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LITERARY NOTE

LAND OF LOESS

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Geologists' Volume On China

EARLY LIFE REVIEWED

Children of the Yellow Earth.

By J. J. Gunnar Anderson, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London; 1934. Price 253. Those who have,, followed the work of Dr. 4. Gunnar Anderson,

RESTLESS YOUTH

IN CHINA

Russian Professor's Compilation

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REVOLUTIONARY'S LIFE

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Auto- biography of Tan Shih-hua.—By S. Tretiakov. Victor Gollancz, London..

Chinese Testament. The

Written, or rather, compiled by the Swedish archeologist and S. Tretlakov, who was teacher in geologist, will be delighted with the Russian College of the Uni- his recent fascinating book "Chil-versity of Peking and also author of "Roar, China," this is one of dren of the Yellow Earth."

It tukea little Imagination to the most outstanding books ever written to reveal the mind of; guess who the "Children" are and what the "Yellow Earth" is but, China's restless youth.

Tan Shih-hua is the son of a re- for the sake of the unitiated, it

his father may be stated at the outset of this volutionary family, review that Huang Tu. or Yellow being associated with Sun Yat-sen Earth, is the Chinese name for the from the earliest days. In Peking peculiar sub-aerial deposits that he met Tretiakov during the hectic years following the Revolution in

lie like a mantle over a great part Russia and the first manifestations of North China known technically

[of Young China in political affairs. as "Loess,"

To Tretlakov he related his life history and his family back- grounds and the result is this

And, naturally, the people re- ferred to are the Chinese, Dr.

Anderson's title, has been extra-testament which is an amazingly, ordinarily well chosen, for un.

frank and revealing document. doubtedly the Chinese culture is the direct result of the peculiar

How far the testament is Tan's Jur how far it is the author's is im-

conditions produced by the prepossible to state. Several chap- sence of these immense deposits fers are interpolated, with acknow- of loses in the country in which ledgement, to maintain the

con.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934

Members of the crew of the ill-fated Morro Cantle advised passengers to cast off clothing before. jumping into the sea to try. to swim ashore, and a const guardaman hero makes a gilm inventory of the relics of the tragedy.

MOVING A MILLION BOOKS

They found themselves at the dawntinuity for after a long and active Reconstructing The Iron of civilization.

career la propagating radical doc.

Nowhere else in the world is trines Tan disappeared. loess found in such vast quanti- ties or over so extensive an area, and nowhere else in the world do we find any people like the Chip

ese.

to leave undeveloped.

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Library

AT BRITISH MUSEUM

STORY

INDIA®

OF THE TIRED BUSINESS

MAGIC TOUCH NOT THERE

AUTHOR'S FAILURE

MAN'S LIBRARY

American Publisher's New Venture

An

LOCAL NEWS brevitiES

The sa. Benreoch left Singapore] Li San, a

well-dressed youth in

on Saturday and is due here this European clothes, was sentenced Saturday.

to six weeks' hard labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central The Tea Party in honour of the Magistraey this morning, for the Commissioner, St. John Ambulance theft of a silver watch and chain, Brigade, is indefinitely postponed, the property of Chan Stu-wun, ' student, at the Chinese Bathing Chan lu, unemployed, was fined Club, North Point, yesterday. $100, in default two months hard labour, by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen Pleading guilty to the charge of at the Central Magistracy this embezzling the sum of $610.10 morning, for being in possession of from the Chiu Yuen Hing Firmi, 1,983 po piu lottery tickets in Des No. 2 Yu Wah Street, Ng Chun- Voeux Road Central yesterday. hom, a shroff of the firm, was sen tanced to three months' hard la

Appearing on remand, Chung bour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Tin-man, unemployed, was fined Central Magistracy this morning. $250, in default three months' 'hard labour, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy this morn- ing, for tresspassing at the Royal Naval Dockyard,

Personal Parama

Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Minister to China, accompanied by Sentence of two months hard arrive in the Colony on Monday, his wife and three daughters, will labour was passed on Tsui Chap, 4 November 26, and leave again on 24-years-old unemployed, by Mr. Friday, November 30.

1. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for being found with a quantity of electric Lady Pea! will attend St. John's His Excellency the Governor and wire and a chisel, Alt"for unlawful Cathedral next Sunday which is purposes, in his possession at Hospital Sunday. Apliu Street at 3:30 am. on Octo- ber 21,

Misa Hu Muk-lun, daughter of Mr. Ho Han-min, left for Canton

Che San, 26-year-old unemployed this morning. was sentenced to two months labour by Mr. E. L. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon, Magistracy this

morning for stealing aine chickens NEW NAVAL BASES ?

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(Continued from Page 9).

That was in 1927 when he was;

,and eight catties of sausages.from 26 years old, but there is the sus

Lo Hak, a 61-year-old widow and picion that he did not disappear

BOOKS MAINLY THRILLERS Leung Ho, a 24-year-old widow, by in China but returned to Russia.

A notice which appeared in the

false pretences.

Swanson said it would be necessary following the natural bent which British Museum Reading Room India's Coral Strand. By Richard has just launched a new venture. American publishing firm

to consider strengthening Pacific Hunters To Herders This tutor, Tretiakov, took no pains recently

Charged with Ághting at the defences if Japan decided to build. It was the wonderful fertility of

restricting each rea- Oke. (Faber and Faber, 79. 6d). It is called "The Tired Business Chinese Recreation Ground, Holly- a fleet beyond existing limits. der's order to three booka the "yellow earth" and the fuct

at a This is the story of how Mrs. Man's Library," time caused a good deal of heart-Yariove, a middle-aged, middle With

wood Road, two, barbers, Ching A Disillusionment.... that it lends itself an readily to

The navy for months had been burning among a reading popula-class English matron, fell into a picaresque historical novel

the exception of one Kam and Li Wah, were fined $100 surveying, the Aleutian islands, and cultivation that · turned`

Fundamentally, while giving an the

en-each, in default two months' hard extensive aerial maps were made on neolithic ancestors of the Chinese intimate picture of family life intion which is not satiated with cataleptic trance;

and-while her titled "The Ready Blade," all the labour, by Mr. Q. A. Ar Macfadyen a flight of army bombers to the abundance of de much less than a dozen or twenty children were charging sixpence a books in the first 15 titles are con at the Central Magistracy this far north this summer. from huntera and herders into China with an farmers, and made "Earth Wor-tails and sidelights, "Chinese books apiece. It was not meant as head to the curious who wished to cerned with Hollywood, crime my-morning.

a hard-and-fast rule, and its force see one who for years was sen-steries, war, and gangaterdom.

Mr. Swanson's announcement was ship" their religion.

Testament" la disillusionment.

head-lined by Tokyo newspapers, | Thus it is a matter of vital in-

Throughout the narrative there was soon relaxed; but it was the sationally both dend and alive, her Here аге half-a-dozen titles! revolu outward sign of the big recon-spirit was ruling an Indian tribe.selected at random: "Murder Be-

A STUDY OF NAZISM terest to students of the Chinese is the development of a

but a spokesman for Admiral Ogu- mal, Minister of the Navy, said struction plan of the British far away and long ago. and their culture to be able to create a better stew of things and Museum Library, which has been tionary spirit which desires to

low Wall Street," "Crime at Cobb's Mr. Oke has hardly achieved the House,"

"Hitler's Wonderland," one of there was no reason for the navy to "Murder in 'Church," John Murray's new books, has be sensitive. ulags, not merely in the neolithic remedy the injustices of the pre-under discussion for years and is magic touch which would make "Smash and Grab," "Death and the been written by Michael Bay, whe period, but much further back into the shallowness and inconstancy of the famous iron library was of words has never degenerated

"All-pavles hold manoeuvres and sents, but all ideas are wrecked on now really began.

such a theme acceptable: but he Dowager" and "The King in is "a much travelled and experi-it la always necessary to have an the paleolithic age. Dr. Ander-of human nature.

It meant that the first quadrant has produced a book in which love Check."

enced journalist and for this rea imaginary enemy," he was quoted. son's book ends with the Shang

As the son of a poor but scholar- being cleared, ready for a simple into love of verblage. You must

son. Mr. Murray says, "his ac"We do not care to criticise the and Chou Periods; it begins with ly family, Tan is given as good re-arrangement of books which accept his glowing tapestry as

LIBRARY CENSORSHIP. count is completely without blaa American navy's choice of the thea earliest signs of life found in the an education as possible while his will take not much less than twelve something intrinsically beautiful

or prejudice." "Hitler's Wondertre of manoevres or its imaginary Pre-Cambrain formations of China. father his absent in Japan study. years. About a million books were or reject it. There is no "mean- books in the free library were unfit practice in its own land, as an He said it was undecided where

Following complaints that many land" is a study of Nazismi in foo. In other words, it provides the prehistoric background for China's outbreak of the Arst revolution and

ing those ideas which led to the moved to the new stacks prepared ing. Except the meaning, power for the public to read, Londonderry idealistic and modern movement, the Japanese navy's 1995 mance- for them in rooms above the North ful enough, that English, rightly Council decided to close the library and as a problem for International fes would be held.-Associated history.

the overthrow of the Mauchu ro-Library. The removal was, plan used. is splendidly evocative.

pending a censorship of the books.politics. ned so that every, book, was con- gime.

The family then rose to power

tinuously available. There waa and affluence but the whirligig of naturally some delay when political change in China saw them readers' hive was as silent with once again proscribed during the in transit-hud left its old shelf coup d'etat of General Yuan Shih-and was not yet welcomed at the kai, Yuan's. downfall is another!

new stack. But this was a short-

trace these back to their begin-I

PROBLEM OF PUBLIC LIBRARY SHELF

Or Popular Taste

A

Catering To High Brow enoch in the family fortunes and lived difficult. Work went on Tan is able to continue his educa-smoothly, and the big dome of the tion in which he gains great dis-readers hive was as silent with

cerebration as ever.

First Of Its Kind

Should

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rate-aided libraries tinction. specialize in catering for popular taste or for the reader of worth- while literature?

The question was, asked by Mr. 1. Stanley Jast, formerly city barian of Manchester, at the Library Association's Conference

EAST AND WEST IN NEW NOVEL

u London. He criticized the Dorothy Cunynghame's

statements in the Association's

manual for small libraries that "it

la a common heresy that all libra-

ries should have a representative

stock of books," and "books which

"The Jade Lotus"

FLUENT STYLE SEEN.

promise short, merry lives should The Jade Lotus, form a fairly large part of the ori- ginal stock."

STRANGE TALES OF TALISMANS

Ancient Amulets And Charms

LYON CUP OF GLAMIS

The iron library is the main Lucks and Talismans. By Charles book store of the British Museum.

R. Beard. (Sampson Low. 10s. 6d,)

It is a famous structure.. and was

Uncanny tales of talismans and

Persons

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the first of its kind in the world, relics among them Drake's drum; but now it is a thought old- fashioned. It is, in effect, a layer Noor and of the strange bellefe the Stone-of Tara, and the Koh-i- of books in iron shelves surround- ing, but out of sight, of, the enor in fr. Beard's book.

connected with them are related mous circular hall which is the Reading Room. The books in

so strong-minded sulate the Reading Room much as Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth are the vacuum of a Thermos flask in-shown as believers in amulets and sulates hot ten. Now, quadrantly he campaigns the dagger of Jean charms. Bonaparte carried on all by Dorothy quadrant, the whole will be re Parigot de la Valette, Grand Mas Cunynghame. New York: Claude fashioned. and the books re Kendali. U.S. $2.

arranged.

ter of the Knights of Malta, which of demand dictating supply-com-person, and Cynthia is a very in Eadaile, the Secretary of the Bri-

"The result," said Mr. Arundell he stole from Valetta in 1798; and mercialism naked and unashamed tense, somewhat older and much tish Museum, "should be that we to have. kept an cold woman of Elizabeth accepted, near the close and commercialism, too, at its more sophisticated person. Paul shall have space for about 60 Wales alive to the age of 120, and of her reign, a piece of gold said worst, for the higher commercial- Trevor comes back to England years" intake of books, and that ism endeavoured to creat demand from the Malay Peninsula and is about as far by supplying the best.

marries April, The obscure ants forward in these days. There are!

as one can look hung it round her neck

Many talismanic gems are among It was strange that while dis-gontam which she feels toward very few libraries with space for State jewellery. The Crown Im coursing on the Issue-value of Cynthia at their first meeting is more than a 100 yeas. books, their experts entirely ignor not without justification, for

That, he said, was the principle April is a very intense young

new

perial itself incorporates one, 'the' ed reader-value. Were they to Cynthia is one of those married has room all round it to expend Legend has it that this stone was The National Library of Wales Cruel gave to the Black Prince: so-called ruby which Pedro, the cater for numbers or for quality, women who must have distractions almost indefinitely. The or were they to do as the libraries and Paul has been one of them. buildings the Bodleian are going v's crown which he bore at Agin had done in the past, cater for When she tries to reassert her seto put up in Broad Street will give

In the fleuron lopped from Heury both, but with a scale dipped deductive authority, tragedy is in them room for perhaps, a hundred court, whereby the King's: life was cisively in favour of the reader evitable.

years Intake. I dare say it is still saved. The Koh-i-Noor, too, hee

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who was worth while?

With its contrasts between coun- possible for most of us to build something of a reputation for If public libraries were to be try life in England and existence towers and expand upwards. In bringing disaster on its male come the slaves of high issue-in the Far East, ita expert charac-their new buildings London Uni-j owners: values, if second and third-rata ter drawing and its fluent style, versity will be storing their books stuff were to be the primary basis "The Jade Lotus" is a work of in a tower."

of selection, he was happy in that considerable interest. The first

his time as a librarion, was over. part of the novel is especially

NEW WORK ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

good, but the going becomes a bit. thick as the love plot approachca

a: crisis.

Emile Legouis has written A

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Short History of English Liter- ture," and the Oxford University

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