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CAMMERT BROS.

AUOTIONTERS, AFPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

PUBLIC AUCTION

of the

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

Situated at Hollywood Road, Hongkong, and gistered in the Land Office as Lemaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 12 and the Building thereon--known Na. 233 Hollywood Road to be ed by order of the Mortgagee by Rablic Auction

03

TUESDAY,

the 9th November, 1920, at 3 p.m. by

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers,

at their Auction Rooms." in Duddell Street:

"The property consists of

All that equal undivided half share fand in all that piece or parcel of round registered in the Land Office

the RP. of Inland Lot No, 702 together with the building thereon known as 233, Hollywood Road held for the term of 999 years from the 29th June, 1861 under a Crown Lease dated the 25th January, 1863 and made between Queen, Victoria of the ane part and Chan A Kam of the other part.

Area:-1402 sq. feet or thereabouts. Crown Rent:-$15.50.

Particulars and conditions of sale

may be had from;

Or from

The Mortgagee's Solicitors,

MESSES. LO & LO,

Alexandra Buildings,

Des Voeux Road,

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS..

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MR. WILLS" ESSAY.

TTS ORIGIN, PURPOSE AND SUCCESS,

"But, so far as I have been able troubles of the world at the present time is due to narrow nationalist; to do it I have done it. I have tried to get as much help as I could teaching.

through my formal editors, and in addition I had an enormous amount of help during the publication of the parts from all sorts of specialists, who have made corrections and suggestions and have written me often extremely long letters of advice in a most generous spirit.

"I do not believe you can teach even the history of England properly unless you have previously gone through some such review of general history as I have been trying to make in my 'Outline.'

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"For fustance, bow is a schoolboy to understand the beginning of Eng- lish history if he does not know some!

"I arranged to have the publica- thing of the general movement of races in the world in the prehistoric tion first of all in parts so that the period? How is he to understand į book could run the gauntlet of a such monuments as Avebury and very large amount of criticism, 1,500 Feet above Sea Level Stonehenge unless he knows some. Altogether I must have had upwards thing of the Neolithic culture that spread from Cornwall to the East Indies in the days when Egyptian civilization was flourishing? How is he to understand the coming of the Celts and the coming of the Anglo Saxons unless he knows where they came from and how they stood in relation to the civilization of the Mediterraneah. basin?

of a thousand letters, and you would be, surprised to know how few of them were hostile or abusive. How many do you think were abusive? Altogether L-have had two abusive letters, one from an embittered specialist about China, on a question of spelling, which arouses more fury

the other theological. than even politics or religion, and

the

Mr. H. G. Wells, in an interview which he gave to a representative of The Observer, tells us how and why be wrote "The Outline of History."

Thousands of readers are already aware that this masterly story of life and mankind, which begins with the heavens and descends to the earth, differs completely from all others that have ever been told. Where they deal with reigns and pedigrees and campaigns this "Outline" dis- costes ages and races and nations.

In the interview Mr. Wells shows how much a history of this kind was needed; he tells us something of its suprising success, and explains how the volume differs from the parts From an author who traces back the

"Take. another aspect of the "Everyone of these letters has history of the world.millions of years teaching. What is a school boy been followed up. The whole cor to the archæozoic period, when there was possibly no life at all on the going to make of our Indian empire respondence has recessitated the re- earth, it would have been interesting unless he knows something of the writing of two sections only to hear what the world may be a Mogul empire that preceded it, and whole book, but it has meant the million years hence. But Mr. Wells unless be understands something addition of a number of fresh foot- thinks it better to end, as his history about Indian civilization that existed notes and a very considerable amount ends, on a note of interrogation and before the Mongols founded the of detailed revision, so that the book generally will benefit by it, but the Mogul empire? to limit speculation to the next

subscribers to the parts will be given hundred years or thereabouts.

a list of errata in the last part which INSPIRED BY THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

"The 'Outline," Mr. Wells began "English history as taught at the will cover everything of real import by saying, "is an experiment in present time is an unscientific cor-ance that has been brought to light historical presentation. It has taken glomeration of shreds and patches, by all these correspondents. me a good deal over two years to and it cannot be anything else until write and it has been in my mind for it is taught in reference to a back. ground of universal historical a great many years.

"The immediate undertaking of teaching, the enterprise arose straight from "I was taught, and I suppose you the League of Nations movement. were taught most English people In the early days of the League off are taught that we were a wonder Nations Union I was a very active ful people in these islands, and that member, and I soon came to see the queer foreigners came and did unac necessity of revising our historical countable things in our history, and teaching if the League was ever to be anything more than a diplomatic clearing house.

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SHREDS AND PATCHES OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

IN GREAT DEMAND. **I understand from

Messrs. Newnes that publication "of the 'Outline' in'parts has been a very considerable success. I know they had to reprint very considerably for the first numbers. They were taken by surprise by the sale, and they tell me which is a most satisfactory thing that instead of the sales fall- that we very valiantly repelled them ing away, as they, often do in the and overcame them. How different case of books issued in parts to that is from the truth of the mattef less than half the original number, Consider, for instance, the part they have kept up steadily to a Partly that that was played by England in the figure well over a hundred thousand Middle Ages all our national poli- copies of each part.

"To begin with, I went about asking other persons to write the history I wanted. It was only when I found that no one else was inclined ties dominated by the idea of the is due to the exertions of their to do it that I myself undertook the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman own staff in not only keeping up task, so that the Outline of History Church. But in our histories these but improving the standard of may be really regarded as a practical great central ideas cease to be lustration as the publication went outcome of the early work of the central, and everything in cone-ons But also this steady sale seems to show that a very large need exist- League of Nations Union. Two of quence is taught out of proportion: my colleagues, Mr. Gilbert Murray What schoolboy can make headed for some such clearing up and and Mr. Ernest Barker, became or tail of the conflicts that centred plain statement of the broad facts of Lassociated with me first as members around Aseim and Becker for human history? And this evidence of the same Research Committee of ample. As a matter of fact, he makes a reinforced by the great number of nothing of them at all. He earns letters I have received from all sorts the League of Nations Union.

educated people, and sometimes from The Outline' does not pretend names and dates, and fudges all the of people, often from very highly to be a work of original research. It rest of the businessins des

And so the Outline I have specialists, all expressing their is a compilation. The only thing original is the arrangement of parts written is a first attempt to fill what gratification for getting at last some- and the proportion given to this I believe to be a longfelt-need for thing like the perspectives and the question and to that in the treatment, something of the kind. I do not think proportions of history in one view as "My idea is to provide a wider my work is final work. I hope it a whole, de tape Pare view of history than has hitherto will provoke a more competent been available to the general reader. historian to do something better treated in this fashion does bring out It has always been one of my stock Until he does people who want a as nothing else can do the unity of ideas that historical teaching is too broad view of history will have to human destiny and the interdepen narrow, that it it too nationalist. An make shift with my amateurishdence of the welfare of one part of

the world upon that of another

(Continued in Pasi' 33- 25 extraordinary amount of the political effort

"It seems to me that history

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