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¡G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR Public Auctions-

THE Undersignad has received in- THE

stractions to sell by Pablis Auc.

WEDNESDAY, February 1, 1980, commencing at 11 am. At China. Provident's Godown, West Point,

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12 Bars Oval Chisel Steel

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Terms ---Cash on delivery,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong January 30, 1020.

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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

THE

: NOTICE

THE Commission' organizing The First Aerial Derby Around The World consisting of:-

Commodore Louis D. Besamout,

(Presiden:)

Major Charles J. Glidden. U.3.A.

FR.G.S. (Executive Secretury) Mr. Benjamin Hillman, (Treasurer) will addrese the Members of the Hong kong General Chamber of Commerce in the OLD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM. CITY HALL, TO-DAY, Srd FEBRUARY, 1920, at 5 v.m.

All returned airmen are cordially invited to attend.

By Order,

E. A M. WILLIAMS.

Secretary, Hongkong, January 25, 1920.

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY

UNION has the pleasure to announce that Professor G. W. FERGUSON, MA. Professor of

Education at the University of Hong kong, will deliver a Lecture on Lord Dunanny-the man and his works- at the Helena May Institute by kind permission of the Council of the Insti- iute on WEDNESDAY, February 4, at : 5.30 P.K.

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The Lectare is open to all Membera of the Public.

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HOW IT'S DONE,

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mere personality is excuse enough and more than enough for every lapse from the usual reserve -

SO ATHING CONDEMNATION OF of reined expression. They recall

RICENT MEMOLS.

"THE ART OF LETTERS."

Sir Owen Seaman has published in Punch a porm called 'The Art of Letters," than which nothing could be more timely, says Dr Edmund Gosse in the Sundry Times. It reminds the presumed authors of certain recent and current memoirs that every book which gets a boom' is not literature, and it suggests that 'Dugs of War who want to wri ́e should take a lesson over night" in the art which they imagine to be so

easy to master.

While I wait to see these winged verses set up in gold on the portals

to us, complacently, Buffon's" pbrase, 'le style, c'est l'homme.meme," but they forgen that if the style is dis- gusting the revelation of the man must be distasteful.

No amount of respect for the services of a great administrator is suficient to make us pleased with pages in which the words "fool, ass, and congenital idiot' are printed in large capitals. The reader shrinks, as King Edward VII is said to have done, from a mentor who shakes his fist in his face.

When the gallant author describes his political or professional critics as skunks and venomous reptiles, servile reviewera murmur, How breezy! But such a style is not re ally breezy' at all, it is stuffy, it is

of the War Office and the Admiralty, like the atmosphere in an overcrowd

have small faith in the printed word, This, at all events, may be aeartily endorsed my his shame-stricken readers.

he" fees

BIG CUNARDERS AT

LONDON.

STRANGE APATHY OF THE P.LA

"NO ROOM?'"

The enterprise of a great British steamship company has been baulked by the stick-in the mud policy of the Port of London Authority. The port, which is said to be the richest and largest in the world, is unable to find roost for a 20-000 ton Canarder, which has been on the London-New York service for some months. This. is not due to the fact that London cannot accommodate big liners, for the "Caronia" has already been berta edat the Cunard berth at Tilbury. But it is a striking example of the pre- sent apathy of the officials of the PLAN·

New York with many passengers and Recently the "Caronia” arrived from 5,000 tons of food for London. She could not go to her usual berth at Tilbury and bad to put in at South- ampton, and there disembark pas- sengers and get her: cargo on to the railway for London which of course, will mean a serious delay.

I destre, in my humbler fashion, toed beer-shop on a hot afternoon. No expand them a little. I do not be wonder that the Eminent Writer lieve that the general public has any declares, at the top of his voice. "I idea of the way in which many of these so-called autobiographies are composed. It is done in this way.

A firm of publishers writes to an eminent scldier, sailor, or sportsman. BREEZY BUT ILL MANNERED. and asks him whether he will allow

"Breezy,' indeed! Not thus, did his memoirs to be published. The the wit of Burke, and the fury firm begs to offer thousand pounds for the privilege of doing so. The Em- of Junius sweep England with

Whee Erestan gales.

The Port of London Authority's only inent Public Character replies that the beastly thing in print he response to inquities was "No room!" he is very sorry, but must decline the proposal, as he has never been calls me risky," writes the incom- It is true that the Saxonia! was at able to string two sentences together. parable Nelson de nos jours. Ah, not the Cunard's Tilbury berth at the The firra immediately responds that not frisky"! Some, other epithet is time, but, she is only 14.000 tons. there will be no difficulty about that required not frisky, not breezy' It and there is dificulty in discovering because Our Mr. X. (or Mrs. Y.) will seems very sad to me that when the a reason why room for two Cunard- wait upon his Lordship and will put composition he had zot at his London.

Illustrious Person was in the throes liners cannot be found in the port of together in literary shape' what fails from the illustrious lips. Accordinglow an elderly female relative, ly by dint of cross-examination under some Early Victorian aunt, who Mr. X. (generally quite a clever would say:

The Cunard Company opened the service of big liners between London and New York on September 12th fellow, thrugh not, of course, a Man Very clever and bright. I am last, putting the "Caronia" and the of Letters), eked out by copious re-sure; but, my dear John for what- "Saxonia" on the run. This enterprise ference in newspaper reports and to ever the name would be), don't you has proved a great success, and a familiar correspondence, the mon thing it might be well to keep the regular service, with sailings about) sirous Memoirs are developed.

manuscript by you till to-morrow every fortnight, has been established. THE EMINENT PERSON morning? What your dear father This temporary Interruption is "not The name of the Eminent Person used to call, Go to bed on it? So likely to act as a setback to the appears as that of the author on the crever, of course! What I see you Cunard Company, but for the title page. All goes well; the public call the fragrance of the fresh picked development of British shipping and buys and asks no questions; and the Lower Not fresh, picked" as you passenger and freight facilities, in Eminent Person pockets his thou have written it, but fresh picked," the port it is to be hoped that the sands. Partly through innocence and I suppose? So very spiriel; but P.LA. will rapidly shed this strange. partly because he is told that every, don't you think you might give it a apathy and offer the promised body dues it he has no suspicion little more what shall say 7-aberths,

that he is a party to a fraud. But little more literary distinction by

he is; and some day if Mr. X does making the sentences more logical,

not think that he has been paid and by not rating up your meta

enough or if Mrs. Y. loses her temper phors quite so much. Now, I guarded expletives So, I imagine, with the publisher, there will be an notice that you, say you "thank the tedious old lad, might go mur- embarrassing disclosure. But what God that spider's web of muring on, to the impatience, per I feel most is the insult to anciant lines of wire, has got put up haps, but ultimately to the advantage and once honourable Art off by a cloud of bluejackets before a of the Autobiographical Heroes an Letters

rat was melt Would not Bucke "Despicably dull or hideously There is another class of Memoirs, have managed to express that more strident, the Memoirs wi, which with which, I take it, Sir Own. Sex lucky? And theo, my dear John, is our celebrated Men of Action invade. man is still more actively incensed These are not spurious, like those have just, described, but they are even more offensive to taste. In these there is no question who may be daresay I am very old fashioned, but the author, because personality 1 was always taught that x gentle or else the lover of literature, worn recks from

raph.” It | tián, might be, betrayed foto using, and wan, -never- This could voyage,

but never late

these un

pleases

it quite mice make a very free with today would be matters of dear

damned" cursorywords of that kind? Of course, it is very breezy, but

palt if the peglect of English prove which they, illustrate were universal,”

do you think it is quite well bredt says Mr Geosse. But there are

isles of comfort in the sea of misery,

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