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WIG AND GOWN MEMORIES

Sir Edward Parry In His Legal Ancedotage

The very easence of the essayist's existence la not so

COMFORTS FOR THE SOLDIERS

CANTON WOMEN'S SOCIETY TO ASSIST THE "BOYS" AT FRONT

MADAME TAI CHI-TAO

Canton, Yesterday. The first meeting of the Canton Women's Society for assisting the expeditionary soldiers at the front who are now engaged in the work of exterminating reactionaries and counter-revolutionalists, held under the presidency of Madame Chan Ming-ahu at the Department of Finance building last Saturday, was attended by a large number of ladles representing the various Women's Suffrage Unions and other public organizations, among those present being Mesdames Chan Chai- tong. Chan Chak. Chan Hing-wan, Wong So, Auyeung Kuo, Hsi Shung. ching. Taoi "Ting-kal, Heung Hoa- ping and Chu Chap-shun.

is perhaps at his best in his own cir- cult memories. Among the many much his information as his advocates recalled, Charles Russell manner, not so much his eruditionis admitted to have been "one of the aa his tose. It is the sap and greatest," though

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manner davour of Montaigne's forgiving was "of the roughest." irony that make him the Irresistible articled clerk, sent with papers to A certain artist of the craft. And there is the advocate, laid them on a table something of that mellowess, which in front of him. Russell threw comes only through forgiveness, in them on the floor, whereupon the Sir Edward Parry's "Concerning young man turned to the door and Many Things" (Cassell, 218.), 80 said calmly: "Mr. X'a compliments that the very taste of them, in all and he will be with you at nine their variety, renews itself for his thirty to-morrow morning." To readers. He has no faith, though, this the other replied: "Go and in mere talk and suggests that Dr. plek up the d papers. Johnson would have rebuked the pose I must have

I sup- n look at them." The clerk, however, refused to do his bidding and awore back heartily. Unlike Bunn in the grip of Richard III, Russell acknowledged himself ss the aggressor. Peace was mada Instantly and the famous advocate | remained a firm friend of the the Society. articled clerk in the years to come.

Walrus himself as one who "talked always for fame."

Marready in a Rage But he resuscitates many another wrangler and he is particularly happy in reviving the once famous ense Bunn v. Macready, in which he weighs the balance nicely between the renowned, actor and the then manager of Drury Lane. It arose out of a fracas in the theatre and the author allows each combatant to speak for himself. It was after the third act of "Richard II" when the actor, mindful of a long grie- vance, opened the manager's doo and exclaimed, “You d— scoundrel how dare you use 'me in this man. ner?" And dignified, even in his anger, the actor gave the manager

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back-handed slap as a prell minary: "I did not hear what he said, but I dag my fist in him as effectively as I could; he caught hold of me and got at one time the little finger of my left hand in his mouth and bit it." The actor exclaimed, "You rascal, would you bite?" while the manager roared "Murder! Murder!"""

A Savage Sentence

Madame Chan Ming-ahu was un- animously elected the President of

In the course of her opening address, the President outlined the purposes underlying the formation of

the Society, which owed its existence to the untiring efforta of Madame Tai Chi-tao.

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Madame Chan also explained the mission of the Central peditionary forces who are fighting for the party and the country, and appealed to the audience to co-operate in raising an amount of at least $30,000 for the purpose of purchasing comforts for the soldiers

The author has some wise ob- Bervations on the excessive severity of judges in those days and writes approvingly of Charles Hopwood, then Recorder of Liverpool, when he referred sympathetically to the ease of a poor woman who, for pil fering a few shillings' worth of food, had served twenty-two years' imprisonment. Hopwood set the example of short sentences, at the same time converting public opinion | at the front. by the fact that he had saved Liver- It is reported that a substantial pool twenty-eight thousand pounds portion of the amount wanted has in prison costs. "It was then that been subscribed and promised dur- business men saw that there was ing the week ond, and it is can- sound sense In Hopwood's method, fidently anticipated that before long and that, as an Irish colleague the amount aimed at will be said, 'he has indeed taught us what realised. a beautiful thing. it is to temper mercy with justice","

Bunn's account of the affair la not unnatuurally different: མ་ All through Sir Edward's book was examining bills and documents there sounds the note of worldly previous to their payment on the fol | kindliness with the exception of the lowing morning, when, without the essay entitled "Concerning Shake- Blightest note or preparation my speare on Fathers." In this he door was opened, and after an

observes bluntly: "After mature ejaculation of "There, you willian, thought, I am clear that Shake- take that and that,' I was knocked speare discovered fathers to be down, one of my eyes was complete absurd and ridiculous persons. ly closed up, the ankle of my left | How true this is to-day. In short, leg, which I am In the habit of the author claims that daddy's passing round the leg of the chair role belongs essentially to low when writing, violently sprained, | comedy, in support of which thesis my person plentifully soiled with he cites the young American girl blood, lamp-oil, and ink, the table rushing up to her sisters as she upset and Richard III holding me | shouts her joyful nawa, “Sayt lsn't down." A jury eventually award- it real splendid. Poppa's been ed Bunn £150 damages.

bitten by a mad dog and we're all Several other old cases are fresh-going to Paris." In the pages of ened into new life, but the author Jane Austen, Sir Edward finds

poppa taken seriously, merely be cause the novelist's public insisted upon such treatment: "It is happily otherwise to-day. And what I And so encouraging is that it was equally so in Shakespeare's time?”- Newman's Silk Handkerchief But, apart from poppa, it is the best and not the worst aide of the mast diverse personalities which appears in this book and perhaps the beat illustration of the tone is in this significant anecdote which concludes the easay on John Henry Newman. Years before he became a cardinal, in the obscure days, "when he seemed, so to speak, much set aside," a poor person had left a silk handkerchief for him at the door with a respectful message. "Thirty years afterwards when he

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During the week ended Novem- ber 25 the following cased of dis- esses were notified to the Medical Officer of Health:

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