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The Nation

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

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the country for the funds neces An unclaimed telegram sary for the unkeep and main-dressed to Captain Somers, tenance of Edward Elgar's B. 1 Agents, from Calcutta, is birthplace. The appeal shouldying at the office of the E E levoke a wide response.

There Telegraph Co., Ltd. can be few men with ears to

Here There and

Everywhere.

PROPHETIC TRAIN TICKETS

Near the close of à session of the U. S. Congress, political pro- phets watch closely to see: when Vice-President Garner makes train reservations to return to his home in Uvalde, Texas--mfailing sign of an approaching adjourn

ment

The Vice-President leaves

turns on the last

GIVE US CLEANER NOVELS

RECENT TENDENCIES

IN LITERATURE

“BRUTAL NOVELS” EMANATING

FROM AMERICA

(By Compton Mackenzie)

does ist who has reached semi-not sell under the belief that it

is embarrassing for a novel they publish dirt which

Washington on the first possible ority to deplore the fiction in is sincere dirt, in which case train, he has explained, and rogue, for in doing so he must they are fools.

expose himself to a suspicion The publishers may reply. of having failed to keep up with that the remedy lies with the Mr. Garner spends his summer the times, and even of resent-law, and of course. it is true holidays fishing and shooting in ing the vitality of younger men that too evident pornography. the Rio Grande country. At 65 he! No man likes to be consider-would bring them into the police prefers to sleep in the open-aired a fossil, and no man likes to courts; but, unfortunately, over which, he says, "kinda makes the be considered petty. For me the nothing is the law inclined to face fill out.”

embarrassment is doubled by make such an ass of itself as The tradition that Vice-Pre the reflection that several of over the question of what is and sidents are to be seen and

my own novels were held once what is not pornographic liter heard Was shattered by Me

upen a time to be unfit for ature. Garner,

general circulation. Shall the The stupidity of the authori He has declined to be merely pot call the kettle black?

ties has been so crass thất by, "dimer-out” for the President; in- However, it really is time this time the mere fact of pro- stead, he is usually recognised as and suitably now before the secuting a book is enough: being second only to Mr. Roose autumn food begins that to provoke the testimony of a velt in importance. The latter calls him "Mr. Commonsense.”

* * CONGRESS'S 21,000 BILLS

not

some senior novelist took on the number of reputable authors thankless job of protesting that such a book is a profound against the licence which publy moral work of art of con- lishers allow their authors now spicuous importance in the

literature of the time. It is a curious illustration of adays.

Critics Powerless the difference between the Ameri-

Publishers Blamed *You will note that I blame No, the remedy does not he can and the British Legislatures. that Mr. Garner is said to have the publishers primarily, for with the law, unless the law is been some years ago the only Con-there is no doubt that they are prepared to take counsel with gressman to sit through a session the worse offenders. Either they a committee nominated by the without introducing a single bill publish dirt because it sells. in Society of Authors and to act by which case they are panders, or

The critics, too, are power less. I could occupy most of my

or resolution-

Not a few MPs have gone through session after session at

Your Daily Smile!

DAVIS

their advice.

WEDDING space every week in the Daily

PRICE

the

Mail with attacks on what I be- lieve to be unnecessarily ob- scene novels, and what would! be the result? --

Westminster without doing more KOWLOON than appear at the appropriate The Chinese General Chamber times in the division lobby.

Every . S .Congress averages, of Commerce has voted a sun of Elgar's Birthplace For $200 towards the fund for the it is said, about 21,000 bills-of

Alas for human nature! The- celebrations of the "Doable which perhaps 4 per cent become MARITIME CUSTOMS OFFICER

result would be an immediate AND BRIDE FROM HOME Tenth in Canton. The money law.

rush to buy those novels. My The freak bill is no rarity. This will be sent to the Canton Cham-

to: [only resource, therefore, is An appeal was made recent-ber of

The wedding of Mr. John Hee-ignore such books. Commerce, who are

ar session, for example, Bepresents- y by Sir Landon Ronald and anging to take part in the pro-tive Truax sponsored a measure tor Davis, of the Chinese Mari-

But unfortunately the free-- “to preserve and encourage a detime Customs, to Miss Nancy dom which was won by writers committee which includes the cessions.

clining "national institution popt- Price was solemnised yesterday who were determined that the most distinguished musicians of

[afternoon at St. Andrew's larly known as the 'circus'"

English novel should cease to Church, Kowloon, the Rev. be a joke in Europe 1

has degen Davis officiating.

erated into a licence which now The bride arrived from Home exceeds that tolerated in any

on the ss. Gleneanother language- Bast week An Impending Apology "Prime Minister Bennett of Can-She entered the Church on

Prodery always induces an hear who have not found plea Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 ada will sail to-morrow for home. arm of Mr. L A R. Duncan Her

ugly reaction, and it is signi- sure in the geniality, comfort in hours ending at 10 am. to-day Thanksgiving services will be held wedding gown was of white lace

ficant that the dirtiest novels of the spirituality of Elgar's

The total since in all churches on Sunday and there and she carried a spray bouquet will be a State ball at Buckingham of white lilies. The orange blos

all come from a country where music.

So manifold is his art was 0.84 inch.

January has been 63.24 inches, Palace on Tuesday."

prudery lingered in its sickliest that one cannot imagine a life

som head-dress which kept the against an average of

76.46

form that has not been enriched at

Lacking In Tact

long talle train in place had been inches.

U.S. Examples some time by the composer's

"My word!" he said, "you look worn by the bride's mother at her

Although American writers Mrs. L. A. R: Duncan, Matron have produced - some of the of Honour, wore a dark blue gown finest and most sincere work of with hat to match. Mr. H. Drury modern times, these brutal novels have become a feature was best man...

Mr. Rupert Baldwin presided in the lists of some English at the organ.,

publishers, and it is time that A reception was held at the an example was made: In such home of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan, a case the author would be out and later the newly-wed couple of reach, and as the publisher

would have to bear the onus. Heft for Bepulse Bay.

alone we might hope to have: the case tried or its merits

frock" before."

*

She smiled sweetly, "No-my twenty-first birthday present from daddy," she replied.

"Really!" he said. “And now it's fashionable again 277

At His Best

creations. He never failed to The Dollar Steamship Line s.s. good! I haven't seen you in that wedding.

time identify himself with his

President Coolidge is expected in and country; a national occa sion invariably stimulated his Hong Kong at 1 pm to-morrow, fertile genins into activity, he and will sail at mid-night on the

same day for Mania. added lustre to every great event of his age. Now the time

Chan Yui, aged 39, master of has come when English people

A teacher came upon the follow can make some little return for boat No. 5848, was removed to the the boons he gave, and honour Cheung Chau: Hospital sufferinging "howler": "A prime minister is themselves in honouring the from multiple injuries incurred a clergyman at his best."" fartist and the man.

while he dynamite.

* *

Wrapping Paper

The little girl was soliciting funds for her Sunday school. A gentle man dng into his pocket and pulled out several coins and a dollar bill

DESTROYERS DUE HERE

He asked the little girl to take what Black Hawk Expected

To-day

"Realism”

QUI

was fishing with He was removed to It is sometimes said that only

It is not only in obscenity posterity can pass final judg-the Government Civil Hospital at 3 a.m. and died at 5.45 am. yes

that some American novels set: ment on an artist's achieve

a vile standard. "The casual" ments. That is hardly true. No teday.

blasphemy in a few of them is judgment is final, and a genera-

she needed. Two serious accidents occurred tion that condemns a past epoch

"I do not wish to be piggish,” she

disgusting, and it has now be Mun Valley Jes-said. "I just take this penny. But,

come the fashion with may be succeeded by one that at the Shing extols it; revivals are subject to terday morning. About 9 am please, sir, may I have the paper to

young English writers The United States 5th Destroy It may be true that the novel fashion no less than the pro-Lai Ming, a stone coolie, sustained wrap it up in?" *

er Squadron is expected to arrive is the result. not the cause, of ducts of our time. Even if posla ruptured spleen as the result of

Clever

in the Colony on Monday morn-manners, but it is well to re- terity should question our ver- being struck by a lorry, and an

Castomer: "I should like that par-ling from the North

member the influence of the dict, it is; nevertheless, for us. hour later Wong Wai-sum, rot. But can it talk?"

The squadron comprises: 13th printed word in cheapening. Elgar's contemporaries, to show other coolie, sustained a fractured

Dealer: "Talk! Why, it few from him Paraguay to Stockholm, asking its Division (U. S S Whittle, J. D. decem

Edwards, S. Thompson and Bark- how dear we hold the memory skull when stones fell on of a man hardly less distinguish while he was working in the own way all the time."

er), 14th Division (U. S. S. Stew ed for his civic virtues than for quarry. The men were taken to

The instinct of the eighteenth his art, a man who reflected in the Kowloon Hospital. They are VAGRANCY CHARGE art and Parrott), 15th Division

|(U. S. S. Perry, Fope, Tillsbury century for good manners his work the simple nobility of both stated to be in a serious con-

and J. D. Ford)

prompted the most "realisticTMTM his character; an outstanding dition

HMS Lowestoft, sloop, is writers to use a dash even for example of the sanity of true

expected to arrive from the North "damn." They recognised that genius. If on the other hand,

“damn*** printed was many" this morning, while the U. S. S future generations should see a

An additional charge of being Black Hawk Depot Ship attached times stronger than "damn still deeper significance in El Whiteaway's this week and, judg- Jing from the large number of ens- gar's art than we do-as seems

a vagrant in the Colony was pre-to the United States Asiatic Spoken. Well damms have had more probable we shall have tomers who are taking advantage ferred against Frank Traynor, Fleet, arrived this afternoon.

of the many bargains offered who was committed to the House learned their gratitude" by pre-

serving for them the little house! Whiteaway's Dollar Day Sales are at Broadheath where Elgar was more popular than ever, bargains of Detention by Mr W. M. Thom- yesterday morning for stowing born and where he spent those being obtainable in every depart-on at the Kowloon Magistracy critical years in which the mind ment for the modest sum of $1.00, sway on board the s.5. Javanese as linens, glassware, Prince from San Pedro to Hong first opens to the wonders of such

tionery, books, toilet accessories, the universe. To that home he

Kong was deeply attached: there was hardware, wearing apparel for thankfulness in his heart for men, women and children and having been born within sight many other articles too numerous of the hills he loved so well, to mention: Though he refused to accept it

at the hands of a foreign don-

Every day is a dollar day at

European Stowaway Sentenced

Remarking that

be would

change his decision in the inter- Jest of the defendant, the Magis- trate bound defendant over in a sum of $50 to come up for judg- Chan Sheung Kan, aged 38, un-ment within 12 months on,

the for, he would have welcomed it employed; Chan San, aged 78, a charge of, stowing away, and

as a gift from his own country-widow, and Cheung Wong, a mar committed him to the House men In purchasing it the Corried woman, poration of Worcester carried charged befo out one of his dearest wishes. It at the Ce

for those stowwhom - the

this morning

Detention on the charge of

rive for

aded

MR. W. W. YEN IN

- FRANKFURT

Making Stay Of Several Days

delegate

their day, as Bob Acres said, {and Sheridan's very wig would stand on end if he knew the common currency of modern oaths

Nor must we make the novel: the scapegoat for all the dirty tbooks of to-day. Many pseudo- medical and pseudo-psychologi- cal works are published at as low a price as novels, and in many instances they are read more widely:

It is time that, for the cho mity of our profession, the country as Society of Authors took Moscow, has ar to deal with what is

de for Moscow a public nuisance.

stay, "during be left to the police. the China blem of films and

various been solved without ceanvention, and books A

Twith on the

ame lin

.