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GALAPAGOS: WORLD'S END.

And

How the

THE CHINA MATT

as he stepped on deck, 'I'm As an American writing for Amar Johnson of London. He had us, the author will naturally make been fifty years among the islands statements which, of times, act as and his opinion of those a cold douche to the British readers. Spaniards who had been his For instance, referring to the Greek

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47 years of his life in it and saw service in varying capacities in all the Treaty Ports.

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DR. MARIE STOPES.

A FAMOUS SCIENTIST'S

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

of a small lizard"I crept up to "the first. one I saw, anxious to "get a photograph, and, while "looking into my Graflex, almost trod upon it, so tame was it.

naturo, directly to concern the Their work being neither of a While waiting for it to turn side- neighbours was, according to the advance into Anatolia in 1922, he wet-being of the foreign commu "ways, a big male crawled beauthor, unprintable. "tween my feet and nodded whisky was brought out (for Crusaders, as the Greek styled to any great extent with its coC. Stopes," by Aylmer Maude.

Some Buys Such were the modern nor to bring them into

["The Authorised Life of Marie "frantically to a scarlet throated whiskey was less valuable than themselves, the troops whom stituent "female sunning herself on. a bit water with the Nama, and the Christian England had delegated to sektom given to the personalities Of

members, publicity is Williams and Norgate, Ltd., "of lava. He crept a little USA had not yet gone dry.)entored her will apon the Turks, doings of the semor Customs | Price 57-],

Henrietta St London W. 0. 21 "nearer, nodded again, where- "As for Johnson of London; all who carried bauners einblazoned ones, but of his own personal The kind of notoriety which gets. "upon the lady lizard rose as high" "speech forsook him for a while with the cross of Christ, and were knowledge and experience Mr. King attached to the name of any-one "as possible upon all four legs, and then he murmured, 'God, I accompanied by priests. "making them look like straight "aln't seen any whiskey for six

is able to tell of cusions when on who figures in a prominent law case. "little sticks, arched her body,

The Greek front collupsed on their handling of delicate situations issctory in many particu years, "blew herself up with air until Johnson brought the Noma, to a who was the real instigator of the

August 26th. 2. Lloyd George, rested gravo diplomatic issues. "she lost all semblance to a lizard, part of the island at which she adventure, having the good fortune ability of Mr. King Dimself when by Dr. Marie D. Stopes in compet

Jurs and in view of the publicity: Urent indees was the respon- given to the legal proceedings taketi "and turning her head slowly, obtained water. As he went "spat upon her admirer. He from the vessel his final speechmetry toread into political obscuri-Canton at the time of the Boxer

tive a civilized country, WSB as e semer Islands, to the old-fashioned the peoples of the Andaman "fly, and sadly made his way U.S.A. visitors had made on him. were his dupes, and who had relied, Canton Customs at the time) he had of birth control are diametrically Brush oficial' inion with the publication of a book by "turned nonchalantly caught a showed the chief impression his

a Roman Catholic medical practi vy, but the Greek ministers who trouble. naturalists were little more than Islands, the Aetas of the Philip elsewhere."

the was Commissioner of tioner whose views on the subject unimportant bits of the mainland. pines, the defunct Tasmanians,

"As he went down the com- on Darwin, however, with that and the mythical troglodytes of answers the Malthusian problem: "speech floated up to as

Island population panion ladder his valedictory British Premier that they would, British Government in dealings has as its object the presentation to the solen assurance of the to act as the mouthpiece of the opposed to hers, a publication which almost uncanny perspicacity of Hokkaido all offshoots of the same "The finches were either begin-

receive British support, his brought about a change. rate? and if so, whence did they "ning to build or else sitting on

"Well, I've lived near eighty between a stone wall and the rifles right-hand man, and Viceroy of known to her intimate frienda died with hi, the Empress Dowager the reader of the Marie Stopes From his visit to the Galápagos come, and what of their pre- their eggs..... "I found a good I've never seen a woman in pants Equally outspoken is the author Wu Ting-taug and the attier Re-minded people.

years and I've read about it, but of an execution squad.". in 1885 came the first idea of the decessors? To the geophysicist "many nests with four eggs, so, as before."

Canton. The author was also with should be welcomed by all fair- theory of Natural Selection, that the burning question is, were the "far as number goes, island life doctrine which was to shake and Continents formerly juxtaposed "has made no difference in the trated and well got up, but the missionaties in As Minor adding on another cou had to smooth Marie Stopes" which is written by This book la beautifully illus-on the baleful inluence of publican leaders in 1917-1912 and Such is "The Authorised Life of shape all branches of thought ind great land mass floating on "ontogeny of these birds. from that day till now? Wallace a dense viscous magma?

But style of English has more than a to the feud between Americans and over trouble which might havo one who has good qualifications for carried on the good work. His are we now gradually drifting "apparent when I came to blow It irritates and is often difficult statement that now Perein is under took over the New Territories. at already to his credit and a life-long a very suggestive thing was little of American touch about it. Turks; and delightfully naive is the proved berious when the Britiab authorship famous biography... Taland Life, the greatest of aff his apart through centrifugal or "the eggs. In the aeta where for a person from the Old Coun-american administrative Anancial Kowloon. books, differentiated the islands other force? To the oceano "embryos were formed I noticed try to understand.

friendship with Dr. Marie Stopes into two great groups," oceanicgrapher one of the crucial ques"that two of the four eggs were

control, and therefore well towards The record of Mr. King's constant which must have given him access and continental. Through this tions is the permanence of the "clear, and this struck me as so

becoming Utopian: "... this transférences, involving the sever to her thoughts and views. cautious work on animal distribu- present ocean "deeps. "Are the "interesting that when I came to

as already borne fruit in a steady ance of ties held dear by himself and

Aylmor Maudé, "ia the author-. tion, much of the modern atten- present ocean beds the basins "eggs that were almost fresh, I

cial situation, this improvement unhealthy conditions which existad editor of the Maude Tolstoy" in improvement of the nation's finan- his wife, and the description of of "Life of Tolstoy' and the tion to islands has been directed. which held the primordial waters blew the eggs separately and Anyone who takes up a list of of the earth? or were there great made certain with a hand lens

having been so marked that, in the in foreign settlement before the the World's Classes Series and recent publications will notice the land bridges,-Atlantis, Ghond- "that the same thing was true in

opinion of the American advisors, days of Sanitary Boards and Health comparing his new and old subjects number of important works on wanaland, Lemuria, and the rest these cases; that fifty per cent.

the Persian Government is now in Conimissions are sufficient to in- be writes: "In the former case I geography, anthropology and to connect up the Continents "of the eggs were quite infertile.

position to contract one or more dicate that life in the Service was wrote of the solest man allied subjects which deal with and act as half-way houses for the In two sets of three eggs one and

foreign loans, preferably in the far from being a bed of roses. In and now I am writing of the ableat" amall and out-of-the-way islands: flora and fauna of the carth.

United States, the proceeds being his description of the great "1.G.," "women" I huve met. In both To two respectively would never Galapagos: the World's End, the sociologist the fundamental have hatched. This observation

destined in large part for reproduc-Bir Robert Hart, and the unique instances their personality and the Reabe; The Riddle of the Pacific, issue is, do the elements of civili-extended to four species...

tiva enterprises to be carried out International Customs' service he influence exercised by their works, Prof. Brown The Andaman sation spring up independently in

by American finns." Of course.

built up, the author seems to have as well as misunderstanding and and Savages, different centres or is all civilisa

interest, and can be recommended from any bias, although it would have been exposed, invite atten- Islands Pearls

The book is full of virility and freed his mind as far as possible misrepresentation to which they Hurley. These are only a few of tion an apparage of the "Children the volumes which indicate the of the Sun," carried round the

and wary mind. to all readers possessed of an open appear that many of what the tion." way the wind is blowing. The world as the result of an inexpli-

author (at any rate at the time) real fact of the matter is that cable taste for "life-givers" and

thought misfortunes were due to most of those problems which a wanderlust? The paleontolog-

what be considers the ill-will of most vex the mind and stand in ist faces the problem of the fossil

that powerful despot. need of solution depend for this giant tortoises of Cuba and their solution on a careful study of only living representatives in the islands. Consider what some of Galápagos Islands. these problems are. To the biologist probably the most im- portant is the mechanism of animal and plant distribution; and no theory of the spread of animals and plants over the globe can hope for much success unless it has been based on a careful and detailed examination of the islands of the world. To the anthropologist the migrations of peoples, the earlist types and the directions of their movement are the great bone of contention. Are.

The careful and detailed study of Easter Island, the Azores, the Galápagos, the Andamans, and many other islanda is our best hope of solving these questions; and for this reason the present magnificent study of the Galá- pagos has been written. Many new species have been added to the already unique fauna of the islands: careful and valuable observations on the habits of many of the animals are given. Here is a note on the love affairs

A. H. CROOK: [Galápagos: World's End by William Beebe. GP Put nam's Sons, New York and London.]

NEAR EAST TANGLE.

SOME ARRESTING VIEWS. [The Struggle for Power in Moslem Asia. E. Alexander Powell John Long: Ltd. 15-.]

"This is important as revealing "a condition where the adaptive "diminution of numbers in repro "duction is inaugurated as an Having for two decades travelled "nternal obscure phenomenon, over the areas of which he writes, hot certainly referable to either the author, in his Foreword, con- "one sex or the other. "The full siders he is in a position to expose "complement of eggs is stili pro- and attack the selfish, insincere and "duced, but the failure of fertili-dangerous policies which are being "sation may be due to a defect in pursued by certain European Gov "either sex. The absence of ernments in the Near East, and enemies, or the effect of some the intrigue, corruption deceit and "other environmental insular bid faith which have characterised "relaxation has apparently called those policies." "forth this subtle but quick "response-a concerned correla "tion of offspring, average."

THE INHABITANTS. One of the islands is now habited, having a convict station and a few other residents. Noma put into this for the sake The

Major Powell is the possessor of a fluid, robust style he calls it the shirt sleeve style" himself-and in-matters us the Moslem menace, the writes in very positive terms on such renaissance of Turkey, Britain's Arabia and Persia; the result is a blunders, and the future of Iraq, of water. The second person to volume of peculiar interest to step on deck was "a sunken- students of the 'Near "cheeked ancient who announced, question.

Eastern

-P. T. L.

CUSTOMS SERVICE.

47 YEARS' PERSONAL RECORD

bad met.

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Most of the book is devoted to the furnishing of an account by the author of the preparation Dr. Stopes, had for her work, and of Nice points arising out of the the oppositions he has encountered. enforcing of regulations relating to With the spirit which has the importation of arms (particular animated Dr. Stopes in ly, that between Hongkong and birth control work and general work Macso), of farming and opium on sex the author hoe smuggling or a large scale "from nothing but praise and bo Hongkong into China and other considers that she bas бир fiscal problems between Hongkong plied what was needed to the cold" and China crop up in the course of philosophic. conclusions of Leo Mr. King's record, and are accom-Tolstoy, namely an application to In the Chinese Customs Ser-panied with interesting inside the detailed treatment of the sex vice, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., London.]

by Paul King: 158., information.

problem of a keenly trained scien-

qualified to write a book on the

and an appreciation of the immense fic brain in combination with If the author of this book is not

artistic ability to convey her feelings Chinese Customs service then it

importance of the subject for the would be a difficult matter to find anyone who ie, for Paul King spent

welfare of mankind.

HONGKONG INCIDENTS.

find in it a new avenue by which The book is to be recommended to all students of China, who will they may approach some matters of historical interest.

--E. R. P..

-E. R. P.

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