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SATURDAY. FOB. 9.

1929,

THE NEW YEAR.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

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Owing to the Chinese New Year holidays, there will be no further issue of the Telegraph until Tues

day.

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LITERARY CRITICISM. Some Aspects Considered.

It is long since the priests of enough to show us the secret of all criticism, the "Legislators of excellence, which may exist under. Parnassus," were deprived of their now and perhaps startling forms. sublime authority, Today, even So we are driven back upon our the professional critica arp without aelves. And here there is at least Mr. Philip Jacka has resumed a diploma, and the amateur can hold one course which wo may take. Wo duty as Land Officer.

his own against them. All of us may endeavour to be sure, before we who read books are crities. All of judge the author, that we have un- us find ourselves passing some sort derstood him. Before we can 'be- of judgment on what wo read, and gin to criticiza him justly, we must exchanging ideas" with others have seized his meaning, and caught Part of the fun of reading is to talk the shades of thought or subtletica and read about reading. In of mood he sought to convoy. Mr. John Roskrugo Wood, lay-books, in periodicals and, in Sainte-Bouve was at great pains to tho ball of show how we should endeavour to ing returned to the Colony, resum-conversation of duty as Pulano Judge on the opinion is thrown backward know all that can be known about 1st Fobruary.

Rev. Father Froc, Director of Steenwei Observatory, and Mr. A. H. Rowe arrived in the Colony on the s.s. Tonkin from Haiphong.

future depends in the main en the ability of the Nanking Government to maintain peace and order and to reduce the armies so as to avold bankruptcy. It is to the credit of the National leaders that they have prevented serious warfare since as- suming power, oven in districts which only nominally owe them al leglance. Their ability to keep pence means everything for trade, and as the Government, seems anxious to maintain the integrity

Mr. Warren Swire, head of of the present foreign loans-realis

further Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, has ing the necessity for

been making a brief stay in Shang- borrowing for reconstruction pur-hai. pose there should be little fear of further international complications. One of the most reassuring features of the altuation is that new Treaties have been concluded with most of the Powers, thus removing many of the grounds for possible friction. The extrality issue has not yet been disposed of, admitted-

Owing to Chinese New Year, ly, but although Dr. C. T. Wang there will be no matinee perfor. some time ago expressed the hope mance to-morrow at 2.30 at the that the system would be abolish-Star Theatre. Other shows are as ed very soon, this is regarded usual, ruther as a sop to the extremists,

A new regulation makes Cheung there being no apparent intention Chau Island a prohibited area at the moment of pushing the whorein no wild bird of any des cription other than varmin. shall matter..

With better and more sincere re-be killed, wounded or taken, lations existing between China and the Powers, the hope is quite na tural that the New Year may wit- ness a great, revival of trade in all parts of the country. The Western nations are looking hopefully to- wards that prospect, and Hong- New Kowloon Inland Lot 1207 is the be offered for sale at kong, as a great distributing centre, to

P.W.D. offices on the 25th instant. should share in the increased pros-It has an area of about 9,108 perity that will result if present square feet and the upset price is prospects are borne out. Our $11,385. sincere hope, which we feel sure is widely shared, is that the Year of the Snakę may prove in every way propitious for China and the Chi- Beso, to whom we extend our hearty felicitations.

Home Rule for Scotland.

His Excellency the Governor has approved of the promotion of Lieutenant Maurice George Noll the rank of Captain in the to Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corpo.

It is notified that the Yuet Tung Steamship Company, Limited, will

1.and forward. The whole com-an author, so that we may ro munity in which we live vibrates cognize the fruit by the treo-so with ideas drawn somewhat out of that we may understand him. If experience and reflected somewhat we bring tact and fineness of in the overchanging, mirror of sympathy to our study of him, wo literature.

shall seo what it is that an author

Take any book which most of tried to express as distinguished us were reading not long ago, say, from what ho only partially suc "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" ceeded in expressing. We are un During the time of reading it questionably justified in praising afforded each of us an individual him as a stylist if he has perfectly and private experience; we were succeeded in transcribing, not mero alone with the author and the fact, but what Pater calls his "characters. But soon this private "sense of fact." If the author has

Bocial affair. succeeded in expressing his idea, t affair became a Scores of thousands of other perto that extent ho merits praiao; if sons in Britain and America were not, he had failed in the first es reading the same book. Each had sential. formed certain impressions of his But this merit of stylo is surely own, but these were ecou jostling not enough in determining the ex- up against the Impressions formed cellence of a book-though I know by others, till a sort of collective it is fashionable in some circles to- opinion formed in the air about us. day to insist that nothing more is

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It is from this social atmosphere, needed. "Just there," said Mr. thus perpetually modified, that Earle Welby in an English newe- fresh, now material is presented, paper recently, "is the final jest of from which novelista make snovels the critic, in his ability to refer

writer'e achievement and pacta poetry. The critical faculty a

idealTM work...to what is busy at every stage of the pro-his

work...might been cess, both in writers and in readers, his

are to think a faultless correspondence to deciding what we worth presenting, what we admire the writer's own unique sense of when wo read, and what we shall the world." If that were all the praise or deprecate. It registers critle could do, the jest would be our perception and tasto at any against him. Waltor Pater him- given moment. In the long run, self, as I have pointed out on an- this critical faculty determines the other occaalon, very nearly foll perception and taste or what we into this error. There seemed to be atruck off the Companies Recall culture of a whole age. be a moment for him when the art gister, If it fails to obtain A

of literaturo was only a question Clearly, then, wo ought not to of style, or the "Aner edge of certificate to commence business

think of it as primarily existing to words." But he pulled himself up disparage and condemn. We need sharply. "Great art," he said, not think of the critic as the "dank-"has something of the soul of haired" chatterbox of Keats, as one humanity in it," it "Ands ite of those "tinkers" to whom Ben logical, its architectural place in Jonson alludes, "that make more the great structure of human life," faults than they mend ordinarily," still less na "a malignant deity who

And that brings us to the point dwells, according to Swift, "on where our render, having mastered Nova Zembla." No doubt,, when

within two months.

An election of a J.P. to serve on the Licensing Board during the absence of Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin Is to be held at the Supreme Court on the 20th instant. Voting will last from 4 to 6 p.m.

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To-day marks the end of another Chinese year-the Year of the Dragon, as it has been known. The Year of the Snake com mencea to-morrow. Despite all the efforts that have been made to induce the Chinese to adopt the Gregorian Calendar, the

The revival of the ery of Home old method of reckoning time still Rule for Scotland, which has continues to be in favour. Old received much publicity in Home

His Excellency the Governor the top of a snowy mountain in the book before him, having sale traditions and customs die hard, papers recently, is unlikely to meet

with a wide measure of support, has, under Instructions received the critic is exercising his faculty fed himself-shall we say that and for that reason we imagine

con- from the Secretary of State for amiss, he may be any one of these the author has apart from the very aven

the Colonies, appointed Dr. W. B. things. But whatever our view of adequately expressed it will be many years yet before siderable expense that would be A, Moore, L.R.C.P., LR,C.S. (Irq), } him; we cannot escape the fact that meant, has to face a further ques- the Chinese wholly discard the involved. There is no reason to D.T.M. & H. (Lon.), to bo Deputy he is with us all the timo; he is all tion. Was this thing that the Lunar Calendar. The National suppose the North Midlothian Director of Medical and Sanitary about us. What directly concerne author meant to express worth ex-

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BRIDGE PUZIVE

BY FARYAN MATHEY.

Government may, as it has done, district, where a by-election re-Services, ordered recognition of the Western cently took place, to be in Scottish style of calculating time, and they Ulster, yet the first venture of an Inay even decree that certain out-and-out Nationalist here re- sulted in debacle, Mr. Lewis newspapers must refrain from

Spence polling only 842 votes and observing the holidays usually forfeiting his deposit money. Associated with Chinese New His experience seems to suggest Year. But that will not prevent that the time is not ripo for giving adherence to the old tradition. expression to the distinctive Scot-') The wonder is that the authorities tih spirit through a separate Parliament and a do not prohibit the printing of Scottish Chinese calendars, with a view to separate Ministry, and we suspect that it will be a blow from which preventing the masses from knoý.... ing what day of the month it fut the Devolutionists will not soon

recover. The humour of Even if they did, though, the law situation is provided by bhe would doubtless be honoured more Liberal Party, which seems to be In the breach than in the obser- developing the habit of seizing on vance. After all, there is some-partiann and remote causes in thing picturesque and attractive its fame in the land. Sir Herberi about Chinese New Year, and for Samuel, Mr. Lloyd George's chief

rival many reasons it would be a pity nalled the Scottish Home Rulers as a spokesman, recently if the celebration thereof were flag to the mast of Liberalism, but to die out, Wo

all for are

ventured the rather naive sug- modernity, and a practical outlook

geation that the latter should not on life; but we see little to be endeavour to work through their gained as yet by the scrapping of party, the Nationalists, as the Chinese Calendar. In passing, are more likely to attain, their it may be borne in mind that the end by supporting the Liberals, Jows, the Mohammodans and the pledged as they will be to promote Hindus still cling to their own a Nationalist programme. Mr Lewis Spence's appearance in the held against a Liberal candidate any the worse for it. It should Liberal sympathies. also be remembered that England admittedly, something in was very many years behind the Scottish claim. A new situation

methods of time calculation, and

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us in that our own critical faculty pressing? Was this, as an should not be carping, or over-aginative fent, worth while? Does tolerant, or above all, dulled. And it, as a work of art, autisfy our de what concerns the world is that manda for what is beautiful? This those who are most effective in mak-picture in the artist'e imagination, ing their opinions prevail should we remember, is put before us 48 something which fa to persunde us be those whose taste is just,

We cannot legislate for the world, that it is alive. We all agree that but we can legislate for ourselves. it has to "convince" us. It has to We can examine the grounds of have something of the quality of our own taste, and see if we are ordinary living, and more than Ita vividness. A work of art must be giving a fair chance to our own true in the sense that it shows one critical faculty-remembering all the time that criticism is much thing in its just relation to other more a matter of Hiking rightly, and things, as intuitively recognized.

The supreme duty of the critic approving, than of condemning; for we only condemn in the light is to put himself at the viewpoint of what we admire. It is our own of the writer; and he must possess taste that we are concerned with also the writer's instinct for ap- first of all. Perhaps I may as-preciating human life itself, which is the artist's subject-matter. sume a reader who has already ne- quired that knowledge of the That is why Ben Jonson wrote that language of literature which comes to judge of posts is only the from reading the acknowledged faculty of poets," That may not bent; that he is aware of the value he quite enough for the critic; but.. of having in his memory "lines and at least ho must not be without the expressions of the great masters,"artist's gift of Intuition. which Arnold bids us use as touch--

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No man can be a critic of art un-

stones of high quality; and that he is prepared to take the pains on-less he can put himself at that joined by Longinus, who said that viewpoint. "Every genlus is born judgment of iterature is the critic of art," said Lessing. "Be reward of much has within himself the evidence of long-delayed. Clubs are trumps and South has endeavour."

all rules." It is not surprising that among the greatest writers of the lead. North and South must

But these general counsels, salu- the world, there should be so many tary as they are, do not tell us how who were also great critics to approach this or that new book, Aristophanes, Horace, Dante, Bid-.. The Solution.

in which we may discern nothing ney, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Voltaire, in common with the classics. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Goethe,. Like the puzzle of two days ago, Models even if we were willing to Schiller, Matthew Arnold, and, in a this also requires overplaying partner's high card. Here, how accept them on authority are not lesser degree, Poe. That may Bug- ever, the purpose is not that of enough. Still less will fixed rules gest a hard battle for the crille. we do not know that they are has not, we hope, destroyed finesse but to take the lead from Unitics be acceptable, for a single him. For if one side of his work is providing a re-entry for a needed like the old laws of the throo But it may also be reassuring to. There is, your partner so he will not be plac genius who breaks them le capable exacting, it is sweetened by of upsetting them for ever. Whilst camaraderie with denes ames de the ed in a bad position.

South leads the jack of hearts, rules are repugnant to us, oven the licates.-R. A. S. J. in the Christian. rest of Europe in adopting the has been created by the grant of North plays the queen, and East guidance of excellent models is not Science Monitor.

lets the trick hold. But instead of Gregorian Calendar.

Dominion status to tho Irish Free making a heart return, North leads Leaving aside the point whether State, and in theory, there can be a trump, Now East instead of

trimmed with orange blossoms and silver beads, and she carried or not it la expedient that the no reason why Scotland should South is placed in a bad position-

bouquet of white roses and orange blossoms. She had as her brides- Chinese should change their method not enjoy the same privilege. In for the simple reason that North's practice, however, little advantage ten of hearts cannot be prevented

maids Miasca Maric Lydia. of reckoning time, the fact is that is to be derived. It is economically from taking the last trick.

Guterres and Hercla Silva, who . If East had taken the first heurt to the great bulk of the people a unsound to run a first-rate govern- lend with the ace, it would have

wore dresses of blue georgette and New Year begins to-morrow. It is ment for second-rate affairs, and been of no help to him whatever. An interesting local wedding blue silk. They carried bouquets. a your which all well-wishers hope there is nothing we can sco in He would have only been forced to took place at the Roman Catholic of tea roses and ferns.

| Scottish political programme, lend a heart from his nine-six to Cathedral this morning, the con- The bride's mother was attired' will witness marked progress in the short of soccasion, that is not in North's ton-eight, giving the latter tracting parties being Mr. Edwardo in a tan coloured dress of soft satin. affairs of the nation. The im the political scale second-rate and two tricks in the suit. But if North Loonel Van (youngest son of the Mesars. II. Rosario and Charlie mediate outlook la far more promis. that cannot be managed with had not overplayed South's open late Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Vas), of Vas were the groomsmen, ing in this regard than it has been equal ense and facility and withing lead of the jack, East would the staff of the P. and O. Bank, Subsequently a reception "was...

equal satisfaction in London. To have permitted the trick to hold, and Miss Hilda Maria Silva held at the home of the bride, St. for many Д long year. The establish a how Executive and a South's next lead would have then (second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. National Government appears to be new Parliament costs a great deal boen trumped by West's jack, with Faule da Silva). The Rev. Fr. Joseph's Building, Robinson Road,

and later the couple left for Re sitting comfortably and safely in of money, for which the value East discarding a heart, East and Rossi, anatated by other clerymen, pulso Bay, where the honeymoon is being spent. The bride's going. the saddle, with the reins of office received would seem to to greatly West easily taking three tricks, offelated.

Inadequate. Incidentally, the if the opening lead is a spade or The bride, who was given away away dress was of mauve georgette firmly gripped. Summarising the Glasgow Socialists would vegeta diamond, West trumps at once by her uncle, Mr. Richard Silva, trimmed with lace, with hat to aituation, it can be said that the ate in such changed atmosphere. Iwith the jack.

attired in a white georgette dresa, match.

LOCAL WEDDING..

MR. E. L. VAS-MISS HI, M: SILVA.

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