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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES

CARLYLE RELICS

AT AUCTION

Intimate Souvenirs For

Few Shillings.

HUSBAND AND WIFE

London.

There were souvenirs for all. apart from the books and manu- and grave scripts, souvenirs gay. at the dispersal at Sothe- by's of the relies of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) sold by order| of the executors of his nephew. Alexander Carlyle, the past sum-)

mer.

Contrast In Writers Of Short Stories

Somerset Maugham's Style Criticised

SOME NEW PUBLICATIONS

(By Howard Spring.)

the grave as though all nature were quick to hide it. Then they were done. The lanterns bobbed into motion, approaching, and we watched the priest. He crossed the churchyard towards the pres-) bytery at a scuttling-gait, blowa along in his gusty black." Can't you see that!

To books of short stories have (come my way recently "Ah King," by W. Somerset Maugham Not the least interesting were (Heinemann, 78. Od.), and "There the modest pieces of furniture, Thirteen," by William Faulkner pictures, china and other personal (Chatto and Windus. Tr. 6d.), chattels from No. 5 (now No.

Opposite the title page of "Ah 24) Cheyne Row. Chelsea, which King" a list is given of 6 books and was for 16 years the home of 22 plays by Mr. Maugham. The the famous author of "Sartor twenty-third

play-"Sheppey"—is | Resartus" and numerous other now before the public, and this ed the village the bell had begun to notable books.

makes the seventeenth Look. Mr. 1o. From the gaunt steeple

the measured notea Some of the hidders at the sale. Faulkner has published only five the church

seemed to blow free as from a win- by the expenditure of only a few books before "These Thirteen."

Or take this: "Before we reach

of

shillings, were able to carry away These facts may help to explain ter branch, along the wind." Can't a handful of intimate souvenirs. A the feeling that Mr. Maugham's you hear that? vase-shaped silver pepper-castor, in jaded and uninspiring, while

for the six pieces.

This immediacy of Mr. Foulk-

and at times

we are

a reliance on

mero

THE CHINA MAIL.

Red Orator Chained to Stump

You've heard of erusaders nužing their flag to the mast, and here's a living example et similar senti. mant. Mary Brooks, member

of the Youngi Communiat League, is shown chained to a lamy post so that police could not more her from 'her speaking rostrum Philadelphia, where she -md- dressed a gather ing of fellowa Communista the Reichstag fire trial, in prog ress at Leipzig. Germany. Al- though police re- serves broke up the demonstra tion, the fiery

по

young orator-con- tinued her bar angus, “nailed the meat, until the police towing quad freed her from her chains, But it was out of the frying pan

into the fire, for

Miss Brooks was

taken from her post to a jail cell,

SANCIAN ISLAND

PILGRIMAGE.

In Honour of Saint Francis Xavier.

PFILGRIMS FROM HONG KONG

AND MACAO.

SPORT NOTICES.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

THE TWELFTH EXTRA RACE

T MEETING will be held (weather

Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 4th November, 3033, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 p.m.

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badger prominently displayed,

No One without a Badge will be ad- mitted to the Members Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to Enclosure and Clab Members'

$5.00 for Gentlemen

the

Rooms at

2nd

$3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon the personal application of Member, such Mem-

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Introduced onsible for all visitors by him, and for Payment

of All Chits, etc.

The Secretary's office, 3rd Floor; Gloucester Building (Tel. 27794), wi

at 12 o'clock Noon.

Badges admitting to Members' En- closure will NOT be on sale at the Rab Course.

On No Pretext will Children be per mitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.

Times are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Tolephone 21920.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax

OPIUM CONCEALED for all Persone, including Ladles, and

IN SHOES.

Unemployed Chinese

Fined $250.

A fine of $250, in default three months, was imposed upon Cheung Tak-man, an unemployed Chinese,

A pilgrimage has been arranged by Mr. Wynne-Jones, at the Kow-

to start from Hong Kong at 2 p.m.loon Magistracy this morning, for

for instance, made in 1800; a little. Mr. Faulkner's in vital, keen-edged, nor's in his greatest gift. He does old, silver Georgian spoon three dividing the bone from the marrow, not seem to recollect the past or to His work plated ladies: a much-worn. old To put it another way, you feel anticipate the future. Georgian table-knife with the that Mr. Maugham knows inside is all at a burning present point. charming allver handle known as out all that he is writing about; it We are not hearing about things "pistol-shaped," which

experiencing fits snugly has ceased Le surprise him; and from him: Into the palm of the user's hand; that is why it doesn't get home them with him. all these were sold for less than £3 (with a sharp impact upon upon the There are dangers in his stylo; {apprehension of us who do not he has some contorted affectations, know all about it. ""The Sofa."

Mr. Faulkner, on the other hand. repetition that is annoying; but he Another Ilem of excentional in-}has never ceased to be surprised. has so far, kept those things cre- terest was a large sofa, with an up- He knows the inwardness of theditably in hand. holstered back and loose cushion-fold Lancashire saying "There's He makes demands on his read-on Saturday. December 9 by the being in unlawful possession of 10 seat covered with green rep, which now so queer as folk," and. rang- jera. You mustn't go to sleep. You Douglas steamer Svale, for Sencian taels of opium. brought only £7. This is the sofa ing a wide world, he captures his have to leap sometimes to be Island, the first resting-place in the thus referred to in "Letters and queer specimens in the full flush of abreast of his swift improvisation Far East of St. Francis Xavier. memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle," their exuberance, with the sunlight of a moment; but the journey in From Hong Kong the Svale will)

worth I. p. 45:

while, and Igo to Macao, where a large number staining their wings with living splendidly

should put these

already short stories of pilgrims have "On that day I came, saw, and colour. 10ught-- Anfu ! It is my

Most of Mr. Maugham's stories among the most significant of our their passagen. surchase, but you shall share the are act in the East, a part of the time. I would call Mr. Maugham's {

Sancian Island will be reached at a.m. on Sunday, December 10, and ponsession. Indeed, so soon as you world which few of us know and very good magazine work. set eyes on it and behold its vast- which it in his business

A Misleading Title. to make mess, its simple greatness, you will vivid for us. But he doesn't.

"God and the Antronomers," by return trip at noon, arriving perceive that the thought of you "The ship lackened to half Dean Inge (Longmana, 12s. 6d.), is Hong Kong about 10 p.m. was actively at work in my choice." speed. Koal

Special fares for the round trip, Treadle Models from H. K. $80.--- Solor Rruggled Momewhat misleading title, for Warm Affection

along the left bank of the river, a the Dean deals with more than the have been arranged, the inclusive The sale indeed threw a food of white, neat and trim little town, latest sparkles of Jeans and Ed-fare, including four European meals, Ake the latest

being $15 from either Hong Kong PORTABLE ELECTRIC MODELS and on the right on a hill were the dington. fort and the Sultan's Palace. It is true that the "prophecy of or Macao.

Fares inclusive of three Chinenc! and modern science about the ultimate There

own

the underlying welcome Hght on warmth of the affection between husband and wife, which survived all his frascibility. What could be more tender than the following in- seription on the fly-leaf in a rare off-print of "Sartor Resorton." 1834, which fetched £275?

stuff.

the sky,"

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breeze.

Say Town Hall instead of Sul. tan's Palace and it might be any

where.

booked

The accused was arrested yea terday at the Kowloon Railway station. The opium was found hidden in his shoes.

the Svale will leave again on the SEWING MACHINES

Best Makes

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the Sultan's flag, at the top of a tall fate of the world we live in" is the meals will be 37.50.

Staterooms aboard the Svale are waved bravely against the starting point. That prophecy, of

course, in well known: it in that being reserved for Indies.

in Jean's striking this earth,

Tickets should be signed by a priest or sister, any of whom in the phrase, is "running down like clock," or, as Dean Inge puts it, Colony can supply them. "To Jane W. Carlyle This little

Describing a man's appearance,

we have a long lease but no free- They may also be obtained from' book, little Milestone In a desolate, Mr. Maugham tells us that "when hold of this planet.

the Douglas Steamship Company, or confused, yet not (as we hope) un- he smiled the lines that ran from

Accepting this fact, which, in-from Fr. R. J. Cairns, Maryknoll,! blessed Pilgrimage we make in the wings of his nostrils to the deed, he points out was a common. 160 Austin Road, Kowloon. common, is with heart's gratitude corners of his mouth became deep place of scientific knowledge be- Inscribed by her affecionate T. C. 2nd March 1930."

furrows," which, I should think, is fore the popularisers of astronomy sophers who see God as a concep- exploded lt among Ignorant lay-tion slowly emerging out of the The suction totaled more than place observation to be made about men, the Dean goes on to ask how{flux of history; and holds fast by

£3000 and, whichever

the most obvious and

way one ja face of that sort.

viewed it, was an interesting com mentary on "heroes and hero-wor- ship." yesterday and to-day. E.G.S.

SURVEY OF ZULU CAMPAIGNS.

Fascinating Story Of Mundy The Groom.

FULL OF HUMAN INTEREST:

Farewell Victoria, by T.. H White (Collins 7s. 6d.) At first one feared that Mr. White's style was going to prove a stumbling block This of an elm-"with ancient, ela phantine might, to make them inirth, it wreathed its light pro- boscia," and the use of such words as "steatopygous" hes a somewhat halting effect, But there our quarrel enda; Once in swing Mr. White's story has all the interest of a moving picture, with the deeper note of the more human contact of a play..

For nearly 80 years we fol- low the life of Mundy the groom, from 1858 when as a small boy he watches the almost foudal rite of the squire riding forth to shoot pheasanta to his death in this year, of grace:

It fa a magnificent survey, swinging gallantly through the Zulu campaigns, the breaking up of Victorian society on the dash- ing entrance of King Edward. changes in polities, sport, and all the marvels of Invention.

A great age, and through all the fascinating story of the old 'man's life, the feeling persists that the author is in sympathy "with it rather than with our present "standardised England..

common-

Now compare this scene from Mr Faulkner with that river scene:

thla seeming Pentence of death the belief in a God Who is beyond the thought of aapace and time; and that, indeed, should affect [Christian.

to him is the answer to the whole His answer to the question takes matter. Mr. Faulkner's Immediacy

him on a long journey. He ex- The fate of the universe, which "Then it was over. Outside plores the opinions of philosophers, is a thing of time and space, is not again, the wind blew steadily scientists and theologiane from vital to those who hold by a God Опелева down from the black hills, hol-Plato and Plotinus to Bergson, beyond time and space. lowing out the green glass bowl Elastein and Alexander.

with God can be achieved, and

of the sky. We watched them. He chuckles grimly over the therein lies deliverance from all file out of the church and carry nineteenth century's "lay religion," the doors of time and space. the coffin into the churchyard. a belief in "Progress" as some": "God and the Astronomers" - is Four of them carried iron lan thing going materially on for ever tough, stimulating reading. An at- terns and in the dunk they clott and ever belief shattered for tempt to summaries its contentions ed quietly antic about the grave all time, though the final doom will and conclusions must seem a little i while the wind leaned steadily fall on human descendanta incre-fatuous, and runa an Inevitable upon them and upon the lantern dibly remate.

risk of being. In some point - fnac-,

flames and blew fine dust into. He trounces those modern philo-feurets, The book itself should be

It's Chilly to Think About!

Jahn Heary Vie Det

efforts to raise the

-YeNrs ago, shown at East Boston as he azaDESAR

·kelmes he will wear 12 38 Ensazian macaana

Folar man. He le moonung

Lame thank

fande béofa and ¿for kin, to da any, diving in fra Byrd to the Antaresu

read: its brilliant précis of mo- dern trends of thought is in itself richly rewarding. 4

More On Shakespeare. "Shakespeare at Work," by G. E. Harrison (Routledge, 10s. 6d.), gives us the social and historical background against which Shaken- peare had his being and wrote his plays. It shows us how contem- porary happenings. Inevitably help- fed to mould his thought, to suggent this failure, at the time, of the [things he did.

It is an interesting work, whose like, so far as I know, has not been attempted before. On facts one is willing always to accept the word of Harrison, whose three volume's of the "Ellabeth Journal" have, placed us all in his debt; but' on points of interpretation I am not so

oure,

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́He holds, for example, that the Bonnets, were addressed to the third Earl of Southampton. It {séems to me that the caps, which [han-boen" built up, þy, the several' {speculations of Oscar Wilde, Bam

Hof Butter and Lord Alfred Doug- laa," brought into a concise frame n'Lori Alfred's recent book, leaves, {llitle Coubt that the youth WIL Hughes was the, begetter of the Bonhela

But I would rather enjoy the Sonnets than argus shout them,

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