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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936.

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BOOK

BIBLE STORIES

Old Testament Omnibus Book The Great Stories of the Old Testament and Apocrypha-

THE PATH OF LEARNING !

A Journal of The Hong Kong Teachers' Association,: 50 centa The December issue of this jour- Collected and arranged by Anal is full of information for both Hannay. With an Introduction

the parents and the students. Mr. by George λ Birmingham, F. J. de Rome. Headmaster of Williams & Norgate, London, 6/-.

Queen's College, contributes an In the words of Mr. George A. interesting and useful article on Birmingham who has written, the Class Libraries and on reading it.

Introduction.

All that is attempted by this book is to give to modern readers the splendid stories of the Old Testament in a form which will "not repel by its strangeness, to

all will agree that a library is an absolute sine aus non if the por- mai English work of a not to be largely wasted.

school is

REVIEWS

SMALLER FAMILIES

Differential Fertility

KUT

the Netherlands-By Dr. H. W. Methorst. George Alien & Un- win, Ltd., London, 25, 3d

A scientific monograph on “Dif-

President of the Dutch National

STUDY IN AESTHETICS

The Grammar of the Film.By Raymond Spottiswoode. Faber and Faber.

Why, with a dictionary contain

WHITAKER'S ALMANACK

For 1936, in "Red and Green. 1014 pages, Cloth Cover, Bs. net. The 1936 issue, or the esth annual Volume of Whitaker con-

re-constituted

while

terential Fertility in the Nethering 80,000 words to choose from. tains the New House of Commons lands," by Dr. H. W. Methorst, Mr. Raymond Spottiswoude found and a conspectus of the National

it necessary to call this book on the Government, Committee of the International cinema A Grammar of the Film after the General Election." Special Memoir of the Volume 1 Grammar, we take it, is an exact situation have been made Population Union, appears as a

tt la dificult to understand. į Changes caused by the political series in April, 1935, of a now

science, dealing with things as the scientific publication,

sheets passed through the "Popula they are and about which there be press, and the latest information tion," a Journal of the Interna no controversy, Mr., Spottiswoode has been incorporated as it be- tional Union for the Scientific In- dogmade as old Liquiley Murray came available. vestigation of Population Pro-bimself, but apart from his pre- 1927, a startling report was made

present them for what they are, very painted remarks to make an | blems Several years ago in fact, inuminary definitions he makes very year

masterpieces in the great art of story-telling:

Rev. R. W. Gallagher, has some

the question of the Bchool leaving certificate.. His article covers some of the ground of Mr. Burney's Re- part, but it was printed before the Report came to the Colony.

His book,

the

aesthetics. rather than mechanics he himself says, is a study in

although he confesses that mechanical aspect of the predominates.

The events of the Biver Jubilee are duty chronicled, ad- ditional space being prov.ded The size of the book is again increased, with

allotted to the Index. which now a consequent increase in the pages

contains upwards of 30,000 re- ferences.

at the Geneva World Congress for whose lives are devoted to motion for the purpose.

| few statements with which, those the study of population problema pictures can agree. The Editor's Note explains that

that the results of an Inquiry the words of the Authorized Ver

made in Stockholm showed that sion have been used throughout,

the birth-rate among the working- except where in a few cases phrases

The Journal has many other classes was falling below that of

merit or words from the Revised Version articles of

contributed by the possessing classes. Prior to have been used to make the mean-

educationists of note, and is well this population studies had always

Further statistics relating to ing clearer. The modern plan of worth the small price of £fty demonstrated that among the

A glance through the "Content"

Industry. Finance and Commerce Coples of the Puth arranging dialogue has been adopt-cents.

of wealthiest

classes the birth-rate pages raises hopes that, alas, are

have been provided, and the new ed, and modern punctuation, Learning may be obtained from was the lowest.

not destined to be gratified; "In-

volume contains articles concern- *paragraphing and inverted commas | The Hon. Secretary, H. K. Tea-

The purpose of Dr. Methorst's troductory. Definitions. An Out- chers' Association, care of Belillo's study was to investigate the birth line of Film History. Categories Rcience and Invention, Literature ing Meteorological conditions. have been used. A good bany "and" and "It came to pass thats"

Public School.-"C. L C,"

rate of the Netherlands according of the Film. Technique of the have been deleted and the stories

u income and compare the results Film. All this looks very business stratosphere Flight, Gliding, Soda Art, Drama, Flims, Broadcasting.

have in some cases been pieced to-

with those of Sweden. As com-like and helpful, but, with the ex-Credit, Television and other mat- gether from several chapter. The

pared with other European coun- ception of the section devoted to ters of general interest. result is a handy book of 403 pages lack to the Intelligent. Here ac- tries the Netherlands has a nigh Film History we doubt very much containing the finest competitions quaintance may be renewed with birth surplus, 13 per 1,000, but | whether the layman will be able of the Old Testament and Apocry- | Balaam's Ass; with the deceitful | even this showB a tendency tot make head or tail of it. And pha in their familiar magnificence inhabitants of Gibeon and why decline, for it amounted to 18 per for him it has undoubtedly been of language but in a modern they were condemned to be 1,000 a few years ago. It was pas written. To the expert it presents arrangement. Carefully ufted from "hewers of wood and drawers of sible to compare the birth-rates nothing new except Mr. Spettis- the somewhat deterrent mass of water": with the Sword of the and death-rates of children in a woode's unorthodox and occasion- Hebrew history in which they lie Lord and of Gibeon: with the number of towns and rural com- |ally devastating <opinions. embedded, in spite of their anti-Ephraimites who could not say munitles with regard to prosperity For the non-scientific reader the ́quity and apart from religious con- "Shibboleth" we may have forgot over a thirty-year period since a phraseology is altogether too ob- siderations, the stories have an ten why the Prophet Ell's daugh- very similar survey was made dur-seure, Mr. Spottiswoode tells us Interest which in many cases ister-in-law named her son "Ichaing 1897-1900. The survey con- for example, that "The production absorbing and to which is bod"; and how old is the cry of sista of Area 1, the urban district of a concept or sensation, through added the relief of being able to "God Save the King"; why 'Jehu | comprising Amsterdam, Rotter-the mutual impact of other con- read them with ease. This book became the word. for # driver,dam, Utrecht, and Dordrecht, and į capts or sersations and the juxta-¦ tiswoode uses, it would have been may coalesre the con-used and Jezebel for a painted virago, De- Area II, the rural "district of, 105 position of shota, series and a kindness to his readers' to have uncertain, memories of many of us | filah for a temptress, David and smaller communities in all the sequences in such a way as to pro- | defined it a little more simply. Inta a coherent and useful whole. Jonathan for inseparable friends; provinces. The prosperity classes duce this impact" is known as a Surely some such description as The Bible has been for so long and Abigail för a comfortable were divided into five groups, the Montage. He further classifies the clash or harmony of ideas that and still is such a source of allegory and comely waitress. And "Judith," | lowest with an income of less than Montages as "Primary, simultane-results from the way the mdivi- and allusion in English literature that beautiful, herole and mar-, f. 1,000 and the highest of 1. 5,000 ous. rtiythmical, secondary im- dual film scenes have been assem- and oratory that from a cultural vellously competent woman to and over. Illustrating the results pilcatiátial or ideological.”

bled would have been suficiently viewpaint alone ignorance of its whom Mr. Hannsy appropriately of the enquiry are 47 statistical

As the word is the most hard accurate to make his references to "plots and phraseology is a heavy allots the last word-0.0.

tables.-8.M.D.

worked of all the terms Mr. Spot-1 understandabic; -A.B.M,'

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HERE AND THERE

MOTORDOM

IN

Dignity with Economy.--A Mr.

3 B. Paddon, of Crawley, Sussex,

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in

а

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Ford.eng ne chassiz-and uses it. The "tax is £7 109., and the fuel consumption 30 m.p.z.

Lord

Tweedsmuir's Car-H.E. the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmur, has taken with him for oficial use, a Siddeley Special landaulet with coachwork by the Burlington Carriage Co

One

Thousand

Thousand,-A

year ago Mr. Henry Ford sald he would build a milion Ford cars in 1935 A million cars have been built in ten months; the total production for the full year will probably run to 1,180,000 cars.

4

Si H. Austin's Gift.-The Blr- mingham Hospital has received a gift

of £2,000 for X-ray 10- paratus from St Herbert Austl. who has given over £14.000 to 17 this institution to 'date.

increase. There has been a re- markable 'increase in the develop- ment of motor transport in New Zexland in the past year, regis trations of private motor vehicles for 1935 numbering 93,438, as against 80,200 for 1934.

New Speed Limits.-In Holland the rule for motoring in cities is 12) miles per - hour. Hungary You goes one better or worse. must turn corners at four miles an hour) And they say a motd. rist actually observed the law the other day!.

Encouraging Industry-In the province of Ontario, Canada, purchasers of new cars during the months of November "and December, 1935, did not have to buy part-time Ticences, Instead they may purchase their 1936 licence, which will carry them, through to the end of December,

· 1935;'>

Germany-Owrig to the rise u price of tyres in Germany the cost of 1936 cars in that country may show a slight increase.

Diese Cars. - A Well-known American manufacturer is to in o standard model with a Cuni- mins-Diesel engine.

Right of Way. According to Co H. Parker, district coroner. when speaking at a Blackpool in- quest last week, the only people who not grasp what a Belisha crossing means are pedestrians,

Modern Transport--During the year ended June 30th, 1935, the London Passenger Transpors Board carried 3,582.348,430 pas- sengers on its various services.

Revolutionary-7-A" remarkable new armoured car is to be tested by the War Omce, according to reports. It has four-wheet drive four-wheel steering and indepen- dent suspension all round.

ich

Hint. If the garage is at all damp or damp füds its way into the tool box, keep a piece of camphor in it, as this consider- aby retards rust. from attacking tools.

Synthetic Rubber-The pro duction of synthetic rubber is in- creasing Ameriça a plant has been erected to produce 1,000,000

· Ljunds a year, largely for coating wires, while in Germany it. 18. hoped to make quantities tyres or synthetic rubber.

of.

Progress-A few years ago up in Ketchikan, Alaska, the only means of road conveyance available were the "dogsleda, and huskies, but now there are 180 motor curs icensed, in addition to the Government-owned cars.

While expressing his gratitude tu correspondents in all parts of the world for their friendly - operation, the Editor-in-Chief hopes his collaborators will con- the tinue their good offices in coming year, but they are earnest- ly requested to note the. "first" day of October, as the "last" day for suggestions to reach the Omice if they are to be effective.

MOTOR JOTTINGS

FORECAST OF FUTURE

DESIGN?

The

this

Cord, reintroduced year, is an example of American trend carried farther than is ex- emplified in the majority of the cars. It is a front wheel drive. car with independent springing. There is nothing particularly m- conventional mechanically, but the bodywork, or rather the treat- ment of the bonnet, which con- I ceals the radiator, is something which may forecast American design of the "future.. This treat- dent is in no way bound 'up in the fact that the ear is front wheel driven, and perhaps one only turns to it because it is different from most of the others which bear such a close resem→ blance to each other.

Perhaps more interesting than the now models are the definite signs of America's recovery to be seen in the increasing demand for

her car

The American Press, gives the production of cars in the United Kingdom as 347,856 in 1934, com- pared with 280.526 in 1933. Tese figures, in' türk, are compared with American product'on 2.889,983 in 1934 and 1,935,909 in 1933,

ACCESSIBILITY

Motorists seem quite apathetic about the fact that cars are get- t'ng more and more inaccessibe, What does it matter? they say. Few people do their own repair and adjustments these days, Which is perfectly true; but the question of accessibility "de" matter for the owner to conalder, even if he never solls his lly white hands,

REVOLUTIONARY INVENTION

Power Of The Wheel

A class of schoolboys way once asked to name the most revolu tionary invention of a time. Each boy voiced his own opinion with an assertiveness which he" thought was demanded of such an easy questionna

Wireless seemed most popular; the seroplane secured a number of votes as also did the motor.

car. More thoughtful boys sug- gested drugs, and the use of eles- „tricity: a good effort' was the art' of kindling a fire, while one lad, remembering a chancet phrase in newspaper. loftily remarked

.a

that, in his opinion, Listers dis- „covery of antiseptič surgery top-

ped the lott

When the babel had subs'ded, the master gave his own opinion:

The wheel

The poys were half disappoin ad, hals incredulous, - but by the end of the lesson had to admit that the master's own dea was at least better than any suggest- ed by them

A

Perhaps it was hardly fair cuestion. The principle of the wigel is so simpis, and the use of it so universal, that one can hardly imagine. it as undiscover-

· ed.:1221; lets' “invented” But at Seast' an attempt may be niade to Imagine the world in a similar state, of civilisation as it is to. part of its machinery. day."yet" lacking that one vital

As for adjustments to such things as tappets, how anyone, service

Do you know that on some mechanic or not, is to get

the new mode's, the simple opera-

tion of changing such a delicate |

them without removing the an gine I do not know:

-

at

Designers x16 năng reviewinke thing as a windscreen wiper takes that idea for their 1937. mode's. about four hours instead of less - so perhaps they will bear thie, iss than twenty in nites as formerly? / mind. 72,50 10

Gone with one fick of th- hand, are all forms of power- driven transport, for even if one form does not tise a wheel tu

enable it to progress over $

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stationary surface, yet its 'power uzit

know it, cannot exist" without it. It is plain, them, that the "underlying prin- ciples of transport must be of a different nature, so that as re- gards actual progression there are two methods open to use. One. the use of runners; two. the natural means of progress-plac ing one foot before the other."

O the two, the latter sounds. more promising. But how, sup. posing we achieve" such a ̈me- chanical stability as would be necessary for such a method of progression, are we to drive it?

Magnetism would seeRT the only hope Magnets would after- nately pick up the metallic "feet," carry them the required distance · forward, and deposit them again on the ground. The only drawback to this would be the power necessary in the mag- nets; they would have to be electromagnets. And how to generate electric current without the aid of a wheel?

Perhaps such a "vicious circle" would suggest the principle of this all-important piece of ma- chineryl-

Fortunately, such a device would not remain so long undis covered. Man has always been quick to adapt natural pheno mena to his own, use, and the sight of a log rolling down a hill- side would sure to have inspired some inventive mind..

Nevertheless it is instructive, when we are considering the re- lative ingenuity of some of the devices incorporated in our 1936 model, to consider also the basic praciples upon which they are designed, and to reslike that! way back in the past what we look Upon

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