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of views and impressions" and is not put forward as an authoritative history of Victoria literature. Of course, every critic must to a cortain extent express hie personal views, but it is not expected of him that he shall go out of his way to emphasise the points where his per sonal opinions clash with those of the author he is criticising, and pass lightly over all the points into which the personal element does not enter. To put the matter plainly, Mr. CHESTERTON' egotism overshadows the whole book. He pats the Victoria writers on the head

A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes to-morrow at 5 p.m.

Maritime Customs, son of the late Rev. Mr. James Murray, of the Chinese

W. Hill Murray, of Peking. has left for

"the front."

Owing to the rain yesterday the Fte and Concert in the Public Gardona was postponed until Wednesday, October 27th. All arrangemonts will stand for that date. The Secretary of the Church Missionary Society begs to acknowledge with thanks the sum of $81.30 from St. Andrew's

THE WANCHAI FIRE CASE **PAUNOH A PASSPORT TO

PARADISE."

remarks in the course of his address for the defence at the Criminal Sessions yesterday in the Wanchai arson charge. The way in which Mr. Orme has asked you to yiom the evidence, and to come to the conclusion that my clients are guilty," said 'counsel,

has struck me as being a very extra. ordinery one. He has called before you, in spirit only.and I am going to do it in

Mr. F. C. Jenkin made some amusing

with the air of one who should say Church, Kowloon, for the C.M.S. Hos.body--that oxcellent gentleman who stood

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memo- rial and Affiliated Hospitals bega to ac knowledge with thanks a donation of $15 from the Students, Et. John's Hall, to the funds of the Hospitals,

If there is dandruff or it is" You didn't do so badly, my little

follow," and he nods his head sapiently pita! at Pakhoi. while he reflects how much better they would have all done if they had had the benefit of the genius, the views and the style of G, K. CHESTERTON, Further, all these pour Victorian writers had the fault of not living in our enlightened, times: the gods after which they were running were all false gods. This is the general impression conveyed on rending the book; yet it must be confessed that occasionally Mr. CHESTERTON, SCOMIS to regret the passing of the Victorian Era, even with all its mistakes, and is not In entire accord with the changes that

The Peking papers have been authorita. have taken place since, It may be tively informed that there is no truth in suspected that the only era he would the report which a Japanese correspon- will restore it to a healthy state really welcome would be a Chestertonian den in the Capital has cabled to his

RESORCIN HAIR

WASH

one.

Let us now turn to some of Mr. CHESTERTON's estimates of the great Vic. by invigorating the scalp and turian writers, noting by the way how

killing the dandruff germ.

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We are asked by Mr. Stabb, the Hon. Treasurer, to intimate that the British Red Cross Society and St. John Ambulance Fund, instead of being, closed yesterday, as originally arranged, will be kept open until the 28th inst

paper regarding an alleged loan of 860,000,000 said to be under negotiation between the Chinese Government and a group of American capitalists. The cor- the security offered was the surplus revenues of the Badt Gabelle.

added

that

pften truth is sacrificed for the sake of respondent brilliance. He describes THACKERAY's style carved in slow soft curves," and we feel grateful for the description;

At the Magistracy yesterday but when he adds that DICKENS "hacked compradore of the Larsang was charged out his images with a hatchet we can only feel that the simile breaks down

the

man

in the witness-box for the better part of a day and refused to raise his oyos from the ground. whether you

I do not know, gentlemen, Are accustomed to study demeanour, that

but I suggest to you you never Baw P

witht such n peculiar attitud 45 Mr. All. He was either overcome, gentlemen, with the great grief it had given him to give evidence against his friends, or over- come with the very awful position of ocen pying that box and not telling the truth; it was either one or the other.

I shall put it to you without bandying with words that that man is a liar from the word go.

Mr. Orme says that Mr. Au

cannot be a liar beeruse he is fat. Gentle- meu, if that is true, then Heiven must be peopled with fa mon(aughter)----a paunch will be a pasaport to paradiso (laughter) and I shall be able to con- gratulate every man I ment who has a girth that he is incapable of crime. "And this, remember, will come back upon Mr. Orme's hend very many times, for if he is.

Prosecutor, for the discharge of every earnest he will have to ask, as Crown

criminal in the dock who has a stomach. (Laughter Mr. Au was described by Mr. Orme as a man unconscious of crime or intrigue, and a man incapable of lying

It is ab

awake at night and plotting. surd." Dealing with the facts of the case Mr. Jenkin submitted that the evidence as to what was found on the premises all tended to show that the fire was purely on accidental one.

with being in possession of a Browning altogether. HARDY is "a sort of village pistol and 88 rounds of ammunition, Mr. atheist brooding and blaspheming over

Goldring, who defended, put forward the the village idiot," a description that plea that the pistol, etc., was given into S. WATSON might go down at a revival meeting, but the safe-keeping of the compradore by the certainly cannot raise Mr. CHESTERTON's Chief Officer who had gone Home on leave. critical fame, After this it is hardly The revolver, as was very evident, had not surprising to find Jane Eyre described as

been used, His worship held that the "one of the beat blood-and-thunder compradore should have taken out a detective stories in the world," though licence as there might be thousands of we feel that Mr. CHESTERTON'S memory revolvers is the Colony under such circum-

At anstlier stage Mr. Jenkiu referred is not so good as it should be when, a stances. A conviction was recorded but no

to the evidence of Mr. H. A. Lammert, few pages further on. we find Wim penalty was imposed, and the pistol and

who surveyed the building after the fire COLLINS's Moonstone described as "pro ammunition were ordered to be con

in the following manner; Mr. Lam bably the best detective tale in the fiscated. Mr. Goldring said he would niert stood like the rock of Gibraltar and world." Admirers of EMILY BRONTE apply to the Captain Superintendent of did not move na inch. He went to examine maly wine to be told that Heathcliffe Police to hold the arms until the return of the shop, and after the fire, which fails as a man as catastrophically as be the Chief Offerr

was whetted by the presence of kerosene, sucereds as a demon,' while ROSSETTI

had been raging for hours and the build- lovers will hardly appreciate the sugges tion that the poet's refrains would have

ing was gutted, he traced a thousand dollars worth of stock. Good luck to him, sounded better as jolly choruses, such an "Tally

and all I can say, gentlemon, is, that if Mr. Ho!"

or Tocral-dooral."

Lammert found #1,000 worth of stock after. Hero we have a touch of Mr. CHESTERTON

a fire of that description, then, gentlemen,

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HONGKONG, OCTOBER 22, 1915.

THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE.

SATURDAY'S CRICKET.

HONGKONG #B v. UNIVERSITY.

The following will represent the Hong. as the buffoon. MALTHUS described as kong "B" team in the above match on "a thing"; SPENCER as holding a the Club Ground to-morrow (Saturday), "vantly exaggerated place as a philosoplay commencing at 2.15 p.m. :-T. F. pher "; Ruskin os desiring to take the Pearce (Captain), G. E. Aubrey,, F. H. art treasures of Europe "to a really Baker, C. J. Hewitt, S. 5. Moore, H. E. careful museum situated dangerously Muriel, E. B. Reed, F. Syme-Thomson, near Clapham"; and MILL exhibiting H. H. Tayler, R. P. Thursfield, and A. IN Mr. G. K. CHESTERTON what may be the wheels of his iron universe rather Whitmarsh conveniently called the New Criticism reluctantly, like a gentleman in trade finds its ablest exponent. He has, more showing ladies over his factory," are the University:-Ng Sze Kwong (Cap- The following players will represent or less, definito views to state, an incisisy some other of Mr. CHESTERTON'S gema rain), O. E. Marley, Brayshay, Wei Wing expression-the last pushed to an extreme afford amusement for an idle hour; but Anderson, J. D. Wright, Chan Wing To, style, and a considerable, originality of They are very cleverly cut, and will Lock, Ho Wing Kin, Redmond, O. G. which occasionally causes the sacrifice of this does not obscure the fact that they W. Hall, Yung Hin Lun. truth. Neverthelem, after realising and are paste. The gist of the matter seems acknowledging all the brilliance of the to be that Mr. CHESTERTON suffers from

others

HONGKONG v. K.C.C.

his reputation as a surveyor and valuer is. A good one, for he must have the eyes of a hawk. I put it to you, gentlerien, that if, after a fire of that description he can End 81,000 worth of stock on his own esti- mate, then there must have been a great deal more there, and he did very well in what he did. I would have given him. a pat on the back if he had not been in the witness-box." (Laughter.)

a verdict of guilty against the first two The jury were unanimous in returning

prisoners, and one of not guilty against the third. The first prisoner was sentenced to five years, the second to three years, both with hard labour, and the third was discharged.

author of The Victoria Age in Literature, the complaint which overtakes us all al At Kowloon to-morrow afternoon, there remains, with the reador adeep times, that of imagining, not that we the following will represent. H.K.C.C. suspicion that Mr. CHESTERTON'S point have fallen, but that

have "A"-R Hancock (Captain), N. J. of view is all wrong; that it is his own declined. Belf-complacency is no doubt peculiar point of view and will receive a cousdling frame of mind, but it would Austin, R. A. Brand, F. W. Cary, C. W.

be occasionally advisable to remember Beswick, C. A. Hooper, P. B. Letgof the fable of the tadpoles, who agreed that Bennett, A. C. Leith, M. M. Maas, E, J

frog was the ugliest thing in creation. R. Mitchell, and G. R. Sayer. till they themselves became frogs Mr. CHESTERTON thinks the Victorians were all mistaken-mistaken in their search for truth, in their freedon of outlook,

BANISHEES SENTENCED,

The Chief Justice dealt with five cases

returning from banishment at the Criminal. Sessions yesterday. Four prisoners, Chan Kiu, Wong Sing, Leung WatWing and Tong Fuk, were each sentenced to three years and Lo Yau Nam to four sen days. With regard to the latter, the Chief Justice expressed the opinion that as the man had only once been convicted the Magistrate could easily have dealt with the caso summarily. The prisoner ap- peared to be a very respectable man. Crown Soliciter concurred.

K.C.C.-Dr. Forsyth, Lt. Col. son, A. A. Claxton, W. Kay, J. Stalker, W. L. Weaser, A. R. F. Raven, H. Over. W. T. Elson, A. Hamilton, and C. Mycock,

KOWLOON . CIVIL SERVICE.

no endorsement from posterity. The grent critic is he who can distinguish the No. 1, MORETON TERRACE, Causeway permanent from the impermanent; who Bey

can point out those qualities in a work GODOWNS, at Wanchai GODOWNS, at New Praya, Kennedy Towa.

of art which will impress all time, and Apply

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of the future. But the critic, to be able and in their revolts against authority to do this, must be able to distinguish whether in religion or in politics; and between what appeals to his

he claims that a Joseon should be drawn from these mistakes. NEWMAN (pro

At Happy Valley, 2.15 p.m., the fol- NO. 2 "FAIRVIEW," Nathan Road,dilections and what is above all, or

Kowloon.

includes all, dilections. If the critic bably by reason of his conversion to Robinson, J. V. Braga, F. Sutton, K lowing will represent Kowloon-J. P. Peak, from 1st November, 1915.

GLENSHIEL," No. 141, Plutation Road, holds strict views on the relations of the Roman Catholicism), CARLYLE and LEWKNOR," No 126, THE PEAK,

sexes, he must not allow them to DICKENS he regards as the three great | McLennan, E. J. Edwards, J. C. Fletcher, HARTING."

Austin Toad, Kowloon,

interfere with his estimate of the poetry teachers of the Victorian Era who tried A. W. E. Davidson, A. G. Pile, A. E. "HILLSIDE." 5 Rooms Furnished, from 1st November, 1915.

From 18. BAK, of BURNS or SunLLY; if he is of orthodox to remedy these mistakes, though he has Schulz, L. F. Shroff, and W. F. A. ONE OFFICE or SHOP in Duddoll Street, religious views, he must not allow his to acknowledge that their philosophie. Ground Floor

No. 1 and 2 COLLEGE GARDENS of the art of THOMAS HARDY; if his positive; that CARLYLS's injunction to orthodoxy to interfere with his estimate principles are mainly negative and not

6 ROOMS erch, from 1st November.

No, 3. "THE ALBANY," ROOMS, In Duddall Streek

own

political opinions are of the Conser sell the truth. implies that telling

"ROSENEATH," 2. Hankow Rd. Kovicon.ative type, he must not allow then to the truth is as easy as shelling peas;

Knapton.

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

HONGKONG F.C.. R.E.

THE YARN MARKET.

Tho

In their latest circular Messrs. Polish

walia & Kotwall, cotton and yarn brokers,

say:---

Following a series of firm and active markets extending over several weeks, a depressed feling has pervaded our market and business has dwindled down to very meagre proportions, This lethargic state of the market is due partly to an uncom fortable feeling engendered by the political situation in Peking, but owing mainly to No. 6, BELILIOS TERRACE.

interfere with his estimate of the genius that DiCKENS's plane of reform were

The following will represent the R.E. the over-bought condition of dealers who, No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with of MacAULAY OF MILL entrance on Conduit Road,

Now this is startlingly petty and parochial; and that against the Club on the Club Ground as deliveries mature, are obliged to resell exactly what Mr. CHESTERTON dois allow NEWMAN had no sympathies outside his to-morrow (Saturday), at 4.30 p.m.-contracts at a cut of 32 to 84 on last rates. Importers, on the other hard, do not appear his dilections to do throughout his, religion. After this a natural doubt Rogers; Coxon, and

Boff Brennan, keen on making a concession in rates, in estimate of the great writers of the arises as to whether the Victorians did Smith, and Saker; Foster, Townsend. view of advices from Bombay pointing to Conse. "MERION, No. 6, THE FAX, Unfurnished Victorian Era. There can be no doubt make any mistaked at all-whether the Hortop, White and Pearce. As several a steady though iractive market. (6-Rooms)

sequently sales from first hands hardly ap NODES VEUX VILLAS, 61, PRAY of this because the editors of the series mistakes do not lie on the side of those members of the R.E. team will have to prouch 800 bales registered during the The market (Unfurnished),

to which Mr. CHESTERTON'S work is following them, the greatest of all being return to duty immediately after the early part of the fortnight. contributed go out of their way toto imagine that we are at last on the match, the Clubmen are particularly though we are on the eve of a decline. closes exceptionally quiet, and it looks as apologise for him, by stating that the right road for which the Victorians so requested to turn out early, and thus save Total sales 800 bales. Unsold and ar book is “a free and personal statement of an sought in vain.

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