1932-10-24 — Page 3

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1932.

We have everything for the »

ני

XMAS MAIL

Cards, Calendars, Diaries, Wrapping Paper, Stationery, Xmas Tags, Tissue Paper,

etc., etc.

BREWER

CO. &

10. PEDDER STREET

"Opposite Hong Kong Hotel

Open Till 8.30 p.m.

XMAS CARDS.

CHILDREN'S GIFT BOOKS AND ANNUALS

LATEST NOVELS

AND MAGAZINES

LENDING LIBRARY. containing all new novels" and modern literature. "

THE EXCELSIOR CO. 5 D'AGUILAR ST. "Phone

THE

& Hong Kong Hotel 24270,

HONG HONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;\

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL:

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonatio apellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

15

16

9.

110

12

14

16

17

19

20

21

22

24

25

28

129

31

32

38

141

13

146

147

140

52.

55

53

54

HORIZONTAL

1-A door, fastening

5-Competent

-Sew loosely

10-Fleshy parts of

animale

12-A tree

tree

13-To set again

18-SkiMul

17-Augustus: (abbr.)

13-Father and mother

35

36 137

| HORIZONTAL"(Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont.)

46-A continent (abbr) 18-Current 46-Morsura of weight 18-Entrances 48-Scarcer

49-A`title

60-More docile

A5-More mature

54-Tablet's.. 55-Ajar.

20-East Indies (abbr).

21-Army

23-Produca

25-Heavenly body

26-Bustts

29-Tardy

23-instigate 30-Rasidue

ST-Buffx

17

VERTICAL

1-Pless of pork 2-Because 3-Narrow strip of

leather

4-A nobla

31-Buffix denoting sight 6-80 bolt

38—A baversgo 35-Trim

33-Passageway

40-Land measure (51.): 41-Boljeltor at Law

(abbr.)

42-Gratify to the

utmost

Elizabeth (short) 7-Musical note' B-Greek letter 9-To utter abruptly 11-Framed words out

of letters 12-Consumés

14-Plant

19-Quist 22-Green spot in a

desert

24-Anxious 26-A constellation 27-Lyric poem 81-A kiln for drying

hopa -Asheimaman

|32-A

34-Den

16-The gods of the

Norge pantheon Collectively 47-Title of former Russian rulere 39-Having ears 40-in

position for motion (Naut.) 43–Ballora (Colloq.) 44-Combining form.

Alr Alr 47-8hort sleep. 49–Japanese coin B1-Mother

68–A church (abbr)

(The solution of the above with a new, cross-word puzzle.) setti

sppear in to-morrow's issus,

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.

EAST STEP PRIP ARU HINDERSP

ENABLI

ZURDO

ALLÓT NOO

BLECONF

SOME

ORL

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by

AB. CROOK, OHE, MA W. KAT, MAZURA

W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A.,

PRICE $1.00. NOW ON BALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

England Will Lead Way To Progress

Likened To Moses In Role Of Destiny

SOME FALSE ANALOGIES

In that clever book of dispaa- were easily dealt with by Sidmouth

LIVING ISSUES

IN CHINA."

A New Book By

Mr. H. T. Hodgkin."

Shakespeare's

Illustrations Make Volume Valuable.

11

Art Embellished

Imeasure of success. It is a pity

that the names of the characters are abbreviated-Vio., Clo, Mal.

"Living Issues in China" by As your temperament or your have an awkward look ill-besoam- H. T. Hodgkin, (Allen and Unwin mood dictates, "Twelfth Night is ing the reverence of this fing 5/-), is of 200 pages written by an Malvolio's play, or Viola's, or quarto.

English missionary for American

on

consumption, and contains many Olivia's, or even the rude farce of The binding, half leather interesting facts about Chinese Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch, linen boards cunningly stamped history, family life, age-long cut-To read it again is to realise how with figures from the play and a toms, beliefs, politics, hopes and for Shakespeare the play is for

delightful cockerel, is gay and ap- aspirations. The author spent

propriate. many years in different parts of none of these, but for all; and has

Best of all are Mr. Ravillous's China and has a wide knowledge a unity that belongs to those spon-illustrations. This young artists has of the past and present conditions taneous freshets of the poetic im- never appeared to such advantage.

Moreover he

The great title-page, recalling the of that country.

sionate observation "The Discovery fand Castlereagh when there were understands the mentality and agination, and never to the more majestic title-page of Elizabethan · of Europe" the author announces only about 300,000 electors and a psychology of the Chinese better laboured Invention of the writer of land Jacobean fallos, rouses

his

opinion that the post-war

than most authors.

We found this book to resemble

each chapter Was exceedingly

@x-

population of some 8,000,000.

Sir Henry Betterton and Sir Her period is over, and that in 1931 abert Samuel have to cope with two new era for England has opened. and a half million" unemployed, a

Mr. Cohen-Portheim, who was highly organised body of trades interesting but the solutions offer-tragedy, comedy, farce, and pure colours; and in the production of

interned here from 1914 to 1919, unions and 29 million electors

Wellington. commanded amall knows far too much about our professional armies, never exceed country to be deluded by the elec-ing 70,000 men. In the last war tion of 1931 into thinking that the England put 5,000,000 into the millions of working men and clerks field. The total National Debt after Waterloo was $700,000,000; and their families have all gone

after the armistice it Was Conservative, But, regarding the £7,000,000,000.

What is the use of electorul wave as a confirmatory comparing events and times so dis- symptom, he is strengthened in his similar? conclusion that the "we shall mud- With prudent haste the Profes- dle through" mood has at last been or skips from the field of his torical analogy and comes down to replaced by the national resolve the all-important Fact, which that something must be done." seems to amount to no more than "What that something will be, or the assertion of Mr. Jacks that ought to be, depends on our rulers. Englishmen are not fools. I agree. Rut, as Mr. Portheim thinks that with him that the Fact was so; but the so-called

ofis it so to-day?. Even assuming its civilisation America is a failure,, and that presen truth, how far does. It carry modern Germany is still

the us in the argument between Dr. making, he comes round, by a pro- Pangloss, who says that everything cess of eliminating extremist coun-is for the best in this best of all tries like Fascist Italy and Soviet Possible worlds, and Mr. Lloyd. Russia, while smiling on indivi- George, for instance, who finds the dualist Spain and cultured France, present and the immediate future to the main thesis of his book vary black?

in

that England is the Moses de- signated by destiny to lead the old

**

اور

world out of its present bondage WHEN SUBMARINES

to economie tyrants. He has dis- covered much, in the national) character and political tradition, of Britons to encourage his bellet! that England will be equal to the! high task, and therefore Mr. Portheim must be thanked and ranked amongst the optimists.

GUARDED COAST.

Fear Of Invasion Is

Theme Of Story.

How the German invasion acure in the summer of 1917 affected the East Coast is vividly described by Lt. W. G. Carr in this book, publish-

recently. ·

The Defeatist Label. There is another, more plangent and to us better known optimisted who has taken upon himself in the columns of a daily contemporary to "reply to the Defeatists"-1 mean no less a person than Pro- fessor L. P. Jacks. I protest at the outset..against a professor of philosophy flinging a vulgar and discredited nickname at those who differ from him in their views of the future.

"The general atmosphere" (he writes) "became. 'windy' indeed, Troops were rushed to the East Coast and guhs were mounted, and for some weeks we men. in submarines lived the life of fire- men. We were always at short notice, always on the alert, ready to rush to sen and attack the ap- proaching enemy ships and trans- ports."

Submarine officers and men were

During the war this silly label was plastered on those who, like Lord Lansdowne and the Prince) Sixte de Bourbon, thought that the repeatedly aroused at dead of night war might have been ended in 1916 because of alarms which usually ad proved false. On these occasions or 1917; and everybody now mits that they were right, and that the Harwich submarines were al- if the Emperor Carl's offer had ways ready for sea twenty mintues been taken the world would have after the signal had been given, despite the fact that various mem- been spared, not only two years of bars of the crew had to be collect- carnage, but also the Peace of

ed from shore billets. Versailles:

A thrilling account is given of Another phrase in the Profes- sor's article is "Jeremiah bas be the ramming of a German U-boat come A best-seller." All this by a British submarine: means that those who refuse to see "The U-boat saw us coming at, the future through the rose-tinted her like a ram at a gate. She spectacles of the Professor, and went into a crash dive but it who detect the falseness of his his- doesn't quick enough. We tore torical analogies, are short-sighted through deck plating as she cowards. "False analogy is the dipped under, and lift her with fruitful parent of error," said some enough force to drive her down- philosopher greater than Mr. wards, so she hit the bottom with Jacks; probably Bacon. Let us a bump and bounced clean to the glance at some of the historical surface again. It was quite instances given to assure us that shallow, not more than six or we are out of the desert and have

eight fathoms deep." already one foot in the Promised Land.

History At Random.

"As I turn over the pages of our history at random I find that the present, crisis' might have been written at the top of every one.

says Mr. Jacks. I am afraid, that

"By" the time she bobbed up again our captain, had the, toz- pedos ready, and his eyes ware accustomed to the darkness. He fired one 'fish." When it hit there was

no question about -"Fritz's' fate.”.

The story of a bride who was

the late Principal of Manchester marooned in a submarine during a College has turned over his his- gale is told with a wealth of tory books very much at random. humorous detail, while the terribla I hope he didn't lecture on history, strain, both mental and physical, For his Julius Cassar-William the of service in undersen - craft in Conqueror-Black Death-Henry the war-time is depicted in language Eighth's "Monasteries -Spanish the restraint of which carries con

'crises" are Armada

mereviction. buffoonery,

It is unfortunate, however, that We know really nothing about the author, revives the legend of s those lavents, -etvēpt picturééque mystery. In connection - with the stories. The Cromwell coup d'etat sinking of the Hampshire with certainly was a crisis, which took Lord Kitchener on board.. Had he 20 years and the death of the referred to the Omciál - Histories, principal protagonists to settle both British and German, he would Notom Comfort there for the have found that the loss 61 ↑ this, Optlin Ints. As for the unch Re- Chip was due on incontrovertible

Here is a book—there are

constructed fables.

pectations, more than fulfilled by The piece is a miracle, especial-the dainty and dexterous pictures

in the text the curate's egg-the first half of hy in its astonishing mixture of

They are printed in various

one thinks only of the book Mr. and Mrs. Gibbings ed by Mr. Hodgkin were not at allyrics if convincing. The book is unfor- Malvolio, "Twelfth Night" might have done full justice to their en- tunately lop-sided, the excellent be a Russian piece; but in Shake-graver. descriptive and historical parts ba-speare as, thank God; frequently only 276 copies to be had-which Ing neutralized by missionary pro- enough in life breaks in bird-song. would have been snapped up had it paganda. This book may appeal the song of love, and the merry appeared two years ago; the pru to those for whom it is obviously laughter of men at ease.

dent who might then have refrain- written, the Pilgrim-Father ele- To put this play in a setting ed from buying it for pleasure, had ment in America, but will scarcely worthy of it has been the aim of better buy it now an invest- influence any Briton who has lived the Golden Cockerel Press, and they ment. When the world recovers, la China.

must be congratulated on a fine no mere three guineas will get it.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!

"ANCHOR"

AB

"The World's Best Butter

NEW ZEALAND'S

FINEST AND CHOICEST

MAY NOW BE HAD FROM "ALL COMPRADORES STORES

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. (Distributors).

A splendid cigarette

THREE CASTLES

CIGARETTES

FAMOUS FOR OVER FIFTY