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BOOKS and READERS

BEAUTY OF BEAUTIES.

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By Shu Chiung (Mrs. Wu Liqu-Toh),

(Kelly & Wash, Ltd.). Evory Nation has ita ideal woinlin, and enshrined in the literature and legend of every civilization is a per fect Wonum. opt of every feminino virtue and charti imagined by that, civilization. My rinds dream of her, potits sing of per-her-likeness in wrought in stones and motals and inaumerable

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'CHINA'S PERFECT

WOMAN.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.

RAY OF SUNSHINE

FROM HOME.

CHILDREN SEND TOYS TO LOCAL MUI TSAIS.

~TWO CASES ARRIVE IN HONG KONG.

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FAMOUS STORES

PROSECUTED,

TINS OF SARDINES IN

DISPUTE.

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“JUDGMENT RESERVED,

The style of the book is unassumi

Monsr F. W. Woolworth & ing but offoctivo. Those passagos |

That the people at Home are takt-

Company Limited, of New Rond. dealing with war are particularly ing a keen interest in the welfare Stroot, London, were the le- good and, with their quiat matter of the Mutsais and in the work

fendants in important prosecu of-factness, convey as vivid an im of the anti-Mui Taus Sooisty s

tion before the Potteries, Stipon- pression of the warn of the Queen-svidenced by the fact that two oneos diary, Magistrate at Stake, in which Empress as Sergeant Bourgogne's of Loys were received in the Co-judgment was reserved. The com memoirs do of a war of the Bm-lony, during the past, few days to any were summoned for selling peror. One would like to quote, but be distributed among released mat, sardines packed in oil which was cannot, for it in the cumulative tears during the Christmas Seagon. not of the nature, substance, and effect that is so striking. Bat, al- The cases were sent 'to the. Se- quality demanded by the purchaser, though the author was fast and foretary of the palen for selling a tin of foremost 2 soldier, he has a gift for Bogisty and two lettex were sent seription was applied. The com- sardines to which ja, false, trade enjoying life and in the description with the toys addressed to the of his sports, parties and more seri-Salavation Army Horie and the ons civil activities there is much to C.M.S. Victoria Home, und Orphan. interest, and amuse the reader.

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age.

pany denied the offences.

pictures are painted of her,

There was Chinese girl born of humble parents in the fifth century

Mr. W. Irelan, assistant solicitar B.C. She lived in the state of Yach |

to the Stoke Corporation who pro- and gained her livelihood by wash- If the reader wishes to recapture The toys are forwarded by Mrs.uted, said a food and drugs ins ing silk. She was very beutiful the spirit of those days (not so far Hazlewood who, in a letter to the pector parthased a tin of sardines and the fame of her beauty reached distant) when Radiends were the Commandant of the Salvation Armyshe purposes of analysis. Thrge From Woolworth's store at Stoke for. she prince of Füch, who iraingerunt of all evil, to re-enjoy Caton Home explained that they wors her in department for three years Woodville's pictures, to apprechte gifts from little children in the was handed to the defondants. samples were taken, one of, which and then used her to revenge him, certain aspects of Mr. Kipling the East. Ead of London at Bow to re-tie of the other two samples was self on his rival, the prince of Wa, mort, to laugh at some good jokes leaaad, mui-tsais. to whim she was sent, clad in gor. (It is a toss-up whether the story mada a great many of the things certified that the sardines wore They have analysed by the city analyst, who geous rubes, and who became si in of the contubines of the Queen themselves " inroated with her that he neglected Empress or that of the Duke of and in many instances have given has in 100 per cent, cottonseed oil. the letter explains, packed, not in olive oil as stated, the administration of his state of Humilton's, secretary is the better.) their own little treasures. They The defendant firm sent a copy of Wa and it fell into the hauds of and to make the acquaintance of come with much love and affection." an analysis made by Dr.-H. E. Cox incompetents. Her name was Hni man who is fully able to appreciate Shib and she is the Peerless Beauty the last two lines of Richard Love- dont of the Victoria Home and Or-horough of Hampstead, qui this In the letter to the Superinten public anglyst to the Metropolitan of China, sung by Li Po and Ta Fu, Jace's "To Laenuta, going to the phanage, Mrs. Hazlewood writes: stated that the sardines had been mentioned by moralists and loved Wars, then he will derive great If still with you, please will you packed in olive oil, and that there by innumerable Chinese,

pleasure front the reading of "Rifle-givo the two birds which pick up was 110) cottonseed oil present. man and Husmay."

seeds to the two mui-lands, aged & The Government analyst reported and 6 whom you mention in your that the sample did not afford de- report I remember the cases finite evidence of the presence of well and I am so glad to know cottonseed oil. that they are gradually losing their fear,”

Hai Shih should, of course, be dealt with in a sommet and it As the book is published by Jobu shys much for the courage and Murray, it is scarcely necessary to ability of Shữ Chiang that she has say that is is competently produced, written such a fascinating book as pleasant to read and to handle, and Beauty of Beauties" on so charm well-bound enough for any book ing yet dificulta subject. In this shelf, even though the author's ërest; delightful book we have a vivid pié-ĝis stamped where the owner's device ture of the life of ancient China, should be placed.. with all its beauty, joy and gruce,

M. C. G. with all its craftiness, brutality and war, and the story of the Ideal Woman of China, excellently told. And when we know the legend of the Ideal Wontan of a civilization, how much better can

we under- stand and appreciate that civilian- *tion.

lt must be admitted that Mosers. Kelly & Walsh have fallen below their usually, high standard and that the production of the book is not as praiseworthy as its contents. dignified page is frequently spoilt by scrabby yorsals and the type printed in blue ink is peculiarly

A

A GOOD BOOK ABOUT

ANIMALS.

Analysts Disagree.

Evidence for the prosecution was The two cases of toys were forgiven by Mr A. E. Johnson, of warded to Hong Kong free of Wolverhampton, public analyst for charge by Messrs, Alfred Hoit and Stoke, who said he was conviced Co, "of Liverpool, to whom the that the sample contained cotton-

Fared oil. society have written letter of

Mr. Melford Stevenson, cross- thanks

examining: Are you pledging your As further evidence of the interest path to-day that this, sample con taken in the work of the Anti-ustained 100 per erat, cottonseed oil?

That is my belief. Tsai Society, a letter has been, re-

Mr. Stevenson: You agree that His coived by the secretary of that the report of the (overnment CHANGES. By Capt. C. R. Society from the International Mis-analyt

sionary Council at Geneva, who are yours.--Yes, but the Government directly opposed to Pitman. London: Nisbet & Co. interested in child slavery in gen- analyst does not say it is composed Pp. xvi. 330. 168, bet.

eral, asking for particulars of the of clive oil This is a wonder book, oxciting international work undertaken by society and for co-operation in the enough for a schoolboy, interesting the Missionary Council Geneva. to the general reader, vastly infor- native to, the closest student of the fauna of Central Africa. It covers

GABR

WARDEN AMONG

very variety of country and almost

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. AT THE GREAT NORTHERN weak and ugly. The illustratione all the fauna have been studied in

TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. are well-chosen, but the coloured all their moods, for lucky chance plates are quite spoilt by poor re-

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FROM and the tsetse fly made for a while Iming Loh Hongkong production.

Hotel part of Uganda u manless Eden, Wolfe St. Francis Hotel

Shougbel

paradise for beasts. Genius is a

Deves Repulse Bay Hotel Tintin capacity for taking pains, and £f. Hong Kong, December 18, teen years of closs observation with, un ever present notebook has its re-

AL C. G.

RIFLEMAN AND HUSSAR.

By Colonel Sir Percival Marling,ward. There is something now

sar

Bart., V.C.. (London, John Murray, 188.).

I picked up "Rifleman and Hus,

here, often something strange, of al-

most every animal, from the well-

with a sigh-nowadays there reasoned explanation of the tom-

are so many people (chiefly retired parative increase of elephants and

Public Servants) who, finding that philately does not lull their regret for the days before, they retired, burst into print with wivial ante

chinoceroses to the rhythmia rise

and fail of the scourgo of man-eating

lions in Uganda at affected by the

Jote about the almost greet and quantity of other game. Similar with inconsequent details of the birds and beasts they have killed: variations have been noted of other

I put down "Rifleman and Hussar” | carnívora in Chanda. There is

with a sigh, for I was sorry it had much of interest concerning the

ended.

black and white rhinoceroses, of the

This book has many of the faults

wide inland roving of the hippope of its elasu: there is triviality inj places, pointless anecdotes are tamus, and the long journeys, and drugged in by the scruft of their much else of great importance, of necks, there are too many catalo- crocodiles. They are tamed, as in gues of names and on page 7 one finds the phrase" dear old school ancient Egypt, and they are honour- Yet the book gives us an excellent fod as gods. The spotted hyena is picture of a charming character and the loathed animal, the werwolf of of a type that, owing to the political Central Africa, an object of wides. ind economic theorica prevailing pread superstition. We must thank to-day, is rapidly disappearing. the author for a very detailed and The Author was born of the Landed instructive account of the gorilla Class in that delicious period when families roving at a height of 10,000 God was in His heaven and Queen to 12,000 feet on the frontier of the Victoria was on the throne of Eng Belgian territories, and for the pho Ind; he was given the usual educatographs relating to them, which tion and inherited the traditions of are not adequate to the subjects his class: the book shows how they represent. The index and the worthy he was of them.

vory necessary map are excellent.

Ar. Stevenson: That points to one of you having made rather a bad mistake Witness: The certi- ficate of the Government analyst la not definite to my mind.

Dr. Cox gave evidence for the defence that the result of his analysis showed no trace of cotton- seed oil. Evidence was called to prove that the sardines were pack- ed in olive oil in Portugal and were supplied to Woolworth's un- der n warranty. Mr. Stevenson submitted that, the analyst of Mr. Johnson was a grossly unantiafac- tory one. If the summonses were dismissed the defendants asked for heavy costs against the prosecution.

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