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caves, which are pression of Hong Kong, as she pasa aburi limestone ed through on one or two of its "off filled with wonderful carvings and days", as regards the weather. figures. Trang was the last place There is an interesting sketch of visited.
Burma is briefly summed up in Canton, after visiting which town,
Northward to the description of Shway Dagohn she made her way Peking, and the Western Hills, Temple, (588 B.C.), Pagan, then Southward to the Yangtse and centre for lacquer, Mandalay, and the Irrawaddy. The trip up the Chungking.
Though this is a book written Irrawaddy, was, leisurely made by on Slam and Cambodia, cargo boat, and river life and chiefly there are interesting sidelights on scenery are described.
The book closes with a glimpse the customs and characteristics of the Chinese, gleaned during her of Mingum, where there is the world, famous bell, which weighs short visits and journeyings.
Chapter Four introduces us to eighty tons. Angkor in Cambodia, where there
The journey can be followed with is a detailed description of the magnificent ruins, of the ancient ease from stage to stage, as a map la supplied with the book, upon temples and palaces,
which all the places are clearly Though the Authoress says that marked. There are 79 pages, full of aphor- isms just as an egg la full of meat."the book is added to the sketches,
A quiverful of barbed darts furnished by a man for men to filek at women. Just a few selections:---- "A woman's tongue is the nearest approach yet achieved to perpetual motion." "To insure a really happy marriage, the man should be deaf and the woman dumb." "When an old woman marries a young man, she is hoping for happiness, but asking for trouble." "The equality of the sexes to a woman means a preponderance in her favour."
If these truths, won't hold them, then they are beyond all hope!
(and, I think, most of them are).
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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I strongly recommend this book to rather than the sketches to the my male friends as a ready refer book," one would not really be com- homely style, and is therefore easy to read, and is plentifully illustrat- ence of witty "come backs" whenplete without the other. the opposite sex gets out of control sketches though artistic, are of ed, in both colour, half-tone, and double value, when one can look at line, and can be recommended to those who enjoy a book of travel, them intelligently, after reading which is not too much of a geo- the descriptions in print of the scenes from which they were taken, graphical description, or one over- loaded with wearying and heavy There are some authorities quoted dissertations or races, customs and on History and customs, one being industries. INDIANS OF OLD.
the Chinese scholar, Chow Ta-kwan, [The Plains of Abraham," By some of his notes being given; the James Oliver Curwood (Hodder other is a French scholar named M. Groslier. Siam is next visited, and Stoughton).].
the rice milla of Bangkok, and the Largely a romance of life as it flower markets being specially was actually lived and not
mentioned. This part is a dé- might have been lived, Mr. Curwood scription of a country where one gives us another of his splendid his finds "Klongs" or canals, Instead of torical romances. Readers will re-roads in most member his book "The Black Authoress stayed here for a time, Hunter" which was reviewed in and gives some sketches on Siamese
some
es it
life.
cases. The
EGYPT.
"The Nile and Egyptian Civilian- tion," by Alexandre Moret, Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London. 25/- net.]
As schoolboys many of us had
to read the Euterpe of Herodotus.
Egypt was then almost an un- known land and the Father of His- tary, threw over it that glamour of wonder and mystery which the Land itself has instilled into visi-
tors ever since.
It was our Introduction to Egypt. these columns
few months
No more fascinating historian than ago, and will appreciate the difficul-
The Old Palace was viewed, and Herodotus has ever lived; and no ties that beset the author in his search for authentic data on the the Siamese methods of architec- part of his great History leaves ao was in ture and decoration are described permanent an impress on the ima- Province of Quebec as it 1765. The novel begins approxi- in detail, and with the artist's ap-gination as the second book, the
Euterpe, on Egypt. mately where The Black Hunter" preciation of line and colour. terminated although it is in no way There is a chapter on the Inner
the where that
Authoress book. The Palace, dependent upon author's great-grandmother was a witnessed some ceremonies peculiar Mohawk Indian and he is able to to the Season, namely the Swing present to the public evidences of ceremony, and presentation of gifts, the nobler side of Indian character, by the Faithful to the gigantic
We have had, and still have, auppressed through a period of cen- gold-covered sleeping Buddha, Phra
great authorities who maintain turies by the white man's egoism Norn.
Chapter Ten is devoted to the that we are to look to Egypt as and prejudice. The Indian was the greatest of all friends, the greatest Wat or monastery, through which the fons et origo of all our arts, of all patriots, the greatest of all all Siamese males must pass and sciences and inventions, hay
civilisation itself; that as we re- centre of village lovers of his country. Unlike the which is the selfish white men who covered the life. There are two legends re-treat from it as a centre towards plains of Canada and the V.S. with countered of Guatama, or Buddha, the Ultima Thule and the confines of the world whatever remnants earenses of buffalo and deer, slaugh- and one of a boat in legendary of civilisation we find are but the. tered ruthlessly, that they might history. This is followed by a disjecta membra of the Children of enjoy the delicacy of their tongues, most interesting chapter on Death the Sun; the scattered heirlooma of the Indian was always a great con- and Cremation, and the Authoress the Great Race which originated, server of wild life, killing only to had the unusual experience of cherished and sustained the only satisfy his needs. Despoiled, sub- witnessing three Royal cremations, civilisation which has enlightened jugated, annihilated, he died with all the accompanying splen- mankind..
dour, and ancient rites.
‚anvage.
-STRATHCONA.
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IN SIAM.
[Siam & Cambodia in Pen and Pastel....with excursions into
China and Burma by Rachel Wheatcroft....Constable, Lon-
don, 21/-]
This is a book of travel written by a woman who had not the ample means at her disposal to make her tour merely a matter of first class Misa passages and best hotels. Wheatcroft travelled by sea and
river, by train, gharry, ricaha, dandy, tonga, elephant, donkey, and Shank's pony.
She patronised Dutch, English, and Chinese steamera; lived now in hotels, now in the homely boarding houses of the Y.W.C.A., and the G.F.S. 'There
of
Be this as it may, the Veil of! The Stage is next given a chapter Isis hides behind it a wonderful on Drama, Ballet, Comedy, and
land of mystery, until half a cen- Shadow Play. Both Native, and
tury ago almost as. unrasponsive English translated plays, are acted to the unremitting curiosity of man In the Siamese language.
There is a discussion on titles,
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A grassy plain 7-Relating to the
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austard-apple family
canal-like ducts of 48-Noah's ship
the body
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Alberta, Canada 10-A misanthrope 12-Dreada
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15-A German
- monoplane
18-To eradicata
20. The Greak-long E 21-Devices for
lossening shook
23-A number 24-In the smallest
degree 26-Beneath (postia) 29-A crystalline white
uult
30-Point of compass
(abbr)
32-A river in N. W.
Germany 84-To-traffi
|60-A 'muelcal exercise
52-Ireland
53-Foolish and tricky
VERTICAL (Cont)'
13-A bug found under
toge
14-Man's name
18-An unexpected
demand (colleg.)
| 17-Newly married men
55-Umwritten narrative 19-A round trip
poetry |36-To move cautiously 58-The white poplar 80-Dropsy
81-A rock resembling.
sinte
62-A garment worn in
Arabia 63-You
VERTICAL
1-An early rime or
poent
2-An African fatlah
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France
6-A compass point
(abbr.)
30-An barb of the bean❘ 6-emotely
family 38-Obtain
40-Deprozied
42-To prepare for
worting, an ord 41-A region north of Trieste, Italy
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Romeo and Juliet 9-Forme
10-A finger stall {$1-To buffet
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palting)
21-To shut out
22-Observed
26-A tamprey 27~A Chinesa plant 120-Wrath
31-80 (Scot) 23-A ilma-period- S4-Telegram (abbr.) 36-Girl's na
30-An English post 87-To aim at 88-Uncooked 50-Sooner than 140-Buppla (Dial. Brit.)
41-Executes
43 Spanish dish of
bread and milk
48-An
Irish dramatist and assay at
47-A bow
40-To tear
B1-A female kangaroo 53-Qirl's nama
|B4-A-hedge In a ditch
67-To ensnare
'69–The, laurel tree
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as the great Sphinx herself.
The present volume, The Nile ranks, and customs, and honours and Egyptian Civilisation, is not connected with them, which is quite only very interestingly written but bewildering, and must have taken it shows with wonderful skill how much time and patience to fathom the art, religion, government, and and describe on paper. Superstisocial life of Egypt were, so to tions, many and varied, are given a say, the children of that river of chapter to themselves, and Games surpassing awe and majesty, the are followed somewhat strangely Nile itself. by Lawa and Justice. Lastly
No river in antiquity produced among these descriptions of Siamese such an effect of marvel on the life, and customs, there is a chapter imagination. If It had flowed up "serts, which follow it all along with an account of the various hill it could not have been more "its course towards the sea, not Schools, Hospitals and Missions in wonderful. And like the old lady "only in Egypt, but from as far Life have been observed and dis-vidence because he always put "evar went. the district; in short, all sides of who never ceased to thank Pro- "up in the South as the Egyptians Now the sands do cussed from the Sublime to the navigable rivers beside prosperous "not absorb the river; on the con- Kog during August, 1928, stand- Commonplace.
towns, the dwellers of the Niletrary, the black mud carried by ara time for the 120th meridian, Chapter. Sixteen deals with Valley never ceased to thank the the water encroaches on the East of Greenwich, is as follow:-. excursions, the visit to the floating gods for the marvellous resurrec "taway ground and clothes itsell and an introduction here, a. pupil market of Ayuthia, and ruine attion which brought them food and "in corn and greenery. There is no August there, and above all the faithful Phrabat, and Lopburi; the former life itself. No wonder the Nile visible source, no persistent rain 17 pursuit of the artists' calling alone being vlaited after much difficulty, became apotheosized into a God, to feed its waters; no tributary enabled her to travel on from country to country, to make draw-necessitating hiring a special train whose Life, Death and Resurrec-comes in from the neighbouring THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. inge, and to learn about Eastern at the cost of two pounds (sterling). tion is dimly reflected in all the "countries, within the borders of The teak forest of Kakon Lam- great religions that have come "Egypt, to awell the inexhaustible peoples at first hand.
pang, and the employment of ele within the influence of the Chil-flood. What a wonder it must The Authoress was In China, in phants for felling and hauling logs,dren of the Sun,
"have been for the first inhabitants the early days of the present is an interesting side of one of the froubles, but unlike most travellers | Industries for which Siam for pleasure, who were beginning | famous. to avoid the Yangtze, she sailed up
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"The Nlie was the biggest river of the valley! We know that the 18"of the world which the ancients "Egyptians never solved the mys "knew. Where it enters Egypt, "tery of the origin of their river. A visit is paid to Chlengmel, "after the First Cataract, Its deep "What is more, hardly less ignor- it through the gorges to Chung-where lacquer, bronze, and silk, "bed is already over 500 yards "ant than they, we were still un- king, and relates a somewhat make it a happy hunting ground for "wide, and lower down it spreads "aware less than a century ago of aminous adventure that befell her. Souvenir collectors.
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