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Wednesday, 29th January,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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THERE ARE MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1930.

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tendency amongst people who tako these matters up second-hand to overpaint the n

picture. For

THE REST WHICH DOES US ALL instance, she refers to terrible GOOD, AND ENABLES US TO DO OUR stories of children bought in WORK WELL 18 THE REST OF THE

HEART James Freeman Clarke, China, such as punishment by pouring boiling water over their

The Gazette contains trafic re- hands, and dislocating their wrists. gulations in connexion with the Theap things may be perfectly forthcoming Race Meeting. true, if isolated examples are to Wo have received from the Texaco be taken, but it fa manifestly un-Oil Company a number of very at

tractive Chiness calendars fair to imply that they are in any way representative of conditions. In China. What is more to the point, the unthinking right easily

His Excellency the Governor has reappointed Dr. E. W. Kirk to be a Member of the Midwives Board for a term of three years. 7

infer that such happenings arq typical of what occurs under the mui tear system, and in this way way vaguely link up Hongkong with atrocities of this type.",

It is a thousand pitles that re- formers who take up such ques- Artistic Chinese calendars de tions as these do not study the pleting a Chinese maiden seated problems in all their ramifications on the rocks on the bank of a stream come to hand from The before attempting to stir up public | China. Siam Line, for which opinion. It is only by probing Mesura, Thoresen and Co. are

agents. :: beneath the surface, and getting

root causes, that these evils His Excellency the Governor has, can be satisfactorily and fairly under instructions from the Secre tary of State for the Colonies, been handled. Much harm is done by pleased to recognise Senor Don

Consul General in London, as being unwittingly. In all these matters, in addition Mexican Congul-General the problema, are best left to for Hongkong. those who by first-hand knowledge

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THE GROWING LIBR - RY.

Some Thoughts on Book-Buying.

One of the oddest things I havo exactly so with regard to grocers observed about myself, one of the and haberdashers and all other vari least comprehensive and hardest eties of salefolk, and it is certain to explain, is this: I go on that my collection of neckties would buying books. This is something now rival Queen Elizabeth's array that I did not foresee, long years of gowns if I had not learned long ago, when I was trying to imagine ago never to venture into a haber- the man that I should some day be, dasher's shop except in cases of Rather, I supposed that there dire and definite need. But book- would come a time when I should shops. I have not been able to stay not only have books enough but out of. Therefore I have paid rent

should realize that I had enough, in dozens and scores of them at the and so, like a sensible person, stop rate of about five dollars per hour." buying them,

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The name of Dr. E. W. Kirk, Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of

For I think I have not a grasp Sometimes I have, fancied that Burgery, and Fellow of the Royal ing or even a collecting disposition. the keepers of bookshops aro College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, I do not accumulate typewriters or acquainted with this faible of has been added to the list of medi-hats or andirons or, indeed, any the book-buying public and cal practitionera.

thing whatever except walking, use their knowledge for the. sticks and shoes and bolks,, without increase of trade. So often regard to my actual needs, and I one meets the apparently have in fact a decided dislike for hospitable invitation "Come in and excess baggage I like to travel browse" but then when one has Right. But books I do accumulate, entered and has begun his "brows in spite of the best intentions and ing much as he dialikes the word, resolutions. I buy more books for the book buyer, meek as he is, every year than I did the year likes to think that there is some before.

difference between himself and a The time arrived long since when cow these same hospitable pro- I had quite enough for all practicalprietors have a way of standing off uses. For a good many years in the dark corners of the room have been positively embarrassed and boring his head from behind

ficulty of finding among my many to grow longer and longer as books the particular book that I am his stay lengthens. Their replies wanting. My shelves bulge... Many to his genini sallies are more and of them are packed three-deep more mournful. Their opinion The following rather amusing My third attempt to make of the issues involved are in paragraph is taken from yester catalogue has broken down and 1 that he does not know an Elzevir from a dime novel becomes In- position to take account of all the day's issue of the Canton Gazette: shall never try again.

creasingly evident, so that he -"In view of the recent mutiny in Now that all my available wall finally puts the five-dollar book factors. Slavery is indefensible, Macao, the Eighth Route General space la covered with bookcases, I back on the shelf and decides that wherever it operates, but the at- Headquarters have instructed the have taken, perforce, to piling my he will have to buy the ten-dolar temps to suppress it should be Naval Headquarters to despatch new acquisitions on the floor. I one after all, merely in self-do-

gunboats to the foregoing port for cannot find a house that will accem fence. left to balanced and well-inform-the. protection of the Chinese remodate all my books, so that I am

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. exaggerating the facts, however Gustave Ludders de Negri, Mexican by riches in the, ever-growing dif- with gimiet eyes. "Their faces sema

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SATURDAY JANUARY 18, 19 ofed people, who know of what they aldents."

talk and write.

the case.

SLAVERY.

Ten Years of Prohibition.

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obliged to live in two places at onec-the obvious result of which arrangement is that the book I am looking for is usually at the other place.

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fur more, than almost any book"

My tenderness for the book It is notified that the United

trade, however, is as nothing in Statep Rubber Company, a Corpo-

comparison with that which I have ration duly organized and existing

always felt toward poets of the under the Laws of the State of New There was a time when I found present day. In one corner of my Jersey one of the United States of much amusement in Thomas De library there is a stack of shelves Whilst no-pne would for a mo- inunching: of

The tenth anniversary of the America of 1790, Broadway, New Quincey's way of Alling a set of eight feet high by four in width the Eighteenth York, United States of America, chambers with literature and then, which contains almost nothing ment doubt the sincerity of Lady Amendment upon an almost un- has by assignment become proprie- just before he was completely snow- but contemporary poetry. Did I Simon In her campaign against suspecting people finds American Lor of. Hongkong Letters Patented in, locking the door and moving ever want those books? Why, no to some other part of the town one can possibly want thirty-two Eslavery, or deny the humanitarian public opinion apparently as little No. 17 of 1923.

to begin the process all over again. quare feet of contemporary vano, Local estate to the value of $7,3001 used to laugh at this, but now I Try to read that much of it. impulses which' inspire her in the resigned to its full implications na

it was in 1920. National stock was left by Mrs. Chol Cheung Siu sympathize.

through, and I shall venture to task she has undertaken, we enn-taking after ten years, long enough Hing, otherwise known as Rosa

Under these circumstances, why say that before you have reached not but feel that, like so many one would imagine to give any re-

even ten square foot-I mean, of Chan de Chols, who died Intestate should I continue to buy books? int Choi Bin Village, Kwangtung, on other well-meaning people, she is form, however, revolutionary, a

course, measuring the volumes June 1, 1929. Letters of admini- somewhat inclined to over-state fair trial, shows that the cleavage stration have been granted to her phrase acquisitive instinct and to side by side-you wil begin to get It is easy enough to murmur the across the backs as they stand She is rightly concern-is as sharp as ever, Senator Shephusband, Chof Yat-wal, otherwise think that thereby one has explain diminishing returns. No, I did ed over the fact that there are purd declares that Prohibition goes known as Juan Chois, of Call, Depto, ed the mystery; but if this is the not particularly want the greater del Valle, Colombia, who is tem-explanation then my collection of number of them, but here is the still millions of people in the on triumphantly, Mr. Oliver, a

member of the House of Represen-Yuen Street West.

porarily residing at No. 24, Leo books is about the only example of point: each of those many slim world living under conditions of

such a trait to be found in me, booka representa a poet, usually tatives, says that the only differ- | serfdom, and she

Walking-sticks and shoes do seem a young one, and ench once meant may count on

ence effected by ten years of Pro- It is notified that the Government to accumulate, as I have admitted, more than you are likely to Im- widespread support for nay rea-hibition that people drink in proposes to erect a public latrine at but to nothing like the same extent "gine to some writer-ah more, sonable methods which may be their homes instead of in public the north-west corner of the block that books do..

accommodating the market fronting I will admit also that I possess a of prose can mean. evolved for putting an end to hars. Another remarkable com on Tung Shing Rond on the West good many more inkwells than I For poetry, let us remember, is the system. It in doubtful, how tentary on the situation is con- and facing Aberdeen Inland Lotam ever Jikely to need, and a writer's very self-and to have. ever, whether the cause is likely tained in the fact that instead of No. 88 on the north. If any owner that my supply of tiny frogs and that self rejected, scorned, goor- rejecting motions for the repeal or occupier in the immediate vicini-ents and heng-made of glass or ed! I know how that might feel, ty of such site objevis to auch erec-earthenware-for the peopling for one of the slim volumes.on to be helped by her suggestion of the Prohibition Laws, both the tion, such objection must be sent and enlivenment of my writing those, crowded shelves bears my that people at Home should refuse Serate and the Lower House re-in writing to the Colonial Secretary desk is somewhat more than ade- own name on its title page: to purchase. tea from Ceylon so ferred the resolution's to commit so as to ranch his office not later quate. Aside from Buch things, Very often, therefore, I have long as the alleged slavery in that tees, which is nearly as whimsient than Friday, 7th February.

however, and the collection of ideas stood in booksellera' shops before and moods and sunsets and similar the rows of contemporary verse--" Colony is permitted to continue. As the recommendation of the Na-

The health bulletin of Eastern imponderables, I do not think that they used to be kept in the dinglest The inference, of course, is that tional Commission of Law Enforce-ports for the week enden Satur- I can justly be called acquisitive. parts of the shop where no one

ever ventured-wondering" slaves are employed on the tenment that the Prohibition Law be day inst, issued by the Director of There must be some other explanz-clse

tion. strengthened “if for no other ren-Medical and Sanitary Services,

whether I should add this or that plantations. Whether that is $3,

son than to give it a fair chance!" contains, the following cases, tho Some, no doubt, would attribute to my collection. The decision anl, if it be true, to what extent, Meanwhile, a new form of agita-gures in parenthesis indicating my continued purchasing of books meant little to me, but it meant. we do nát profess to know.tion is growing in strength in deaths: Plague, Baghdad 1 (1), to "pride of ownership," drawing more to the young poet. It menst Rangoon 2 (2); Cholera, Calcutta a fine distinction-which I admit-one copy more on the crediti side Obviously, however, the whole Amerien, a demand for Local Op 45 (26), Tuticorin 1 (1), Bangkok between this and the acquisitive of his next publisher's report. It ten-planting industry cannot be tion. It is argued that the law 3. Pnom Penh 1 (1); Small-pux, very well do I know the sort of year, let us say, instead of five. instinct. Here 100 'I disagree, meanton sale of six copies for the permeated with slavery, and it requiring the enforcement of Pro-Berbern 2 (1), Baghdad 1; Bombay therefore strikes us as being the hibition in the various States is an 46 (19), Chleutia 34 (20), Cochin

encroachment of personal liberty 37 (7), Karachi 4 (2), Madras 2 height of absurdity to advocate a

and upon the sovereignty of every (2), Moalmein 5 (1), Rangoon 1. boycott of Coylen tea merely be State in the Union. To the non-Canton 4 und Shanghai (2). cause it may happen that some of observance of Prohibition by a the native growers employ so-large section of the people of the called slaves. In any event, the United States is attributed the general slavery problem cannot be tendency towards laxness in obser- solved by such crude methods as ving other regulations laid down

Mr. Justice Hill, in the Divorce my rarer items simply does not oc

car to me. I have not bought them. these, methods which only tend to for the common weal. It is, in- Court, granted decree niat to for show. I am glad to have there, confuse the issue and which do deed, admitted by President | Lady Higham, of the Ritz Hotel, but not proud. «"

because Hoover's Commission considering Piccadilly, not go to the root of the question. this very subject that no clear cut audultery of her husband, Sir Not to make too much of a

Charles Frederick Higham with Ja, her latest speech on the line can be drawn between non-Miss Mary Carpenter at Wych-mystery out of this matter by set- ting down here all the explanations subject, Lady Simon says Britain observance of Prohibition and non-hanger, Shere, Surrey,

that I think are false; I shall name cannot preach to other people observance of general laws. This The suit was not defended,

the true reasons for my book buy- Mr. Bush James appeared for ing as I see and understand them. until she has cleaned up her own is a matter for very serious con- house in Hongkong and Ceylon, sideration, and if true, offers Lady Higham, and Mr. T. Buck The first of these is so whimsical and Indeed, so indefensible, now that strong support to the pleas for ill represented Sir Charles. This is not the first time that her relaxation of the law. The tre- Eton Register Office on August

The marriage took place at I look at it for the first time ladyship has brought Hongkong mendous cost of attempted enforce-20; 1925. There were no children. whether it should be

confessed. under notice, although she can ment, the many unpleasant shoot- Mr. Justice Hill, granting the Nevertheless, it is a fact that I have no personal knowledge of ing, Incidents, the frequent inter decree nisi, said that there had have bought many and many of the conditions here. She obviously national complications arising been talk about a separation books now gathering dust on my has in mind the mui-tent system, from excuse of zeal by Prohibition order. Then the, husband thought shelves simply in order to please

that he did not want a separation, or perhaps I should say, in order in regard to which her condemna- officials are sufficient to

cause but would rather have a divorce. not to grieve the booksellers. of my many a public-spirited individual "In order to bring about a divoce," For a good many years tion must necessarily be based OR to question whether the ultimate said his Lordship, "he committed bibliophilic career" I had not the henrany evidence. Not that we result makes it worth while. There an act of adultery. His wife in courage to spend anywhere from would for a moment defend the fa reason to believe, moreover, entitled to a decree. This adultery an hour to half a day in a strange system, because, whatever Its that many people who voted with appears to have been the direct bookshop and then to go forth result of the present state of the gracelessly and thanklessly as it morita, we have always contended | the Pussyfoots on the issue of com-law."

seemed to me, with nothing but A decreo nisi was pronounced.

dust on my hande and all my money that it is so closely analagous to mencing this great social experl- ment did not realise how deep

in my pocket. I had some vague slavery as to be repugnant to.

notion that the proprietors of these. would be the reaction in every British ideas. Reading some re-sphere of life and now regret their sidential election result, which is and at the very least I felt sure that places might enter a claim for rent, cent remarks which Lady Simon vote. The response to a demand generally hailed as granting a my long stay must arouse in them made on the question, some of for another plebiscite of the coun- There must have been a great which I could not bear to disap mandate for rigorous enforcement. a confident expectation of sale, which we reproduced yesterday, try would be exceedingly interest many people prepared to swallow point. It is not that I am thue we cannot get away from the iming. Such a move would prove for Frohibition in order to get Mr, gentle and considerate with the pression that there is a regrettable moro, convincing than the Pre-Hoover as President.

keepers of bookshops alone. I feel

SIR CHARLES "HIGHAM,

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book buyer who drags you off by Booksellers used to tell me, in

way that. the cont sleeve to examine his their platitudinous

(Continued on Page 9.) Intest purchase of an old Montaigne or Sir Thomas Browne, and who cannot begin to enjoy his treasures until he can fancy that someone else! wishes he had them. But never. once, I think, have I shown a book WHO WAS. even to a close friend without being naked to do so. The exhibition of COLIN CLOUT?

the of

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squarely, that I am not sure

When Colin Clout mukes his

appearance in the songs and balluds of our country's Ifterature, he comes as a shep- herd, youth who is the eme bodiment of the spirit of rural England,

"He Is the “lad of peerless meed who can run and wrestle with the best, and 'yot can foot It neatly in the dances upon the village can sing green. He can pipe, and he

In every wood his carols.

sweet were known,

At every wake his nimblé wekfeuts were shown.”.

The maidens fall enamour- ed of his handsome face and merry'smile, all save one, the one of his choice: The name of his love may be Rosalind,

or it may bo Ceetly, bul always she is 'cold as she is fair, and tortures poới Colin by her Indifference,

Spencer used, the name of Colin Clout in his "Shepherd's Calendar" and other poems, and Gay also Introduces A Pastoral Previously to both Colin Clout into his second of these authors, Sholton had written a religious satire under this title.