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THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Librarian.")

AN INTIMATE, VIEW OF SHACKLETON.

A lot of printed matter has appeared concerning Sir Ernast Shackleton's quter life, including the explorer's own narrative; Mr. Harald Begbie contributes a volume which touches the more

Din intimate side

complex temparament. From the nature of his career one might infer that the explorar was essentially oth

A man the coal-of-action type.

of action Shackleton was: yet!

one side of his this was only character.

Ass boy at Dulwich, Shackleton)

幸福

remained undiscovered " to the

last he led life of imagination.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

what he can get in honours and advancement. He distinguishes himself in a difficult notion, and makes his report to the King. The King gave him his hand. When Mons rejolos his com panions they ask him :-

* How did it go with your commission and your patent? The patent!"

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Hel fall for glory only."

New York./ hmped nearer the fits and whis! T/T Java .... pered." Didn't you se-, didn't | T/T Marks you see that His Majasty gave T/T Francs him his hand as to an equal? "Then I got my reward for time and eternity,” cried French Mons.

That spirit of devotion is atin to the parallel with the external life, to the Scotch fealty And for the most part screened Stewarts, or to French soldiers 10 Napoleon; von from observation or but shyly and passion fragmentarily disclosed. i was Heidenstam does not comment vory characteristic, the way in on it. He records with an im which he would hesitatingly ten partiality greater almost than Maupassant's the facts of the quotation der postical

neither though be realized it was unlikels campaigning life. to convey all that meant to him- proving sak...

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or disapproving. Ho nerer chooses to write of the joy of battle. He presents a hard life hardly, clothing the deeds and the men with a chilly mantle of Snow, in which the men more at. most noiselessly as we took out The contrast between the violence of the thing presented and the extreme calmness of the narrator makes von Heidenstam's style impressive.

Mr. Begbie tells how, despair ing of conformity betweer the inner and the outer life, the future explore: ran away to sea at It He rarely spoke of is because it might distress his father and seem to reflect on him. "It would look as if he bad not been a good father. Many people would say Iust have had a bad home... .... But it was a good home. want because I wanted the sea.

"The War against Opium" is And I look French leave because the title of a volume written and I knew my father would never edited by the Directors of the have let me go.", Ho shipped with International Anti-Opium Asso- a copy of Browning and his sav-feiation. Peking. The publication ing, and roughed it from year to gives full information concerning year while he "dreamed prodigi the campaign against the traffic ously about big things ahead. in opium and other. narcotics. till he passed his master's exam-The subject is treated from an ination in Singapore.

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standpoint. and noa-national. The curious thing about Shack laton was that, susceptible and favouring no cause but the reduc- responsive as be was at a dozen tion of parcotic production to Canton Bob coins points, it did nothing to weaken medicibal .quirements.

Hongkong. June 16, 1922.

Com-

his extraurilinary capacity for menting with a brief histori-¦ collar work." His power of puli cal account of the opium trade.

and the publication contains azi through is typiñed in episode of his service with Scot account of later developments

the "Discovery" expedition, when he had broken a blood-vessel: One night as he lay very near

and is accompanied by a map showing the present state of poppy cultivation is China and the wide

the point of death he heard spread of the trade in morphis Scott say to Wilson outside the There are chapters on the attitude

don't think so.

"Oh! won't

WEATHER REPORT.

June 16d. 11b. 40m.---Pressure moderately at .tent, "Do you think he will of the different Governments. has decreased

last?" and Wilson reply. with special reference to Great Vladivostock and slightly from Britain, India. Japan, and the Weihaihai to Foochow. It has 1." he muttered to himself.ited States. Detailed informa-increased slightly at Haiphong.

The depression over the Yang- When they came into the tent tion is given concerning the Shackleton raised himself up a opium monopolies of Hongkong. 1sza Valley deepened and moved

the Straits Settlements, the eastward. Merle and managed to jerk out, "I'm not going to die: I tell Federated Malay States, Macao,

and Kwantung and Tsingtao.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24"

Jou thie-1 shall be alive when There are also chapters on the hours eading at 10 a.m. to-day, i

both you fellows are dead."

medical and legal aspects of the

Barcotics.

containe

A

full various

He knew. we learn, that the trade in foet of reaching South Georgia appendix from Elephant Island to send documents of troportance, such succour to his marooned ship as The Hague Opium Convention, mates there was the climax of his the Dangerous Drugs Act, Art. life. As many who go back to 95 of the Versailles Treaty. the pages of "South" must feel, it and other documents valuable for was the most Homeric story of reference. By its careful and up- modern times.

to-date collection of facts and documents it forms en indispens- The award of the Nobet Prizable handbook for all who are in Kost any way interested in Chinese for Literature brought Hamson to the notice of English problems and in a subject which readers, whose & quaintance with may be regarded as one of the tasks of the Scandinavian literature had been most important

in most cases limited to a few League of Nations. It is a work! writers like Ibsen and Strindberg, which should be in the possession Some twenty years ago the first of all desirous of securing an Renes donner von Heidenstam's accurate view of the drug traffic, **Karohnerna " was translated whether they favour the efficient ter the title of "A. King and control of the production of nar- bCampaigners." Since then cotics and of their manufacture The book, of th-wedish novelist has remain and sale, or not. ed unheard of to English readers 295 pp, is illustrated by photo- Ppt such as could read him in graphs and has a well-prepared the vernacular. Last month, index.

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Place of Observazion

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East Sheklung.

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A FIRM HAND WITA STRIKERS.

A Peking message says: Toe members of the staff of the Ministry of Finance, who were on strike, quietly rasu.ed

their

however, a complete version of the Karolinerna" made its ap- pearance in English, the publica ting being isaged by the Oxford Harte's tales, in neat form, a38abours yesterday. Their return Eniversity Press.

6d. a volume. "The three volumes This novelist is one of the now ready are "Flip" (with most objective of writers. His "Marujs" and "Found at Blazing theme is Charles XII-e who Star"). "Snow-bound at Eagle's left & name at which the, (with "A Phyllis of the Sierras,

world grew pale.

"A Drift from Redwood Camp,

To point a moral or adorna tale and "A Gentleman of La Porte"). as Dr. Johnson pictures him. and the longer story. "Cressy,

The Swedish author's repres-which has been out of print for entation of the warrior-king has many years. been rated by some as the most Buccessful effort in imaginativa

literature to give us a monarch'a

•

portrait which shall notemphasise of poems has just been iRaped the royalty for unduly depreciate by Messra. Macmillan under the it. It has not the rather bright title of "Late Lyrics and Earlier."

sentimentalism, manked 68

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Evet recorded

aver recorded

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3.8

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0

8 00

7.50

+ 27.25

-5.00

SIN

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15.15

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9.71

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