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THE CHINA MAIL,

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

DOCTOR JOHNSON.

WHAT HE WOULD THINK TO-DAY.

HER TRAGIC LOVER. found Paut a reviving host, and as lively and entertaining as Richard

Mr. Martin Armstrong. In such Savage and other starving pen-

The crisis novels as: "The Puppet Show" and men of the taverns. came in 1755, when Cave proceed "The Gont and Compasses," has ed againet Paul, and Johnson went shown that he is an earnest writer into the breach once more. "I bo- who goes beyond the mere job of Devout Johnsonians generally neve I can favour you," runs his telling a yarn. Ho aims at mak- confines their worship of the many confident pen, "and will endeavour ing his folk real, and certainly in alded John Bull of Letters in the

it.". He is thinking of Hitch (n this, hin latest story, the tale of a eighteenth century to his purely

proprietor of the Dictionary). and stepmother's tragic love for her them so, and literary works. Yet by his rare knowledge of the science and will have him sounded by a third atopaon, he makes manufactures of his day, his in-hand, "who might lend money shows the workings of a woman's

Obviously there can be no happy! terest in aviation, his prescience upon spindles," but he warns Paul heart with truth and sympathy.

ending to such a story, but tol of gas lighting, &c., he was the that at the Gate "spindles are

not con- there in very little credit," forerunner of writers like Jules

The inventor is recommended to those readers who are

these transac- tinually demanding fictional sugar Verne and H. G. Wells. In thesa

use his akill "in then' unpopular subjects,

tions" in finding a proper lender, this touch of Bitter will commend

he

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE-

(This cross-word puzzlc has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and althol,

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("The Stepson." By Martin Arm-

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towered above all his contempor-for my friends have not much itself as a thoughtful novel well

aries, as monumental as Mont Pilatus, and as lonely as Keats's money." and the writer was then above the averaga.

He then In difficulties himself. "Peak in Darien."

outlines a letter which he could show to Cave for Paul to copy,

Always Friendly.

Arkwright's Praise.

Sir Richard Arkwright, long popular as the original, sole inven-

The next letter is the most char- "I would not tor of cotton spinning, said John-acteristic of all.

an

1

THE BLIND DETECTIVE. son was the only person who, on a have it thought that if I sometimes

Max Carrades, the blind detec- first view, understood the principle transgress the rules of civility, l'

a newspaper | of the complicated process. would violate the laws of friend live, who can read

Had he been present Johnson ship." He had been hindered from with his sensitive fingers, is known would certainly have replied with calling; "but if by coming I could to Mr. Ernest Bramah's readers, characteristic cmphasis: "Your have been of any considerable use, and here is a collection of stories' mechanism, air, wears the gold lace I would not have been hindered." in which hie uncanny faculty of and cocked hat of improvement, To another appeal he replica, plain- putting facts together and reading sir. Its principle was invented by tively: "You will think I forget folks' thoughts are exercised in a

'book is

interesting my friends, John Wyatt and Lewis you, but my boy (Francis Barber) number of astounding directions.i Paul, 40 years ago, air, I saw an-is run away, and I know not whore The

chronicle of a fictional detective. other India in it, sir, and did my to send."

Cave now seized Paul's goods and a good deal above the ayer- best to make it go, sir." Annoy- ing to the knight of the "Water and stock. The pith of Johnson's age of such literary efforts.

("Max Carrados Mysteries." By Ernest Bramah; London, Hod- Frame," but modestly true in fact; reply to the news is in his rer- for their machine was the first ac-tainty that it was not done with.

der and Stoughton; Sydney, tual, practical attempt at apinning the "privity" of David Henry, an

Dymock's.) by rollers ever made. Arkwright Aberdonian, Cave's partner. "He has no interest in it, and he is adopted its principle.

Wyatt, who also invented the too wise to do' ill without inter-! weighing machine and ball bearest," a neat, typical cut at the

THE INCREDIBLE EAST. Cave next made a sale, and ings, was a carpenter at Weeford; Scot. Lichfield, and Johnson's mother out of goods valued at eighty

that on

earth any Johnson

"He knew reports, was related by marriage to his pounds sold, family.

"only a fre-shovel for four shit- thing may happen, especially in Paul, a Huguenot by descent and lings." Thus, extinguished by the China." Prefacing her latest story at that in with these words, Louise Jordon an inventor of standing,, had mis- distrainer's hammer spent his paternal fortune in gay glorious figure, ended a great in- Miln used them as her excuse for, life, and gossip gave him a bad vention, the principle of which was a somewhat incredible life history name. About 1730 Johnson began destined within a century to make of a

Chinese bandit. So Wing

his literary career in Birmingham Lazcashire the wealthiest county loved the woman who became his by translating for Thomas Warren, in the world. the

bookseller And publisher.

There he often met the inventors,

and doubtless heard much about! their new "gymerack of impor tance."

BONNIE MARY.

step-mother. He was indifferent

to his father, and would have kill-

ed him without a qualm. but a fin-

Louise Jordon Miln; London. Hodder and Stoughton; Syd- ney, Angus and Robertson,)

er opportunity to save the life of his half-brother-a wee baby thing Mary is a happy little person. that fell into a lake in the care- Her vocabulary consists of one leas way they have in China-gave The Shock-absorber.

syllable "hough." but her inflection him the finest moment of his ife. When patented, in 1738, Paul ex-is subtle and she says much with He saved the baby and cut his ploited it in London; while Wyatt the one word. Cherry Kearton, thigh on a rock, and then sank in haunted Spitalfelds for improve lecturer and student of animals, is giving him back to the woman he ments. Johnson was then in re very fond of Mary, and takes her loved.. gular but obscure employment as with him on some of his lecturing ("In a Yun-Nan Courtyard." By a hack for Edward Cave, founder:

She is toura.

a chimpanzee. and publisher of the "Gentleman's With a naive simplicity which ic Magazine," at St. John's Gate, in itself attractive, Mary's protec- Clerkenwell. Cave and Dr. Robert tor tells all about her, her intelli- James, of Fever Powders fame,gence, her endearing ways, subscribed large sums, both seeing funny situations into which she in spinning by rollers a new and gets herself, and her explorations greater "El Dorado" than Sir in the civilised world of her adop

What is "It?” Walter Raleigh found in Guiana. tion. On one occasion Mary fol

"Floating such a radical inven- lowed a strange man into the sea have asked the question.

intangible, call tion in a non-technical age and

on an English beach. She was something place entailed long and vexatious scared of the waves, but the at- charm, fascination, art. delays. Licences were granted: traction overcame her fear.

She probably art-the art of dressing but the grantees were so ignorant followed the man and insisted on to attract the art of the vamp.. they could not learn to use the kissing his toes and dancing with Those who have any doubts as to. machines. By 1741 Warren was him. The explanation is that the the definition of "It" need have all but bankrupt; Cave and James strange man had hairy legs, un- them no longer. It is all explain- were clamouring for some return commonly hairy for an English ed in a series of stories by an ex-

for their money, and Johnson was man and. Mary had an "shock-absorber" between

the

"IT."

HORIZONTAL

1-A small place of

#nything

B-A harbor

-Part of a fish 10-Over (contraction}

11-A marsh 12-A resinous

substance 14-Toward a higher

Tovei 18-Mineral spring 16-An oath 18-Depart 19-Keenly watchful 21-Commenco 23-Division of the

earth's surface

25-A tall structure 27-Mount

29-Finished

31-A young hog 32-One side of a ledger| 33-A measure of waight 35-Stowed away 35-At this timo 37-An authoritative prohibition

20-To decay

41-Spun by a spider 44-To put off

E-To tire out, 45-01-ent

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont)

61-A ridge of mcks

■

near surface of water

J

B2-A language 54-The fat of beef [55-More recent 157~A strast arab

59-Part of verb "to 51-Butt

62-To put on 63-Exist

VERTICAL (Cont)

10-Uppermost

extremity 21-Supplieste 22-Point of a pen 24-A unit 126-Faino ħule [28–A numeral

be" 30-One who gives

12-Ata

64-A very small spat 65-A domestic animal G-To offer 165-To cut down

69-8pun

|70-To loosen

"VERTICAL

1-A disease of fowls 2-An artista

3.To oppose 4-An organ of the

body

B-To linger about 6-in a state of sager

curiosity

7-Diminutive suffix

8-To scold continually

34-in no mannor |56-A hesitation In

speech 38-Look 39-Atude

|40-A large tub |42-A shatlow vessel {43-Very small *** 144-A prlost of ancient

Britain

45-A mareh 40-Distent 47-A vahlote 49-Move quickly 60-To throw irregularly 52-A oştric fruit 59-Lowest possible.

point

66-To walk thru the

water

-A shiny shrub of the 86-Fashion

bean family 13-To crave unlawfully 15-Partly frozen rain 17-Telegraphed

60-To plant meada 63-To cuff or buffet 66-Prepositiin

|_

68-Nickname for

(Tre solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

J

CLEVER SHORT STORIES.

Mr. H. A. Vachell's work is al ways popular, but it is in the short story that he probably is found at his best. His latest book is a col- lection of stories of which the first, "Dew of the Sea," gives its name to the book. He takes, how- ever, a varlety of themes, and Lots of people backgrounds, all of which are not. It is of the sea. Pathos and heroism. It comedy and roguery are here for It is all ages and every mood."

(Dew of the Sea and Other Stories." By Horace A. Vachell, London, Cassell Syd- ney, Angus and Robertson.)

eye for pert on the subject One of these

been filmed. tales has

It is

them. beauty.

"My Happy Chimpanzee.". By wretched tosh, but a million or 80 because it Cherry Kearton. London, Ar- people prefer tosh

makes no unduo 'demands upon rowsmitli.)

their intellects. ("It." By Elinor Glyn; London PAMPERING THE WORKERS.

Duckworth.)

In the first of his eleven letters to the latter he says: "Dr. James presses me with great warmth to remind you of your promise. Thia you know, sir, I have some right| to insist upon. by my assiduity in expediting the agreement between you." After this bit of pure John sonese, "he that desires only to do right, can oblige nebody by acting and must offend every man that expects favoura," he suggests at length "the most eligible method of determining this vexatious affair!"

on

WATER SUPPLY:

water

in

Level and Storage of Reservoirs, on March 1, 1926: CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

1927 1928 .14 9"B 11' 10"B Tytam Tytam Byewash...28" 2"B 26", 8"B Tytam Intermediate 20" 4"B 27' 11"B 18" 88 GB 23 Tytam Tuk

4" Wong Nel Chung..19" 1"B 20 .20' 4"B-20' Pokfulum

Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow": A denotes "Abore Overflow."

Storage in millions and cimals of gallons.

1927

KURU

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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TOOLS

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DYKE INFLANATIONAL STRONGATE

was

tion of the district west of Garden-road where an intermittent supply given from 3rd to 28th February, 1827. Intermittent supply in all Rider Main Districts during February, 1928.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS

LEVEL.

1927 · 1923 Kowloon Reservoir. 15' 7"B 8' 10"R Shek Lal Pui Reser-

voir...

10' 2"B-2 "B Reception Reservoir 3 4B 0' 8"B Storage in millions and decimal of gallons.

1927 Kowloon Reservoir... 210,5 1928 231.70 Shok Lai Put Reservoir 63.14 100.08

20 Reception Reservoir

7"B

271.21

Tytam Byowash... Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk.....

Pokfuium Wong Nei Chung

09.52 865.00

72.87

650.02

0.62

The theme of Mr. J. K. Pulling's latest atory is socialiam in indus- try. Forresters works are run on

A biography of the Marquis of strange lines, the rich owner be- Ing something of a dreamer, and, Reading, written by Mr. C. J. C. without knowing it, something of Street, is forthcoming with Mr. a despot also. He founds a model, Geoffrey Bles.

The late Mra, H. G. Wells was, Tyłam village, with all sorts of rules and regulations, in which the workers like her husband, a writer, and

as collected volume of what she Unpopular Spindles.

live apart from the world

another wrote. Is to be published by Chatto Probably through Johnson's though they were efforts the trouble was accommo- planet. The result is seen in their as "The Book of Catherine Wells." Mr. Harry Preston, who is so "THE CHINA MAIL" General dated, as his next letter is dated loss of initiative, the development

1765, At Christmas, omens of of a tendency to lean, and a gen well known in the world of sport, Printers. Publishers and Bookbinders. disaster were in the sky, and John-eral weakening of character. A has, with Mr. Patrick Thompson, 3a, Wyndham Street. Tel. C. 22. son was very ill with a cough that murder which may well have been been writing his reminiscences, almals of gallone during the month or Consumption per hend

made him "faint under its convul- taken straight out of the columns and they will be published by Con- Bions," being bled three times and of a newspaper adds a morbid sort stable.

Mr. St. John Ervine's biography, losing fifty-four ounces. "If you of interest to the story. can spare a bed," he proposes, "I ("Forresters." By J. K. Pulling, of Charles Stuart Parnell is being Hodder and Stoughton, Lon- lasued by Benn in a popular edi-

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Total

1,270.08 1,047.75 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de

February.

1928 206.78

24.55 31.29

Total

................. 207,74 404.85. Consumption of water in Kowloon 28.25 in millions and decimals of zaione dur

ing the month of February,

1927 1028 64.04 84.59 Consumption Estimated population 158,980 104.020

per day ...

14.5 16.0 Full Supply in all alstricts sturing February 1927 and 1928.

The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water te satisfactory.

1928 . 1927 191.88 204.54 Consumption

16.7 10.8 per day.. Estimated populution 400,840 410.000 Consumption per head

Full Supply in all Ridor Main Dis tricts during February with the excep-

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