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BOOKS.

BOOK CLUB.

HAVE YOU. JOINED YET?

LISTS FOR THE NEW YEAIL

Below will be found a list of thes books already laught and of the books orderail for the Hongkong Book Club. This excellent - stilution, founded by Mr. Tou Wright, a former editor of the China Ma is possibly uniques ItH agong the Colony's clubs. whjeet is to provide the members" with reading matter during the your, and the boots purchased re- | present the crown of the year's

ublications. They comprise fic- Bion, biography, history, phul- ophy, etc., and the proportion of each kind is based on the likes of he members, fiction thus repres Genting the largest section. A

the close of ench year the suks ere auctioned, very cheaply wong the members and the ey raised gues, towards the purchase of the next years books. Thanks to the courtesy of the Head of the Sanitary Department, the books are kept in the Sanitary Board's meeting room, Post Office Build-

ng, each member being given a key to the bookcase which is Accessible during most part of the. day. The Tok Club has possibly dewer rules than any other chub in the Colony and to join it is only necessary to send in one's name jord uddress, with a cheque for ten Kollars to become a member for the year. The Honorary Secretary said Treasurer is Mr. Č. J. Roe, of the Imports, and Exports Depart sment. The new year has just begun but already the following books have been purchase? :---

At the Green Goose, D. B. W.

Lewis.

Best Short Stories of 1923 (Eng-

lish), H. W. Kinney. Best Short Stories

(American), H. W. Kinney,

of 1928

Broken Butterflies, H. W,

Kinney.

Be Good Sweet Muid, A.

Wharton.

Anatole

Balthasar, Anatole France. Book of Blanche, D. Richardson. Bomey, S. B. H. Hurst, Black Hood, Thomas Dixon, Big Game, 1, L. Stevenson... Brile of Corinth,

France. Creatan, Mary Johnston. Clown, M. Willson Disher. Card Castle, Alee Wangh. Corrigan's Way, E. Snell, Coomer Ali, 8. B. H, Hirst... Cruise the Amaryllie, Ext.

G. H. P. Mahlhauser. Clickings of Cuthbert, P. G.

Wodehouse,

Bari Bibi, C. Deroux. Conservative Mind. A. Gentle-

man with a Duster, Callaghan and The Murphys,

Kaldeen Norris.

Chinese. Confessions of 0. W.

Mason. G. W. Masou. Cup of Silence, Arthur J. Rees. Chaperon to Cupid, J. Oxenham. Cofing of Amus, W. J. Locke. Dark Swan. Ernest Pascal. Dean, H. G. Wells.

Danblebys. T. L. Douthwaite. Design Arganent Considered,

Shellshear and McCabe. Donnegan; G, O. Baxter, " End of the House of Alard, S.

Kaye-Smith.

Folded Hands, B. King. Free Air. Sinclair Lewis, Georgian Stories. Varions. Gurden of Folly. S. Leacock. Green Fat, Michael Arlen.. Gaol, Paul Bourget,

Gallery, P. Gudalla. Green Goddess, L. J. Mila. Cute of Temptation. P. J.

Brebner.

Galden Bough, Sir J. G. Frazer. Giglumps, Will Scott.

Grand Duchess, G. A. Birming-

ham.

tone Native, Asterisk.

Gentleman of Sorts, Everett

Young,

Last Chance to See

A DRAMA OF AMERICA'S BABYLON, Scenes that beggar description. Episodes more bizarre than the Arabian nights. veritable fairyland of mid- night adventure.

WARNER BROS.

present

BROADWAY AFTER DARK'

A PICTURE REVEALING THE SOUL OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CITY DIRECTED BY MONTE BELL FROM THE OWEN DAVIS PLAY. WHAT A CAST

ADOLPHE MENJOU, ANNA Q. NILSSON, NORMA SHEARER, CARMEL MYERS, WILLARD LOUIS, EDWARD BURNS & 400 OTHERS.

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featuring the famous ACTORS' EQUITY BALL with its shining stars of BROADWAY. FINAL SHOW TO-DAY DON'T MISS 'IT

WORLD THEATRE,

JJ

WORLD THEATRE

A RUTHLESS ROMANCE OF LIFE & LOVE IN A RAW LUMBER CAMP

WM. DESMOND

"BIG TIMBER

"A" gripping dráma of the lumber camps. -All the romesce and glamour of the lumberjack's, dangerous calling, The life story" of a ruthless, master of men whom two women loved. Filmed apong the natural wonders of California's redwood, forests, With a truly appalling forest fra sweep-- ing, over the mountains. A thrilling climax you'll long-

SUNDAY

DON'T MISS IT

* USUAL

AY ONLY

Heaven

McKenzio

Com

Hanan Boy's Diary, Edes

Phillpotts.

Hammermarks, Houghton. Hidden Player, A. Noyes. Home Maker, D. Cunfield. Hearteak House, G. B. Shaw. House of the Arrow, A. E. W

Muson.

"Inimitable Jeaves, P. G. Wode-

bourg.

In Shantung Gardun, Louise

Jordan Mis

June-Our Stinger, àl. Borden. J. Hurdin and Son, Brand

Whitlock.

Kang He Vase, J. S. Fletcher. London Misture. A. ]].

Sedgwick,

ute Player. H. Bindloss. Letters from, Spain, Elinor Glyn. Little Novels of Nowadays, Hir

Philip Gibbs.

Title aneh Girl, A., D.

Sedgwick.

Miss Watts, R. Oldmondow. Man About Town, Herbert. Merry Banker in the Far East,

A. Walter Young.

My Friend's Book Aniole

Frmer.

Mystery of Wo Sing.. A. G.

Hales.

Martyrdom of Man. Winwood i

Rende.

Monin dhe Brown fuit, Agatha

Christie.

Marie Vee Douglas Newin. Mariposa, Henry Buerlein. Mirio of the foorland. Frank

King.

"Mr. Rowl," P. K. Broster, Medieval People. Eileeri Power Nicolete of the Quarter, V.

Mefbe

Neither Fish nor Flesh.. E. W.

Buvi.

Veitur & I condenan Thee.

Andrew Router.

Natural Man, Patrick Miller. Playbes, Mrs. H. Dadenný. Perilons Lovers, T. Oxenham. Park Jane Mystery, 'I. "Tracy. Pengnin Island, Anatole France. Pop Goes The Wensel, T. W: H.

Crosland.

Pandora la Croix, Gene Wright. Flotareh Lied, Jean de Pierrefen. Pink Sugar, 0. Douglas. Pipers of the Market Place, R.

Dehan.

.

PSmith in the City, P. G.

Wodehouse.

Peter was Married, Granville

Street.

Pipers au » Dancer, Stella

Benson.

Problems of Life, T. Trotzky. Tunch and Judy, Maurice Bar-

ing.

Paris of To-day, Ralph Nevill.

THE CHINA MAIL

Quinney's Adventtires, H.

Yacholl,

Red Bily, Anatole France. Recortiponse, R. Keable. "Race, W. McEro.

Room 19, Edgar Wallace. Raw Material, D. Canfield. Bad Adventurers, Maryse Rut-

ledge.

Siege Perilous, Mad Diver: Supremacy of Reason, Nicol

. Reid.

u Little

Seacoast of Bohemia, D. Gold-

ring. Sunshine Sketches of Town, S. Leacock. Sing Yo Do E. Morrison. Sayonara, J. Puris. Seibert of the Island, Gordon

Young

Safety First, Margot Neville," Saint Joan, G. B. Shaw, Something Childish, K. Masan-

«field.

Serap Heap, Geraldine Wait, Traveller in i Pur Clonk, S.

Weyman,

Towank the Stars, Dennis.

Bradley,

Three Hostages, 7. Buchan, Triumph of Gallio. W. L.

George...

Tents of Trael, G. B. Stern. Tempestuous Daughter, Mars

garet Legge. Unwritten History,

Hamilton.

Cono

Vagabond Love, Jessie Chim

pion.

Village, Ivan Bunn. World is my Oyster, Edwin

Pugh Wandering

Stars,

++

Clemence

Dare. Wind's End, H. Asquith. White Devil of the Black Sen

L. 8. Palen.' Women

Wives and

Fergusson.

Books On Order.

·H.

The following books are on order for the Club

Ants of Timothy Thummel.

Arpad Ferenczy.

As Others See Us, A Woman of

No Importance. Black Parrot. H. Hervey. Bread, CG, Norris.

Colour Line, Helen Moeller. Churches and Modern Thought.

P. Vivian..

Deep Sea Hunters in the South

Seas, A. H. Ferrill. Diary of a Nobody, George and

Weedon Grossmith. Eighteen Tales, Louis Couperus. Elsio and Her Child. Arnold

Bennett.

SCREENLAND.

"THE MARTYR QUEEN.”

Diana Karenne At The World.

Without doubt Diana Karenne, the European screen artist, is one of the finest actresses and almost the most beautiful that the cinema art has produced. And in her hands the part of Marie Antoinette pulsates with a vivid- ness seldom visualized in the film world. Certainly, in this instance, the actress has the assistance of

"BIG TIMBER.”

William Desmond, star of the Universal production, "Big Tim- ber," which comes to the World Theatre on Sunday, won his first laurels as an actor on the speaking stage. When he went into motion picture work he had built himself to the point where aeting before the camera was merely a question of learning a new technique and then accepting contracts.

In stock companies and in

Canada Since entering motion pictures he has gone back to the boards" several times for engage-. ments of a few weeks at a stretch.

Desmond was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to the United States at an early age. Naturally inclined toward outdoor sports he became an athlete of no small consequence when, very young, and all through his career as an actor he has been conspicuously an athletic type."

a notable producer, for the pro-vaudeville Desmond played all ducing alone of the Martyr over the United States and Queen is something unusual in the way of accuracy, restraint and perfect good taste, all joined with an artist's sense of the beauty of the Versailles Court and of the women of that time. The dress- ing of the women in the play is a joy itself; there is not a false note or a jarring one struck in the whole ten parts of the film.

The work of the actor who portrays the Dauphin is some- thing more than merely fine his trlonic art, and as a foil to the

Desmond's first work för Univer- beauty and vivacity, the elegance and high spirits of Marie "that sal was in chapter plays as "Beast Austrian woman" is perfect. The of Paradise" and Around the story is unusually different from World in 18 days." Then he made our film productions of the French several successful pictures, such as "Shadows of the North" and Revolution period, and here we

•Off get a better glimpse of the lack The Breathless Moment."

of thought and not lack of heart; and on during his career he has that caused Marie in the first made personal appearance trips years of her marriage to forget throughout the country establish- that another world, hungry anding a solid popularity. downtrodden and ready for revolu~| "Big Timber," written origin- tion, was outside the palace gates, ally by Vingie E. Roe, under the Diana Karenne gives a splendid title of "The Hearts of the North picture of the character and Wind," was directed by William makes the most of a telling Craft. The supporting cast in- opportunity when the call for cludes Olive Hasbrouck, Betty courage and aristocratic disdain Francisco, Lydia Yeemant Titus and contempt is made upon her, and Albert J. Smith. It la in these scenes that the actress is at the height of her art. She is trály regal, and not portraying regality, two vastly must be made when an opinion is different things. There is a necessary be to who are the finest hauteur that is as compelling as actors and producers of to-day. was once the laughter of harThey are the Europeans, besides heart. The flight from the their art, always paramount Sin Tailleries is a triumph of stage the spoken drama, the infa management as is the par- Work of even the best trayal of hurried plans and producera 1 kedly lacking buffle- nervous yet calm hasta The thing

capture of the Foyal party was in the

as equally dramatic and replete

With tamsign/"which" "la itzuly”, dramatic art and situation In deed, there has soldõi, better

konr

parison, thôigh edious,

Fascist Movem

talinu

Lifs, Dott Pietro

Flying Draper

God's Stepchi

Gusts and Cainels, Bybil 0.

Lethbridge.

Grub St. Night's Entertain

rente, J. Cdquire. Houss in Charles St., Anon. Historical Night's Entertain ment (1st and 2nd Series), R. Sabatini. Impressions of Soviet Russia,

G.. Sarolea. Incredible Island," Christine 0.

Thomson,

In the Grip of Life, Kaut

Husen.

Judb God, A. Sullivan. Justice of the Duke, R. Sabatini "More Obiter Dicti, A. Birrell.

Men Maidens and Muntillas,

Ella 3urke Máy Merry Tales of Jaques Tourne che, Auntole France. Medicine Magic and Religion,

Rivers. Out of the Sturdows, Winifred

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1924.

UNIVERSITY KIBRARY, whom you to know. You may witn

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"Patriotism in Literature," by

John Drinkwater, M.A; "Introduction to the study of

Heredity," by Prof. E. W Macbride,

M.A..

D.Sc.. F.R.S.

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These two latest publications of the Home University Library deal

It would be difficult to make a with entirely different aleinents in human nature" and will appeal to selection of the prose and poetry

used to illustrate the author's points- different types of readers. Mr.

bermuse Mr. Drinkwater" thes Drinkwater's is full of interesting covered such a wide field, bringing "material even to those who by the under the different sub-divisions of perant of the literary extracts patriotion all phases of public ser vice. In this choirs of the litera given make their first aintance ture that has gathered round with the gems of stirring English famous names in the roll of hero-

and

Prof. ism he has not restricted himself poetry. Piracy, M. Arlen.

Macbride's is full of technicologies to pruise inspired by heat of Popes ad Their Church, J. and disgrams and although it is action only but he appears to beek to have remembered the idea of McCabe. Poined Paradise, B. Sur.termed an "Introduction" it can service done mther than the ardour hardly be thoroughly understood of heroiam in achievement. Con- amoog the patriotic hy any who have not a degree of spictions

creeds given place in the book is knowledge of psychology.

The author's only meet on the that of the new democmey and those who eloquently, plead ̈ its common ground of the duties of

capse. citizenship upon which both give messages which cause one to think.

James.

Pomp of Power, Anion.

vice.

Practice and Theory of Bollie

vism, Bertrand Russell. Queen of Crooks, Detective

Dunni. Red Beacon, Concha Espina Ride Him Cowboy, K. Perkins. Surplus Goods, V. Torlesse

Murray.

Strolling Saint, R. Sabatini. Sidelights on London, J. B.j

Caitis. Savage Life in C. Australia,

Horne

Strong Man Armed, G. B.

Staw. Surplus, Sylvia Stevenson. Shaken Creeds

The Virgin Birth Doctrine, J. Rhys..

The Resurrection 3. Rhys.

Train.

prose

Drinkwater the

SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Reverting to the second volume TATRIOTISM;

of the Home University Library series to which reference was made According to good man is no more consciously above and to the common ground on which it meets that of Mr. patriot all the time than he is con- Drinkwater's - the duties

of sciously a teller of the truth. But citizenship-it might be said that as there are times when to speak the opinions of Prof. Macbride to the truth is a deliberate and exact many minds will seem unduly ing virtue that reinforces the habit barsh. He admits that the in the good man's mind be con- emotion of sympathy, developed siders that there are times when out of the parental love of the n man is confronted with some young, is the noblest human senti- Doctrine, problem of public service and deals went and one which holds society with it finely, or when his reason together but he thinks that there investigates the nature of patriotic is great danger in social reformers love. It is from these times that seeking to interfere with natural the author considers that a man selection by keeping, the weak and takes back with him to the routine incompetent alive. The study of of life an inspiration that, though biology teaches unequivocally, he it may seem to be latent will writes, that all progress in the steadily form his character at every animal world has been brought about by natural selection, that is, Illustrating his point that by the weeding out of those in- patriotism is not and never condividuals which refused to adapt be, merely a less intensified form themselves to altered circumstances. of some other emotion the unther and his abject in writing the book writes as follows:

is to stress the need of suitable

Susla John, Warwick Deeping. Things I shouldn't Tell, Anon. Tub, Tut! Mr. Tutt, Arthur Torquemada and the Spanish

Inquisition, R. Sabatini. To-monyw

and To-inorrow Stephen McKenna. This King Business, F. L. .. Collins.

Taste of Honey, B. Maschwitz. Thonus Hardy's Universe, E.

Brennecke.

Thoughts in Prose and Verse,

E. Philpotts. Wanderlight, E. Raymond. Woman Tamer, S. Shaw. Wonders of Salvage, D. Masters.

turn.

conge-

"It is a plain fact of humari ex-action for averting the perience that you cannot lovequences foreseen by the biologist people you do not know us, well as before they are indelibly engraved you love the chosen among those in history."

WORLD THEATRE.

The Incomparable

DIANA

KARENNE

IN

THE MARTYR QUEEN"

Over 16,400 Jees of interesting scchus. The story omencem at the pylod when the young princess Vatic Antoinette came from the court of Vins to become the wife of the Dauphin- af Frizon. It shows how her Wysbode indifference induced her Ills to galoty szd exirevagance; b w Ber ects atin affeckos were aroused by the

flare of her eldest scu; her devotion

folios and courage when the king and hin family wan irado priamrza: and concndes with her trial and death of the senfold.

Of the many clabótais film repu ductions of the Frach Revolution which have been an?mitted to the public will in recent years, Thie

the most notable; the grgromanesa, itupendolinew and beer artistry in direction baffled debor

many angles of production,

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