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SIR ROBERT HART'S RETIREMENT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MÀY 29cm, 1938.

dress," and was sativa notil his death from heart-exhaustion when eighty-four years old Browsing wrolo with undiminished vigour anti.l his death at seventy-seven.

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Poble conquences which he might have helped to prevent. With the cheap sueer that at the last Bir Robert Hart became more binese The departure of Sir Robert Hart from then the Chiuses we do not feel disposed to Hnk Paking practically terminates an official career surselves. Such charges are of rentonly

·Cato began the study of Gresk at eighty, which is perhaps unique in the history of the levelled at Englishmon who by prolonged contact relations of the Western world with the Orient, with Oriental racos, learn to discern and lore Plutarel began his first lessons in Latin, and For forty-five years Sic Robert Hart bas con- their fluer qualities, and the gibe la generally Socrates learned to play on instruments of caso, trolled the great service of the Imperial Chinese wrong. It is trus that within a week of the Arnauld, the theologian and sage, translated Maritime Coatoms with which his name is relief of the Feking Legations Sir Robert tfarts Josophus in his eightieth year. Gladstone inseparably, nesectsted. He did not found it, but was apologizing for the Manchu dynasty, becoms Premier for the fourth time at eighty: three, and held the office for two years. West the guided its development and enlarged its commending Princa Tuss's-appointment as a

soape to such a degree that he may be almost good one, and asking us to conceive of the painted admirably until eighty years of age, regarded as its real creator. Yet it is not only Boxers as a kind of honourable prototypu of Mr. and Goethe, at Weimar, completed "Fanst an Inspector Grenergi of Customs in China that Haldane's Territorial Army.. We sanuotagues when as old. Hahnemann married at sighty, Sir Robert Hart has received world wide recog-with these contentious, but we are willing to and was working at uiuety-one years. Simoni les aillon and distinction. That poultion made him, respect the spirit in which they were advanced won the prize for varse when over eighty of as hae boon truly said, "the permanent trustee The suggestion that the best Europeana iu vairs of age, and Rauks at the age of foreign "interests in China"; but he was China develop in themselves after long residenos righty began his History of the World," and mack more than that. For many years he the conventions of the Chinese atmosphere to lised to complate twelve volumes, dring at the way the acknowledged intermediary between the detriment of the Western influences withio age of ninety one. Baffou, the great Franch Western nations and the Chinese Govern them, in a facile bat misloading way of explaining naturalist, notil shortly before his death at ment. During & period of transition, a very asiural process. Such man come to eighty ons, labourad upon his "Natural His- Palmerst was Prime Minister of when Europe was hammering at the gates realiza-deeply and comprehensively the invertory."

with guns, always workings of the batter side of Chinesa life. England when he died at eighty-ona. Bancroft of Chios, sometimes with insistent requests, It fell to his lot to not They read's an understanding which can never published the soneluding volume of his "His as a diplomatic buffer and to lessen the impact be attained by those of their countrymen for at sighty-two, and died at ninety-one. content themselves with noting its Voltaire at eighty-three published a tragedy, of many a thoek. He was the constant and who confidential advicer of the Chinese authorities, surface peculiarition with special attention ; “ Irens"; and Tann got, whose age was eighty- When three, gave the world in his "Crossing the Bar" and he was even permitted to negotiate treaties to things that are objec ionsble. and conventions. He made terms of peace with Bir Robert Hart urged, not long ago, that one of the most beautiful of vau-songs. New with Frames after the war of 1896, and his was in the avid basto for Western education, ton at eighty-three worked as hard as he did in the preponderating volce when the Chi-fa the ethical precepts of Confucius should not be middle life, and Herbert Spencer died at the Convention and many another international neglected, and that young Chinese should com-sama sgs almost, with pen in hand, Talleyrand. The position he plate their moral education before turning to inch rulers been a power all his life. at eighty-foar, had ander successive agreement was drafted. occupied wae difonlt and delioste. Though Western thought and knowledge, he was not. the trusted counsellor of China; he was also intentionally reactionary. He was only laying Landor wrote bis "Imaginary Conversations" regarded by foreign natione, particularly by stress on the dangerous tendencies we described, when eighty five years old, and at eighty- Great Britain, as a custodian of their rights on Good Friday, in an article on Westen seven published his last volume of "Herois and privileges. If in the conduct of diplomatie education And Eastern morals. Throughout Idylla Guizot at eighty waren showed on- negotiations he sometime chose to consider that his career Sir Robert Hart's advocacy of the impaired mental rigour and Hobbes, the at the same aga primarily he owed a duty to his Chinese Chinose, if sometimes incking in discrimination, English philosopher, associater, we are not now disposed to criticize has been ardent and devoted. They have got published his version of the "Odyssey," and one year later. A few waska him on that account. It was natural and had so many champions that we need grudge inevitable that the warm sympathy with the them this one. Ho has wrought order out of before his death in his ninetieth year, Chines rice. which he conceived very chaos, he has helped to teach the East that the he wrote to his publisher, "I shall have early and has never since withheld, should west can appreciate its ideals, and, if his something is English for you shortly." Yon remain the predominant influence in his sympathies sometimes have been tos relasivaly Moltke, when sigary.eight, was still chief of - mind. That the possible consequences of his deflected towards the dawning light es regeneraatft of the Prussian ney, and John Wesley at that age prasend almost every day and still MOW.itude were loug misunderstood in England tou in Chins. he has yet given us out more

held the helm of Methodism. At bighly-nine, is clear from the orilees offer of the port of proof of the great work single resolate man Minister Flenipotentary at. Peking, which was still oay accomplish in the dark and toogtel Michelangelo was still painting his great

The good sea and places of the Odient- The Times.

Gaurasses. Izaak Walton wielded a ready pen made to him In 1885.

at sirety. Popa L XIII. showed a sign of Sitio judgment which bare gouerally dis

intellectue decrepitude-who-be died of old &tinguished Sir Robert Hart's coatsot with

agiat bias-threo. Fontenelia was as light- pubile affairs were never seen to better advant-

hearted at bluely-sight as at forty, Titian at Inge than when he decided to decline the cffer,

ninety-eight painted his "Battlo of Lapsato," and, wonder of wonders! Chevreul, too great scientie, whess untiring labours in the realma of colour bare so cnright the world, was basy. krea, and active when death oulled him at the age of 103.

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THE TRIUMPH OF OLD AGE.

CONSOLATION FOR THE GREYL CARDS. Mr. Doland, continuing his resparties in the Centry Magazine, comes to the conclusion that, provided braith sad optimism remain the man of fifty cat command success as readily as the man of thirty" He has compiled a goodly list of veterans who did some of their beat work after they had passed their thres soure years and ten :---

SEPTUAGENARIANS.

Between the ages of seventy and eight-thres, Commodore Vanderbilt increased the mileage. of his road from 120 to 10,000 and added about, one hundred millions to his fortune, Grote is his seventy-first ponr bogan his work on "Aristotle." At seventy-two, Handel, blind for the last six years of his lifa, compased bis oratorio Triumph of ime and ruth," and died at seventy-four, working until the fast. At the same age Mayerbeer produced his greatest opera L'Africaine," samaal John rou published tho best of his worke,Lives of the Posts," and Littré completed his greatest of all dictionaries, Wordsworth was appointed to the laureateship at seventy three, and lived to saa Lis eightieth birthday. Galileo at seventy- thron-made bis inat tringcopic discovery. At aveaty-four, Kant wrote his Anthropology" and Thiers became President of the French Republic, holding that exalted office for two and corruption, the years, Tintoretto at the same age painted his

Sir Robert Hart's control of Chinese Customs dates from the period when the contral provinces were in the throes of the Tai-ping robellion. In the class caused by that gigantic revolt, when even the native city of Sanghai was in the hands of the rebels, the new service was barn. The walvotion of the young Consular officer to direct it almost coincided with the sponing of several new treaty perts, and the Ror rica began to expand at oure. Sir Robert Hart bought to his task an unusual combination of qualities. Be possessed indomitable industry, inexhaustible patience, shrewd perception. the faculty of selecting good enoordinates, a talent for organisation. And a love of order and method which was in strong contrast to the casual oharacter of the Chinese Administration. Ho insisted on discipline, and, shove all, be exseed the strictest Bnancial probity from his staff. In Imperial Maritime

It is now recognised that many of the finest achievements in business, statsmanship, litera. turs, and in all activities have been wrought by man long pt sixly,

CENTRAL AFRICA AS A CAREER.

In the Strand for april. Mr. Winston Churchill spaxx highly of the Central African protectorates as a career for youth. He says:

The African probet rat is now administered by the Colonial Office ifford rare scope for the abilities of carnet and int iligent youth. A man of twenty-fire may easily tud himself rul- Ang 8 Jarge trant of country and a namerous population, The Government is to cowly established t bare developed the highly centralised and closely knit perhaps too old ly kait bioraséby and control of the Indian system. It is far too poor to afford a complete Administration. The Dist ist Commissioner must judge for himself, and be judged upon his actions. Very often-for tropical diseases make

an aimospbers of slagtoms BFF" to be a sbin-Paradise." Verdi whan seventy-four produced many gaps in the ranks, and meu must often

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ing example of official honesty, promptitude, his master-piece, Otello, Holmes at seventy return io Barlant to reorait their health-tho and just treatment. The Chinese marvelled to discover that, while their revenues expanded eight wrote "One Hundred Days in Europe, ofloor is not a District Commissioner at all, but nota tael strnik illegitimately to the Bugera of and at seventy-nine pablished Over the Tea & janior as ing in his atoad or in someone's aby pormon in authority: The Customs faillonpa" dying at the ripe old age of eighty fire stead, somet ma for a year or more. To him Longfellow at seventy-live wrote his imposing there coms day by day the natives of the district tated the growth of foreign trade, and yet was meditation "Hermes Trismegistus" and the with all their troubles, disputos, and intrigues, cautions guardian of Chinese interests. beautiful Bells of San Blas At seventy- The growing appreciation of the impartial was an abiding ohjeet lesson in a land rotten fire Hullam pablished his "Literary Essays justice of the tribunal leads them increasingly with minanagement. It gained the implicit confidence of freigs Powers, and its revenues and Characters" Metternich was driven from to carry all sorts of cases to the District. Com- When they are 86.ved as a sound security when the time esme power, Bismarck was forend from the Cuancel-missioner's Court. When they are ill they for Chins to borrow,

be service was well lorablp by the German Emperor, Crispi asmd come and ask for medicine.

man they go to bare their injurles famed at seventy. psid, and attracted to its Tanks able men of the Premiership of Italy. Hugo at seventy-fire wounded in their quarrela it is to the white many nationalities. Its growth was steady and wrote "History of a Crime" ocatinuous, for between 1864 and 1:06 the Bover pablished Le Papa, et se7auty. Disease, and accident have to be cambited "Lee without professional skill; Courts of justice "L'Âne"; at seventy-uiur, eight, foreign insports alone inoressor in value from Quatre Vents de l'Esprit "; and at eighty, and forms of legality must be maintained with- out lawyers Taxes: hare to be collected by Iss than £20,000,00 to £67,000,000. I lit theorquemads." Lamartine at seventy-six wrote coasts of Chua, and it compiled statistics of a novel, Fior d'Aliz," Washington Irving personal influence. Peace has to be kept with When you find convalescence slow and foreign trade which were the qual of any in the lived to be seventy-six, and wrote his "Life of only a shadow of force. All these great "ppor- Washington in bis last years.. Humboldt tanities of high service, and many others, are tedious when it seems to take yon a long time world. So efficient was the Customs Administra to regain your strength and to a buoyant feeling tion, so ample was the faith reposed in it, that postponed until bla seventy-sixth your the often and daily placed within the reach of men of health--take Hall's Coca Wine and baston many extraneous executive duties were entrust beginning of the crowning task of his life their tweni-s-ou the whole with admirable "which he results. It was most pleasant to hear with preparation of the "Kosmos, your recovery. This marvollons restorativa ied to Sir Robot Hart. He was asked to the surest, safest aid to health. It nourished organize a postal service, which he did with successfully completed in his niutinth year. what comprehension and sympathy the effvers

one time it seemed as and stains the weakened body, renews and admirable success; and

Jacob Grloom died at seventy-sight, working to of the East Africa Protectorata spark about invigorate the blood, steadies and tones the though half the direction of the Chinese Empire the last; and Laplace, dging at the same age. their work; and how they regard themselves as

Medical men everywhere com- would be thrust upon his willing aboulders. ailing nerves.

rights against those who only care about nothing; what we do not know is immense." mend Ha's Coca Wine in preference to the He was alware at his part, and rarely laft said with his last breath: What we know is the guardians of native interests and native usmal alcoholic stimulants or nauseous acid Peking. His high conception of his respousi-marck at seventy-eig at completed his greatest exploiting the country and its people. No one on travel even for a little whils among the bilities cannot fail to have made a deep imprological work, Teo Naural History of sion upon the Chinese officials who were wont Invertebrates." and lived until sighty-five years Kikuyu tribes without acquiring a liking for to sack bis counsel and guidance.

of age. Whitler at seventy-aine published these light hearted,tractable, if brutish, children, er without fealing that they are capable of andr. Gregory" We can scarcely believe that the Chinese "Poems of Nature" Customs Service is destined very long to main Guest," William Cullen Bryant at seventy being instructed and raised from their present tain the reputation it on yed in the days when nine wrote a volums of "Orations and Ad-degradation. Sir Robert Hart dirested it with the powern of an autosrat, and brocked no interferozde. Its future night have her more hopefa, had not his dominant will become supple and pli ut. When, with truly Chinese ingenuity, & Boheme was devised which really ended the practically inde pendent control hitherto exercised by the Inspector-General, Sir Robert Hart did not enter the lista in d-fenos of the grast institution ho had built up with so mach toil. With mesh certain acquiesounce he sought refuge in "verbal asearances" which gave no guarantee, Assurances which few people acquainted with thefacts were prepared to accapt. Precedeuta were admitted and defended by him which are st varianos with the solemn undertaking of Chins in 18 8 that only an Englishma shall be employed us Inspector-General. The latter of the pledge may be observed, but its spirit will be violated if the Inspector-General is allowed to becom mere underling of Fotortons Chinese offieis, as now 30002 likely to be the care ale-a the British Foreign Office is more sctively vigilant, f Bir Bobert Hart did not feel impelled to consider the large British interest involved, at least the sense of duty be cherishes towards Chins might have ateeled him to public protest for no man knows better that under Chinees control the canker of corruption may very soon at into the cure of the service which is the monument of his life. Long association with the Chinese and a sinoura sympathy with their kindling aspirations led him at the moment of ostroversy to reveal that he had become over- proficient in the art of yielding. We do not blame him for kis predilections, but we fear for the

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