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"MAIL" REVIEWS

LITERARY LIONS IN

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I"Do We Agree"? Published by

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JOHNNY BURGOYNE

CHINESE SONGS.

Warrington, in this book, he "lays his cuts neat and regular, atraight ["Gentleman Johany Burgoyne," by down the back, and drawing blood F. J. Hudleston, C.B.E. (Cape. every line" althougn always in 12a. 68.).]

hla own inim'table and whimsical Johnny Burgoyne was both awayThe Observer." tragic and comic figure. He was pompous, he Was a gambler, in This small bock of forty-seven morals a latitudinarian-although pages.contains a report, but un-it-ia but fair to him to say that fortunately not a verbatim ono, of during the lifetime of his wife he was an adoring and affectionate a debate between G. K. Chesterton husband-and as a soldier, though and Bernard Shaw with Hilaire of unimpeached courage, not a Belloc in the chair. Mr. Belloc's Huccess in the field. Yet in spite of his ill-success he had wide introductory remarka terse, vision, and was in many ways in This is an endeavour to record witty, and cynical but misleading in advance of his time. He did not in Western staff-notation the bat- that they make US expect believe in, brutal discipline, and the 'ter-known songs, religions and nickname "Gentleman Johnny," secular, of the Chinese people, and] from two such celebrated

given by his men, means a good place such songs permanently on dialecticians as G.B.S. and G.K.C.

seal. He was, in a sense, the record in a form that is under- a feast of sparkling 'metaphor, father of Hight cavalry in this standable to Western-trained musi- witty paradox,

brilliant country, and did for the mounted clans. and

army a little of what Moore did

are

IN WESTERN FORM.

Songs of the People," compiled by T. 2. Koo, Shanghai, Kwang; Hsueh Publishing Co., Peking- road.]

The effort is most praise-worthy! chaff and banter. We do not later for the infantry. He advis- and to those interested in. Chinese get that. The hors d'oeuvres and, ed and encouraged his officers to music here is much of value in the liqueurs (also provided by the study modern languages. In 1785, the collection. The compiler is Charman) are the best of the re- when a member of a Board to con- most modest in his pretensions and sider the defences of England, he disclaims being anything more past.

showed himself a member of the than an amateur actuated by tho of the Blue Water School long before desire to prevent some such school came actually into melodies being lost due to the fact that hardly any Chinese music is

existence.

Shaw opens well giving, facetious description of himself, but when he gets into his subject -the misdistribution of wealth under the capitalist system--we get

It is with the disaster of Sara-written down and such that is what he has been saying to the Fabians for the past forty years. toga that the name of Burgoyne is written down is understood only One gets the impression that he always associated. The American by a select few. went to the meeting merely to War of Independence had broken

Thus most of this collection has

please his friend Chesterton and to out in 1775, and in the following been compiled by listening to grace the gathering with his pre- March Burgoyne salled for Quebec melodies; the harmonisation is his to act as second in command to own. On playing through this sence. Mr Chesterton speaks a

Returning home in music some difficulty will be en- countered by the uneven balance attempt an Quebec, of the phrasing which makes it

strange and at times almost incom

Famous Publicist and Diplomat Dies.

lot and says nothing. Shaw states Carleton. plainly that he is against nationalls- November, after the defeat of the ing the means of production, dis-American tribution, and exchange. We know Burgoyne busied himself on his what he moans. But Chesterton rambles on, compliments Shaw on hia brilliant talents, thanks hm the several times for coming meeting, charges him with saying things not reported in this volume, and leaves the reader wondering what is the programme of the Dis- tributlat. League of which G.K.C. la President. Chesterton is exceed- ingly poor.

The debate enda abruptly like a truncated cenotaph. Instead of summing up in the usual way Mr. Belloc recites one of his own poems which shows that with so many inventions and discoveries taking place the debate is already almost antiquated.

With threo Buch distinguished names and portraits on the

cover

of the book one naturally expecta some debating out of the ordinary. The Chairman alone does not dis- appoint. If the same debate had been mouthed in the same words by less famous men it would have 'at- tracted no attention and certainly never have been published.

BOOK OF VERSE

["A Handful of Dreams," by E.

Hall Hains, Cecil. Falmer 5/-~| net.]

Colonel George B. Harvey, newspaperman, publicist and ex- simbassador to the Court of St. James, who succumbed to heart dis ease and bronchitis at his home in Dublin, N. H. The statesman's death was not unexpected, he having been ailing since early spring.

ear.

Composing verae is a splendid literary exercise, but like a learner's attempts at violin playing or paint- ing, it does not always give pleasure "Thoughts for conducting the War prehensive to the Western to others. The great mistake with from the side of Canada.” This But this is to be expected.

While not the first attempt.toj most would-be Miltong is to moralise was submitted to, and approved and affect a melancholy sort of by, the King. The essence of it record Chinese music, it la, we

The result is mental aloofness.

that a Was

force should move think, the first harmonised collec- that what they themselves think down into America by the Laketion made available to the general sublime often appears to others to Champlain route, so well known in public, and as such we wish It be maudlin or sloppy. These the old French and Indian ware, success. Westerners who are ac charges can be brought against some and the vital essential of the quainted with Chinese popular of the poems in this small book. Of scheme was that a junction should songs will note some that are ab- the eighty mercifully short poema be effeted at Albany with the sent, and will find others that he it contains about sixty ara platitu- forces of General Howe moving up has heard in a different form; this dinous and sixth-formiah, consisting from New York.

is explained by the author as be- of threadbare themes treated in the

Unfortunately the Governmenting due to the fact that different same old way and smacking of made the blunder of trying to run versions of the same melodies are Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Mrs. the campaign from Whitehall. current in various parts of. China, Hemans. Thus in "The Battle of More unfortunately, the minister The volume is on sale at the the Dawn" we have the versifiers concerned was that Lord George Commercial Press, the Chung Hwa perennial favourite the contest be- tween day and night with the usual! Germain-formerly Sackville--who Book Company, the Association to his conduct at Press, and the Y.WE.A. Publica as à sequel Our al- motaphors and similes. thor has nothing fresh say about Minden, had been declared "unfit tion Department. Mr. Koo himself

to scrve His Majesty In any is Associate General Secretary "off this stale subject and her descrip-

whatsdaved." the Y.M.C.A.'s of China, and has tion cannot be compared with C. J. Military Capacity Denis's racy treatment of the same Contemptible. as a soldier, Lord in a few instances used these Chin- phenomenon in "The Stoush o' Day." George was impossible as a "frock," ese melodies in conjunction with to the downright ancred words and formed them into It la only when the author gets and it was away from the conventional and slackness and incompetence of this Hymas.-R. V. D., in "N. C. Dally hackneyed that she is convincing blockhead that the unfortunate News." Fortunately she does so in about Burgoyne owed the loss of his dozen pieces.

The poems which military reputation. The neces gave us most pleasure are "Cold Dia-sary instructions were sent to

WHAT YOUR EYES TELL. illusion." "Spectacles," "My Boat Carleton in Canada, and a letter

Clear bright eyes indicate good and 1." and "Life's Game of Nap." was drafted to Howe, telling him. A delightful spirit of wit and a

of the co-operation required. But health Eyes that are dall, yellow- straightforward simplicity of dlc- Lord George Germain, going down lah, heavy, and that cannot keep tlon raise these efforts out of the for a week-end in Sussex, refused wide awake and alert during the ruck. In "Truth," "Alone" and to wait until a fair-copy had been working hours of the day, indicate especially "The Souls of Song" a made. The letter to Howe was left liver torpidity, imperfect digestion, higher poetic level is reached. unsigned and, on the minister's re-bowel laziness, or other conditions

But although we are all for the turn, was forgotten by everybody of ill-health.

To gently stimulate the liver, to HONG KONG HEIGHTS encouragement of verse composition and never sent. The result was

65 an exercise and a means by that when Burgoyne fought his aid digestion and to restore daily For the information of visitors which one can appreciate better the way past Ticonderoga there was no intestinal regularity nothing is bet the following list of some of the work of the masters we do not want sign of Howe: That commander,ter than Pinkettes. These dainty highest points on the Island and, the market flooded with the experi- having had no Instructions from little laxatives dispel constipation, ments of these veralflers. Few of home, had gone off. In the opposite billous attacks and sick headaches: the writers have pinlona capable of direction and taken Philadelphia in a night; clear the skin, purity a fight in the rarefled atmosphere Outnumbered by Gates, Burgoyne the breath, relieve Piles. Chemists of the true 'posts' empyrean. If a put up a stout resistance, but, everywhere. sell Pinketten. maker is very anxious to see hia or delaying his retreat too long, was

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