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SATURDAY DECEMBER 1925

BOOKS

LOCAL POETRY.

"SCALES FROM THE DRAGON:*!"

INTERESTING PUBLICATION,

It is a pleasure to see that Poetry in Hangkang in not allowed to die. This is more particularly the cass with the kind of Poetry which helps to bridge the gap between China, and the West; we are of that sanguine sort who hold a translation of an ode to be as sound a plank in that bridge as any treaty. When Leggo put the Azalecta into English of a kind he did more to bring wearer! the millenius of the nations thun; any Statema.

Further, treaties in the past love usually been for the advantage of one party (we will not harp on this point) wherdus the

THE CHINA MAIL,

Same, rendered into English," still in a prefatory note to the published true Anarchiam can only be reached. the inexperianced might stumble. [edition of the play, he says Nevertheless the picture is true, opigrunmatio дл

beautiful. Exough!

through Socialism. When address- I am doing the best I can ating Socialiste, be warns then of the my age. My powers are waning; dangers of Socialism to personal but so much the better for those liberty. Hajibe at religious people. Apart from the light verse, which who found me unbearably bril- for their barbarian, and sofa at is mostly of a high order of facility,

liant when I was in my prime. Freethinkers for their devotion to we have the translation above and ing the discreetly modulated plansa number, mostly from the pen of Fanny's way," and must not be Shelley Bacity, he told the men- Of course, this is but pretty Science. When he belonged to the accompaniment for the robust bang W.K., of serious pieces. The poem taken too menously. There is in the bers bluntly that he expected all the ing of tankards? Chance for us, In Memoriam," and the delightful play a veritable Ningura of words members wore Atheists, Republi any day.

If the scales show, markedly fretain fine poetry; ...

sonnet "The Last Lap both con- and ideas. Moreover, the work is cans, and Vegetarians, and nearly quent Crooked Kaydenices, what Like a sick snail crawls lazily moving on the colossal scale of spot. He has proclaimed himself an "Old Time not so much one play as a panorama, bralcó up the organization on the matter? There are in the pages of along." Despite the levity of tone Victor Hugo's La Legende des Atheist, and proached acceptance in these two bavo Sealed Parnagaus. ture of the last five minutes of a cerned, the author starts with the Free Love novel, and is happily this selection proofs that not only the latter is a delightfully vivid pic. Siècles. So far as the plays are con- the City Temple. Ho has written a Hear Mr. Lau Ping-tang-

mythical Garden of Eden, including married himself. And he has con the talkative snake, and flying leaps sistently advertised himself at the Sometimes the 3,000, finally reaching 81,020, which audiences have been mer lynching Ais facetiously described "ma, far as him; but the brilliant Irish wit has more or less should make but little audacious of jesters has been for thought can reach," though a figure, come to the rescue, and the most difference.

given for his antice and buffooneries.

THE AGED FISHERMAN.

Moored to the great West Moun-

tain's sheltering breast, Each night the aged fisher takea bis

rest.

At dawn he draws Shang's waters

sweet and clear,

And burns the wood of Ch'u to him

ea dear.....

The rising sun diapols the mists of But ne'er a single saal doth cross

night, his sight.

strength of literature is in its univer-With sul appeal and its benefits to all.

gentle splash he rows along that stream, Whore waters show the hills reflect.

ed green.

And

floating the ever-shifting

stream,

heaven..

lesson,

Five doleful minutes spoil the are taken to the years 3,170, and top of his voice.

THE LAST LAP,

Thon, Time itself is drugged.

schoolboy's day.

Euch tired papil in Q.0. knows

disioal spell!

well

That weary wait. The second scem

to say,

"Hero let us drowse, and daze, and

dream alway.

Oh; that I had a poet's power to

tell

How my soul longs to hear that

second bell I

In verse mortal I'd inditea lay, Insleepy syllables and sluggish

rhyme.;

song,

A slow, seductive, somnolescent To tell in languorous measure how

Old Time

seems,

:

Shaw's object is not, sa wie After all, Shaw's play's contain his Victor Hugo's, to show something best work. His genius shines every- of the progcese of humanity, but where, but it is brightest in his simply to supply a pictorial criticism plays. Even his fugitive newspaper of the evolution hypothesis, and a articlos retain an overeen ireal- goore of other things. For scientists ness and survive the test of repub- are really much more modest than lication. Shaw's comedies, bow. the author of Back to Methuselah over, are the best seen on the allows; and it is he, not they, who British stage since the Restoration regard evolution as a dogma." dramatista. And, remember, the There may be true and false theories main secret of Congreve's and

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of evolution, but it is very doubtini Wycherley's interplay of character trying to abduct a popular actress.

ley.

́ ́THE GREAT RIVER.

Essays on all sorts of subjecte by not feel bound to write an account We do wish that people would

The Bachelor Girl (La Garconne). eating to say. Miss Fishin's book the famous dramatic critic of the Landon Times.

of their travelà, unless they have! something really original and inter- By Victor Margueritte, Trans is an account of a somewhat un- Iated from the French.

Queen's College has this in com- mon with a syreu, that its influence oxtonds in all directions; but it has; above the syren the virtue of per- manoney. It is a fino thing for Mr.

if a serice of imaginary and highly is not mere wantonness and der More Prejudice. By A. B. Walk- Wong Tin-sik, for instance, to know He gazes up to beaven and sees

coloured conversations, however pravity. It is the absolute equality. that whatever may buppen, he has between

brilliant, will finally decide the fof equipment with which men and left an idea on paper of the reaction The mighty precipices, high in Like a sick snail crawls lazily along. matter. Not even a cardboard and women pitch their battles of wit. which R.L.S. produces on his mind,

Time flios, 'tis said. To me it often tinget snake, nor "Adam" and and for Mr. Yeung Chiu-cheuk to The flowy clouds by amorous That from 4.10 to 4.15, time dreams tights and talking the beat Bernard His plays have crossed so many Bornard Shaw is, indisputably, "Eve," and "Cain," all wearing the most brilliant living dramatist. reflect in those latter days when ho

zephyra driven. growa prosperous (which he dy bo

This is another of those jogs for Haeckel, and other careful and all the chief cities of the civilized Blaw, can displace Darwin, frontiers, and have been played, in now, for all we know) and mentally This is a translation. It is also our Press Cutting Book. It only trained students of Nature. Sciefde world. The purely parochial suc obese (which he certainly is not) a poem. in English. Despite the needs to be added that "Scales from is more than a coruscating collection cess of an ordinary writer sinks into

quaint poetic licence of rhyme in the the Dragon" is admirably printed of brilliant epigrams. Science is, in insignificance beside a reputation of darker aspects of the feminine as far as Chungking, although it A novel embodying some of the eventful trip up the Yangtze Kiang revolt against sex conventions, was made during very troublesome fearsome dragon, designed, it is tire on a deep foundation! Shaw is real stimulus to thought, and chal- the author's expulsion from the to the authoress courage in enter- an organized and well-built strue for he has for two generations given book provoked in France requilted in whispered by Queen's Headmaster, far safer when he is talking on,art,lenged so many lies of our civiliza Mr. Tanner, himself. this little book makes a very chara-rebgion. He understands esthetics, monument of the value of icone The Doves' Nost, and Other Stories.

Altogether on vegetarianism, an society, and on tion. His life work is a most worthy Legion of Honor. ing volume indeed.

but he knows little, beyond the clasm. vocabulary of science, +

By Katherine Mansfield. A third collection of the brilliant short storica written by J. Middle ton Murry's talented wife, who died last January.

that he once penned those two por

"When Aden's and rock they tests we are accustomed to put. f cover sprawls & most delightfully the fast analysis, ordered, thought; this kind. It is well that this is 90 The storm of disapproval which this times, and due credit must be given

fect lines:-

reach, hearken, O vessel, hark!

4

last two verses, it answers all the land admirably bound. Across the How unlike the doggerel of Legge in Protect our two professors from his translation of the Odes! the vile and vicious shark." We remember a shark in Aden that. charged a ten shillings for a rotten shirt. but perhaps he had como to Aden between 1912 and 1920. We hate to think that our shirt is not the only one of its surt in Hong- kong 1

Mr. Hamilton has the following translation on page 30 :—

IDEM ANGLICE REDDITUM.

My lord buth said that my 'fairest

look

Vies not with the poppies that

crimson the brook.

Yet when by its marge I wend my

waye

Why do not the poppies entbral

men's gaze?

י

-K. WESTMACOTT LANE.

RAISING CAIN.

.

No apology such as that in the admirable Foreword over the well.

man to Bernard Shaw, but the most It is a far cry from Walt Whit- known initiala R.K.M.S. is needed for the line of reiterated Q.C.'s.

must be regarded, like the "tan- brilliant of contemporary dramatists Buch redundancy is the soul of all

faced poot of the Weat," popular songs the "Vive-la" and

68 & many a school song testify to that.

pioneer. Shaw's latest play, "Back Refrains are out of fashion, we be for us when we first heard it. It nt Birmingham. It was sufficiently This still retains the charm it had to Methuselah," has been produced liave, but may not that be due to the would, however, be more tactful if lengthy to satisfy even that Jegend modern snobbery which feels it un- the title were in English-andary Biblical figure of old age. dignified to shout a song with the though some may know that Idem suspicion of

A full strength of the lungs, substitut- Auglice Redditum

this garrulousness meung The seams to oppress the author, for,

Carl Laemmle presents PRISCILLA

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THRILL-A MIGHTY

MELODRAMA

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ADVENTURE!

DEAN

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ín a remarkable picturization. of one of the best novels by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

FLAME

OF LIFE

A HOBART HENLEY

PROJECTION

UN

Bernard Shaw, despite his chame. leon-like changes, always maintains stoutly the rottenness of the prevail. ing ideale. He raises Cain in Baok|

raising Cain" all through his liter to Methuselah, and he has been

merciless critic in his novels, his ary life. He has proved himself a musical, sociological, and theatrical reviews, no less than in his plays. ing all round a subject, and this has He possesses an uncanny gift of see offen proved disconcerting to friend and foo alike. Ia be writing to Benjamin Tucker, the apostle of Individualian, he will tell him that

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TABLOID GUIDES.

Woman: A Vindication. By

Anthony M. Ludovici

on the way, and briefly notices ing the troubled Ichaog region. She visited most of the chief towns paints of historical and general interest; perhaps her most vivid description in that of Nanchang. We notice a slight error in her account of the Dragon Boat Festival legend, for Chu Yuan was, not Readings from the Literature of Emperor but simply a statesman. Ancient Rame in English The book is not for the general Translations. By Dora Pym. reader, but rather for one who has, Illustrated)

er hopes to visit the wonderful Intended to bring the life and sconery of the Yangtze garges. It thought of ancient Rome to the is illustrated by photographs which tini

understanding of those who would would prove a real attraction had A romance of London in the otherwise never know them. Selec- they been better printed.. Restoration period, in which the time from Cicero, Vergil, Ovid;

-D. T. P. H. bere, a former colonel of Cromwell's etc., with the necessary introduc- [The Great River. D. M. Fitkin. army, gets himself into a bad fix by tions.

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attacking all the conventions of daily An outspoken, iconoclastic book life, strongly anti-feminist. Fortune's Fool. By Rafael Saba

NOVEL RACE,

"THE LUCK OF GERALDINE LAIRD,"

The story of the remarkable race between a husband and wife from o small town to win fame in New York's great theatrical world is told in "The Luck of Geraldine Laird,”?: the Robertson-Cole Buperior picture: The picture was produced by R. B Features, Miss Barriscales's own company.

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Another thrill that the camera didn't register because the camera was the principal actor! It took place during the making of The Luck of Gemldine Laird,! "Through a Glass Window," a new is founded on a story by Kathleen May McAvoy Realuri picture which | Norris, which appeared as a serial opens at the World Theatre for four third Kathleen Norris story which

under the same name,

It is the days beginning Wednesday next. Miss Barriscals has put on the May MeAvoy, the star, Maurice screen in recent months, the two Campbell, director, and Hal Rosson, previous having been "The Heart scenes in a fast lying roller coaster Of Rachel" and "Joselyn's Wife," both of which proved great suc at the beach. They anchored the camera to the floor of the car and mado one trip around.

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In this picture Miss Barriscale is Geraldine Laird, who lives in Stock: On the second round, at the top of ham, N.Y., a small town, where the "swoopiest" dive, the stay-bolt she moves in a quite unpretentions came loose and the tripod lurched way in charch and social circles. wildly. Roseau dropped the crank She has two children, and she and and threw his arms around the her bnband seem fairly happy in camera while the assistant threw the home of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, himself down and grabbed Kosson's Laird'a mother-in-law. As a matter legs. Director Campbell seized of fact, however, for a long time berj leg of the tripod and Misa McAvoy husband's discontent secretly has shouted encouragement round and been growing, due to the fact that round the curves with the heavy he would like to have a home of his camera threatening to pitch over the own for his wife and children. side and carry a man ng two with it!

Hoping orgay dip I was the Inst. Every time anything of this part they managed to hold all on board patrick reminds her daughter that | is mentioned, however, Mrs. Fitz- and an accident was averted as the ahe amply couldn't get along" car reached the lower levels, and without her, and so they go on, the glided to a stop. This amusement husband's discontent increasing. park incident is only one of the At last a business opportunity comes many interesting features of this to go to New York, and at the same latest May Maavoy feature. It is time, a woman play-biulcer of

a strong human interesting story of flirtatious manner convinces the a little tonement family. Raymond husband that he should go. Un McKee plays opposite the star, happily she turns the man's hood aver her own charms, and he goes to New York alone, to win success 5

A man of 10, to whom the arrival | a playwright." of spring means romance, beauty, Just before this the wife was seen

and adventure, married to a woman in a little, characterization at a to whom the anival of spring means ohurch bazaar, which wins great spring cleaning-guch is the founda applause. There also she is seen by tion of The Dangerous Age,"¦ fos-a New York producer of "girlie turing Lewis. Stane,

revass, He remembers her, never has opportunity to engage her until National he meets her later on Futh Avenio, ty—in where sbo is working in a trodista u shop. This after she has coms to

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