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PHRENOLOGY:
["The Student's Enchyridion by J. P. Blackford, 2nd. Edition revised by A. G. M. Severn & J. M. Severn. Price 7/6. This is not the book for sceptic though it may be useful to bellevers in Phrenology who wish to practise the art. As a scientific treatise on the subject it is difficult to take the book seriously, and it is somewhat surprising that Dr. Severn, who was formerly Medical Oficer of Health for Hong Kong, should think it worth, while editing.
The author sums up the case
If phrenologists said what they
A Club To Leninism have to say in plain straightfor Here we come upon the great ward language, the absurdity of It political differentia between East would ba too obvious, and and West. Western Europe always phrenology as a business would be takes a certain measure of tolerance ruined. Hence all this nonsense for granted. It may be greater, it organs of Eventuality, may be less, but the possibility of about
people agreeing to differ, la always Ideality, Sublimity, etc.
Judging by his impressive array allowed. There has been plenty of of qualifications Dr. Severn, M.Augly and cruel persecution in the D.P.H. Fellow of the Chemical West, but it has always been a Society, Fellow of the Royal rather blundering ad hoc affair, Society of Public Health, etc., etc., based on some specific apprehension should be able to write a much of the Government at a particular better book himself, and we would time. In Russia, on the other hand, suggest that he would have been whether Czarist, or Bolshevik, In- well advised to have left Mr. Black-tolerance has nothing emotional ford's book, in its well deserved about it. It is something, much obscurity.
more Intense and deadly, a set-at- titude of mind. It is a fundamental principle of government, Once we grasp that, much that is perplexing
G. E. M.
for Phrenology in four so called LENIN THE DESPOT about Lenin and the system he has "principles. The first is, that the brala is the Instrument of the Imind.
The next is, that other con- ditions being the same, the size of the brain is the measure of its power,
ia
Assuming that this claim granted, it does not carry us 'much further, as other conditions never
RUSSIA'S FIRST.
* MAN”.
{
left behind him becomes as clear as noonday.
One can also understand how Lenin was bound to break away from the strict doctrine of Marx. Marx-had said that the essence, of
M. Valerio Mareu has written in "Lenin" (Gollancz, 218 1 An ag gravating but; in its quee. way, in capitalism was a "claas war" which He is not lucid; was going on all the time, and in the structive book.
would of events A small active he is often incoherent; he is gross-natural course brain is likely to be better than a partial to his subject. He omits destroy the system. Lenin, with his Imany things that the ordinary Oriental intolerance, had no use for big sluggish one.
Ireader would like to hear about
ara
the same.
Quality is as
Novelist Dying
had been broken through falling down stairs while visiting friends in England.
Reading
and which, indeed, are necessary to a connected narrative—and gives instead page upon page of windy generalities. One might de- scribe his style - as á Slavonic Carlylese, with Carlyle's dramatic sense left out. And yet, given patience, it is a book worth read- ing. It is like the piping of Macphairson M'Clan:-
It was wild-it was fitful-as
wild as the breeze.
It wandered about lato several
keys;
养
It was jerky, spasmodic and
harsh, I'm aware
But still it distinctly suggested
an air.
Wins Plagiarism Suit
The Bolshevik Mentality To say that it enables one to understand Lenin would be an exaggeration. But it makes him, if not any more sympathetic to the Western mind, at least a little less": bewildering. The Bolshevik mentall. ty, which may be regarded as simply an emanation of Lenin- Buch was his power over his asso ciates-bales the average Euro
After years of litigation; Mrs. Grace pean; much as Alice was baffled in A. Fendler (above), of Los Angeles, Wonderland. The words it uses, has won a G8780,000 judgment against with one or two exceptions, seem Oliver Morosco and Richard Walton familiar; but they make sentences Tully, producers of "The Bird of Paradise. Her claim to authorship with subject and predicate that was upheld by the courts. ought to bear a certain meaning but somehow don't.
must
are more
Eleanor Wylie, poet and novelist,
But when one reads a book like the natural course of events. The who was very ill after her back M. Marcu's, one realises that one issue; he argued, would never come go behind words to the until it was forced, by a "class war" that was not (as the late Lord spiritual hinterland of those who use them. We are too apt to assume Halsbury would have sald) à sort: important as quantity, but the that because Lenin and his disciples of a war, but a war in the real sense author has very little to say on
have put a Western facade to their of the word. To the direction of this point.
house its interior architecture is the that war he devoted his life.
Furtive Life in London He hurries on to his next same as our own. The striking
The story of his achievement is "principle" which is, that the brain photographs of Lenin which M.
ugly but fascinating. Vladimir is not one organ, but a congerica Marcu has included of organs each of which has a eloquent than words, The man was lyitch Ulianoff, to give him his real 48 some romantic distinct function.
Tartar from Astrakhan, and his name, was not, further, we find that there are no
whole scale of values, intellectual journalists have said, a nobleman less than forty one of these organs! and moral, differed profoundly from except in the technical Russian of humble origin, The fourth "principle" is that that of the Mediterranean and sense. He was
the son of a petty official. His it is possible to locate the position Nordic compound
*brother Alexander, a youth stili in of each organ and estimate Its Western culture.
his teens, was hanged in 1887 for size by examining the exterior of
complicity in an attempt to murder the skull.
the Czar Alexander III. From that This is the most doubtful claim of all, and one
moment Vladimir was a revolution- would like it to be dealt with at
ary also, and as a gesture adopted length; but the author makes no
Was it chance? Was it historic his brother's revolutionary nam` de continuity? Was this book the re guerre of "Lenin." He never attempt to prove it.
vised testament of Peter the Grent? learned any trade or profession, ex- Lenin, however, had not constructed cept that of political agitator, his Theory of State out of legends which is precarious and demoralis-
Does it necessarily follow that the size and shape of the brain correspond with the size and shape
that.. we. call
One Tyranny for Another Here is M. Marcu's illuminating comment on Lenin's "State and Revolution":~~~
of the skull? There is certainly of the Burites, out of the archives ing. He was in Siberia for some some relation between the two, but of the Romanovs, out of the libraries to say that they correspond to such of Byzantine monasteries;
years, and then for long lived the usual shabby, needy, furtive life of a "political" in Geneva, Munich, and London.
a dagren that it is possible to treatises on orthodox theology. He estirante the size of the forty one took it from German philosophy, brain organs by examining the from Hegel, Karl Marx, from the HANN The, Will to Power" skull, la asking too much of the reports of the sittings of the Among the Russian revolution- student's credulity.mvwap)
French Convention and the journals aries, there were many more amiable of the Long Parliament. His theory and finer characters, but Lenin was Though Phronology is now more than a century old its advocates was thus a Western fruit; but it the only one who had the will to have as yet failed to prove their was to be tested out on Ruksian soll. power, and the intellectual equip
The work was garnished with Germent to make it effective. M. claims and they can hardly expact the world to sympathise with their man, French, and English quota-Marcu perhaps exaggerates his part complaint that they are neglected. tions; but its conclusion demanded in the overthrow of Czarism; the same blind obedience as the Czarism collapsed of its own rotten- If they could convince enquirers that they have knowledge that isukase of Peter the Greatness. But Lenin's achievement In M. Marcu might justly have evolving a new order out of the useful in determining character and intelligence, they would not be mentioned Jenghis Khan and chaos that followed entitles him to Timur, as well as Peter, the rank as one of the world's great ignored. What a godsend it would Great as among Lenin's spiritual men-Donald Carswell in "John Of be to parents, for example, forbears, A modern Plutarch, London's Wealdy
12)
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