1934-10-08 — Page 7

POLICE RESERVE

Orders for the Current

Week

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector General of Polleo.

The following Police Reserves

will parade nt Police Headquar-

ters on Thursday, October 18th.

PIDGIN ENGLISH_NOW DEAD

Official Hints To Tourists, To China

NATIVE MEALS ARE WELL

WORTH TRYING

"Pidgin English". the traditional

at 1430 hours for Farewell I-dialert used by visitors to China

spection by the Hon. Inspector when talking to natives, is practi General of Police.

cally dead, according to

u useful 20 members of the Chinese booklet issued, recently by the De- Conyany:---

partment of Overseas Trade.

Dress--White Uniform, hats, Belt with Brace and

cheong.

Sun- "The tourist or new arrival," it fa Trun-stated, "will find that English will carry him anywhere on the or-

10 members of the Indian Com-dinary routes. Dany:

"Pidgin English'a combination Druss-White Uniform, Sunhats, of Portuguese, Hindustani.. and Belt with Brace and Truncheons. English words, as pronounced by 10 members of ther Flying the Chinese and waing many of Squad:-

their idiums and constructions of

Reserva-

10 members of Emergency Unit sentences-was formerly widely used. At present it is a curious Khakl survival, and its use should be Puttees, avoided, especially when speaking| and Re-to educated Chinese."

Dress-Khaki Helmet, Tunie, Khaki Shorts, Beft with Brace, Holsters Volvers

The "official language" is current] Chinese Company

with modifications over the whole Training Course-Part L All country, with the formidable excep-i recruits of Chinese Company will{tion of Shanghai and the coast attend at the Chinese Comparts provinces south of the Yangtze. Headquarters on Tuesday, OctoThe written language is the same ber Oth, at 17.30 hours for inhroughout the country, and natives struction.

from provinces which do not speak Revolver Course. Members of the same dialect may sometimes be *the Chinese Company will fire the seen onversing by means of writ

Part III Course " at the Kenjing question and answer. Occu- nedy Road Range on Friday, Oc-sionally they fall back on "Pidgin] tober 12th, at 17.15 hours under English."

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1934

Motoring down the long road past many who are destined to become the future general of the United States Army, President Roosevelt is shown at West Point, N.Y., where he reviewed 900 cadets. It was the first Presidential review since 1922, and Trexl- dent Roosevelt's first official visit to the military academy. The arrow points to the President.

LITERARY NOTES

Sub Inspector A. L. Hopkins, The Department has prepared Only those detailed will attend, paraphlets on "Hints to Business DEALERS OF DEATH

Visitors for various countries, but

A Welsh Mystery

Indian Company. Training Course-Part II. A in the case of China.it was decided Garnett Radcliffe Writes recruits of the Indian Company that much a pamphlet ought to be residing at Hong Kong will at expanded so as to embrace more tend Chinese Company Headquar. aspects of life than are usually! ters, 17, Queen's Road Central on touched upon in a purely formal The Great Orme Terror. By Gar Thursday, October 11th. at 17.30 summary, and it was considered leurs for instruction.

Energency Unit Reserve Defendu.

Defendu instructions will take place at No. 2 Polico

nett Radcliffe. (Thornton But- terworth. 7. 6d.)

VERSE® PAGEANT OF ENGLISH LIFE

A

WHAT IS GOOD WRITING?

Students Prefer Lewis To Bunyan

INTENSE DRAMA

MAUROIS IN NEW TRIUMPH

"The average porsan, even among those passing for educated, simply French Author's Clever cannot distinguish good writing Knowledge of English

from bad. So a reviewer of "Eng

Ilsh In Australia” · writes the Times "Literary Supplement." Sut-

How many times it has been said

P.C. Wren's Fast-Moving Thriller

The modern spirit of adventure was never better portrayed than in the novels of P. O. Wren. "Beau

Geste," and all the other Foreign Legion Stories, his Indian Tales, "Action and Passion"-each was, in

dents of commerce of the Univer. that English whhen, with their its own particular setting, a perfect. sity of Adelaide, and students of cold beauty, strange diffidence and

aloof psychology, present a problem animates men to go out to the exposition of the spirit which English at the same University, that is beyond the comprehension of frontiers of the world and face the were asked to say which of two of the Continental, particularly of great odds of danger, chance and. more unsigned prose passages they

gentlemen from the Latin countries the loneliness of the pioneer, preferred. or disliked, giving rea Whether that be so or not, there is new novel "Beggars'. Horace." sons was much inferior to the

is an outstanding exception in M, which John Murray, have just pub- others. One average person

"innocently dismissed Bunyan as

Andre Maurois, whose uncanny lished, shows no decline in his mas knowledge of our thoughts and tery of fast moving and Intense 'an illiterate person endeavour. ing to be eloqueht, and raptur tighted English people ever since whose lives were curiously inter- feelings has astonished and de drama, and its plot of six men ously preferred a piece of inflat the appearance of Colonel Bramble inked through love for the same. ed bombast by Mr. Lewis's cant-

What M. Maurols did for English-woman is skilfully worked out over ing evangelist. Elmer Gantrymen is that refreshing masterpiece, wide background of India, Africa a passage which was attributed The Silences of Colonel Bramble," by one student to Dickens and by he has done for English women in another to Francis Thompson!" ·

LONDON LOVER'S SHAKESPEARE

Delightful Volume

many of the atories in his new book of short stories. These jatories are portrait in pencil, lovingly, flatteringly, cuttingly, laughingly sketched according as their subjects are good, bad or in- different, from the hand of an artfat whose large canvases "Ariel,"

"London for Shakespeare Lovers" "Disraeli," "King Edward and His

titles

more ture to-day.

and Europe.

SHAW AND WELLS- HIT BY CRITIC

Thomas Mann's New Book

What next? "Shaw and Wells

is a book by Ir. William Kent and Times" — are landmarks in litera-seem trivial beside his immensity." there can be few pleasant,

In "A Winter's Tale" a bear chases Antigonous, and Mr. Kent suggests that Shakespeare, ag a true man of the theatre, introduced the animal to provide a popular] note, and, as the Globe Theatre, was

Journal Drawn From

English Poets so near the old bear-pit at South- wark, he hired a tame boast to do Pageant of England's Life its turn when free of more press- (Thornton Butterworth. 78. ing engagements,

6d.),

MEN BEHIND THE THRONE

FATHER KNOX HAS

HIS DOUBTS

Was There One Or Two

Sherlock Holmes ?

Father Ronald Knox is best of all the contributors to "Baker Street. Studies," an expert reviewer says in the Londen "Literary Supple-] ment." The reviewer does not ac- cept the texts as canonical. The contributors to this book are almost Subtle Humour Seen

wholly uncritical about the texts. "This is odd when we remember General Ponsonby one of the men that Father Knox.... opened the

This is a sentence in the Morning Poat's review of Thomas Mann's book, "The Tales of Jacob," Shaw has been a great breaker of images, and in the last few years his own image has been often hit, though It is hard to break. The Morning

Post writer is enthusiastic:

N

"If the formal virtue, to men- tion no more, of this first book, is maintained in The Young Joseph' and Joseph in Egypt," Mann will have written one of the most deeply valuable novels since the novel began."

J

THREE VOLUMES OF HISTORY

Some writers are anxious "to

desirable to list the help of out-

Here is a medley of Robots, A composite Journal, drawn from side experts in various subjects.

lethal chambers, black-robed mos the Engilsh poets, of people and Two Legends Exposed

įsters, and dealers of death that events that they have thought The collaborators in the booklet, stalk of night and by day it to wort celebrating in their poetry- Station on Friday, October 12th.mong whom was Sir John Pratt give the timorous

reader night-so Mr. John Drinkwater describes at 17.30 hours. All members are kill two contradictory legends-the

mares for a week. There's a fine this admirable and ingeniously first that a Chinese merchant'al requested to be present,

setting for the deeds of mystery-compiled anthology, whose scope ex- TSO TSUN ON.

ward is his bond, the second that

a castle on the Welsh promontory tends from Willam Langland's "Behind the Throne," in Mr. Paul whole investigation with some very find the Christian story paralleled Acting, D. S. P. (R.).

lof the "heathen Chinese."

that bears the sinister title of the "Visión of the Fidd Fall of Folke" Emden's book, which Hodder and pregnant historic doubts concern by early myths.". Richard Sunne Hong Kong, Monday, October

"Actually Chinese merchants.”

Great Orme..

to Shelley's fashious sonnet of Eng-Stoughton have published, had a ling the authenticity of the volume says that in this anxiety Mr. Arnold 8th. 1934.

they declare, "ure probably neither

Here Lord Basil Curlew and land, in 1819, that opens:

subtle humour..

called. "The Return of more honest nor more dishonest Mona, his beloved, battle for

Sherlock Toynbee, who has written three "An old, mad, blind, despised, At a certain crisis, Queen vic: Holmes."" than those of any other country, Spanish gold, treasure trove from

volumes of "A Study of History." while the sensational type found in the Armada, against a gang of

and dying King."

toria agreed, though unwillingly, to Is it really possible, the reviewer William Gray's cheerful The her Minister's proposal. But there seks, that Sherlock Holmes led a THE DOUBLE TENTHovels, plays, and so forth, is international desperadoes whose funt is up! commemorates Henry was nothing Victorian in the letter double life as detective and newcomer to leader is a black-souled villain re- VIII. while later are quoted the from Ponsonby: "the Queen says criminal? Was there one or two (Continued from Page 9).

China should be on his guard joicing in the sobriquet of the verses. "To the Most Sacred Queen damn--but gives in." against looking upon Chinese

"Lizard." Mr. Radcliffe writes Anne," of Thomas Campion, whom A 6-mile bicycle tour to the museum specimens."

with punch and enthusiasm, giv. Mr. Drinkwater in his running New Territories, limited to 30 The business man is advised to ing his readers (if not too fasti- commentary describes as "the per- members from the Chinese maintain exactly the вате stan-dlous about probabilities) YMCA, will be organised, while dards of marner and behaviour to thrill on every page and a climax the new extension building to the wards the Chinese as he would do to every chapter. Kowloon "Y" branch will be of-to persons in his own country. ficially opened by the Right Rev. Another piece of counsel is not to R. O. Hall, Bishop of Hong Kong, attempt to rush a Chinese into a on the same day.

decision.

pure myth. The

A MEMORIAL TO KING ALBERT

Mr. Allen's Suggestion

The Belgian

A

fect Elizabethan lyrist." The seventeenth century selections in- clude Richard Crashaw's verses "upon two green Apricockes sent to Cowley by Sir Chashaw";a

**Take there... time's tardy truants, sent by me,

To be chastis'd (sweet friend) and chide by thed" Both James Thomsons, "Rule newspapers during Britannia" and Henry Carey's "God

Thirty members from the Chung "Patience is the first virtue re- Nam Athletic Association will quired in all negotiations, and an leave the Colony for Canton for a infinite capacity for meeting and sight-seeing tour. The group, uncountering all sorts of objections der the manngoment of Meears. Lo and obstacles," it is added.

the past month or 80 have been Save the King" figure among the Wai-chiu and Lau Tin-kwong, will Britons are urged not to be flooded with suggestions from all eighteenth century representatives. leave on Tuesday evening and frightened of a Chinese dinner over the world for the most suit. will return to the Colony, on There is nothing in the least repul-able national memorial to King

sive in the appearance, aature ar Albert. navy and military flavour of such dishes as birds'

Mr. Fletcher Allen, an English| manoeuvres, under the command nests, sharks Ans, beches-de-mer traveller who knows Belgium and of General Kang Yam-chung and (unfortunately translated as "ses-the Belgians with an intimacy given General Chang Chi-ying, Com-sluga"), or even the famous "anto few foreigners, discloses in his manders of the Cantonese navy, fcient eggs." On the contrary, it is new book, "A Wayfarer in Bel and General Huang Kwang-yui, declared, these each have a very glum," that the memorial-in spite Browning's poetry. This incident Commander of the Air-Force, will pleasant and delicate favour of of

many other suggestions will has been reported to Professor E.

Thursday.

In Canton

STATUE UNVEILING

DEAN INGE LOOKS

ROBERT BRIDGES AND BROWNING.

"The Spirit Of Man”

Robert Bridges did not care for

be staged in the harbour. General their own. Chinese cooking is ex-most likely take the unusual form de Selincourt by Dr. F. Madan, and Chan Chai-tong, Command of the cellent and well worth trying. First Group Army, will review his "The word 'Chink' is clearly memory

of dedicating to the dead king' it has been used as a footnote to the little village of one of the professor's "Oxford troops.

derogatory, and should never be Marche-lee-Dames which is Jess Lectures on Poetry": applied to a Chinese," it is stated. than a mile from the spot where At 10 am. at the Yuet SauThe Chinese, with less reason, re-the King so tragically met death." Public Garden, a statue to the late gard the word 'Chinaman,' as deru Dr. Wu Ting-fang, the noted gatory, too, and it should. there diplomat, will be unveiled. Mr.fore, also be avoided." Teng Tsch-yu, Member of the Executive Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern ment, will biciate. General Chan Chai-tong, Mr. Hslao Fu-cheng, State Councillor of the National Government, and Mr. Chow Lu, Member of the Executive Com mittee of the Kwangtung -Provin- cial Government, are expected" to be present at the ceremony:

The greatest athletic gathering of the day, will be held in Tian- tsin, where the North China Ath-

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OREGON LIQUOR CONSUMPTION

Estimates Too High

Salem, Ore

BACK AT LIFE.

Book On Religions Philosophy

Dean Inge is one of a tow churchmen whose name almo91 everyone knowa: An editorial writer in the latest number of W Oregonians have proved liquor H. Smith and Son's excellent "Book repeal of prohibition were too high inge's literary plans. consumption estimates made after window" has some new about Dean

State Liquor Commission officials predicted

that 100,000 thirsty)

First and foremost, the Dean Is

thing will commencent citizens would purchase individual es zaged on another work In the

the city's new and stately stadium. The city's Educational Depart permits at U.S.$1 each.

Four months after state-owned

nature of religious philosophy, He thinks it more important than the setting out of his own life-story

ment has decided to extend the stores opened, total permit holders and he remarked some time ago that, hollday until Friday to afford

numbered less than 25,000.

students an opportunity to

Games.

when a man lewell over seventy, he has to be sparing of his tasks

According to Tessages from DURHAM'S MEMORIAL TABLET is to accomplish

Nanking there will be no official

reception in the capital. This

due to the fact that China is at

present going through

Erisis, and foreign ministers have ham: Cat

been notified in the resp

the Marquis of Crewe,

essential

"A few weeks after the publica- tion of The Spirit of Man,” an anthology. I happened to meet him just between the South Gate of the Bodleian. Quadrangle and the North Gate of the Radellife Camera enclosure, and ventured to ask him why he had not fa- cluded a single line of Browning in his book, He replied that several, friends had been at him about it, and some had pressed him at least to include Rabbi Bárt Ezra, if nothing else. To ac count for his refusal, he told me that it always seemed to him

than one line' was ‹ wanting in most of his poems, namely, "With one hand slap his thigh,

with one, pat God."

“NEW RAKE'S PROGREES”

the

Sherlock Holmes's?

the genealogy in St. Luke's gospel.!

calls Josepha foster-father in humble birth, a mistake he could have avoided by a reference to

CAPSTAN

for quality!