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'AUTHORS', TRICKS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21 1013
letters addressed to or written by their victims, and pear through keyholes with a perfect absence of delicacy, '
"But now we must-look at the author's side of tho.question. He
Give Everyone a Chance. Pictures of active life, then,
Hotels.
pictures of still life, pictures KING EDWARD HONGKONG HOTEL
H.K.CO. V. U.S.R.C.
Second Day's Play.
recent or pictures taken months The two days' match between ago, pictures of life or scenes in has a cruel lot nowadays no the Hongkong 0.0. and the Hongkong or pictures taken in Lady Syhil Grant, Lord Rose-time in which to write, very little United Services ended yesterday any part of Chins, pictures taken to write about-for everything with an easy win for the visitors, at Home-any picture, genoral or hary's older daughter, contributos has been said already years ago; on amusing page to the "Con- and the greatest difficulty to find In the first innings they compiled local, may bo sent along if it tlewoman" under the title of "Li- anyone to read what he has written. 168 against Hongkong's. 97 for posscesos intorest at all. With terary Dodges." Worolcot a fow It was all very well for Fielding ever, and in the second amassed
olhor bright paragraphs for quota-
tion.
The scores for the second innings were...
Notices
HOTEL.
Finer Olass zed Up-to-date.
Hongkong, 20th April; 1911.
Under Entirely New Management.
'J. 11. TAGGART,"
Manager. [25
Excellent Cuisine.
the competition of so-com-Thoroughly-Renovated.
olanco for any amateur photo prehensive a character there is a prapher in Hongkong to win one f the prizes. The rules of com cotition appeared in the issues of" Fob. 1 and 2.
and Jane Austen and all those. leisurely people, but to-day the 200, their opponents only being author has to catch his reader able to reply with 08. "I know nothing, "whatever when and where he may be about what I writo: please refrain tween a rush for the Tubs and the storming of crowded ́nero. from the obvious retort. But,
United Services: plarich.. however little ronding may ap "His work must beor the Capt. Crawford, b Bird.... poal to ono, there are moments straphanger and outbral the for example, when our nearest quick lunoher; to quote the Annalieim, e Hancock, b and dearest break inlo song, or language of advertisement, it
must be in the form of a palat-Rev. Hewitson, R.N., b Wer- during a railway journey, or in a able tabloid: agreeable to the burton 17 warm bath or While · Stopis taste, onsily retained, and swiftly araqul ono enjoy political arga-digested. Also he must finish Cooko, b Bird, inent-when a novel is the only the book by a given date, and it 4, Williams st. Hancock, b
must sell. Can you blatio him Bird......................37 resource. It is upon tlions occa-fur clutching, at fair or even foul Surgeon Taylor, e l'earce, b sions that I notice bitterly the (realistic") menus ?".
tricks to which authors re- sort In the old day of postchaiso,, or sodan-chair, thore
no novi for this be causɔ time would scan to bo of
Wils
no consequencs.
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"Tho 'dodges' began whon the roign of the thr volumo novel unlod, for the simple reason that
The Vote In Literature. Without-any-reference-to-ro
Warburton OSGEME
Bird
Capt. Clapham, & Panice, b
Warburton
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eat ovents, we may draw atton- tion to an articlo in the "Figaro" Lt. Paris, & Pearce, b Bird 33 by M. Alfred Cape, in which the Capt. Brown, c Stark, b.Bird 10
growing systom of literas y prizes, Lt. Bagnall, not out nwards, and plebiscita is regard
ed with misgiving. All these, Com. Ward, e and b Bird...
Extras ve M. C..pus, are simply parlia montary and elcutoral institutiona crepping into literaturo.
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with loss space to fill there was Capus thinks that nothing can alsoles únie in which to fill it.be worse for young writers, than
Total
H. K. C. C.
a necessity to submit their tiloats Pearce, e Williams, b' Anna-
The
heim
True wo made. Marmaduko's acquaintance at birth; but he grow up like lightning, his court ship of Amelia savoured of hustle, and they Gually vanished from our vow with the problem of Roosevelt versus Malthus still unsolved, as far as we wero con cornel. But there is a fashion in ovorything, and, lo! the pr face became obsolete, at all events otherwise, thun as a kind of E. A. Fowler, o Anualeim, b
Bagnall in its original lengthy form. Then literary Parliament. The deci *proso a whole army of artifice:sion is tossed ou party feeling, R. E. O. Bird, b Bagnall
such as immenso inargins, short and the public, always deeply Capt. Robinson, and ́1)
imbued with the sporting instinct,
to okation and to votes. vietor is acclaimed with undue enthusiasm, the nice shades and Warburton, b Bagnall variatios of talent being obscured C. C. Clarke, o Clapham, b
Annsheim by the fact of victory. Moreover, the successful author feels that
he has beatou his rivals instead R. P. Thursfick), e and b'
Aanahoim of being graciously preferred to them. Compolitious and awarde H. Hancock, b Annalioim which are decided at periodical
A. R. Sathorland, e Fisher, and delinito intervals cannot,
b Annaheim .................. saya M. Capus, be conducted
Annaheim imkoni
Photographic Competition
Coupon..
Feb. 21, 1912. agree to enter tho photographic compotition on the express understand- ing that lio editor's do- cision shall be final, and that he may, at his disore- tion, use the print, sont horewith either in the "Hongkong Telegraph or the Weekly Telegraph. '
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torrible shock when, worked upanded, the event is closed. to indescribable omotion towards But this is not all that troubles the last page, he finds in large M. Capus. "Who says election
characters;
Wo know what you feel-.
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guards himself from any Huggos-
saya intrigue." Ho carefully
Waste no time in taking one of ion that the distinguished men FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. our pills! Toanepicure in emotions, who compose, say, the Academio this spoils overything. You will Goncourt would act on ang dicta- argue that advertisements are not tion but that of their own con- usually found in the more expen-sciences, but intriguo, in its sive publications, but I speak of
ologant and clusivo sento, ho a whole, contemporary fiction as
maintaine, must inevitably exist.
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A CHANCE FOR EVERY
AMATEUR.
The proprietor of the "Hong- so that the cheap editions are The desire to influence others can- included.
"There is at least one woll.not be eradicated, nor can the force kong Telegraph; "his decided to and charm of personality in the continue during Fobrnary his known author who never troubles to describe his horoine at all; and author, or in his hackers, bo offer of two prizos for the best
In short, a literary petrifiod. Fia hurry shows itself quite early in the fale, while towards the election like any other, however photographs submitted to the middlo ho can scarcely conceal superficially cafu, must be an editor by amateur photographers his profound listaste for the election. And the poril is that during the monili..
principal characters and his com
plete indifference to their ultimato
tho triumph of mediocrity, already It has been "decided to widen frequent enough, will receive
not alas! towards the altar, but
fate; as they race neck and neck
public and official sanction to the the scope of the competition. To
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THOS. COOK & SON,
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Buchanan, G. A. Bumana, F.
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Burnett, F. J. Carlor. Mus Jay
Chard, Mr. J.
Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
Chambers, Miss
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Clarke, W. P.. Olayion, L. H.
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The Ma:ion, C.
deopening discouragement of the restrict it largely to active life in Hrad Office for the Far East :—16, DES'VŒEUX ROAD, HONGKONG Collinson, A. H. through a tumult of worry and obscure young writer of rol the Colony excludes mady ama- misunderstanding to the last talent, M. Capus decirros round-tours who are not yet experion-
"It is admittedly better in explosive quarrel.
"I have often wondered what the scuial world to acquit tenced in this class of work. As the TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP would become of the historical guilty men than to condemn one whole purpose of the competition TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. novel if 'odsbodikins, gadzooks, innocent. But in literature the is to stimulate interest in photo. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates. ots,, had never existed; or rather vory contrary holds. It is botter graphy in Hongkong it has been LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES 188UED and Drew, W. c.
to ignore and disparage ten felt better to remove all restrio-FOREIGN MONTES exchanged: for I do not believe that they eror did exist whet would bay writers of talent than to exalt ono pon if they had not been recruit-commonplace mind. For talent tion and to
od from the very beginning of will always come to its own; it has the power to revenge itself,
the dodge days. By the bye (for fa art the scandal is the acquittal
it is always as well to seize upon of the guilty, not the condem-- the exception to overy rula, lest
it
be quoted against one), there nation of the innocent,
is one class of novel which carries
Against all this, it may be
ou the old sauntering traditions, argued that prizes, awards, and which novor uses any of the plebiscites have been brought artifices of which I speak; either into being to perform functions of the time-saving or spaco-filling of rescue and recovery in an ago of distraction and hurry. "Mr.
kinds. This is the endless prThomas Seccombe has just re- GRAVING DOUR blom conundrum (I cannot say
marked: "It is increasingly diffi-
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