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A TRAGIC COMEDIAN.
Poor uploadid wings so frayed and
Boiled and torit!
Poor kind wili eyes so dushed with
light quick dears! Poor perfect voice, most blithe
when host forloru, That rings thwart
the HER
whence men steers, Like joy bells crossed with death
bells in aur cars.
---Swinbarde. There has been a rovival of interest in Oscar Wilde since some literary Spiritualists buvo printed alleged casages from Ut ill-fated auflior, said to have bean received since his death. Believers and disbelievers
THE CHINA MAIL.
sinco Ettare smiles? The obvious LEAVEN WITHOUT BREAD. lia need not detain ùs; curious, brooding Horvendile would so have made his puppote speak.
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oven Plays. By Gilbert Cannan.
Becker. 58.
In any Storisende there grow a
A pleasant bour's entertainment, bitter treo af knowledge-dison- chantment....... Hervendile said it but that is all. No deep impression was not there, and I looked for it is left on the mind: there remain
heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy. This pathos is aluost unexpected from a writer whose earlier language was a craft as much as an art, and related to carpots and wall-papers and not to life itself with its terrible burdens of sorrow, sickness, and Then road this unqutiny pússago-death. Wilde had been a spoilt in vain. For dreams, said he 'aouly a few sketchy, out-lines repre- child of society, and he was the idol litt sadly, are the only true reality, seating people who exist to point an of many drawing-rooms. His carty and the little Past and the larger irony or illustrato contiment, and books were printed on hond-inde Tomorrow but mirrors of To-day, who, when the book is laid down, paper, arul und in vellum with that To-day in which, dreaming, I fade away. gold decorations. In the days of his touch at lust Ettarre, and the But it is not sweet with, nimble vanity he was a law unto himself, dream is shattered.
feet To dunce upon the air. Stanza, after stanza bas its outing
It is good to dance to violins When love and life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to
Jutes
So delicatę uud mare;
refrain-
Yet ench man kills the thing he
loves,
(Book Club No. 2.)
Cute and Ends of a Learned Clork.
Arthur Eckersley.
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These Seven Plays must be the work of a les mature Mr. Cannan. They contain some protty and some willy pieces of 1le wore his hair lung, and fluuntel
dialogue, but they lack substanco a necktie like a child's sash, axl
and Amitic force. Indeed, the when he aped Sir Oracle all listened. The great river of life had flowed for
latter is an element which Mr. Cannan wrong almost to avoid. years quielly past the poet while he
I know Arthur Eckersley at Perhaps he disdaing it as a theatri- languidly watched its ripples, and
His was the quiot, truth cal stunt unworthy of him, pre-happine through Hiring the intenser life. repeated: "Experience, the name Kughy.
"THE BUMAN MACHINE-ON THE we give to our mistakes, or, that missos genius, the control of ferting to specialise in the un-
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY" Sleep, like all wholesome things, sweet-happing words, of the reader's malie in the hope of some subtle is a habit," or, "Meraly to look ut reminiscent smile. Ho.. Had the mance revealing self. Theso neat the world will always be lovely." | power lo stir, bus a power of the little dialogues, which by their in these pages thoughts that make a rant man, and how to live it; above all, llow little did he then realize that logger emotions-not the necessarily expertness promise to much more decorous, but the more ustal. Look credibility of Hemdotus; expect not Shaw's bite and you shall find the arcisional folicities of Augustine Birrell.
wage is a parent in the bare existence in the sine river. Aeschylus and you shall find the tulising. They are not, indeed,
Harlot's husey→→
By much let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword. -.. in Spiritism will pbably dispute The same perfect mastery of langu, as to the authenticity of these messages more than on any recentTM so-called manifestation of Spaitisu. For Wilde was not only curled, perfumed darling of Society, but he was also a writer of European re- putation, and the tragedy of his life gave a touch of meltron to his career which is incking in the cases of most writers. It was, curiously, the tragedy of Wilde's own life that gave peralauence to his works. It is true that his plays received a warm welcome in Paris, Bertin, and Vienna, and that his poem achieved
And down the king and silent
one dug he would be struggling for The day came when men and women averted their eyes when he passed, went when all doors were shut against Then stiklenly the one
false,
him, and he was an outcast eating | The dancers wearied of the waltz.the bitter bread of buishment. But The shadows ceased to wheel and in that oval day he learned that art
And aesthetics or hul sorry sub wirl,
stitutes for human love and syn- patay. He was like pour Heinrich Heine, who dragged his patsied libs to the cool shades of the Louvre to we once are his beloved Venua de Mito, before sinking help less on his mattress grave, and, fall- ing at her feet seemed to hear her say that she could not lift him ap because he had no crme.
-MINNERMU».
street
The hwn with silver-satulalled
feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.
De Profundis was netually writica the glory ofa fifth edition during his blind prison walls. The book is life. His earlier work was, how-pathetic throughout, but some ever, but the outcome of a brilliant passages are unforgettable: intellect, and it was personal suffer- ing that added the very necessity human note. In his exuberant, youthful writing he wore the cap and bells bravely and banged the bladder of comedy with light-heart- ed zest; but in De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Cant, be! wrote straight from the heart, and often with eyes full of tears. The Ballad indeed is a masterpiece, Not only is it fall of a haunting beauty of expression, but it is also alearful exposure of our penal system which is so unworthy of a tion retending to be in the van of civilization. Listen to these lines
u a prisoner condetuned to death:--
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of Mus
Which prisoners call the sky,
Aud at every drifting cland that
went
With sails of silver by.
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than they achieve, are inercly tan- quite without joint, but they aro without dramatic point. They do not constitute for the reader an nthetic or an emotional experience. For Eckersley was that rarest All we are left with is some little thing, & eonymonplace man made "lesson"-sentimental, satirical, or vocal. Jnd he lived he might have charitable of which, the chances sang a kindly Sogn. Dend he raises are, we are in no partientar need. but the inbuunan ghost of a broken There is, for example, the lesson, of sentence, the still tragedy of a "The Shine Story" that if your pearling stream dried at the source. wife, cessing to care for you, con- coles herself in the arms of another man, you should not hastily divorce This is amusing in its slight way, ber, but rather seek to understand but is it not a little juvenile? Surely wherein your own failure lies. Fix-it was not for this that the play
(Book Club No. 70.)
The Veil and other Poetos. Walter
do la Mare.
averted.
take
FAT MAN: Sina! Sins! I was married for forty-two years. attended the same chapel from the time when I opened my firat shop.....
This is the Gate of Heaven.
SAINT: This is the Gate of i Heaven.
FAT MAN: Take my card in, then.
Life
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Meu Like Gods.-H. G. Welle,-. Mr. Wells again cosmic in his imagining of what we may all be like in the far distant futuro, Sweet Pepper-Geoffrey Moss.--A
The
nice girl becomes not so nice in Budapest, but in the final instatice again resorts to nicety. Sentry.Nicolai Lyeskov.-
True to the Russian manner. yet with plot more clearly developed, those stories make better than average reading, The Bachelor Girl (La Garçonne).-
Made- Victor Margueritte. moiselle casts off her faithless fiancé and proceeds to now wild oats-until she meets the right A slightly expurgated translation, apparently.
Winding Star.-A. E. W. Mason. An adventure story that cuts rather deeply into the
motives of human action. Midwinter.-John Buchan.Hig
torical Dying
cellent counsel, bar as the substance | way' written, but rather, ime ia Walter de la Mare has an exotic of even the shortest one-net play, forced to suppose, for the sake of quiver of barbed words. That the insufficient. There is the lesson of the normalising conclusion. The feathers sometimes misdirect the The Fat King and the Lean," in youngest of heaven's angels appears, shafts matters little; they were which we are inducted to the Gate and gently rebukes the appellants. graceful in eren an unhoped target. of Heaven in order that we may "Death is the friend of in and Yerbs he coins, recklessly, from learn God's point of view in regard brings you to our gute when men to our human wakussen, Oite and women love enough to save each anything else, so that constantly
Eye the Saint in other from themselves. fert a schoolboy's fear of the grum-instructions, marian's bire-always, by a charge of the great book, are to will accept your lies, but Death must ouers breadth, avoided and inquire into you: love and the sins bare the truth, for Death must
you did for love."
speak it at this Gate" Whereupon: the Thin Man remarks, I've done Iwith lien and bitterness,” And
after an interval the Fat Woman is The moved to say, "There's lots of little kindly things I might have dong. ". Trite: but it is only fair to net against it the opening words of Ft Max: I don't know what "Pierrot in Hospital." the world is coming to! A man Pierrot is being tended by a nun. does pretty well for himself. A "Are you saying prayers for me?" She answerd, "I'm man dies and he might just as he asks her. well never have lived. But it is not here to waste my time. To always the way when you have nursing you." Every one of these to deal with the understrappers. plays is leavened with a little wit; You have to get through to the but leaven without a sufficiency of Big Mon to get anything done the other ingredients makes unsatis You're sure there is no mistake.fying bread,
(Book Club No. ———.}
Un November 13, 1896, I was brought down here from London. From two o'clock till half-past two on that day I had to stand on the centre platform of Clapham Junction in convict dress, and
Jaun handcuffed, for the world to look at. I had been out of the how
Over a year ago I read "Figures pital way without a moment's
Surprised, curious of Earth. notice being given to me. Of all-
Felicity again. For, a sign "of appreciative, I realised that I did possible objects I was the most understand one word. I bought the end of things coming' gotesgne. When people saw and read "Jurgen, and again felt "Heaven's solemn Seraph stoopt They laughed. Each train as it some strange kindling of the soul, weary o'er his subuning and you e op swelled the audiensised that this was not the end of have a key. His clim lies in the Nothing could excevil thei
my questing, forgot it. Now I have aptly unexpected, yet jingling the amusement. That was, of course, ad “The Cream of the dest," and reader's ear 3 though inevitable. before they knew who I was. A what I have understood retain He is a poet, best, of the open air A-Whitumn's fino appreciation of soon as they had been informed my Kissing, unshareable. they laughed still more. For half each chapter passed I said "I will natural concords tempered by Keats' an hour I stood there in the greyquote this," and forget it for the visits on flower-ringed Olympus. November rain surnuided by a next. Etturre voiced me, Horven- locked the wheat to the wind' jevring mob........................ To those who dile explained me, tangled in truth "Kiss mo.' Kiss.moi" are in prison tears are a part of I missal my kouting only to fall in. If I were a lady, I would, in grati- every day's experience. A day in
a prepared and scented reposeful lude, prison on which one does not bed where the choico word repaid. weep is a day on which one's Dues he laugh? What matter,
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(Book Club No, 48.)
K. WESTMACOTT LANE.
FAT WOMAN: Don't boast. Near.
mna.
romance with Dr. Samuel Johnson as a character and an ending above the ordin ary. But who was Amos Mid- winter?
Flaming Youth.-Warner Fabian.-
A frank study of the young ladies who substitute desperate modernism for ethical stand- ards.
(Book Club Various No.)
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That is what Harold Lloyd re- peated-to-himself during the film. ing of his latest feature comedy, Safety Last, the big attraction at the World Theatre. For Harald figured out that if Dr. Cone had any luck with his better and better" theory, he ought to havo luck with his own
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When Safety Last" was select- ed as Lloyd's next Pathe starring vehicle, it was determined to make it a "thrill" picture but a "thrill" picture that would even surpaBS High and Dizzy," "Now Or Never" and "Never Weaken, three of his shorter comedies. the action of Safety Last" Harold climbs the side of a skyscraper, and to do this and not bring a serious up all amusements, except swim-
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rose-tinted in the presa, but no alcol construction worker ever toiled harder than Harold Lloyd and his company in making this picture. or two months the comedian gave
The greatest flood scenes injury to himself, the comedian put ming, for his work was too strenu
que. It was the most daring effort flashed upon the screau, the collapse his new version of Dr. Cous's theory Lloyd bus made in his nine years of a hugo sluice dam and the barrow- into practice.
Lloyd figured that anyone can before the camera, and it unguesing experience of a man who sought
tionably will stnad ag a monumental walk nerons in beard when it is achievement in this line of picture to close the locks, are but a few of the ground, or when it is raised a few feet. But place this board making. At any rate, Lloyd can the big thrills that go to make "The across an ardaway twelve storios or hardly hope to surpass it, and it is Call of Home' a motion picture of
matchless interest. so from the ground and the feat doubtful if he will attempt to
For in Safety Last" Harold The scenes of the flood wore film- would be almost impossible. To overcome this, Lloyd practised for Tuloyd throw all caution to the ed in the Colorado river région a number of weeks, cach time hay-winds. His object was to produce when that streams was swollen from ing the board raised higher and picture that would not only top storms and overran its bonus, caus- insisting to himself that day by all the thrillers be had made in the ing widespread destruction. This dny he was becoming braver and past, but would practically be im-enabled Mr. Gagnier to film scenes possible for him to beat, himself; that are notable for their realism.
braver."
And then the day for De filming But the feature comedy is not The flood scenes were filed at came. The location was twelve entirely comprised of thrills, how great risk to the lives of several stories from the street with the ever. The whole first faction of it members of the cast, in particular thermometer registering 100 in the said in a department store, and Rumsey Wallice, who portrays the shade and there was no shade. few over realized what a fruitful role of the husband, Garry Lan Olinging to the side of the building stamping ground for comedy asing. Wallace's life hung in the balance when he was flung of a big Was Harold Lloyd. Twenty foot department store is.
Harold Lloyd has never desired da an the structure wont to piecea out from the building, and twelve
28-3 thrill before the amrush of thousands upon stortes high was Walter Lundin, to be classed Lloyd's head cameraman, shooting wishes to be associated with any one pitched headlong into the torrent comodian any more than be thousands of tons of water. He from a narrow balcony, roughly con type of comedy. He likes to mix and was borne downstream half a structed Sam Taylor and Fred Newpeyer, co-directors, also took them up and mako-sach of his mils before he was pulled out more their places on this blistering plat characterizationg different. And dead than alive. Form
coming out now with "Safety Of still greek dramatic tensity Last, following "Dr. Jack" and is the baroo wronghi by the rhging This is just an idea of the easy Grandma's Boy, be has fulfilled waters se they engulf a small village Life led by motion picture stars and his desires completely. Bot with it and crush cabins and other izuč- their co-workers. For Los Angolas Harold kept saying to himsoll turns that lie in the path of the was the throes of the woreb-boat
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wave in years. But there was not as an elpebod : to perilous heights flood The Being ativos who Pecke a single day that the Lloyd com- nnd oxtricated himself froki hasard ebelter in the highitada alep for
pany did not go through on outs. But, humorous prédicaments note of draatio guspanto as nodulo, except for the few days getting braver and beaver!'
"Day by day in every way I'm
hon Harold was laid up with sa injurell aboäklet.
match on their Joutry to Esbaby,
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