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ROBERTS.—On July 30 at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shang bai. to Mr. and Mrs. F.C. Roberts, a son.

DA SILVA. On July 30, at St. Marie's Hopsital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Da Silva, daughter.

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CARD.-At Hongkong, the 27th, July, 1923, Ella Augusta Card, aged 35, daughter of Mrs. E. A. Card of New Milton, Hants, England.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, Gih August, 1923

THAT PETITION.

MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1923.

"

DAY BY DAY.

OUR BOOKSHELF.

Some Literature of the Period.

were waiting anxiously to learn of our luck, or otherwise, when Saturday's telegram came to hand showing that another point BE INSPIRED WITH THE BELIEF THAT LIFE 18 A GREAT AND NO- had been overlooked. The 'ab

BLE CALLING; NOT A MEAN AND sonce of the addresses does not, GROVELLING THING THAT WE his memoirs, which, it might be perfect all through, and they are

Sir George Bachanan publishes scarcely one of them "that of course, invalidate the petition, ARE TO SHUFFLE THROUGH AB Tecalled, have been much dieous-deficient (for all their wonderful but it does mean that there are WE CAN, BUT AN ELEVATED AND sed by those who learned of their qualities) in the cause of proper-

LOFTY DESTINY.-Gladstone,

preparation.. only eighty-threo signatures

The distinguished I tion. Almost every poem contains author has also been criticised a lines or stanzas which may be which can be regarded as being

great deal by one of the old excised without leaving in order. What effect that will

"Willo."--~The columns of the Russian aristocrnoy for bis alleged apparent gap. Yet Emily Bronte have on the chances of the Telegraph cannot be used for participation in domostio politics could achieve (though she did not demande being conceded, we do offensive letters of the type at Petrograd during the war. "My always do so) perfection of form which you have forwarded.us for Mission to Russia, and Other in matters of detail, in the writing not know,

publication.

Diplomatic Memories" (two vole, of a phrase or a stanza. Cassell 30/- not), is certainly a very interesting work. The au-

In calling to mind the viciss itudes of this polition, we can-

"The Best Poems of 1928", edited by T. Moult (Cape, 6/-) is "No Quorum for the Eggs Bill thor's connection with the diplo an anthology from English and matio service goes back to 1876, American magazines or newe of Commons. It looks as though have been born into diplomacy. tion preclude the book from having Sitting Abandoned." in the Houes and he might almost claim to papers. The conditions of selec not much is likely to be hatched, his father having been the say distinct unity: it is an anth- comments a Home paper.

not, escape the conviction that the thing has been badly bungled from the very start. It should surely have been possible to have

Minister at Copenhagen at theology only by dourtesy. Yet it` scoured full and exact data as to

time of his birth. During his seems a better and more useful the oorrect method of drawing:

long period of service Sir George | book than many of the recent On June 27, at St Mark's, has represented hia country selections of modern verse. Mr. up a petition before it was sent Surbiton, Edmund Leslie, the in many different parts of the Moult's tanto is catholic, and if he off, especially since its sponsors eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Char: world; but these volumes ara con-extends his charity to certain included legal men and one len Lena Mey, East Molassy, and corned chiefly with two of his modern manifestations which actual M.P. What is more, Col. grandson of the late Hon. Charles major appointments as agent seem to us rather worthless, we May, Chief Magistrate, Hongkong and consul-general at Sofia and gladly put up with a few accen Ward, when he returned the was married to Margaret Gray, as Ambassador in Russia. At tricities for the sake of getting patition to Hongkong because it daughter of Mr. Harry Gray Sofia be naturally came into very such old friends as Mrs. Hinksou slose contact with the Bulgarian and Mrs. Laurence Housman, and was not quite in order, enclosed Upland, Surbiton.

ruler, Ferdinand, and he gives a some lesser-known authors whose a copy of an extract from official

| vivid picture of this remarkable poems have no virtuès except a a personage. Sir George needed | lively music or a touching senti-

don't, many of the signatories may have left the Colony for good before the decision is made known, and the remainder will have forgotten all about it.

The Peparations Deadlock.

7

GOLF.

Happy Valley Championship.

The championship at Happy Bismarck is tresting England as Valley played for on Sanday, reif he were a third-rate Power, sulted in a win for Mr. H. R. Buck- and this makes the Queen's blood land. Considering the weather, boil. the lending scores below reflect great credit on the players:

Mr. H. R. Buckland, 81 and equals: 164.

....

Mr. A. B. Stewart, 85 and equals 165.

Major Gandy, 84 and 83 equals

orders making it quite clear that At Willis's Rooms last month he prayer of the petition sbouldĮ pair of early Chinese pottery- all the tact and finesse for which ment. The year 1922 produced on he is distinguished, to steer his at least one poem as certain be followed by "signatures with figures of eagles standing addresses, But the then Hoa.rocks, with Louis XV. ormolu course in the court at Sofia, of immortality as any work by mounts, went at £548. Also a where so much was to be achtered a living author, Mr. Hardy's An Secretary of the C.R.A., in re- Chinese famille-rose Mandarin jar by the personal favour of the ruler.Ancient to Ancients" in its weight and dignity it almost over. turning it, intimated that the and cover fetched 360 gne., and a Bulgaris in those days was even

can- Chinese Mandarin jar enamelled more turbulent than recent events burdens the book which contains address "Hongkong" was

with Ho Ho birds, and a compan-show it to be to-day; and we have nothing in its own way to rival ít, sidered sufficient, any further ion lot, went at 220 gns, and 210 hore a mention of what happened and little in other modes which details being obtainable from the gne, respectively.

when Prince Ferdinand decided can be put beside it. The best Far East Directory. Whether

to part with his Stambulovist things are, perhaps, Mr. de is ministry. He chose the Demo. Mare's "Horse in a Field," Mr. this was on the instruction of the!

Sir Skinnor Turner, giving result of the elections was, in Colum's "The Foor Girl's Medita crats as their successors, and the Squires's "To à Roman," Mr. Committee of the C:R, A., we do

judgment in the insurance case the writer's words, a not know, but we should have in H. M. Supreme Court, Shang-plate victory for the new minia. Febuary

com-tion." Mrs. Lynd's "Farewell in and Mr. Shanks's thought that the provious exper- bat, has refused Messrs. Little •

try. The Stambuloviste, who "Woman Song.": fence would have taught those in Bros. motion for exemption from had been in a majority of two to The Newest Novels.

liability to make the necessary one in the dissolved chamber, Ford Madox. Ford. is-s now obarge of the petition to leave no deposit provided for in sections of were unrepresented in the new author, whose first novel, "The further room for doubt regarding the Fire and Marine Insurance, one, whereas the Democrats, who Marsden Case," is published by the correctness of the style of the Companies Ordinance on, the had previously but two represent Duckworth, at 7/6. There is a petition. These set-backs which ground that since July, 1922, the atives in the Parliament, now remarkable resemblance in style

company had ceased to do insur

to the first and last novels have been experienced are very anos business and does not in. held 173 out of a total of 203 seate LAWSON-On July 30, at the irritating, besides having the tend to do such business in future. Clearly the voice of the Prince of Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer,

was the voice of the poople.so that -no reviewer according to General Hospital, Shanghai, from effect of holding up the whole

constitutional, possibly ignore the coincidence. cancer, after a long, suffering movement to a measure of

electoral methods in the Bulgaria The story is of two Young Pre- illness, Job Alfred Lawson, ridiculo, All this is most re-

of those days, - -

tenders, one of each sex. The aged 56 years, of British Cigarette

A plesting recollection is of boy has the delicate honour which Go Id

grettable, but we do hope that we

Queen Victoria, The Queen, publicity maddens and to which incensed at Bismarck's behaviour | a clamouring for one's own CARLSON. On July 31, at shall soon know the fate of the Dr. Fearn's Sanatorium, Shang-potition, one way or another, he-]

at the time of the Berlin Memor-rights" is as impossible as a hai, Captain William A. Carlson, fore very much langer. If we

Jandum, made a note an a dispatch wooden leg to chorus girl. His from Berlin as follows:-Prince sister is "practical," and she and aged 80 years.

others drive him to the verge of an end so terrible that it is sheer brutality on the author's part to let us think it inevitablo. A A great part of these two Homs reviewer declares that the volumed deals with Sir George's occasional people of the story, adventures in Russia from bis ap- who never say the thing you 83 pointment as Ambassador in St. would expect of them, and yet Petersburg in 1910 up to his de- tura out in the end not to 'have 80|parture, enforced by continual ill-. | uttered one word that is irrelevant We cannot be accused of undue

health and the pressure of adverse to the book's development, pare pessimism if we express the view

circumstances, in the first days of pure Haeffer. Their actions seem 1918. There is not very much to improbable enough to cause that the reparations issue is at al Hongkong's potition for Con deadlock and that the prospects of

be found in the author's memories bysteria; yet you will find that stitutional Reform seems to be a successful issue to the present

of Tsarist and Revolutionary they convey the impression that discussion are remote. It is

Russia that adds to what is al you know them all fas, in some | ill-fated. It was drawn up and

obvious that the French and

ready well known about the period. cases, you all foo surely, do; only 87 Sir George was, of course, in very that the author has turned his circulated locally more than two Belgian replies to the Britieb years ago, well over fifteen hun-memorandum do not advance

Jolose touch with the ill-fated Em coloured lights on them, and Happy Valley Course Cloged. peror, and his account of him, gsts off that (way). It dred names being secured in its matters much further, and that in

The Happy Valley course will be tinged with deep respect for his is not one of the novels that col- consequence the Entente rolations support, but the latest develop are somewhat strained. It seems closed until further notice.

The personal character and a certain lect a queue of flappers at Mr. ment is that only eighty-three of to us that further corferinces will competition for to-day (August amount of criticism of his suscep- Mudie's counter; but it is char. hieno are to count, as the others be file, unless the decision be 6th.) has been postponed until firms the now accepted judgment writers of real imaginati n in this tibility to domestic influence, con-acteristic work by one of the few loft to some absolutely Impartial tacked the addresses of the tribunal, such as a committee of next Sunday. The Ladies' Medal of Nicholas II. The descriptions, country.

ignatories i Lus, so far as the delegates appointed by the neutral competition will be played on too, of the Empress and of other Restoration," by Ethel Side- fouse of Commons is concerned, Powers. If some such procedure Thursday next (August 10th.), members of the court, including wick (Sidgwick and Jackson, the notorious Rasputin, are 7/6), is a roadable effort. It is ali he petition merely means that is to be adopted, it will have to be weather.permitting.

se than ninety people have

equally adequate but equally about the countryside, with su quickly sot on foot, for Germany

lack any novelty for the student exquisite personality, Geraldine, asked for the `n forms advocated drowning man who has sunk twice Within recent months, we have of recent affairs in Russia. When and her age, another well-drawn That is a thousand pities, for, already and if not rescued might commented on the

Rasputin telegraphed to the character, with a farm for the whatever views we may hold on We recently suggested that Britan welcome

shortly sink for the last time. audiences that have gathered to Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolevich background as well as objective stars" like Leopold that he wished to visit the Front of the plot. Miss Sidgwick has the subject, it is a fact that the might eventually and it more Godowsky, and others who have and present the armies with ao introduced some delicate yet aure demand for reform secured the economical, in view of the turn wandered to our shores, The ikon, the Royal Commander-in-touches intothis latestbookof here. approval of more than fifteen events have taken, to cut out all word seems to have gone round, Chief is said to have replied, expectation of further German and apparently Hongkong in to be You bring it and I will hang," times that number.

indemnities, just as a tradesmen given the. go by in future-whether the ikon or the bringer It was in 1922 that the petition would write off his bad debts, and until such time as someone was left to the latter's imagin was first presented to the House it is interesting to find now hopefully ventures to give us that this is apparently the view of another trial, and chance. Several

More Poems. of Commons by Colonel John the Labour party, sa voiced by noted musicians have recently A very limited edition of Emily Ward, but it had to be sent back their leader in the Opposition, been visitig Japan and North Bronte's poems ie issued by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Obvi, China. Presumably they enquir Selwyn and Blount, at 12/6. It is to Hongkong because it did not ously the time has come for ed about the prospects of coming a new edition of delightful verse, comply with the necessary cou-Britain to take a final, clean cut a little further south, and wore delightfully bound. The poems ditions, in that it was printed decision, to declare it to the warned not to try it. To mention have a music, a vein of thought, instead of being written, and the world, and to hold by it, instead only one notable whom we might and an imagery, that are highly of continuing to dilly daily on the have been able to welcome, there individual. One could identify, signatures were not, as required fringe of events. A definite was Fritz Kreisler, whose talent with tolerable certainty, a poem on one continuous sheet. Then statement of our Government's delighted people up North in their as Emily Bronto's by the con- there was further delay caused policy would save the Empire hundreds. Now we learn that tinual glimpses of moorland by Colonel Ward's illness, and from further nerve strain, and dis- Jascha Heifetz, held by some to scenery, the heather, the snow sipate any false notions that be the greatest living violinist, is lying in the gullies. But there is also by the fact that the Hong- might still bo entertained by car shortly to be in Shanghai. We kong Government had to be contain foreign countries, suited by the Home Authorities Hongkong in Disgrace"

is in a serious position, like a

1G7.

Mr. B. B. Crawford Morgan, 81 and 86 equals 167.

Lieut-Col. B. A. Hill, 82 and equals 169.

meagre

ation.

DENIKIN'S DAGGAGE.

Here is a selection of other new soven and, sixpenny novels, and one (the last named) at five shillinge:-"Lanterns of Horn," by Mr. Evan Nepean (Lane), 8 talo of Charles II's court; "Mary of Many Lovers," by Amy J. Baker (John Loug), a story of convincing characters, but in clined

to be melodramatio: Rowena Barnes," by Conal O'Riordan (Collins), is a love story of merit, though not quite up to the author's previous afandard; Encounters," by Elizabeth Bowen (Sidgwick and Jackson), is a collection of very well-written "short stories, sme truly exquisits.

should like to hear Heifetz playing here, and to see whether he would on account of the petition not

succeed where others have failed.

was lost, and about a year ago. The Mainichi reports that a the insurance money was paid to There may or not be's more It seems, though, that he, like being sent through the medium highbrows" in the North, but the other "stars, will not rise above Russian Volunteer Fleet steamer a representative of General Deal of the former. Less than a month fact remains that, the theatres our horizon and shed his light left Vladivostok for Odesss four kin. Now another claimant bi de ago, the petition was again pre- there can be filled when the gole upon our ungrateful souls. years ago with "baggage" belong-manding the money on the TDsented to the House of Commons, attraction is a well-known musi. Perhaps something can yot be log to General Denikin. When General behalf. According in pian. In Hongkong, the exper done to alter this apparent ban on the ship called at Kobe this bag the Osaka paper, the prefectural We had all hoped to hear the refence of famous pianists and Hongkong. Otherwise we shall be gage was insured with a foraigo authorities are inquiring into the sult of the agitation very soon, and celliste has not been a happy one, convinced that we are in diegraco, company for Y350,000. The ship affair.

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