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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927.

THE MAN OF BELLEY.

STATUE TO AN EPICURE. .

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.

COMPULSORY ISSUE IN

"GERMANY,

PUBLISHERS COMBINE,

ENGLISH AND U. S. FIRMS.

London, Sept. 23. An important amalgamation of publishing houses has just taken and Co., of New York, and William | place, Messra. Doubleday. Page

Heinemann, Ltd., of Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., who amalgamated seven years ago. are now joined by Messrs. Doran, of New York, Heinemann, Ltd., said to a reporter Mr. C. S. Evans, a director of W.

last night:

Now that Messrs. Doran have joined us, the amalgamation re- presents the biggest and wealthiest in the world. It publishes the including John Galsworthy, Jahn works of many leading authors, Masefield, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Hugh Walpole, Arnold Bennett, and Somerset Maugham.

So far as Heinemann's is con- cerned we intend in future to do our printing and bookbinding at! now works being built at Kings- wood, Surrey,

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A void has been filled at last. Strasbourg has long had her statue of Maitre Close, who invented pate de foie gras aux traffes de Perigord. tional economies since the war is The chief problem of interna- Camembert this year set up her monument to Marie Harel, who in the great amount of unemploy vented Camembert cheese. The ment which, above all in Germany, native town

of Brillat-Savarin places industry and finance before hungered, as it seemed in vain, for enormous tasks. In consequence a statue of her greatest son.. And of a gradual improvement In the now the void in Belley has been fil situation, the number of out-of- ed at last, comments a correspon-works has, it is truc, considerably- dent to the Times.

receded from its recent figure of M. Tardieu, Minister of Public two millions. Nevertheless, the Works, unveiled at Belley on Satur- totally unemployed still aggregate day a statue of the author of "La some 800,000, and their numbers Physiologie du Gout," who was will begin to swell again as soon born there in 1756, to die in Paris s sinter sets in. Adding to in 1820. So the work of nearly these workless people all those six years (for it was just before members of their families depen- Christmas in 1921 that the idea dent upon them, we have a total was first served up to France with of from 1 1/2 to 2 million per Savarinian banquets in Paris and sons who have to-day to be sup- elsewhere) is done to u turn; and ported out of public funds. Belley, we feel sure, is satisfied. From October 1, 1927, onwards, Brillat-Savarin might be surprised an important alteration is to take

The direction of the English firm 52 to learn that his title to a statue place in the character of the un-is to be quite distinct, although its was the book that he wrote late in employment benefit. Whereas, directors are also to be directors life and did not live to see pub-hitherto, the unemployed had no of the United States firms. Tished. He was much more than an legal claim to assistance but re-

The publishing house of Heine- epicure. He Was politican,ceived it as a public welfare dole,

mann was founded in 1890 by WL1 Speck. municipal administrator, soldier, the unemployment assistance will,iam Heinemann, himself a writer,

5 Wash lightly. Juantor, musician, ringistrate at the from October onwards, be granted

8 Smack. Cour de Cassation. Ile had known of a legal right, to which, as in books, bold and decisive in policy, 13 Species of schistous clay.

a man with a remarkable flair for

12 Weird. hard times in Switzerland, in Eng- the other cases of social insurance and the chief architect of the firm's 14 Puradise. land, in America, where he shot a legislation, there will be a cor- fortunes. He died at the age of wild turkey and ate it. But all responding obligation on the part 57 in 1920.

16 Uttered, an oath, this would be forgotten if he had of employers and employed to

16 Pagan god. Few publishing houses have had 17 Endures. not written his wise and amiable provide the insurance funds. more consistent success. book about eating and drinking.

Heretofore, the major portion of The American house of Double- 20 Fly aloft. In an article contributed to the the sums requisite for unemploy day, Pager and Co., with publishing 22 Crude. Times at the centenary of Billat-ment benefit, amounting to many works on Long Island, turns out 20 Beam forth. Savarin's death, "A. B.. W." said hundreds of millions of marks more than 20,000 completely bound 29 Hawkers. of this "sober and fastidious and constituting a severe burden volumes every day.

0 Merciful. epicure" that he did not write Tram upon the German Treasury, was the point of view of the kitchen but paid out of the revenues of the of the guest-table. In England we Reich. Now, the insured will ere shyer than the Frenchs of frank- have to provide the funds them ly enjoying-arid of talking about our food. Perhaps Dr. Isaac Watts's selves, as in the case for example, of the sickness insurance. All sluggard helped in frighten our

manual workers, whether engaged fathers into reticence.

in manufacturing or in agricul- tural pursuits, are covered by the Act. Moreover, all staff-workers not earning more than 500 marks a month are obliged to insure; while those having a higher in- tome may insure voluntarily ander the Act.

English Works.

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Mr. Doubleday's career has been 31 Nautical term. quite a romance, for he has risen 34 Protended... from the malest beginnings and 36 Pertaining to the las formation. is now known as the "Napoleon of Sche publishing."

30 Scheme.

12 Small domestic utensil. Mr. George H. Doran, the head

44 Rends in pieces. of the American publishing firm 47 Hovable covers. of that name, is the United States 48 Tellers of falsehoods. partner of Messrs. Hodder and 19 Irish language. Stoughton. His firm publishes 60 Combine. general literature.

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51 Vegetable. written from the point of view of

62 Factors of a hundred. the kitchen: and, even with Mr.

53 Fog signal. George Saintsbury and Mr. Vachell

Twelve of the most beautiful 64 Abound on sen-shores. horses in England, similar to those at work, wine itself has not been

which draw the King's carriages, worthily treated for its own sake. But scattered about our general

Percentage of Wuges.

hare boen shipped from England literature there is plenty of proof

to India. They will be used in The regular contribution is to that we are not so dull to the plea be 8 per cent. of the wages ceremonial processions by the sures of the table as we pretend, salary of the insured. Employer Maharajah of Nawanagar, who is One of the best banquets in all and employed each pay one-half well known in England as "Ranji," English is to be found in a very of the contribution. The total the cricketer. "Ranji" had insist- odd place the second book uf bereft to be paid to an out-of-ed that the horses must be bright, "Paradise Regained" and all the work and his (or her) family may bay geldings of the same shade and poetic ornament which Milton has not exceed a certain maximum. as nearly as possible of the same 10 Owing to. |lavished uppo I only serves to To enjoy a claim to the benont.size.

make it clearer that in the food and the worker must have paid-con- the wines themselves he had a tributions for 26 weeks. This hearty delight. An American gives him a claim to benefit pây- writer has blamed the Puritars for ment for a like period provided the worst horrors of modern Ameri- he is capable and willing to work can cookery: but not in food and and is not himself responsible for drink alone was Milton a Puritan lasing His employment. Further, with the tastes of the Renaissance, the new Act concerning Unem- The temptation of British writers ployment Insurance makes provi- who mention food and drink is tosion for the assistance of those Joad the board too heavily. Female

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students of the life of Mr. Pick-out-of-works who, e.g., have wick have been known to protest legal claim to benefit because they that they would like the book better have been thrown out.of employ- It said less about eating and ment before the 20 weekly contri- completed. much less about brandy-and-water.butions have been This, perhaps, is

Moreover, cut-of-works may be something squeamish. It would not do for given further assistance beyond. Thackeray's Mr. Spec, who thought the 26 weeks above referred to. Finally, short-time workers may. that next to enting, good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent be granted assistance. turn of mind must like to read about In passing this Law, the Ger them; who in koyhood had the man legislature has taken a fur- Barmecide's feast by heart, and ther important step towards the discerning youth!) found the improvement of the social posi- culinary passages in Scott. histion of the working classes and in favourites. Mr. Spec would have the direction of social tranquility. liked certain things in G. P. R. The unemployed are relieved of James, and would have been very the feeling that they are in re augry with Meridith for cutting cuipt of alms; and has paid for out of his novels in middle-age so his insurance, and has fulfilled much that in youth he had written certain conditions; each has, about wine, There are breakfasts therefore, a rightful claim to the in Charles Lever that make the benefit he, receives, and, though mouth water: Peacock's parsons that benefit is smaller than the could make a dyspeptic hearty at wages he would earn, it prevents his victuals; and to come to living him and his family from falling writers, what palate is not tickled into extreme distress. On the by bare imagination of a feast other hand, the German Treasury devised by Mr. Phillips Oppenheim? is relieved of a considerable bur- For all our shyneas, we have done den inasmuch as the new scheme pretty well by food and drink as a is self-supporting. True, subject for literature. And, as condition is that there shall be no our cooking improves in choiceness great increase of thèmployment, and in variety, England too may since the present insurance con-

day produce ber Brillat-tributions are calculated to pro Savarim, to see life from the vide for 600,000 unemployed dinner-table and to see it happy. only.

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