1939-11-25 — Page 11

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1939.

Girls and Boys' Corner

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PICTURES IN THE MIRROR

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

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Some sunnier days are this.

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13 Whist things are worth,

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That wise out fowl.

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Suggest a birthday.

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If you think of a Jack.

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20 Just an article.

21 Curta a donkey.

23 It attracts attention.

Dear Kiddies,

Last week's competition certainly

proved difficult. In the Best place, very

few of you attempted to do the puzzle. Then again, nut of the entries received only a very few were correct. Most of you did not find the first-named dog which was "Spaniel."

The prize-winners this week are:-

Robert Kingsley (aged 12), 376, Prince Edward Road, zng Floor.

Janies (Alone Road, at Finar

(aged 10), 15, Nal, Yee

There were no correct entries receiver

In the Junior section.

Coupons have been sent to Robert and Janes which I want them to bring to the "Hangkang Telegraph ofcen in Wyndham Birret. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

I want to specially comineni Anthony Catcher and Paul Vessuona for their ex- cellent work in 1ḥta competition.

THE week, kiddles, we are having a very site cross-word puzzle which 1 know you all like. When you have coin- picted the puzzle, fill in the name, age and address coupon and send your entelės th. Unele Eddie, ero "Hongkong Tele- graph". Wyndham Street. The competi-

on closes at 2 pm. on Wednesday.

Best of luck, kitkies.

Uncle Eddine

"Mirror pictures” are fun. For aimpilaity in focusing, place your subjecte as close to the mirror as possibis, It's also best to uso a small lens opening. TAKING reflection pictures, with bullin are properly shielded, in that the aid of a mirror, is an amus-direct light does not shine on the ing camera pastimo... and you can camera lon obtain meny novel effects, qulto simply.

For almplicity, place your sub jects quite clone to the mirror, as in tho picture above. Then simply focus for the distance between cam era and mirror, and shoot. Provido enough light so you cha uk ama lenn opening.

Wall mirrors are not the only ones that can be used for thesa shots, If you have a large tray with a mirror bottom, picture someone carrying it-and choose a camera angio that also Includes the sub- Juct's reflection. Too, If you happen to have in your homo a dressing- table with three mirrors, you can adjust them to plek up multiple re- flections of n subject.

If the subject le farther away from the mirror, you must make cer- tain allowances in focusing. Jusk

Hero's anchor idea for some tun. remombor that the reflection Item If you have an old mirror, with a heyond the teror. For example, it

framo resembling an old-faalstoned your subject stands two feet in front pieturo frame, uns it to create some of the mirror, the reflection is two "period portraits." For example. feet back of the allver surface. Intake up a subject in comic alda- such a caue, it fa hest focar for n point about midway between the the subject and mirror; then uns a very small lens openlag.

"Either light from amateur pot bulbs or faak bulbs can be used in taking mirror pictirea, and in some cases, daylight can be used. Float bulbs are probably best for your first mirror pictures. They are sim- pla to adjust, and can be used in inexpensivo ecardboard reflectors, in taking the pictures, be sure the

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Those suggestions are good for n rtari-now cook up some mirror. ideas of your own. That's the real fan of "doing it with mirrors"-nad it's surprislak what you actually van do,

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Jacket for “Ararat,” ́Reproduced From a Painting by James Roynolde

Peace at the Foot of Mount Ararat

Ararat, by Elgin Groseclose. New York: Armenians may yet have a land of

Carrick & Evana,

their own, For Lyle, it is enough that for the time being they may

IN a narrative of epic propor-ilve in peace.

tions, Elgin Groseclose has

Here the narrative turns to Paul presented a timely study of the Markey, and follows his vicissitudes nge-old theme of the human will in Russia, where a similar foment is to power pitted against endur- taking place. Markov, officer in ing spiritual truths. "Ararat" is the Imperial Army, has been educated an affirmation of that faith

in materialistle and selfish society; he sees everywhere nr apparent which holds that a aupreme vindication of the notion that might spiritual intelligence is in reality is right, that the will to power, the only omnipotent ruling whether of Individuals or of un force; it is a wise and deeply entire nation, la the most potent moving story of individuals who the revolution, it seems equally ap motivating force in the world. After learn that this faith alone is all-parent to him that those who fought sufficient to guarantee their sur- vival and happiness in the midst of chaos wrought by the forces

of evil unleashed in their world by human wili gone berserk.

The Ilves of the two main char- acters-Amos Lyle, an American and Paul in Armenia, missionary Markov, # Russian aristocrat furnish the basis for the novel's unfoldment of his theme. The story opens In 1895, when Amos Lyle guides

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against all that he and his kin had stood for had only succeeded in put- ting the old wine into new bottles.

Disillusioned and troubled, he de- eldes after his escape from prison to leave Russ:0.

In Armenia, his path crosses that of Amos Lyle, who is now in charge of an orphanage at Kars. The re- mainder of the book deals with the re-establishment of a community at

its trials. Barizon.

and ultimate deliverance; coincidently, the spiritual growth of Markov is unfolded. the tutelage of Lyle and Sirani Verlan, and with the inspire- the tion of his new work among thousands of children at Bartzan, he at last Ands serenity and faith.

remnant of Armenians. Under saved from the massneres which de- cimated their race, across the Turkish boundary into Russia. On the plains of Bartzan, at The foot of ML. Ararat, Lyle begins the task of mold- ing

new community. With the other groups that had escaped and settled in other parts of the dis- trict, Barizan gives promise that the

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Tribute to Professor Harper

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Studies in lionour of Georgs McLean lurper edited by Eari Leslin detegs, Princeton: Prince ton University P

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"Christabel," written by a friend of Coleridge's and probably composed under the poet's supervision and with aid and suggestions from him. Pro- Iessor De Selincourt straightens out active service in the university opposition to his daughter's marriage and in doing so puts the poet in a which he has long adorned, a more favourable light in relation to number of his colleagues, his son-in-law than we have hitherto friends, and former pupils have seen him. Another contributor has presented to him this salvaged from an obscure periodical an amusing and Instructive early Festschrift. Volumes such as

imitation of Wordsworth in wluch this are often in the nature of a the element of purody is so

so much -very-hoterogeneous miscellany, muted as scarcely to be distinguish- but the present volume has more able from the homage of a disciple. of unity and coherence than

There are studies

dies of "Solitude and most such.

Silence in the poetry of Wordsworth" (n sensitive plece of investigation by Prof. R. D. Havens); of the tragle flaw in Wordsworth's philosophy; of

conception Wordsworth's

of the aesthelle experience; of Coleridge on the sublime; of Coleridge in Germany (this losi reprinted from the London Mercury and containing soune im- portant documentary material). Other articles must be passed over in this necessarily brief review. But we cannot omit notice of Professor Spaeth's beautifully composed and warmly appreciative estimate of Pro- lessor Harper which (with a biblio- graphy of Mr. Harper's writings) forms the second and concluding of the volume, Altogether portion this seemly and serene book is worthy of the scholars who have menis relating to the two poets are banded together to produce it and of the scholar to whom It has been pre-

Since Mr. Harper is best known for bis monumenini blography of Words- worth, it was a happy iden to con- struct the book round the two figures of Wordsworth and Coleridge. With one or the other of these poets all the studles have to do save two: one on that very interesting and too much neglected figure, Helen Muria Williams, who lived in France during the Revolution, propagandised for it, and published an astonishing number of books on French affairs; and the other an Anna Seward ("the Swan of Lich@eld") and the evidences of early romantic Jaste which are afforded by her letters,

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Several liberte unpublished docu.

to Professor Harper. A presented great-grandson of Coleridge now

publishes for the first Ume Cole-sented. ridge's diary-joitings of two journeys in the Lake district, one in Words- worth's company, the other a colitary ramble, The editor, Professor Griggs, publishes an early defence of

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"Ararat" has a depth and power which assure It an abiding place in literature. Its surface narrative alone is colourful and Intense enough is greatest value lies in its vast im to make it of absorbing interest; but plications, and particularly in its thrmation of the fundamental truths

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