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"Аппа
SEX FICTION.
Bovary? Yet Fielding, Sterne, Tol- Karenina," "Madame
stoy, Flaubert, are not charged with being obsessed by Box, and their books are neither respectable nor the disreputables in our estimation— Then they are merely "classics"; the very
people who are so bitter in their at tacks on the present-day novelist their back- place these books on
matter of course. shelves as Therefore, I repeat, exactly what do they mean by a sex novel?
Modern Epics.
who the
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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London," by Prof. F. G. THE TRUE AND THE SHAM IN Parsons, F.R.C.S., F.S.A. (Cecil Palmer) 10/6 net)..
The modern novel is so frequent- To anyone interested In the The papers and journals of the home countries find China good ethnology of the British Isles this ly attacked as being "sexriddon"
ought to
4 fuscinating and the modern novelist at almost "copy" these days, and newa of volume., The author, who is Pro- regularly recurring intervals accua- her Incessant civil wars and politi-fessor of Anatomy in the University ed of being guilty of deliberately of London and President of the stimulating the unhealthy mental cal intrigues in kept well to the
Anthropological Section of the Bri- While it is well for the fish Association for 1927, is well appetites of "the Jazz generation," world to know the truth about the quailfied for the difficult task, and that it would appear to be time that appalling state of affairs in presents he has been studying the sub the sex novel be not defended but
jeet and systematically collecting defined. day China we must not let our und arranging for the past thirty What exactly is a sex novel? If friends at Home lose sight of an-years the reader is assured that the by "sex novel" is meant a novel that theories advanced have not been takes for its theme the complexities other and happier side of the hastily arrived at. In spite of the of the relations of the sexes, and picture-China's rich
cultural author's profound scholarship the the dramas arising out of them; background and the many points book is written in language under then such classics as "Adam Bedo" standable to the educated layman of intellectual contact between (with the exception of a few neces- and "The Cloister and the. Hearth" Chinese and westerners. Forsary pages on cephalic Index, etc., are most emphatically sex-novels, eigners realdent in China realise the book is singularly free from and along with them such classica It is an of the future as "Tess of the D'Ur- technical phraseology). that life here is not made up en- attempt to collect as many facts bervilles" and "Easter Waters." tirely of the rise and fall of Gen-possible about the earlier inha- Is the present-day novelist more erals, opium smuggling, strikes and bitants of London-ie. the London outspoken than the author of "Tom Communistic disturbances, bandi- pre-Norman days-and by pice Jones," "A Sentimental Journey," ing them together to construct a try, and the like, and no better picture of the city and its denizen means for demonstrating this to The first chapter, dealing with palaeolithic and neolithic people, people in the homelands could be is more conjectural than the fol- found than the "China Journal,"lowing ones owing to the complete avowed aim of which is to inter- lack of written records and
paucity of the discoveries. pret China, her customs, mannera,
come the mysterious Beaker Folk, art, literature, natural history, and a tall round-headed people the like, to the Western world. until lately were known The December number, just off the Bronze Age Race because in their later tombs bronze implements are press, is a happy example of, the so frequently found. With the valuable work this publication is arrival of the Celts (about 600 B.C. doing for China Containing hand-according to Professor Parsons)
we arc on surer ground. Here All novels dealing with human life some colour plates and half tone (pages 72, 78) the author mentions must in some part deal with sex. illustrations in great number, it a very interesting "bleaching" Even in stupendous epics of first presents a wide range of subject theory to necount for the fair hair, and last things, such as Knut Ham- white skin, and blue eyes of the matter of varying interest.
Baltic peoples: Positive history of sun's. "Growth of the Soul," and Particularly appropriate to this Britain begins with Caesar's in- that even greater work, season of the year is the article vasion, 55 B.C. An interesting pic- Reymont's saga, "The Peasants," ture of the happenings and condi- you cannot escape the sex element. by Mr. A. de C. Sowerby Entitled tione round about the Thames dur- The relations of men and women, at "The Chinese Yuletide" in whiching the next century, when Cym- once simple and profound-as are he compares the Chinese New Year beline was king, is given. But as all elemental things-run through 22-What is the German featival with our Christmas holi. the book says: "The real history these masterly novels like the motif of London begins with the defeut day customs and finds man in- of Boadicea.... Before this of a musical theme. teresting points of similarity, Tsao Chun, the Kitchen God of the Chinese, is likened to Father Christmas, who has evolved from the little devilish god in red coat and cap, who danced on the hearth of our ancestors, and rendered mischief or comfort according as it pleased him. For further in. formation as to Chinese religious customs the reader may turn to the story of "The Oldest Idol in China" n fanciful tale inspired by a curious black Buddha. made of coal, and to "Paper Gods for Sale." Clarence Burton Day, the author of the latter article has spent much time in the study of the religious practices of the Chinese people and his account of the paper gods and their significance is very in- teresting.
time our knowledge of London is more or less rational conjecture gained by piecing together in vari- ous combinations what we regard as facts."
J
La islas
intended and does not desire.
How could it be otherwise? Can we pretend that the relationship of man to woman and woman to man is not the motif of the eternal anthem of human life? Hamsun and Rey- During the Roman occupation mont are modern svelists; are they London grew rapidly and soon be- condemned along with the rest? came, as she has continued to be, Are they pernicious because they the most cosmopolitan city in Bri- cannot avoid the delineation of sex tain. When Rome withdrew her tesues? protecting arm hosts of wild but
The novelists' difficulty, of course, virile. "Nordicks" came on the scene from Jutland and Frisia. These whether he be of this or any other are the chief moulders of the age, is that what he writes in all modern Englishman and Lowland sincerity, because a candid dealing Scot, though Professor Parsons is with some sex issue may be essen inclined to believe that the Celtic tial to the completeness of the book element in the average Englishman as a true study of human nature, is not so minute as many would the public is apt to accept in the have 08 think. A few centuries later, Norwegian Vikings and the same spirit as that in which it ac- Danes further
"Nordicised" the cepts a risque story, and the book blood of Britain. Here the book may sell not for its truth, the ex- finishes. As Professor. Parsons cellence of its writing, the fineness says: "We leave London as Harold and courage of its theme, the knew it inhabited by people of worthiness of its conception and the Dr. Wu Llen-teh, whose work as whom probably seven eights were high standard of its execution, but head of the Manchuria Plague of Nordie blood derived from solely because of a reputation for Prevention Service is well known Cymric Brythons, Gaulish legions "daringness" that the author never throughout China has contributed of Rome, Anglo-Saxons, and an article of great value as to Scandinaviana. . . The modern
Such a success is dead-sea-fruit "The Significance of Scarlet Fever Londoner has, no doubt, received a in China" which should be given great deal of both Alpine and to any sincere artist; it in bath wide publicity. During recent || Mediterranean blood since the humiliating and disheartening, and years the problem of Scarlet fever. Norman Conquest and the Alpine enough to make him turn into a which is generally understood to be type especially seems to be increas- professional best-seller or abandon a disease of temperate climates, has ing at the present time. The re-literature
for poultry-farming. become very serious in various parts search, however,, which I have been For the good of his immortal soul of China. This is explained partly able to maka among the hospital as an artist 'twere better he chose by the fact that the introduction of patients and medical students of the latter course and saved his soul this disease into this country is London makes me sure that the comparatively recent so that a na- modern Londoner is still more than alive.
No, the really pernicious novel, tural Immunity is not yet evolved three quarters Nordic in his charac- among the population, and also by teristics, though.I am conscious the intolerable and unpardonable distorts the the fact that owing to the wide that a new type of head-form is novel, is that which spread ignorance and superstition gradually being evolved, a type for matter of sex, either unwittingly, re- through the sheer unintelligence of among the people infection general- which neither Mendelism nor ly spreads very rapidly in a com- version will account!"
writers who have mistaken their munity once it gets a start. After
vocation, in the form of the silly going into detail as to the causes
pseudo-romantic novel, with its and the effects of this dread disease
false sets of Ideals, or in the form Dr. Wu tella what modern science has done toward controlling it and tells of the encouraging results ob tained from the Dick test whereby those persons liable to attack can be discovered and immunised by means of a toxin. The laboratory ainff of the Manchurian Plague Prevention Bureau were the pioneers in the Orient to undertake this new line of research, besides which they arg doing a work of great value in educating the general public as to the Importance of strict isolation of scarlet fever patients and proper care of the patients to avold serious complications which often follow this disease.
BY GOLLY-I'M SORRY I SENT FOR THE DOCTOR NOW. HE INSISTS THAT I GIVE UP SMOKIN' FOR AWHILE-IUL ZAKE AWWALK TO KEEP ME
MIND OFF OF CIGARS-
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
UN
HELLO-JIGGS- HAVEN'T SEEN, YOU IN A
LONG TIME.
TABLE
ŠTAE INTERNATİONAL STADIGATE:
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13-Who was the Norse
⚫god of war? 14-Reverberated 16-Pastries
16-Of what country le
Brussels the capital?
19-What seaport la in
8. E. Rhode
faland?
20-Hall (Latin)
22-Place (abbr.)
25-Wharves
26-Sedeta 20-Thirsty
29-Dried
grain
stalls of
for "one"? 33-Upon
34-To have existence 26-A wing (Blol.) 36-ear (pooL.) 38-A distress signal 40-What city was the
capital of Italy until 18057 42-What are U, 8.
copper coins? 43-Topographica!
engineer (abbr)
✡INE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
44-Consumad
145-Gleaming
49-Springing |53-Paralan fairy'
54-A ridiculous blunder
le speach 58-An object of worship
157-Cry of the sheep
58-A grassy fold 59-A city
in Ayrshire, Scotland
VERTICAL (Cont.) 15-Who was the Greek
goddess of earth? 17-A thoroughfare
(abbr.)
21-in what State are
the Green Mountains?
22-A window-glass 24-A graceful bird with
long neck
25-A
crack
26-One of the metals
60-0f what province of 27-A June-bug Canada in Halifax 29-Determined
the capital? (abbr.)30-Not thoroughly... 61-Erudition
62-North latitude
"(äbbr.)
VERTICAL
1-The dye indigo
cooked 31-Mohammedan
“proper-name- 37-What man was
struck dead 'for lying?
2-What are natives of 3P-A| Bok-bird
Bengal called?
4-What is a fabled
marine creature half woman and half-Beh called? 6-Man's name 6-What n place
where leather is prepared?
7-To provide for B-A musical medley 9-A poem 12-Ever (port)
19-What is the other.
name of the river
Obl, W. Bibarin?
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Atara 141-Ideal
45-What country
·formerly pazzessod Porto Rico? (abbr.) 48–Hebrew (zbbr.) 47-What la Perala's
official name?
49 "Note well"
(Latin abbr.) · 50-A short poem 51-And not
| 57-Gloria (abbr)
50-What is the fifth
sign of the rediret
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It is those elemental relationships of men and women that we sum up in the one word "sex," that life's greatest dramas are woven.
of the deliberately and calculatedly but should be encouraged. sensational novels of unscrupulous such novels, with their silly pecudo romanticism, tawdry sensational fiction-mongers.
Between such novels and serious, lem, and false idealism, which are sincere, masterly studies on sex really immoral and pernicious; and themes such as Susan Glaspell's it is such novels that make review- "Fidelity" or classic example ers old and bitter before their time, Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" there is all the difference between the suggestively undraped and the gloriously nude.
Might a mere novelist, therefore, make this plea of the reading public, that before it denounces any and impede them in the duty they novel as "a sex novel" it is quite owe to the serious novelist who does clear in its mind as to just what not write of sex matters either be it means by that ambigudus term, cause he himself ia sex-ridden and and be very sure that the novel it cannot help it, or because-with an has in mind at the time really does If by "sex novel" the public eye to royalties he hopes to pro- fall into: that catagory-whether it means the novel of the purple pas-vide suburbia with "cheap thrills," is not of the stuff that life itself sion school, then its denunciation of but because out of his artistic con- is made ofl-Ethel Marmin in the sex novel is not only justified,sciousness he knows that it is from "Evening Standard."
Tawdry Sensationalism.
BRINGING IN FATHER.
YES- ANIT
ISN'T LONG ENOUGH!
GOIN TO FLAHERTY'S SMOKER TO-MORROW
NIGHT-
('1927, by Lut'l Fashion Servipe
JIGGS-
IS THAT
NICE?