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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1921.

THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Librarian.")

A BUDGET OF ARNOLD DENNETT STORIES,

One still thinks of Mr. "Arnold | Bennett as of the younger school of writers, and so he is, despite; the facts that he was born in 1867, and that twenty years have passed since he gained public favour with "Anna of the Five Towns." During that period he has given abundant evidence of versatility, turning out a goodly stream of capital novels, whether of the Five Towns or elsewhere, alternated with notable plays Hiko the collaborative

"Mile- stones" or instructivo treatises } in miniature`such as "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day." Then ho gives us a volume on the ways of authors and publishers, and, still again, a travel book, "Those United States."

Mr. Bennett has now sot a new fashion, or revived an old one, in the form of a Commonplace Book. He has embodied in aj volume a sheaf of pages from his notebooks and given it the title of "Things That Have Interested Me." (Chatto and Windus, 9s. not.)

Mr. Bennett's interests, as has been seen, are wido and varied, and the things he has noted range from horoines in opera to barbera and railway accidents; from style to stunts; from hotel servants fo wine vintages; from watching a football match to going down a mine.

Episodes, comments, opinions, reflections and stories are jotted down just as they occurred to the novelist face to face with the interesting thing. And the stories jaro excellent, pick where one will. Take this one of the old days of the horse omnibuses --

A bus horse, checked too late, knocked his nose aguit sta policeman's arm. The police- man, very ugly in face, curs. ed heartily. The wiso driver said naught, but just listened and listened to the impieca- Lions. As he was moving off be gazed inoffensively eurio- the policeman's features, and remarked with gontle melancholy,

"You nover sent mo that photo.. graph as you promised mo. And another:-

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buses had begun seriously to)

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enl. Such a system of rope waves was used to send messages | over short distances, as also could water waves, sound waves in air An Interesting Lecture.

was and light waves in ether. Thei An interesting lecture given yesterday afternoon at the professor attempted by a diagram Chinese Y.M.C.A. by ProfesнOT to give a simplified suggestion C. H. Robertson (head of the of what happened when a single Department of thoot was transmitted from the. Lecture Y.M.C.A. in China) on Wireless sending to tho receiving station. Telegraphy, The lecture was for the dot, a key was pressed elucidated by means of an appar for, say, one-tenth of a second atus on the stage. In an adjoining and there ensued the operations room there was a very beastful, shown by the diagram. First demonstrating model of the Tele- the dynamo delivered current to: funken system which was used the transformer and the trane- for sending signals through the former to the condenser, while the combined acuon of the con- The lecturer explained that denses, induction and spark gap 250 feet of wires can wond or caused one spark and it set up

A story of a picture show and receive messages over very-con-oscillations and gave off a train

When the oscillations an artist reminds the novelist siderable distances. The general of waves. process of sending and receiving from that spark were passed, of--

The another spark delivered a second a mossage was explained. demonstration was made with an series. So much for the sending apparatus that was constructed station. For the receiving station in the laboratory of the National there was received at the detector

wall into the room.

Y. M. C. A. Lecture Department for each spark a train of waves. in order to bring before popular Many interesting and important audiences the principles of aspects of the question were ex- electricity and magnetism that are plained, and in conclusion the useful in understanding wireless Lecturer made one other simple telegraphy. A simple wireless experiment which proved most station was set up on the table interesting to the audience. This for sonding wireless telegraphy was to connect a cannon with and the same apparatus was used the receiving station,, using the for receiving messages.

coleter system, so that electro- tomagnetic waves sent through the electro-magnet was demonstrate an important aspect wall from the apparatus in the

made

The

He

both

trying ineffectually to start, and making those grame- phone noises which wu all remember. The conductor of the horse omnibus just in front, taking down the way. bill from his pocket, threw it over his shoulder saying," Tryi another record, Bill."

A group of provincial old mastere of the British art of football, who, after a final

cup-tie at the Crystal Palace, and an evening at the Empire, turned into their hotel just at closing time on Saturday night. They were soven,

Said the oldest master of them all, glancing about him and counting: Seven. A round each. Waiter, bring 49 whiskies-and-sodas. Then you can go to bed."

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The second story is this:-

Said one Divisional General to "How should you another: define Bolshevism?

Said the other Division Gon- eral, with pained finality, "I'll tell you what Bot- shevism is, old thing. It's simply pure

Socialian

[“I THINK THEM SPLENDID FOR CHILDREN.”

A MOTHER'S PRAISE OF BABY'S

OWN TABLETH.

For the sickly new-born babe or growing child Baby's Own Tablets, the Canadian children's That's what Bolshevism is."

medicine, are a blessing. They Another little war story is the are guaranteed entirely free from remark of the wife of an Amer- opiates and absolutely harmless, ican officical, who exclaimed, and aro a remedy for teething staggered and delighted at the troubles, constipation, diarrhoea, spectacle of a very great muni-colic, indigestion, simple fever tione factory in Britain,." I can and worms. They promote calm just feel the monarchical prin- natural sleep, good appetite. cipio pulsating through all this natural development and teething

effort."

without tears.

As a good after-the-war story - Comcerning them Mre. Arthur Saskat- however, the following would Sheasly, of Adanac,

chewan, Canada, writes:-" I be difficult to match:-

The other day I met a British have tried Baby's Own Tablets officer who had been wound-and think them splendid for ed nine times, captured by children of all ages."

the Germans while in a state Sold by medicine doalers, also,) of unconsciousness and inpost free, (60 cente the vial, from ! England reported killed. He the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., seemed to be perfectly we'l 96 Szachuen Road, Shangbei.

But and perfectly cheerful.

one matter lind, aroused his

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resentment. It was not that death. This year also sees the as a prisoner he had received birth centenary of Baudelaire, only six parcele out of 39 while we have such a variety of dispatched by his friends.

Dora Greenwell, It was not that on roturning Frederick Locker-Lampson, and to life and England he had John Skinner, the last-named, had to pay for the advertise who was called by Burns the ments of his own decease inwriter of the "best Scottish song the Times" and the later ever Scotland saw," having been

contradicting bora 200 years ago. advertisements

to

the same. It was that his solicitor had forwarded bim, among other bills, a bill thus conceived: "To memorial service (fully chor- al), three guineas." Some how the words "fully choral" rankled in his mind.

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Books, like other things, are costly in Germany at the present time. British and American. scholare lately decided to place. a collection of recent volumes at the disposal of Gorman literary men. Despite the high prices, Besides being able to tell a however, books continue to pour good story, Mr. Bennett proves from the press; new Verlags or the English, with whom he lives overy day; hia capacity as a caustic critic of publishing houses are founded Bwarme of now Не in friendly alliance.

periodicals, from esoteric reviews watching Pavlova at the Palace to comic weeklies, appear as by dancing the dying swan.

spontaneous generation. A feather foll from her

costume. One -men

"Moulting."

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Sir W. Robertson Nicoll states the British Weekly that English publishers are "seriously Such was the whole of their considering the possibilities of

conversation.

printing and binding some of their books in Holland," owing to the high costs of production in den publishers indicate that a de- Britain. Inquiries among Lon-

cision has not yet been reached.

Then follows the note-maker's comment: "It is this kind of thing that infuriates me against audiences, and against English audiences in particular. It annoys me more than the laugh-

Jeffery Farnol won wide favour. ter, half-hysterical, half-loutish, which even in West-end with his vigorous tales of "The Boldom fails to Amateur Gentleman" and "The threatres

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A treatise by Mr. E. S. Rowe (Oxford University Press), called The Early Effects of the War

An air-raid of the troubled year of the question, the formation of adjoining room fired the can- of 1916 recalls an incident of a magnetic linee in space. The on. The lecturer asked: How similar disturbing nature over the lecturer set up on the table a does it happen that such lectures Midlands :-- simple sending station for wireless us this are being given in the

A man, whom I will call Mr. telegraphy. A key was pressed, different cities of China?

Bigsby, was staying in a the battery pressure was multipli- explained that it was due mainly

house inhabited by five ed by some thousands by the 10 the foresight and statesmall-

women. In the noise and secondary of the induction coil ship of Dr. J. R. Mott and Mr.

excitement one of the women and thore resulted a spark. Each. S. Brockmon who, fifteen years

dropped on to her knees on time a spark appeared at the go, foresaw the great value

the hearthrug and began to punctuate a poignant moment in Broad Highway". He now bringe of scientific lectures,

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to the pirate days gap there was set up an oscillating

pray. She appealed to Pro- play. electric current in the wire, and educationally and in morst and

vidence, with great apparent

Another diverting is this item: with a tale of the Spanish Main a second result was that there religious teaching by analogy,

sincerity, for some time, and "Edmond de Goncourt got the entitled "Black Bartlemy's Trea- which has an “R,L.S.” were set off radiating in tour as part of the work of the Young

then she suddenly jumped up, measure of the ridiculous flavour. directions vibrations in the ether Men's Christian Association in

crying. "Ob, dear. This is no monosyllabic Englishman in bis which are known as electro. China. It has been the lecturer's

good. I'm going to fetch Mr, curious novel, 'La Faustin'. An privilege to have been working magnetic waves.

Bigsby !" and ran out of the English lord goes to look over an The lecuturer explained some towards this end during the past

empty house. When he sees a interesting and important details ten years, The work has now

Stories of our Generals were bird in a cage be ejaculates, about the action of the sending reached the point where the shop, station. A rope running from the laboratory and office of the the main portion of our comic Bird.' And when he sees the upon the Finance, Commerce, lecturer's hand to the end of Lecture Department are fairly relief" during the war, and Mr. bath he ejaculates, Bath. And and Industry of Peru "serves to the room where it was held well equipped and are carrying Bennett has preserved a couple during the entire visit he says

member of then lectures like this on different for the delection

As the subjects over a stretch of country historians: audience was shown. rope was plucked aside and let bounded by Kirin against the loose suddenly, the wave ran borders of Siberia on the north, quickly to the other end, then Yunnanfu towards the borders of the south, and returned and so back and forth Burmah several times. This was explain-smongst the Chinese students in ed by the fact that when the rope the universities of Tokyo on the WAS displaced just before it east. The work commends itself reached the other end and the 80 to the people of China that tension on the rope tended to pull there have sometimes been in a it back to a straight line, but by single city at attendance of the time it had got back into a fifteen thousand people per week, straight line it had considerable audiences composed of the Sentry, Bidewise momentum, which would merchants, educators, officials. carry it nearly as far to the other and others

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illustrate the world-wide influence

of the war, if nothing else.

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American women writers have been remarkable as "best sellers," witness the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Another popular Ameri- can lady, Miss Wharton, has added "The Age of Innocence" to hor lengthy list,

of future nothing else whatever."

Such are a few examples of the miscellany, often humorous A General was inspecting and instructive at the same time, battery, and the major in which Mr. Bonnett has assembled Command was explaining that

in his latest volums. the scale on the ranging- drums needed aitering to suit tho now guns, as the lattor The present year is rich in had a higher muzzle-velocity literary gentenaries. Flaubert than the old guns previously and Dostoievsky represent France

From now the Nobel Prize for used by the battery. The and Russia respectively in fiction, General asked. "What is the and Britain has Wilkie Collins Literature is to be given to the muzzle-velocity of the new and Whyte Melville. In poetry writer who has created the most of Dants is helpful and ideal work within gun" The major gave the the great name answer. The General said, supreme; September will witness the preceding year, regardless of "Yes, but at what range?”. the 800th anniversay of his his record as a whole,

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