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Central-22 The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd., 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 "China Mail" (Newspaper), 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 The Dollar Directory Co., 6, Wyndham St. Central-22 Telephone Hand Book, 5, Wyndham St... Central-22 "Hongkong Sunday Herald," 5, Wyndham St.

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Peak 23 Knight, C. C., Res., 184, The Peak. Peak-23 Butterfield & Swire, Mr. C. C. Knight, Res.,

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Vigorous Prejudices.

OXFORD.

ITS LIBRARY FOR CHILDREN.

Like most people of strong char- acter, Lady Frederick was very vigorous in her prejudices, and she seldom minced her words. She never appreciated Matthew Arnold. Possibly the fact that "he did not

Oxford, as would be expected, is The diary of the late Lady Fred kneel in church, because he had no setting a fine example to other erick Cavendish, which has now hassock, rather horrid for a strong

The "Oxford been edited by Mr. John Bailey, man," had something to do with cities and towns. covers a period of twenty-eight this distaste. Tennyson she fourd Chronicle" prints the following years, that is, from August, 1864, "a dirty man with oriun-glazed account of the new library for when the diarist was thirteen years eyes and rat-taily hair hanging children. Those of our readers of age, down to May, 1882, early in down his back. Disraeli appeared associated with public libraries will which month, her husband, Lord to her, in 1878, as "a grisly sight be specially interested: Frederick Cavendish,

and Mr.

....with his blue-grey colour and "The junior department of the Burke were brutally murdered in sham old black curls; he was dress-, City Library will be a real joy to Phoenix Park, Dublin, by a gang of ed like a well-to-do Old Clo' manți ita members, Here they will be Fenians. The first volume of the In a long light grey coat and loud; able to retire to a little world of Diary was unfortunately lost, but trousers, and walked very infirmly." | their own, where the walls are lined Home account of Lady Froderick's The historian Lecky she simply, with brightly-coloured books on all earliest years has been supplied by couldn't bear, "with his innocent the most interesting subjects- her niece, the Hon. Mrs. Hugh long face, looking as if butter birds, plants, motor-cars, pirates, Wyndham. Mr. Bailey (says a re- wouldn't melt in his mouth." And railways, and other equally fas viewer in the "West Australian") at least once she lapses from her cinating things. haaaccomplished his by no means habitual reverence for the digni+] "The room itself, which was easy task as editor judiciously and taries of the Church by remarking once the senior lending library, has well. Obviously in a Diary kept that the "great Bishop Lightfoot la undergone a complete transforma- for purely private purposes, and the image of a toad." Lady'tion. Cheerful orange-coloured with no anticipation of its ultimate Frederick had also very decided publication, there must be certain opinions on Art and the Drams. curtains make it look brighter, and call for excision, she could find no merit in the Pre specially built for little people there are small chairs and tables entries which while such records as 'must in a raphaelite School of painting. work of this kind inevitably recur Charles Kean was not a great actor. whose logs are not very long. Not have been omitted; but nothing Henry Irving was good as Cardinal only is there a lending library, but which throws a light on Lady Fred Richelieu, but too like "a spitting there is a very fine reference erick's charming personality, and no cat"--one of the most felicitous library and children's magazines. detall which touches on the impor-pieces of dramatic criticism · that

"One corner of the room bas tant political and social events that was ever penned. Tochter she ad- been set aside for the benefit of occurred between the years 1854 mired and Ristori, but she says children who wish to do their home- and 1882 has been deleted by Mr. some severe things about poor work in peace and quiet, close to Bailey in his supervision of the Sarah Bernhardt, and wonders useful books of reference. fourteen books which comprise the how respectable people can invite ""The love of books-the golden Dlary.

her to their houses, "oven to Jun-key that opens the enchanted door," chean and dinner; and all the world the motto of the department, aums goes," Dickens and Landseer she up its spirit and meaning. Many met at Lord John Russell's house a youngater seeing books in that "neither very pleasant to look at, attractive setting will begin a life- though one saw wit and genius in long friendship. In future the Dickens's odd eyes,"

junior library will open at 12 noon until 1.80 p.m., and will re-open at 4 pm, closing at seven, an hour later than hitherto

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"Each child will be given a mem- bership ticket as well as the or dinary ticket. This ticket must be produced when the child visits the library for reading. There is one rule which will quite rightly be insisted upon. As they are at pre- sent the books look very attractive. but they will not remain so for- long if they are handled by greasy and dirty little fingers. The new. rule says, 'You will not be allow- ed, to use the library unless your

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This oroga-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

12

58

26

28

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144

15

159

36

157

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243

42

149

47

50

51

52 53

HORIZONTAL 1-For Ita length, what is the narrowest country In

8. America? - B-What channel

Beparates Jave from Sumatra? -Insane 11-What part of the

foot touches the ground? 12-til-looking 14-Large pitcher 16-A fish-ilke

vertebrato 17-What adjective

describer active neat man?

11191.

20-Prefix Throa 21-Greek letter N 25-What is the essence

or pith of Anything?

38-in what state in

President Coolidge

spending the summer?

(abbr.) 20-To est carefully or

sparingly 28-Credit (abbr.) 29-What substance

HORIZONTAL (Cont) 34-Stone for

sharpening razora 35-What is the

smallest State of U. 8.7 (abbr.) |36-Expensive

$3-To axist

30-What Roman patriot

and philosopher · died in 46, B, C.7 41-Conjunction |43-Vaso

|48-No!ualuee

48-Interjection,

Contempt

[47-A wading-bird

49-For love of what'

did Leander piri

nightly swim the Hallenpnnt til drowned (Gr. Myth.)

60-Not one 52-Always

VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-What is the kidney-

fat of boof called 13-An article of vulgar

finery 15-Formerly

1B-An ornament worn

on the breast

19-A piant that lýsa

on another plant 22-Fresh; new 24-A sinew 27-Domesticate 29-Mottled with

various colora [31-A college degrea

(abbr.)

32-Left side (abbr.3° 34-Who was the Greek

queen of the godst

37-To bellow

|38-Who wan Scotland's greatest past?

139-To quote or name

for argument

40-One time

64-What queen vielted 42-What French river

Salomon

}$5-Girl's name

Intimated Family Language. In most warks of this nature are to be found colloquialisms and ex- pressions that are included in any orthodox English dictionary; and In her Diary, Lady Frederick makes frequent use of a sort of intimate

In the Presence: family language called "Glynnese,"

Lord Frederick Cavendish became a term derived from the Glynne engaged to Lucy Lyttelton when family, so closely related on the the latter was a maid of honour to material side with the Lytteltons Queen Victoria, for which act of and Gladstones. Indeed, Lord

temerity her Majesty was loth to Lyttelton, Lady Frederick's father, compiled a glossary of "Glynnese" forgive Lord Frederick, while she found it equally hard to condone expressions, which Mr. Bailey has the fact that on one of his visits Included among his appendices, and

Osborne to see Miss Lyttelton at without which some of the terms he had actually stood upon one leg that frequently appear in the Diary in the Presence. However, married would be hardly intelligible to the they were, and from that time for uninitiated reader. There are words and phrases which remind ward Lady Frederick began tho- one a little of Lewis Carroll and roughly to Identify herself with the his immortal poem of the "Jabber affairs of the Cavendish family. She never entirely lost her awe of the wock," such, for instance, "Groutle" meaning rubbish, and old Duke, who possessed in an emin- "Grubous," signifying dingy, dirt-ent degree that genius for aloof- coloured, mud-and-water like a sort ess which was so characteristic of his ace. On the other hand, so of "portmanteau" word. The diar-lively was her interest in all the ist makes constant use of the Latin Cavendish concerns that she never adjective superlative, indicating forgot to record the grand total of excess: example, "I was niobissimus the grouse killed year by year in major" or exceedingly inclined to the drives on the Bolton moors, warda those tears which Niobe is not forgetting to note that in said to have ahed copiously. Lord August, 1871, her husband "pepper- Lyttelton's explanation of the word ed his father, while a few days "audience" as used in the "Glyn later Colonel Sturt did the same by nese" sense is very amusing: "It Mr. Cowper, so that it is not sur- has no particular reference to the prising to learn that when she and sense of hearing. It seems to be a Lady Edward Cavendish patient, sympathising, adulating, caught in a mist close by the shoot condescending, and probably half- Ing party, who were letting fly in meeting has meant lasting benefits ten a book for saxophone players. sincere admiration of

something all directions, they were "extremely to the literary world, for every line

as

were

hands are clean.'"

ODD NOTER

Mr. Compton M'Kenzie is at work which will not be ready for several on a gigantic six-volume novel,

years to come. In the meantime he delightful, if lighter, storice. His is entertaining us with a series of next. which Mesars. Cassell will publish, is to be entitled "Rogues and Vagabonds:"

It was at Vaucluse, near Avignon, that Petrarch is supposed to have The result of this met Laura.

found in boga la pressed and dried for fus!?

30-What fountain on

VERTICAL

1-Vessel used in

meking butter 2-Laxity 3-To deposit

Mt. Parnezaus was 4-Conjunction

sacred to Apollo

and the Muses? '38-An object

ornamented with raised work @ what?

·5-Thus -

A diminutive sumx 7-Bmal),water-lizard B-Pungent and bitter 10-A set of playerə 10.

rises in Switzer- land and empties Into the Mediterranean?

44-A number |40-What is the capita?

of Switzerland? 48-A tennis stroke [49-What in a "qackiing?”

woman sometimes called1.

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51-A continent (abbr) 153-In what state was? Thomas JeffCOREOF. bornt (abbr.).

(The solution of the phove cross-word puzzle. will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

in praise of which the owner rather alarmed." In 1880 Lord Frederick the great lyric poet afterwards and he is accomplished in the mut~[ prosily holds forth. Again, it is to had so far advanced In his official/wrote seemed vibrant with the in.ter of baseball.

ton boys divided their time between

on

WAB

像

It is not often that we are given land setting, and it is, therefore, adventure stories with A Queens-

be observed that the person is 'au- career as to be Financial Secretary spiration of the woman he loved. dience, not to the other person who to the Treasury and Gladstone's recently to commemorate the meet Celebrations were held at Vaucluse speaks but to the thing admired. right-hand man. And, indeed, had ing, and these were presided over pleasing indeed to extend a welcome So the author heard Lady Lyttelton he lived until 1886, there is no

by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It say. I went to see and was au- doubt that Gladstone dience to his pony, not at all mean office, would have offered him the the event.

taking the six hundredth anniversary of to "Madman's Island," by Ion L. Idriess, Jack Burnet and his mate, ing that the pony made any noises Exchequer. But, in the spring of

Charlie seek a tin mine on an island whatever, but that she blandly - 1882 Lord Frederick reluctantly ac

in the Howick gisap of the Great tened to commendation of him on cepted the Chief Secretary of Ire she began to write to amuse herself return, they are marooned on the Adelaide Phillpotts tells that Barrier Reef. Their boat failing to the part of his reverend owner."

land, and what that appointment Conservatism and Cricket. led to a few days subsequent to its at the age of 7, and took it up serialand, and the solitude eventually As Lucy Lyttelton, the future acceptance can only be described ously ten years later, it then being turns Charlie's brain, After terrible as one of the blackest and most her ambition to devote her life to experiences Jack is rescued, and Lady Frederick Cavendish was brought up in an atmosphere of tragic episodes in recent Irish his blank verse tragedies. Miss Phill-having in the meantime become pos-

The pages and tory,

of the Diary potts belleves that a great many au- sessed of a parcel of opium smug- church-going, conservatism

the dreadful thors begin like this, and are stad- gled by Japanese goes to Cairns to cricket. A visitor to Hagley (Lord which record. how Lyttelton's country house) is renews of her husband's murder ually disillusioned in their abilities. dispose of it. The events that fol- came to Lady Frederick, are too She looks forward writing plays low complete a good story, includ- ported to have said that the Lyttel- poignant, too sacred, to quote; but in verse and novels, rather than ing in its later stages & touch of cricket and going to church; while in a brief note added by her devoted other things, and her next two romance, and told really well.'. in Lady Frederick's later years, a sister, Meriel Talbot, in reference books will be a novel and another

was to that fatal night, occur the words: play in verse. witty woman with whom she acquainted said of her: "Church is "I feel, in losting back to it, that Lucy's public-house, and unfortun- to be with Lucy through those first ately there's no keeping her out of hours of her great sorrow was to It." Lady Frederick, like

her be

allowed to see a marvellous Uncle William (W. E. Gladstone) manifestation of the power of re-a seems to have adopted Tractarian ligion, and of the blessedness grant tenets holding moderately High ed to those who all their lives have of kept their faith in God pare and Church views, and to the end her long life she remained a devot strong. The faith never failed her ed daughter of the Church of Eng for one instant; it was there, ready land. Primarily one may call her a to her hand. She had not to look lean heavily upon churchwoman, though after her for it but only marriage and up to the time of her It, and she was enabled to be pa- husband's death, she became more tient and trustful, and absolutely and more absorbed with politics without one thought of bitterness, It is curious to notice the gradual much less of revenge on those who but very complete change in her had shattered her earthly happiness political opinions that took place in one instant.” subsequent to her alliance with the Cavendish family. Her Tory prin- ciples fell from her like a fretted garment and she became staunchest of Whigs..

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Joan. Evans, whose translation, entitled "St. Jean of Orleans (Routledge), of a French play gives | glimpse of the Maid as she ap peared to an audience who had known and fought beside her, is daughter of the late Sir John Evane, who was an expert on the Stone Age. She is a step-sister of Sir Arthur Evans, the excavator of Knossos and the discoverer of the Minoan civilisation of Crete. She has written widely on jewellery and magical jewels.

Mr. Robert A. Simon, whose new detective novel, "The Week-End The Diary of Lady Frederick Mystery," has just been published Cavendish," Edited by John Bailey. by Messrs. Collins, is a remarkably Illustrated (2 Vols.). John Mur-versatile person. He is the Eng- Austrian the ray, London, 86s. Our copy from lish translator of the

the publisher.

novelist, Schnitzler. He has writ

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