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history of European relations with Southern Ching consisting of pictures from contemporary sources. Mr. James Orange, who has written the descriptiye letter-

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

press to the volume persuaded A CALENDAR. 19, Mon, Irish Sin Catchick Paul Chater to facquire the collection, and to add

Land League sup to it many additional pictures,

pressed. 1881.

October, 1926. It had been quite an exciting affair When it was over, up flickel the stokehold hatches for the grimy, sweating men below to get a breath of cool air, and two swarthy heads appeared from two hatches, facing each other. One of the officers, think- ing he would like to hear a stoke- hold opinion of the action, listened to their remarks. All he heard

drawings, and other items; so as 20, Tues.,, Thomas Hughes Born, to make it much more represents-

1822, tive and varied, and Sir Paul is now presenting it on its entirety 21. Wed., A. de Lamartine born, to the Colony of Hongkong. This

1790..

is a fitting cleatination for a 22, Thurs, Benjamin Washburne record so intimately connected

died: 1887.

with the history of the Colony 28. Fri., Edict of Nantes revoked, fund of the English in China. It forms a collection unique of its

1685.

kind, which, if once dispersed, 24. Sat., Lord Ripon born, 1827. could hardly be re-assembled, and 25, Sun., Transvaal adnexed, the possession of it should prove

a permanent source of interest

1900.

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Every boy knows,

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SCOTTISH HOME. RULE.

not for Scotland?

historical notes and illustrated

CREATOR

was?——

"Well, all I can say, Bill, is that he ought to have married the girl"

Evidently the fight had been to them only an unwelcome inter- ruption of an interesting conver- aation about local events.

Tom Brown's Schooldays," and "A "TALL YARN.

A good yarn is none the less.. good by being

with 19 plates in colour and 243 many who have long left boyhood half-tone reproductions. The think of the famous fight of Tom tall Here is one told by Lord collection now consists of about with Slogger Williams as a real Menth. "A sallor on board a ship bound for South America fell 430 paintings, drawings, and battle which they saw with their overboard. As he fell he caught engravings, and 54 books, alli dating from before 1864.

jown eyes. Thomas Hughes, how-, a rope hanging over the side and It is divided into a dozen sections, eves, has other claims to fame, managed to climb up through a He found himself in- porthole. arranged partly according to the He was one of the Christian side the store cabin and thought. scenes and localities depicted and Socialists in 1848, and, with he might do worse than. stop partly according to historic events. Maurice and others in that move among all these dainties.

Time: Thus one of the most interesting

At

and largest of the sections is ment, was one of the founders of passed and he was written off in

the captains' log as drowned. devoted to Chinese wars This the Working Men's College, of the end of three days he came out consists chiefly of prints, which which he afterwards became prin of the store cabin and lowered illustrate, among other things,cipal. Like all his friends, he himself down the rope into the. the engagements that took place was keen on co-operation, and he sea. Then he started to shout in the Arst Chinese War, which

until he was heard and rescued. led to the acquisition of Hongkong,

was president of the first

At once he reproached his mess- ⚫and the

operations of 1847, Co-operative Congress in 1869. mates for not having rescued him 1857-8-9 and 1860. The topo-He sat in Parliament for ten before. He said that he had been graphical sections contain contem-years from 1866, but he was not a swimming after the ship for three porary views of Canton between very great success. His best days and had only just managed 1655 and 1858, of Macao between work lay where sympathy and naturally impressed with this to catch it up! The captain was 1655 and 1847, of Hongkong from

TOPIC OF

reached Brazil lost no time in challenging anybody to a long- distance swimming with the sailor.

1831 to 1861; and of various of help could be direct. Tom. wonderful story and when they the Treaty Ports and North China, Hughes was an English gentle while there are also sections man of the best type. devoted to shipping, trade, narly British Diplomatic relations, and ancient maps of China, not the

The Shreds man "The challenge was accepted by loust interesting items are original

well remembers the owner of a huge Negro slave. pictures and drawings by George CONVERSATION. the ghooting at who had a great reputation as á Chinnery, E. H. Cree.. W.

the Patei Sir swimmer. The sailor, of course, Alexander, M. A. Baptista, Capt. Henry May when he arrived to had no wish for the match to come R. Beechey, and others, as well as take up the Governorship of the off, and so he went secretly to the various anonymous Chinese Colony. After it was over he ap- Negro.

""Tell me how many days you ment, and all the farring elements artists. The prints and tho-proached, a group of policemen ..

graphi include

Tare wondering what they would have mean to swim," said the allor. mány examples, both in colours and to say concerning the matter." "You,

gee, I don't like This seems reasonable, and anti-black and white. The reproduc Bless you, they were discussing having no food, so when I go for cipation is added to reason when tions are al. of high quality, and the possibilities of bowling on a long-distance swim I always Mr.. Graham's method is read. form in themselves an illustrated the following Saturday. Admiral carry provisions with me."

Bacon in "A Naval Scrap Book") record of British contact with tells a story about two stokers in Negro, who promptly bolted, and "They must on the sentimental China, which should prove of

was enough for the

side, take up their ancient Scot-great attraction to anyone inter-a destroyer fight during the war. the match never came off." tish song and make it sound fested in Anglo-Chinese relations throughout. the length and for in the early history of Hong-| breadth of the land and pierce the kong. It is rare indeed that a mists, so that the final echo might in the present instance, the notes collection is so well catalogued as

that were

to be found there."

оп

LORRY DEATH,

WOMAN STRUCK BY

BEAMS...

CORONER'S INQUIRY OPENED.

"That

THEMES FOR POEMS.

Padraic Calum knows, that

go right up to Parliament at and explanatory matter being both

How shall a poet choose his liberal, giving room to the pre- Westminster A Scottish men-ample in quantity and interesting theme? Shall he study the en-sent and the future in his etern- ber of Parliament favours the as regards their matter, while the cyclopædia as Agamemnon did inity; if he believes that arts various indices--a matter too fre- the Peterkin Papers," all for the become fine arts by becoming fine; idea. He says it is a farce and an quently treated in a perfunctory sake of an education? Shall he if he thinks of all secular things Insult "to a proud and intelligent and inefficient manner-are singurite a poem about the beautiful as of sacraments, and therefore people" and

a great waste of larly full. Altogether the volume sunset" at the suggestion of some finds them sacred; If his God is in money that so much business reflects great credit Mr Woman like the one who "quack-timately imminent, then, like has to be taken to London. This Orange, and should prove a per-ed beside Rupert Brooke in the Peter of old, he will call nothing manent and valuable memento of wood. Shall he learn the common or unclean......He will gentleman blames the Faculty of Sir Paul's muniacent gift. Copies fashion of the moment and then assert, perhaps he will even Advocates in Edinburgh who of the above book may be obtained try to do better with it than other prove, that all themes are themes stood between the people and the from Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., poets have done? Should be even for poems when genius kindles to listen to the King as Dryden once them. And it is the greater realization of many of their de Chater Roud-at $75 per copy.

did? Not by any means! she genius, I think, that claims the sires. The idea of this plea for

be a real poet, he will accept dry world and all things in it for Hongkong, Tuesday, October 20, 1923. home rule is not necessarily "Scot

and stuffy learning only that he poetry, knowing that a rusty nail- land for the Scots." The thing

may assimilate it and then forget in a carpenter's pocket shares a could, amongst others, mean that

it, he would accept plain food. planet's. ordered flight through Scotland would have a better

He will treat trite suggestions space and obeya, the law that from prosaically effusive ladies draws as nearer to the sun or educational standard for her

with the rich red wrath that is ap- holds us away from Betelguese, If home rule for Ireland why children, and not be compelled to

propriate to them.. He will be so An ever increasing number of Is the craze take only percentage of the

completely absorbed in his own modern pots belong to this second fer independence becoming a

intellectual and spiritual interests group. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- money that was first of all voted

Sitting as Coroner at the Kow that changing fashions of thought ing, who has not yet lost her fetich? Why should Scotland wish to manage her own affairs? hers of Parliament. Here ther is quiry into the death of a Chinese Kingshe will be the one to make forms as well as new thoughts. in as sufficient by the English mem-E. W. Hamilton conducted an in- as affecting himself. And as for believed that we should have new loon Magistracy yesterday, Mr. and form will mean little to him prestige among women of genius, The subject seems impossible to something for Scotsmen the world woman passenger on a lorry who those unversed either in Scottish over to think about. It concerns was killed by projecting beams suggestions! He will know, as poetry. She knew that poetry

is everywhere for the poet." traits or the trend of thought in others as well, especially those from a motor truck driven by an "Intensity of feeling can only Nor was this mental attitude due the minds of Scotia's sons. There who desire to see Britain's social

Indian. is in actual fact a Scottish Home policy strengthened, and reforms examination showed that the without novel experience, we may of in our contemporary poetas, for The result of the post mortem come from personal, from novel to any insecurity in culture of the

experience. Without personal, kind that reactionaries complain. Rule. Association. And this--long deferred carried out. Mr. skull was fractured in three places say that there will be no liveliness Mrs. Browning read her Greaks Association functions to the ex- John Wheatler- recently said and death was due to cerebral of movement in the poems few modernists, gen. Her tent of holding meeings and put that we all know that ting forth presumably incontest Parliament is

The only witness was the driver He will agree with Emerson opinion was the result of a ripe

that

culture that understands the prés the "driv-of the lorry on which the deceased able claims. Mr. R. B. Cunning-ing.

If your subject does not appear sent and the future through the form, but woman was travelling. This wit to you the flower of the world at past and praises what is new be harae Graham-who is known rather

machines stated that he was tra- this moment, you have not rightly cause it has fathomed the old. In wherever good books are read

velling at a speed of 15 miles an chosen it. ery,"

evident that hour. On reaching the junctionAnd he will follow the advice that

a similar way Emerson Bays said that it was 620 years since certain Scotsmen mean to drive of Laichikok and Taipo Roads he William Wallace fought for free the machinery,

given by Mr. Yeats:

The test or measure of poetic pulled to the side of the road to

Beloved, gaze in thine own genius is the power to read the dom for Scotland, but until they

allow a truck' with number of

heart,

poetry of rifairs to fuse the had home rule in Scotland it had

projecting beams-to-pass. After

The holy tree is growing there. circumstance of to-day'; not to use to be admitted, In a measure, at

the vehicles crossed he heard of that he will make his poente. Scott's antique superstitions, or cry and on looking back saw the According to his temperament, Shakspeare's... least, that Wallace's work remain-

woman lying in the truck. The and consciously or unconsciously,Again let us admit that the ed unfulfilled and still required a

other vehicle did not stop and withe is likely to take either one of poet makes the poem, it is not coping. The "in a measure"

ness took the woman to hospital: two attitudes toward the choice of made by the subject. So long a

After the evidence of a trafficats themes. If he be tempera- the artist labours according to the spoils the thing, whilst contro-

Reviewing The Chater Collecofficer, the Court adjourned until mentally conservative, a lover of dictates of his own genius he will versialista would probably point tion of Pictures relating to China, this afternoon to enable the scene the great traditions of the past, s enrich the world in proportion to out that the freedom Wallace Hongkong, Macao, 1658-1860 to he visited: a believer in law; if he must build his own power. He may write of fought for

so many years ago, with Historical and Descriptive The Indian driver has a charge up a thick wall between arts buttons and rouge, of cheese fac and the "freedom"

Letterpress by James Orange of failing to report the accident and ine arts, between the secular tories and tenements, if he wishes the "Connoisseur writes pending against him, and he was and the sacred, then he is to, or of Helen's eyes and Troy's have nothing in common and are Now that Chine is looming so remanded, bail being allowed on likely to think that certain themes walls he may even write of stars as far apart as the asunder. largely to the rublic

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