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10 on a separate slip, and keep it before him as he experiments with the translation of text and diagram into practice of the steps.

It will be seen that the designations of positions differ from those of the ballet in the respect that the feet "toe out" at an angle of 45° to an imaginary line of advance, instead of the 90° prescribed by the classic ballet. Modifications of the simple positions, such, for instance, as anterior or posterior position of either foot, open or closed position, etc., will explain themselves readily.

The relative positions of partners are (1) closed position, (2) side position, and (3) open position. Closed position is that of the individuals facing each other, shoulders parallel, each looking over the other's left shoulder, the man's left hand holding the woman's right hand, and his right hand on her back. Side position moves the figures (holding each other practically as before), each to his left or each to his right, far enough to take each away from in front of the other. Coming toward the spectator, the couple in side position shows the width of both bodies. Open position places the man and the woman side by side, facing in the same direction, joined by his hand on her waist, or by holding hands.

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 "It costs heaps and heaps and of money, a baby, don't it?"

"Yes, heaps."

"Two shillin's?"

"Oh, more than that! "

"Yes, I s'pose they're very 'spensive. Could I have a baby, uncle?"

"Oh, yes; two."

"No, really! On my birthday?"

"Oh, don't be so silly! Babies are not dolls. Babies are alive! You don't buy them. You are given them. when you are grown up."

"Shall I have a baby when I'm growed up?"

"Oh, it all depends! And don't say 'growed up.' You've been told that before. It's 'grown up,' not 'growed up.' I don't know where you get your English from."

"When I'm growned up, then. Shall I have a baby when I'm growned up?"

"Oh, bother the child! Yes, if you're good and don't worry, and get married."

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 "What's 'married'? What mumma and puppa is?"

"Yes."

"And what Auntie Emily and Mr. Chetwyn is goin' to be?"

"Yes; don't talk so much."

"Oh! can't you have a baby 'less you're married?"

"No, certainly not."

"Oh! Will Auntie Emily have a"

"! I'll take those bricks away from you, if you don't play quietly with them. You never hear me or your father ask silly questions like that. You haven't learnt your lessons for to-morrow yet, you know."

Confound the child! I can't make out where children get their notions from, confounded little nuisances!

Let me see, what was I writing about? Oh! I know, "Tea-kettles." Yes, it ought to be rather an interesting subject, "Tea-kettles." I should think a man might write a very good article on "Tea-kettles." I must have a try at it one of these days!


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attachment of the Chinese to their parents and families is one of the most interesting features of their character, and if is interesting to watch the modes in which it developes [sic] itself amongst those who have emigrated to the Archipelago, and remain for many years, and often for life, cut off from all direct intercourse with their homes.

During the past month, some of the Streets in the business quarter of Singapore were occasionally densely crowded by Chinese. These were principally coolies from the Gambier and Pepper plantations, who bad come into town for the purpose of sending their annual letters and remittances to their families in China by the Junks which were leaving on their return voyage, These letters and monies are either entrusted to a comrade from the same part of China, who, fortunate enough to have accumulated a small competency, is about to revisit his native land; or they ave delivered to a passenger with whom the remitter may be acquainted; or, lastly, they are confided to one of those men, to be found in almost every Junk, who make it a regular business to take charge of such remittances. Such persons are designated Seu Pé Ké, and come from all the different places of any importance from which emigrants are in the habit of repairing to the Straits. The remitter entrusts his money to the agent from his own part of the country, who for his trouble, either receives a commission of 10 per cent., if the money is to be carried in specie, or is allowed to invest if in goods, the profit or loss on which is his, as he must pay over in China the exact sum that has been delivered to him. These persons frequently for years exclusively pursue this business: not the least remarkable of the thousand-and-one modes by which the ingenuity of the Chinese in making money developes itself: until they have realized sufficient to enable them to embark in more extensive pursuits.

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 being dependent on many circumstances, such as the general state of trade, or the particular fortune of individsals. In some years the aggregate amount reaches as high perhaps as 70,000 Spanish dollars, while in other years it may fall as low as 30 or 40,000 dollars. In the season which has just ended, the remittances were very small in amount, owing, in the case of the merchants and traders, to the unprofitable state of trade for some time past, and, in the case of the agricultural coolies, to the inadequate price which gambier has for many months commanded, and which has seriously affected their wages, the amount of which is dependent on the price of the product.

Many of these coolies, being unable to write, are obliged fo have recourse either to an acquaintance: if they are so fortunate as to possess one haying a tincture of letters: or to one of the public letter-writers whose stalls, like these of similar professors in many cities of Continental Europe, are to be found in the streets, with their owners ready to be the instruments of communication for those who cannot write themselves. The Chinese letter-writer's stall is a very simple affair; consisting in general of a small rude table, a little bundle of paper, a brush, some China ink, and a stool on which the operator sits. These stalls are usually placed at the side of the street, and sometimes in the public verandahs ; while, in the outskirts of the town, they may be found established under trees, or in the shadow of walls. The person who wishes to send the letter stands or squats himself upon his hams beside the writer, and states what be wants fo have written, and the letter being finished is delivered to him, while he rewards the writer with 3 to 6 cents, according to circumstances. On the occasion of the departure of two or three large Junks,


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30 There should be half a cup of potato. To this add sugar, cocoanut, and vanilla, working together until well mixed. Press one inch thick into small bread pan, and spread top with a thin layer of melted bitter chocolate or sweet chocolate. When chocolate is firm, cut in small squares.

This can be varied by using nuts or fruits instead of cocoanut.

Wash and hull strawberries, sprinkle with half a cup of confectioners' sugar, and let stand half an hour. Mash, rub through a fine sieve, add lemon juice, and stir in, a tablespoon at a time, enough more confectioners' sugar to make mixture stiff enough to shape. Make into small balls, and roll in granulated sugar, or roll out in a sheet one fourth inch thick, cut with small round cutter, and roll in sugar, or dip in melted coating chocolate.

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 not only are the whole of the professed letter-writers in full operation, but many coolies take up the trade for the time being, and assist in supplying the large demand, so that sometimes in passing along the streets in the morning, we may count as many as from forty to fifty stalls, These occasional letter-writers do not expend much on their outfit. An old packing case, or a deal board frequently supplies a table sufficient for their purpose.


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Rh Use any of the recipes for cooked or uncooked fondant, color and flavor as desired, shape in small balls, using one tablespoon of fondant for each ball. Press half of a walnut meat firmly on each side, and roll edges in granulated sugar, either plain or colored.

Maple, vanilla, or coffee flavor are good, or raspberry flavor and pink color paste may be used.

Follow recipe for Walnut Creams, using pecan nut meats in place of walnuts.


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than a hundred different chocolates may be found in the price lists of some manufacturers. Almost all of them may be duplicated at home, if care is taken to follow directions explicitly.

Regular coating chocolate must be used for dipping. It may be bitter chocolate, sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, or what is known as bitter-sweet chocolate coating, and is obtainable in ten-pound cakes. These will be sold in pieces of smaller size by dealers in confectioners' supplies.

During the melting and use of the chocolate the greatest care must be taken that the temperature is right. Full directions will be found farther on in this chapter. Before preparing the chocolate the centers must be made ready.

Chocolate creams may have centers that are hard or soft, and of many different flavors, colors,


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Rh and shapes. Fondant either cooked or uncooked, made by recipes in Chapters II and III, may be used. Directions for making centers are found on page 92. They should be small, as the chocolate coating adds to their original size.

Caramels should be cut smaller than when used without coating, as should fudge, nougatines, marshmallows, candied fruits, or fruit pastes. Nuts should be shelled, and sometimes blanched, and be perfectly dry. Dragées and other decorations for the tops of the candies should be ready for immediate use. Several kinds of centers may be made ready at one time, and then dipped one after another. A pound box can be soon filled with assorted chocolates.

The name of the center gives the name to the chocolate; thus almonds dipped in melted chocolate are called chocolate almonds; almonds dipped in fondant and then in chocolate are chocolate cream almonds.

The following suggestions for centers for assorted chocolates may be extended almost indefinitely.

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 * Almonds blanched and dipped in white fondant
 * Almond paste shaped in balls, or cut in strips or cubes
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CHAPTER XI
AFTER the Sanford-Raleigh game, the col¬ lege seemed to be slowly dying. The boys held over countless post-mortems the game, explaining to each other just how it had been lost or how it could have been won. They watched the newspapers eagerly as the sport writers an¬ nounced their choice for the so-called All American team. If Slade was on the team, the writer was conceded to “know his dope”; if Slade was n’t, the writer was a “dumbbell.” But all this pseudo¬ excitement was merely picking at the covers; there was no real heart in it. Gradually the football talk died down; freshmen ceased to write themes about Sanford’s great fighting spirit; sex and reli¬ gion once more became predominant at the “bull sessions.”

Studies, too, began to find a place in the sun. Hour examinations were coming, and most of the boys knew that they were miserably prepared. Lights were burning in fraternity houses and dormi¬ tories until late at night, and mighty little of their glow was shed on poker parties and crap games. The college had begun to study. Rh


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Rh STENDE nobis, Domine, misericordiam tuam.

HOW us Thy mercy, O Lord.

R. Et salutare tuum da nobis. R. And grant us Thy salvation.

V. Domine, exaudi orationem meam. V. O Lord, hear my prayer.

R. Et clamor meus ad te veniat. R. And let my cry come unto Thee.

V. Dominus vobiscum. V. The Lord be with you.

R. Et cum spiritu tuo. R. And with thy spirit.

Let us Pray

XAUDI nos, Domine sancte, Pater omnipotens, æterne Deus; et mittere digneris sanctum Angelum tuum de cezlis, qui custodiat, foveat, protegat, visitet, atque defendat omnes habitantes in hoc habitaculo. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

EAR us, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; and vouchsafe to send Thy holy angel from heaven, to guard, cherish, protect, visit, and defend all those that are assembled together in this house. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

From Easter to Pentecost inclusively, instead of the foregoing antiphon the following is sung, and Alleluia is added to the versicle, (Ostende nobis), and also to ts response (Et salutare).

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are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right—except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

I remember a clock of this latter type, that we had in the house when I was a boy, routing us all up at three o'clock one winter's morning. We had finished breakfast at ten minutes to four, and I got to school a little after five, and sat down on the step outside and cried, because I thought the world had come to an end; everything was so death-like!

The man who can live in the same house with one of these clocks, and not endanger his chance of heaven about once a month by standing up and telling it what he thinks of it, is either a dangerous rival to that old established firm, Job, or else he does not know enough bad language to make it worth his while to start saying anything at all.

The great dream of its life is to lure you on into trying to catch a train by it. For weeks and weeks it will keep the most perfect time. If there were any difference in


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34 *Brazil nuts, shelled
 * Brazil nuts, brown skin removed, mixed with chocolate opera fudge
 * Butterscotch wafers
 * Butterscotch wafers, with peanuts

 * Center cream, with and without nuts, and variously colored and flavored
 * Checkerberries, dipped in fondant
 * Cherries, candied, dipped in fondant
 * Chocolate caramels
 * Chocolate fudge with walnuts
 * Cocoanut, shredded
 * Cocoanut caramels
 * Coffee beans, freshly roasted
 * Coffee fondant

Dates, stuffed with salted peanuts or peanut butter
 * Dates stuffed with opera fondant

 * Fig caramels
 * Fig creams
 * Filberts, dropped three together, in a row, or clover leaf shape
 * Fondant, flavored and colored as suggested on page 92, and mixed with nuts, candied fruits, or jam.
 * Fruit cake

 * Ginger, preserved, mixed with opera fondant, bit of ginger on top of chocolate
 * Grapefruit peel, candied

 * Maple cream
 * Maple cream with walnuts
 * Maple cream with blanched almond or walnut on top of each chocolate


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 time between that clock and the sun, you would be convinced it was the sun, not the clock, that wanted seeing to. You feel that if that clock happened to get a quarter of a second fast, or the eighth of an instant slow, it would break its heart and die.

It is in this spirit of child-like faith in its integrity that, one morning, you gather your family around you in the passage, kiss your children, and afterward wipe your jammy mouth, poke your finger in the baby's eye, promise not to forget to order the coals, wave at last fond adieu with the umbrella, and depart for the railway-station.

I never have been quite able to decide, myself, which is the more irritating to run two miles at the top of your speed, and then to find, when you reach the station, that you are three-quarters of an hour too early; or to stroll along leisurely the whole way, and dawdle about outside the booking-office, talking to some local idiot, and then to swagger carelessly on to the platform, just in time to see the train go out!

As for the other class of clocks—the common or always-wrong clocks—they are harmless enough. You wind them up at the proper intervals, and once or twice a week you put them right and "regulate" them, as you call it (and you might just as well try to "regulate" a London tom-cat). But you do all this, not from any selfish motives, but from a sense of duty to the clock itself.


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Rh *Maraschino cherries dipped in fondant
 * Marshmallow caramels
 * Marshmallows
 * Mint jelly

 * Nabisco wafers cut in pieces
 * Nougatines

 * Opera fudge, all flavors
 * Orange peel, candied
 * Oyster crackers

 * Peanuts, roasted, dropped in bunches of three or four
 * Peanut brittle
 * Peanut butter cream
 * Peanut butter fudge
 * Pecan nut meats, whole
 * Pecans dipped in coffee fondant
 * Pecans dipped in maple cream, whole pecan on top
 * Peppermints
 * Pineapple, dried canned fruit, or candied pineapple, dipped in cherry-flavored fondant. Bit of pineapple on top of chocolate

 * Raisins, large, seeded, dipped in fondant or stuffed with fondant flavored with vanilla
 * Raspberry jam mixed with opera fondant, bit of candied rose petal on top

 * Turkish delight

 * Vanilla caramels

 * Walnut meats
 * Walnut meats dipped whole in maple cream, whole walnut on top
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 You want to feel that, whatever may happen, you have done the right thing by it, and that no blame can attach to you.

So far as looking to it for any return is concerned, that you never dream of doing, and consequently you are not disappointed. You ask what the time is, and the girl replies:

"Well, the clock in the dining-room says a quarter past two."

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 as a curious circumstance, that the clock was only forty minutes past four, hours ago, you mildly admire its energies and resources, and wonder how it does it.

I myself possess a clock that for complicated unconventionality and light-hearted independence, could, I should think, give points to anything yet discovered in the chronometrical line. As a mere time-piece, it leaves much to be desired; but, considered as a self-acting conundrum, it is full of interest and variety.

I heard of a man once who had a clock that he used to say was of no good to any one except himself, because he was the only man who understood it. He said it was an excellent clock, and one that you could thoroughly depend upon; but you wanted to know it—to have studied its system. An outsider might be easily misled by it.

"For instance," he would say, "when it strikes fifteen, and the hands point to twenty minutes past eleven, I know it is a quarter to eight."

His acquaintanceship with that clock must certainly have given him an advantage over the cursory observer!

But the great charm about my clock is its reliable uncertainty. It works on no method whatever; it is a pure emotionalist. One day it will be quite frolicsome, and gain three hours in the course of the morning, and think nothing of it; and the next day it will wish it were dead, and be hardly able to drag itself along, and lose two hours out of every four, and stop altogether in the afternoon, too miserable to do anything; and then, getting cheerful once more toward evening, will start off again of its own accord.

I do not care to talk much about this clock; because when I tell the simple truth concerning it, people think I am exaggerating.


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Rh amounted to bids all that day and the night before. Several times groups of fraternity men got into a room, closed the door, and then talked to him until he was almost literally dizzy. He was wise enough not to make any promises. His invariable an^ swer was: “I don’t know yet. I won’t know until Saturday night.”

Carl was having similar experiences, but neither of them had been talked to by Nu Deltas. The president of the chapter, Merle Douglas, had said to Hugh in passing, “We’ve got our eye on you, Carver,” and that was all that had been said. Carl did not have even that much consolation. But he was n’t so much interested in Nu Delta as Hugh was; Kappa Zeta or Alpha Sigma would do as well. Both of these fraternities were making violent ef¬ forts to get Hugh, but they were paying only polite attention to Carl.

On Friday night Hugh was given some advice that he had good reason to remember in later years. At the moment it did not interest him a great deal. He had gone to the Delta Sigma Delta house, not because he had the slightest interest in that fra¬ ternity but because the Nu Deltas had not urged him to remain with them. The Delta Sigma Deltas welcomed him enthusiastically and turned him over to their president, Malcolm Graham, a tall, serious senior with sandy hair and quiet brown eyes.


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36 Other suggestions may be found in the following pages.

The centers should be kept in the room in which they are to be used, that they may be neither too warm nor too cold. When a sufficient supply of centers is ready, the chocolate may be prepared.

Sweetened, unsweetened, or milk coating chocolate should be used (see page 4), and it is not wise to start with less than one pound. More than that is desirable even for a small amount of candy, as it keeps at the right consistency for dipping for a longer time, and that which is not used at once can be melted and used later. Some authorities say that never less than five pounds should be melted at one time.

The room in which the dipping is to be done should be free from steam and of an even temperature of about 65° to 75° F. On a hot or a rainy day, chocolate dipping should not be attempted at home.

Break chocolate in pieces, and put into a double boiler or saucepan over hot water. The two pans should fit closely, that the steam may not escape. Set both pans over the fire until water boils in the lower pan. Remove from fire, and stir until


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140 suit-case, and was off with a final, “Good-by, Hug! old boy,” sounding behind him.

Hugh settled back into a chair. He had half a hour to wait.

“A sophomore. … Gosh !”


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 It is very discouraging to find, when you are straining every nerve to tell the truth, that people do not believe you, and fancy that you are exaggerating. It makes you feel inclined to go and exaggerate on purpose, just to show them the difference. I know I often feel tempted to do so myself: it is my early training that saves me.

We should always be very careful never to give way to exaggeration; it is a habit that grows upon one.

And it is such a vulgar habit, too. In the old times, when poets and dry-goods salesmen were the only people who exaggerated, there was something clever and distingué about a reputation for "a tendency to over, rather than to under-estimate the mere bald facts." But everybody exaggerates nowadays. The art of exaggeration is no longer regarded as an "extra" in the modern bill of education; it is an essential requirement, held to be most needful for the battle of life.

The whole world exaggerates. It exaggerates everything, from the yearly number of bicycles sold, to the yearly number of heathens converted—into the hope of Salvation and more whisky. Exaggeration is the basis of our trade, the fallow-field of our art and literature, the groundwork of our social life, the foundation of our political existence. As schoolboys, we exaggerate our fights and our marks and our fathers' debts. As men, we exaggerate our wares, we exaggerate our feelings, we exaggerate our incomes—except to the tax-collector, and to him we exaggerate our "outgoings,"—we exaggerate our virtues; we even exaggerate our vices, and, being in reality the mildest of men, pretend we are dare-devil scamps.

We have sunk so low now that we try to act our exaggerations, and to live up to our lies. We call it "keeping


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 my ear to the earth, I find new voices added and that is how I know that the day is not far distant."

"And can nothing be done to make the day come sooner?"

"Of course. There are many, many people who do not know yet how good it is for other people and how bad their lives are; who work like beasts and never ask why their honest labor brings a starvation wage. These poor blind people must be shown the truth, and this is not at all easy, because the poor are so tired from the day's work that they can hardly think; and the rich do everything not to awaken questions in the minds of the workers. That is why they punish every one who asks, 'Why?' You have already learned from your own experience, little Paul."

"Then I must continue asking questions?"

"Yes, little Paul, but do not ask the rich, they will not answer you because if they did they would have to say, 'The world is such a bad place for poor people because we, the rich, are greedy, selfish, vile,' and no person likes to say that about himself. But go to the poor people, ask them, 'Why do you eat dry bread tho you work hard, while the idle rich eat cake? Why are your children pale, thin and ill while the rich children are rosy, fat and healthy? Why does your long life of toil end in the poorhouse, whereas the lazy grafters are well taken care of in their old age, resting luxuriously from their lives of idleness?"?' [sic] Ask the poor people these questions so long and so often that they will fall on the structure of injustice like a hammer and smash it. Will you do it, little Paul?"

"Yes," replied the boy with eyes alight.

The little Dryad kissed his forehead and said earnestly, "Your life will be hard, little Paul. The rich, who are afraid of losing what they have robbed, will punish you. They will try to choke the question in your throat, they will throw you into jail, that no one may hear your voice. But you must not lose courage, for the question was 65


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Singapore:

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 up appearances"; and no more bitter phrase could, perhaps, have been invented to describe our childish folly.

If we possess a hundred pounds a year, do we not call it two? Our larder may be low and our grates be chill, but we are happy if the "world" (six acquaintances and a prying neighbour) gives us credit for one hundred and fifty. And, when we have five hundred, we talk of a thousand, and the all-important and beloved "world" (sixteen friends now, and two of them carriage-folks!) agree that we really must be spending seven hundred, or, at all events, running into debt up to that figure; but the butcher and baker, who have gone into the matter with the housemaid, know better.

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Rh felt, “and I’m very grateful, but I’m so woozy now that I don’t know what to think.”

“I don’t wonder. To tell you the truth, I am, too. I have n’t got to bed earlier than three o’clock any night this week, and right now I hardly care if we pledge anybody to-morrow night.” He continued talking as they walked slowly down the stairs. “One more bit of advice. Don’t go any¬ where else to-night. Go home to bed, and to¬ morrow think over what I ’ve told you. And,” he added, holding out his hand, “even if you don’t come our way, I hope I see a lot of you before the end of the term.”

Hugh clasped his hand. “You sure will. Thanks a lot. Good night.”

“Good night.”

Hugh did go straight to his room and tried to think, but the effort met with little success. He wanted desperately to receive a bid from Nu Delta, and if he did n’t—well, nothing else much mattered. Graham’s assertion that Nu Delta would bid him no longer brought him any comfort. Why should Graham know what Nu Delta was going to do?

Shortly after eleven Carl came in and threw him¬ self wearily into a chair. For a few minutes neither boy said anything; they stared into the fire and frowned. Finally Carl spoke.

“I can go Alpha Sig if I want,” he said softly.

Hugh looked up. “Good!” he exclaimed, hon-


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 spend; for we know, by this time, how to purchase the seeming with the seeming, how to buy the appearance of wealth with the appearance of cash. And the dear old world,—Beelzebub bless it! for it is his own child, sure enough; there is no mistaking the likeness, it has all his funny little ways,—gathers round, applauding and laughing at the lie, and sharing in the cheat, and gloating over the thought of the blow that it knows must sooner or later fall on us from the Thor-like hammer of Truth.

And all goes merry as a witches' frolic—until the grey morning dawns.

Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

To ourselves, sleeping and waking there, behind the rainbow, there is no beauty in the house; only a chill, damp mist in every room, and, over all, a haunting fear of the hour when the gilded clouds will melt away, and let us fall—somewhat heavily, no doubt—upon the hard world underneath.

But, there! of what matter is our misery, our terror? To the stranger, our home appears fair and bright. The workers in the fields below look up and envy us our abode of glory and delight! If they think it pleasant, surely we should be content. Have we not been taught to live for others and not for ourselves, and are we not acting up bravely to the teaching—in this most curious method?

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On the Leading Characteristics of the Papuan, Australian, and Malayu-Polynesian Nations, Chapter II, by, Esq., M. R. A. S. ... 1, 66, 172

An Account of the Origin and Progress of the British Colonies in the Straits of Malacca, by Lieut. Col., C. M. R. A. S. and M. A. S. C. ... 11, 106, 360

General Report on the Residency of Singapore, drawn up principally with the view of illustrating its Agricultural Statistics, by, Esq., F. R. G. S., Surveyor to Government. ... 27, 162, 134, 206

Some Account of Keddah. ... 49

The Piracy and Slave Trade of the Indian Archipelago. ... 45, 144, 400, 617, 734.

The Mixture of Human Races ... 54

The Vegetable Products of the Tenasserim Provinces, by, Esq. ... 55

Tiger Fight at Solo, by, Esq. ... 75

Reply to the Remarks on the "Essay on Coral Reefs as the cause of Fever &c." by, Esq., Surgeon. ... 85

Census of Singapore ... 107

Gunung Dangka, or a Paradise on ae a tale of Superstition, by, Esq. ... 119

Gambier, as a Preservative of Timber, by, Esq. ... 163


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 before was despot so blindly worshipped! Never had earthly sovereign yet such world-wide sway!

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to. To him whose eyes have opened on the nineteenth century, what nobler image can the universe produce than the figure of Falsehood in stolen robes? It is cunning and brazen and hollow-hearted, and it realises his soul's ideal, and he falls and kisses its feet, and clings to its skinny knees, swearing fealty to it for evermore!

Ah! he is a mighty monarch, bladder-bodied King Humbug! Come, let us build up temples of hewn shadows wherein we may adore him, safe from the light. Let us raise him aloft upon our Brummagem shields. Long live our coward, false-hearted chief!—fit leader for such soldiers as we! Long live the Lord-of-Lies, anointed! Long live poor King Appearances, to whom all mankind bows the knee!

But we must hold him aloft very carefully, O my brother warriors! He needs much "keeping up." He has no bones and sinews of his own, the poor old flimsy fellow! If we take our hands from him, he will fall a heap of worn-out rags, and the angry wind will whirl him away, and leave us forlorn. Oh, let us spend our lives keeping him up, and serving him, and making him great—that is, evermore puffed


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Notes on the tract of Country lying between the head of the Zimmi River and the source of the Kaundran, adjacent to the Siamese border Province of Ryout Raung, by, Esq. ... 162

A visit to the City of Chiang Chau, by the Reverend ... 169

On the Words introduced into the English from the Malay, Polynesian and Chinese languages, by, Esq. ... 182

Pulo Aur ... 191

The Origin of Laterite, by, Esq. ... 199

Indications of Copper Ore in Torres Straits ... 201

Legends of Islam, by Lieutenant Colonel, C. M. R. A. S. & M. A. S. C ... 202

Eruptions of Mount Semira, in January 1845, by ... 204

Some account of the Order of Budhist Monks or Talapoins, by ... 220, 505

Investiture of the King of Cochin-China by an Envoy of the Emperor of China in 1849 ... 232

The Trading Ports of the Indian Archipelago, by, Esq., M. R. A. S. ... 238, 380, 483, 530

The Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago, embracing enquiries into the Continental relations of the Indo-Pacific Islanders, by, Esq., F. G. S. Member of the Ethnological Society &c. ... 252

A Trip to Moar ... 348


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Solor is an island lying to the east of Flores and to the north of Timor, under which residency it is placed. The inhabitants of the coast of this island are Mahomedans in name, but they are nevertheless hard arrack drinkers, and gain their livelihood by fishing, the produce of which they exchange with the mountaineers for maise, the production of the ground, which the population cultivate for their subsistence, the soil there being of too volcanic a nature to grow rice.

These inhabitants of the shore are hardy mariners and fishers, and think nothing of approaching the whale with their little boats eight feet long, to attack the unwieldly monster and tow him to the shore. The way in which they capture him is as follows, Each morning all the boats put to sea to search for their prize. When a whale is observed, they make a signal to each other, and immediately every one is prepared for the attack. This takes place in small boats, in which 6 or 8 men with small paddles row sitting. A harpooner stands in front with his harpoon, net of the best kind, which is fastened to the beat with a rattan rope of 15 or 20 fathoms, On approaching the whale the harpooner springs on its back, and drives the harpoon, which is fastened to the boat, with all his force into the animal. The whale on feeling the harpoon, immediately darts away and dives to the bottom, and of course takes the boat with him. The crew remain swimming, until they are taken up by the other boats. The whale is soon obliged to come up, and the boat generally appears with it; the surrounding boats approach it and make a second, third and fourth heat fast to the first, in order to impede the whale by the heavy drag. Being thus hindered from making rapid progress, other boats are enabled to run alongside the sea monster and to disable him entirely. The beast is still far from dead when they already crowd upon his huge carcass cutting and chopping when the animal is really dead, he is towed in triumph to the shore, drawn up, and cut to pieces. Every one is ready, women and children assist, and it is a real holiday for them fo dispose of such a sea monster. Every one, small and great, runs with the blubber, which they speedily carry to the mountains, to barter it for maise; while they all give themselves up to unusual enjoyment.

The oil is not boiled out, but the blubber is hung up in the sun, to allow it to drop; the train oil running out of it is then caught in vessels, it is of a nauseous odour, but it is nevertheless made use of by the inhabitants. They find much ambergris floating in the sea; they also kill many sharks, dry the fins and gather birds nests, all which productions are sold to the Bugis traders for the


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 Chinese market. The payment is made in arrack, copper work, parangs and iron. The last article is wrought by them for the construction of their prahus, which they call "Kora-kora."

The village which most applies itself to the whale fishery is Lamakera on the north east part of the island of Solor, and lying within the Strait. It is the largest, most prosperous and most populous. The four other Mahomedan villages are Layayong, Andanara, Lamahala and Trong, which three last are situated on the island Andanara.


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I read before the British Association last Autumn at Birmingham a paper on the Oriental words adopted in English. and present communication is that portion of it, which with some corrections, comprises those taken from the Malay, Polynesian, and Chinese languages. Tho original paper has not been published with the exception of a few extracts in the Atheneum.

(Bamboo.) My friend Professor Wilson informs me that this word belongs to the Canarese, but it is certainly used in the western side of Sumatra, and Mr Marsden inserts it in his Dictionary as good Malay, with the orthography of Bambu. It is, however, unknown to the Malay language, except in Sumatra. The Malayan name is Buluh and the Javanese Prin͞g. Still it is more likely that the word found its way into the English, and other European languages from Sumatra, than from Canara, with which the early adventurers had very little intercourse.

(Bankshall.) The name given by Europeans to the office of the Master Attendant, or Intendant of a Port. It is most probably taken from the Malay word Ban͞gsal, a shed, an outhouse.

(Bantam fowl.) Bantam in the island of Java, correctly Bantan, was one of the first ports visited by the Dutch and English. It was, at the time, an emporium, and frequented by Chinese and Japanese junks. Here our countrymen found the small breed of fowls, with which we are now familiar, They had been imported from Japan, of which alone they are natives, but our countrymen, finding them at Bantam, proceeded at once to call them by the name, which they have ever since borne. In my time, there was not a single bantam to be found in the kingdom of Bantam.

(Bird of Paradise.) This is certainly not an Indian word, but it is meant for a translation of one. The name of the bird in the Malay is burun͞g dewata, or manuk dewata in Japanese. Burun͞g in Malay is bird, or fowl, and manuk is the same in Javanese. Dewata is Sanskrit, and is a god, or gods, the compound of course meaning "bird of the gods," no doubt on account of its beauty. The birds of paradise are natives of New Guinea, and not known in any part of the Archipelago west or north of it. The Malays and Javanese, who conducted the carrying trade of the islands on the arrival of Europeans in the East, gave these birds their own name, which bears no impress of an indigenous one. In the language of the Negroes of New Guinea, who catch and preserve these birds, they are called manbefor. A pair of birds of paradise


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 brought home by the companions of Magellan after the first voyage round. the world, and presented to Charles the 5th, were the first brought to Europe. This was in 1522.

(Camphor.) Sanskrit, Kapura. Malay, Kapur. Arabic, Kapur. The original word is probably Sanskrit. The Spaniards have had it from the Arabs, as the form of the word Alcamphora shews. We and took it from the Malays.

(Caddy.) Very probably the Melay word Kati, from the small boxes of fine tea containing one or two catties weight, or from a pound to two pounds and two-thirds.

(Catechu.) Catechu, or Terra Japonica, in Malay Kachu, Hindi Kath, the inspissated juice of the dark-coloured heart of the Acacia Catechu. To judge by its form, and sound, it seems to have been taken by us from the Malay, and not from any Hindu language.

(Cockatoo.) Malay Kakatuwah—a vice, a gripe, and also the name of the bird, no doubt referring to its powerful bill. Some of the Papuas of New Guinea, who catch these birds, and sell them to the traders, call the common cockatoo with yellow crest (the most common of the family,) Mangaras, others give the cockatoo the name of Akia. It frequently happens, indeed, that the name given by the trade prevails over the native, as in the names for the clove, the nutmeg, pepper, cubeb, camphor, bird of paradise &c.

(Compound.) A word in constant use with the English in India, meaning the yard or enclosure round a dwelling house, the quarter of a town, a village because enclosed.

(Creese.) Malay, Kris. The generic name for a dagger or poniard.

(Gamboge.) Our word is from the Malay Kamboja, the name of the country, which is the chief source of production. The Portuguese have two names for this production, Gomma rom, and Gomma gutta. The former is nearly correct, for the last part of it is evidently the Malayan name ron͞g, and the first merely the word gum. The last part of the second name is the Malay for gum, viz. gatah; so that the gum is in two languages. One of two Spanish names is the same with this last Portuguese one. The other is Gutta gambo which seems to be the Malay word Gâtah, gum, and something like one-half of the word meant for Gambodia, correctly Kamboja. The French have gomme gutte, which makes, literally translated, gum-gum!

(Gambir.) The produce of the Uncaria Gambir, long known as a masticatory to the inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago, and of late years very largely introduced into this country for dyeing and tanning.

(Godown.) In the language of the English in India, a warehouse, a store; Malay, Godun͞g, a house built of stone and mortar. This word, although very likely introduced from the Malay, belongs properly to the Telinga or Tâlugu, the language of the people known to the early European travellers and adventurers, as Gentoos.


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 (Gutta Percha.) Malay, Gatta-Parcha, the gum of the Parcha tree. I was at first disposed to think, that the last part of the word was parchah, but this word ending also im an aspirate is Persian, and by no means likely to enter into the name of an indi- genous plant, the product of which had not been an object of foreign trade.

(Japan, Japanning.) Malay, Japûn. The word used by the classic writers of Queen Anne’s time, as Swift, Pope and Gay. Johnson calis it a low word in the sense of “ blacking shoes,” but this was not the case with Pope.

 * ... The poor have the same itch
 * They change their weekly barber, weekly news
 * Prefer a new Japanner to their shoes.

The art of varnishing wood or basket-work is extensively practised in some countries of the East. These are Birma, Tonquin, China and Japan, but with hy far the greatest skill in the last. From the middle of the 16th century (1543), Europeans must have been through the trade of the Portugnese familiar with the beautiful lacquered work of Japan. That of Tonquin, inlaid with mother- of-pearl, must also have been greatly admired 3 forI find from Dampier that household furniture made in England, used to be sent to Tonquin to be lacquered. There is, at present, no necessity to send out tables, chairs, trays or standishes to Tonquin, for Japanning ig as well understood in Birmingham, as in Tonquin, and almost as well, as in Japan itself,

(Junk.} Malay, Jung, ajong. The word means a large vessel of any kind, distin Died fon a boat, or other small craft, and in this sense it was used | by Sir Thomas Herbert and other early voyagers. How Jung came to be converted into Junk, I do not know, but, most probably, English sailors, who are known not to be scrupulous about names, and pronunciation, and who are familiar with the word in the sense of old rope, and salt beef, had a share in it. The word in our language is as old as Lord Bacon.

(Loory.) Malay, Nuri, which is the generic name for parrot.

(Mango.) Sunda, Masigge. This word belongs to the lancuare of the Sundas of Java, and was probably picked up by our voyagers at Bantam, of which country the Sunda is the indigenous tongue, The other nations of Europe have taken the name apparently from the same source, and carried both name and fruit to the New World, of which the tree is not a native.

(Muck, a-muck.) Malay, amuk, The “a” which precedes it in English is not the English indefinite article, but part of the word itself and should be jomed to it. There is no such word in Malay ag muk, and still less the word written with a superfluous “ec.” Amuk (the ‘k’ at the end is mute) is the radical, and means a desperate and urious charge, or onset, either of an individual, or body of men. From this we have such derivatives asthe following, Maugamuk, to make a


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 furious charge, or assault, Mangamukkan, to charge some object furiously ; Baramuk-amukan, to charge furiously and a ; Péifgamuk one thet makes a furious charge. When the English infantry charged with the hayonet at Waterloo, a Malay might with propriety say the English ran a-muck; when the French charged over the bridge of Lodi, he might say the same thing. Marshal Lannes would be considered by a Malay as an illustrious Paugamuk and Sir Thomas Picton another. Dr Johnson says he “knows not from what derivation is made to mean to run madly, and attack all we meet.” He might, however, have discovered it, if he had read Dampier as carefully as Swift, who is said to have made his style the model of some part of his Gulliver’s travels. The Rev Mr Todd, in his edition of the Dictionary, has a long explanation of small value ruaning over nearly a whole quarto columa. His chief authority is Tavernier, whose account is full of mistakes. In one place he writes the word Mocca, and in another Moqua. He states the kris, with which the muck is run, to be poisoned, which I never heard to be the case. He says it is the Mahommedans on their return from the pilgrimage to Meeca, who run a-muck, but the natives of the Eastern isiands ran a-muck before they ever heard of the Mahommedan religion, and the unconverted natives at the present day equally run a-muck with the converted. The Rev Mr Pegg is next quoted by Mr Todd out of the Gentleman’s Magazine, and Mr Pegg charges the practice to excess in cock- fighting, and the loss of property including wife and children. When this crisis arrives, the loser, according to Mr Pegg, begins to chew aroot, what is called bang, which the Rey Gentleman takes to be the same thing as opium, and it is after that, that he runs a-muack. This is all a fable, and the great probability is that no such case, as that stated by the Rey Gentleman ever occurred, The truth is that running a~muck is the result of a sudden and violent emotion wholly unpremeditated. There is, therefore, no poisoning of dag- gers, no swallowing of opium, which instead of rousing would set the party asleep, and no eating of bang, which was unknown to the islanders at the time in which Mr Pege wrote. Moreover bang and opium are not the same thing, for the first is the produce of the common hemp-plant, and the last of the white poppy. Finally, Mr Todd quotes a note of Malone to the prose works of Dryden, in which he asserts that thesword a-muck, written ag one word, is an adverb, equivalent to “killingly,” which is even more wide of accuracy, than the account of Mr Pegg himself, and his other authority Tavernier. Warton in a note to Pope repeats the same mistake about gaming, and smoking opium, before running a-muck. Sir Walter Scott’s note in his edition of Dryden is little more than a repetition of Malone’s. He speaks of the loss by gaming, of the jntoxication with opium, and says that “ Amocco” means “to kill.” “Heis, at last, he says,” “cut down, or shot like a mad dof, which is true. Ofa very different character from the gossip of Taversier


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 and the rest, is the account given of the Amok by Dr Oxley in this Journal. I had not the advantage of having pernsed it, when I read my paper at Birmingham, or I should have quoted its intelligent and authentic statement at length. The amok appcars from it to be in many cases mere instances of monomonia, taking this mischievous form, and, when they are not so, they are traced by the writer to the true character of the Islanders. Onc fact stated in it I was not before aware of, that the amok is most frequent umong the Bugis. This is also the ease in Jaya, but then it has been ascribed there to the ill-usage of this people in a state of slavery. I should conceive that of all the Islanders it would be found the least frequent among the Javaucse. Instances of it did certainly occur during my six yeur's residence in that island, but they were by no means frequent- Amongst the Javanese of Sinyapore, it is probable that in 30 years no example has occurred. Dryden first made the word classic by using it in the third part of the Hind and Panther, the application being to Bishop Burnet.

 * "Prompt to assail, aud careless of defence
 * Tnvulnerable in_his impudence,
 * He dares the world, and eager of aname
 * Fe thrusts about and jostles into fame,
 * Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets
 * And runs an Indian muck at all he meets,”

Pope followed him in the well-known lines, which are evidently an imitation :—

 * Satire’s my weapon, but I'm too discreet
 * To run a-muck and tilt at all I meet,
 * I only wear it in a land of Heetors
 * Thieves, super-curgoes, sharpers, and directors.”

The Direcors here referred to are those of the famonrs South- Sea bubble, and the Super-cargocs probably the Agents of the East India Company.

(Ourang-Outang,) Malay, Orang-utan, literally man of the woods, or forest, hut correctly, wild man, savage, clown, rustic, As applied to any species of monkey, it isnot known to the Malays. The accent in Malay words is almost always on the last syllable lue one, or the penultimate. The naturalists have established a class of monkey under the name of the Orangs, but the propriety of the term is rather questionable, seeing that Orang means a human being, and is cquivalent to the Latin “homo.” Some of the wild races of Borneo cail the animal Mids, and the Kayan, the most numerous and civilized nation, “ Orang-tuan,” which in their language means “man of the woods” or “ wild man.” J take this word from the Vocabulary of Mr Burns, the only copious and fatisfactory one of 2 Bornean language yet given to the public. The Malays of Borneo, with whom alone our early veyagers had any communication may possibly have translated this mame in


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 their own language, and furnished it to their Enropean visitors,

(Paddy.) Malay, Padi. Rice in the husk. When husked, it takes the name of bras, and, when boiled, that of nasi, which last is also equivalent to our word bread.

(Prow.) Malay, Prau. The most general term for any kind of sailing, or rowing vessel, from a boat to a ship, but generally used for inal craft,

(Rattan.) Malay, Rotan, from the root “raut” to pare, to trim, and meaning the object that is trimmed and oc in allusion proba- bly to the process by which the rattan is peeled and prepared for use.

(Sago.) Malay, Sagu. The pith of a palm, growing in swampy lands in many islands of the Eastern Archipelago. It is the bread of the Molucca Islands, but as it comes to us is eduleorated and granulated, or prepared as flour. The process by which it is now made, it may be mentioned, was the invention of a Chinese of Malacca about 35 years ago. Nearly all that is imported is manu- factured in Singapore, the raw article being brought to that place from the Eastern coast of Samatra.* By far the most detailed and satisfactory account of it ever rendered has been given in this Journal by its editor,

(Sapan Wood.) Malay, Sapan. This red dyeing wood, the produce of Cosalpinia Suppan is chictly imported from Siam and the Philippine Islands, but there can be no doubt, but that our name is from the Malay.

(Shaddock.) This is certainly not a Malay word, but the object, the gigantic orange, nearly as large as an infant's head, is Malay. A certain Captain Shaddock traded to the East and West Indics about the time of Queen Anne, and was of the class of persons called at the time “interlopers.” This meritorious eontrabandist found the pumplenoos at Batavia, which is probably its native country, and he conveyed it to the West Indiea where it continues to be called by his name. The Javanese name means Tiger Orange, and the Malay is Kadangsa, but the worthy Captain Shaddeck, fortunately for his little fame, was most probably ignorant of Malay and Javanese.

Most of the names of places coming within the range of Malayan geographical knowledge seem to he taken from the Malay ;~as Amboyna, Ambun;—Ava, Awa;—Bantam, Bantan ;—Bencoolen, Bang kaulu ;-—-Birma, Barma;—Borneo, Brunai;~Cambodia, Kam- boja ;—Champa, Campa ;—Cochin-china, Kochi;—Japan, Japun ; —dJava, Jawa ;—Malacca, Malaka ;—Malay, Malayu;—Martaban, Maritanau;—Moluceas, Maluka ;—Pegu, Peigu ;—Siam Siyam ; —Sunda, Sunda ;—Tanasserim, Tanasiri ;—Torgquin, Tonkin. Even China, although in Persian and Arabic respectively Cin and

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 Sin, has, very probably, found its way into our language from th® Malay, China, which is in fact our own word.

Polynesian Words.

(Kangaroo.) it is very remarkable that this word supposed to be Australien, is not to be found as the name of this singular marsupial animal in any language of Australia. Cook and his companions, therefore, when they gave it this name, must have made some mistake, but of what nature cannot he conjectured. I have this on the authority of my friend Captain King, n. n., who has lived so long in Australia, and is so intimately acquainted with the country.

(Taboo.) The word, as written by Archdeacon Williams in his New Zealand Dictionary is Tapu, which he explains by the adjective “ sacred,” and the nouns “ sacred rite,” “ sanctity,” * holi- ness.” The meaning which we give it is to indicate a place under an interdict.

(Tattoo.) The word was first used by Captain Cook as taken from the Polynesian, but no such word is found to exist. The word, which the Archdeacon gives for “to Tattoo” is Ta. In the same work I find the word “Ta” te mean, among other things, “manner ov kind of,” so that the two words combined might mean manner or kind of tattooing. Cook made a few flagrant blunders in his Polynesian Vocabularies, and the wonder is he did not make more.

Although we have thus but 3, or correctly only 2 wordsborrowed from the Polynesian languages, a very different effect has been produced upon the Polynesian languages by our own tongue, In the Abbé Mosblech’s French and Oceanic Dictionary, an unquestton- able authority insuch a mutter, there are not fewer than 100 English words, from the defects of Polynesian pronunciation, of course, greatly mutilated ;—thus for sleep, we have hipa; for ox, hifa ; for wheat, potato; for paper, pepa; for penknife, penikula, A good many of the words point directly at the source, from which they have been derived, as riches, mona; angel, anela ;—scliool, kula ;—ink, inika. The ascertaincd fact of the manner in which Euglish has found its way into the languages of the Society and Sandwich Islands, is chietly valuable in reference to Malayan philology, as indicating the probable manner, iu which Sanskrit, Telinga, Arabic, und Persian have fonud their way into the Malay, and other languages of the Archipelago. They are ouly less corrupted in these, because the recipients are themselves more perfect in structure, than the Polynesian tongues, and because the foreien Eastern languages approach more ucarly the genius of Malayan pronuneiation, than that of our mother tongue to the Polynesian.

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 called Vu-e, as we might say of Wine, Burgundy, &c. The teas first brought to England were black and the produce of this district, and hence the name. It was, at first, given to the finest kinds of black, as we find from the writers of the time of Queen Anne. Thus Pope makes the fashionable heroine of the Rape of the Lock to talk of Bohea, which we now ascribe only to washerwomen

 * Where the gilt chariot never marks the way
 * Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste Bohea.

I do not know how the word Bohea came to be degraded from the highest to the lowest place, but it probably arose out of the introduction of many new varieties, recommended to use by their novelty, as the consumption of tea began to spread. The London tea-brokers have treated Bohea still worse, for of late they have expelled it altogether from their price-currents; yet they still sell it under the name of inferior Congou.

(Congou.} Is a corruption of the Chinese word Kung-fu, "labour" or "assiduity." The bulk of tea consumed in this country comes under this designation, and from this Chinese labour or assiduity the British exchequer gets yearly some £3,000,000.

(Hyson.} This is the corruption of two Chinese words Hy-san, meaning "flourishing spring." The finest tea consists, whether black or green, of the youngest leaves, and hence the name.

(Mandarin.) Obviously not a Chinese word, since the Chinese have never acquired the art of joining even two syllables together and this has three. The word is from "Mandar," in Portuguese to "command" from which to express a Chinese chief in authority the Portuguese themselves, for the word occurs in their Dictionaries, have coined the word Mandarin or Mandarim.

(Nankin.) From the city of Nanking in the province of Kangnan.

(Tea.) Chinese, Cha. Malay, Te. The first tea imported into England was brought from Holland, end then from Bantam, and not improbably both the Dutch and English obtained their earliest supplies from Java, and not direct from China. If this be so, then probably the name came to us through the Malay in which it has long existed nearly in the form, which we, the French, and the Dutch have adopted. In Chinese, the name of the plant is Cha, which has been adopted by the Portuguese and by the Oriental nations. The Malay pronounce the word, as the uneducated Irish do, and it may even be suspected, that people of fashion once did the same thing. Thus Pope makes it rhyme with obey in the following couplet of the Rape of the Lock : —

 * Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,
 * Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea.

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 year the East India Company bought two pounds and two ounces of it as a present to King Charles the II. It cost 16s a pound, and was without doubt what now we should call Junk tea, which may readily be imported at 6d the pound. This was the commodity, which was intended for the beverage of Queen Catharine, the Dutchess of Portsmouth, Lady Castlemaine, and Nell Gwynn. Since the day, in which 2 lbs and 2 ounces, were thought a fit gift for a King, our consumption has mightily increased. 100 years ago, it was 1,000,000 pounds, and last year it was lbs 48,735,971. This yielded to the Exchequer more than the whole revenue in every branch of any second-rate Kingdom in Europe.

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 out with air and nothingness—until he burst, and we along with him!

Burst one day he must, as it is in the nature of bubbles to burst, especially when they grow big. Meanwhile, he still reigns over us, and the world grows more and more a world of pretence and exaggeration and lies; and he who pretends and exaggerates and lies the most successfully, is the greatest of us all.

The world is a gingerbread fair, and we all stand outside our booths and point to the gorgeous-coloured pictures, and beat the big drum and brag. Brag! Brag! Life is one great game of brag!

"Buy my soap, O ye people, and ye will never look old, and the hair will grow again on your bald places, and ye will never be poor or unhappy again; and mine is the only true soap. Oh, beware of spurious imitations!"

"Buy my lotion, all ye that suffer from pains in the head, or the stomach, or the feet, or that have broken arms, or broken hearts, or objectionable mothers-in-law; and drink one bottle a day, and all your troubles will be ended."

"Come to my church, all ye that want to go to Heaven, and buy my penny weekly guide, and pay my pew-rates, and, pray ye, have nothing to do with my misguided brother over the road. This is the only safe way!"

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 should pole up stream two miles and walk the rest, the guns being served by the bluejackets from two boats that would be kept in line with the shore party.

All that was wanted was a body of scouts to feel the way, and I undertook to find these. There were Raja Mahmud, his two followers, and the Manila boy already spoken of, but it was hard to say where any other trustworthy Malays could be got at such short notice. Late that evening, however, Nakodah Orlong, whom I knew well, came in, and when I asked him if he would join us he at once consented, and said he could bring fourteen of his own men with him. That made us twenty, and was enough for the purpose.

We were up at 4.30 on the 7th, got all the men into boats, and made a start by 7.30, not without difficulty, however, for we were hard pressed for hands to do the poling. It was only after we had started that I learnt the intention of taking guns had been abandoned, a very unfortunate change of plan as it turned out. To attack, without guns, any work defended by Malays means a certain sacrifice of life, as we found to our cost, and took care that the mistake was never repeated. The carriage of guns and rockets through the jungle

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 means delay and hard work, but, whatever the trouble and delay, hardly any consideration will justify an attack without at least one gun.

The river journey was accomplished without incident, a landing was effected, and the party moved off. The scouts were in front, followed at an interval by half the detachment of the 10th, Captain Innes and the sailors with a rocket-tube came next, then the Sikhs and Penang Police under Mr. Plunket, and last of all the remainder of the 10th Regiment.

We began the march gaily enough, not expecting to meet with any resistance till near Pâsir Sâlak. After walking a mile or so, always close by the river-bank, we came to a large field of Indian corn. The plants were eight or ten feet high, and so thick and close that it was impossible to see more than three or four yards in any direction; the ground between the corn-stalks was planted with hill-padi, and that was a couple of feet in height.

On entering this field we opened out to cover as large a front as possible, and, when half way through the corn, passed a gigantic fig-tree growing on the edge of the river bank. On my right was Nakodah Orlong, and to the right of him one of his men called Alang; on my left was Raja Mahmud

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 the Manila boy, and the rest of the scouts. We had been walking fast, and of the rest of the force we could see and hear nothing.

We were talking and laughing (being still a long way from Pâsir Sâlak) when suddenly we came to the end of the cover, for the last few feet of the corn had been cut down. At this moment Nakodah Orlong said, "There they are," and the words were hardly out of his mouth when we were greeted by a volley from the enemy concealed behind a stockade not a dozen yards in front of us.

Nakodah Orlong fell without uttering another sound, and, the enemy maintaining a brisk fire, our position was so uncomfortable that my own inclination was unhesitatingly to get out of the way. Probably my intention was apparent, for Raja Mahmud said, "Stand fast and shoot." I was obliged to him and followed his advice, but as the Manila boy and I were the only possessors of shooting-weapons, and the enemy were hidden behind a rampart of logs and banana-stems, while we had no shelter whatever, our continued existence was due simply to their want of skill.

The absurdity of the situation was apparent, and its unpleasantness was heightened by the opening of a brisk fusilade in our rear. That decided us

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 Our Water-poet found leisure to write fourscore books, some of which occasioned diversion enough in their time, and were thought worthy to be collected in a folio volume. Mr. Wood observes, that had he had learning equal to his natural genius, which was excellent, he might have equalled, if not excelled, many who claim a great share in the temple of the muses. Upon breaking out of the rebellion, 1642, he left London, and retired to Oxford, where he was much esteemed for his facetious company; he kept a common victualling house there, and thought he did great service to the Royal cause, by writing Pasquils against the round-heads. After the garrison of Oxford surrendered, he retired to Westminster, kept a public house in Phaenix Alley near Long Acre, and continued constant in his loyalty to the King; after whose death, he set up a sign over his door, of a mourning crown, but that proving offensive, he pulled it down, and hung up his own picture*, under which were these words,

 * There's many a head stands for a sign,
 * Then gentle reader why not mine?

 * On the other side,

 * Tho' I deserve not, I desire
 * The laurel wreath, the poet's hire.

He died in the year 1654, aged 74, and was buried in the church yard of St. Paul's Covent-Garden; his nephew, a Painter at Oxford, who lived in Wood's time, informed him of this circumllance, who gave his picture to the school gallery there, where it now hangs, shewing

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 and send our party into power, and the world shall be a new place, and there shall be no sin or sorrow any more! And each free and independent voter shall have a bran-new Utopia made on purpose for him, according to his own ideas, with a good sized, extra-unpleasant Purgatory attached, to which he can send everybody he does not like. Oh, do not miss this chance!"

Oh! listen to my philosophy, it is the best and deepest. Oh! hear my songs, they are the sweetest. Oh! buy my pictures, they alone are true art. Oh! read my books, they are the finest.

Oh! I am the greatest cheesemonger, I am the greatest soldier, I am the greatest statesman, I am the greatest poet, I am the greatest showman, I am the greatest mountebank, I am the greatest editor, and I am the greatest patriot. We are the greatest nation. We are the only good people. Ours is the only true religion. Bah! how we all yell!

How we all brag and bounce, and beat the drum and shout! And nobody believes a word we utter; and the people ask one another, saying:

"How can we tell who is the greatest and the cleverest among all these shrieking braggarts?"

And they answer:

"There is none great or clever. The great and clever men are not here; there is no place for them in this pandemonium of charlatans and quacks. The men you see here are but crowing cocks. We suppose the greatest and the best of them, are they who crow the loudest and the longest; that is the only test of their merits."

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 and we stepped back under cover, and then moved to the sheltering trunk of the fig-tree. Arrived there we found that besides Nakodah Orlong (about whose fate there was no doubt, for he fell within a yard of me), Alang was the only one missing. He was the last man on the right, and, as no one had seen him, we concluded that he also had been killed. It was at once proposed that we should go back and secure the bodies, but our own people keeping up a merciless discharge in rear, and the enemy doing their best in front, we were between two fires, and thought it best to try and stop our friends at any rate from shooting us.

We shouted, but that, of course, was no use, no one could either see or hear us, and it was some minutes before we were able to let Captain Innes know of our position. In that time we realised that even a large tree offers poor shelter from a cross fire. It did not, however, take us long to decide that the side towards the enemy was the safest.

That was only the beginning of misunderstanding; twice again during the day we were placed in the same uncomfortable position, and a man kneeling behind me was shot in the back of his thigh. Once also the Sikhs made a determined attack on the men with me as we were trying to outflank the Malays,

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 and in spite of our shouts only desisted when almost within touch of us. It is true, of course, that the cover was so dense they could not see us until the last moment. They were so dispirited by this waste of effort, that they incontinently left the place and went straight home in spite of all Plunket's attempts to stop them. That was in no sense his fault, for they were not his men, and he had never seen them before the previous evening. The Penang police had retired en masse at an even earlier hour, and explained afterwards, with much force, that it was not for this kind of work that they had engaged.

The enemy's stockade was a long rampart impenetrable to bullets; it was faced by a deep and wide ditch cut at right angles to the river, with one end on the bank and the other in high jungle. The work was backed by a thick plantation of bananas, affording perfect cover, and those defending it were commanded by the Maharaja Lela in person, and his father-in-law Pandak Indut, foremost of Mr. Birch's murderers.

I am not now concerned with the details of the attack, it is sufficient to say that it did not take long to prove how serious a mistake had been made in leaving the howitzers behind. The rockets, an old pattern, were ineffective, and as they all went over the top of

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 and the longest on this little dunghill that we call our world!

Well, I was going to tell you about our clock.

It was my wife's idea, getting it, in the first instance. We had been to dinner at the Buggles's, and Buggles had just bought a clock—"picked it up in Essex," was the way he described the transaction. Buggles is always going about "picking up" things. He will stand before an old carved bedstead, weighing about three tons, and say: "Yes—pretty little thing! I picked it up in Holland;" as though he had found it by the roadside, and slipped it into his umbrella when nobody was looking!

Buggles was rather full of this clock. It was of the good old-fashioned "grandfather" type. It stood eight feet high, in a carved-oak case, and had a deep, sonorous, solemn tick, that made a pleasant accompaniment to the after-dinner chat, and seemed to fill the room with an air of homely dignity.

We discussed the clock, and Buggles said how he loved the sound of its slow, grave tick; and how, when all the house was still, and he and it were sitting up alone together, it seemed like some wise old friend talking to him, and telling him about the old days, and the old ways of thought, and the old life, and the old people.

The clock impressed my wife very much. She was very thoughtful all the way home, and, as we went upstairs to our flat, she said, "Why could not we have a clock like that?" She said it would seem like having someone in the house to take care of us all—she should fancy it was looking after baby!

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 the stockade were greeted by the jeers of the enemy. We were close enough to hear even what they said in the intervals between the firing. Experience is usually costly, and what we learnt on the 7th enabled us, a week later, to carry this and a succession of other stockades without the loss of a man.

About 1 (our force being then reduced to the officers, the men of the 10th, bluejackets, and Malay scouts) Captain Innes gave the order to charge the stockade. That was done, but without guns to clear the way it was a hopeless task. We could not get across the ditch in the face of an unseen, protected enemy, while we were entirely at their mercy. We had to retire with the loss of Captain Innes killed, both the officers of the 10th (Lieutenants Booth and Elliott) severely wounded, and other casualties. If men with weapons of precision and the knowledge to handle them had held the work, none of our party ought to have escaped. But with Malays you can take liberties; their weapons take some time to load, but they are deadly enough at a few yards distance if the men who hold them would not fire at the tree-tops. The Malay's idea is to loose off his piece as often as he can, it makes a noise and that puts heart into the man who fires, fear into the enemy.

Though we had gained nothing by rushing the

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 him to have had a quick and smart countenance. The following epitaph was written upon him,

 * Here lies the Water-poet, honest John,
 * Who row'd on the streams of Helicon;
 * Where having many rocks and dangers past,
 * He at the haven of Heaven arrived at last.

William Habington,

SON of Thomas Habington, Esq; was born at Hendlip in Worcestershire, on the 4th of November 1605, and received his education at St. Omers and Paris, where he was earnestly pressed to take upon him the habit of a Jesuit; but that sort of life not suiting with his genius, he excused himself and left them*. After his return from Paris, he was instructed by his father in history, and other useful branches of literature, and became, says Wood, a very accomplished gentleman. This author has written,

1. Poems, 1683, in 8vo. under the title of Castara: they are divided into three parts under different titles, suitable to their subject. The first, which was written when he was courting his wife, Lucia, the beautiful daughter of William Lord Powis, is introduced by a character, written in prose, of a mistress. The second are copies to her after marriage, by the character of a wife; after which is a character of a friend, before several funeral elegies. The third part consists of divine poems, some of which are paraphrases on several texts out of Job, and the book of psalms.

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 place, the enemy did not like that style of attack and retired, only we did not know it then. We were engaged in counting the cost, picking up the wounded and organising an orderly retreat, for it was late, we had some miles to go, and we expected the Malays would leave their shelter and come after us. Personally I did not know Captain Innes had been killed, I was in the centre and he was on the extreme right. My party was hampered by having to carry a wounded man, and when we got back to the middle of the field where Abbott and Plunket were waiting, Innes and the others had already been taken away. We had no surgeon, no stretchers, and the return journey was one that is not pleasant to recall.

We reached our boats at 3, and the Residency a quarter of an hour later.

For some time I was very busy trying to attend to the wounded, but then my Malay friends asked me for a boat, as they said they must go and fetch Nakodah Orlong's body, and see what had become of Alang. A British soldier was also missing. I gave the boat and they started.

About 8 P.M. they returned with Alang and the body of his chief; they had met the lad swimming down the river with his master's body.

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HE reappearance of George M. Cohan has usually the effect of making everything else in the perishable theatre seem flat and tawdry in comparison; this year, by the grace of a slight diversion from his usual path, he has managed to call a great many features of the durable theatre into question. (I use these attractive words not in Gordon Craig's precise sense; the light and the serious theatre would be an equally accurate description of the two types.) For if Mr Cohan with his material, with his background and experience, can give so much aesthetic satisfaction, can give such intense pleasure to the contemplative mind, what becomes of the theatre burdened with loftiness and torn asunder with experimentation?

I do not know of another experimental theatre for which the auspices were so favourable as they were for the Provincetown Players of this year, in a theatre directed by Kenneth Macgowan, Eugene O'Neill, and Robert Edmond Jones; and I hasten to say that their first production, of Strindberg, goes far to answer the question I have just asked. It is clear that a reverential attitude toward the stage and an inclination toward modernism in any field are not sufficient causes for the creation of a theatre; in the present case you can omit the religion and the intellectual bias—if they exist—and still feel that the directors have a specific idea of what the theatre can be and, what is even more important for the patron, a genuine talent for the theatre itself. This exists apart from Mr Jones' abilities as an artist and Mr O'Neill's capacities as a dramatist; and it has given a sense of homogeneous growth, an existence and a style. Of the play itself it was interesting to note that in it the method of expressionism seemed to have reached not so much a beginning as a fulfilment; it is certainly more in one mode, and more successful in that mode, than ; genius, however neurotic, has this capacity to outstrip and anticipate talent. And although {{sc|The Spook Sonata|| is irritating at moments and seems to wander, the actors in it definitely accepted the mood which the directors created. Mr Howlett and Miss Eames in particular profited by the occasion to do excellent work. {{nop}}

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 : Sect. 4. Incarnation of the Elemental Spirits. Polytheism.
 * Sect. 5. Possession, sorcerers, priests.
 * Sect. 6. The change which spiritualism undergoes with the progress of the race.
 * Sect. 7. The blending of religions.

II. OBJECTS OF SPIRITUAL FAITH : —
 * Sect.1. Elements, Natural Objects, Animals.

On the Spirit Worship of the Taliens, by, Esq. ... 591

Translation of the Annals of Acheen ... 598

Observations on Dr Little's Essay on Coral Reefs as the Cause of Fevers in various parts of the East, by, Esq. ... 607

Notices of Pinang ... 629, 645

The Geographical Group of Celebes ... 664, 761

Note on Maritime Malays, by, M. D. ... 687

Notice of the Betsimisaraks, a tribe of Madagascar, ... 692

Description of Malakka and our Establishment there, by. 696, 747

On Coral Reefs as a cause of Blakang Mati Fever, and of the Fevers in various parts of the East, by, Esq., Surgeon. ... 704

On the Culture of Cotton in the Straits Settlements, by, Esq. ... 720

Ceremony observed at the Court of Acheen, on the King's going to the Mosque Bait Al Rhaman, in the month of Raamlan. ... 728

A Boat Voyage from Singapore to Pinang, by, Esq. ... 753

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 When Nakodah Orlong fell, and the rest of us got away behind the great tree, this boy stayed by the dead man, and as he was right in the line of the thickest cross-fire, Alang pulled the body as close to the bank as he could, and there remained from morning till evening, making no sign, but simply declining to abandon the corpse. A man even came out from the stockade and attacked him with a kris, wounding him on the hand, but Alang beat him off. After the final charge, when our people passed close by him, it was he who saw the Malays retire, and he allowed us all to go away and leave him without giving any indication of his whereabouts.

Then, the coast being clear, unable to carry the body so great a distance, he dragged it into the river and was swimming down stream with it when the boat met him.

I went down to the boat to see Nakodah Orlong; he looked just as I had seen him last, except that his hair and clothes were drenched with water and there was a great hole in the centre of his forehead, marking, no doubt, the track of an iron bullet from a swivel-gun. Of that, however, he could never have been conscious, nor yet of the devotion of the man whose life had been in extremest peril through-

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 very thing I wanted. (He always has. I am very lucky in this respect.) It was the quaintest and most old-fashioned clock he had come across for a long while, and he enclosed photograph and full particulars; should he send it up?

From the photograph and the particulars, it seemed, as he said, the very thing, and I told him, "Yes; send it up at once."

Three days afterward, there came a knock at the door,—there had been other knocks at the door before this, of course; but I am dealing merely with the history of the clock. The girl said a couple of men were outside, and wanted to see me, and I went to them.

I found they were Pickford's carriers, and, glancing at the way-bill, I saw that it was my clock that they had brought, and I said, airily, "Oh, yes, it's quite right; bring it up!"

They said they were very sorry, but that was just the difficulty. They could not get it up.

I went down with them, and, wedged securely across the second landing of the staircase, I found a box, which I should have judged to be the original case in which Cleopatra's Needle came over.

They said that was my clock.

I brought down a chopper and a crowbar, and we sent out and collected in two extra hired ruffians, and the five of us worked away for half an hour, and got the clock out; after which the traffic up and down the staircase was resumed, much to the satisfaction of the other tenants.

We then got the clock upstairs and put it together, and I fixed it in the corner of the dining-room.

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206 Between the extremes I have mentioned lies, for once, the work of the Theatre Guild which is usually definitely one or the other. The text and the production of both seem to me to be unsuccessful, to be uncertain of direction and mood. I suspect that an English law forbidding the representation of the figure of Christ on the stage led Shaw to use Joan instead; and having Joan he gave her a political significance in the development of nationalism which would be more appropriate to the French Revolution and which hardly furthered the main, the religious and historical, interest of the play. It is easy to understand that the martyrdom of Joan is not in itself the essence of the matter; nor is it the historical criticism implied in the character which Shaw presents. The interest is in our modern relation both to the martyr and to the assassins, and that is why the Inquisitor and the bishops are presented with such eloquent justice and are endowed with such gentle wisdom. I find in this no excuse for the epilogue which is dull in the theatre. Nor do I find in the spoken words sufficient authority for Miss Lenihan's Joan. She did many things well, but even the high courage of her scene with the Bastard seemed to lack an inner fire. And it does not matter whether Joan was surrounded by angels or attended by demons, in the mediaeval sense, or was hysterical or inspired in our sense; the truth which Shaw made no effort to escape is that Joan was possessed, and therefore was able to gain possession of the souls of others. Miss Lenihan appreciated and presented beautifully the brightness of Joan and her common sense; but it is no trick to call a Dauphin "Charlie" unless you can make him a King. It was the radiating energy, the violence of a thousand hearts beating within her bosom, that Miss Lenihan failed to give to Joan; the rest was always interesting, always intelligent; it could not be moving.

The name of Mr Cohan's play is. After his superb acting—the diversion I mentioned above is that he is not acting himself, but a character with a definite leading emotion—the thing to note in it is the actual eloquence of most of the first act and the general skill—marred by the worst of Broadway—of the production. Looking over a list of other current pieces I find that the shadow Cohan has cast on them is thick and dark.

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 out a long day to guard his chief's dead body, without thought of gain or praise, only determined that none but loving hands should be laid upon the voiceless, pulseless clay he once called master.

Given a glorious sunny day and a good cause, the idea of ending existence suddenly and painlessly in the pride of life and in face of the foe has its attractions, and robs the inevitable of its sting.

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NE of the first results of 's publication of a folio of facsimiles of living art—and I expect many—will be an immediate inquiry into the reason why no such institution as the German Ganymed Press which made these astonishing prints exists in this country; and since Americans are loth to deny themselves anything and are thought to have a particular genius for facsimiles themselves, the demand will straightway follow that we facsimile the Press that so admirably facsimiles works of art.

A difficulty in the way of our doing such work—and I state it not to be pessimistic, but merely in the effort to begin at the beginning—is that something quite foreign to the present state of mind in America seems to be required for it, an infinite degree of patience upon the part of the workman; two years, I'm told, having been required for the present folio. Then, as though patience in itself were not a great deal to expect of a workman, these Germans have had to understand the language of art and the special accents not of one, but in this instance of many artists, so to render all the vagaries of touch. I know nothing of the Ganymed processes, but I know enough of the camera and reproductions in general to know that science and machines cannot interpret, and where an artistic effect is repeated by machinery a human being who knew art guided the apparatus to its end. That has been the error that has stopped us hitherto in this country that those who have guided the machines have not known art.

To me, an American, the present accomplishment seems marvellous. I have had the privilege of comparing one or two of the originals with the facsimiles and, with a bit of luck, I guessed which was which, but I must confess it was only guessing. In particular, the reproduction of Picasso's painting in tempera, Le Bain des Chevaux, amazes me. I have not seen the original for some years, but had this reproduction been passed to me in an ordinary room and, say, under glass, I should have accepted it unsuspectingly. The few among my friends who have already seen the folio have each had their own amazements. One told me he was thrown absolutely into confusion by the two Signacs, not

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 and bits of firewood, I made life in the same room with it possible, and then, being exhausted, I had my wounds dressed, and went to bed.

In the middle of the night, my wife woke me up in a great state of alarm, to say that the clock had just struck thirteen, and who did I think was going to die?

I said I did not know, but hoped it might be the next-door dog.

My wife said she had a presentiment it meant baby. There was no comforting her; she cried herself to sleep again.

During the course of the morning, I succeeded in persuading her that she must have made a mistake, and she consented to smile once more. In the afternoon the clock struck thirteen again.


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 This renewed all her fears. She was convinced now that both baby and I were doomed, and that she would be left a childless widow. I tried to treat the matter as a joke, and this only made her more wretched. She said that she could see I really felt as she did, and was only pretending to be light-hearted for her sake, and she said she would try and bear it bravely.

The person she chiefly blamed was Buggles.

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The Silong Tribe of the Mergui Archipelago, by, Esq. ... 411

A Vocabulary of the Silong Language, by, Esq. ... 411

The Karean tribes of Martaban and Tavai, by Lieutenant-Col. , C. M, R. A. S. & M. A. S. C. ... 413

The Semang and Sakai tribes of the Malay Peninsula, by Lieut-Col. . ... 424

The manners and customs of the Malays—II. Meals, by, Esq. ... 433

The Botany of Singapore, by, Esq. ... 436

The Ethnology of Eastern Asia, by, Esq. ... 441

GENERAL REVIEW : —

 * Sect. 1. Introductory remarks on the ethnological importance of the races and languages of E. Asia, the isolation of the tonie group, and its relation to the Tartarian and other harmonic languages.
 * Sect. 2. Ethnic regions of E. Asia; the races inhabiting them; and ther [sic] fundamental connection in physiological and mental character, languages and customs.

The Ethnology of South Eastern Asia, by, Esq. ... 441

 * Sect. 1. General physical characteristics of the region.
 * Sect. 2, Inner, Middle and Outer or Oceanic Divisions. Their influence on ethnic movements in different eras, The present distribution of the races inhabiting them. Influence of the region or physical and mental character and civilization. Intermixture with surrounding races.
 * Sect. 3. Ethnic boundaries of the S. E. Asian races.
 * Sect. 4. General impression of the archiaic ethnic movements in S. E. Asia.

Observations on Perak, by Lieut. Col., C. M. R. A. S. & M. A. S. C. ... 497

Ethnology of Eastern Asia and the Indo-Pacific islands, by, Esq ... 552

SPIRITUALISM : —

I. GENERAL ENQUIRIES INTO THER ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENTS AND CHANGES OF SPIRITUALISM.
 * Sect. 1. Origin of Spiritualism.
 * Sect. 2. Progress from Naturaliasm and Naturolatry (i. e, the Spiritualiam and worship of particular natural things) to Pantheism and Monetheim
 * Sect. 3. Development of Naturalism and Naturolatry,


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 cured of my absurd craze for filling the house with tomfoolery.

The next day the clock struck thirteen four times, and this cheered her up. She said that if we were all going to die, it did not so much matter. Most likely there was a fever or a plague coming, and we should all be taken together.

She was quite lighthearted over it!

After that, the clock went on and killed every friend and relation we had, and then it started on the neighbours.

It struck thirteen all day long for months, until we were sick of slaughter, and there could not have been a human being left alive for miles around.

Then it turned over a new leaf, and gave up murdering folks, and took to striking mere harmless thirty-nines and forty-ones. Its favourite number now is thirty-two, but, once a day, it strikes forty-nine. It never strikes more than forty-nine. I don't know why,—I have never been able to understand why,—but it doesn't.

It does not strike at regular intervals, but when it feels it wants to and would be better for it. Sometimes it strikes three or four times within the same hour, and at other times it will go for half-a-day without striking at all.

He is an odd old fellow!

I have thought now and then of having him "seen to," and made to keep regular hours and be respectable; but, somehow, I seem to have grown to love him as he is with his daring mockery of Time.

He certainly has not much respect for it. He seems to go out of his way almost to openly insult it. He calls half-past two thirty-eight o'clock, and in twenty minutes from then he says it is one!