BOOKS
THE GENTLE SHAKESPEARE.
To be ir allaked truths,
And to envisage, circumstance,
all calm;
That is the top of sovereignty.
-Keats:
Others abide our question-Thoi
art free.
Matthere Arankl
Thousands of volumes häve been written on Shakespeare, but small attention has been paid to his intense humanism.
He was no bigot; as sympathies were too froad. Nor was he ascetie; he delights too much in the joy of life, and devotes the highest effort of his genus to the pullingmised meat. His nie suggests joy and emancipation to the hearts of lovers of literature. Despite the confident assurance in the sonnets that his work would outlust the gilded montiments of princes. I ke it he was cordial gentle, kindly, and modest
His contemporaries so esteemed him. His was out the kind of greatness which says: "I am Sir Oracle, and when I open my mouth let nu dog bark," but the far rarer kind which has love, regard, and service for atliers. He might have used of himself the words be pants in the mouth of the etown in TulfileNight: "lam une of those gentle ones that will use the devil bluself with courtesy."
Shakespeare's regard for animals marked. was very
Only a humanitarian, as well as a poet, could have pictured the storm in those suggestive lines in King Lear
Mine enemy's dog,
màu. In Titus Andronicus he has some lines on the killing of a
By :-
But how, if this fly had father
and mother,
THE CHINA MAIL:
Ay, but I fear you speak upon
the rook,
Where men enforced do speak
anything.
POET LAUREATE'S ANTHOLOGY.
ANATOLE FRANCE.
A Child of the Classics.
1 M. Aniola France, wins real Paris nearly eighty years ago, and namo in A. "Tribuilt, was born. in' spent many of his early years in his' father's book shop, where b-brow od at will among all kinds of litera ture.
a. Especially waS › he attracted by the authors - ÓË antiquity, and his work has proved 'him to have heën a "phild of the classics. great
The new anthology by, Dr. Ra. Shakespeare was quite démocra-bert Bridges, Poet. Laureate, on- tic and modem in his treatment of titled "The Chilwell Book of Eng women. Indeed, he was far in lish Poetry" (Longman, tis. Gd.) is front of his contemporaries in this aimer of English Poetry compiled respect, for he depicts women as being in every way the equals of
for the use of schools. Ha high men. The brilliant and witty intention, as De, Bridges tells us Beatrice is more than a macth for in his beautiful profsee is to place the smart Benedict; and Emilia hefoo the scholar the finest es- holds her own against the subtle and villainous Iago. In the play presion of a nation's spirit and to of decirth it is the woman who familiarise him with such pang as has, the master mind, and her na lover of poetry will ever cast husband is as clay in her hands aside. Here is quintessence of What comradeship, tob, there is
our podtical heridage. A gift not between Cesar and his wife, and Brutus and Portia. What tribute one of us can afford to disdain. there is in the splendid welcome Fur, saya su Boch, Laureate. given by Coriolanus to his wile,Po try being the most intimate ex-old quile in the high Roman way.
No pression of Man's Spirit, it is neco wonder Ingersoll broke out in
sary to education; since no man can admiration: "Shakespeare has
In Live day Mon Ami, wrij ton when be mis about 20 Fears
gives in a
How would he hang his stender done more for women than all the Bu'n worthy citizen of any cartily | fool:-loving boynud. It is a book
gilded wigs,
And buzz lamenting doings in
the air?
い
Paur harmless flyi That with his pretty buzzing
melody
Came here to make us merry:
other dramatists of the world'
Consider, also," "Shakespeare's broad view of men. As in the case of Shylock, he rose superior to religious prejudices, so, by the judices concerning race. He had, case of Othello, he ignored pre- too, a democratic dislike of men who "having before gored the gentle bosom of peare with pillage wars their and rubbery, make Come, shall we go and kill us bulwark. There is a mine of
venison,
experience in brief space when he казадина
"And thou hast killed his. How tender, tou, are his lines on the wounded stag in de You
Like It-
And yet it irks me, the poor
Rappled fools-
Réing native burghers of this
desert city.
Should, in their own confines,
with forked heeds Have their round launches gored.
Similar ideas abound in the pages of the plays. When Jews were hounded in all the Ghettos in Europe, it wanted some courage to pake Shylock Say before a Christain audience in the fanatical days of Elizabeth-
If Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility --revenge, If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should is sufferance, be by Christian example why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will letter the instruction.
Plate sin with with gold,
State unless be be first a citizen of the heavenly,"
Dr. Bridges han not chosen tự com tomise with his eaders, has not
featuring poplar verses among the sough to gain their attention by golden numbers! If his anthology fosters a taste for poetry, it will be for the best, for only such is here,
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most exquisitely simple pross the glory of his dreamy!
that romain, always in the mnd. classed with an beautiful and sta qatlodie sal a of chilā, lifu. ...!
Later he published some poems, and then came his fiest two novels!! Jocale" and "vivere Bon- nurt."*
Fame at the Age of 42. All this time, however, M. Anintole Trance-was gry little known, and it was not till 1886, when he was de yings of spy, fat there can hist real intuetim to The public. Then gas his famais connection, with Le Temps which gave over to him its literary "Teuilletan,"
And the strong lance of justice fathering the views of his puppets ing of his connection with e
urtless breaks; Arn it in rigs, pigmy's straw,
doth pierce it
there is in the passage-
And what searching criticism
How quickly Nature falls into
revolt
When gold becomes her object
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Some ten years after the beginn Trips, there'cause one of the best known of his series of novels: "Le Mannequin &'Osier." "Orang du Mail" "Annemi d'Amethyste" and "Monsieur Beggaret 30 Paris.' The whole four volumes are taken
with the history of a evrinin 31. renses, and bring in, incidentally.
almost inedible number is characters,foteh on all ingisable plasses of contemporary life, and dig There is na opinion de boliet, no or ass and dismiss every kind of idea.
himself was hostile to the people, There is no sense in tearing text from context in the plays and on Shakespeare himself. As well might we make Shakespeare a mulerer because he was the author of Macheth, or a lunatic hecause he wrote King Lear,
Shakespeare lived, it is well to recall; at a time when the monarch might claim divine right without being lighed at. The lickspittle dedication of the Authorized Mr. J. M. Robertsua, to whose Version of the Bible to that padded untiring industry in Shakespearean poltioom, James I. shows to what scholarship we all owe so much, depths of sycophancy - eveti points out that the great dramatisi scholars had sink. In such an often states both sides of a environment Democracy in its question by various utterances modern sense was us unknown as placed in the mouths of his the aeroplane or wireless telehall-indulgent style.
Shakespeare's detach- Puppets. This is a distinguishing graphy.. mark of his mind, for it is few ment from the theological turmoil men, who can do this, and still of the fanatical days in which he It was this extra-played and wrote ought, in them. ordinary power of holding the selves, to supply a guarantee that scales firmly that caused John he could suspend his judgment in Ruskin to say that. Shakespeare social and political matters, no was not only unknowable, but less that religious. The quality utterances put in the mouth of a him as the quality of mercy. His man-hater like Timon of Athens, matchless genius was not unmixed or the bitter outbursts of Coriolanus,) with pity, do not prove that Shakespeare
fewer pacts.
-empation, no philosophy of life, og
The lack of it, flat he does not teaf' in his own peculiar half-moking.
SATURDAY MAY 24, "1924.”
RHYME REVIEW.
"The Lavender Dragon," By Eden
Phillpotts. (Grant Richards.)
Sir Jasper and his trusty squire Partook of ale in Bagon, And pandered on the Dragon,, Who breathed his fire, And wreaked his ice,
In manner summary and harsh, O'er Pongley-in-the-Marsh.
This Dragon seemed a loathly
beast.
He'd swoop upon the village. Snatch rustics from their tilläge, And then he'd feast. On them at least, Presumably, he took them for Inclusion in his maw."
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Sir Jasper and his trusty squire, Replete with ale in flagon, Set forth to slay the Dragon, However dire
This beast of fire,
"
They swore they would not rest
in bed Till they had killed it dead.
But they'd misjudged their scaly
foe, So far from being frantic, The Dragon was pedantic, A curio
Indeed. "On sa
1
Clal thoughts and problems of
the day
It had a deal to say.
In fact, it owned a model town, Its ev'ry laman, victim (Sir Jasper's conscience pricked
him),
It had set down Within this town,
And made each one in strength
and health
A credit to the compionweath,
Refreshing satire, fancy-free,
Come, buy this Lavender,"
Pry we
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
PERIL ISLAND, by Percy James
Probner. (Hutchimon, 7/8,) Mr. Brebner can always bo do perled on for a soundly thrilling story of love and adventuro, His new book begins on tho eve of the war, when two Eng- lish yachtsmen are lured by s mysterious Alsatian to the Outer Hebrides, and subse quently captured and taken 10 army. Thy uiake a thrill. ing escape, and everything ends
• as happily as it should. THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN, By Winwood Readd, (Watts, 28. d.) It any people ought to tady the rise and fall of em pires it is the British, This reprint of a vivid and suggestive sketch of universal history „(don't be discourged by ha Title) is well worth mading though, since Reado's day, the field of ancient history has been enlarged, and some of his opin- Jan's ure stared with a vigour to infuriate counter-doggmatists. MAN AND MYSTERY IN ASIA,
by Forlinand Ossendowski. (Edward Arnold and Co., 146.. Der.) Delightful and thrilling book of Asian udventures many of the stories ans almost in.... 'credible. FAMOUS
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS, by C, 1. Me- Clore Stevens. Stanley Paul and Co.; 12s. Gd. net.)." Well written and well chosen dramas of human perversity and mis- placed human ingenuity,
"A DEAL IN LETTERS."
Leslie Poupart, the great novelist, having got into debt, is saved at ari opportune moment by a moneylender and company promoter, whe forms the idea of tuning into Limited Liability Compung for ibo prestuction of his novels:
Though he had bit me, should of Portia. When Christian Europe almost inconceivable. The angry of justice was as little strained in in which he ridicules.religion and is in its essence romanties an ex- you a wife to kok after yon?" he
Having blindly signed himself away, Poupart finds himself, at the Of all his works these any perhaps end of six months, in ihre hundis of the least sympathetic fur bype of the law. A friend steps "infund mind. This is something shout offers him a novel for handing over Gallery of Characters.
thin that is a little cold to us, and to the firm. This bring about On the whole, however, we see perhaps we cannot easily understand nung aussing incidents including, a him now as the spiritual desemineir philosophy. Yei in, spite of libel enw. of Benin,
The story contains many humor- scintille positivist, these things M. Anatole France rel alan comical. The begins to mains, even for os, og of the most pus situations and the ending is a Rotisserie de la Reine Péduque," ists. He is interesting es disciple de mes Dice Horncastle, who write erudito stories Thais. Ta interesting of contempory novel-Tappy one for all. Though kompart
Blic, chronicles of the Abbé Coignard of classicism to us, whose literature price, asked him "Oh why haven't
rails against ill accepted institutions, ponent of the sheery of "art for art's finds in her the wife who is deter The characters of these for novels sake, to us who write generally mined to look after bis affairs. are mostly madnen, rognés, deban- | into our novels something, at least,
-H. F. P. chées, and adventurers, all treated of personal emotion. MIMNER MUS
A Del in Letters" by Fred. M. with wit and amased contempt.
White, John Long, Ltd. 7/6.1
have stood that night
Against my fire,
1
Such a passage is one which shows at once the humanity of the
was a
Note. also the humanistic thoughts put in the lovely mouth cockpit of murderous fanaticism, and heresy was re- pressed by torture
and death, Shakespeare makes Portia say
al
He thought he could trifle with Love!
He had all the making of a man; he had been neglected, til seqrneil her because he didn't understand that what his soul needed was the trusting love of this beautiful girl!...
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DIRECTED BÝ
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THE MAN WHO MADE THE TAMOUS
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"THE BEAUTIFUL AND
DAMNED,"
Since Marie Prevost quit the comedy field as a bathing beauty and hung up the ravishing clothes as she wears in "The Beautiful and Damned," the F. Scott Fitz-
TWO POPULAR PLAYERS.
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Buddy Messinger, one of the most talented of the younger players of the cinema world, and Haydey Stevenson, recalled as the "Leather Pushers" series, are the "wise-cracking" manager of The occultism preached by the Hindus has ever been an interes-gerald novel picturized by the two of the prominent players in Warner Brothers, which will beveral-Jewel production which is "Trifing with Honor," the Uni- ting topic, for it delves into things
shown shortly at the World Thea- | now, showing, for the last time | spiritual in an elaborate, if mystifying, manner. It was littlere, the flapper's secret obsession is to-day at the World. wonder then, when Florence Read how to wear clothes in such a
manner as to bring out was engaged to play the role of
charm she possesses. Rich girls, all girls think of this constantly,
every
Laura West in the Pioneer Classic "Eternal Mother" or Indiscre- tion which rotated about this and it must be pretty nearly true, for Sclomon in all his glory was subject, that she began reading ap
never arrayed as one of these on India and its legends.
twentieth century heartsmashers. Miss Reed was held spellbound by the manner in which pagan fact that Marie Prevost," whose All of which brings forth the idols held the Hindus. They chief hobby, is designing her own actually believed that pieces of clothes for screen appearances, wood and clay could perform the has a few pifty creations of latest miracles ascribed to it, and wor-style on display in her new star shipped daily at their respective ring vehicle, "The Beautiful and shrine. Miss Reed, of course, amned."
· Buddy was termed by, à noted American army officer during a recent visit to Universal City as the ideal type of American boy,
can
the type that grows into a sturdy young manhood which in times of national stress makes the Ameri
soldier, whose Individiral initiativeness and courage is inter nationally famous. As the mis chievous youngster in "The Flirt ”.
stole the stellar honours away from and the youthful society dandy in "The Abysmal Brute," he nearly the principals.
Here's an idea of how Buddy laid down the law to, his hero in "Trifling With Honor":
"Why, Bat, all us kids all over the country are, bettin' on yuhs and countin' on yuh to win this game and when I heard those crooks hospital I made up my mind that talkin' about sendin' yuh to the but the suffect was so interesting super-high life in New York, and if they did they'd send me there, she made an exhaustive study 10 of Gloria Gilbert's marriage to too. Yuli've gotta go in there.
could, see grough the duplicity "The Beautiful and Danned" practised of the credulous, natives, is a "story of super-flappers and
be the better equipped to parttayyoung Anthony Patch, whose † Bat, and win and perteci yer goud |
'name for all ús millions of kids
the American girl hypnotized by career consists of two things that are rootin' for yul Oriental mysticism."
dancing attendance on fils bewitch-}
"I never enjoyed playing a part
It was Buddy as a boy of twelve
the idol of the nation-
as much as I did in Indiscretioning wife and waiting for his rich talking
she said when interviewed by grandfather to, die and bequeath the one and only But Sugrue, the Colossus of bogie-run hitlers. The newspaper men. "Perhaps it was his millions...
"' | boy knew that evil influences were because I was interested so much Just how wild a wild party con↑ being brought to bear to have Bat
in the occult, but at any rate I be is shown in this picture, present throw the final and deciding derived real pleasure in appear in contrasts between the upright ing in a story so tense in situations, puritanical ways of the older and human in its enactment.
generation and the giddiness of "Then, too, I had as co-stars two the new," such brilitant actors as Gareth Mis Trevost's supporting cast Hughes and Lionel Alwolf, and includes Kenneth Herlau, Tully since all of us were given parte Marstall, Harry Meyers, Parker suitable to our particular satis McConnell, Clarence Burton faction, I affcerely believe this is Walter Long. George Kuwa one of the best plctures I've ever Charles McHugli, Louise Fazenda, dono;
Kathleen Key and Cleo Ridgeley,
A. G. C.
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"Trifling With Honor is a role all striking and peppy per and was himself an escaped convict picture that is decidedly different. sunalfly that distinguishes his making his living at the only clean You'll enjoy its him characters, work in "The Leather Pushers," thing he had learned while in, the Its" dramatic qualities' and its
Rockliffe Fellowes plays the ponitentiary baseball. It was hundrous angles, and you'll love worth $10,000 to But to have his Buddy Messinger as the boy who role of Bet Shugrue in: "Trifing team lose the game and he was made the great plea for all of his With Honor, and Fritz Ridgeway
19, seen in the leading feminine. counting on that money, but this ifte colleagues.
"kutter brat" put a new aspect on the situation. He hadn't thought newspaper reporter who writes a ed in Collier's Weekly as the
Stevenson plays the part of a part. The story was first publish of those kids that looked up to highly imaginative story about work of William Slavens, McNutt. him, alll-$10,000 was a lot of "Bats" early life, a story that is was, saxerly bid for by all the money..
responsible for the (toral reforms Alm.companies and, was obtained Lution of Jimmy. He brings to the | by Universal At a record prices