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THE WORLD OF BOOKS
25 YEARS AGO..
SOME PIONEERS AND
- REFORMERS,
BOSWELL.
CURIOUS AND RESTLESS MIND.
appeared in
ON READING.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY.
Every seven years, the physio-
Here, are nearly four hundred
Reading our best poete is better logists tell us, the cells in the letters, of which about a hundred than ali leggons.... Read only human body dle and are replaced. have never before
print, written between 1758 and such books as have long been scal We become, as an Irishman might 1705. They are addressed to per- the public and whose reputation is ed with the universal approval of put it, the same-only different. Can twice or three tinies that period written in every variety of style will gain much more from reading sons of every age, and either sex established. They are few, but you make a corresponding change in a and frame of mind, varying from those few than from all the feeble nation? If we sought an answer the most uproarious high spirits to little works with which we are in- we might be helped to it by the gloomiest depths of despair; undated..... Observe how natar- perusal of "This Generation" by and through them all shines the ally Madame de Sevigne and other Mr Thomaa Cox Meech, the first curious, restless, experiencing and ladies write, and compare
their volume of which has just been unexpected mind of James Boswell. style with the confused phrases of published (12s. 6d.) by Chatto and He lived in a milieu Ideally suited our minor romancers I cite writers Windas. An admirable survey it to bring out and accentuate his of your own sex because I am sure is, and gives the opportunity not humanity in the best sense of that you can, all will, resemble only of seeing ourselves as others word. In the eighteenth century them... You will notice.. that béc us, but as posterity will regard man in his position could-a8, of our good writers-Fenelon, Bous- course, ... hô `did-come to know suet Racine, Despréaux-always What were people thinking about everybody, who was worth knowing. use the right word. One gets one- and talking about in the first days The Literary Club, the club. par self accustomed to talk well by con- of what a cynic of 1900 called "the excellence, to which he belonged, atantly reading those who have opening years of this so-called contained a brilliant constellation written well; it becomes a habit to twentieth century?". In politica since in any country. Boswell nobly without an effort. It is not in of stars, surely unequalled before or express our thoughts simply and they were "thinking Imperially knew them all and wrote letters to the nature of a study; it is no trou- to, quote the phrase of Joseph Chamberlain, then the national many of them. The very names of ble to read what is good, and to his correspondents are a guarantee read that only; our own pleasure hero. Socially, although it was that his letters will be interesting, and taste are our only masters.*** then the last gasp of the Victorian No man can correspond with Samuel Voltaire's Letters. era, people were, it seeme to us Johnson, J... J. Rousseau, John looking back, amazingly Early Wilkes, the Pitts, Horace Walpole, Victorian.
Oliver Goldsmith, and a host of others without being interesting unless he is a very dull dog Indeed. BITS FROM BOOKS,
us
And Boswell was anything but that.
Of the greatest friendship of all there is little need to speak at this time of day. "I gaze after him with an eager eye; and I hope again
UNTIDY.
Smoking Up the Chimney. One or two women, it was dark- ly hinted, were smokers, But amoking was done only at the two extreme ends of the social scale: the gipsy-woman with her clay pipe at the ditch-side and the to be with him: The only point: smart society beauty, with her which is here worth emphasizing, scented
Babs was looking round the room. her because it is so plain in the letters, It was the sitting room, and Babe white and jewelled fingers, The is the greatness of the affection herself was not a conspicuously society Indies did themselves the which impelled a man like Boswell tidy person, but Vera!" grace to be ashamed of their de-... to go through the sheer phy-scarves, hats, lay everywhere. On Shoes, bauchery, holding their horrid sical toil necessary to write the
cigarette between
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1927,
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for, occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
11
14
19
36
58
30
32
HORIZONTAL
2.
36
10
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 1-What great seaport |42-Anolent harps In 8. E. China? )46-Borrow. 6-To skimp 11-A wing 12-Maker of
aarthenware 13-No+(Scot.)
14-A whinny
15-What British officer)
|45-A pair of units (pl.))
48–Manipulato |49-What country in
Aala la at clvil - wart
|81-A þorder, made to
enclose a thing
was hanged as a - [53-Even (zontr.)
|64–Bumse ka "Tally"
87-What sylvan deity
apy in the Ameri
can Revolution? 16-What is a primitive] played on the
American called? ****pipent 19–What le a puzzling,|68-Wint of rein
question called? 22-Part of Bibie
(abbr.)
23-To follow
· 20-Time-period (abbr) 27-Formerly..
RB-N: can, State of
·U, B. (abbr.) -80–Course hemp fiber
82-Atmosphere
34-Exist
85–Legal adlance S6-One of the churches
(abbr.)
* 17-Tolkway
40 Lab (abbr.)
BB-A pal
VERTICAL
-aupendati povering
over a bed..
B-A drink
VERTICAL (Gent)
To spoil 10-Stripped off the
skin of
17–The June kun
18 Possessive pronoun [20-What Islands are N.
of Bootland? ··· {21 "One's entire *property
24-What country in
W. of Ewedont 25-Joined together. 27-Large pitcher 28-Report; rumor St-Conjunction $8-N, can. &tate of
U. B. (abbr.)
26-Arranged
38.To passe
37-A sea-fin
41-To rise
3-Fastena with 'a' sali] 43–What is the populer. 4-What land was.
Solomon's astrón
abbr. for *****hinocerosa”↑ ·
of gold and gerhat (44-Part of a column B-Negativa
§-A compane point
(abbr.) 7-Hoisting-machine-
46-To detay 147-Qaping
[50-Podzespīve pronoun {82-Human rac
-What great river is 65-Interrogative
In W. Tibat and
N. W, Indiat
orgies in the seclusion of their "Life" at all. "A man may write the sofe was a brown paper parcel boudoirs, aa Early Victorian at any time-if he will set himself with a laundry note pinned to it. statesmen did at Windsor Castle, doggedly to it," said the oracle; and trailing across it was a blue puffing the noxious segar in their but even Anthony Trollope, the only ribbon with a champagne cork tied bedrooms, kneeling before the fire man, who ever seriously acted onto the end of it, as if Vera had place to allow the loathsome fumes this advice, might have found the been playing with a kitten. A box to escape up the chimney. Eman- task beyond him had he been in of powder had been spilt and trod cipated woman to-day smokes in Boswell's shoes, "You cannot im dan Into the worn carpet, instead. agine," Temple, is told, "what of being swept up again. From private and in public.
what the mantel-piece half the contents: There were no pillion-girls in labour, what perplexity, those old and happy, daye, only a **
vexation. I have endured in ar- of a vanity bag had been, spilled few brave "pioneers" in straw ranging a prodigious multiplicity into the fender, and the edge of the saflor hats, leg o' mutton sleeves, sions, in searching for papers, board of a pianoforte with the of materials, in supplying omis-thel: itself resembled the black key-- and bloomers, exciting the wrath buried in different masses-and all cigarettes that had been left burn- of the multitude, and the Impolite this besides the exertion of coming there. It was the same in the comments of vulgar little boys: posing and publishing. Many next room, which was Vera's bed- Can one easily believe that they time have I thought of giving it room. Orange peel lay on a plate marks of modern art. And to deny were of the same: race as the up." Happily for English litera- by the,aide of the bed; and the one's personal values was to sin modern and shingled Diana, with ture he struggled on "In friend dispersed pages of an evening against the light. a cigarette between her lipstick ship's name."-T. B. Simpson in paper strewed the floor. On the
ed lips, lolling at the heel of her super-spórta model, and scattering pedestrians into their two now pro- verbial classes, the quick and the dead?
Week-Enders Rebuked. ·
"The Fortnightly Review:"
dressing-table was a plate with a chop bone on it, for Vera seemed to dress and to take her meals in either room indifferently, walking about and dropping things ne ahe went. The little hall where she had groped for the box of matches was in- reality the kitchen. crazy little, bathroom had no light
Interjection 1-Preposition
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
+
no
The clever, voluble young peo ple, with cropped heads and jutting cigarettes-who flopped on her floor cushions and talked, and talked, and talked--did presumably be lieve in their falee values, or values at all. For them only the new thing counted. With positive. relish they spurned the past at all, if one might judge from the from which they had sprung, deny -a8f a flower should. candle end in the enamelled stick its roots.--Maud Diver."But Yes- that stood on the chair by the side terday" (John Murray.}
cracked bath--Oliver Onions."Cut Flowers" (Chapman & Hall.)
gentlemen of England, could be ao regarded. That remote day, though The week-end habit was then so only Avg-and-twenty years ago, new that it provoked the grave Reems nearer to the stage-coach age of Mr. Pickwick than to the hustle Parliamentary
of protest
Sirk Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who and, bustle of this age of get on solemnly declared that this habit or get out. had begun to dominate not only Yet there was no sharp division,
Figures moved conspicuously of the through that dim and distant past whose names are now familiar in
the Smart Set, but those who would like to be thought to belong to smart society, and he added that
In many households the blinds were drawn down by the occupants from Saturday till Monday, to give the impression that they were mem bers of the fashionable, set. To- day, even those below the rank of a stockbroker take their week-end at Brighton or Boulogue without
peace,
our months. There was a young cricketer called Hobbs, for example, who gave Surrey a leg-up at fame of the great W. G. Grace him- cricket, and has since eclipsed the
nell.
"Pre-War,"
The
......Her fourth floor room, whose pleasing proportions, were discounted, by the clash of crude colour and design run mad that had chanced to be in favour when her
The Churchill Tradition. Many people still regard Mr. the least fear of a reproach from Winston Churchill, by comparison Mr. Stanley Baldwin, rusticating with the older statesmen like Lords at Chequers, with his much-loved Balfour and Oxford, as a young lean purse permitted the extrava and much-photographed pipe of raan in a hurry, an untamed and gance of renovations. The long, untamcable enfant terrible of low walls ran in uneven stripes of Time's whirligig la confusing politics. He was, however, a con-black and hot orange, broken by thing. In the first five years of spicuous figure, in the first Parlia- sinuous traceries of a green that this century, Sir Henry Irving was ment of the century, ex-soldier, never was on, land or sea. There still alive, the head and front of ax-journalist, ex-war-correspon-were but three pictures-bizarre the British theatre, and Miss Ellen dent, and a Rupert of Debate in cubic ecstasies, expressed in Terry, his brilliant partner in 80 the great 'and ringing battle of splashes and spasmodic angles, the many triumphs, was celebrating Tariff Reform. Lord Birkenhead whole illumined by an immense her half-century on the stage was still politically in the womb Chinese lantern of many colours). T Labour In Cap and Bowler. of Time, and so was Mr. Stanley In lucid moments, Alison Owen There were no taxis in, the open, Baldwin. When this Parliament frankly despised herself for thus ing days of the century, no tubes met, even Bonar Law was unknown, doing violence to her own saner as we now know them, beneath for on his first speech Mr. Balfour standpoints, from shear, cowardly streaming London's central roar, was observed to look up Dod's dread of being dubbed a "back num- no Territorials, no real aeroplanes, Parliamentary Companion, presum- ber" and losing her desperate clutch- no Old-Age Pensions and no dole, ably to find out who he was. Mr. upon the flying skirta of youth, and practically no Labour Party, Churchill's youth. It would seem, Had she genuinely caught these unless Keir Hardie in a cloth cap, is his oldest tradition.
measles and mumpa of Progressive and Mr. John Burns in a bowler hat, straying among the top-hatted
Mr. Churchill has had stirring art it were another matter, but in times in and out of Parliament secret she far preferred the mumps It was at him that his subsequent and measles of an arlier decade. colleague, Mr. Ronald McNeill, She was fatally "prewer," and she threw a book scross the table of was doing her adaptable best to FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT the house, Mr. Cox Meech pleasant conceal the fact that she could not A cry in the night, griping pains in ly points out that by a happy honestly appreciate these plc- the vitals, cramps, weakening diar coincidence the book was a manual tures: ⠀⠀ without perspective, rhoea, whether child or adult, there of rules and advice for the obser- these versen without rhyme is immediate comfort and-euse from
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