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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

MAIL REVIEWS.

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INC.

HOTEL ARCADE

Tel. 58081.

NEW SHIPMENT

OF

BEAUTIFUL LINGERIE

PYJAMAS

MANDARIN COATS

EMBROIDERIES.

DENTISTS.

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let Anot, No. 74. Queen's Rand,

Central. T1, 21255.

TANG YUK, DENTIST

Successor to

the late BIEN TING, 14. D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.

THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG

ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.

72. Queen's Road, Central. Tel. 23270.

ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.

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Kowloon Bay.

New Work & Repairs.

Call Fing "L" Sole Agenta for Kelvin Motors

FOREIGN GOODS STORE.

GREAT REDUCTION ON

"SHAVEWELL

A Marvellous Shaving Cream Usual $1.50 now 75 cents.

at YEE HING, (Tomez & Company) (Lute of 24, Pottinger Street)

€2. Des Voeux Road C.

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An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast

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and at the Publisher:

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ROMANTIC MANSIONS.

["Mansions of Old Romance," by Charles G. Harper; Cecil

(with 80-line

Palmer, 10,8 illustrations)] The author has a vast store of information and chatty stories about the building and tha builders of the great British houses of the past. He has evidently en- joyed collecting them, and he has enjoyed writing them, and for our part we enjoyed reading them and we found something new about the places that were in our own home district.

even

of

of the

He tells astonishingly little the beauty and charm British grent houses.

For example in a two рацез description of Audley End, near Saffron Walden, he gives 19 the life history of the first Baron. Howard de Walden, and a little about Nell Gwynne and the "Merry Monarch." but there is no

of description

Lhe delicate Jacobean carving and the wood- work that are the chief glory of this great house and which were In new feature when it was built

(1616).

There are chapters on "Country House Curiosities." "Romantic Farmhouses," "Moated Houses," Lodge Gates," and "Gazebos and Garden Houses." All are most in- teresting.

The political view point of the writer is of one who looks back- ward regretfully.

Yet he spends pages telling how uncomfortable and overlarge and over-magnificent were many of these places.

About Blenheim he quotes Pope: See, sir here's the grand ap-

proach

This way is for His grace's

coach;

There lies the bridge, and

here's the dock,

Observe the lion and the cock The spacious court,, the colon-

nade.

I find by all you have been

telling

That 'tis a house, but not a

dwelling.

The day of these stately man- sions has gone, and whether one looks to the past or to the future, they have certainly left a flavour of fine memories behind them, and he is a poor man who does not en- foy them as part of his British heritage. This book will help its readers to share in this enjoyment.

CLAIMS FOR BACON.

["Shakespeare: New Views for Old". by Roderick L. Eagle; Ceell Palmer, 5/-] This is one of the most readable

ROUND

as well as one of the most convinc- are four-legged, furry gipales or ing books we have read on the Egyptians-that they came to us Baconian theory, and should be from Egypt, where they were read by all interested in the household goddesses in daya long authorship of the Shakespearian dead, and that their patrician and plays.

patronising ways, which rebuke Mr. Eagle, AN enthusiastle our brisk stupidity; are due to the Baconian, scouts the idea that subconscious feeling that they are more or less illiterate country lout deities in exile. This idea can be who had never been abroad could combined with Mery's suggestion have commanded the vocabulary or that "God made the cat to give written the plays and sennetaankind the pleasure of caressing usually ascribed to the Stratford the tiger." actor. He very cleverly shows An parallels-not merely verbal ones between the recognised writings of Bacon and those which he

laims for Bacon.

the

even more picturesque theory is based on the curious fact that the most aristocratic cat, who so hates to wet her so silent fort, will lose half her self-posser- aion and all her dignity when she smells fish.

Events in the life of the great philosopher are ingeniously used to prove our author's case. The I have seen a Black Bear fish- chapter on "Hamlet and Contem- Ing in a hack-oddy of the North porary History" is clever and one Saskatchewan, but never

heard on 'Drayton,

contemporary that any member of the order of rival, very plausible. As in the Felidae systematically practis most of such books the argument ised this craft. And, even if you one-sided and leaves the claims of grant that the cat first became

Stratfordian hat

to another man's companion when he took to pleader. As the nuthor says, some angiing, you have yet to explain day a chance discovery may reveal how and when the truth. It looks as if, until such taste for dah. a discovery is made, the wrangling will go on.

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AN INTRODUCTORY

HISTORY

by

A. I. CROOK, O.B.E., M.A. W. KAY, M.A.

W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.

PRICE $2.00.

NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS

The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mall Offices.

MAN'S FRIEND.

Stories of the Tiger in

the House.

"Cat's Company," by Michael Joseph (Illustrated); Geoffrey Bles, 15s. net.] :

The Dogs Man's first friend, he may have become to his mas- ter what the Jackal is to the Lion, an uninvited but tolerated guest, when hunting was the former's culy livelihood.

The Cat came to dwell with us in a later age, when we took to nyriculture and built bouacs with mouse-attracting grannies. That

1 have been told, was the theory of the grent Charles Darwin. There are other hypotheses cur rent

among cat-lovers... Thus some authorities believe that cats

THE CAMP FIRE

RAILWAY ENGINES.

Lord and Lady Baden-Powell presented plaques to the new rall- way engines of the L.M. and S. Railway Company, "The Boy Scout" and "The Girl Guide," on Decem- ber 9 at Euston Station.

They were accompanied by a number of Headquarters Commis- sioners and were greeted by a posse of welcome of 12 Boy Scouts and 12 Girl Guides from the Headquarters of the two Associations.

After the ceremony the Chief Scout and Chief Guido made an in- spection of the two engines in com- pany with Sir Josiah Stamp, the Chairman of the LM. and S. Rail- way Company, and Sir Henry Fowler, the Chief Mechanical

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A party of Boy Scouts and Rover. Scouts from the 14th Derby (L.M. and S. Railway) Group were pre- sent, several of their number hav- ing assisted in the construction of the two engines.

It is Interesting to recall that Lord Baden-Powell's godfather, from whom he derives the second of his names,, "Robert, Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell," was Robart Stephenson. Robert Stephenson was the celebrated civil engineer and bulider of bridges, the son of George Stephenson who, in 1821, was engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and won fame with his locomotive in 1829, after wards, constructing the Liverpool and Manchester Bne, the beginning of the rallway, oral,

"B-PA. TAKES THE CAKE.

"In the House of Lords there was, a large attendance of Pears when Lord Baden-Powell took the ont."——American paper,

Most of us consider that he de- serves the whole cake. Current number of Punch, uh Trend

SHORTS.

Boy Scouts are so much sought after by employers that young men who have never been Boy Scouts get hold of Scout badges and, re- presenting themselves as out of employment, prey on the sympathe

tic,

The Bishop of Basutoland is pre-

Canterbury Group of Boy Scouts. senting a Scout Flag to the 2nd

The Lord Derby Shield, for the most points in ambulance work was won at Blackburn by the Blackburn Cathedral Boy Scouts.

*

Braintree (Essex) Boy Scouts have built and taken possession of now headquarters as a result of raising over 2000 during the past few years.

Bolton (Lancs) Boy Scouts totalled 577 belonging to 17 Scout Groups three years ago. To-day they number 2,500 and there aro afty Groups in the town.

SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE.

she acquired her

Pler-Jumpers and Others.

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

SPECIALISTS IN BEAUTY.

JULIETTE

from

NEW YORK. The only skilled specialist In Hong Kong who is skill- ed in the art of Permanent Waving

ONLY

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Mr. Michael Joseph is passion- TO ately fond of cats, and ho begins

AMERICAN

BEAUTY SHOP.

his book about them by telling us Transfigure

black-and-white

how

jolly 1 kitten. christened Scissors by the mess cook, was his comrade in the trenches on the West front. Scissors would sacompany his offi- cer on his morning round, much to the amusement of the enemy, who never tried a shot at the furry target. Lillywhite. who knew how to extract condensed wilk from tins, was another Intel- ligent cat-of-war.

He gives us the history of all his favourite cats, reminding me

of the fifty-year succession of the cats attached to my own family. of whom the most remarkable was j P. Nork, Esquire, who lived to the Krent age of seventeen in spite of falling from the top storey of a house 80 ft. high. He was bask- ing at an open window and leapt cut at a passing bird.

Mr. Joseph has collected scores of authentic tales which agreeably lustrate the cat's complex pay- chology. Sea-faring cats, called "pier-jumpers" by sailormen, are an interesting category. Two cases are given of cats, who had aliking for sea voyages. but al ways returned home

cat.

for a long The cat is an animal of variable temperament; as Diderot observed il y a chat et chat.

Маву well-known cot-lovers have contributed to his store of anecdees, and B. F. Dalbin's clever drawings add to the pleasure of reading a delightful guide to the accond, manners and customs of man's but not second-beat, friend.-E.B.O. in. Singapore Free Pross.

BRITISH SCOUTS TO VISIT JAMAICA.

The Boy Scouts of King Edward VII School, Sheffield, will add to their foreign travels by visiting Jamaica at the invitation of Jamaican Boy Scouts.

These Sheffield Scouts have pre- viously visited Kandersteg, Lugano, Copenhagen, tho Austrian Tyrolj and Algeria.

The Scouts Jamaican visit will last in all about six weeks and will probably take place about Easter- tide.

Another party of the School Scouts will spend a Christmas holl- day in Switzerland for the winter sports.

A

SNAPS.

photographic exhibition was held by Blackburn Boy Scouts In their headquarters.

Large numbers of parenta and Friends visited the exhibition which WB 80 successful that it will pro-

bably become an annual event.

The most popular exhibits were tudies of Kandersteg, Switzerland, the site of the Boy Scouts Interna tional Chalet, which had been taken by two "Blackburn Boy Scouts dur- fig their visit. there last summer.

"BAITING THE BADGER."

This is an excellent game for a Scout display, and can be played either in a hall or out of dooza,

A couple of ropes, each about 10ft. long, are tied to a ring fasten- Altrincham County High Schooled to the floor, or on to a peg driven Boy Scouts, were able to save. the school premises from fire. *

Into the ground, The "badger” holds the loose end of one rope and the "bafter the other.

The prompt action of the Scouts, and their subsequently assisting the The badger has a tin with a peb- Fire Brigade, undoubtedly. prevent-ble in it, while the bafter carries a ed the fire from spreading. The cushion or pillow. Both boye are flames, which originated in the blindfolded." "W" boller-house, spread to the roof, but The game is played as follows: wore quickly overcome, and com- The badger rattles the pebble in the paratively little damage enaped.tin, at the same time running round The Altrincham Scouts are well the weight, and the baster, guided known in the Scout Movement by the cound, tried to reach him und through their very successful film hit him with the cushion. productions, two of the best known films which they have produced being "The Man Who Changed His Mind” and “Be Prepared ♫

Roth boys, of course, have to keep their own rope quite faut as they run round, to prevent themselves from tripping.

You

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We have 11 large Selection of Jewel- leries suitable for all ocessions.

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SHOES.

Footwear of High Quality. Footwear Within Your Means. Footwear That Has Long Life.

FAIR & COMPANY. 18, Wyndham Street. Tel. 26204,

Pair

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