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THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Librarian."}

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

published with the greatest gusto, plight of the people of Russia, and a fine piece of sketch-writing desires to aid by every appro- From the temper displayed by priate means in promoting proper this Committee it is evident that opportunities through which com- Bolingbroke was not ill-advised morce can be established upon, a to fly the copntry.

sapnd basia. It is manife to POET AND WIT,

“Prior was not a right|good|this Government that in existing One item suffices to give Priorman. He used to bury himself, ciroumstances there is no assur- for whole days and nights ance for the development of trade à claim to the character of wit.

together, with a poor mean as the supplies which Romīn Disparaged for humble birth by a

creature, and afram drank | might now beable to obtain would courtier who boasted of his many hard." So said Popa; while so be wholly inadequate to most, her generations of titled descent, the other post-diplomatist retorted with abim as "one of the best posts in result, so long as the present contemporary described (nosda and no lasting good can varao vindicating his pedigree:

England, but very factions in cop causes of progressive impover- A humble son of Adam and versation; a thin, hollow-looking ishment continue to operate. It And what man can say more?man, turned of 40 years old." He is only in the productivity of was, in fact, as a man no better|Russis that there is any hope for than his age, but as a writer, both the Russian people, and it la idle The wit, poet, and diplomatist of prose and verse, he was to expect resumption of trade found a new biographer in decidedly not below the level of until the economic bases of pro- Hr. Wickham Legs, who has his age and that was very high. duction are securely established.

tely bal published by be In the vicissitudes of his career Production is conditioned upon; Cimbridge University Pregate to be found the evidence of the safety of life, the recognition “Matthew Prior ca Studs of His that precarious existence which by firm guarantees of private prop- Fablie Carver and Correspon as led by men of remarkabla orty, the sancity of contract, and dence."

talent who yet depended wholly the rights of free labour. I fad.

Eve.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, -1923.

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There is no history comparable on patronage. "Since my very daments! changes are contem- to biography and memoirs, at Subsistence and Being depend plated, involving dus regard for least for enabling the student to upon the favour of your answere, the protection of persons and prop- Eva sgain in the life of a dead your Lordship will easily judge erty and the earablishment of and gone azt.

And of English your letter of the 4th, was very conditions essential to the main- history what period

Iweicama to me." So wrote Prior tenance of commerce, this Gar-) is more fascinating than that

to Halifax in 1714; and it was ernment will be glad to have con- first quarter of the 15th. century-the only a statement of his case in vincingevidenceofthe consumma- Augustan Age of English liters- respect of ons noble patron ortion of sucb changes, and until Ture and turning-point of of another during the whole of this evidence is supplied this English Cestiny? And, though his career. He revenge is that to- Government is unable to perceive EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE. mo period has been more diligent day his name is remembered that there is any proper basis for ly worked, there is always some when some of his patrons would considering trade relations.” new spect of it to reveal some be forgotten but for their con- feature to approach from a new point of view

This Mr. Wickham Legg proves

nection with him.

Addressing the Congress of the Communist Party at Moscow leat March. Leo Kamenev, President of the Moscow Soviet, is reported

concerning trade agreements =—-***

"Does this mean that we are| on the road to peace with the

world? No. [capitalist

these

by his study of the Public CareerTHE GENDA CO NFERENCE by the Moscow Pravdu as saying

3ad Cerrespondeses of Matthew

Prior--one of the less resplendent

but still engaging figures in that?

galaxy which thronged the stage Purpose of the Gathering. in the days when Anne was

Queen He was the friend of In asking the nations of reements are merely a now maoy of the grea: men of his Europe, including Russia and form of struggle for the establisb- cme-"himself not least, but.

Germany, to assemble in conferment of Commosiam...

With honoured of them all"-and if he once to discuss the economic each additionalshorel of coal, with is best remembered now as the conditions of Europe, the Supreme each as bucket of oil, which we writer of light satiric verse, which Council, consisting of the heads shall obtain with the aid of for- has the sparkle of the 16th. cen- of Government in Britain, France, eign technical methods foreign tury, without its licence. be was and Italy, laid down certain con- capital will only be digging for valued even more highly in his ditions in the following terms itself in Russia its own historical own day

"The Allied Powers consider grave." man of affairs. Thanks to the fierce conten-

that the fundamental and indi

And writing in the Protda. ~50 of Parties,

pensable his

conditions for the Tl Radek, one of the most statesman and diplomat end-realization of an efficacious effort prominent Bolshevist terders, el in shallows and in miserare capable of being defined in

4. but he still gives his name to general terms as follow:

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** The concessions W. 179 the right to dictate to each other making to foreign capital bare] FT the principles according to which | been made necessary only by the Dsquad. they must organize within their defar of the work revolution, and 110 d/s frontiers, their regime of property, the lesson of these concersions is | 50 địa their economy, and their Govern.bis: you, proletarians of other ment. It is the right of each countries, have not yet succeeded] F/T Shanghai country to choose for itself the in overthrowing your bourgeoisie. T/T Singapore....................... 10111⁄2 system which it prefers.

Hurry, therefore, with TT Japan "(2) Nevertheless it is

your struggle. But do not carry TT India...... possible to place foreign capital on this struggle on the basis of Demand, Indiz

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Having had the misfortune to be sent to Paris by Bolingbroke, he incurred all the furious partisan enmity of the Party that drove Bolingbroke into exile; and he was left in the ignominious posi tion of a Flenipotentiary in a foreign capital unable to obey his in order to help a country unless the new policy of the Sorist | T/T San Francisco) letters of recall from lack of the the foreigners who provide the Government, but on that of the & New York.j 5212 means to pay his debts and his capital have a certitude that old Communist tactics.”. expenses home.

their property and their rights Mr. Lezz has bought together will be respected and that the in this voius many of the let. Fruits of their enterprise will be rera of Price, which have not only assured.

to

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co&New Yorkf

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m/s. Francs Sofa. Franca... Demand, Germany. Demand, New York 529 IIT Bombay Demand, Bombay... 18811⁄2 T/T Calcutta .... Demand, Calcutta. ..... 18836 Demand, Manila

Tokohem.......... 111

10814 E Finney, Mr. Fong Hoy. Mr. Demand, Singapore. 1044 & Mrs. H. H. Griswold, Miss K. Demand, Batavia 140

Guthrie. Mrs. Gock Bew. Mr. On Haiphong .......................

Hayasaki, Mr. & Mrs. D. On Saigon

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33

heir own rical value but (3) This feeling of security which at afford excellent ex-Cannot be re-established unless amples of Prior's prose a very nations Or their governments lively thing

Pers. SHINYO_MARU, for Not the least inter-desiring to obtain foreign credits esting bett are those concerned freely engage: (a) To recognize U.S.A.-Miss Kate B. Andrews, with big thrill from Paris, when all public debts and obligations Mr. Au Soa Ies, Mr. T. Aiba. Mrs. a borth Treasury refused to which have been contracted, or

J. W. Allen, Mr. & Mrs. R. W. honour i tills and insisted will be contracted or guaranteed Beers. Mr. & Mrs. W. G. Brackett. in taxime his costs. Prior had by states. municipalities, or other Mrs. J. W. Burrows, Miss kept an establishment, as he can public organizations, and Burrows. Mr. H Brunthater, Mr. A. Bonfanti. Miss Marion C. fessed, equal to what he "judged recognize also obligation to necessary for the honour and dig- restore or, in case of default, to Clark, Miss Patty L. Clark, Miss mity of the nation. He pleaded indemnify all foreign interests. M. Cox. Mr. Chau Tik Nam. 1 was Minister for a great for or damage which has been Mr. Chong How Fo, Mr. J. C. Monarch to the most expensive caused by the confiscation or Cadoba, Mr. C. E. Chubb, Mrs. Court in Europe." But in vain. sequestration of property: b) C. Dawson, Mr. & Mrs. J. F. The Treasury officials, with a to establish legal and juristic Margarett S. Fogg, Mr. & Mrs. Doyle, Miss Amy Ferris, Mrs. stern frugality that would become punishment and Basore the three degenerate days, insisted impartial execution of all com- that Mr. Prior bath exceeded mercial or other contracts. the pay of an Ambassador by "(4) The nations ought to have £968 and pointed out that Mr. available convenient means of Prio: was not an Ambassador at exchange; in general, financial Hamazaki, Mr. Ho Teaeg Him, On Bangkok all, but only a Plenipotentiary, and monetary conditions ought Miss C. Haugan, Mrs. S. Fiski-Sovereign whose pay he had exceeded by as to exist which offer sufficient bar, Mr. L. E. Holden, Mr. Fold leaf per Tsel...

Frank Hough. Mr. James Lau, Bay Silver, ready... 3314 much as 24.112. 69. At last the guarantees. Government relented, and, thanks (5) All nations ought to engage Miss Edith M. Keely, Mr. T. forward to the influence of Stanhope and to abstain from all propaganda Kinoshita, Mr. H. Katob, Mr. Li Bank of England rates 434%, Halifax, the debts of the which is subversive of the politi-Bak Lang. Mr. Lai Ching Chiu, Few Tark/London... 4.37 Plenipotentiary to the Coart of cal system established in other Mr. Lee Ten, Miss Edna Mason,

*SUBSIDIARY. COINS, Mrs. Harris Masterson, Mr. & (6) All nations ought to take Mrs. E P. Meyers, Miss EHkong 50 ct pieces But pour Prior passed only from all aggression on their neigh Niu, Mr. Mui Po Tsi, Mr. Mui Centon subcoins

a common engagement to abstain Meyers, Dr. R. Macdoosid, Mr. & Mrs. J. Muysken, Mr. Ma Pak from the frying-pan to the fire.bours. He was arrested on the Speaker's. "If with a view to assuring the Poon Tsi. Mrs. C. L. McIntosb. Warrant and bailed before necessary conditions for

Mr. K. Murakami, Mr. P. Matsui, i the Select Committee set development of the commerce of Miss B. E. Mayo, Mr. Y. Momo- by the Whigs to dis Russia the Russian Government hara, Mrs. G. H. Moyes. Mr. & corer evidence on which to found claims official recognition, the Mrs. T. Nakazawa. Mrs. T. Nishi- an impeachment of Harley and Allied Governments cannot ac-yama, Mr. Ng Yu Loong. Mrs. Bolingbroke It was

believed cord this recognition unless the Nonura Miss H. E. Pierce, that Prior was in the confidence Russian Government accepts the Miss H. W. Pierce, Mr. Pang Wa of the Ministers who employed preceding conditions."

Hon, Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Parker. im, and he was subjected to in-

Mr. & Mrs. B. Pintos, Mrs E. terrogation with every circom-

Raudolph, Mr. & Mrs. 5. M. Rose, stance of indignity. He escaped

Mr. & Mrs. F. A. Rozario, Mrs.] Conviction as an accomplice by

L. M. Reraedio, Mr. F. E. Barometer .............. the happy circumstance that hei The policy of the American Sprague, Miss Esther Sprague, Temperatore... had not been fully trusted by his Government toward Bolshevists Miss Grace Sisson, Mrs. Hudson Humility principals, and could not there-ie Russia was announced by the Sheldou, Mr. D. V. Steavenson, fore, supply the evidence against American Secretary of State, Mr. Mr. Oscar Schaefer, Mr. Sha Man Wind Force them which he was thought to Enghea, in a statement transmit Hatsu, Mr. Clyde L. Skinner. Mr. Weather ......... possear. His account of bir ted to Reval and banded by the T. Sato, Miss H. Taylor, Mr. S. Rain...

0.00 0.00 0.00 .:-<TOF6-examination by the Com-American Consul there to the Tsukui, Mr. Tan Lean Chye, Mr. Highest ppen air →mittee—all in full-cry after him Soviet Assistant Foreign Min-Tui Yu Pak, Mr. & Mr. D. H. Temperature on the

9th 62 has been written by himself, and ister. Litvinofi, as follows --- Wythe, Mrs. Wong Shee, Mr. W. Lowest

most spirited and diverting "The Government of the Unit S. Watkins, Mr. Wong Ki. Mr. Temperature on the 10th 61 --marrative it in. In a modern od States views with deep sym- Wơng Mau Cheung, Mr. Yuan T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

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