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...very tall commanding Englishman landed last week at Shanghai. To the coolies who rushed to seize his bags he spoke a few words in fluent guttural Chinese. In his honor the British press of Shanghai spread headlines, welcomed Miles Lampson, the new British Minister to China, hinted hopefully that his arrival would be followed by a strong British demonstration against the "Cantonese Bolsheviks" whose armies captured Foochow last week and were advancing on Shanghai...
...Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion. He read everything. He learned quickly and forgot quickly. His black and white drawings were better than any Englishman's have ever been. He was the rage...
...ruddy-faced young Englishman on a tramcar was reading a copy of a U. S. magazine. A smell of perspiration and wet woolens arose from the people around him. They were people like himself, of obscure destiny and unimportant identity, working people, going home to supper. The young man was 20 years old, a clerk by profession, secretary to one Thomas Gibson Bowles, proprietor and editor of Vanity Fair. The article he read told about Thomas Edison...
...really surprising that he had continued his fruitless efforts as long as he had, except that he was an Englishman, an artist, an idealist. Never able to respect the academic or conventional mind, he left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson Truman Opera Company, wrote three operas himself. In a few years he turned to symphony work, presenting highly unorthodox programs which were marked with deep musical scholarship as well as youth's impetuous revolt. Calm, neat, leisurely, absentminded, he lavished ?100,000 ($486,000) on his first season of opera...
...even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine as was ever written by any Iowa-born American in the French Air Service. But it is not literature, not until the next-to-last chaper. In these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some years he was happy, but of a sudden his evesight failed; madness followed. Mr. Hall reaches here his highest level...