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BATTLES OF CORONEL AND

FALKLANDS /

SEA EPICS OF THE GREAT WAR:

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conbling, though. mournful, sight to see the first of the English ships approaching with Before Jutland: Cmdr. Hang a great noise; to me her brought Pochhusnator Jarrolda,

to a standstill sa near to us.

Although disigured by anti-Bri-annered possible by a manouvi tish diatribes, "Before Jutland," which delighted every sailor's eyo, in which Cmdr. Hans Pochham- From the Scharnhorst thoro were mor, who was Arst officer of the no survivors, but the other sunken Gasisenau, describes the battles of cruises yielded 215 all told, cus Coronel and the Falklands, an

of a total complement of £,200.

The translation is indifferent. thrilling book and a valuable ad ditionate de literature of that and we get such strango naval ter

minology ba shipa “staircases,** campaign,

"larboard

Von Spec's victory over Admiral: Cradock's weakor force, and the swift Nemesis that overtook the German admiral at the hands of Admiral Sturdee are dramas of the war which remain fresh in the public mind.

USED EMPLOYER'S CAR.

DRIVER FINED FOR JOY- RIDING:

Before Mr.W. Sphofield at the Centrul, Magistracy xesterday, a chauffeur in the employ of "\Mr. Colbourno Little, of Micsers. Little,. Adame and Wood, appeared on a ammon accusing him of driving his master's car without permis sion

The defendant admitted that he had taken the car out an hour and a half before it was required by his master. Ho said that he had in-

tended muking some purchases be fore picking up Mr. Little

Sub-Inspector Nicol told the Court that Mr. Little had made complaints to the police that his chauffour had boon using his car

pert), and the without permission When the de

We that

the ;

before, starbunit casemate,” rend with astonishment "powerful arnis rammed charges into the months of guns?'

TEA TABLE TALK,

Cmdr. Pochhammer paints a ↑ RECOLLECTIONS OF WILDE'S vivid picture of the Coronel action. When Cradock's force was sighted the Gneisenau's mon- were filled with the lust of battle.

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"All displayed the grimmest de termination to win. Even the yel low shells ranged in a line behind f the guns appeared to be aware of! their destination, for in the semi- darknces I noticed chalked in scriptions, inch as Hit Nine killed. Slayer of Englishmen,

God-bye and kisses, and other more or less cruel or amiable mes anges to our cousins.”

Monmouth's Gallantry."

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fondant was stopped in Johnston. Road, the officer communicated with Mr. Little who told the police that

the defendant had no authority to bo out at the time.

A fine of $7 was imposed...

Mr. C. B. L. Grist defended chauffeur who was summoned for CONVERSATIONS WITH OSCAR WILDE causing an obstruction outside By A. H. Cooper Prichard. Meaara, A. B. Watson & Co., Ltd., Philip Allan, -78. Bd. net.

In pleading guilty to a technical Mr. Cooper Prichard's family offence he informed his Worship and Oscar Wilde's were on the that after the defendant had stop friendliest terms, and his acquain-ped, another car parked in front of tancoship with the famous master him. There was already a a car park- of paradox, which began in the ad behind the defendant's vehicle, days when, as "the modern Anti- with the result that he was blocked nous," and he not yet become a in and unable to leave. He was largo, fat poser in yellow kid gloves, he could be justly described, only there for about three minutes.

A fine of $5 was imposed. Good Hope, it is claimed, was when his unhappy end was still hit at the third alvo Overwhel unthinkable, deepened into a very med by sheer weight of metal, sheral friendship. He attended the was speedily set on fire and driven recentions in Wilde's London lodg out of the line, a blazing wreck. inge, where the most extraordinary Burning foro and aft, she prosent offects of coloured lighting wore used to influence the thought and the unique spectacle of a sheet conversation of mathetic souls, and of flame upon a sen lashed by heard him improvising paradoxes the tempeat. Her fames served in his most brilliant momenta.

a guide to our target. The paradox is rather four yeu finders, and one Groadside fol- to-day owing to its mass production lowed another from our guns in by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Mr. order to make an end of things. Bernard Shaw, and lesser practi- This was net long delayed. Ationers Wilde's definition: "A loud explosion, probably of a powder magazine, extinguished the fire of the Good Hope.". Gneisonau herself had been eng aged with Monmouth, which was soon disabled by the German sin shells. Out of control, with firea raging on deck and below, she was. found drifting aimlessly with a heavy list.

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paradox is a truth unfolded in seemingly untrue words" inclves ita condemnation; for it is inani- festly more persuasive to impart a truth in words which strikes the reader as trutatal. Moreover, much more chuch than not, the paradoxical method involves waste of words, and so is opposed to one of Wilde's, advisory ap When the Nurnberg opened fire horisms for the literary aspirant: at close range, Monmouth tried to "Never give a reader too much for rom her adversary, as she could his money in the way of quantity. not fire. The Nurnberg quickly He and Mr. Cooper-Prichard gave her the finishing stroke. At had many ocsy talks" (how he that distance no shot could migs. would have shuddered t

the Slowly the ship turned over on her epithet) on Literature, and he side, the upper deck, all battered, always insisted that style is the reared up, the masts, still flying essential thing in writing, "Litara- onsigas, drooped towards the water ture has no monopoly of thought," and the red keel of the ship up-be onoc said, "but the way of ex- peared."

The state of the ses precluded the lowering of bonts, and, as in the case of Good Hope, Monmouth's entire crow perished with their ship.

Lord Fisher's genius prepared the counterstroke, which was de livered with shattering force less than a month later.

When our battle cruisers emerged from Post Stanley the Germans knew their doom was upon them, and they faced it unflinchingly,"

German's Last Stand.

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pressing it in written words is hor peculiar takk. Any ass can write down drivel who can hold a pon between his paws, but even drivet can be written in a way that is artistic." In a word, it is only the manner that matteras is, dan

On another occasion he, said: "Style is the colour of writing. And: "There are only two rules. in writing-to have something to say, and to say it; or, if you pre-" ferita being put in a more com plicated way, to have a story, "to toll, and tell your story.” Again; "A literary composition is a bund le of ideas tied together, and with The German ships scattered, but the edges trimmed off. He had there was no escape. The British an abysmal contempt for what an firing appears to have been much American critic called "canned more nocurate than previous sofiction, and once declared that "it ocunts have indicated, Gneisenau is infinitely more dificult to write soon received her first hit. Fired even a catalogue well than a novel at long rang, the British shells badly." And he was always uttex-. crashed through her decks, exploding the warning: "Never write a ing below. Men fell thick and fasti line you yourself don't believe in.” but those that were left carried on with iron discipline..

"They ended, aimed, and shot,

Various Word-Play.

repaired damage in spite of the The fascination of Wilde's ten- skrapnol which was falling overy table talk the was the greatest whore; they abovelled.ecal; fought votary of the Tes god that over floods, fire, and smoke they relived, as Mr. Cccper-Prichard moved the bodies of their dead says) can never be renewed. The. comrades, for Death was holding "ninetyish atmosphere is lacking, his grim review on board; elect for one thing and if his actual: ing whom he should take the first words could be recovered, their and whom the last.

colour and sparkle would havs There were horrible scenes in the vanished, just as it does from the ship. Shells seemed to be burst pebbles collected by a child be ing everywhere, sweeping away tween sunaliine and sen-sheen. It guns and crews plunging into thoisin vain that his friend tries.to' lower compartments, and opening revive the lost glamour by intro- yawning gaps in the hull, Scharnducing him as an interlocutor, cap- horst had received - still;; heavier able of brilliant flashes of silence. punishment, and Admiral Spée into a number of imaginary dia- must have known his flagskip's fate | logues, in which Walt Whitman, to be sealed. It was now that bo | Whistler, William Morrit," and made bis grand gesture. In an other celebrities are as boresoms XE effort to give, Greiserale chinco Lady Flapdoodle.- Lady Pinchber, of crcape ha deliverstoly turned his the lev. Cyril Suidbagge, Lord own ship towards the British, and Dodderington, and other improviz. tried to close to within Scharn-- ad puppete. 2. "Oscar Wilde on the horat was shot to pieces,

Tondor Passion" ".is____ the most Bho had not long to wait. Under antisfying of those unsatisfactory the converging fire of mveral Bri Inventions, Despite our bertar bol- tish ships Gneisenau's came swift, yet waslaught when" Oscar Brown ly. As she bank nearly 400 mening is mode to present himself wero laft, struggling in the water, alumivalgeat suprizsto ziemind the. but more than half of these, such. Royal Aundemy, and tells;Whistler, cumbed to the intense cold before that ha passed his studio ""yeater""" they could be rescued. To the au- 1 day, at oncel ning : into the thor, who is at his last gap-310enti jucd on near (Maluma)

crowd when Whistler replies, "Oh, did you really, Mr. Browning? How can I sufficiently thank you?" As a rule, alas! we can muster up even a sardonic smile.

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Let us be generous as well as just and quote a few more of his. friend's witticisma, adding a final Paradox of our own. The beat. diplomat is he who talks most and

-"ays least." "There are all kinds only two sorts of women, the good and degrees of men, but there are and the bad." "It iq mainly due

backward in civilisation. Fiction to women that the world 1880 does not be as strange as Truth." "There is nothing so undemocratic. Ba Democracy." "In America life the long expectoration."*/** But to mobody is an artist less known than to those who know him. It is in his poemas, stories and plays that this unhappy frus rated genius bas his measure of immortality.

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