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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WIRELESS WIZARD.”

"It is only right in this mysterious science of wireless telephony there should be aù mystery man.

There is such a

mystery maa

connected with broadcasting. He is excessively reticent both about himself and his work, and for this reason I'am not giving bis photography or even his

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A SCEPTICAL SINGER.

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SATURDAY JUNE 28, 1924,

POETRY.

London had no attraction, to WHO DOES NOT LOVE TRUE him, chiefly because it hid Nature. Like Thoreau, Fitzgerald knew the life that suited him, and refused to

be turned uside from it.

"Little Grange." And "Laird of Little Grunge, as he humorously aigned himself, he remained till he The same gentle spirit died, aged seventy-four, in Jube.

whose pea

1883. He is burried in Boulge Large streams of honey and Churchyard; und rose,

planted from the tomb of bid If any justification were needed, Omar Khayyam, is fitly planted on his version of Omar's "Rose of the Spenser the grave, "The appearance in a cheap Fitzgerald lived the life of a rough. What a translation A hundred-and-ono petula" would be edition of Fitzgerald's Clues. His friend, Carlyle, saw in planet larger than the sun which "Who does not love true poetry--

sweet neetne How,

In truth,

cast it, suid Tennyson, with par donable dxaggeration. the translation is finer than the original, and, in this, resembles Testament, which, as Swinburn re- the Authorized Version of the New

minds. ns. is translated from "ennine Greck"

divine English."

kayyim makus on regret the it all ultra-modest manda days when mischievous books imovent far niente lilo. Like were publicly burned by the Swinburne, Fitzgerald ind a great cannmon Fangman.Daily Mail. fantess for the sea, and a deep Edward Fitzgerald, a great ng affection for senfarers. One old lish writer, died in 1888, at Viking, the hero-fisherman of unknown. Only a few poeple hud Lowestoft, when we know ne Io worked equally mysterions-

even heard his inue. The public Posh, le numbered among his (and, us a consequence, without bad little chance of hearing is, for personal friends. Fitzgerald he took more pains to avoid fame characteristically thought "Posh" that widespread", recognition than others do to seek it

Hen greater man than Tennyson, ar deserved) during the war, and I am wrote about remote subjects, which Thackeray, because he was told that his work with direction; persoas, When his friend, Penny-canbe to an unitue devotion to ppealed only to highly educated wolf-conscious. The Viktig suc- finding apparatus located the Gero, died Tirexins to Vitz Bacchus, but timt did not trouble is pure, adulterated "Fitz

THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS vegetation of those first inally

AND PLANT EVOLUTION.

aristocratic band ancestry?

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The book is full of information for the paleontologist and the botan-

gerald, the tribute seed merely

the cutanve of friendship. ordinary redor discounted praise of that '·'

The

Golden Eastern lay, Tim which I know no version

dons

not

to

In his version of the Bubdiɣát, Fitzgerald is as far ahead of Omar us ho himself is thund, of other translators. The Magnificent open-

gold and, again and ugnia throughout the poems, the master

and is revealed. In one of the

Fitzgeraid, who was no harsh judge gerald himself was abstentions. of human frailty. Curiously, it He was a vegetarian, and he nearly later verses, by the addition of two "words, Fitzgerek has turned a killed his friend Tennyson by por- shading him, too, to turn vegetarian commonplace into the most fearful indictment ever uttered by man for six weeks,

Filzgemld's books were all pub-guinst the idea of Deity :- island without his ran on the title-page, exupt his transition of Calderon's dramas. Ho wrote a

In English more divinely well, To-day. Fitzgerald's version of Omar Khayyam is probably rend as much as any verse except that of Shakespeare. It is quoted in lend of his friend, Bernard Barton Tater he printed lús re- markable dialogue, Euphranor. A

and occupied the land." " of this profound chango," says Ip. Scott, we havo ne yet ouly Everyone who has admired and theoretical conception."

Another, and very interesting examined the plants that surround him must leave often unctioned consideration emphasised by himself as to their relatipiship and Scott is that the distribution of descent. Are our great trees, the plants in earlier times was inlly ran dest coming down. the Kiel out and the beech, older inhabitants different, for in Cretaceous lique Canal, and timed the battle of of the earth than the grass and there was one, fairly uniform, the setges? Was the lily prior to dewale Bor which grudly utland. I am told, too, that he the rose? Had the water soldier during the Tertiary era, becue possesses records of exactly what and the duck-weed an marked out into floral districts, as the Zeppelins suid when they

we see at present."

These are

talked to each other in their ruida Wa may build up a genealogical very startling observations,

over London-end many nor tree of plant relationships, hit this which of course gore than one even at histont be very imper-explanation might be given.

interesting things of this nature. fert. Plants fave soft tissues which easily disappear.

"But as far as wireless telephony showers by which so much chussifica ist, but much of this information|gons, he is one of the great braising articles; few modern novels are tion is fixed neurly always docny, depends on what must appear very

in the country,

I doubt even if complete from its quatraine; and The fruits me nearly always tedimical to those not acquainter.

its haunting verses, have bera strendering of the Agamanian; aul Polonius followed" Four editions separated from "the parent plut. with geology, A Tew frets which there is any one living who know to music. Thus, even if we had the whade may, interest persons who live a

of his masterpiece, Omar Khayyam, more about the technical side of

came out before his death. Jecord which thus ravits could give | taste for botany may be called. there would be a serious absent The Record of the rocks) wireless than the Tamo Wizard. of Hope essitant date. The fossil shows no time limit between Moun record as it stands offers some evtyledons and Dicotyledons, and We call him the Wizard' because curious enigns for de hotautiet to throws no light on the possible ho is constantly, helping and advising us in all our work, and has an uncanny faculty of spotting defects and improving the quality of transmission. We call in 'tame because of his twinkly smile and his good-heartedness:

derivation of the one class from the

"The reed

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reached

umravel. -

According to Dr. Scott and other few more authoritative writers on

lac hotiny existe ossil zenith of complexity in Carbou record shows two or there out-ferous times: subsequent changes standing perharities. The most have been, on the whole, in the important of these is that the direction of simplification." fossil record instead of being split Of the Guetaceas, a group of up into the regular geological crus plants which owing to their seems to have fourfold divisio, affinities are one of the most in- and this fourfold division cuts teresting to the botaniet, and of across the great geologjeni epochst whicit there is one species, Gretum Plants more or less allied to the scondeus, hore in the Colony Dr. existing Blora extend bark to mid-Scott informs us that there are no cretuccots tinies. This forms the fossil representatives whatever, first pal. The, next epoch es tends from mid-Cretaceous to mid- Permian, the third. from mid- Permian Devonian; then the carliest transformation, the most important of all, when the original

Last

Enthusiastic as a school-boy over every detail, he is often to be seen slouching about with his old felt bat and his greatcont down to his feet, a cigarette in his mouth, and A. H. CHOOR. [Extint plants and Problems of a twinkle in his eye."-Broadcast Evolution, by, Dukinfielding From Within, by C. A. Lewis, Henry Scott, MA, LLD, Caractacus of 2.1.0. (George D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.

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If a man is known by his friends, the world needs little introduction in Fitzgerald, for he was a man of notable friendships. At school he the Baconian critic; and at a made acquaintance with Spedding

bridge University with Thackeray, The years which followed uited him to Tennyson, Carlyle, Barton (the Quaker post), Lawrence (the painter), and others.

Owing to his living in the comm- try, Fitzgerald, devoted much time to his correspondence, and he was

friends, be it remembered, were delightful letter weiter. His

men of gerins, and the companicu of such intented men must have been no ordinary character. When

man is loved by other men of his

own intellectual stature, and of u Fitzgerald's biographer, like the wholly different type, thero is immortalkrife-grinder, has to something genuine about him. He was born at Indeed, Fitzgerald's letters are story to tell. Bredfield in 1809, the same your as among the beet ja the language; Tennyson and Darwin. He was more than Byron's, but quite as They mako piquant educated at Bury St Edmunds, interesting. and afterwards at Cambridge: O reading on account of their literary Ilis profession. He lived for years in. independent means, he followed no heresies and beterodoxy.

taste was all for ancient books, old a thatched cottage at Boulge, neur friends, familiar jests, in well- Woodbridge, close to his brother's known places. He loved Cer- Forvantes and Scott, Montaigne and residence, Boulge Hall fourteen years he was in lodgings Madume de Sevigne. He often in Woodbridge; then by settled in quotes that old-world Free-thinker, a small house of his own, named Lucretius. .

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O Thou, who man of hhşer 'curth

didst make,

And oven with Paradise devised

the snake,"

For all the sih wherewith the

face of man."

Is blackened, man's forgiveness

give-and lako.

In particular, Fitzgerald voices modern scepticistu

Oh threats of Hell and hopes of

Paradiso

"One thing, at least, is certain,

this life flies.

One thing is certain, and the rest

is lies;

The flower that once has blown,

for over dies.

BY HENRY CLAY HALL."

Who does not love,the pootry,

He lucky a boson,friend

To walk with him And talk with hitra, And all his steps attend.

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Its

Its rhythmic throb and swing-

The treat of it, The sweet of it,

Along the paths of Spring;

joyous hilting melody In every passing breeze,

The deep of it, The sweep of it,

» Through hours of toil or case;

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Its graudeur and sublimity- Its majesty and inight--"

The feel of it.

*The poul of it,

. Through all the lanoly night;

Its tenderness and soothing touch;

Like haha on ovating sir,

That feelingly And healingly Cures

the hurts of care:

Who does not love true poetry

Of sea and sky and sod-

The height of it, The might of it

Ho, Jus not known his Clod!

34.

A Bense of tears in hunaan things" heaks out in the follow- ing:-

Ab, Love, could you and I with

Him conspira

To grasp this sorry scheme of

things entire:

Would we nat shutter it in bite,

and thon

Remoould it nearer to the heart's

..desire.

of

In the "ked sweetness this poem, Fitzgerald dreamed one dream more lasting than we ours.

Prayer is derided in verse of selves, or io very Suffolk coast bo passiointe bitterness:-

And that inverted bowl they call

the sky. Whereunder crawling, cooped.

we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for

help, for it 4

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As impotently rolls as you and I.

lived on. Far" of, the murmur of the busy and noisy world sounded but dinily in his curs, but the shy post wrote his verses, and at the same time wrote himself one of tho

most notable posts of his time. By his rare genius he has added & wondrous chamber to the house beautiful of art.

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