Admittedly the farmers have been geenyaected. by the" several the equally disastrous floods of this fraughts of the previous years, and'
season. Yet can one see the right policy carried out, ifthe govern: Ment risk jeopardizing the country as a whole even for these all. im portant primary. producers?" I rain. that isto Shes, which fave been left stripped by drought fand flood of all means of livelihood, their improved lands devastated and istence or perish, They ft homeless and starving.
assistance is given to an industry as a whole, other sections of the community claim aid on precedence. Thus while the gold bounty may A very. sharp opinion exists on the" question of Chinese music. It may be due to ignorance, as some aver: for to prejudice or chauvinism, Jas others say. But there it is. Schools exist as wide apart as the dulcimer and the bag-pipes. The one refuses to admit that. there is anything at all Chinese music; the other takes refuge in the opposite extreme, pointing out the fractions of tones possible in native melody which the more blatant foreign ear cannot appreciate, and fiercely maintaining that il is "caviar to the general"—as if that were something "the general" ought to be thoroughly ashamed about. It is not the the intention here to enter into the controversy.. The safe, course is to admit that tastes; differ, and that Chinese music: appears to be very popular—among the Chinese. There are certain tunes known and chanted result in saving the country if an exceptional producing field were from Canton to Jehol. The little discovered, it may be detrimental in beggar boy in effect, that other industries claim hums through his nose the right to similar aid from the people's|same air the gilded sing-song. purse, Ko has always been an Aus: [girl chants. in Peking Te3- Instead of making them walk on|{aurants. alan trait to. subsidize industries The repertoire Peking Fes is {hele Swe feet Gold must be in limited. 'There are, in fact, large quantities to pay its way, and|seasoned travellers' who still fhe'fatmers at the moment are 30 over capitalized as far ay their land concerned that they cannot afford foe wheat o eter prot st Bat they will have to do they desire to exports" which Revtenla must' do' to regain foundations "Armiy. "Wager are now at'8/- a. day" compared "to Ti7. fast harvest" Reason, and. tess Frith board, "Sui she banks declare Sur" conte of production 100 high, ind "oppose az quite. uneconomic unpersinn of exchanges. with London witch has been whispered of by one of two politicians who fre" frankly. accused. ty" some believe that it consists of one tune only, the Meng Chiang Nyni (Meng Chiang Nyui seeking er husband). But there are oth leach appropriate to a speci oceasion—love. marriage. wary death, or intellectual enjoyment. The last named are rapidly dying out, since they depended upon a knowledge of the ancient classics, and since the sing-song girl, the channel by which tunes fare popularized and spread from one end of the land to the other, is seldom strong on the saxes. secution have had many a din the New' Year ing people of vote-catching' from non-
Quarter of an hour at the hands of ourself and' M, Dominique.. Some "optimists think the case finished next: February.
'A New Novel Most novels wind up with the! wedding of the hero and heroine, that is to gay, at the stage at which their troubles are only just bei ning, if we may believe the M. Jean Faler, the author o is, far more advanced. He begins with his hero's death, and follows him into the next world—in a liter-sense, of course. Jean Mar. ministers and the Prime Minister, Mr. Seullin, with whom the senior members of the Government have been in constant touch during these trying weeks, Indeed, Mr Brennan, the Attorney-Ge ied to the
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