For everyone else, it's a births and deaths column for British consumerism, announcing the arrival of some objects and acting, for others, as their epitaph.
The main job is to write articles, write some official epitaphs, official sacrificial texts, etc. In the following years, Du Shenyan also served in the Ministry of Finance and the Imperial Academy.
The Common Reader Volume 1 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
And very quietly and compassionately Marlow sometimes lets fall a few words of epitaph which remind us, with all that beauty and brilliancy before our eyes, of the darkness of the background.