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many things, from rides in automo biles to visits to the theatre, are no longer treats, the receipt of an old

pasa her every day with scarcely a casual glance. In the Louvre, also is Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated

better known as the "Mona Lisa." Whilst this inscrutable portrait of a woman's head with its enigmatic smile has recently been rehung

BOOKS

READING CRITICAL WORK..

Patrick Braybrooke (Author of "J. M. Barrie," "Kipling and his Soldiers," "The Genius of Bernard Shaw," "Considerations on Edmund Gosse" etc) writes in "Books of with better effect, for many years book is still an inexpressible treat,

It was hidden amongst a mass of the Month" (Wm. Dawson and Not a new book, but an old one larger and more brilliantly colour- Sons, Ltd.):-- almost any old one, providing It is ed canvases in the main Renaisa-

There is no need to do much `smalt and a classic. But I rarely, ance gallery. W. B. Kay in more than glance at the advertise- receive such as treat. I am given "Chambers's Journal."

ments of the various publishers, to perceive that there is a good and efficient supply

of what can be called critical literatura. It is fashionable to-day to write books dealing with the work of famous contemporary writers, and from the sales recorded of such books the public quite, evidently is interested In this kind of literary art.

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Now I contend that there are two ways of approach through which a

tion of saying to a trusty member of your own sanor sex:-"Women are maddening!" or "Queer things, person can attain to the dignity of men!" Clemence Dané in the being an intimate terms with a "Forum."

great author. He can, on the one hand, study the author himself, read his all and every books, he car examine the position of the author from his own books and determine what he concedes his merits or blemishes to be.

In St. James's Park.

care for. In olden days my great-

They are queer-Adam be thank est treat was to be taken for aed for it! They are maddening ride, either in Paris or in London, to Eve be the praise! Imagine a upon the front seat of a horse- world in which men were tidy and omnibus or tramcar. Such rides women did not fuss, in which men had no livers and womon no are my earliest recollection. They nerves! A pleasant world-a world remain in memory as the epitome of too good to be true? I don't agree happiness. Nor la this kind of with you. Imagine how empty life treat altogether removed nowadays. would feel if you knew that never The horses are gone, it is true, with their rhythmical hoofbeats, and the | gentle swaying which they imparted to the vehicle, but even an electric tramcar or a motor-omnibus can raise me at this time to a state of obsorbed contemplation such as no smaller and more plastic automo- bile can achieve. An almost com pletely windless' summer day, with white-flannel-cind cricketers at play upon the commen, is a perfect treat for

me. So le a day spent upon A sailing yacht. Aboard a yacht one can experience some of the great glories of sensa. tion of which human beings arò capable. The sight of blue sky and running water, sun glittering upon brasswork and the exquisite lines of the deck; the sense of easy and unfettered motion, of remoteness, buoyancy, and adventure; the com- plete shedding of all feeling of-| responsibility for one's course, one's own safety and the safety of others -these

are only a few of the splendours of yachting. And KS, for me, yachting is an experience enjoyed only once in two or three years, it is a treat still, and will always be a treat.

It is a treat to me to hear the skylark. It is a treat to be demon- stratively recognised by a little dog that I have not seen for some time. It is a treat to walk upon the Sussex or the Wiltshire downs, or to stand overlooking the Sussex Weald. It is a treat to read a witty book, or to remember all the happy times I have had in the course of a some. what chequered life.-Frank Swin- nerton in Good Housekeeping.

There was magic in the Park! Elfin lamps across the dark Out of fairyland were lit As the evening covered it With a twinkling gossamer

aummer rain,

of

And a loveliness of light, Born of neither day nor night, Changed each drunken silly chair Into some fantastic "fair" Blithely dancing o'er the shaven

sward again.

Beauty wandered out to play Right across the gravelled way; Grimy palings, grass, and trees, With enchanting wizardries, Caught the silver-ribboned path-

way in a net;

Magic trembled all around, Magic gold of magic ground,

Magic! Magic everywhere, Till you kicked a sopping chair, And I think I heard you say,

"Confound the wet!" Claudine Currey' in the "Windsor Magazine."

KENJIRO TOKUTOMI.

Death Announced From Tokyo.

On the other hand, a person can read a book about, a great author, все what a critic has to say, get hold of the essence of the author in question, and then having read all book on one side and turn to the about him, he can lay the critical

actual work and form his own judg- ment as to the merita or blemishes' of the critic's examination.

In my opinion these two methods of studying standard authors have each claim to consideration. The person who studies an author direct can approach his task without any bins. The person who reads a critical study first, is liable to ap proach his author persoaded or either of which emotions may tend annoyed by the critic's opinion,

from an exaggerated angle. to make him look upon the author

Now it so happens that the day in which we happen to live is one of hurry, bustle, and scurry. Numer- ous persons (I know from letters I have received) are interested enormously in the works of great authors such as Shaw, Kipling, Hardy, Chesterton, Wells. But they simply have not time to give the Tokyo, Sept. 19. necessary attention that is demand- The death is announced of Mr. ed to read their works in the Kenjiro Takutoml a well-known original. This is where the critical Japanese novelist, the sad event study comes in and functions effec- taking place at Ikaho yesterday.

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work.

au-

Hidden Treasures.

Lucerne is equally famed for its ther of Mr. Tichiro Tokutomi, the sound reading. The critical study The deceased is a younger bro.tively in the matter of inducing magnificent situation on the shores President of the Kekumin. He of Shaw, Kipling, Chesterton. is a of the Lake of the Four Cantons wrote in 1899 "Namiko," a tragic kind of text book, it gives a small and for its Lion Monument. The novel intended to depict the col knowledge of the particular Lion of Lucerne was caused by lision between old and modern thor, and persuades many people to Louis XVI to be executed as a mem- ideas of Japan, and which has en read of good work, when they would orial to the faithfulness and valour joyed an Imraense popularity, hav- have no time to read the actual of his Swiss Guard, and the noble ing gone through more than beast's expression as it lies wound-editions. The book has been tran- slated and published in America.

It is far better that a thousand ed, but still guarding the French He wrote many other novels, all of persons should read a book about fleur-de-lis, is one of the most which met with ready appreciation- Mr. Shaw than that only twenty tender and pathetic glances ever of the public. He undertook a should actually read him. Then put into stone. The pleasure of pilgrimage to Jerusalem and visited again the question of viewing the memorial, which is Count Tolstoy in 1900.-Toho News, comes in. A critical study of a carved from the face of a tall cliff, Agency.

great author can be bought for a is not gained without a search, but

few shillings, whereas all the works the lion will be discovered in the

of a man like Shaw' would cost Glacier Garden, an out-of-the-way

several pounds. apot at the back of the town, and well

away from the regular "sights."

Paris is a remarkable city, both for displaying and hiding its tres- suros. Where they are revealed they cannot be overlooked, but when they are hidden patience and in- genuity are often required to de- tect them. The famed Venus de Milo, the world's finest example of Greek sculpture according to many judges, is kept in the Louvre, the great art museum, once the town, palace of the French kings. She will not be found in the main en-. trance hall, however, guarded by an iron fence, and gazed at in admira tion by crowds of tourists, but after come questing about the traveller will discover her at the end of a long corridor crammed with other pieces of Greek art, and only dis- Linguished from her neighbours by a neat label. Hundreds of people

PUBLISHERS' COMBINE.

economy

The critical study is doing New York, Sept. 22.

useful work in Introducing standard. The analgamation of three of the authors to many who otherwise leading publishing houses of the would have no acquaintance with United States and Britain was on their books and plays. The ideal to nounced here to-day.

my mind is that the critical study Doubleday Page Company and and the actual work should be read George H. Doran Company of New together. But where this is not York will merge immediately, while Doubleday Doran and William Hel- possible, the critical monograph neman Limited will merge January plays an important role and is gen- 1, but continue operating under the erally spreading the thoughts and same name.

works of great authors among many who would otherwise know them simply as names.

COMFORT FOR THE AGED.

The National Book Council is doing a splendid work in making weakened by coughine. For them natural thing, as natural as eating Old people are easily tired out and the public look upon reading, as a thero is much comfort in a bottle of and drinking. The writer of critical Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It books, provided his work ia sound, keeps them awake nights and wear out is doing a good deal to help the stops those wenkening coughs, that their strength Every one knows le Council in its task and also la da contains no narcotics. More bottles of ing's good deal to extend over the it are used each year than of any universa the desire for serious where, similar cough medicine. Bold every reading.

BRINGING UP FATHER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

HORIZONTAL 1-What is an Egyp

tian of ancient descent called?· 6-To suggest

Indirectly

10-Eskimo's home 12-On a higher place 14-Scant 18-Realities 17-A notable period 19-German faminina

article

20-Word of assent 21-Postcasive pronoun 23-To mira one's alm 24-A month (abbr) 26-Who was the

Inventor of the telegraph?

28-A playing card 29-Convulsion 31-Existed 32-Every

13-What was the old

name for the Swiss Lake Geneva? 15"What je the postical

name for Indiat. 16-Part of the face 37-Loltarer. 38-Reverential. foar 40-A high mountain: 41-A small anchar 43-Cilmbing plant 64-A, river DE L

Russia

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE

HORIZONTAL(Cont.) |

48-Trivia!

|60-A compaɛs point

(abbr.) |51-What is the Latin : for "nothing" 52-A trea 64-Mineral spring 57-A square fand measure 59-Crafty

81-To moderate 82-Ts navigate 04-Personal pronoun $6-Mercantile traffic 56-What is a strect

car called In England?

67-A covered:

colonnade

VERTICAL 1-Large town. 2-What is a man-

eating demont 3-Having an addition

of

A little child -To regret

B-A garden tool 7-Fatuity

B-Prevent time

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for waste 11-Interjection

13-What arą

newspapers

collectively called?

VERTICAL (Cont.)

[18–To present in brist

18-Exist

22-Rank; file 25-Obscure

27-What is the ospital

of Lower Burmaz 23-Conjunction, 29-Not many 30-Record

[82–What are the

highest mountaine of 8, America? ss-A musical-note 34-8hort alumber ₤35-To weary

53-Timo-parlod 139-Personal pronoun

40-Hall (Latin)... 42-8warthy

43-What was the old

name of the Spanish-Portu. Queso peninsular? 46-To delay 145-No

47-Man's ́non 48-Twice |49~To hire

50.The Orlent in

whit? 53. Moist 5A patly dispute 55-Combining form

Foot 68-Any open space |58-A shade-tres

80-Still |12–Married woman's titia (abbr.)

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

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION,

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HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:—

Island.

Feet.

Victoria Peak

*1823

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker ...

1784

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Eyrie

1725

Peak Hotel

1805

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (filterbeds)

297

Mainland.

Taimoshan...

8124

Kowloon Peak

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