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THE CHINA MAIL,

THE WORLD OF

LATE E. T. RAYMOND.

GREAT LITERARY CRITIC'S LAST BOOK,

POLITICAL PORTRAITS.

In the "China Mail", a few days, ago, we published a Reuter's tele- gram announcing the death of Mr. E, . Thompson, Editor of the London "Evening Standard," better known as E. T. Raymond, author of "Uncensored Celebrities," "All and Sunday." "Portraits of the 'Nineties", and other works.

A copy of the "Evening Stand- ard" has the following written by Mr. Edward Shanks on E. T. Raymond's latest (and last) publi- cation:-

In introducing a previous volume Mr. Raymond said "What men thought and did in the 'Nineties-) still more what they neglected to de and forgot to think-in stil That was only powerful to-day." seven years

His subject

ago.

L

BOOKS

CRICKET GOSSIP.

UNCONVENTIONAL SET OF DECISIONS.

:

P

PERSONALITIES.

gone with

A touching picture, and, one would make bold to say, a whol- ly false one. One imagines-It is impossible to go further-that these islands never contained a human being more completely satisfied with his position than Edward VII. as king. He might | be a plain man at bottom; he

Mr. F. S. Ashley-Cooper is pro- might have an occasional yearn- ing for a plain life, But nobody foundly versed in the history of could see him for three seconds, cricket, and "Cricket Highways and fine mis- engaged in the business of a Byways" contains some

This game king. without feeling how thor cellaneous feeding.

It was has had but a slight appeal to other oughly he enjoyed it.

than the his trade, and he relished the races

British; but trade, even in ite smallest de- wherever the latter have trila.

-bave talien Some details may have tlioy

it bored him, as other men are bor- them. The first record of an ed, at one time if not at another, oversea match is in 1676, when by n business they love but mombers of the Royal Navy played which they find it difficult to es- "Krickett" at Aleppo. In 1822 the CRIC. But who shall say what crown of H.M. ships Fury and bored him, and when? Before Hecla met at Igloolfk in the Arctic we answer let us recall Johnson's circle. In those latitudes the of the retired tallow-question of time presented no story chandler who begged to be al difficulties. They could have play- lowed to visit the factory-oned at midnight had they chosen, melting days."

In various Continental cities the In this passuge it is possible to British communities have establish- now falls into line by something discern some of Mr. Raymond's ed cricket clubs, some of which a long life. The a little more urgent than the vir-qualities. In the whole study from lave had quite

the tue of mere chronology. If the which it is taken it is possible to matches were attended by Nineties were important in 1921, see how his power of grouping is, public, but while they enjoyed the of the of his spectacle, the finer points the first decade of this century is so to speak, a function

We still more important to-day.

power of being interested. He is game seem to have been lost on in them. We quote a description are approaching the crisis of the profoundly interested both drame, and the action moves with Edward's personality and in the written in all seriousness. by a Increasing rapidity. The 'Nineties part he played during his reign, Frenchman. The batter, who has set the general linca of the play, and this interest brings the Kinga flat club, makes the strokes-the the First Decade was on the stage to where he should be, the very on-drive, the off-drive, the back! when the curtain went up on the front of the stage. There are cut, the upper-cut, the leg-pull, and last act.

others who are, in the workings of the left-hook, of a skill incroyable. Studies of Ten Years. the same process, relegated to the The crowd cries 'Brayn!' Hike M. le This business of contemporary, background, and, if we can grasp Professeur Hall at the opera. or nearly contemporary, history is how this process works selective alas! The batter misses the ball;

Thely, involuntarily, no doubt, but still the wicket is knocked down. not an easy one to carry on. historian's judgments are liable to with true effect, we shall begin to cries 'How out?" and the umpire

something of Mr. nods the head, miscarry in two Ways. One of understand these is probably inevitable. If he Raymond's fitness for the business batter retires and they place upon the board his score and the letters could perceive finally and fully the of contemporary history.

ib w." The writer observes that consequences of an event which

the game is very dangerous and that Never Wholly Serious. took place fifteen or twenty years

for his part, he would prefer to ex- before he

It is his method never set pen to paper, his

ercise himself with diabolo place would not be at the writing wholly serious about anyone, but,

dominoes. There is a noteworthy table, but on the throne of such when he comes to such men as are an empire as the world has not yet not capable, on occasion, of being exception to the rule that it is the seen. The other cannot be inevit-themselves wholly serious, he then, British who in general, are addicted to cricket. The game used to be able. because Mr. Raymond has, though he avoids being boring,

Immensely popular in Samoa. with almost invariable success, cannot help allowing it to be seen Matches were played in which each avoided it. He does not lose his that he is a little bored. His final aide consisted of the whole popula- sense of proportion in dealing with verdict on George Wyndham, for tions of the contending villages, and contemporary reputations. He can example, is expressed not so well, which lasted for weeks. Such was not always obtain the historian's perhaps, by anything he explicitly privilege of being wise after the ways as by the fact that here he event, but he does practise the his- says nothing on the level of his torian's virtue of detachment. best. Wyndham had, fundamental This is a picture of what Eng-ly, no serious intentions, and he vivid

Mr. Ashley Cooper has much to the less and was like during a period of recedes among

any about cricket personalities of ten years. Mr. Raymond suggests figures of the background.

the past.

Ile has no hesitation in the pictorial comparison in his Mr. Ruymond's best level, in this opening sentence: "The figure of connection, can be illustrated by a declaring that Trumper is the King Edward VII, debonair and few sentences. Of the late Mr. H. greatest

has ever produced. Supremacy dignified, dominates the first ten W: Massingham: "His charity be with the ball he awards to Spofforth. years of the century. It stands gun abroad and his patience end-

to be

But,

One

Thereupon the

or

the devotion to this sport that work was neglected and in 1890 King Malietoa prohibited cricket by Royal proclamation.

batsman that Australia

out from the background much as red at home." Of some very differ- We hear complaints at the slow a jolly Burgomaster dess onent persons: "That squealing, kick-scoring of the present generation Hals canvas." He chooses hising, railing loyalty that kept the of batsmen, but their predecessors starting point with the tact neces-Cecils within the fold." Of Lord sometimes showed

sary in {

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.

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man who attempts a Fisher: "Being himself & patriotic marked disposition to let the grass Captain various and intricate composition, Radical, he could think of other grow under their feet.

P. H. Mundy once at Lord's made and, having chesen it, he groups Radicals as possible patriots.

There la round it all that he has to bring Which flattered them immensely, six runs in four hours. forward. In the result, one is left accustomed as they were to very acter" who was summoned to the story of an old umpire a "char with two definite impressions. or. different treatment, and made rather, with an impression and a them often forget-in sheer ex- Oval from Lord's where a match He was asked set of impressions. The first is of hilaration their election pledges of was in progress. the group, its arrangement, and its retrenchment." Of Lord Balfour, how things were going at Lorda, corporate character. The second during the Tariff Reform contro He replied "Oh, capitally, Lord is of a number of individuals, each veray: "That he simply played Cand Mr.as been in for 'arf And gets no runs, but of whom, after we have taken in with Chamberlain, as

an angler an hour. the whole, we can study by him- might play with a fish hardly less just as I left the ground his lord- self. Not all of these portraits are strong than himself and very much ship kicked a beautiful leg bye!"

Otat internationa« SYNsicATI

BOOKS RECEIVED.

ZOLA'S LETTERS.

M. HERRIOT DECIDES FOR PUBLICATION.

Zola's letters to the Goncourt brothers are to be published. M. Herriot, Minister of Public Instruc- tion, announced this decision re- cently.

The lettera, together with the ' Journal of the Goncourts, are kept

A

the

The

in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Ministerial decree forbade publication of the Journal. ten members of the Academy

them Goncourt among

Leon Daudet, the exiled Royalist leader own the Journal. They refused the Zola family access to the cor- respondence on the grounds that, like the Journal, it contained scan-

We beg to acknowledge receipt dalous references.

of the following books:

M. Herriot, however, was assur- "Zia," by Patrick Wynnton (7/6) ed by M. Poihcare, as judicial ad- Hodder and Stoughton.

viser to the Academy Goncourt, "Points West," by B. M. Bower that the letters were not its pro-

perty, "Will-o-the-Wisp," by Patricia Wentworth (7/6) Hodder and A FRENCH BOY IN ENGLAND. Stoughton.

of equal merit, but not one fails stronger than his tackle, until the And here is an instance of an un-(7/6) Hodder and Stoughton.

to be a portrait or becomes too much of a portrait for its place in the group.

King Edword.

Mr. Raymond puts King Edward

sh tired outthe exhausted angler fel! in shortly afterwards is certain."

Instinct and Skill..

to

the

Maurice de Pange was a French

conventional set of decisions by a county umpire who called "No ball," 跟踪 the bowler stepped over crease. "Wide," he added as the

"The Carved Trail", by Arthur But the ball appeared to be so. batsman reached out and struck the Preston Hawkins (7/6) Hodder & boy of a well-known family, who, in the foreground, if by no other

Stoughton. the This parade of epigrams is not ball. "Well hit!" shouted

at the age of 12, was sent by his means, then at any rate by writing

"The Victorious Mile," by Lettice

first to a preparatory parents suggest that Mr umpire, and "Well caught!" as a about him better than he has ever meant

and school at Folkestone and then to written about anyone before. He Raymond is merely a brilliant fieldsman brought off the catch. Milne Rae (7/6) Hodder

Stoughton.

Westminster. He died last year of will not accept the view of "the phrase-maker. His good things "Hoat!" Hover!" and he strolled

"The Far Call," by Edison meningitis, at the age of 16, and square leg. Liberal intelligentsia" of the King are the high lights which the skill meditatively towards

Marshall (7/6) Hodder

now a series of letters which he Stoughton. as "psychologically attuned to his or the instinct of the artist puts (Allen and Unwin; price 10/).

wrote home to France is to be status as head of a crowned re-in the proper places. They may,

published by the Bedley Head. public":

and should, be appreciated for

"Maurice's letters," we hear of

оп

"So we have the vision of a themselves. But, ultimately, they plain, homely sort of man, long- are part of the brushwork of presses is a coherent and vivid ing to be natural, panting for the painter, engaged in executing an view of a period, lit up by a cer lawless freedom of the bowler historical canvas. The effect of tain sort of detached wisdom on hat, hungry for the wild, irres- the painting depends on instincts human affairs, which is as rarely

Mr. ponsibility of life at Muswell much Hill, but content; for the sake of Raymond's tendency to be interest- But what it ex- his people, to play his part as ed or bored. legal fiction with conrcientious

(Continued at foot of next thoroughness, though the servi-i

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