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The Past Overseers' Society of St. Margaret and St. John ́heldi their 221st annual dinner recently,

The overseers originally did the work which is now done by the re- lieving officer.

MEN OF TO-DAY WHOSE NAMES WILL LIVE OUTSTANDING WRITERS OF MANY TYPES

REASONED SELECTION OF

NOTED CRITIC

The society alt down to dinner | at seven and rise at ten, Sharp sti nine a toast is drunk to "the im- [moral memory of Nelson.”

The reason is that 'at nine in of sixty-three a man whose life was plicity.

(By the Late Colonel Lynch.)

London. Iments, while George Moore has the There died last month at the age affected pose of an, artificial im

the evening when the Society were one of the romances of literature--| His "Brook Kerith" is the mas- dining at Greenwich in 1805, a ship Mr. J. J, Bell.

terpiece, but I cannot belleve either

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Will Galsworthy Line?

Mr. H. G. Wells and the two Hux- leys have formed a little coteric of

passing up the Thames brought At the age of thirty he wrote a in the beauty or its truth. He news of the death of the great AG. series of articles about the every-writes, moreover, in a manner which miral..

day life of a very ordinary Glasgow imposes an emotional restraint".on boy whom he named Wee Macgree-hia veritable qualities. gor. These articles, published later I never want to see such a book in book form, have sold steadily again; yet for the sheer delight of The Overseers' most cherished ever since.

style I have read "Sartor Resartus" possession is the Westminster to-

They have become a part of Scot-ja dozen times, while entertaining bacco box. It dates from the fortish literature and in the opinion no belief in the philosophy of the mation of the society.

of many critics of discernment will Chelsea sage; while in Keats, as a Originally it was made of horn live far longer than the work of high example, I find profound re- and was bought for 4d. at a fair in men who to-day are regarded as flection, the flash of Insight of Greenwich,

"immortal."

genius, and the perfection of art in It became the custom for the

Some time ago the Sunday Ex-the utterance. Overseer to whom the box was en press asked Colonel Arthur Lynch, George Moore and Pater, and the trusted in any given year to affix a critic of wide knowledge and academice in general, make a dis- a silver plate with his name to the original views, to survey the writers tinction between the style and the of our generation, and to name the matter, to the discredit of the valno In the course of two centuries "deathless ones." This is his selec-of the matter; but this truth will be the silver plates have grown Botion.

verified in experience-that all great numerous that the original box is

It is piquant and provocative. It passages of poetry or prose which encased in a nest of additional tumbles down many reputations, and charm us by theli style find the. boxes, which weigh 100 lb.

and it includes among the great J. J. style horn in the wonder of the measure 24 by 30 Inches,

Bell.

thought, in the surprise of its glory In addition to names most of the

Colonel Lynch died soon after the as it lights with day. plates carry descriptions and some article was written.

Bennett's Force times illustrations of the prin- that lurid melodrama that was cipal events of the year.

Arnold Bennett has had his day, BOOK destined to stand the but he will not have another day, especially associated with the The latest addition was the Duko Adelphi Theatre. Before his of Kent's wedding.

test of time should be examin His books Impress by A certaîn Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1934-great series of plays, produced in

ed In regard to its knowledge of the force and solidity as the forthright '· the 'nineties. was exhausted he SUBTLE SYMPATHY

field, its intellectual power, emo-work of a man who knew his trade had made the stage the forum of

tional scope, its intent, its origin up to the extent of his gifts; and Confiscating A Legal modern thought about social Members of Parliament have ality, Ita art in presentation, its who, according to the demands of

Purchase

The time was ripo ways of expressing their feelings style, and its universality of ap-business, supplied the article and for the change. The theatre was which are sometimes, more eloquent peal.

did not disappoint the public. But. Rheumatism, asthma, sciatica. Sir John Gilmour's latest exror of life. But to effect the re-

This last must be considered that does not mean immortality. rapidly becoming dead as a mir-than words. lumbago, insect bites, sores, headplanation of the Home Govern volution a dramatist was re-rose recently to put a question to tour of the world has exploded for writer who coruscates in a new kind Sir Murdoch McKenzie Wood carefully, for one myth which a Aldous Huxley Is a brilliant aches, coughs, colds, chilblains, ment's intentions ня regarda

me is that foreign countries may be of style. He gives me the Impres- piles, sprains and dislocations. Irish sweepstake tickets dispels quired who combined unequalled Sir Godfrey Collins.

the obscurity that has surround-resources of technique with cour- He was cheered, and was rather taken as fairly representative of ston of being more widely read than ed the position without making age and a keen realisation of the taken aback at the unusual demon- posterity.

deep. In thought, and he continually thought of his. day.

It was the Germans who gave flashes before our eyes the shimmer- the new legislation about lot- teries more flattering to the

Sir Arthur had the necessary

The explanation was that late themselves up to Schwarmere!" (a Ing Jewels of his erudition.

sort of Teutonic Idollsing admira He is more daring than original, clarity of mind of those respon-equipment Experience as an the previous night Sie Murdoch tion) for Marle Corelli,, bestowing but in his rebellions he is stamped sible for its passing. A man, it actor and in the writing of a long made a speech about the herring is now stated, breaks no law in series of successful comedies industry.

on her the prefix. "The," hitherto and sealed with the academic mark, applying through the post for a that gave fresh meaning to farce Sir Godfrey resented a statement generally reserved for Gaelic chief- and that means limitation of origin- sweepstake ticket for himself, had made him a master of stage and turned on Sir Murdoch, whose Goethe was "Die" Corelli.

tains. Marie Corelll in the land of ality and Inspiration. but the Postmaster-General will craft. The whole drift of his friends thought he had been un- be under instructions to stop any mind provided him with themes. fairly attacked. tickets coming through the post. It is difficult for a generation So by cheering him at the first). Once in Stockholm I was dazzled their own, and they irradiate New It is legal to purchase. but the that has only seen his best work opportunity they showed their by the display of a distant window, Thought upon the world. proceeds of the purchase can only in occasional revivals, and has sympathy and at the same time a book shop, and, feeling that at This is well intentioned; their be obtained if the Post Office found most delight in his come reproached the Secretary for Scot last I was reaching the Mecca of efforts are brilliant and the success fails in its duty. It also appears dies, to realise what it was that land.

Culture, almost, bounded to the remarkable; but as philosophers. I that letters applying for tickets made a Pinero "first night" an

shrine.

do not find there a sufficiency either are liable to be stopped.

event of the year. What, was

There I saw stately rows of of scope of vision or illumination. The Home Secretary justifies then daring and dramatically un-

Galsworthy as a blazoned coat of] Illustrated Tracts this amazing interference with conventional has come to be com

arms, with supporters Ruby M Wella has done a vast amount of what he holds to be a legal tran- Įmonplace. By that fact we can decided blonde.

"My girl" said Harold proudly, "is aAyres, Charles Garvice, and Nat good work in tilting against conven- saction by saying, "It is clear measure the extent of Sir Arthur

"Yes," said Madge, "I was with her

Gould. that it was the intention of Par what he wrote may not live. It

tional errors and scattering ideas of Pinero's achievement. Much of when she decided.”

There was no volume of Scott, value; but an enduring philosophy liament to stop this practice, and

nothing of Dickens, and as to Field requires more than that a large that would be done." Why then was for its own day, and em-

When a visitor came into the studying they had never heard his name, view of the cosmos seen through the was the intention, not made plain bodied the questions that were of a famous novelist he found it atia In Paris I found that James Joyce windows of all the sciences, linked in the Bill when it was going moving the minds of the people ing and said "This study of yours is was the leading candidate, with with a sympathetic, undistorted through the House of Commons, the years in which he worked. not as an oven." "So it ought to be," Aldous Huxley and. Norah James view of human life.

Yet no history of British drama make my bread."

said the novellat, "for it is here that as it could have been without.

well in the running. adding a single line to the Bet cognition of his enormous

can be produced. without re-

In regard to tilting against social After a few experiences of that incongruities he is excellent, though ting and Lotteries, Act? To

sort, I drew up the ladder, and, re of late his books tend to be llu- fluence. have stopped the purchase of

jesting the wisdom of the foreigner, strated tracts, while the style lacks tickets altogether would have

fell back on my own canons. been

the peculiar attraction of "quality." an intelligible policy.

Will Galsworthy continue to live? What is quality? I once heard at Equally to allow the individual purchase of tickets without in-

To me the puzzle is how, asa Ascot a country gentleman remark: terference could have been de

Shrimp: "That banker isn't so bad as

great writer, he ever came to be "Donovan, you know, was short of fended, but to legalise purchase

people think he is. He's really a very born. There is one item in my list quality." The performances of good fellow when you know him, of canons that appears to me de-Donovan rank very high, but quality and punish it by confiscation is

$1000 and he received me very cordial-would seek stimulus and delight and' genius. went to him only last week to borrow cisive-style. On this ground makes the difference between talent neither intelligible nor capable of defence. Nor is it certain that even now the Home Secretary will achieve his purpose of stop- ping the sale of chances in a lot- tery organised outside this coun- try. Long experience has shown that the issue of a ticket need Mr. Rudolph Friml, the noted not be a part of the transaction. Viennese composer who is at pre- In attempting to close the door sent in the Far East in search of by the cumbersome method of the ideal girl to play the leading administration, rather than by role of his musical operetta, "Sing The 8.5. Maranoa left Port What I for one think of posterity legislation that is precise in ita Song Girl," returned to the Colony Stephens on December 2 and ar- is that If the efforts of our present meaning,, Sir John Gilmour may last Friday to make yet another rived here this morning,

world statesmen ever become effec only succeed in opening it wide to search among the Chinese girls of

¡tive posterity will be several degrees evasion.

Hong Kong.

The Annual Dinner in honour of below ourselves; but, I cannot think Mra. Alice Lau, who was offered their patron saint, Saint John the that they will find consolation for A Pioneer Of Modern the part by Mr. Friml four months mittee and members of the Chin-tracts of the Forsyte Saga,

Evangelist, will be held by the com.their woes in treading the drear Drama

ago, refused to go to Hollywood on

George Moore, he at any rate account of family reasons. It ise Catholic Young Mens' Society learned that the famous song com-

at their Club to-morrow at 7.80 was a stylist, "the last of our great, Though the day has passed poser will make another effort to

p.m. when Sir Arthur Pinero, whoan induce Mrs. Lau to go to Hollywood, death occurred recently, could be but if she should again refuse, he the Filipins Community are hold the George Moores and there are described as the foremost British intends to bring a Hollywood uniting their annual tiffin, which is to those who charm us by their style. writer for the theatre, he will over to produce the picture locally, be followed by a musical and from Sterne to Keats; and in ray live in the history of the drama

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"The road to success is a hard one, my son, and often blocked by trees."

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The Compliment.

Irather in Martin Tupper, Sorgham: "Did he lend you the money?"

On the philosophical side, psycho- Moore, The Poseur

logy is the queen of the sciences, and Shrimp: "No, he didn't—but he The Forsyte Saga, if I had to there Wells talks commonplace with- hesitated a minute before refusing study it seriously seriously is the out real insight, without that subtle

word-I would prefer to have it in faculty which makes the thinker,

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the form of proceedings in Chancery, for at best in a parliamentary Blue-

book.

What will posterity think of him?

| stylists." || What of him?:. This, when I can say it temperately; that

The Executive Committee and there are "stylists the Eaters and

as the pioneer who by his own Mr. Friml, who composed "Bing dance, at Lane, Crawford's Re-admiration for style I find the effort restored reality to the Song Girl", with, a, Colony setting, staurant on Sunday at 12.80 p.m.

"styliste" the most difficult of all to stage. He began in a period mainly in the West Point district,

thole.

when translations from the was the composer of "Indian Love The s.a. Naldera is due here with French were the main resource Call, Rose Marie, Vagabond the English malls at 10 am to of theatrical managers, varied by King" and "Only a Rose."

morrow,

Pater glitters on the page till one cannot read his book because of the continual soliciting of his bedizen-

Que

"You can bave the job as cashier. The wages are £10 per month.

*I can't go far on "that.” "I don't want my cashier to far!"

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