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Rhythm, deals with similarity, but rhyme with identity," Chesterton points out lutera dark saying unul it is explained by the truly Chester- tonian note-"The prodigal returns to his father'a bouse, and not the house, next door, nulose he is still un imperfectly sober prodigal."
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THE CHINA MAIL.
A
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I claim no place in the world of lettere; I am, and will be alone. Lander. The like will never come again; ho is inimitable,
Goetha........
Thirty-th Year, and many an- other posar, have the oratorical note and ring. Liste
The sword, the banner, and the
Glory and Greece, around me
300,
The Spartan, borne upon his
shield,
Car Was not maxa frenz
Byron is one of the most fascinating "Fancice versus Farls." By G. K.
figures in English literature. Ho Chesterton. (lothuen. 6. net.)
flashes through his brief life with a
There is music in it; the trumpets There is one thing that safely may
Graham.disastrous glory. An aristocrat, be
championed the cause of the people, sing to battle. Nor is this all, for be looked for in a book by Mr. Chesterton, and that is a definite
Dictators Limited. By Hilton He was the Napolean of passion and Byron had a Voltairean gift of wit Brown, Allen and Unwin. poetry, and, not only his own coun- and satire, a command of mooking attitude towards fo. Such an at-
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their hair, shortened their collare, resplendent. His poetio rivale Daturally his as that weight of bady T'ho vegetarian, the psycho- which he mentions rather often, does analyst, the divorce-court, progress,
and were in love with poetry and carved cherry-stones, he obose to their neighbours' wives, Both hew granite. Byron sang of Free- not muster. It is audacious, not and Darwinism are buttered, now
supremacy in genius and personality, dem, took up arms in her cause, and particularly reasonable, stalwart, vaguely. The street musician is
belang to Byron. Astonishing, per- died in her defence. What would Sicikes are regarded in and adopting both fuds and fancies. defended.
haps, but what a man, what a post you have? Even his stolid country- The subjects of theso essays con- the plain white daylight of wan-
There was nothing narrow or in men were captivated, whilst his corn "nil sorts of things from, lady der" and Milton, in the longest and barristers to cavensen, and froin most serious piece of criticism in the As he writes you cannot help see sular in Byron. His genius crossed heroic attitude fascinated a can- psycho-analysis to free vere." Yet book, is used to protest against thoing through bis eyes, and nothing all frontiers.. He commanded atten- tinent.
they have this amount of unity in suggestion that we had no purity which his eyes saw or his ear heard tion throughout Europe. He moved
This gift of satire was perfectly their wandering, that they all imply except Puritanism, and that only & was ever dull or commonplace. It the aged Goethe and the youthful that it is only a more traditional nan like the author of Paradise was all strange, mystic, with some Victor Hugo. What, said Castelar, natural and overflows into his pri spirit that is truly able to wander." Lost could manage to be on the side dooper meaning struggling always to does Spain not owe to Byron?ate letters, which are among the The feminist or the active caveman of the angela."
the light. If he chronicled his con- Mazzini sounds the same note for best of their kind in the language. (whose argument with a club Mr.
(Book Club No.......). vereation with a washerwoman there Italy. Sainte Bosuvo, Stendhal, Who has not laughed at the descrip Chesterton would surely enjoy) could}
was something arreating in the and Taine, speak of his power in tion of his mother-in-law, "who has He was the intellectual been dangerously ill, and is now destroy most of his conclusions and
words be said, something singular in France. make miccement of his criticism.
her reply. If he met a man in a parent of Pushkin and other Russian dangerously well again"? And how The psycho-analyst or the writer of
public-house one felt, after reading writers, and the revival of Polish good is his happy quotation of free-verse might tear his hair over The Seven Lamps of Advocacy. By his account, that one would wish to literature dates from Byron. Ecken Shakespeare, after a crush at the If he mana and others, in Germany, help Opera, at Venica: "I almost beat the impossibility of pianing the
hia Honour Judgo Parry.low more of that man. author down to serious discussion.
Fisher Unwin. 56.
approached a town he saw and made to completo the verdict of the Cor & Venetian, and Even the reader who is ready to be Fantasia of the Unconscious. By you see not a collection of common-tinent. Why? Byron was a great State." Byron had many facete to diverted and made to wonder-und D. H. Laurence. Seckar. placu houses or froway streets, but poet, and be was easy to under- hie mare genius.
Of course, Byron was a Free- in wonder, said some ancient, is the
something very strange and wonder-stand. He deals rhetorically with beginning of philosophy-even such From Workshop to War Cabinet. ful, the winding river, the noble elemental emotions, and he enjoyed thinker. His sympathy with the an que kuows at times that Mr.
By the Right Hon. G. N.bridge, the old castle... Every the fame of being a rebel, an exilo, revolutionary spirit showed his Chesterton is only making a loud Barnes. Introduction by the human being, every object, was net and a champion of the democracy. Freethought, and he tells us that
hiso.
Right Hon. Lloyd Geors much a thing in itself as a symbot Eloquence makes the widest appeal all forms of faith are of equal use
and reminder of the past. He look for it expresses with vigour the six-lessness, The Way Out Essays on Educa-od through a man at that which the plo feelings of men.
tion. Introduction by Lord man represented. Was his name liberty, or give me death," that is Grey of Falloten. Edited by Weigh? Then in an instant the the kind of thing; a somorous and the Hon. Oliver Stanley. Individual is forgotten and he in off, impassioned phrase flung out at Oxford University Press. 4. dragging you in his train, to ancient white heat to thrill the hearts of Britons, intruative Saxons, unheard-thousands. Byron's versa has this of bards, Owen Glendower, mau- rhetorical quality. Verse upon verse thin miders and a thousand fascinat-of Childe Harold reads like oratory, ing things. Or is it a Danish name? He leaves the individual in all his grandiose and sweeping modern commonplace while he flies off... to Vikings, Berserkere, Haardraada. Varangians, Harald
Not the old ability to pierce with a laugh the absurdity in which the -Chestertonian world is tangled found here and there. The old trick of surprising with a paradox that contains a truth is not quite forgotten. But we are led into a quagmire of inconsequence quite as often as we are led to discovery- even funtastic discovery-or to a bright, wild perception. "Fads and Funcios it the title, we must recall.
The most interesting essay in. "The Romance of thyme," and no one will be surprised to find G.K.C. championing rhymno. The free-verse writer comes in for some sound knocks (the free-lover later receives a few of them), and the possibility
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man dwindle and disappear, "like stings. In the preface to Cain, a poet sa full of profanity as an egg now upon the desort's dusty face."
is full of meat, Byron remarks Even gods must yield; religions caustically that it is difficult to
take their turn;
make the Davil "talk like a clergy. "Twas Jove's, 'tis Mahomet's, man," and that he has endeavoured
and other creeds"
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of Spiritual politeness." man shall learn. Vainly his incense soars; his
victim, bisedé
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Leigh Hunt, his friend, says Byron was "an infidel by reading." Pour child of doubt and death, Tom Moore, who knew him, well whose hope is built on reeds and wrote bis life, admits that the poet was "to the last a sceptic."* Byron may have dreamt, like soApparent as his heresies are in his many poets, of immortality; he poetry, his letters, particularly those certainly did not believe in it. How to bio friend, Hobhouse, show that finely he apostrophises this long pondence with the Rey, Francis ing
Hodgson he is oven, morà emphatic. is scepticism deepened as he grew older, but far too early came the Regard and weigh yon dustblind fury with the abhorred
aheare."! before it flies, That little word saith more
Still wilt thou dream on future
joy and woo?
than thousand homilica.
| be was no Christing. In bis vorros-
Few mon so impressed themselves upan their generation. Tennyson has told us that, when. Byron' diod it was as though the firmament had lost some mighty star, in whose vanishing the world was left to darkness. When Byron went flash- ing and glowing down the troubled ales, trailing clonds of glary, bis sudden quenching affected maa as with the sense of some elemental
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Thou sacardotal gain, but
general loss,
The Vision of Judgment, in which What from true worship's gold Byron's genius for satire has full
can separate thy dross?
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What right has the cynic to shatter the ideals of humanity with his carcastic epigrams?
Critics in the literary field have held that a writer who is a cynic purifies life by exposing its evils with his mockery and ridicule. The established critics of life itself, the church authorities, bengvolent noted French director. It is an recreative education. essayists and constructive philo. R-C Picture and is scheduled for *The cinema is educative. through every chink and crevic of^« rophers, bald that the cynic who screening at the World Theatre on Whenever the British Empire is a thin Greecian smock, her ly destroys good by his cutting satire 18th inst
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"Bilent Years" is based upon the the wonderful pictures of Shackle- an enemy to mankind and to all that novel "Mam selle Jo" by Harriet ton's boat, crushing through the ice. star in Realart Pictures did for will help the world get better and T. Comstock and vividly portrays a Whenever I think of that I remam-scenes of "Bobbed Hair the batter in every way.
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