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The Father of the Reformation
ERASMUS, WHO DIED 400 YEARS AGO TO-DAY TO-MORROW is the fourth
centenary of the death of Desiderius Erasmus, the famous scholar and writer who is held to be the fore- runner of the Reformation.
The quadricentenary of his death is being fittingly celebrated at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by an ex- hibition of his books,
The astonishingly produc- tive literary career of Eras- mus extended from 1495 until his death on July 12, 1536 impeded, yet seldomi entirely interrupted, by seri- ous illness.
Of his earliest publications-11` letter recommending Robert G. guin's "History of France,"
Hongkong Telegraph. tipped in at the end of the work
SATURDAY, July 11, 1986.
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the the
Japparently to fill space that would otherwise have remained blank, and some poems published
slender volume. De Casa
RASMUS WHS
restless
traveller, and he paid three. visits of some length to England, during which he came to both Oxford and Cambridge. 'He was brought over by- his pupil, the Earl of Mountjoy."in 1499, and made a number of friends, with whom he remained on terms of
intimney for the rest of their lives.
Among them were Thomas More John Fisher and John Colet. It was at Thomas More's
NOTES OF THE DAY house that he wrote "Moria En-
he a woman."
comum ("Praise of Folly"). a
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the
ESIDERIUS ERASMUS was
illegitimate son of Rogerius Gerardus and was born in his father's native town of Gouda (in Holland) in 1460.
He avas educated at St. Lobain's Church, Deventer and on the death of his father in 1484 went to school at Herto genbosch, later joining a religi- ous order in the House of St. Gregory at Steyn, being ordain-... ed a priest in 1492.
In 1505 he paid a second visit to England, where he was wel
FAMOUS BRITONS WERE HIS DISCIPLES
comed by the scholars of the land.
In the following year he went to Italy as a tutor of the two sons of Baptista. Boerio, Henry VII's physician. There he made new friendships with such ment as Aldus Manutius, the Venetian printer, who published for him a new and enlarged edition of his Adagin, entitled Chilindes Adagiorum. In Venice, Alexan- dar Stewart, the natural son of James VI of Scotland, at whose side he fell at Flodden. became his pupil and friend, and in Rome he was honoured by all the mem- bers of the papal circle. In 1509 he again came to London and stayed with his friend Thomas More.
At the time he wrote his bril- Hunt satire called Encomium Morioc, in which kinga, popes, bishops and the like, all came under his lash. He now visited Cambridge, where he finished his work on the Greek New Testament, and on Seneca and St. Jerome, and where he taught Greek and lectured on ditiuity.
RASMUS now bad a large L circle of disciples, both on the Continent and in England, who were proud to look up ta him as their muster and teacher.
In 1511 We published Vor, borum at Kerum, a text-book of rhetoric, and his New Testament appeared in 1516. Prom 1516 to 1521 he lived chjeffy ni Louv- ain, near the court, though he not infrequently journeyed to Brussels or to Basel, and in 1517
Nataliein Pueri Jysu" ("Of the There are a few opportunities Birthplace of the Child Jesus") for the exercise of civic spirit in the Bodleian has copies of the this Calony that we welcome the third and second editions re
spectively. appeztrative of another annuali report of the Kowloon Residents' Association, a boy which can
Shortly afterwards he be came secretary to Henry of look back on a warthy record of
Bergen, Bishop of Cambrai, and sixteen years' labour on behalf
in 1495 entered the College of of the community across the bar-
a woman to the British delegationsketches by Hans Holbein the Montaigu, in the University of
In promising the appointment of copy of which, with pen and ink It only needs a glance bour
Paris, where he won great fame to the International Labour Cun-younger, is now at Basel. through the summary of the sub- ference, the Government put inte
Association with John Colet,
as a scholar. He eked out his jects dealt with by the Associa-effect one of the principles luid
William Blout, Lord land. At Louvain he took an national Labour Berlin Philharmonic Orchestration during the past year to own in the Charter of the Inter-Dean of St. Paul's, and founder living by taking pupils, one of went for the last time to Eng
Organisation of St. Paul's School, led to him whom. realise the K.R.A. is doing à very The Rules governing the compositaking part in revision of some Montjoy, persunded him to visit active interest in the founding essential job of public service,tion of delegations lay down that: of the school text books. He England in 1498. At Oxford he of Hieronymus Busleiden's Col- London Again-Suite (Coates?
Issues affecting the bus and
"Each delegate may be acconi revised William Lily's "Libellus, discussed theology with John legium Trilingue, and there too panied by advisers who shall not postal services, road maintenance, exceed tva in number for each de Constructione" ("Handbook Colet and began his friendship he prepared his edition of Chris- Construction") and the with Linacre, Thomas More and tiun Fathers. About this time traffic anal street lighting. item on the agenda of the meet. on
Friendship with children's playgrounds, markets, i
ing. When questions which Bodleian Library has the only hers, but returned to Paris to he formed a
In Johan Eroben, a publisher of specially affect women are to be known copy of the first edition. his Greek studies in 1500. and a variety of other subjects
considered by the conferenzy, |
this year he brought out his Basel, and in 1521 Erasmus set- have engaged the attention of the one at least of the advisers shali i The Bodleian possesses eight Collectanes Adagiorum, which led permanently in that town
¡ mutograph letters of Erasmus, of contained extracts from Committee, with the result that
the to become Froben's general liter- Several countries make a habit | which four are shown. One was Classics and from the Fathers, ary advisor. Between 1516 and Government-with which
of sending women regularly to the written within six weeks of his Erasmus 'travelled about the 1536 Froben's press issued a re- Association always aims Labour Conference. Miss Sterndenth and is signed "Erasmus of Continent considerably, teaching markable series of the Fathers, to_cork in close co-operation,berg, of the Netherlands, Rotterdam, fram a_siekbed,”
privately and studying wherever including Jerome (1516), __Hil- Kjijlsberg, of Norway and Mis is being constantly kept in Hesselgren, of Sweden, are amour
he went.
arius (1523), Ambrose (1527). There are also in the exhibi- touch with the needs of residents the best known and most population copies of portraits, statues
Augustine (1528). and Origen of the peninsula-a part of the figures at the Conference. Great
(136), which was largely the work of Erasmus, though he had Colony which in recent years has Britain in its day, has sent some and medals of Erasmus.
distinguished women advisers, not-i
many condjutors. shown great expansion and which ably Miss Constance Smith. On | undoubtedly has a big future one occasion she sent a woman as Other Residents' Associations in full Government delegate in the person of Miss Margaret Bondfield. this Colony have come arid, gone, when she was British Minister of but
in the K.R.A. still plods an, Labour 1930. The British conscious of the fact that the Workers' Delegation regularly in- eludes a woman adviser, usually need for such a body grows more either Miss Julia Varley or Miss apparent with the passing years. Loughlin. It is interesting to see The report just issued shows that the employers of all countries that the Association has not al-are much less susceptible to female influence than either the Govern ways been able
to secure the menta or the Workers. Thus at action desired on several ques- the last Conference in 1935, there tions, but this in no wise deters were four women as full delegates, and nine women Government ad- the Committee from making ap-visers, including the picturesque propriate representations in the figure of the Begum Shah Nawaz.
Now that they're allowed, Statisties show that Singapore official quarters its record, in-adviser to the Indian Government, there'll probably be less tents than is hotter than Hongkong. At
who acted as rapporteur to the deed, has been one of consistent Committee on Women's Work'in pegging away on matters that Mines. The Workers that year affect the amenities of life on the chose no women to represent them,
and only two, one of whom was A London gossip writer states peninsula, and on more than one Miss Loughlin, to advise them, that "a new shade of orange is on occasion its persistence has even-while the Employers enlled in the tapis": Tapi-ochre, we pre tually moved the authorities to neither female representation nor adopt various proposals put for ward. It is to be hoped, there- fore, that the matters on which the Association still feels diasutis. fied will in due course receive the sympathetic consideration which
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Froben died in 1527, and two years later Erasmus moved to Freiburg to avoid the religious dissensiofis that were disturbing Basel, but he return- ed to the latter town in 1535. where he died of dysentery in the following year.
ERASMUS never left the Church of Rome, though he refused again its service and again to culist in against the Reformers, The Luthe- rans he ridiculed in his Diatribe de Libro Arbitrio, 1526, and Ulrich von 1utten In his Spongia, 1523, but the Papists equally severely in his Colloquin, published between 1516 and 1536. He was accused of indif- ference and of wavering, but it was only natural that such a hard and sure hitter should make enemies. Erasmus was a great scholar, and had vast literary acquirements.
This holing out in one is be coming a habit in Hongkong. We Be exhibition at Oxford Illustrates Persse-ive that two players have recently Dunnett.
A local amateur weather expert A lady traveller who recently stated that "typhoon green" was passed through the Colony states distinctly visible on Wednesday that the Chinese girls dress in a last. Probably due to santonin. most becoming manner.. Becoming
pretty swift.
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The gentleman who, was suffer-
Garlic is said to be good for rheumatism. Thanks! We prefer rheumatism.
៨. Overcrowding is still prevalent on the buses. We suppose that
It is said that the movement of the arms affects wrist-watches. That's why they build town clocks.
is their due. The Government loon Hospital, whilst the impend should, and doubtless does, pering opening of the new. Centraling from a serious depression on We notice that a local lady has Geive the value of an organisa British School recalls another Thursday, due to a low helt over lost an ear-ging. That's the risk tion such as the K.R.A., which, outstanding example of the cul-Yap, filled up later in the evening. of wearing heavy log-gage! with a membership of over three mination of insistent pressure hundred residents, representing with a view to the provision of all sections of the community, is a long overdue need. There are competent, by reason of its first-many other respects in which the hand knowledge, to tender advice Association has contributed to on Kowloon's communal needs. the betterment of conditions on who do not give the Association | K.R.A. has good reason to be the support which they should, proud of its past achievements and who probably seldom give a It is incumbent on ail Kowloon dome day somebody will tako the Hving organisms. We noticed one moment's thought to the labours people to give it the support it so of its officers on their behalf. But well deserves, whilst the Govern- for the Association, mainland re-ment 'should, by its actions, dis- COMMENCES JULY 20th sidents would doubtless have had play its recognition, of the value to wait much longer than they of such work as the. Association did for the provision of the Kow-is voluntarily undertaking."
SUMMER SALE But there are still many residents the peninsula. All in all, the
count!
A Kowloon resident complains of smoke from railway locomotives. That's a funnel-little way they have.
It is asserted that Hongkong
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in particular the other afternoon who was determined to bacill...
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the wide range of his intellectual Interests-sa wide, indeed, that the boust imputed to a latter-day scholar: "What I know not is not knowledge" might have been applied to Erasmus.
There may be scen
the first edition
of the New Testament in Greek, the publication of which was his most notable achievement, and with it His own Latin translation. He sure to
did
more than any scholar of hin spread
a knowledge of Greek-to put an end to the authoritative ignorance which said to pupils coming across & Greek quotation in a text: Graccum est; non legitur. By this precious book are the large volumes of his Paraphrases, in which he expounded the Gospels and the Epistles in the
unlearned that were yet not illiterate.
Edward VI. gave an order, which Elizabeth repealed, that the English translation of this work was to be kept in every parish church in Eng- land; and it is all to be seen in some of those light-houses of Christian cul- ture, from which the sea of secular. ife has never yet receded nor ever will
Viewed through the shining vells of his exquisite Latinity, he seems a combination of, say, Dr. Inge and Mr. Bernard Shaw,
Had he lived in our days he might have found a vocation In Journalism,
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