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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5,

ADVENTURES AMONG ENGLISH-BOOKS”

INTERESTING PAPER BY DR. KOTEWALL

AT ENGLISH ASSOCIATION

SMALL BEGINNING WHICH LED TO A

VERY FINE LIBRARY":

There was a very large attendance at the Helena May Institute yesterday when the Hon. Dr. E. H. Kotewall, O.M.G., read a papor called " Adventures among English books." In the course of his address the speaker related how he began to take an interest in English literature in a small 'way, and how the timely guidance of Police Sargeant, who at first appeared a terrible martinet, led him to develop a love for books.

His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, presided, and others prevent included Lady Peel, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Southora, Sir Henry, and Lady Pollock, Sir William Hornell, His" Honour Mr. Justice Wood, Father Byrne, 8.J.; the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood and Professor Simpson.

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The address was followed by a very interesting discussion dur ing which appreciation was shown for the personal note which Dr. Kotewall introduced into the paper,

DR. KOTEWALL'S SPEECH

Dr. Kotewall said in part:- This paper is not a treaties on English Literature; nor does it at- tempt a fresh interpretation of 08- 0.5 its tablished classics. It is, title indicates, a mere narrative. f adventures that have happened during the undirected reading and haphazard book-buying of one to whom English is not the mother

deals, in the same adequate man ner, with the works of great au- thors, from Homer and Virgil to

Goethe and Shelley.

I went down to the races for the Arst time after nearly ten years. Almost immediately on entering the enclosure my friend and I, 10 partnership, invested $10 in two Cash-sweep tickets, one of which won the second or third prize, bringing us nearly $800. I did not atay to see the next race, but went straight to a Chinese book-shop, and bought a set of the Standard History of China, in 880 volumes, which cost me $900.. With some of the balance of my gain, I ordered from England a second-hand set of the "International Library" for 4 guineas. may call this adven- ture a lucky venture."

There is one book in my library which has been the delight of my children for years. It is a large volume of Shakespeare's "Merry with coloured Wives of Windsor, drawings by Hugh Thomson, The book shows distinct signs of much wear and tear: the green-cloth cover has tumed into yellow in parts; the back, is torn at the top, and one or two leaves bear little thumb-marks! One or other of my children has turned to it eagerly and at frequent intervals, especial- ly in time of sickness. The chil-

dren call it the "Fat-Man-Thin- Man Book," because the artist has brought out Falstaff's bulk with considerable emphasis, in contrast to the slimness of Master Slender

The Public Lending Library, From the Police Library I gra- duated to the Public Lending Library in the City Hall. My chief of those days, Mr. F. H (afterwards Sir. Henry) May was may surety for enrolment. Among My first adventure among Eng. the first few books I took out of lish books occurred on the day 1 that Library was Richard Jet left school, and it came about in feries Wood Magic""which kind this way. During my earliest led in me, what must have been school-days I was rather high lying dormant till then, a love of spirited and venturesome. When, nature and of the open air. This therefore, I brought home, on my book so whetted my appetite for value highly; it is a copy of the

„tongue.

last day at school, a book which

y

nature studies and travel-pic tures, in both prose and poetry; that for months afterwards I read

of such master-interpreters of the

In my library is a little case, with a bevelled glass top, in which are kept about forty volumes, all au- tographed, I treasure these books not only for the eminence of their authors, but also because I have ces in which the volumes, camo happy memories of the circumstun

autographed books is one which I into my possession. Among these

Foundations of Belief” by Mr. A. J. (afterwards Earl). Beifour, which he sent me with an inscrip-

had been awarded me as a prize for good conduct, my father was dumb-founded. Having recovered scarcely anything but works tion of his good wishes on the fly- from his shock, he asked me to such and kindred subject-the works leaf. It came to me in a way as ways and moods of Nature as Gil-pleasing as it was unexpected. In bert White, Richard Jefferies and 1811, when I was a junior clerk in and Mrs. Sidney Webb (now Lord Thoreau; as Stevenson and W. H. the Colonial Secretary's Office, Mr. Hudson, Cunninghame

the then Governor of Hong Kong, and Edward Thomas, W. H. Davis and Lady Pasfeld) were guests of and Stephen Graham.

Sir Frederick Lugard, at Govern them to my humble home; and Mr. ment Houso. A kind Fate brought Sidney Webb noticed in the living

name my reward for this surpris ing feat; and I told him that there was a 3/8d. book of history en- titled "Epochs of English His tory" in a book-shop in Hollywood Road, on which I had set my heart for months. My father gave me the money, and I dashed off ana secured the coveted volume, with what delight you imagine. The next day it was my tarn ts receive a surprise. My father came home with a big parcel which,

ean

Graham

I owe a debt of gratitude to the Public Lending Library. In the early stage of my explorations there I came across & volume of the Scott Library. It was one of about 190 volumes in that series,

when opened, revealed to my en- costing in those days a shilling of the philosopher-statesman. Ha

chanted eyes three sumptuous vo- lumes, bound in full leather, and profusely illustrated with maps: charts, diagrams and portraits. It Ridpath's "Cyclopaedia of Universal History." This book haa

net each. This series contains such

as Plutarch's works

"Lives,"

room a framed engraved portrait of Balfour, which I had cut out of a magazina, and a small bust asked me what it was in Mr. Bal- four that I admired so much. In Swift's "Prose Writings," The trepidation-for, as you know, Mr. Essays of Schopenhauer, Byron's Sidney Webb was a Socialist and Letters and Journal," Hazlitt's Mr. Balfour a staunch Conserva "Essays, and scores of other tive-I gave my reason for what been to me not only a mine of Lix works of high merit in the realms it was worth; and to my relief of world literature. The Scott Li Mr. Sidney Webb expressed con- brary, which

currence with my humble view. years before "Everyman" and the One day, about five months after World's Classics," is still in the Webbs departure from Hong

WIS

torical information, but also

one

of the most precious of my penses sions, because of its sentimental association.

out camo

many

Shortly after this unforgettable existence; and it is a pity that it Kong, there came to me by post Is not as well-known as its two the Foundations of Belief which later rivals in the field of cheap I at once knew I owed to the kind

ovent, I lost my father; and ne-

cessity compelled me to work for

rep fints.

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ness of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb.

a living. In those days the only

The possession of a large mum- I wish I could tell you some of other English books I possessed, bor of books has its disadvantage the stories attached to other apart from school books, were the

as well as advantage. The advan volumes, in that glass-topped book- second volume of "Percy's Ance

tage of a well-stocked and well- dotes," given to me by an uncle; balanced library is that you have case, but time does not permit two bound volumes of the "Family always at hand a numbest of books Philosophy and Romance, Herald" a bound volume of the adequate to your needs in all cir- "Gentlemen's Magazine"; and a book given me by the same uncle cumstances. On the other hand, some years before, Foxe's "Book of Martyrs. This lost-named book was in three bulky volumes with hundreds of woodcuts illustrating men undergoing various forms of torture. Alas, it is no longer with me. I speak of it with some re- gret, since at one time it was for us children the une and only, pic ture-book in the house!

A Helpful Guide.

Fortunately, Soon came

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On the shelves where I place toga a multitude of booke is apt to ther my books on philosophy and two volumes .on confuse and distract the mind, theology are My own experience in that the Buddhism by Rhys Davids, and larger my collection grows, the rather imposing volume called more I fall into the habit of read-The Religious Systems of the ing without. method, reading one World." On these three books book after another spasmodically hangs a story. and cursorily, to the impairment years ago I asked a lady, for the Someone has hand of her niece who was also of my memory. said: "Beware of the men of one her ward. She said that as the book." Though I am not prepar- girl was an orphan, I had to ob ed to limit myself to one book-tain the consent of her two uncles,

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1 helpful guide be it the Complete Shakespeare or one of whom was in Macao, and my way. This guide the Confucian Four Books" one in Yannan I thought that the police sergeant. A few doubt not that a few good books lady was unnecessarily particular, months after the death of my thoroughly mastered are better since it was she alone who brought father, I secured a junior clerk than a large library whose volumes up her niece, and had been more than a mother to her. However, i ship in the Police Department; but are merely skimmed. before I had been three months in Certain books have been, for, one had to bow to her will. I

found that the uncle in Macao had and another, my bedside that position I had a quarrel with time

strange predilection for the! the sergeant, or to Bo exact, 1 companions. I dare say if I meu- science of divination as tauglit by him in uncontrollable tion them, it will be found that modern Taoists. I also found that turned on anger for mimicking my halting they are also the bedside to the other uncle in Tunaan was a speech. The sergeant, instead of panions of many- here to-day. They devout Buddhist. A craze for some marking me down for his displea- are books which need not be begun sort of religious practice seemed sure as I might have feared, im at the beginning, or read to the mediately began to take a friendly end. In my younger days Wash to afflict the male members of that interest in me. An unusually wellington Irving Sketch Book," family. I lost no time in reading educated man and a discriminat Holme's "Autocrat of the Broak up the two religions, so as to be ing lover of literature, this guar- fast Table," Thackeray'a shorter able to talk to the uncles on their number of Chinese books with dian of law and order had a good works, and Plutarch's Lives pet subjects,. If you only knew the ly collection of books, and he lent were among my favourites. Those which I had also to prime myself; me some carefully-selected volumes volumes which, in later years, which opened out to me the have served to give me solace after you would no doubt regard fue as a very persevering man. On top- Palgrave'a glories of Bookland, and led me the day's toil are

of these I had to please the aunt to further explorations in that "Golden Treasury" Boswell's who, I soon discovered, was fond magic realm.

Johnson, Lamb's says of listening to tales of romance and Elia, The Oxford Book of Eng-adventures. My sixpenny novels Among the books I borrowed lish Vorse, Goldsmith's "The came in most useful then. GDP. from him were, I remember, sev Citizen of the World, E. V. Luplied myself diligently to the books eral volumes of Dickens, Thackers The Open Road," and Let of Anthony Hope, Conan Doyle, ray and Booth; Longfellow' ters, of Lamb, of Cowper and of Maurice Hewlett, Jack London, Poems; Lytton's The Last Days Gray Most of these are what and many others including Phiff of Pompeli'!; Smollett's Rode might be called works of serene rick Random" and "The Beauties literature- of Shakespeare" by that ill-fated divine, William Dodd.

Lo the advertisement pages of one of the books lent me by the good sergeant. I found mention of

compiled by

two little WMThen

-Reachings,

other "Sweetness and Likkene.

115s Oppenheim, and Tom Gallon. Night after night, month after But foremost among my bedside month, for nearly a year, I told books in undoubtedly Hans Ander stories to my lady love, to her aunt, 860. "Anderson's Fairy Tales cousins, friends, and even a hand- in one edition or another, has conful of hor admirers. But my dog- tainly been my bedside compañíonged perseverance was at last, pos for a longer period than any other warded... Gradually my rivala

afropped over any

The Hesult of a Flutter.gust, leaving me unchallenged in were also publiked by John Dicks

Tchath, a set of the "Internation the field; and the aunt and cousins and post one shilling enak Listyol Famous Literature became more and more benevolent mocratic Redding treater storiti odit Richard Gartiele il 20 ly inclined. That I told thest cally and interestingly, with fair- volumes,

len auch dignity to stories with embellishments to suit

ly long extracts from their works; my lurer ad aequinoa tu zeny case, and with astonishing of the world's great teachers and suit of maila walenganisha des porter of improvisation, truth.com. philosophere, from Zoronater and corneriniaihepened wrangus pels me to admit But is it hot Confuditis to Herbert Spencer and i twenty one yesil, agd what hey, thas everything, is fair in levd änd Hurley. (Bweethel - and. Light, day, on the persuasion di a trima, (Ubnunded on Page 10).

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