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SOME PAGES OF HISTORY. HOW ENGLAND HAS BEEN GOVERNED,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 1925

A MONITOR FROM SUMATRA. GIANT LIZARD AT THE LONDON

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The arrival at the Zoo, which it has been placed in the Tortoise House of

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ON EDINBURGH. DREAM PICTURES OF PAST DAYS. A while ago I dreamed. I always do in Edinburgh. In no other pince do pictures of past days crowd so thickly before my eyes--scenes tragic, humorous, or merely quaint. I think I like these latter best of all-

PRODIGIES AND PARENTS.

We have

A DIFFICULT MODERN PROBLEM.

our infant prodigies over here-dear little

A best seller at elevent

prodigies of long ago like Marjorie Flem- ng, discovered to us long after she had taken her pretty fancies elsewhere, or prodigies only covered to be prodigies when it had ceased to matter, like Miss teases of twelve like Helen Douglas Daisy Ashford: we have even had poc Adam, the daughter of a Scottish parson, and America, and reaped a goodly meed who has been published both in England: of praise; and novelists of seventeen like Mollie Panter Downes; and artists like I stand before Merest Cross, and thinked a private show of his work at the age the Hop.. Stephen Tennant, who achier

It is of course essential that the Clerk tropien Asia is the largest of living of the Prish Council should be a gentle.lizards, and the example which has now nmn, because his relations with the Fenchel the Gardens is between 6 ft. and of the air' I; à stranger, should have of fourteen-but we have never had a Sovereign and the Lord President of the feet...in length from the tip of its snout { caused even one hundred and &ity years best seller in, or before, the "teens."

[BY AAR] Comparisons are proverbially oxious, and practically popular.

very large runs lizard from Sir Almeric Sumatra, is a reminder that the age of FitzRoy, having been at Balliol and reptiles is not quite over. There are still taken a first in history, is a much better loft, chiefly in the tropics, members of educated man than his penultimato preench of the four groups which, although

Princes-street is the handsomest street decessor, Both are descended from Whigfar short of their extinet ancestors, ATE

in Europe; it has fias shops before which alukes, and une cannot help asking. Why entitled to be valled giants."

-visitors like to linger, and hosts of other is history..always written by Whigs?

attractions; but while liigh-street, Edin The Yaran or

take second place in my affections. Monitor lizard ofburgh, stands oven Prince-street must

Council are intimate and contoutial able to protrude a long forked congue, to the end of the whiplike tail. It is He is a liaisou officer between the cerebrinck for the greater part of its extent monial and executive parts of the Con- Varanus lizard inhabits warto swamps, of 13 in., and fleshly at the base. The stitution and though the size of the hut also climbs tres, and has oven the Council called Privy, which has same 250 reputation of eating the flesh of dear oatives who have been subjected to the members, has necessarily, deprived it of practice of tree burial. Certainly it is power, there are always some duzen of omnivorous in diet, eating any kind of its number whu know everything that is

small mammal ruptile or bird which it to be known about Kings and Cabinets, able to capture. taking eggs from His two volumes of comment on the his.nets, feeding on large gruhs and cater- tory of the last thirty years are of absorb pillars, and any sort of carrion.

ago. The cadies lounging round the cross would have become alert to find out required an intimate knowledge of the my name, quality, and business, for they airs of all dwellers within the city their duties, eficiently. You merely had temporary or permanent, to carry out to say to a member of the Society of Cadies. Do this," and he did it-tor a reasonable consideration. The endies cosereel a wider field than our messenger boys. No employment-even the darker shades-came amiss to them. Each mem ing interest for those who follow politics.but can also bite severely. When annoying directory, which was helpful in a city It uses its claws and tail as weapons, her of this close fraternity was a walk- They are well written, containing as

of sages of "feeling. sometimes passing into eloquence. There are many good stories. which the papers have long ago picked

-out.

THE REAL INDISCRETION.

Of betrayals of confidence and ind. ernet observations on the great ones of the earth, dead and living, I find pone, at least one as bad as Cabinet Ministers and one great lady have lately been pour ing into the public ear. Bat to be sure these two closely-parked volumes are a very serious indiscretion, one the less grave because it is doubtful whether the author has written for our amendment or Dar amusement.

DECLINE OF GOVERNMENT.

So long ng Lord Salisbury lived the nineteenth century tradition of serious ness and discipline in polities, particularly in the Tory Party, was maintained. But the death of that great statesman seemed to release Mr. Joseph Chamberlain froin all restraint, and immediately he began his struggle with Mr. Balfour and the Duke of Devonshire for the control of the Unionist Parts.

Party

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it makes threatening openmouthed demonstrations, as if it were guing to tack, or with its month closed; emits a kind of snorting, deep pitched his Although it is not poisonous. it is loath ed and feared by the natives.

.

painted to look like irun," was far more applicable to Mr. Asquith. The heasy features, and Johnsoniau diction asked

vedillating weakness, which either to laziness or timidity. He could was due not, or would not, control the recklessness of Messrs. Churchill nod Lloyd George. That he was thrown upon the pavement

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multitude of souls. Some of the house.

"skyscrapers,"" each housing or lands" as they were called, had a dozen or more storeys; each storey was called a "house." The "quality" lived on the fifth or sixth floor. Septamco visiting London were unable to under- stand why the top floors in lodging- spite of thia-not, as some unkind people houses were always the cheapest. In might suggest, because of it-they took the sixth door, thinking i benent heir Edinburgh was appropriated to the dignity to descend to the first, which in artisan class.

vivid

The tall stone lands" must have had making Mr. George Chancellor of the vach storey from top to botton was che: by the latter in 1916 served him right for a very odd appearance. In many cases Exchequer in 1908. He suffered the intro.pered with representations in inetion of the 1900 Budget, and went to colours of the goods to be obtained with the country on it, though none knew betin. A writer in 1775, describing Edin ter than the Prime Minister that its main burgh High-street, says, features were Socialist quackeries, which laugh to see a black quartern leaf "You would would have to be abandoned, as they directly over the full-trimmed periwig were.

hi a professor, with a Chesire cheese and a rich firkin of butter displayed in black grensiness under stays, petticoats, and child-bed linen,'

On this wretched scene of personal muabbling and parochial politics descend

America has achieved this, and now London's literary critics are finding little nut under the title of "The Janitor's but praise for her poems-poems brought Roy," just published over here."

The literary editor of The Sun says he And no one end help praising them, decepted them without a antion that they were the work of a child: I don't won- der. Here is an example from the first he bought:

"The History of Honey by an aged

mandarin, And bought it for the pictures of

the burnished bera withiu,

For the dainty revelations masquerad-

ing up and down.

For the odour of the sandalwood that

talked of Chinatown.

Still more amazing are things like this:

Her lips are pouting poppies by love's

tender tempests blown, They tremble with the scorets only

Buddha could have known.

only accept infant prodigies with satis. In America apparently parents not faction, they rejoice in them: there can be no other explanation for pictures. John and Priscilla Alden, of Mayflower published with descriptions such

Nathalia Crane," direct descendant of

first poem and has been writing ever tame, a year and a half ago, inspired by a janitor's red-headed boy, wrote her,

with Thoun Seltzer for the publication since. She is shown signing a contract of her book of verse.”

plays with her dolls and writes only when Of course, we are assured that Nathalia inspired and cures nothing for fame-but By the year just mentioned Edinburgh she receives a hundred letters a day: she she has been filmed at work' and at play; his got rid of mest of its medieval dis has had articles a column long in nll regard of sanitation, but an experienced America's important papers. What inhabitant before entoring any of the problem, and what a responsibility, fer street would bawl out at the top of his Meantime in Engiand we have young narrow wynds or closes that run of High-her parents voice. Houl your hand," to prevent his posts too-Lad some of them, without any wig and clothing being moistened into more encouragement than criticism and Haccidity, as Johnson wrote, by the sudsprites of books from the Poetry Society, of some bare-armed washerwoman on the are producing quite remarkable work. eighth floor.

Here are lines from Janet; Urquhart, a schoolgirl, aged 12:

Where the sun has set is orange 'gainst

the dark of firs:

In the twilight sings a missel thrush.

Grey creepeth where Was faintly

rosel,

Moon pepeth, but nickle-nosed, Staring feebly from the sky- Cockling croweth plaintively.

ings by Lady Diana Bridgeman, a de-

Sonse years ago some poems and paint-j batante who was presented this spring. were published for a charity and this is one quotation:

1 think the stars we see in the skis Are bahirs' ryca,

I think the sparkling drops from the

weirs

Are babies tears.

But the wild dog rose in its soft sweet-

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Is a baby's kiss!

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What should be done with prodigies

Roy reveals the fact that since the death On almost every page sir Almeric Fitz of Lord Salisbury the Government of England has been aineted with a levity; a personal rancour, a recklessness, and aa absence of all principle save that of partisan access that not only outrage decenes, but stagger credibility. Such a revelation of carelessnicky and extrava gance should never have been made to. the general publie, for whour it is danger.

MR. REDMOND'S BARGAIN. ous knowledge.

Side by side with the financial mess Cenliries are arbitrary divisions, coin-proceeded the bargaining with Mr. John ciding roughly with the life of three tedand over Home Rule and the flouse generations. It is remarkable that the of Lords, one of the most sordid and deaths of Me. Gladstone: Queen Victoria infameus transactions in history. The se and Lord Salisbury, all curring between Irish Nationalists knew that as long as Teds and Tom, shodd so definitely and the House of Lords retained it constitui perceptibly have closed a social and poli- tional powers no Home Rule Hill could tical chapter in mar national life.

pass. They also knew that their so vates could turn out the Government. A bar gain was accordingly struck between Mr. Redmond and the Prime Muister, by which the Nationalist votes were hough by the Parliament des Even when they had, by means which we shall never know One need be under no anxiety in Edin. until Lord Oxford and the King are dead, burgh nowadays about securing setom- tied the hands of the House of Lords, the modation in most comfortable and up- Government found that they had forgot-to-date hotels, but it was different in the ten Lister. and began shilly-shallying, not days when Scott was a boy. Then the knowing, like Macbeth, whether to go brat inn to be found had only one large Jack of forward.

room, in which all the passengers by the Sir Almere, with a personal admiration of the day, but found the officers together. If you didn't like it you mak General Scely, a Tary deserter, thought stage couch from London had to sleep of Mr. Balfour and an earnest desire to Le Fair to Mr. Chamberlain, strains his wouldn't march. 3. Churchill, another week private lodgings. You would pro- gourtly youdbalers to its limit to conceal y deserter, sent a wireless order to inbly put up with it for one night, dead- his contempt for the weakness and the Says, which he almost immediately tired as you would be, after spending on sophistry the Tur lender and his anger, evoked. Never a word did anybody bear the road a fortnight, bay, longer, if, be- at the usermpulus indiscipline of the about the consequences to pour England ing a younger son and not afluent, you Hadical demagogue. Mr. Ballour begai or Scotland.

Free Fouder, then amounted that,

had travelled by the wagon, and beguiled the time by playing forfeits in the straw, he had no settled convictions either way; ed Armageddon. Even then personal memorick of the historie mile" which We must pass hurriedly over other al mally was dive into, declaring that Tariff Reform was the first plank in the ivalry and indecision continued. Lord Hins from Holyrood Fainrs to the Castle. constructive platform of the Conservative orley, discussing Cabinets with the Clerk. memories of the days of Mary Stuart and of the Privy Council in 19tz, said: "Que John Knox, when the Sabbath ended at Str. "Balfourpaid a visit to Esher Place, hears this or that criticised on public 8 pm, on Sunday, at which hour and upan, being asked by his hostess, rouk, when one knows that it is merely throngs of people bearing clubs and little Lauty Helen Viseout (as she was then). The only womber of the Government bails of whitened leather stuffed with

the expression of A.'s dislike of B." whether he would take ten or coffee." who worked seriously at his job, and to feathers might be seen wending their way replied that he didn't care which "Oh, whose brains and courage the country to play at golf, little thinking that one and apparent prodigies? It is a problem

have, nu settled convictions.on the point. The randumi shaft, drawn by Faree, was. Lord Haldane. Yet he was the world as no other has done. Intent that, with increasing stimulus of improy- ewel the landing of the Expeditionary day their national game would conquer lovely hand, pierced the nail of the discarded on the formation of the first beginning their game they would education, will have to be faced quite. philosopher, and Sir Almere tells us that, Coalition in May 1915, owing to the scarcely pause to glance at the placard Mr. Balfour was visible nettled.".

Neither Mr. Balfour, nor Mr. Chamber jealousy of some of his colleagues, and affixed to the door of the Tolbooth, ne- lain had taken the trouble to study the the fear of the rabble, who mobbed him cusing Bothwell, Chambers, and "Black" basic facts and arguments about free dish which is best eaten cold, and eight murder of Darnley. Or at the

and broke his windows.

Revenge is a John Spence as perpetrators of the imports and tarifs. All Mr. Balfour cared about was to "keep the party the Woolsack when Mr. Asquith was other foreigners as inferior actors in th years later Lord Haldane was again on beneath-naming, Joseph Rizzio and two together andler his own leadership: afl that Mr. Chamberlain cared about was On the expulsion of the Lord Chancellor Scottish public opinion came to be in

rejected by Paisley. to use tariff reform as a weapon to make the Prime Minister surpassed himself in fluenced by newspapers father than by and burgh of Leith, fed climbed up into himself leader, and, as he thought, Prime, casualness. Being away from town, he placards.

Many years were to pass before Minister after the coming election. But sent wireless message to the King sub. Kreat parties, are not kept together by mitting Lard Buckmaster's name for the Kingdom of Scotland"

"Post-maister general of the the author calls Great Seat Faney Lord Beaconsfield or earliest newspaper vendor in. Edinburgh. R. As a recent writer has it. She has it, of Sucratic Kuliflety, a host of sites and scenes

was about the Queen Victoria that somebody should December, 1700, oblidizing himself to fanious in history and legend-ancient appointed Lord Chancellor! the Tory Party was heading straight for

THE CHAOS OF PEACE.

end to Mr. Archibald Dunbar, of Thun-1 churches, historie castles, old manor destruction. Taper, Hood, better known as

dertown, the Pink Un, and Tadpole Hughes, the was dictator. Though in the summer of Candlemass," in witness whereof he pouts of the past that go back ane Flying Post and ane houses, and peel towers, battle grounds, From 1916 to 1029 Mr. Lloyd George Edinburgh Gazette tuice a week until chirus, atanding stones, helpless agent at the Central Office, as-18te the Prime Minister knew that the

other aared their chiefs and the Carlton Club duration of the war was an affair of that the Radicals couldn't even forni a

"subscrived" his hand.

beyond written recard." "Government!

months, and though he was repeatedly first international inatch of which wo To return to golf for a moment, the

Edinburgh it fully maintaining the re-. Sach, boastful incompetence" met the of Trade, and the Ministry of Labour. that

Warned by the Home, Office, the Board have any record was a foursome played ing educational centre. The University putation enjoyed for centuries as a lead- punishment it deserved. Sir Henry the demobilisation of five million, men Campbell Bannerman formed, in Derem would require the most elaborate prepara the Duke of York (afterwards out James in the Empire. Its Medical School is on the Links of Leith (now part of has more matriculated" students thin ber, 1995, the strongest Government, as tions and precautions, nothing whatever II.) partnered by the best golfer to be famous throughout the world,

Edinburgh) between two Englishmen and any other single-collega University reganda individual capacity, of modern was done to meet the emergency. It was found in Scotland, John Patersone, # tames, and by the folly of the Unionist only when threatening crowds began to hoemaker. The match was the outerme associated with paper and. printing, cont leaders and the accident of war, one of march from the East End on the Ministry of a debate as to whether golf was a mining and engineering, brewing and The staple industries of the city are the longest lived. The new Prime Minis-of Labour in Whiteball that the public ter had been trained under Mr. Gladstone money began to fly. Then it was diskame peculiar to Scotland or to Eng distilling, baking and miling, rubber and Sir William Harcourt, and for two covered that nobody knew what to do land. The Scots were victorious, and shot and tyre manufacture, tweed, and years the gravity and decorum of public except to bribe somebody to go away or Patersone, with his share of the stakes, hosiery, and many others. Book produc life were kept up

With the Premiership of Mr. Asquith On J

built himself a the reign of laxity began. Then was the in the Clerk of the Council's diary "I Land;"

house in Canongate, tion is especially important. January 8th. 1970, there is this entry which became known as the Golfer's With a sea front of eight miles cra of Christian names all round. From learnt from Stamfording through the the four when one of the Rothschild's telephone that all hope of a Council this come into my mind in traversing Edining system of docks and great natura! These are a few of the things that no other city possessos, a rapidly grow

extent of open spaces such as probably addressed Mr. Balfour as Arthur at the week must ho, abandoned. He found hurgh High-street. Turf, and Tory "and Radical lenders most chaotic condition prevailing at No. played bridge together, the gaine of lor 10. I asked him whether, with his know

ment. In all her sixteen bandred years advantages, it would be difficult to over- state the possibilities for future develop Adopter was up." The phrase which fedge of Downing-street, he was surprised,

of history Edinburgh's futuro has never Disminiek applied to Salisbury," lathat which he laughed." And so ends my

(Continued on next Column). calechism,

been. Biore heavily fraught with pro- mise.-H. J. K

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a political corsair. The odd thing is that

when the outside world could see that be

to stay where he was,

crime

The

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this very spacious street, wated on the The city for centuries was confined to prone and descending part of a hill Think for a moment, how it luns grown. (Continued on next Column).

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