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LITERARY NOTES

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THE TRAVELLERS

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HARVEST

Round The World 22

Years Ago

MENTION OF HONG KONG

Two Young Men See the World.- By Stanley Unwin and Severn

Stour: Allen & Unwin, Lon- don. 16/...

Twenty-two years ago two young men koown #A "Stan" and Johnnie" undertook Д journey from England to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the South Seas, and Japan, touching at Hong Kong and Tsingtao, to study the prospects of bookselling and the general conditions of life in the countries visited.

They did not particularly intend; to write a story or seek adventure, but during the eighteen months of their travela ench young man wrote numerous letters to the family. circle in England, and the book consists of a selection of such documents, edited, annotated, unit- ed. illustrated.

Its purpose, s announced in the preface, is to recreate the Colonial atmosphere as it appeared before the War, and which the authors claim has remained essentially un- changed to this day.

This is done to encourage emigra tion from the overcrowded British Isles to the South African veldt and the still sparsely populated regions of Australia and New Zealand. It is! hoped this object will be achieved.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1934.

Jacques Cartier, the Christopher Columbus of Canada, "and the long line of hardy Frenchmen who came after him to carry civili- zaion across the Dominion and into the Great Lakes and Mississippi valley sections of the United States, are being honoured in Quebec this summier in a series of celebrations in which the United States. France, Great Britain and Canada are joining. Chief interest has been focused the 400th anniversary of the French navigator's discovery of Canada in 1534, but tribute also is being paid to LaSalle, Pere Marquette and the other missionaries and soldiers who gave their names to scores of cities in the United States. Mejor obser. vances are being held at Trois Rivieres, which also in marking the 300th anniversary of its founding; at Garpe, Quebec City and Mon. treal,

TALE OF SIMPLE PASSIONS

Powerful Dramatic Narrative

SEQUEL TO MURDER

OF A RUTE

SHAVIAN SCRAPS

Versatility of G.B.S. Revealed

IRISH WIT'S NEW STORIES

Many people violently disagree, Mention is made of the splendid A great deal of modern fiction.

with Mr. Bernard Shaw, a senti- pioneer, Kingsley Fairbridge, born tends to be less interested in actionment which

no doubt. gives him at Grahamstown. South Africa, than in the springs of action. It great satisfaction, but there le no who as a boy of twelve had "a vision of waste lands filled with can be overdone. It is being over-gain-saying the fact that he has

homesteads" and, later going toįdone. Oxford, sow his dream realised

Farm Schools in Austrália.

Attractive Passagekee

to be said for it.

exercised a tremendous influence on the thought of a generation. for

INTRODUCTION

TO STUDY OF

CHINESE POETRY

Scholar's Translation Of Ho P'ei-Yu'

IMAGERY IN IDEOGRAPHS

The Hundred Names: A Short In- troduction to the Study of Chinese Poetry, with Illustrasi tive Translations, by Henry H. Hart. Berkeley: University

of California Press, $2.50. Whether Lines by the Chinese poetess, Ho P'el Yu, found among the 178 translations of "The Hue- dred Names," give the effect of something seen from 蟲 single viewpoint, or of a number of sights experienced in succession, readers accustomed to the technique of)

心

English are likely to ask them

selves. Ho P'el Yu belongs late in

time, as Chinese history goes. She

expresses herself as follows:

A flower,

A willow,

A fisherman

On a rock,

A ray of sun On the river,

A bird

On the wing.

Halfway

Up the mountain

A priest slowly climba

To a shrine.

In the forest

A yellow leaf

Flutters and falls.

To go back further, the same. question intrudes. Wang Wel, whose name is associated with the Tang Dynasty (from the seventh to the tenth centuries), we know we are not reading a translation of a Medieval Latin poem in the fol lowing lines:

You have come from my native

village?

You surely have news for me! Does the sun still peep in my

window?

Are there buds on the old plum

tree?

The most fascinating and inter-

A tale of plain elementary pas-he has always looked at life from esting problem of the translator is when with the assistance of fellowsions-love and hate, greed and an angle that is entirely original the interpretation of the ideograph, xturients he founded the Child Entigration Society, starting his eavy-wtih no high pretensions to and different from other people's, which conveys a wealth of imagery, all the modern bombastic appur-He, indeed, gives us furiously to a world of meaning of form and tenances of novel-writing, has a lot think, for he tilts continually at colour, dificult to convey; for Chi convention and traditional thought. nese poetry is not primarily writ A complaint against him is that ten to be read aloud, as is Occiden- The book will be of particular

his criticism is always destructive tal; its beauties of composition are interest to friends of the writers. The general render will and many

Let the man of acute psycholowends his destructive way he pulls enjoy.

and never constructive, but as he for the eye, not for the ear to Mr. Hart quotes from attractive passages; some good gical insight go on telling his tale up many weeds which threaten Purcell: natural history stories, including in his own way. Let the simple life's course, and no one can ́deny "The Chinese written character, one of a reptile which to keep a story-teller do the same, writes Ho- that he has consistently preached indeed, is so beautiful in itself, and the doctrine of honesty of thought its units so wrought about with

eye on its pursuer retreated into

Paychological Insight

elogant stringing together of minor poems, each one character long."

its hole tail first; an account of a ward Spring in the "Evening as against conventional hypocrisy subtleties, that a poem is but an meeting with General Sinuts at Standard." It is the man of no and outward respectability. Pretoria, and graphic descriptions. insight at all who yet insists on amongst others, of the rules at draping his dummies with the rags Zimbabwe near the Victoria Falls,)

Tasmania, and the

Story Written In 1885

the convicts' camp of a hundred of contemporary jargon-that is; At the same time his provoking years ago at Port Arthur in the man who bores us all to tears. style and his brilliant wit make his writings extraordinarily entertain- glacier and And all this is an introduction ing. In "Short Stories, Scraps, thermal regions of New Zealand. to saying that a novel has heen and Shavings," his latest publica- Experiences are recorded in written by someone who knows the tion, a number of short sketches great detail, but as all are given secret of a plain dramatic narra-and articles, the work of different equal attention and value they are tive as instinctively as Hall Caine periods of his life, have been often reduced to the commonplace. himself did. "Via Mala" might gathered together. No item of expenditure is too small have come from Hall Caine's pen.

finds an important place.

Another W arning To Jury

(Continued from Page 9).

Either at the meal or afterwards, continued Mr. Fraser, the accused Their arrangement, is somewhat spoke to the man about the girl

to be omitted, and even such guide-If you liked "The Deemster." "The haphazard, for instead of being in living with him and received a book Informaion as hotel rates Son of Hagar," "The Prodigal Son" chronological order they are taken reply to the effect that they wree and the rest of them, you will like more or less at random. The first waiting for her parents to come to The profile notes of exclamation [this book by John Knitted. reveal the delight with which the

story is dated 1907, then there is Hong Kong. a leap forward to 1915, and then a most ordinary incidents sometimes

1885, and so on. return to such an early date as

Driven To Murder

TRAGIC HEROES IN LITERATURE

Hazlitt And Othello

Interviews Father.

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Personal Pars

Mr. A. J. Edgar, of Messrs. Ellis and Edgar, Stockbrokers arrived in the Colony from Shanghai on board

filled the authors' minds, and their in a granite house full of gaping

After the interview the accused went to see the father at a hotel pleasure at reporting these to their holes Jonas Lauretz, the saw- friends at home. The style is miller, his wife and children lived Adventures of the Black Girl in him at the same time about his Included in the book is "The to influence the separation, telling in West Point and tried to get him

rather uninspired, and might be their nightmare. Ilves. If ever a termed intimate and domesticated; man asked to be murdered Jones her Search for God," which roused former intimcay with the girl, said the tone ingenuous, and the travel-did. Braggart, drunkard, lecher, The wood engravings of Mr. John

a good deal of controversy in 1982 Mr. Fraser. lers' conduct correct and unadven-ihe made life hell fon all about him. Farleigh are a delight to the eyeed a threat of bodily injury when "It is alleged that he then utter- turous. 1

His son was crippled in the les, especially those which illustrate the father refused to assist", sald Limitation of funds prevented one daughter crippled in the amThe Black Girl" and with which Mr. Fraser. them from wandering at will and through his brutalities. Worse 80 broadening the field of their sins than these lay at his door. many people are already familiar.

That same evening the accused ing, however, he was missing, only ataira to make the discovery. The inycstigations. The beaten track The whole of the first book in de

went back to No. 211 Lalchikok his topee remaining.

officer did not connect the accused was never for out of sight. The voted to a darkly-powerful descrip-

Road and pleaded with the girl, On the night of July 21, the in-with the murder at the time," said home-loving note, recorded on re-tion, of the purgatory down there

It is alleged, however, that the awakened by a window in the fat being extremely polite in his words, mates of the first floor were Mr. Fraser, turning to London, rises to its full in the damp oozy valley..

"Remarkable Prayer" triumph in the last two lines:

replies which the girl made were being broken, and in answer to Wille waiting below, in the the .. President Pierce to-day. Only one child escaped from it.

calculated to Infuriate a rejected their cries of "What has happened" charge, of a Chinese constable, the "I rang the bell, and after a Sylvelie had a job up among the slight delay, during which my mountains, where a world-famous

|lover,” said Mr. Fraser.

a man's voice replied, "Fire on the accused made a most remarkable Mr. William Ma, sub-manager of heart gave great thumps within painter named Lauter came each!

The accused is a Christian. Not second floor." The Inmates ran out prayer," said Mr. Fraser. because it has anything to do with into the street and raise the alarm. He said, "I am deserving of death. In the Colony to-day, on board the the Sincere Co., Shanghai, arrived me, the door opened and I hurled summer to his chalet. Sylvelle Mr. Hesketh Pearson's compari the case or against the accused. Ifollowing which the police arrived I have killed two persons. My s.. President Pierce. myself into my old Nanna's looked to the old man's simple son, in The Fool of Love" of merely mention it to explain why to make the discovery of the mir Lord Jesus Christ I have committed arms: Home! How good it is!" needs, and Mr. Knittel has drawn Hazlitt with Othello "is of the most he as staying at the Gospel Mission der in the rear cubicle on the third the most serious crime of all Not Miss E J. Davis, secretary of The photographic Illustrations a lovely picture of the unfolding of superficial," a reviewer says in the in. Belchers Street," said Mr. door where the woman and the withstanding my death I will com- the YW.C.A. Osaka, Japan, arrived are agreeable and generous in num-1

her mind under his influence. She "Literary Supplement," of the Fraser,

man, Yiu Cheung, were found mend my soul to Jesus Christ," in the Colony from Kobe on board ber, about one to every four pages became something different from Times.

Events Leading To Discovery stabbed to death of the text, and many of them have all the other Lauretzes.“

There Is Indeed a partial Mr. Fraser then went on to re

He was taken to the Kowloon the a.s. President Pierce to-day. gained in interest in the passage of Sylvetic, alone was out of the

point of contact that both men late the events which led to the

Stopped By Police

Hospital for treatment and on over twenty years since they were house when the crime was commit-

ware dupes of the imagination discovery of the double murder by The accused was next found by with murder.

August 14 was formally charged Major J. F., Crosby, of the Amer- taken.

But Othello, though loved, im the pole and the rope which was Sergeant Davis, standing

Kan Army, stationed at Tientsin, ted. It was a ghostly c

crime, and

axined himself deceived: Haaliit, found hanging on the backyard scavenging lane in Shumshaipo Begbie, of the Bacteriological In by the s.a. President Fierce to-day.

ina To these is added an excellent the author sparesus none of its

Evidence was giving by Dr. R. 8. arrived in the Coloby from Kobe and up-to-date map of the Eastern horror, An old employee of the

deceived from the start,

211 Laichikok Road. with his foot bleeding. Not king stitute, who spoke of the blood- Hemisphere on Mercator's projec Lauretz family hated Jonas B Hon, showing the route taken, his family did, and he and they This is conveniently placed at both one bitter snowy night, goaded baterature, the other, I ends of the volume, which is fully, yond endurance, fell upon him like Indexed

a wolf pack

ed himself that he was

loved The one was among

greatest tragic berosë a

mot pathetic would be kast more than a little absurd.

Lence

The

the

sion on the look of things, the sergeant stains on a knife shown to him;

took him to the police station. On and Dr. J. B. Mackie, of the Kow

the way they were directed to the loon Mortuary, in reference to the trouble at No. 211, Lalchikok Rom

and leaving the accused in rickshaw, the polios

cause of death of the two deceased, and the wounds on their bodies. vent up The hearing la proceeding.

KWANGTUNG CENSUS

It was announced by the tung Provincial Gover census of the province will be October

commencing