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INTIMATIONS

LAMBERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS 3:50 SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

443M Undorsigned have recoévad kasino. Jonstoli by Public Auction,

.FOR SALE

COLLECTION OF USED POSTAGE STAMPS,

all different.

500 Stamps 1200

at 3 3.

816.

"

1500

$18.

ON

2000

$30.

MONDAY, July 24, 1929.

2500

$50.

AP

A120

mmencing at 2 15 p.m.

at $00.

at No. 36% (Top Floor) Nathan Road, Kowloon

} A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,' Comprising:-

Chesterfield couch and chairs, Dining table and chairs, sideboard, dinner waggon, dinner service, glass and prockery ware, etc., etc.

Also

Blackwood cabinet and tables

And

1 Victrola with records.

On view from Sunday, the 23rd July.

Ostalogues will be issued.

10-Cash on dolievry.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

Motukang, July 18, 1922.

ON

TUESDAY, July 25, 1922.

cramenting at 11 a.m.

at their Eales Rooms, Duddell Street,

1 PIANO PLAYER by "Story &

Clark" in good condition.

1 Haesage Machine.

2 Double Braes Bedsteads (new).

3 Underwood Typewriters.

1 Royal Typewriter.

1 Yost Typewriter..

I Singer Hand Sewing Machine.

Wardrons Trucke,

12 Coloured Cin-ginia Goblets

1 Doll Tea Set.

On view from Monday, the 24th July.

Tam:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

-Auctioneers......

Hongkong, July 20, 1922.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

CHAIRS.

L-ia fictoria, with two Bearers.

Quarter hour.................

Half hour, w

One hour,

kertomuksenmak

10 conta

20

11

25

50

Day (6 a.m, to 6 p.m.

70 1.00

Three hours, ************

Blx hours, and

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria,

half lare extra

a.

Between the hours of 8.30 pm, and 6

the above fures shall be increased

by 60 per centon.

11.-Beyond Victoria, with four Beavers. .....0.80 cents.

1.54

Three hours.......00 Bix hours, re Day (6 am. to 8 p.m.) 2.00

[11-In the Hill District.

With Bearers With 4 Bearers.

Quarter hour,.....18

$0.30

Half hour,... 0.20

0.40

Dne hour,

a 0.30

0.50

Two house,

0.80

0.80

Three hours....... 0,70

1,00

Alix hours

1.00

1.80

200

Day (8am to 6p.m.)1.50

RICESHI.

In the Island of Xongkong, if engaged

in Victoria

Five minutesammanitat

Den minutes,

Quarter hour,

Fall boar,

6 centa

70

16

1000 French Colonies.

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LOVE INTEREST IN FICTION.

STANDARDS OF LITERATURE,

Pointed criticiem by Sir Henry Newbolt of Dean Jnge's strictures on the love interest of modern novels was a feature of the speeches at the annual dinner of the Associated Book sellers of Great Britain and Ireland, held at the Hotel Cecil. Mr. Henry W. Kesy, the president, occupied the cbair.

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MEMORIES OF MAGDALEN

HALL

reoury

to me

from

my

Own

taken to teach them not only some. hing of those subjects on which he was probably the first acknowledged

The appointment of a new principal authority in England, but he had also undertaken to teach them something of Hertford College is succession to of our times, and what was and ought Dr. Boyd, who recently died at the to be the trend of affairs in literature age of 91, bas, writes a correspondent in a Ceylon paper, recalled memories particularly in fiction. His view

of the older foundation in which the was apparently, that in fiction expecially, and in all literature at the college was merged. Magdalen Hall was a refuge for the intellectually present time there was a good deal too destitute and as such inspired many much love interest, and that the love legends and anecdotes. One of these interest

I good deal too violent. He ventured to anggest undergraduate daye. According to The Lord Mayor (with whom was that in this matter the Dean the story an elderly and married the Lady Mayoress), responding to was historically wrong, and could candidate for Smalls passed the tcast of The City of London," not justify his position. If Dean Inge despairing note to another candidate given by the president, mentioned meant that the love instinct in life who sat next him in the examination that his book on the Guildhall, was not strongly felt by normal men, hall. It ran, "for Heaven's sake tall hitherto limited to private circulation, and if it was strongly felt was easily me the genitive of ego. I have a was to be published for sale in the controlled, he was putting himself in- wife and three children." In the to a position of contradiction with same spirit is the once familiar Mr. Joba Murray proposed the the whole course of human history. Limerick which I think originally toast of "Literature," and remarked, In point of fact the love instinct was appeared in the Shotover Papers. - to the amusement of his bearers, that the strongest and by far the mout so far as he knew no author had ever difficult to control. If this were not spoken of him as "that rugged old so why was the Trojan War ever rhinoceros, Murray," in the terme fought Why did Shakespeare write Byron had used towards his grand-meat of his playa? And if the Dean father. A young author's worst wanted to go fartbar still he suggest Hall. enemies, he said, were his friends who ed that he should read the works of filled him with exaggerated praise of Chaucer, in which he would find that

autumn...

a

There once lived at Magdalen Hall

A man who knew nothing at all.

He was seventy three, When he took his degree, Which is youngish for Magdalen

all that he had written. The criti- in the fourteenth century so strong BY HOOK OR CROOK. cism of literature tended nowadays to and so difficult was the love inetinot

drift into the subject of novels, and

to control that persons called "sum-

ners" bad to be appointed to go into

1

Biabop Hook, who is now Chancellor

the parishes of the country and comb of Southwark Cathedral, and Mrs. out those who gave trouble in this Hook recently orlebrated their golden mattar, and report them to the bishop. wedding.

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he resented this because the best literary characteristics of this age wate histories, biographies, manuals, and books of that class, which were admirable in every way. The only We did not do that now, and it was It is related that one day, when the way to judge the multiplicity of novels

mut for archdeacons to look after the Chancellor was Bishop of Kingston, & issued to-day was to go back occasion- love affairs of other people, but if number of invoices were in mistake ally and read some of the old cues. Sir the archdeacons of the country were sent to him by a local ironmonger, the Walter Scott, for instance, or "The consulted the Dean of St. Paul's bills being intended for a gentleman Tale of Two Cities" or Vanity Fair." would find that the love interest was named Crook. The Bishop returned Unfortunately, there

really strong, and not so easily con them with the following note:

were two

standards in literature now: the trolled. Then there was the que tion Dear Sir-enclose some bills standard of merit and the standard of of best sellers." He thought he de- which I resume are sent to me by money. If an author wanted the tected in Uir. Murray's speech the accident. I sincerely hope you will standard of merit he might starve, shadow of reproach against the very get paid by Hook or by Crook.-Yours but if money was bis object, and exitenes of best sellers." He was faithfully,

chance had thrown him into the com- prepared to admit that a half-crown.

pany of some of the prominent men shocker" was not as good as 'a 42s and women of to-day who had sporan biography, but he would remind Mr.

Cecil Hook.

before him with that unrestrained Marray and the Dean of St. Paul's thought with him would enjoy read- confidence of present-day life, then that the population was not all Aling I. (Cheers.)

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all be had to do was to show them up, there were some who were 03, and Bliss Sheila Kaye Smith also ro- reveal their little peccadillos to the some of thots who were Al in sponded, remarking that she thought public guze, remove the curtain, or the daytime ware: C3 in the even novelista were inalined to take them- should he say the duster, from their ing after the rushing hours of selves too seriously and forget that private lives; then the author would besiness Low-class persons the main purpose of the novel was to probably attain his standard of were entitled to literature of tell a good story. The characters macy. Whether such books would their own, and it did not follow that some recent novels were frankly con live he could not say, but they must because & writer was second third, or temptible, and partly the reason was all come under the one rule that apen fifth rate, he was necessarily in because people write" novels, nobin' plied to literature that the only trus nere in what he wrate, or that he order to earn money or to win fame, critio was time

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was writing down to his audience, but because they wanted to get Very ofter the more commonplace a something off their chesta." It Sir Henry Newbolt, respondings book was the more sincere was its might be the story of their own lives. 118 Des Voeux Road, Centrál said there were two or three contro author. The book everyone had No man or woman, ever set out been talking about lately had the deliberately to write a "best seller" striking merit that the auther meant-books were all written under the what he mid, and those people who impresion that they were literatura,

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