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THE HONGKONG TELEGR

TWENTY-TWO YEARS

AGO.

A Glance at Our Files. (July-13-July 20, 1901.)

SECOND MAGISTRATE. The appointment of Mr. A. Hazelend to be Second Magistrate is notified in the Gazette.

The Murder on the In the realm of biography and effort, autobiography we have a notable Links" (John Lane, 7/6) will be new work dealing with the life of popular. The story is a tangle of ape of the greatest singers of the complexities, a jigsaw puzzle, age, Caruso, Mesars. Hurst and and a series of false clues cal

THE VOLUNTEERS Blackett publish at a guinos a culated to hold the tenso interest

Lieut. J. H. Underwood bas ook on "Enrico Caruso; & Bio- of the reader. The mystery graphy," by Pierre V. R. Key "holds" to the very end, and been appointed Captain, Hong and Bruno Zirali. The work is thrills right through. The hero kong Volunteer Corps, in place of not particularly intoresting, and of the book, if we can call him Capt. G. E. Potts, resigned, and somewhat patohy, but never-such, the man who goes quietly Sergeant Major G. P. Lammert theless forms an important record and eventually unerringly after has been appointed to of Caruso's remarkable career, the "scent," is a contrast to most lieutenanoy thus vacant. from the time when he began his working life about ten years of age in some engineering works at

the Wo of his competitors, and a pleasant congratulate Lieut. Lammert on one. Detective stories, like love bis well-earned promotion. tales, will probably never stale:

FRENCH AIRSHIP,

We shall look with interest for

a wage of ose penny per hour, with a large scotion of the public, Occasionally earning an extra fira and as long as the standard of by singing a sorenade under a "The Murder on the Links" is further particulars of the new window for some Neapolitan lover, maintained there will be an eager

to the period when he was "trest-following for the authoress ed almost like a monarch," and

the : Police

If Reutor.

48 is stated, French airship, mentioned by the vessel is really capable of To leave fiction for a moment. being navigated with any degree became somewhat spoilt by public Mr. J. Lewis May gives us of precision then it will mean an adulation. Here is a picure of excellent translation of "The utter revolution in the methods of Caruso bobind the scene: "Often Bloom of Life", by Anatole

In bis warfare. We shall not only if some trifle he reached for oa bis France (John Lane, 7/6). dressing table were mislaid be youth what fascinated Anatole require steel breastworks for our gups, but steel roofs, as well. would seizs the cover and with a France was not the truth about There are great possibilities in it, jark send bottles, and all other life, nor the beauty of life, but paraphernalia on the table flying." bloom, that lovely transience but we are inclined to be a trifle

Mr. George Sturt ("George which vanishes when you handle sceptical as yet. Bourne" gives us a remarkable whatever it is adorning. He is PITY THE MAGISTRATE!

That evil-smelling. hole autobiography in "The Wheel of too sceptical atomper to

Court wright's Shop" (Cambridge Uniconcam himself with the truth clept versity Press, 12/6). As a prac. of life-"all a wise man can do is has been, for the last few tised writer, Mr. Sturt brings into to escape from life or to laugh at days, more noisome (if it is; this book a smack of romance, so droli an. adventure"; without possible) than ever. Mr. Kemp on and an interest that results in some vision of truth there can be his trip in the New Territory has converting the commonplace into no belief in permanent beauty, been taken ill and consequently the unusual, to such an extent and so this acethetic philosopher, the small court has not been open that the reader will never look the last great epicurean, is con for the trial of any cases, so Mr. upon the wheelwright's trade in tant with the superficial loveliness Hazeland is simply overloaded the same light again. The author which is destroyed by approhen with work. No three men could took over in 1884 a wheelwright'ssion, and whose destruction moves get through the amount shop at Farnham that had existed in him, at times, a futile sense business that one is called upon for two hundred years and boon of the pathos of unalterable things. to do. Mr. Hazelaad, it must be in his own family for nearly a "Children of Men," by Eden brought to mind, expends the 7/6), same care and the same Bon- century. The work, in reality, is Phillpotts (Heinemann, less of an autobiography than brings us again to Dartmoor soientiousness in the case of the be would funereal tribute to a dead craft, that fascinating venue of so bumblest noolie, as

highest in the land a craft dying at all events. Mr much in English fiction, good, bad, if the

and it Sturt goes into the whole mystery and indifferent. The present wers concerned, of his trade with the particularity work is absorbing, though the a marvel how he can retain and zost that Horman Melville characters are not too well drawn the patient, painstaking frame of exhibited when he digressed into in cortain cases. Those who have mind that one sees every day those immortal chaptere about read the other books on Dartmoor Apart from the overwhelming the structure and dissection of life, might find something lacking mass of work to be got through, whales. To the casual passer-by in this. But the story is fascinat this gentleman has to do it under a wheel is a wheel and a wagon.ing, nevertheless. Apparently the most adverse circumstances. Ia ebapter after chapter Mr. this is Mr. Phillpott's "final" book Sitting on a raised dais, where the Sturt shows the reason for a with a Dartmoor inspiration. We awful smell of man can be most appreciated, the close investiga- hundred small detaile of shaping, wonder. and indicates the immense. know.

a

of

"Mon Ami Francais," This is tions must be written with the aid! ledge and skill demanded of master French book, in the special of two gas jets, the heat of which and mea in choosing trees, in style of Henri Davignon, and is may be a trifle mitigated by the sawing them, in selecting pieces publiabed by the Librairie Flon at intermittent action of a paukah of timber, in seasoning, and in all seven france It is a charming pulled by a small boy affected by A paternal the processes of manufacture.

story. The contrast of psychology chronic lassitude. A Book on Russia.

btween those who bad lived Government sends a crminal to a Messrs. Colling bave brought through the ordeal of the struggle clean gaol and condemns the worked Government out a book on Bolshevism in the late war outside occupied hardest

A foul and and "Bolshevism in Ratrest", by territory and those whose energy Official to Michael S. Farbman. One might had bean broken or embittered loathesome.den.

HOSPITAL RUMOURS, almost say this volume strikes an under foreign domination is very There is, of entirely new note; perhaps, to delicately drawn.

The Hongkong Telegraph is in eams.minda, a prossio touch. [course, a strong love interest, arid a position to state that the recent Communist rule in Rossi, strip-a most vividly-drawn study of enquiry into the affairs and condi ped of its excessos and its ac-Countess who, from a quiet life tion of the Station Hospital has cidente, exhibits two fairly con with husband and children., is been concluded, and the many stant features. It has been a thrown by the confliot into contact charges of neglect and inattention with a wounded French lieuten have been dismissed as unworthy great economic failure and considerable political succs. If ant. She eventually sacrifices of o.edence. It is admitted that its grandiose accial pla bat her passion for the young the Hospital lacks some of the duty to her appliances that are thought ab almost disappeared, gravely modified, its energetic home; and in the last meeting of solutely necessary in an up-to- policy remains, and has presented the lovers we have as fine a piece date institution, but the back- Europe not only with a bow of imaginative literary writing as wardness will be remedied in the Russia, but with a new nation, one could with. It is a work new building now being erected conscious as Mr. Farbman says | worth translating, for the benefit in Caine Road. We are glad to of its unity and of a more truly of a much wider circle of readers. be able to make public the above In Brief.... intelligence, as it will, to a great homogeneous structure than the Russis of the Tears. Nearly

"The Mancroft Essaye." by extant put a stop to the idle everything that the Bolshevists Arthur Michael Samuel (Jons rumours going about. set their hands to as a deliberate than Cape, 10/6), is by a member economic, or politico-economic of Parliament. It is a collection Ghost Moth," by Kathleen Crigh- policy, came to grief.

of fine themes, and will appeal aimed at world-revolution, and especially to Norwich men, for ton Lion (Heinemann, 7/6); "Laes of libera the author is one and his work of the Sword.", by C. E. Lawrence (John Murray, 7/6); "The Un- grown-Ups", by "Rita" (PatosID,

at a Polish tion,"

War

bee officer от

They

to

the

ав its first dynamic lets you know it.

lise Russian Agriculture and to

Having es

stroke. They tried to commun- Here is some more good poetry.7/6); Mr. Fortuno's Practice,” give it a scientific basis, through by a modern bard. Heinemann by H. C. Bailey (Methuen, 7/6); issue King Cole and Other Victoria" by Kaut Hamsun their scheme of Soviet farms.

(Gyldendal, 5/). They sought to do away with cams," by John Masefield, at ix shillinge a good six shillings

One of Messrs, John Long's money, with the wage-system worth. "King Cole" dominates latest publications, that is being with capitalism in all industries, the book. great and Bruell.

The Diary of Nelly Ptasch- well boomed, and was due to tablished the Soviets, as an organ kinn," translated by Paulina de ppeer in London a month ago, is "The Chiness Bungalow," by both of government and of public chary, is published by Jonathan Marion Osmond. It is the lady's opinion, they superseded them, Depa at 7/6. It is a pitiful record, second novel, and we trust it is far and set up government by Com- kept by a Russian child about missars, and flually by a Dirac fifteen years of age, who died better than her firat."The Owl torate of the Communist Party. before any of the plans she set and the Moon," which, praised by the Home critics who had never Russia, says Mr. Farbman, has forth could come to fruition.

Mr. Fullerton Waldo, in Down boen in Malays (with which got a new psychology.

Stay

dreaminess has gone, and the the Mackenzie." (Macmillan) country it dealt) was a collection

country is "in the throes of bourdeals vividly with the far North-fhearsay and inaccuracies that

geole impulses and passions."

嚣 West of Canada. It is

even the Bolshevist bureaucrat wide appeal.

ime at becoming

£

good

beat anything we had ever before been given to review.

Everybody wants to make money book of travel which will have a The Northcliffe Prize goes this Three interesting works, of year to "La Vigne et la Maison," by Jean Baldo: Five books ware

mittee

business man. But the people literary" calibre, are, The submitted by the French. Com- bra at last got a sympathotic Chief Ministers of England,

to the Femida-Vie dovernment, and a great organ of 920.1720," by Clive Blagham Heureuse and Northcliffs Prize public opinion. In a word; Basein (Murray, 21); The Best of Committee, and from these five his, more or less, done with Com

Hazlitt, by P. P. Howe (Methuen, guniem, In its stead she has, 3/6); and Famous Judges and the choice was made. Among Ike most suitors to the gods, heen Trials", by Charles Kingston (8. those who took part in the voting were the Comtesse de Saint- resented with the gift her govor-Paul and Co. 12/6). fora despised, which is demo- mers is a list of new novels; Aulaire, Miss Beatrice Harraden, cracy. Or at least that is what the season is in full swing! And Lady Dilke, Miss Ethel Colbourne Mayne, Mrs. Margaret Woods, the author concludes..

the titles alons suggest much food Miss Ella Hepworth Dixon, and Detective, and Other Fiction, for the leisure hour: The Eload Mrs. Wliale (Winifred- Stephona.) Misa Agatha Christie has, era Ship" by Norman Springer We hope to deal with some of This given the reading public (Fisher Unwin, 7/6): "The Dead the latest American publicatione some good stuff of mystery, clues Command" by Vicente Blasco in our next review, and detection, and her latest Ibanez (Fisher Unwin, 7{6)" The

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