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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928.

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THE WORLD OF BOOKS

LORD CURZON.

MASK THAT HID A LIFE OF PAIN,

A SECRET ROMANCE.

“CHUNG HUA

MONTHLY OF THE CHINA

CLUB, SEATTLE.

The China Mail" has received the Arst number of "Chung Hua," monthly journal published by the "The Life of Lord Curzon." By China Club, of Seattle, "in the in- Vol.terest of friendly relations between the peoples of China and the Unit- ed States and of a more perfect mutual understanding of their ideals and civilisation."

Lord Ronaldshay, (Benn, 218.).. The first of Lord Ronaldshay's three volumes covers in consider able, but never ponderous, detail Lord Curzon's enreer from infancy to the eve of his departure for India as Viceroy at the age of thirty-nine. It reveals a man

of

exceptional gifts and amazing in dustry, who lived abundantly, and bubbled over with animal spirits, danced, joked, did all those things which high-spirited youth in love with life and with "a consuming. Pasion for laughter insists on do- ing the whole world over.

The curvature of the spine which attacked him on leaving Eton, and caused him life-long suffering, ex-

The Hon. Alfred Sao-ke Sze, the Chinese Minister at Washington sends words of greeting and Dr. Henry T. Hodgkin contributes an article entitled "Can We Under- stand China?"

The China Club of Seattle has been in existence for ten years.

LORD OXFORD'S BOOK.

Publication In September.

Shortly before his death the Earl plains to some extent the abnormal of Oxford and Asquith completed j sensitiveness, which his mask of the reminiscences upon which he hauteur and reserve hid from all had been working for two years, but his closest friends. He was and the book will be published in emotional and highly strung:

two volumes by Cassell's on Sep- tember 6..

The book is a complete record

MEMOIRS.

IN NAPOLEON'S CLOTHES.

LIVELY AND INTERESTING.

"Private and Personal,"

Brigadier-General W, H.-H. Waters. (Murray, 188.)

good

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General Watera's new book is as its predecessor, which means that it is very good indeed,

lively, interesting, and packed with entertaining anecdotes from cover. to cover. He was a favourite of the ex-Kaiser and has much that is friendly to say of that Sovereign.

The German Crown Prince gets no praise.

With scant knowledge of-pablic affairs he became strongly mili- taristic, was Impatient of control, greatly lacking in mental vision and steadiness of character. His upbringing was not enlculated to strengthen his character, and the f

bro- same remark applies to his thers, except perhaps Prince Adal- beri.

So strictly were these unfor- that tunate princes brought up they were kept extraordinarily'

short of money.

The Crown Prince's purse before of Lord Oxford's life and career, his marriage in 1905 was so small and is entitled "Memories and Re--at least its contents were-that He has in- the only possible way by which he flection: 1852-1927," eluded a number of important let- could gratify his desire to give n war and present might be by parting with ters dealing with the other matters, which throw a new something from his own personal light upon many

controversial belongings. Thero is also some

At a dinner at Bombay, given by the then Governor, Lord Laming-" ton, to welcome him on his return to take up for a second time the tolls and responsibilities of the Viceroyalty, he rose to respond to the toast of his health, and that of Lady Curzon, too ill, unhappily, to accompany him from England. Overcome by a sudden wave of points. emotion, induced by the proposer's material from a private diary: kindly reference to this

misfor-

tune, he stood for some moments choking with,sobs, unable to utter audibly the opening sentences of his reply.

Greai Letter Writer.

His, in fact, was a character as different from the usual conception of a "superior person" as any could well be.

Early in life he acquired a taste for letter writing, and throughout his career maintained a tremend-

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Emerald

Trails by Jackson Gregory-Hodder and Stoughton

(7/6).

The One Girl in a Million by Louis Tracy-Hodder and Stough- ton (7/6).

and

The Man Who Laughed-by Fairlie Hodder Gerard Stoughton (7/6).

Report on the Chinese Post Office Directorate-General of

ous and unceasing, output from his Posts, Shanghai. (Without map pen-much of it work of trifling $0.50; with map $1.50). importance which should obvious-

ly have been delegated to someone else.

AMBASSADOR AND PRINCE.

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General Waters. tells us that he got on well with the Germans British Military' Attaché, and per- haps because of this he showa a distinct German blus.

My relations with the German authorities were always pleasant ... They and straightforward. were open-handed, and presented me from time to time with samples of their service powder, cartridges, field glasses, and other articles of equipment which we should have been very glad to obtain on pay- ment.

Glow of 500 Ghosts.

He had an opportunity of examin- ing closely Napoleon's clothes, which were captured after Water- Ioo by Blucher's Huasors in Napoleon's carriage. This ear- He gave to the engaging of a ser-

One hears that Lord D'Abernonriage Count Lothair Blucher, a de- vant the same exhaustive study is writing an account of his very scendant of the old Prussian sol- King that he brought to bear upon a notable embasy to Germany, and dier, wished to give to problem of international diplo- that he hopes to have it ready for Edward VII. on his coronation, and macy. The Concert of Europe the autumn with Hodder and was only prevented from doing so

by the ex-Kaiser's displeasure. might be riven asunder.... but Stoughton. We shall also soon George Curzon would still be found have a volume from Hutchinson nonchalantly directing the daily which touches on important Euro- working of his household.

pean affairs, the author being When about to leave for India Prince Nicholas of Greece, who has he undertook to find

re- Д Buitablo already written his personal his children, and nurse for

dea-miniscences. It will be called cribed his interview with one of "Political Memoirs." the applicants in a nine-page letter

to Lady Curzon:

A FAMOUS' EMPRESS.

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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure, These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both

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

puzzle.)

WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Storage of water in Ro- servoirs on April 1, 1928:-

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER

Tytara

WORKS LEVEL

1927

1928 .10' 1" 15' 10"B Tytam Byowns!ı .23' 3" 22" "B

.32

3"B 43' 1"E

It was at Count Lothair's castle that the general saw during the night "a rosy glow which practi- She is not in the least like

cally filled the room and gradually in- a nurse, but exactly like an

We are to get a new series of disappeared." His wife also saw digent lady placed in charge of children with a practical and scien- letters by the Empress Catherine of it, and they were afterwards told! tific knowledge in which indigent Russia, most of which were address-that the glow proceeded from the Tytam Intermediate 22 0B 22′ "B ed to an Englishman. This was Sir ghosts of 600 Brandenburgers wito persons are usually deficient.

Then followed some doubts whe-Charles Hanbury-Williams, who was had been massacred there in the ther she was intimate with the life, our Ambassador at the Russian Thirty Years' War.

Court in the fateful year 1756. He

Some of the public, may remem clothing, and education of young was devoted to Catherine, but her ber King Edward's little terrier children-"All these are rudi ivarmest affections were given, to ments, however, which the mean.

his protege and secretary, Count est intelligence should acquire." Poniatowski, and the collection con- figure at the funeral. The dog And so on for three or four more taina letters to him also.

Lord was apparently not kept in strict

When the late King was Tytam Byewash

TyLam order. pagos.

Nichester and Mrs. Langford-Brooke

the correspondence, which discussing the treatment of the Tytam Intermediate" edit Thornton Butterworth will publish. foreign military delegations at his Tytem Tuk

Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum

romance,

Cesar, which was so pathetic a

'coronation:

Tytam Tuk Wong Nei Chung 16' 0"B 22′ 8′′B .18′ 6′′B 21′ 0′′B Pokfulum A. denotes "Above Overflow."

[Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow":

Storage in millions and Decimals of gallons.

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·ETRE İNTERRATIONAL STERGATE,

KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL

1927 304.39

1928

1.37

03.20

751.74

678.75 voir

13.72 27.24

263.02

1927 1928 1.67 Kowloon Reservoir .17" "B 11' 3"B' 9140 Shek Lai Pui Reser-

.21 "82′0′′B 8.03 Reception Reservoir 24B 011"B 21.15 Storage of millions and decimals

of gallons,

1927 1928 Kowloon Reservoir 193.30 245.40 Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 28.60 108.00 Reception Reservoir.. $7.03 30.73

Tenderness And Delicacy. Lord Ronaldshay reveals that for

The terrler jumped on to his two years Lord Curzon and Miss

writing-table. As ill-luck would Leiter, afterwards the first Lady Curzon, were secretly engaged. His

GERMANY AND ENGLAND.

have it, he upset the inkpot not

Total

064.08 the list which

....... 1,101.68 his letters bearing on this

Students, of modern political hig- only over

Consumption of water in the City unsuspected by even his closest tory know that, since the war, the Majesty had just drawn up, so that frienda, show a nature of great German Foreign Office has publish a fresh one had to be made, but and Hill District in millions and de- tenderness and delicacy.

ed over forty volumes of the diplo- over the royal hand as well. All cimals of gallons during the month of

March.

1927 This is a thoroughly interesting matic correspondence of the Ger-true dog lovers find it hard to scold

1928 216.75 218,57 biography despite its excessive man Government with the Powers them for accidents, and the King Consumption ....... fength, but it would have been the of Europe. Mr. E. T. 5. Dugdale merely said: "Oh, that was very Estimated population 410,200 420,520

Consumption per head livelier for compression.

makes a selection, dealing mainly naughty."

per day

17.0

.10.7 with Anglo-German affairs, of this

Intormittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts west of Cardon- mass of material, for a work, which

rond during March, 1927, and Methuen promises under the title.

Full Supply.in all rider main districts "Germany, and England, 1871-1914." "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes," Past Garden-road during March, show that the quality of the water is It will run to more than one volume, Mrs. Anita Loos's successor to 1927. "First and the first is to be ready thin "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," will Intermittent

spring.

appear early in the spring.

25, Wing Wo St. Tel. C. 1116, Miss Olive Wadsley recently Metal Merchanto and Ship fished a novel which Cassell will

Chandlere.

publish undr: the title Managing Director-

Love,"

| DUGAN- I'M GLAD-MAGUE HIRED YOU, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WUZ' A BUTLER. SHE MUSTN'T. KNOW THAT I'M A FRIEND OF

1TOURS-

I NEVER WUZA GUTLER, JIGGS- SHE TOLD ME WHAT TO DO SO I'LL FAKE

THROUGH IT ALL RIGHT:

BRINGING UP FATHER

THERE'S THE DOOR-BELL, I'M

TO GIT A CARD FROM EVERY ONE- "THEM'S ME ORDERS-

D:1923, by lot)-Feature Service, Inc.

WHAT'S ALL THAT RACKET?

ights reserved.

supply in all Rider Main Districts during March, 1023,

Total 249.02 384.13 Consumption 6f water in Kowloon in millions and 'decimals of gallons during the month of March.

1027 1928 77.46 91.45 Consumption....... Estimated population 189,400 164,440 Consumption per head·

per day

17.0 Full Supply in all districts during March 1027 and 1928.

15.0

The Government Analyst's reports

Batisfactory.

Total rainfo to March 31, 1927, 0.20. March 31, 1928, 10,64

WHAT HAPPENED?

A GUY WÜZ JUST AT THE DOOR-

HE WOULDN'T GIVE ME HIS CARD-501 SWIPED HIS HAT, " "AN' PUSHED 'HİM OUT IN THE

STREET-HIS NAME IS IN

HIS HATS

THE DUKE-