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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1939.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Address

This is all my own work

Aye

Tame

Dear Kiddies,

Judging from the large numbe. af entries received for last week's "Guy" competition, I think you must "have enjoyed it a great deal.

The prize-winners this week are Paul Naldu (aged 1111), 3. Gresson Street, Wanchal,

David G. Moulding (aged 10). 9, Humphreys 'Building.

Patricia Wood (aged 14), 24, Braga Circuit, Kowloon,

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This week, kiddies, we have un Coupons have been sent to Paul, amusing pleture of Donald Duck try- David and Patricia which I wanting to cut spaghetti. I want you to them to bring to the "Hongkong colour the pleture as gaily you Telegraph" offices Izy Wyndham enn with your paints or crayons. Fil Street. The coupons will then be in the name, age and address coupon exchanged for money prizes.

and send your entries to Uncle Eddle, Specially commended for excellent c/o "Hongkong Telegraph," Wyndham work are the following:

Street. The competition closes at 2 pm. on Wednesday.

Seniors: Ghazi Khan, Alice Lee, Laurence Becker, Penny Lee, Paul Three prizes will again be given. Vessoona, Vern Lo, John d'Een, L, S.ne for the best entry in ench nge Emile, George Saunders, Luiz M. Sousac, Joan Helson, Davy Ip.

Intermediates: Shona Melulyre,

section.

Lots of luck.

Philomena Chan, Frank Corren, S. S. Uncle

Bux, Rita Lay, Y. O. Young, Anthony Cutcher, Betty Lie, Pamela Pass, Pamela M. Padgett, George Lo.

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Hearties vs. Intellectuals

Lott eritage, by Charles Doule. London:

John Murray.

NE of characters in

Lost Heritur ters

WEEK-END SECTION

Jane Welsh Carlyle in Her Setting

Jan Welsh Carlyle, by Townsend Beud others Jane Welsh Carlyle is ob- London editors and publishers; Leigh

der, New York: Macmillan.

scured by the overshadowing Ogure Hunt, "Barry Cornwall," John Stuart of her husband. The attempts to Mill, John Sterling, Emerson, the write a dual blography have not been Darings, Geraldine Jewsbury, Richen very successful.

Mr. Scudder har devoted years of

THE casual or hasty render, leafing over the pages of

Monckton Milnes, Mazzini, Tennyson, this volume and dipping here

Thackeray, Dickens, and a host of and there. may assume that heward to the front of the stage. He in contact with the Carlyles. Here is Mr. Scudder has brought Jane for-lessor people who surrounded or came has in his hand just one more recognises that, though her art claim a pleture of the Victorian world in of those "Actionised" bio to fame in as the wife of a genius, many of its aspects. graphios which were all the she was also something of a genius mode a decade ago and which are to-day, happily, almost ex- tinct. The assumption would be based, in part, upon the short, crisp, lively paragraphs which used to be one of the hallmarks of the genre and in part upon the large number of snippets of dialogue scattered through the

pages.

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in her own right. It can be argued thought and study to his work. It is Inconspicuous man or had remained important part of Jane Carlyle's cor- that even if she had married some now a decade since he discovered an unmarried, she would have been one respondence-a discovery which gove of the most distinguished of Victorian the original impetus to write the women; nay, more, it is possible that story of her life.

she had remained in entire inde pendence she might have accomplish- ed something to make her worthy of remembrance for herself alone. That the circumstances of her marriago and the character and temperament of her husband forced her to be self- But the assumption would be in-story, Hers was too brillant n selt effncing is part of the tragedy of her correct, for the book is not fletion to be submerged, beneath

her hus bul fact. The usual apparatus of bond's personality and achievement. scholarship is not displayed, nor the. He was, indeed, very 4 to live conventional formality of the blo-with" "It to her credit that, grapher; but the story is based upon lost his love nor he hers. It is fur- despite misunderstandings, she never an exhaustive examination of the ther to be noted that visitors to the immense amount of material-lives, famous house in Cheyne Walk, Chel- memoirs, letters, diaries, reminis- sea, were for the most part as much cences-which has accumulated round i interested in the wife of the phila- the two Carlyles. It is grounded i sopher-historian ns in Carlyle himself. upon the documents not only in its her personality and wit and charm.

Hence the abundance of records of Innumerable details.

To an authentic record, then, Mr. Scudder has attempted to Impart When thoughts and ́destres are put something of the liveliness and Into Carlyle's mind or his wife's they ¦ verisimilitude And "Atmosphere" are not the inventions of Mr. Scud- which we associate with Betion. To der's fancy but are taken from this extent his technique resembles letters from Thomas to Jane or from that of the novelist. Ho does not Jane to Thomas, or from one or the probe very profoundly, and there are other 10 some third party. Very psychological aspects of the problem often

they are transferred almost of the Carlyles upon which he does verbatim from the original source to not touch at all. But if his portrait Mr. Scudder's pages; at other times lacies depth of perspective, it has a they are somewhat condensed or generous bread. Not Jane and paraphrased. But they are not in- | Thomas only, but their whole world vented. The same holds true of the are here: his relations and hers; changing scenes of the story; in Scot- Francis Jeffrey and Edward Irving; land and in London for the most part and occasionally in other places. ilere Mr. Scudder draws on the im- pressions recorded by friends and acquaintances of the Carlyles.

The Conversations of Jesus.

Keller Stamm, New York: Harper.

Why, then, the necessity to com- pose yet another account of this celebrated pair ("paly," because a

which marrative

centres

attention upon Jane must necessarily have almost equally to do with Thomas)? the old controversy stirred up more The answer need not involve us in than half a century ago by Froude's life of Cariyle, for Froude's errors a biography. Rather, the author often found in Biblical exegesis, This have been corrected by other writers undertakes to analyse the con- seeming refusal, says Dr. Stamm, was before Mr. Scudder, and he wisely versations of the Master in but to throw back into the teeth of does not reopen the dispute. Perhaps their relation to society and own religious outlook. That it in no The Pharisees the narrowness of their the sheer length of the biography by thereby to discover the vital wise represented the true spiritual David Alee Wilson was one con-

The Conversations of Jesus, by Frederick of the instance of the Canaanitish

Women who sought healing of the Master. The explanation of Jesus TERE is a book unique in apparent indifference to the woman's 1 Christology. It does not (request, of his declaration that he

Jesus as such; it is by no means depth of spiritual understanding not purport to deal with the life of was not sent but unto the lost sheep lof the house of Israel, indicate b

sideration which prompted Mr. Scud- import of his message. It deals status of the Master la proved by der undertake his book. In that only with the conversations of what immediately followed, in ten- curious, laboured, self-sacrificing

derest words he reassured the faith-

work, Thomas Carlyle is well-nigh/sus, and the Sermon on the ful mother and healed the child.

lost sight of in the immense amount Mount does not come in this

of detail which is accumulated about category; neither do those pas-

him one can scarcely see the forest anges which are better described The author is certain that truo for the trees and the leaves on the as discourses than as conversa-Christianity is far from the recitation trees. In most recent books on the tions. subject--Nefta, Cazamian's, and

as a surprise when it reached the

fof-creeds or the observance of forms. Fils discussion of the Last Supper Is In a brief foreword Dr. Stamm Instructive and inspiring. His inter- defines his own position as a re-pretation of the Incident at Caesarea gionfst, the better to make clear his Philippl, when Jesus asked and re- interpretation of the conversations, peated that highly pertinent question, He clings to the words of one of hiswhom say ye that I am?" is chal- theologicul professors, Christianity is lenging to the generally accepted The "Not what the world thought Gospel is not an argument, but of Wim concerned Jesus, but what his the soundness of this position. He had listened to his words and had The auther reaffirms intimate friends and followers, who

Goebbels' Villa In Sweden NEWS of the Nazi lenders' fortunes abroad did not come allogether German public. Rumour has whis-ligion has to do with the life of God witnessed his healing, thought of him. pered such stories for years One of -in-the-soul of man," he avers. The The author sees in the words spotten them concerns Dr. Goebbels.

religious man is he whose heart is to Peter, as to the source of his be a heart of love for God, and whose lief that Jesus was the Christ, assur Some time ago circumstantial re- | fight shines in the dark places of the ance that he accepted the title in its ports were circulating in his native earth through righteous acts and full significance. Noi that the Mas- Rhineland- that the Propaganda helpful deeds. Religion is not printer accepted it as a "claim," same- Minister had bough! n

incipally duty, but as Brother Lawrence thing he asked of God, but rather says. it is the practice of the presence that he was accepting something be- of God."

stowed by God with full knowledge : jot all its implication.

Sweden.

villa

down that society is divided into "hearties and intellectuals," and it is in such a division that the author has found the theme of his story. It is Horseback Hall, rather than Heartbreak House, upon which he concentrates; for his hero, Jerry Asterton, is

They came among those who are, ns Mr.

to the cars of the Gestapo, who were ordered to in Bernard Shaw once put it, vestigate. The source of the "lying

With this statement of faith, thei There is a challenging discussion us "Exiles from the library, the slanders was found to be Dr. Goeb- author proceeds to interpret the con- to the significance of the words that music room, and the picture heard of the investigation.

bela's mother. Nothing further was verzations of Jesus in the light of his follow as to the foundation of the own understanding. They are nr-Church, the part Peter was to play gallery found languishing

ranged in the chronological order in it and the interpretation put upon Dr. Goebbels and his wite are not usually accepted by the more eminent)il by the great religious bodies of the among the stables, miserably the only members of the family who New Testament scholars. He does world, Roman Catholle and Protest- discontented.”

have done well out of the Nazi re- not attempt to interpret the so-called ant gime. Iis brother rose suddenly miracles and parables, and such in- from obscure clerical employment to eldents are discussed only as a con- Few commentations on the con the managing directorship of a big versation was found to have dealt so versations of Jesus are more inspir- Insurance company in Duesseldorf. directly with them na to involve some ing than those which this effective

measure of interpretation.

preacher of the Word has written in An example of this type of later- this highly Interesting: volume. pretation is his illuminating discussion!

Albert F. Gilmore:

At a moment that demands great physical courage, Jerry's nerve gives way--a catastrophe that, of course, had never be fallen any other of the "hearty" Astertons since the family came: into being goodness knows how, mony hundred years ago, En- deavouring to conceal his guilt, Jerry lays up more trouble for himself; but in the end it all comes right, and the gist of the concluding chapters is: How He Makes Good and Marries the Girl of His Choico.

Despite the somewhat naive plot, in which the big moment | is the return of the lost heir, the book would be quite readable were it not that, in addition, the picture of Horseback. Hall, is utterly unconvincing. It is i fantasy of hard-riding squires who, so far as, intelligence, and sensibility are concerned, are squires of such low degree as to acem mere galloping grotes. ques. Even the beat of the bunch, Sir Gilchrist Asterion, head of the family, line a touch of the baronet of burlesque, and when he suffers bravely in silence, he is, indeed, too aristo- cratic for words. Mr. Doulo doss'much batter with the in- tellectuals, but one result of this is to deepen the impression of

Itles."

Alexandra Building unreality made by his "hear-

loudest accusations against the lenders Nepotism was one of Dr. Goebbels's of the Weimar Repubile.

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