the Department of Communications, is remark Wild Ducks, Shai, Shang-tul foi ap world, but Wordsworth would have boable in everal ways, its chief point of
difference from its forerunners being in the Teil-Bui Ap Chải,
the worst. Men like him cannot live by low voltage employed which is but 50 wad Ducki Ca writing; and still less can men who are volte st. 15 ampera, sad the typo
like him in everything but genius. Thoy of arc, which is not enclosed. With arist in all ages; and for their delusions, this low tension so affective range of
and the calamities they incur through then, there is no remedy but the Royal Literary
Fund and the chanco pity of
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Japanese Government, on early extensions
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of the extering installations at Kobe, Yo Outtle Fish-Mak Yu
kohama, Moji and Nagsenki to andrelo the Dab Sa Mang
coast of Japs are entemplated. On the
outward voyage the shilp maintained com Deco,Wong Mei Lun
munication with Zekohas over a distanco
of eighty miles. At present the But in Dog BlobTit
to be used purely for port work, the Cole, Conger, Hoi Man
wireless telegraph being requisitioned for
long ditands messa on Experia present
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prabounced the new system to be rowerk Eels, Yellow,
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