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BOOKS
THOMAS HARDY;
"Poet And Novelist.
If the great figure of Thomas Hardy dominates our contemporary scene.in, his double office as nove- ilst and puct we are bound to admit that in his case there can be no question whether he is, to he described as an Ancient or a
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course, of imitation; each pursues his appointed path in his own way. But Hardy was obviously attracted towards Schopenhauer, especially In his notion of the inferiority of the Intellect to Will; 'as indeed he might equally have been under other circumstances to Bergson and his Evolution Greatrice. In taking broad views of Cosmic history he has satisfied himself that there are no traces of a Divine Government, directing human affairs; on the contrary, Chance, which is only another name for
Fate, rules with unequivocal an thority, Naturally, therefore, in the absence of any Providence huunan. being's become pup.
pets, worked this way and caprices tat according to the of the Immanent Will." This In sovereign Will, in turn, must be
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Margaret Ethel MacDonald, a by J. Rumey biography, MacDonald.
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SATURDAY JUNE 211924.
THE AUTHOR AND QUEEN
VICTORIA.
Victoria :-
lock-lustré eyes..
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Modern, writes W. L Courtney inertile acknowledges the import village; atenderness for theilfe-giving touch of a masterful essential self and the thoughts and Queen's presence and reclaimed Modland be confided that this
the London, Daily Telegraph. He
A HUMAN BOY'S DIARY. the Iminanent Will which works
This book, by Eden Phillpotts, blindly without consciousness of
consists of Toddy Medland's diary, of any defnite "end. One cannot
What happened when Sir Harry during three terms at a private
The boye #chool.
live bo- avoid the conclusion' that in the
Jehustoric was knighted by Queen fore ono's eyes B114 .the author's scheme we are all rats in
unsters, too, while Modland seems a trap, doomed to break ourselves
"Not long after reachingutterly unconscious of his uncanny against the wires, victims of a
Windsor Castle, I was admitted to craftsmanship. Willoughby, the power which has predestined us
the Queen's presence: The Duke would-be Indian reformer, Isaac- from all eternity,
of Connaught was standing by her son, the financier, Burgess, the "Jude, the Obscure" received numerous company of John Bhands
the who never learn, according to tofassist in presenting the candi- primeval sneak, are real jewels-of-i harsh criticisms on some ground that it was a most sordid Barrie, thas secret which every dates for decorations. The Queen character study, Briggs, the post, woman knows. Now that he has was seated on a small throne or is a masterpiece. And here is the story; and it was then that Thomas Hardy turned resolutely to poetry, achieved his high place in the high chair in a very tiny cabinet,inner, meaning of a private school which had at along been his hobby councils of the British Empire, he one, I think, associated with Queen summed up, once and for ever, by deeper and deeper into difficulties and now was to become his chief has written a book about his wife, Anne. She held a bare sword in a boy named Norris: "You get
I kneli and was contribution to literature.
as the term goes on and you have demy and played annually
lightly tapped with the accolade. "Life's Little Margaret Eliel MacDonald, who her hand. volumes of verse, by two divisions of the Camp at Chalons. In Germany they would
Ironics," and the rest, touch sorte passed away 13 years ago, bulure Unfortunately, the Duke of Con thousands of lines to write, and the of the deepest problems of our he was able to see the access of naught had become mixed in his hatred of the masters, and various the candidates for private rows, with other fellows, have built sonte vast building for
existence, but "The Dynasts" is a her own work or the later political account of
Mr. various distinctions, so that he and a dark future on every side. triumphs of her husband. Reinhardt 1 produce it in.
supreme achievement only possible MacDonald writes, quite maturally, confused me with some military Then the holidays break in, and had been severely you get away from the misery and Russia it would have made an described not as He but as It. English reputation." Oragain he
This fatalistic view is steadily to a great creative artist, who in tribute, but always will officer, who growing through all Hardy's looks before and after" and restrain giving emphasis to her wounded in India or the Sudan, beastly complications, and know acclaims the great tragedy as
refreshed and hopeful." novels until it finds its full deve constructs what might be called importance as a public figure, and and the Queen looked at me with that next term you will start again the lastand largest achievement|lopment in "The Dynasts." The an epic Or tmgedy
avoiding a detailed account of her Yet, by a sort of fruitful a subject as novels themselves have marked so of a master of two mediums."
It is full of personal life. There is the love Napoleonic War. Here at all events, is a figure characteristics. of which our sometimes flippant of natural phenomena in all their dramatic scenes and situations, paradox, be succeeds in giving the vivid and, above all things, an account of her aspects the sonn, the heath, the portrayed with humbler workers on the land and hand. Thus we have the death of feelings which were poliarly her the yeoman farmers; a dictaste for Nelson un board the "Victory," the own. the gentlefolks whom the novelist fatal Russian campaign and the does like and therefore cannot rain of Napolean's hopes, the field draw; a certain view of women
of Waterloo with all the wild portrayed with great subtlety and confusion and desperate charges, insight, which makes them almost together with an idyll here and a da monic element in human there. of lowly lives in the midst Mr. Ernest Brennecks affaits; and a curious reliance on of world movements of trans- was put before the critics in 1871, some years before Disraeli attempts with no little srcess to coincidence in working out the cendent importance. The more's the pity that so majestic an edifice brought out his last novel, give us a reasoned account of plots. But the striking thing is the
an atmosphere of should be reared on a foundation Technically, therefore, he belongs; Hardy's philosophy in his book, atmosphere,
Nescience and Pessimism. For to the Grand Old Men of yester-Thonias Hardy's Universe" (T. globan, a little difficult cometimes
of what Mr. Hardy tells us is to breathe, a background
these day; he is a Victorian in literal Fisher Unwin), which ought to he
#allant reveal And yet very useful to those who, looking sombze and painful unhappiness, that
such fine acceptation of the term.
of hun Victorian as a descriptive epithet upon the poet as an enigma, are miseen-scète of frustration and whi h
bravery pinned Gladstone's liberal policies: found time to make her home auch, but knowa quite enough for seems in no sense to be applicable anxious to attain in some solution, helplessness. Marriages are unamples
it is equally un- and self sacrificing pri tister she became a Laborite and a centre of a "great companionship the Lower Fourth. He is very noothly; and, of course, so to to him; he is a Georgian poet-a Mr. Brennecke for the most part happy and
i we." Another delightful com- scer, a prophet, a philosopher with sustains his thesis by reference to happy to remain single; lovers do are nothing but the movements of Socialist, and plunged deeply into of men and women doing the work popular, and likes things to go
the text of the poems and the not always meet at the close of dolls or puppets worked by a blind
nature is the But he has one notable their long journey of misunder will, which is impersonal and
of the world.""
This book is, like Cornelia ment, on himunn
to Fletcher stories,
the rebel against unconscious and drives towards contribution to make to the sub-standing:
convention is as much a failure as
an unknown goal. Nevertheless
fine life and a Minor, who was seized with a pain obligations
Schopenhauer, who laud-worst ufall-sometimes out hope. It is just possible-so
an account of a
pessimist.
echo of we learn in a choric song, at the
great work, remembered tenderly in his chest: The Matron put obviously inspired some of the there is heard the
Herven. end of the drima-that the Wil
Dat without mawkish costusies of him to bed with a hot-water bottle sentiment. It will be welcomed in and a linseed poultice; and in the dogmas and suggested some of ironical laughter in
is no ΣΠΟΡΟ successful may some day grow to be conscious. only aware the conclusions. Temperamental-Jude
England, as an appropriate monu- dead of night he thank the lot ly there is a certain likeness be when he has accepted the obriga- If the Will were
ment to a greatly loved figure. In wafer in the bottle and ate nearly tween the two thinkers, for both tions of matrino.y than when he of what it is doing, it might act
Anseriya, where her work is not so all the linseed poultice. I believe broke loose from them. Tess is from design and even become are more attracted by the sorrows
This is the aspiration of
generally known, the story of Mrs. he would have done just the same and fallures of humanity than they throughout the sport of unkind friendly
the Spirit of the Pities:
MacDonald will be opened because if it had been made of mustard, are by the occasional gleams of fate, and the President of the
Something within me aches to
it bears her husband's name, and Strange to say, he is perfectly well happiness and success, and both
will he closed with a sense of life again this morning,, und tells me that like-warm linseed poultice is start from the same st indpoint of a "Will," which is the animating
enriched by the prosence, even force in human history, the ariving
briefly, of such women in national very decent eating"(Heinema
68.) energy with makes the world go
affairs. round. There is no question, of
ance... Thomas Hardy cannot be is both old and young--indeed, be dismissed with a smirk or a strug is the most Modern, of Moderus.of the shoulders, amongst other His first verse was written when Palmerston was the Queen's
reasons because he is not only, a puet or a novelist, but also a thinker who has thought out for
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"I did not know what to do,
As a matter of fact this mo and feared that something
un Norris and acquired the Scripture, toward might occur if I rected the Prince (sic) in the prize in the Upper Third. But to my proper personality; so I had success was due to fuck rather than to listen to a few words of chilly to knowledge: "He had found a the worn-out prayer-book in his desk, non-existent wound, which, as the tert by the last chap who had that condolence with regard to Queen said, with a Bicker of desk, and when he had given up recognition, seemed to have left his own prayer-book before the he had kept the alertness and then at the given
hine." Here, again, is a little mere presence."
signal withdraw from the royalather with splendid results to sketch with the bite of life; "Mr Mamering is our form muster now, who got a Blae at Oxford long ago` Despite her and still takes great pleasure, in
Prime Minister, somewhere about
no trace in my appearance or my
and his first
1865,
novel
a good many messages for our young men. Time menus nothing for him; he is the same yesterday
himself a definite theory of the world.
exum.
Mr. MacDonald begins his biography methodically with description of his wife's resity: Brought up in an atmosphere that combined orthodox piety with intellectual eagerness, she soon becune dissatisfied with passive acceptance of dogma, and began to read for herself: reading soon led her into the pre-public character. episodes, tied fields of polities and sociology.
1 her early twenties, sie cham-children and her reforms, she games. He is said not to know
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and to-day and to-morrow. Even ject. He traces in detail Hardy, the inan who accepts convention, he does not leave us entirely with Workers and the Women's Indus Parker's book about lier husband, fragment devoted
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that bright and reckless critic who has just produced a new volume of essays under the title A Gallery," refrains from his airy
for flippancy and
be privileged see Mr. Güedalla lowering Philip his brilliant rapier-play before an acknowledged repaition. As a rule, nothing seems so naturally to invite criticism from Mr. Philip Guedalla as the established gods of our idolatry. Listen to the Dynasts. him, however, on "Written in French it would have been crowned by the Aca
Lo the notorious
mortals only ceases his spiteful game when she dies on the scaffold Bathsheba only escapes because of the moral strength and sanity ol Gabriel Oak. It is all one long indictment of the stupid cruelty of,
pray
To some great heart to take away
This evil day, this evil day,
the work of strial reform. was active in the work of the National Union, Women trial Council, as well as in suffragist movements, although so was not in sympathy with militant sufragism.
Finally, Mr. MacDonald gives a chapter of his book to his wife's for her love asd one life children, the open comtry, and foreign travel. This is the side of her which her husband anten tionally places in the background, but he assures us emphatically that these simpler, more universal traits a part of her as her puch
were as
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It'll keep you guessing-and
it will leave you gasping
What's going to happen next? So much tingling thrill 'was never before screened in one production! "It will hold you-and leave you gasping!
UNIVERSAL JEWEL "The pleasure is all yours'
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BEHIND THAT door was... mystery! There had been mystery everywhere' this strange night, when romance and love fled before. BAVU! But to the peasant who had becomen knight errant and to the princess royal, who had found Love, there had come the Engl ing thrill of new-found happinessi Dont miss this romantic mystery thril- Jer, because its ever-last-ing-ly EXCITING!
The the pier b
KARL CARROLL
Directed by STUART PATON.
BAVU
"Ever-last-ingly EXCITING!
Presented by CARL LAEMMLE
-SCREENLAND.
Scene from
"MAIN STREET" A Warner Bros. Production
MARIE PREVOST,
REVEALS HER MARRIAGE DONT'S.
No Wedding Bells.
I won't marry a man who hasn't
a senso of humour.
I won't marry a man who has been wild.
I won't marry a man who isn't about my age and who hasn't my same interests at heart.
I won't marry, a man unless I love him deeply.
"I feel ecrtain that if these sug- From the lips of irresistible gestions are followed by other Marie Prevost, who plays the part young girls," Marie says, "the of Marjorie Jones in the Warner chances for marriage failure will Brothers' classic of the screen, be diminished. Divorces are due "Brass," the novel of marriage to men and women just trotting and divorce written by Charles G. off to the licence clerk and getting Norris, which is shown at the married, without giving the World Theatre, for the last time matter the serious consideration there trickle a number of marriage which such a step deserves." don'ts which, if she ever decides,
The story of "Brass" deals with to marry, must be fulfilled by her the love of Marjorie and Philip future hubby. Here is what sheBaldwin, their wrecked home life and their successivo-but-not-sue-
I won't marry a min. I don't cessful love affairs. Among the know well...
Lather membera of the east are I won't marry a man I expect to Monte Blus, Harry Myers, Irene Rich, Frank Keenan, Helen Fergu- reform.
I won't marry a man who son, Margaret Seddon, Miss Du Pont and Edward Jobson. The doesn't respect womanhood.
I won't marry a man who is production was made by Harry unpopular with children and other Rapf, and it was directed by
Sidney Franklin"
men.
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Commencing Sunday 22nd.
The DANCING
CHEAT"
Starring
HERBERT RAWLINSON with ALICE LAKE
The Wheel of love goes round for every man "She loves, she likes, she doesn't care, she hates me."
Where did it stop for Brownlow Clay when he met Poppy, the flame girl, in Mexico's fascinatlug Monte Carlo?
THRILLING COLOURFUL-ROMANTIC- BREATH-TAKING IN ITS TREMENDOUS SITUATIONS OF FIERY DANCING.
Also
18th, ROUND OF
THE NEW LEATHER PUSHERS
(BARNABY'S GRUDGE}
Sunday Matinee Excepted
AT THE
WORLD THEATRE.
"THE DANCING CHEAT”
"The Dancing Cheat," most recent Universal attraction; com
have racing as its motif It is true, Trŵng Cummings, the director, included a brief race track scene in the play, but it was duly
ing on Sunday to the World Incidental. Rawlinson is cast as Theatro, co-starring Herbert Brownlow Clay, proprietor of a. Rawlinson and Alice Lake, is one gambling place whose fath in the of the very few screen stories woman he loves, Alice Lake's part,
suffers a tragic plow. aired in Tia Juana that does not