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SIR MAX PEMBERTON on

NASTY NOVELS.

PRINCE GEORGE. has been they would never daro to use bo- talking to the Book Trade fore decent women were interjected stories. They Provident Society about the novel, freely into thoir

studios (though many a Cholsen studio would quickly throw them to the gutter), and the poultry yard was a second home to them.

fiction are his debtors for the words.

Incidentally, the Prince made nome admissions. He told us that he reads dozens of novels, "many of which should have been operat- ed upon for gangrene at a point approximately two-thirds of the way through."

Or tales to tell they had none. of that romance "which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner," as Sir Philip Sidney wrote, they were "Abandon ignorant. decency all ye who enter here" might well have boon the slogan writton on their door-posts. Thoy were possessed neither of shame- nor sense.

ever

Hardy's Opinion,

are, however, some hopes felt that the new move may provide a stimulus to local Industries, but that remains to be seen. Inciden- tally, during the course of the Council discussion, one of the Chinese members suggested Ireland should be excluded from THAT WHAT IS REPRESENTS THE the list of countries to be granted CAUSE OF "WHAT BHALL BE and all who seek what la best in sought their types In Chelson proferenceal His Excellency, Fouche, however, smilingly replied that ho could not accept this proposal.

Mr. J. Kelleher arrived by the Relatively harmless as the pro-Changte yesterday to join the staff of posals appear to be, it is interest- the South China Aforning Post, ing to note that the Council was in no mood to give its consent Unofficial offhand. One of the

Absolute Licence. members declared that three days' nptico of such a drastic change in

The misfortune of these words the 100 years old policy of the

wholly true. Amongst the passengers who left is that they are Colony was totally insufficient.

by the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus to- Nothing, I am convinced, has so and, on his suggestion, the quesday wero Mr. and Mrs. H. Owen astonished the average citizen as tion was deferred for later con- Hughes, Mr. R. Sutherland, Mr. Lthe absoluto licence permitted to alderation. Like Hongkong, the Guy, Mr. J. Thayer, Mr. B. E. Fielder the novelist during the last decade. While the theatre may still he Straits Settlements have a very and Mr. J. B. Lanyon.

visited by the police for an inde- restricted list of dutiable articles,

Admitting a charge of having fail-cency: whilo American film pro- and all the duties are imposed for purely revenue purposes. It will to stop when called upon to do so ducers dance a fandango in the by a police offleer, a boatman was outer halls of adultery, the novel- thus be seen that the proposed pre-fined $20 or two weeks' imprisonment 1st boldly takes the plunge and ferences are in reality of small im- by the Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Mar-elles all authority.

me," he says in portance. They may to some ex-ine Court this morning.

effect, "and you will make my for tont affect revenue: in any case,

The lecture by the Rev. Errin C. I. tune. Stop my book because it they will complicate the situation. In all the circumstances, however Tribbeck on Ibsen's Peer Gynt, which deals with unnatural offences, and desirable it may be to stimulate was to have been given in the Sailors' the bookshops of the Continent

and Soldiers Home this evening, at will rejoice. Indeed, they British trade, the innovation scar-8.30 p.m. na been postponed in offer the volume benenth

flaming placard, 'Banned in Eng. cely seems worth while. No quen-necount of the prevalling opedemic.

land."'

It was very true-and I cannot tion of Hongkong joining in the

Raking the Ashes,

help but wonder what Hardy would Mr. P. C. Barrand will deliver n movement has yet been brought

paper on "The Ljungstrom Steam

So the garbage is cultivated | have said could he have read some forward, and it is difficult to see what advantage either this Colony Turbine" in the premises of the In-with impunity. Long-haired peo- of our latest fiction and learnt that

stitution of Engineers & Shipbuilders ple with vanishing voices tell us it had been or the Imperial Government would of Hongkong, on Thursday, April 11, that is art. Beglassed maidens of punity. As a

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Charged before the Hon. Comdr, Hole, at the Marine Court this morn ing, with having used his boat for the purpose of conveying prostitutes within the limit of the harbour, boatman was convicted and fined $60, or six weeks" imprisonment.

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The year before Thomas Hardy died I had a long talk with him about the English novel and its modern tendency.

What seemed to perplex that great writer more than anything elac was the great luck of invention among the modern school.

"When you and I began to write," he said-I was. properly proud of his comprehensiveness we had to find a beginning, a middle, and an end to our stories. Nowadays, the books I rend begin in the middle and have no end."

published with im- Sometimes I hear it urged, and we must write of "life as it la." with little justice, that women are The mirror among these sects is chiefly responsible for these out- not held up to Nature; it is held rageous screeds. Punch, it is true, down. The ashes of the nether showed us an old gentleman hand- hell are turned with lantern and ing a modern novel to his wife and with muck-rake; and everywhere anying that it was very good but there is the reeking odour that that their daughter must not read it. "Too late," said the mother, Let it be said that nobody would "she wrote it." Arek to re-establish the sickly Mr. T. G. Stokes, of the Kowloon hypocrisy of the Victoria Age, nor Canton Railway, reported to the posto revive the Richardson-Fielding

In the main, though there have lice yesterday that whilst driving his controversy of the 18th century. motor car at the Star Ferry Wharf. Our grandfathers believed in been and are unpleasant exceptions. Tacked this class of book is the work of Kowloon ut 10.30 a.m., an eight-year- fiction) that no old Chinese girl ran out from under virtue, and that if the Devil did men whose presenting of Art and the shelter of the wharf and was knocked down, receiving Injuries to not catch the inner in the last Art's necessities merely disgusta. chapter the book was evil. The They have no stories to tell, and so her face.

18th century wrangled over "Tom they go to the sewers. The police Jones," and clever Lady Mary rarely interfere with them, and the Those who have not yet seen "Palmy Montagu had to inscribe her copy booksellers tell you that they must Days," now showing at the King's "Ne Plus Ultra" before she per-sell something.

How much we and they owed to Theatre, should make a point of doing suaded her friends to read it.

so before the attraction concludes its

WOMAN

No Stories to Tell.

run. This bright and snappy film Parents, nevertheless, continued to that gifted storyteller who is gone

Yet us! produced on lavish lines, I running put their coples under the bed and Edgar Wallace, the giant among

to denounce it. until Saturday. It in extremely good parsons entertainment, showing Eddie Can Thackeray, in his preface to "Pen- tor at his best, and provides cinema- dennis," described it as the great- goers with a picture distinctly alove est picture of "a man" he had met

with. the average run.

If this were so in England, Franco, that land of just freedom Victoria literature, also had her troubles.

Flaubert and Zoln.

At the annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Branch of the Diocesan and Missionary Association, to be held in St. Andrew's Church to-morrow

One of the world's greatest Hall, Kowloon, at 9 p.m.

Thursday). Dr. M. O. Fister in gig novels, Flaubert's "Madame Bo

Illustrated by lantern views,

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a trip through Yunnan to the vary," was violently assailed by Sacred Mountain of Omi. There is no priests and puritans, and its mas-

WE HAVE TOO MANY POSERS.

By ST. VINCENT TROUBRIDGE.

idea took concrete form at a meet-century, for example, the term There will be a retiring collection in went from Paris to Normandy to atantial portion of their brains and

ing of the legislative Council last "car" was comparatively rarely aid of the funds of the V.D.M.A. week, when resolutions were employed, and seemed in danger brought forward approving the in- of vanishing from the language. position of duties giving a pre-It would no doubt have done Ho,

locutiong

poasery

Virtues in Slang. The Times, writing in praise of THE HONGKONG HOTEL | Melba's voice, recently entixed its

GARAGE.

readers a mild degree of perturba- tion by remarking. "There was more to Melba than that." This was not the first ccension in recent years on which the most august of the London dailies has admitted a slang word or phrase into its columna, showing how greatly the standards of correct speech have become relaxed since the days when Dr. Johnson described "clever" as a "low" word, and "stingy" na "low cant." It la. on the, whole, n satisfactory thing that the English language should from time to time replenish and revivify itself by drawing on the treasures of popular and unlearn- ed speech, of which sinng forma In inconsiderable portion. Contrary to earlier indications. this way a language is saved from It would appear that the Straits becoming pedantic, sterile, and Settlements, like the Federated overformat. In this way, too, fine

WE all know them, only too well Malay States, intend embarking on and valuable words are preserved

-the posers! They are the policy of Imperial Preference, in common usage which otherwise but on a very restricted scale. The would be lost. In the eighteenth charge for admission and the meeting terly author brought to trial at

open to any who wish to come. Rouen. Great pets and thinkers men and women who devote a sub-

defend, a genius

and succeeded. energy to presenting to the world a pleture of themselves which is not Later on there came the hubbub based upon reality. Once the posing about Zoln's "La Terre"-a nasty bug has bitten them, the virtues and tho At yesterday's meeting of

book, which sent an English trans- Sanitary Board. Mr. G. R. Sayerlator to prison and brought forth.qualities which they do (Chairman) declared that he regret

Men who headed the rush to pay ference to certain classes of im- had it not survived in the populated the loss of the services of Mr. T. champions of the cesspool whom count as nothing in their sight. ported goods made in Great Bri-speech of Scotland, Ireland, and N. Chau, but congratulate Mr. M. one pitied.

their taxes in advance will insist Perhaps that amazing aberration upon being regarded

as serious tain, Ireland, the British Domi- Devon. It was entirely owing to K. La on his appointment to Mr.

present at of a great intellect, "La Garconne,' poaltion. Those unlearned of nions or any Malay State under the

Chair's the Board meeting were Mr. Sayer, really started the muck-writers rivals to Bobby Jones in spite of their lamentable week-end porfor- British protection. The plan countrymen that this termi Was Hon. Mr. Harold T. Creasy (Vice-

their unbridled way: mances on the links. Women will the outcome of telegrams from the preserved in English, and thus Chairman), Dr. G. W. Pape, Mr. M. nero upon Secretary of State announcing the kept ready for the day when the K. Lo, Mr. F. G. Hall. Dr. R. A. de They began to "try it on, and cast away the fame of being ideal: Castro Basto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy were astonished by the liberty per wives and mothers to preen them- mitted to them. Words and phrases selves as tearing beauties in spite intention of the Imperial Govern invention of mechanical transport and Mr. J. II. Gelling (Secretary), ment to inaugurate a policy of

made it universal and indispens- granting preference to-products of able. Popular speech not only British Colonies and Dependencies, and expressing the hope that those preserves the resources Colonies and Dependencies whose guage, but adds to them. tariffs do not at present provide slang of a year ago either is for- gotten or is the standard English for preferential tarifs would re-

of to-day. Such useful words as view the position with a view to reciprocation of the polley of the nag, pet, fad, and fun were once only slang expressions. And four Mother Country.

When we come to look into the slang words, lunch, snob, coke, matter, however, we find that the and tram, have proved their worth they have 80 triumphantly that proposed preferences amount to very little indeed; they were des- gained a place not only in reput- cribed by the Government spokes-able English, but in foreign lan- gunges as well. Let us therefore man as "a gesture of goodwill," and it is not intended that they beware of despising slang merely as the language of those unable to should be regarded measures. The object, it was ex- speak standard English. Empha- plained, is to provide an effective tically, there is more to slang than a preference as the short tariff of that. the Colony permite. The plan is not a prelude to the introduction of a wider tariff, with preference for British goods,

as only such articles as are at present Hablo to duties are affected. The polley of the Government always has been, and still la, to keep the list of dutiable articles within the nor The following cablo at the close roweat

do-af the sugar market yesterday has Pen- parture from this line of action been received by Messrs.

troath and Co. which is now proposed.. Evon 40, there in seemingly a foar that oven in this Ifmited form there may be an unfavourable reaction on the cost of living, as montlon way made by the Government apokes- man of roadjustments which might later on be found necessary should

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Those Helens of Troy.

This latter, which one may term the Helen of Trey pose, is quite sur prisingly common. Because the mysterious forces of sex-appeal can Hometimes dispense with beauty of women go feature, numerous through life in the profound con- viction that their faces could launch a thousand ships. This conviction they maintain in the face of all opposition, even the opposition of Nature herself.

The aporting pose is prevalent, too, though perhaps more difficult to sustain than many of the others. The continued assumption of golf- ing prowess, for instance, is very apt to be met by a definito chini- lenge, while the thrustor in the club or office hunting fold also runs considerable danger of being con- fronted with a live horse and a real pack of hounds.

But it is in the field of music that posing and affectations of all kinds reach their supremo achlova- All ments. It is so dead easy. that is required is to half close the eyes, assume an expression known to the nursory as "a dying duck in a thunderstorm," and the trick in done. Add occasional exclamations of rapture, and you will pass for a musical connoisseur without the necessity for displaying any other knowledge of the difference between the saving of kings and the popping of weasels.

Does posing pay? How far do the posora decolve the world at Jargo? How far do they deceive (Continued on Page 8.)