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"Auxton de Ruts, "Tea fom the French by RT. Po) Grin, "Kelly & Walsh, Shangha It fs a well approved maxim that man can only specialize up to women, sioatiy Engi women, toe wince at their" Favourite. poet Among them were sorns at. houses: ko had often, beet and with whars he had Friendly "terms. Ile weal em, oF rolurw" their Rogers was the only person he spoke Rogers diced on December 18 the advanced age of 92. He is probably best remembered today by his short poem, "A Wish,"
Bivens point—that, in. order (o/ Which begins:—uccced in one line, he must have] Inigo be 4,60 beside the mind open and alert to other interests, So it may be said that tlowy brook, that terns a d'Avxion de Rulfé would not be With niany'a fall shall linger near, the lawyer he is, if he were not "Keep to Your Bank." Keenly appreciative of things most remote from law—art, music and yA"
Another banker-poet of poet of some! Fomonee. "OE the Totter quality "injaitinetion was Berard" Best the Shadow of the Pagodas" is aire 1 remembered for his tion with Charles Lamb, fine example. Although most of tha stories rend like a transeriplion of] yas, bor, im 1784, and in 2800 he gnome eelncn, ey ins 20S i "Balfels" position truth the least convincing [Cotnued to occupy until withia basis of jon, none the worse for} that. They reveal a power description, a sense for "pity and horror" which is indeed the pro. vailing note throughout, and ability to convey these which places them very high. The effect is not lessoned by the horrible eatism occasionally used, notably in the story of the Shensi bandit raid, which for vivid force is really the gem in the book. For some readers this quality may prove almost too much but we live in days when reticence is neither sought, nor apparently desired. The author has been singularly fortunate in his translator. Here and there one comes upon a phrase which needs revising. "A glance, charged witl a sudden malicious quality" French not English. But Japses are few and far between. There are also one or two granimagical slips: "he covid not. help, uty" and "he laid down in his accustomed place." There are pro-Vably the fault of the typewriter, rat notorious enemy of all spelling and style. But they should be eorveered before another edition is. called for as they mar an othe-wise fine piece of work.
For the, most part M, d'Auxion de Rufe hag presented the least desirable of Far Eastern life, but it ie a side which cannot be denied ani which may poshly be bettered days of his death, which occurred on February 19,'1849. religion a Quaker, Baston enriched the language with many graceful Poems, mainly of a devotional character. He seems to have found the business of banking irksome, and even to have contemplated retirement from it. Lamb, with sures insight, wrote to him, "Keep to your bank, and your bank will keep jyou"—a friendly monition whic' Baston was wise enough to follow.
Lamb had a very genuine admi tion for Baston, both as man and. Poet, and though he numbered Quakers in his list of sympathies," we find hi being thos rentesaly "hewn op Ths appalling stories of "Madame Ith ae and oe Sa. Root Bee octet, the soe shane what may be the fate of a white ces vas wire so Octo ple that at's Fre att the mane ortoet Beatie feo fully chore ior asters tion of the dangers of these Go" sotatwcon hae, $0 lecriie a ceding an betel "he. aes contrast, the first story, deseribing a visit to a Lama pagoda ani ins phlosephy of tr toba singular beauty and reposefulness.' [The whole collection reflects high aureur en its author. ship." This is an excellent example Jof the art of killing two birds tone stone.
account of banker-writers: could be complete which failed to include some mention of Lord Avebury, who is still better known, and remembered as Sir John Lubfbock. Avebury, who for many years was head of the firm of HRobarts, Lubbock & Ca, will always be associated with the pass-ting of the Bank Holidays Act of 1871, but he has other claims to Huxley v. Wilberforce Mr, Lubbock—as he was then—}was the author of many books on natural history, while his "Pleasures of Life," though it appears to have fallen into some neglect in recent years, enjoyed at one time an enormous popularity. In. this connexion it is interesting to] ofall that Mr. Lubbock was present at the famous controversy at 03 ford between Huxley and Pish Wilberforce, in which the popular prelate received so severe a trouneuch] ing from his scientific adversary.
Finally, among the men of letters who have been connected with banks, we may find Dr. Walter Leaf," the well-known—classical scholar, who ix chairman of the Westminster Bank; Mr. Kenneth Grahame, author of "Dream Days" and "The Golden Age," for many I in the Bank G. Wode-
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