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Son STUFF. A Poem, by
SATURDAY, APRIL
Dean Inge in the
A GLOOK Evening Standard
STOR
À PRETTY
MISSION OF HEALING.
FORTHUMINU
The Bishop of Victoria, who fors
Mr. James Moore Hickson is hoping
Before considering
Excuse me for in THE SIX OF this, lot me quote
terrupting, But as
notes that profiteers! more of that parti-
INTERVENES. business man I quarterly, which I
are entering their cular letter. The mentioned a week or two ago-13 a
must ask you ifbalps as the public schools, and tons of many passages," went on coming feature of local life. I am yon fellows realize that you have says: It looks as if either it is Macaulay nay of whole pages, man for their first number, which number of pages we allotted to man, or as if the training given of
preparing an essay on Wat Whit-already covered mere, than the still worth. while to be a gentle would justly be calledt fippant in is to come out four weeks after preliminaries. There's a long essay our public schools is considered to a regular history. But I conceive Whitman's birthday on May 1st to follow after the last poem on be a good one by those who have wards the following to us for public that this sort of composition has its In the meantime, I would like to
simple than that." Those soobs shoteresting accounts of Mr. Hickson's uwn character and its own laws. offer a suggestion to the promoters age 24. and, we have only. 32 not had it. The position is more tion says that he has read very is
altogether.
have not had it recognize that it is work both in Indis' and the Staten The manner of these little with regard to the format of their
Quite so. Well, something that counts with the sad believes that his visit to Hong- historical says hears, I think, the magazine! It should strive after
TANIMIE that's that. Isnobs who have had it, while the kang will be found to be one of public same analogy to the manner of originality, and avoid conventional
APPLIES THE think 'twill da snobs who can and do boast of it
interest. | Tacitus or (iibbon which the man- arrangements and methods so far
Poetry CLOSURE.
very well.
Now would take less toy in it were it ner of Ariosto bears to the manner as it conveniently ean.
we can get to the more common. Dean Inge sees it of Tassy, or the manner of Shakshould not be presented all together pere's historical plays to the man in one section, as in Squire's Mer-real substance of our works. Let becoming more common: hine ille her of Sophocles. Ariosto, whepcury, and the English Reries, but Lector turn the page, and he will lachryme. he is grave and pathetic, is as grave mixed with the prose articles. meet: and pathetic as Tasso; but he often Then, instead of the usual editorial takes a light fleeting tone which notes, written all by one man, who suits him admirably, but which in is apt to get tired and dull, I sug- Tasso will be quite out of place.gest that the opening pages he The despair of Constance in Shake-devoted to a lively symposium, to pere is as lofty as that of Edipos which all the contributor, and in Sophocls: but the levities of others interested, should contri the fastand Faulconbridge would he bute. To make my meaning plain, (somewhat [utterly out of place in Sophocles. I bave prepared a
Yet we feel that they are not out burlesque) example, as follows.
headline, For a The of place in Shakspere."
**Rapid Fire mind so acute as Macaulay's was. Essays," would not be 3 bad one. that ja elle: and it gives me, an❘ This is about what it would look alternativ Either he was con-like- sciously pulling the leg of his stupid editor, or he really did over- look the fact that humorous con- trast in Sophocles is unthinkable merele because it is not there. It would be the sin of novelty; the Ltd. fault of the unexpected. There is
a common type of intellect which foreword: all the contributors resents the story that lacks the should have a shot at it. Make happy sal ending, which disit a symposium, each seeing what likes a melody that does not conthe others have written and then tione as it began, and which thinks
contributing a paragram, contra- "period inelegant and wrong if it dicting, confirming, criticising, in- I have not the dying fall." Tasso troducing irrelevances. hanking
to arrive in Hongkong on Sunday, April 10th, by sa "Takada." He The reverend is a lay member of the Church of Eng - Dean "*
noland, and will conduct a Mission of get's CHRISTIAN. reverence, from me. Healing at St. John's Cathedral. He for he goes on: will work under the sanction of the Now our sons have to meet the Bishop of Victoris. insist-artificial competition deliberatele Hr. Hickson has just concluded an created by the Government, who extended tour in India, where he has ently sad:
are educating the children of the held Missions in the dioceses of Whom, whom are they calling? And am I, perhaps, going mad?working men, at our expense, in Colombo, Travancore, Donatal, order that they may take the bread Madras, Bombay, Lahore, Lucknow My heart is a womblet of sofont of our children's mouths" It
.."
RAPID FIRE.
N
My idea is that WRIGHT PULLs,instead of the TRIGGER FIRST. usual editorial introduction or
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ADVERSARIA.
SIR SYDNEY.
that Mr. Balaam was none too pleased when his ass tears.
spoke for him. A compliment from
a bad judge is an insult, but when
an expert like the Editor certifies
ISMS.
clipped by the pedantries and in-please, in fact, just Eke a club of eptitudes of friendly *censors, good fellows talking all at once; as well as by the intolerance of the interrupting each other, quizzing Inquisition. Why should the hum each other, and so on. It should our of Sophocles be out of place make pleasant reading for the first in the postry of Sophocles? He few pages, before springing your ures a humorist according to Arise totle, and the accident that preconfounded doggerel on the unsus-
picious reader." served most of his tragic work does not mean that his artistic percep- tion of human interest deliberately excluded the fighter side, which Shakespere ES effectively
It may not be ~THE EDITOR - Poetry. I never DOES. NOT said it was. But, if you please, we QUITE SEE as
will "submit it a comic reliet ** and as contrast. emphasis. I think the truth is that verse. I object to the word dog-
GERKEN 4 CHIMES LY
WITH A SUGGESTION.
Annie Arridge Powit Tears, silently falling, And the voices of darkness
XOWS,
Torn by the birthpangs of pain, And the anguish it anxiously
borrows Groes never again.
At the side of the sea in the
seaweed and kelp
A pale corpse is swaying
And seems to be saying O help and O help?
0. sickness of sadness and
row
▼
** TARIFF REFORM"
children of quite common people must be awful to think that the and Calcutta.
Writing of his time in India, the may in that way become Christian Metropolitan (Dr. FORS Westcott) clergymen.
says that all the Bishops have spoken Part of the price warmly of his work, and they consider Lloyd Gearga pars to that the spiritual effect has been more his supporters those striking than the physical, though, of a Party to which there have been many very remark he was formerly opposed-is" Pro-able cures from deafness, blindness, sor-tection, which is being wangled and parslysis, besides the diseases.
against the wish of the majority of Another Bishop writes: He has? the people. As a politician I off an undoubted grift of healing, and a course, am suspect; but listen to wonderful way of stimulating faith Land Inchcape, a business-man like and holy living. I hear nothing but Fourselves. At the meeting of the good reports and wonderful reports. sup-N.P.U. Bank he said:
from the places in India he has
Opoetry of passion and pain, I would swap yesterday for to
marrow,
And do it again and again, For the soo that. I cannot
press
And the sin that I dare not
fess..
- Is the sobbing and sinning
Of maudlin beginning And lachrymose ending Toward the tomb trending And the doom of my direst
tress.
In other directions where the con-Government might be equally help
+1
visited."
fal the bent of Ministerial policy The results of his Missions are both seems to be to me reactionary and physical and spiritual, we are inform obstructive. Just at the very ed Enormous crowds flocked to moment, when freedom of commer him in India. Some cures were pai cial intercourse is not only our pable and seen by all. Others were dis-greatest interest but is essential to reported afterwards: Embe straigh
the world's recovery, the Protected, sight restored, disease healed, tionists are trying to enclose these
The following is taken from an islands in a ring fence. Their pleas account of Mr. Hickson & Mission, in and their disguises are many and
Woe! Woe! Willows and woe. How could that confounded
cashier treat me 'so?
**
End of Sample:)-----
dustries and basic industries Thoms Metropolitan, as well as our I find that quite sand "essential" industries and own Bishop (the Bishop of Travan SOJOURS, lot of people use the pivotal industries, and the Core), was present in the sanctuary ADJOURN, word sojourn as a necessity of safeguarding British at the Healing Service or the first ETC. verb with "to" after manufactures against dumping day, and on the next day the Suffragan
it. Are you sojourn and the lowness of the, Continental Metropolitan attended and remained -
But all these psen-throughout, delivering the Benedic
FHIMES FOR
PERCY..
it Sophocles did include such mat-gerel, as uncalled for and andigni- ter, and scholars were used to it. fied. Too much like crying stink- they would hal it as right and ing fish Whatever its faults, our ing to the Valley? That is wrong, exchanges. proper and seemly. On the whole, magazine's contents have been happen to sojourn in the Valley, donymus mean really just one thing tion at the close. Besider on OWY since that was bound to occur to selected. They are the best of the but never to it. I think they have-Protection. They mean the i-alergy several kattamazs of the Mar
We must alla confused association with the troduction into our fiscal system of Thoms Church and one or two. him, I conclude that Macaulay was available material.
loose use of the word adjourn. a policy and a principle which are Jacobita kattapars were present esch solemnly teasing a pretentious strive to improve.
Men now speak af adjourning to incompatible with our position and day. Among the sick folk thers was fraud in the editorial chair, at the
Why take Wright the smoke room, etc., as if the our needs as an island kingdom handy & section of the community same time making him amenable to
seriously? We all word referred to a journey. The carrying on a world-wide com-represented. Even Brahmans and superior counsel. In the same jet-
know what an ass word journey itself comes from the merce. ter he flatly contradicts himself,
be is. No need to French word for day, and purely denies the aim of history to ton
be touchy. Persed the word journey should mean much dignity, and coraplains that
sonally, I think a day's travel. The word adjours for fear of alluding to the vulgar his symposium idea an excellent obviously means to a day, a post- concerns of private life, they take one, but I would suggest that a ponement in time rather than a no notice of the circumstances subject be set for each number, movement in space. Sojourn is which deeply affect the happiness that we all jot down our ideas, and from the French se jour, a tempor. of nations. The battle between then compare notes, each contri-ary abiding in one place, a period romanticism or idealism and real-buting his brief essay, about this of residence measured by days ism in literary art is a sham fight. length, say 20 or 30 lines, all being rather than by longer periods. It True art must embrace both. have known a purist complain of mate vain repetitions.
subject to redaction so as to elimi has no connection (other than this Mark Twain's vulgarity in the **Yankee at the Court of King Arthur." with special referencé tứ the passage where Mark made his hero complain that full armour js inconvenient when a body wants to as other men are.
The more romantic) scratch."
writer would give us only the gut ter in the lists, the shock of spear and shield. The realist (and hum-
to this consideration
Street.
A
2
DISCORD BY KEITH WEST.
THE EDITOR
GIVES RELING.
and aristocratic-looking Nayars Hallo! Hello! With Syrian Christian ladies knelt side by accent on the Erst, side with outcasts, non-Christian, as The local phoner well as Christian, all thought of re- fumes, as he would ligious or social distinctions put aside burst.
for the moment, all being filled with With rage, because the number the same need and the same hope...
not be she asks for. Some-The catholicity of suffering and the
that he gets
catholicity of Christ's compassion and. will to heal was the thought aroused by the spectacle."
one bets
That-in Shanghai the system's
worse than ours,
Impossible grumblers cry with all their powers. Statistics from New York," say
they,fare.rot. system should be useful, and
derivation mentioned) with the Pish! I want to sense of journering. I told a legal And be sectarian and pal of mine this, and all he said political. Thank was Perhaps you are right." as God! I am not if it didn't matter. These things Our
do matter, and I am always frightfully excited about them. Seriously, there Unless some people take an interest can be no reason in such things, the error spreads, able doubt that and presently usage confirms and stuch a magazine regularises the word (as in the case
POET
LACREATE.
...
'tis not."
-
Previous to vishing India, Mr. Hickson laboured for sixteen months throughout the dioceses of the American Church, and also visited Canada, holding & remarkable Mis eion in Toronto
Close students of this
Dr. Manning, now Bishop of New EATS: weekly lesson in Life York, in a letter to Mr. Hickson on will be aware that Esin the conclusion of his Mission in and I, owing to causes besand our
vestigate Hongkong's sources and over it all my wonder and thankful "One of our best con- supply in the matter of Fats. In ness for the results grows deeper and tributors startled our search of the decent tilin at a deeper. Such a response as you have Editor with a refer-reasonable price, we appointed "our-found, and such results as have follow- ence to when Kip: selves special commissioners to the ed, would not have seemed possible to Hongkong" That Kipling never eating house in town. We pro-we did not know it, the time was ripe was, and haply will never be. I'd posed a series of special descriptive for this message. The help which I learn in stamb-rather have Robert Bridges, or even articles on our discoveries at ten your Mission has brought to the sick ling all I print in his footling predecessor Alfred Ans- Per. The Editor received the pro-and suffering has, indest, been great; CONDESCENDS Song, and must not tin. I cannot find the list of poete posal coldly. So we will publish but it is the testimony of all that the TO PROSE. profess to know laureate either in Whitaker or the our reports in my column, for love, spiritual results have been greater."
redactional mys Encyclopedia But I think I am pro bono publico. High prices are
THE POET
prunes and pristus, and with Inge like gloom, confesses that it does pay." No. It is a not hope to result of a chance discovery among Macaulay's letters, of a reply to ourists are always realists) must may be helpful. Most of us out of adjourn) and the derivations are control, have been compelled to in- Ameren, says: "As I look back Hongkong, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1981. one of his editors who had evident-reflect on all the bumanly natural here are interested, if only as off rout
ly reproved him for introducing aspects of a man's circumstances. readers, in good literature, and it Before leaving this subject I must should be for the Swastika to serve some colloquial expressions into an article. Recalling how that great quote one more line from Macau the Muses locally, loyally, lawfully, genins Mark Twain was clipped by lay's letter, because it contains the etc.. etc., etc. I, call upon the gravamen of the whole matter, and author of the poem on page 9 to prudish censoring, and observing should be the final answer to all The encomia of the pains Macaulay had to take to
and chances. PRAISE YRON fools are biter defend what could never have been criticism of taste. He said: "The say what he thinks of our prospects ling was poet laureate, and visiting China Mail, and are visiting every any of us. It is plain that, although
first rule of all writing, that rule pills, and I guess questioned by any person of taste
and sense. I ponder the crimes of to which every other is subordi nate is that the words used by editors and shed-er-sanguine the writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his mean- 'Poor Macaulay COLLOQUIAL I certainly shoulding to the great body of his readers.
All considerations about the purity teries. I do think, however, that right in saying those are the only not universal. So far we have Mr. Hickson wishes to work in not," he avers,
inreglar his and dignity of style ought to bend the art of, verse, so far as Hong-two who have been appointed since found two restaurants foreign style, flest co-operation with the medical shot my work is good, I have reason
I would kong is concerned, deserves &, bet-Tennyson. It is quite wrong to where you may get ten tifins for aculty. His teaching is that all to be proud. What was't be called tory, use some of the phrases which like to print that in capitals, ou ter vehicle than daily journalism suppose that the title Boet five dollars. The beer is Austra healing, whether effected by medicine,
you censure. But I do not consider me on Tuesday--a gifted contri-a review of this sort as regular his Postcards, and mail it to the par- affords. If one does occasionally Laureate indicates the best avail- lian, and good. and (of course) surgery, mental, processes or spiritual You'd be surprised what treatment, is God's gift that what butor or something like that?tors, and I really think that, from roty critics now infesting Fleet achieve a passable stanza, it is not able poet. He had to be a Courtier extra. VI think I know what he meant. I
pleasing thought that in countless Poet, a man of "safe" views, and you get for the money. An excel-is purely plivnical produces only trust looks like a gift to him, forable authority, I could vindicate my the highest and most unquestion-"
humble homes it may next day be not a Bolshevistic, genins. Nowa lent soup, a couple of entrees physical results what is mental goodness knows he pass me little practice. Take Addison, the model
Queer, that a man serving as a wrapper for fned fish-daye, probably all that is necessary solid dish, & puddings- fruit, coffee affected only mind and body while TALENTED. ehough The man turns out de of pure and gracefol writing In
capable of writing The Swastika will save me some- is that he should have published-about eight items altogether, spiritual treatment may affect the cent leaders compared with his Spectators I find
that should in the thing in scrap books. I shall have verses and be a friend of the Prime well cooked and tasty There is whole man.. wench, same breath have declared it pro- mine bound.” those others--but what would the
The tentative" arrangements for Minister. It has long been a grier.no orchestra, but hang it all, with *baggage. queer old put.' 'prig," per to avoid "such an adjective as China Mail be without Adversaria? fearing that they should smoke talented, first, because it is
Ma Janet tellt ma ance of mine that there is no rose the fifteen dollars a month we
the Mission in Hongkong areas Beef without mustard, a kiss with the Knight. All these expressions not wanted; secondly, because you
tae finnd oot maist Laureate, to which title I consider save, Esau and I can buy our own
follows:On Monday, April 11th a and take it about with us. out a moustache, Hamlet without met this morning, in turning over never hear it from those who speak
MCWEIETER pairteecularly what I bave a claim,
15 p.m. at the Cathedral Hall Mr. Hick the Dane, a week without a half two or three of his papers at break very good English. He seems to QUESTION. be mode for the sort
ASIS B. DToveesion is gen
One evening's
son will meet the clergy and the other holiday, or a non-political and non-fast. The humbug, pretending he have been a bit of a snob. Some
OPPORTUNITIES -conversation" with
workers who are to help in the Missi sectarian quarterly, Away with had not found them by purposeful where in his biography I recall
olceterature that
IGNORED. a superior man,
I heard yesterday, says a writer The principal Mission Services will mock modesty! I admit that I am search, to confound this solemn story of a titled lady reproving him weemin prefair, Gin it's tas be a
Chinese in a Home paper, of a most interest probably take place on the mornings a great writer, I recognize that he fool Napier!]. I would no more for his conversational use of the poetry, she disha see what way I adage, is better than ten years of ing innovation in the new light of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs is a great editory but what of it, use the word bore or awkward word, an occasion on which he propout in't. I mind when I pres who despise the fruits of a studious them the midshipmen have no peed 10 am to 12:30 pmOn the last should meddle wi' it, or hae ony study. There are, however, inen cruisers of the "Hawkins" type. Inday, April 12th 13th and 14th from when in any penny bazaar it is squad, in a composition meant to mulgated the explanation that the possible to find a nutmeg grater? be uniformly serious and earnest, word was derived from the Parable name a while back a literary body decade This is how I overbeard to use their sea chests. These young evening of the Mission there will be a
Writing is an Art. than Addison would ins State of the Talents, au origin which fra Enbre was speirin aboot Hong a local conversation with a superior officers are provided instead with specis Thanksgiving Service EDITORS. Redaction is an im- faper have called Louis in old should make it a respectable and Long, sometimes sur-theory of relativity is fairly simple equipment, and they do not need. interested will be held in the Cathedral
and he says etc
mad. The 6.P.: Bo you see the lackers which form part of the ship's
A preparatory meeting for those --- AND pertinence Why put, or have described Shrewsbury eloquent figure of speech. Appar wereas should a cheap blue and Argyle as 'smoking' the de-ently the authority of an austo- SOMETIMES mise, if the expres after all. If you once grasp the therefore, to take on board the rego Hall on Wednesday, 6th, at 10.30 am -
pencil dam the free sign to bring in the Pretender cratic title seemed greater to him SEVERN. siot be not too bold, idea that t
Come on lation ses chest. Of course, it There will also be daily service. flow of geniuš? This is not 4 But I did not mean, my article to than his own shrewd judgment; in BDEMISES that that fellow Joe. You have four sixes to beat be some time before this article of ́s complaint against the China Mail he uniformly serious and earnest, writing to Napier, aping the Napier Wight is mad. Do The conception of time-space-ismidshipman's outfit can be abolished, for, preparation at St. John's Cathe editor, though he does sometimes We know now, those of us who tean, he parroted his lady entic: any of you fellows see any coher one that
Hurry up because if the midshipmes in thedral at 10.15 a.m. and Holy Com Hawkins are appointed to a ship murton on Thum (7th at 7.154m spoil my best effects by pruning know anything at all about it, that. No one now, of those who speak ence or intelligibility in bis Whit Is your shake Where-Eins
occasional, Rabelaisian flourish, he had been aiming at und very good English, would quarrel man pastiche? confess that tein has been most misunderstood which is not equipped with lockers Mr Pick or by weakening a passage of Scripseriousness and earnestness such with that word is pure I fail to follow him. Now that is Tell the boy what for their clothes and gear they must on preper faral force and power by a prudish colloquial expressions could not English now, if it wasn't in Macau little thing of my awn, if I may yours is Motion being in tall back on the time honoured euphemisma. Nor is it an arrow } fexcent among conventional idiota) lay'd taime. So is the word “shirk, mention it without egotism on curves, and the elliptic of a chestemer, så renders - Elda st EW.H's new quarter- have hindered his aim, or been out for the use of which Napier bad page 7 tells a straight story in a Haif whisky watere Bo withwill remember they were somet
promises to adhere to of harmony or tone.
reproved him.
nest way It etc, etc. etc,
that he called him a line, and caredy
ROBERT
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