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LITERARY OUTPUT.

FEWER RELIGIOUS BOCEL

THE RISING TIDE OF NOVELS,

It is said by the "Publishers' Flest on October 29 and 30. 1918, this morning when smoke was seen Circular"-which makes it its is published in the Deutsche Webr."

The author of it is Lieutenant-Coming from hold No. 5. Investiga-business to know such things-that mander entscher, of the battle soon showed that are had broken nearly 900 more novels were produced ship: "Thuringen," who has related, out among some three hundred bales

with the minuteness of one accustom of hemp taken aboard at Manila for in 1920 than in the preceding year. ed to logkeeping, the events on board Kobe. The alarm was promptly It is difficult to account for a pheno given. The fire oats, with the menon like this, None of the other sta- members of the Hongkong and How-ple literary industries have increased

on Brigades were soon on the scene,

his ship...

Ee describes how, on the night of October 29, the entire fleet lying in the Sehillig road received the order together with three British warships to anything like this to the same ex- to prepare for sea. In accordance which went alongside in order to tent. Poetry is hardly as flourishingly with the usual practice, a boat was facilitate the efforts of the crews in as it was a year ago. Biography, as called away to fetch the secret orders lending help. The fire, which was

officers.

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OMINOUS INCIDENT.

NATIONALISTS ATTACK JEWS IN BERLIN.

LONDON, March 1.

outbreak was confined to a number of students wearing "anti-Semitic and The Berlin police were prepared for disorders on February 27, but the

Kurfurstendama and hustling and striking them with sticks. The police Nationalist emblems attacking Jews among the promenaders on the restored order in half an hour. The incident is ominous of the temper of the German Nationalists. This is the first attack on Jews since the revolution.

IMPERIAL WIRELESS CHAIT

LONDON, March 2.

first two stations of the imperial' wireless chain at. Leafield, near Oxford, In the House of Commons at question time, Mr. Frase hoped that the

and Abuzabal, near Cairo, would be finished early in summer. A com mittee of experts was designing other stations. It was impossible to say when the chain would be completed.

MOUNT EVEREST.

PROPOSED CLIMB,

"A BOLD VENTURE.”

from the flagship. This enviated Bret discovered at seven o'clock this should naturally expect, shows night operations with light vessels morning, was not got under control a slight increase, but biographies and against that part of the British feet until two o'clock this afternoon. It sutobiographies-witness those of Dis- which was operating on the Belgian should be finally extinguished at raeli, of Colonel Repingtor, and Mrs. coast, but, of course this was not any moment. The damage is not Asquith-- have been one of the main then known to either officers or men so heavy as at first expected but it interests of the past year. Work on in the "Thuringen.”

is too soon yes to make a definite religion, however, have, for some The boat crew did not respond to estimate. The ship, of course, is unaccountable reason, steadily de the summons, and it was got away. covered by insurance.

clined, a hundred fewer books on this Next morning a great part of the crew refused to

subject having been produced in 1920, tira out, and remained in their hammocks. About

as compared with 1919. Bat eight o'clock came the order to put

we come back to this portentous to sea, but the crew refused to carry

fact, that, whatever happened in other it out and shut themselves in the

branches, the writing of novels shows forward battery, where they began

1 positive incresse of 887 items. Be to sing. The Commander then gave

it remembered that the cost of produ the order,Muster by divisions "to be

cing a book nowadays is at least piped: even then the ship's company

twice as much as it used to be. Every. was only got to the deck by personal appeals and orders on the part of the and valuation of the Zoological bindings are dearer, printing and com- At the end of each year the census thing has gone up-paper is dearer,

In the circumstances the order to collection takes place, and some of days £50 would have gone a consid- Sxiety's famous and ever-popular position are dearer. In the pre-war put to sea was postponed, thick the weather being given as the ostensible curators report appeared. Recovery novel, but now the publisher looks ask leading figures from the erable way to produce an ordinary reason. The day's duty was got from the effects through in an atmosphere of suspense of war is here, at

of the state ance at £100, and, indeed, £150 would and when in the evening the order marked and unmistakable. There are pite the formidable costs of produc any rate, be nearer the mark. And yet, des came to get ready for sea the mutiny about 600 more inhabitants of the tion, novels are apparently so neces- As though by agreement the men maroons explode on Armistice Day have become the great literary act. Zoo than there were to hear the sary to the world at large that they came streaming from all parts of the two years ago, the total number of An interesting statement was pub- ship, gun crews, stokers, and below animais now in residence, from ivity, forming a very large part of the orial College, Khartoum, is the loca lished in Berlin on Jancary 15 on the deckers; to the foward battery, where elephants to cels, being almost exact- total output of the year. It is true, tion by Dr. G. Reisner, of Harvard future possibilities of the submarine. they prepared to resist. Hawsers ly 3,000. The taking of the census of course, that the total for 1920, University, of Kurru, a few miles Doctor Oswald, Flaman, Professor of were cut through, the weighing of is an easy matter in an establishment 11,000 odd, represents some 2,400 down stream from Jebel Barkal, on Naval Construction at the Charlotten the anchors was rendered impossible, so thoroughly organised; but the increase when all books of all kinds the right bank of the river, as the burg Technical College, one of the and the electric light was cut off so problem of valuation must needs are 'put together, bat burial place of the founders of the highest living authorities on ship that order could not be restored. Abe a somewhat intricate one

that fiction Ethiopian Dynasty, which has an im building, is working on plans for

grim, uncouth horde of men shat can be few marketable commodities, is

There should claim over 2,000 of this total portant bearing on the hitherto little new type of submarine, which will themselves up forward from the rest surely, which vary so remarkably in a rather disquieting, fact. How many a very remarkable, in some sense known history of the Twentieth possess far greate, fighting power than of the ship. The officers armed the price as a wild animal, according to of the authors of new novels have paid Egyptian Dynasty.

any vessels of this class built during selves and mounted guard over the aft the change of what one may call its for their own production? Who are Having practically completed the the war. Dr. Flamm, it is stated, is

part of the ship to protect vital parts position in the world. A rhinoceros the readers for whom novelists spec- excavation of the Nuri Pyramid group already in a position to design sub about 3 in the morning the chief of thing worse than a drug in the ally ester? Why should this part-

against attack by the matineers. At in his native surroundings is some

work bears immédiate fruit in the in the last two seasons, Dr. Reisner marines "of any size" which could the squadron came aboard and had market. The late Theodore Roose icular form of industry so entirely out-

attaining of the summit, it'must add turned in the winter of 1918-19 to carry armoured decks, armoured

much to scientific knowledge. We the royal cemetery at Kurra. Here sides. and armoured upper works. the next day the crew, including the African Adventures spoke of the Lastly, and most important still what

a conterence with the captain. Og velt, be discovered the Family burial place He has completed the designs for a mutineers, sheepish and repentant, rhinoceros nuisance"; which to sort of standard of merit does this

need but point out that climatic con account of his distance every other competitor?

ditions in the Himalayas are believed. of the founders of the Ethiopian submarine of 1.443 os armoured in returned to duty.

to have some connection with the Dynasty, and of their ancestors. this way with 35mm. plates, and The tombs of the Kings of Egypt and possessing a speed above water of 174 see what steps would be taken by the destructive beasts, would seem a tel these questions is not altogether human progress philosophers and of campaign is that an expeditio cof South-West Monsoon, on which the the tribes living in permanent touch, vast army of novelists acknowledge The officers waited impatiently to so to speak, with those ferocious and and accept? We fear that the answer

prosperity of millions of the Indian knots.

Whether there is any reality in people directly depends. The plan authorities. After the midday meal mild He is also at work on plans for a the signal was given from the flag accept a rhinoceros as a gift in submarine cruiser of 4.870 tors, ship to be ready for sea at a certain Central Africa, but in Regent's Park over the past months, it is cer- beyond argument that of late man the information which it obtains, a encouraging. If we look back divines may still dispute, but it is this spring, and that, after study of heavily gunned, and able to travel at time. The order had hardly reached he is valued at £1,000, no other tainly not obvious that the novels has vastly and swiftly added to his climbing party should attempt the a speed of 25 knots. The plans for the captain when the mutineers again creature in the collection approach are of a higher order of literature than knowledge of the globe upon which mountain in 1922. It is well to this vessel are almost completed. It gathered in the forepart and barricad- ing him in this respect save the they were in the past. The facts he lives. A hundred years ago con recognise the danger of the task. is added that Dr. Flamm has in viewed themselves in the battery. a submarine cruiser of from 8,400 to exits were then covered by the officers. home, almost equally unpopular. tions. There are certain established leagues of shore still uncharted, the mise the difficulties of transport of All hippopotamus, who is, when at point to exactly the opposite conclu tinents were still dark, countless | Organisation may overcome or maxi 9,900 tons, with a speed of 28 knots. At the same moment a steamer from It seems, at first sight, a baffing writers who naturally demand gen- depths of the ocean an unfathomed men and supplies through the Tibetan and carrying armour from 60 to 70 Wilhelmshaven brought alongside a inconsistency which rates a full-erous treatment from the publisher mystery, the mountain peaks un-wilds, and soxble the climbers to ments have been rendered possible men, and these men were at once completely valueless asset to the satisfactory that it is worth while for tourist goes up the Rigi, to see depots already established at high These achieve company of marines, cid and tried grown giraffe, in prime condition, as a because the sale of their works is 60 trodden. They say that the Emperor start in the best of condition from a through a new principle of stabilisa- posted about the ship. Then the Zoo; bat the explanation appears

Trajan went up Etna, as a modem well-equipped base, with camps and tion which Professor Fiamm is said of captain with some of the officers when we are reminded that no rail- any publisher to make them friends. the sun rise; but the Imperial, altitudes for rest before the last. have discovered.

threw open the doors leading to the way tunnel is so constructed as to It would be invidious, of course, to courage was singular, and through effort. come up on deck. fore battery and ordered the men to allow of the passage of an adult mention names, but everyone is aware century after century the primitive great risks

giraffe, the animal being only sale of some dozen writers to whom we nat- dread of mountains still possessed severe hardships endured. Owing from the matineers. Meanwhile, two is a yard or so short of the full cellence, based on our experience in hundred and fifty years since the first ture, snow and ice work are worse

His order was greeted with howls able in earlier years, when its neck trally lock for a higher level of ex- men's minds. It is less than & to the large variations of tempera-: torpedo boats had come alongside dimensions. Many will remember the past. Below this first class there climbers, greatly daring, stood on in the Himalayas than other moun and brought the squadron chief on the tempest of popular grief and are some twenty or thirty writers, the summit of Mont Blanc. Many tains, and the avalanches bigger. board. A third torpedo boat lay indignation which broke out when all tolerably well known, who, again thousands of years of evolution were Soft snow at a great height is one of cleared for action, with guns loaded the price offered for Jumbo was deserve publication, and are largely themselves to climb 16,000ft. Little knows the capacity of the human and the gun crews standing by, 200 found too generous to be refused, patronized by the libraries. And

this spent before men could bring the most terrible obstacles. No one Another interesting discovery was a of silver bullion by the Canton Mint proached and prepared for action, multitude crossed the Atlantic, more who certainly have no especial claims layas, heights

On account of the heavy buying yards away. A submarine also ap- and that gigantic pet of the London then comes an indiscriminate mass,

more than a century was added body for exertion at auch cemetery of horse graves, in four daily during the last few months which 500 yards from the Thuringen," the Holbein. But whatever may

bright as before, in the Andes and the Hima 29,000ft. The Duke of the Abruzzi, Then on the battleship "Heligoland," regretted than any Rembrandt or rows, each containing four horses, has to be paid in Hongkong currency crew swarmed on deck, and turned taken the Zoo remains; an unrivall for some reason, their romances are

of 23,000ft. which must have been sacrificed at the thereby increasing the demand for

ond whose party holds the mountainee been our attention, and yet, apparently more were conquered. We haveing record, could not climb to soft- time of the burial of their masters. Hongkong notes, and consequently

the casemate guns on the submarine.ed collection in the eye of the man published-either, as has been sug- bear fruit in 1922 in the con Experience of very great altitudes

now before us plans which may snow Like the pyramids at Nuri and Jepel increasing the premium on them to and the dangerous moment passed.

higher than 24,600ft. Finally, the order came to unload of science. Karkel, the graves, tumuli, masts-the high rate of 20 per cent., it is In one respect it was only apparently

gested, because they pay the cost them- quest of the highest peak in the may cure mountain sickness, but rez bas, pit-tombs, and pyramids at Kurru reliably reported (says the Canton dangerous, since the mutineers on

selves, or because here and there pablis world, Mount Everest, which, accord- cannot stay long at 20,000ft and have been grievously plundered in the Times) that the Mint will suspend the the "Heligoland" bad not a single

bers can discern signs of promise which ing to the latest calculations of the maintain their strength. So we must remote past. and only fragments of coining of 20-cent silver pieces for shell. The "Thuringen's" mutineers private account, ex-Pesident Li Yuan-rative bargain. Meanwhile, however, the Alpine Club have obtained per our race we may be proud. I m

Donating $100,000 from his may eventually help them to a luc- Indian surveys, rises to 29,141ft call the attempt a bold adventure.. their former treasures were recover-the time being until the premium on next offered to negotiate with the hung is planning to start & University one thing must be true there mission from the Indian and the honour which England's work in ex- The Royal Geographical Society and That it should be chosen by men of Mr. John W. Crowfoot, M.A., prin- is the intention of the authorities of surrender. They refused, and the another source it is stated that ex- who swallow down anything in the expedition to explore the great has well won that the world's highest Hongkong notes drops to normal. It captain, who demanded unconditional in his native province, Hupeh. From must exist a very large body of readers Tibetan Governments, to send an ploring the dark places of the world cipal of the College, also says in the the Mint to stop coining any silver squadron issued the order, report: "For the last five years we coins but to put out a large quantity tance will be broken by force." The have the $500,000 representating the is written and faultily constucted. land on the Tibeto-Nepaulese frontier man's name. We hope to have that Resis President Yuan-bung is intending to shape of romance, however hadly it mountain. It rises from an unknown mountain should bear an English- have been living from hand to of five-cent nickel pieces for circul after part was cleared and the tor subscription of shares of the Canton- So long as this lack of discrimination No mouth.** Shortage of "British station in the market. It is expected pedo boat received instructions where Hankow Railway which was sub-continues, so long will the libraries it from near at hand, though months have gone, by the news that Iwas rendered the very necessary: ex- that these new nickel pieces will make to put its shots into the ship.

European bas eved scen honour confirmed, before many .pansion of the Upper School impos-their

scribed during the Ching Dynasty, supply with both hands average books Colonel Ryder, appearance in the market At that moment a seaman who turned over for the founding of the for an average public. And men and

now Surveyor Englishmen have climbed to the had remained loyal undertook to University together with another large

General in India, explored summit-line of the world-Daily persuade the men to come to deck, sum that was solicited by him for women who do not know what else from Lhassa to the sources of the Telegraph to eave bloodshed, and the order was the institution.

to do, because the aftermath of the Brahmaputra and lodus in 1904, and countermanded while be tried.

war has left them listless and nerve- Mount Everest has no rival among saw enough to demonstrate that weary, will take whatever is put

Ethiopia. Piankhi, Shabaka, Shaba- taka, and Tanutaman were discovered.

together with those of several of their Queens, the fith King Tirhaka having been buried at Nuri. Sixteen still earlier tombs of the ancestors of Pankhi" were also found, but of the latter, representing five or six genera- tions, unfortunately not a single name Has survived.

CEMETERY OF HORSE GRAVES.

millimetres thick.

The objects found in this series of tombs enable certain deductions to be safely made: the founders of the dynasty were of Libyan origin; they were possessed of abundance of gold and also of alabaster and faience ware

The agency which publishes the of the finest Egyptian manufacture. statements says that Great Britain. That the great kings of the 25th Holland, and Italy have acquired pats Egyptian Dynasty, men who held ents for Dr. Flamm's monster sub- diplomatic intercourse with the rulers marines, and that negotiations with of Nineveh, lived and were buried the United States are in progress. in the Sudan, and not, as was former- ly assumed, in Egypt, is a new fact

of even greater historical importance:

ed.

sible. and has diverted specialists shortly. from the subjects they were appoint-

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reconnaissance should be sent out

But it is "certain that

must be run and

ed to supervise. But the selection "f three new English tutors has relieved. this situation.

BOY AUTHORS IN ARABIC, cruits in the Gordon College are mutineers came on deck they were gotten its duty might have saved the into their hands so long as it helps to reach its summit must therefore son, the well-known Y.M.C.A. lec- the neighbouring giants. The attempt We learn that Mr. C. H. Robert- The numbers in the College at the drawn chiefly from among boys who conducted by the marines to the whole feet. The mutineers, with them to forget their real or pretended be considered primarily a piece of turer, who has delighted so many beginning of 1919 were 677. It is show no particular aptitude for games. Wilhelmshaven ateamer. As they 150 men from the "Heligoland" woes. Let us be thankful, at all events exploration. The President of the audiences in Hongkong in the past, stated that the Dramatic Society con- The greatest development has taken went they were loudly cheered by were taken to Wilhelmshaven and that we have a certain number of eam- Geographical Society well points out has kindly consented to give a lecture tinues to give performances in Arabic place at Wad Medani; and the move-the crew of the " Heligoland whe, imprisoned. A week later they were est and accomplished students who that before the climb beging all the at the Helena May Institute on once a month, and that the plays, ment has spread beyond the Govern- however, took no further steps to running the revolution in North-West feel a sense of responsibility in what approaches through an unmapped Relanvity or the Einstein Theory" which are very cleverly written and ment School to a class of boys who rescue them acted, are attended by large audi- have never yet been brought under Lieutenant Commander Fiseats hand again with new crews, but on do their best to marshal their works

Germany. The ships were got in they give to the community, and who country must The authors are three boys at European influence at all, and whose cher comments on the weakness of November 7 the Revolution broke under the old standards of literary-ditions studied in the fullest detail. lecture promises to be most interest be investigated, at 5.30 pm on Monday, March 75 the mountain itself, ex This subject is one which is being "sixteen and seventeen years of age. future has been a source of consider the authorities. Three or four out, and the loyal hands went over

and the climatic con- widely discussed at home, and the:" In a reference to the Boy Scout' able anxiety.

torpedoes into the ship that had for to the Soviet.

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