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THE NEW NOVEL.

THE 1920

NUT."

CHANGE IN FICTION

FORESHADOWED.

Sir Philip Gibbs writes in the Daily Chronicles

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

..

**WAIST LINE" AND AN "EASY CHEST.”"

What will the 1920 Nurbe like? To get a glimpse of the New

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In a recent article an the sub-|Year's bean ideal young man a jeet of "Dear Books," and the Daily Chrouide representative Friday the 35th day of May, 1930 Yearly Meeting of shareholders Brat: handicap against unknown approached saveral well-knowD writers. I made a suggestion that authorities upon the subject of fiction would probably undergo a men's dress, including the prin jchange of form, and that the plot cipals of Mes-rs Pope and Brad

novel would be replaced by nawley, who claim to dress young methods of technique, in which men specially, and learned this- the excitement of the narrative

at their Salas Roans Duddell Street. Victoria, Hongkong. The following valuable lease He for will be found hold property situate at Victoris would depend more upon the re-strolling alang Piccadilly during in the Colony of Hongkong Viz--- relation of mind and the May in a checked or light grey

All that piers. Bei parcel. of. philosophy of life.

lounge suit, buttoned in front ground situate at Victoria aforo- For this I have been criticised, with one or three buttons. Te said registered in the Land Office and in one letter the accusation buttons only" will be severely as Inland Lot No. 346 together,

give

For further particulars and randitions of sale apply to

JOHNSON, STOKES

is made against me that I distaboo,

with the messuage erected there The Nut will have a distinction known as No. 15 Mosque parage the works of the great)

waist line" and what they call Street Victoria aforesaid. Term masters of English fetion.

"Are we really going to be so in high tailoring virciss "an easy 999 years created by a Crown foolish." asks the writer. "as to chest." This last paint is UnLease thereof dated 11th April Dickens, Scott, [doubtedly due to his Army career, 1855. Annual Crown Rent $1,24. Hardy, and Stevenson, and re-which the Scissors High Priest Ares 1,440 square feet. - place them by the exponents of has had to reckon with.

His Coat will

easy- what may be called the neurotic school?"

itting and well defined in con- I hope we are not going to be tour. Its lapels will be sait so foolish, nor is there any likeli-rolled, and not pressed. Splits hood of that fally. So far from at the back will not be seen, for] suggesting it, I believe that our they ate out of date. There best knowledge of human nature, will be a breast pocket, with a and much of the richness of our gay little silk couebuie fluttering national genius, are still to be therefrom. found in the works of these But perhaps the me notice-1 immerials to whom I would addáble feature of all will be his These will be the

of Fielding and other pockets. Simollett, Jane Austen, Thac- straight out and flapless. Noch- keray, and Meredith. Who has ing much can be kept in the but read there novels, or who mad a pocket without spoiling Hongkong. 14th May, 1920 tires of reading them, is ignorant the shape of the clothes-in fari,

uf the spirit and truth of English the really well-dressed literature and life.

NEW TIMES. NEW METHODS.

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should carry his money. keys, and! wlds and ends either in a trouser! pocket or a light coat packen.

But that is no reason at all wby there should be no change in the

Added to these other features, i

formi fenon

the spring debonair will have Shakespeare was supreme 48 a dramatist, and it right velour headgear, mostly is unlikely that that world will plain sorks and shirts, and the ever produce another s.. wondertrouser crease will be in falin wisdom or in art, but since accustomed central position.

The only double linen collar his time, and today, drama has departed from the form in which which will te

it-

*¦

**** by the

one with vers squared corners; otherwise the single collar, wing- ed or tabbed. ·

he shaped the structure of fashionable young man will be plass, and is constantly changing its conventions and technique so that a Shaw or a Barrio may express her aspects of truth in new ways.

"We rarely have requesta lut other little oddities of a bygone My Feeling about fiction is not generation such as the fob pocke: that the great masters were mis and the lappelled waistcoat now. Taken in their methods they lays." said the fans apecialist.

There is a sort of ejsygoing į were real, and therefore right for their the nut that to the individuality expresked in the ordinary process of evolution walclothes of the year.

ray expert

+

new

school t

writers who will with out „through different temperaments, different fong of narrative.

adventure-

characters

in

vanelu-jon

Jafferted be those betions and

MASTER

Prince's Buildings, Ice Hadse Street, Hongkong Solicitors for the Mortgages]

7 Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.

The Auctioneers.

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Wednesday, the 19th. May 1920

Commencing at 11. alm.

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JARDINE MATHESON &

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Friday, the 31st. May, 1930.

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at their Sales Roams, Duddell Street

(For account of the concerned) 1717 bags ANTIMONY DRE (Stored at Kowloon Godowns! 1730 bags ANTIMONY DRE (Stored at West Point Godown) total weight 3712 piculat Inspection orders can be had frorn undersigned

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THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

at their Sales Rooms, & Phiddell |Auction on

100 cases Brandy

10

Brandy

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Salamander U. V. P.

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Monday, the 10th May, 1930

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The following valuable Lease-Marie,

I am convinvert that after he reartisans violent history of the payt sich Our schoud of fiction' has not! gears up so the onsentiunalno..been withrest life or programs of: depending upon an artfully conflate years, though it has had to the invincibly structed plot which works un postruggle agains!

re-lained

in slike of the English public, be-l Which all the threads are nively are the war, to any aspect of tied up, will no longer deligha G-freuni: il she not mean pastinesal! satisfy the great reading pubir, which would disturn its sense of which demands a wurer troch ofjemmpdarenes, or us romantir at-; truth, baving eigns to know thejtachment to sugar-and-eream. realities of his, and having tested} Now, after these years of strife 1 rany old falsitus by the aridjand agony and disillusionment bitterness of their son anala.jpeople are faring truth badly. They will ask for a bigger vision asking big questions, staring int of life than was given to them by the fare of the future, with won novelists who put a pretty "lovejdering area, and looking at heAetion da interest" into a romable setting, without rusescaloured spectacles. and after a series of improbable That state of sound is bound in

which their produce a change in our nationall

in-literature, and. I fancy, it will be behaved with redible idiocy, made all things iseen in the novel best of all. right by a happy marriage.

VITAL AND VIRILE. PIOSHERS 98 A NEW TECHNIQUE. | Sorneed the neurotic in ten- of yoox÷ ዩና። Hare better idéury. On the contrary, I think novelists than that a brilliant will be Vital and wird. The new rowd, indee, which has already novelist is likely to paint his River. Bangkok. with all her holt property situate at Victoria broken with those conventions of the noder canvas machinery, rear and apponen-in the Colony of Hongkong, viz and my criticism is restricted to than before, having travelled farances etc. the lancer number of serond-rate afield in bis adventures of war.} people who still keep up the old! He may deal with big eroads and not big movements of men, instead of tradition of -loppy fiction, realising that it is doomed, because flimiting bie ert to a suburban mt of their readers educated beyond it.

It is possible that he will strike B. Wells has been andeeper to the foundations of the iconcolas; of those pretty putty faith and philosophy of humble faced insincerities, and has used souls, and become more interested fiction in B fine easy way to in the life of those who make up embrace real problems of modern the great mass of humanity than thought, developing

new in little intellectual cliques, and technique with singular power little neurotic societies. and skill. a* all must admit.) I do not pretend to prophesy

The steamer to be at purchasers though they may disagree with the exact form in which this

fiction will be written we await risk after fall of hammer, when his philosopby.

Cempton Mackenzie was, in mythe newcomers but it is hardly purchase money is to be paid.

For full particulars apple to opinion, the pioneer of a new doubtful that a new school, of technique in English fiction when novelists will be created out of he wrote "Sinister Street" and its all the emotion and experience of succeeding volumes.

history. Joseph recent

and that its Conrad stands alone in his own methods will not be un traditional line as a master of psychological|lines. But Dickens. Thackeray. Darrative in which the things Scott and Meredith with not be that happen are transmitted to displaced from our shelves or the knowledge of the reader from our hearts..

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Treasurer's Office

ALL THAT piece ne parcel of ground situate at Victoria afore- (said and known and registered 2nd April, 1929),

in the Land Office as SUB- SECTIOS 1 of SECTION ( OF INLAND LOT No. 1417 Together!

MONDAY

with the messuage erected there- ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL This steamer went ashore injon known as No. 20 Aberdeen!

Term the Gulf of Siam. was salved, and Street Victoria aforesaid. towed to Bangkok. where abe was 999 years created by a Crown! dry-docked and patched up. Lease dated the 16th day of June

189%. Proportion of Annoal Crown} Inspection orders on application reat $6.79. Ares about 952 Square to the East Asiatic Co. Ltd., Bangkok.

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