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In devoting considerable space, to Moore, like the old-fashioned Macao continues her bid for at- the subjects of rubber and the rub-children of the pre-Boy Scout ars,tention and the Year Book for 1927 bor producing industry in the Enst, are afraid of the dark. At Mar from Macao is quite in keeping with The China Journal" is making a raksh, a town in Morocco, there the recent excellent publicity mix- new departure in its endeavour to lived a man who had a house of tor that has recently emanated of from the Portuguese Colony. The cover various phases of human in his own. However, it was terest in roaned to China Shang-little use to him, for every even-Portuguese are waking up to the hat may be called the London or ing he moved out and slept undervalue of the printed word, and not Hamburg of Asia, sineo thle city is the stars. Mr. Edward Wester-only is the latest your book superior andoubtedly the greatest commer-

previous production of its kind but cial centro on the continent. and it marek found that the reason for in execution of workmanship to any matter and importanca It' in this fact that accounts for its this strange behaviour was that Seing the financial headquarters of the poor householder was afraid outrivals anything hitherto publish-

This fear prevents ed at Macao. 40 rubber producing companies of jinh. whose plantations are eituated in many Moors from sleeping alone The work will be of greatest in- room, and to sleep in a terest to the Portuguese as the the Malayan region. Undoubtedly in a

a large proportion of the readers of Moorish staircase would be an matter is almost entirely in that this attractive journal are interest- unheard of folly. Anybody who language, but there is a small Eng- ed in the subject of rubber, so that has tried to sleep on a staircase is fish section containing four articles the present issue (March) should permitted to agree with the translated from original contribu- have a wide appeal

Moors in this. Mr. Westermarck'stions in Portuguese stressing the No fewer than four articles bear two-volume treatise on the cus-ceeds of the new Port of Macao and directly or indirectly upon the sub-

place.. The Chinese section is ject of rubber. Of these one is byoma of Morocco is a ponderous of the commercial activities of the Mr. H. C. Pinching, late Senior and minutely-detailed work for very much larger and runs to over Scientite Offeer of the Rubber students. Each volume has over hundred pages, comprising contri- Growers Association, now Techni-500 pages, and every page is fullbutions from a number of very pro- call Adviser to rubber estates in of learning. There are, however, minent Chinese writers resident at Fenang and Ipoh, who recently many amusing notes and stories Macno. paid a visit to Shanghat, where he to relieve any dullness, though delivered an extremely interesting these take some finding. Tecture before a crowded audience "Ritual and Bellef on rubber growing in the Malaya region. Hastrated with lantern slides.

The Portuguese section is, more- over, brimful of matters of interest into the Portuguese, espacially as re- Morocco" (two volumes), by Ed-gards commercial and industrial ward Westermarck, Macmillan.) activities and laws. The laws and regulations under which merchants must operate at Macao are very fully set forth, so that for the Arst time matter of commercial value has been assembled for easy re-

Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, oditor, of

ODD NOTES. the journal contributes the, other three, one of which fa entitled: "Tho Romance of Rubber," another "The Several of our leading novelists Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, have within recent years written ference, and this facility to mer- the World's Chief Rubber Produc-novels, or a series of novels, which chanta contemplating the establish- ing Aren" and the third "The Para give a study of families over savernment of businesses at Macao. must Rubber Tree."

generation. Mr John Galsworthy's not be lost sight of Bokides these informative articles Forsyte Saga", and Mr. Arnold Another feature is the excellent there are several, interesting para Bennett's Five. Towne novels are, printing of the book, and the au- graphs in the Scientific Notes" ace perhaps, the most striking in thorities at Macao are to be con- tion upon various phases of the stances." Mr. Compton Mackenzie gratulated on the efficiency of their rubber growing fidustry..

has recently finished: for Casase!! printing establishment which is atory which is a psychologiealable to turn out such very excellent The reader must not assume, study of a family, through: succes letterpress work. The illustrationë, It is entitled too, are well printed and form a however, that because so much sive generations. space is devoted to rubber that "Rogues and Vagabonds," a title representative collection of some of other sections of the journal have suggested, perhaps, by the fact that the most interesting scenes, and On the contrary, it has a theatrical element. The places of interest in the Portuguese been neglected.

The schools in particular there are the usual' papers of sino- ultimate heroine is Letizia, who be-colony. logical interest, poetry, some in-comes a comedy star and marries are pictured as is seldom done even toresting correspondence... and la peer..

in much larger centres than Hittle Macao. editorial comments. In the last Dr. J. C. Ferguson gives an obituary of, the famous German sinologue. the late Dr. Friedrich Hirth.

Other Features.

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DICKENS RELICS GIFT.

A great admirer of France, and one of the few who can really claim to understand hen, is Mr. Sisley

In commemoration of the birth of Huddleston. His latest work is a compendious historical review of Charles Dickens 115 years ago modern France, political, social Alderman Sir Charles C. Wakefield,

He ext financial, and economic.

plains all France's greatness in the an ex-Lord Mayor of London, has light of past history: but it is. in purchased for $1,000 and presented the study of "les jeunes," the young people who hold the future of the to the Dickens Fellowship the selec- country in their hands, that the tion of books and relics relating to author writes most interestingly. Dickens which belonged to the late He sees the folly of the Dadiastes, Mr. B. W. Matz. the eccentrics of Art and thought;

A book from Constable will be the "Letters of George Gissing," the novelist, to "members of his family." An extremely interesting and They cover the period from 1863 thought-provoking article by Dr. to Gissing's death in 1908, and dar- James Lincoln McCartney is en- ing the later years they are supple- titled "Faycho-Analysis and Chinese thanted by many extracts from his In it the author diary and journals. We are told Characters." shows that there is an extraordinary that the book is, in effect, a history similarity between modern thought of Cissing's thoughts and of the forma and those of the earliest influence of travel upon his senal, Chinese when their pictographic tive mind, rather than a record of script was in the process of cres mere events,, "It contains," we are tion These thought-forms are re-also told, many passages of great vealed in the present day Chinese beauty and the letters are Hit by characters, in which the simpler flashes of insight expressed in a hieroglyphs for certain objects are way that will be remembered." combined in such a way as to re

But he sees also that these cults The collection, which includes present abstract ideas, as for, in- stance, mar plus dog to cringe. He covered the tomb of Tut-ankh- of folly are losing ground. Young the reading desk that Dickens took France, generally, is working hard, with him on his lecture tours, is points out that many of these asso-Aman, which is the spelling he uses, studying carefully, and trying to to be retained at the Dickens House ciations of ideas are identical with he sat down, in response to public achieve things that will last be in trust for the nation. those found in modern paycho-curiosity and quickly wrote a book yond the present generation. This analysis. A large number of about it all. He has, since then, is a healthy sign. examples are given.

spent most of his time examining ("France," by Sisley Huddleston, Anglers will find an unusually the tomb and its relics, but he has Benn). good picture of China's largest found opportunity to write another fresh-water aporting fish, the so-volume on the subject, and it is It des- called Huung Chuan of Gan yw; announced by Cassell. while dog-lovers will be interested cribes the opening of the actual Novel Library. in a notà in the "Kennel" section on burial chamber of the boy Pharaoh, house has now joined forces with the dog in China. Mr. E S. and tells all about the treasures that of Sir Ernest Benn, but Wilkinso. contributes, another of which kept him company during his the First Novels" will go on. Those his fascinating articles on birds sleep of 3,000 years. Dr. Carter's for spring include "Bush Fever" a seen in the vicinity of Shanghai. narrative is supplemented by re- West African story by Mr. Guy ports written by other distinguish. Braun; "Malayan Nights," a tale of A. TRAVEL DIARY.

ed Egyptologists.

love and adventure by Petor Mar- tin; and "The Ragged Garment," a. "Travel Bayi Miss Sackville- Mr. Donald, Maxwell is becoming study of human nature from an West, "is the most private of plea-a notable artist-author, for one of unusual angle, by Mr. E. E. P. Bures. She explains her objection his Winter books has been "The Samueld. Still another first novel to the travelling bore, to the travel-New Lights of London," which he will be "Monsoon. Magie," by Mr. ler's letters which are vivid only both illustrates and writes.. He M-Inskip, a romantic tale of Albus- to the writers, but unsatisfying to has two more books, done in the tering in the Philippines, told by the renders. She avere that it fe same way, which will appear in the an old seaman to his nephew. of no interest to one traveller to Spring. One entitled "The En-

His publishing.

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hear what happened to another in chanted Road," is a wander through Having run a serial course,, the Hong Kong or Kalamazoo. There- Kent, with pictures, prose impres autobiography of that genuine | fore Miss Sackville-West has forsions, and snatches of original humorist, Mr. Arthur Roberts, is borne to write of her experiences poetry this from Methuen. The shortly to appear in book form with in letters, or, presumably, to talk other, entitled "Unknown Dorset," the Bodley Head. One of the little about them. She has jotted them all down in a diary-a very careful- announced by the Bodley Head, but interesting things it claims for la a series of "unmethodical ex- him, is that he originated the word ly-written diary, which has now been published for the world to plorations" of a county which "spoof," which has now passed into read. There does seem to be some-Thomas Hardy has, made famous. the English language. As a token thing contradictory in this fact, Mr. Maxwell always looks for some of this he names his book "Fifty after the author's own stated be- thing that others have missed as Years of Spoof," though; of course, liefs of the philosophy of travel.in three chapters. "The Island that that in no way covers its contents. However, the book le a good one, Wasn't" "The Haunted Bay," and It is personal and characteristic all full of observation which

through, and it is anecdotal to a often "Sea Forgotten Walls."

degree about the theatrical cole- achieves the poetic touch. It iş il-

Mr. Fisher Unwin has always brities and the music-hall lights lustrated with photographs.

looked for first novels of quality whom Mr. Roberts has known dur and, indeed, he established First ing his three-score years and ten.

("A Passengor to Teheran," by V. Sackville-West. Hogarth Press.)

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