SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929.
APES
AND MEN
H. G. Wells And Julian Huxley On Evolution
The
The new work, "The Science of Life." being written by Mr. Wells and Professor Huxley, has now reachie its tenth part. In Part IX., they discuss "The Evolution of Man." As our authors say, "There is need to stress.the physical likeness of the higher apes, chimpanzees, gorillas, or orang-utangs, to ourselves. crowds which gather round their cages in the Zoo are a testimony to this resemblance and the interest which it inspires. We have but to watch a mother orang with her child, or a young chimpanzee at play, to realise how deep the similarity of behaviour goes. The mother dandles her baby in her arms, kisses it, strokes its head: her gestures and the play of expression on her face have an often pathetic likeness to a human mother's."
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SHAKESPEARE
REVIVAL OF THE BACON THEORIES
MYSTERY DEEPENS
ENGLISH KING
STUDY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY
COURT CEREMONIALS
he self-named William Shake-["The English King," by Michael speare, "The Prince of Wales", Macdonagh; Ernest Benn, by Alfred Mudie: Cecil Palmer, Landon.]
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Described as ". study of the Readers of Shakesperian litera- monachy and the Royal Family. ture of the last few decades must historical, constitutional and social," have noticed that the critics of a "The English King" is a book filled' quarter of a century ago. extolled with interest since for perhaps the by some as reaching the high water first time our King is described not of Shakesperian criticism, showed merely as a figurehead but as a real an almost instinctive bias against human being and one of his people. Baconian theories. Prof. Dowden
Mr. Macdonagh in his introduc- with needlesy acerbity named his tion explains that he "approaches magnum opus "Shakespere His the subject from human nature mind and Art," thus, playing ducks "end is concerned" with details of and drakes with the evidence of the curious interest as well as with con- First Folio.
it who otherwise would be unable to do so.
Charnwood, (Ernest Limited. 7/6d.) Water Weed" by Alice Campbell,
(Hodder and Stoughton 7/6d,) The principle of evolution has very rudimentary when compared | become a part of established know-with
our French Love", is the story of a ours. None the less, ledge:- is hard to think how any chimpanzee who, instead of doing man's experiences after setting out disbeliever.
thoroughgoing nothing at or of aimlessly on the adventure called Love. Fundamentalist, can resist the cast: fading with his two sticks until fle sets out as a young man full necumulated "evidences" of evolu- one chanced to ât into the other, of hope and the confidence that he Sidney Lee in his "Life of Wil-stitutional principles." Throughout tion, and also of man's desceny, and saw beforehand that they would wil find perfect happiness in the liam Shakespeare," though he spell- the book there is a pleasant mixture expect to be thought of otherwise it and would then serve his purpose love of his bride. He is plunged into ed the name correctly, never men of these two widely opposed sub- than as a person who wilfully shuts he was albeit in a humble way, misery and unhappiness and histioned the Baconian hypothesis.jects, and on account of this many The factors or causes of showing the same power which en- married life is one long story of ser-But in the appendix, that part of will read and enjoy the reading of
Whenever he a book where evil spirits, are re- evolution may give rise to differ- alles an engineer to design a bridge didness and strife. LkiL of opinion among biologists on paper instead of putting some seeks to make amends, he is met served for judgment, there is about
The whole is divided into seven and naturalists, but the validity of thing up and trusting to lack that with lack of love and sympathy on half a page in small print of futile
inadequacy. In some such blind- parts each dealing with some aspect the fact of evolution is surely be it will stard, or a physicist using the part of his wife.
of Royal life since fairly early days, It is convincing, if his mathematical yond dispute.
faculties to Finally this unhappy life is eyed fashion did the leading states- form other reason because it ex- calculate how his atoms and elec. brought to a timely end by, the in- men view the events which ultim- and finishing with a few anecdotes His Majesty King plains that facts about living drea-trons should behave if his assump tarvention of the Law, after Re-ately led to the formation of the of the life of turis, in the past as in the present. tions are right, so, that he can plan ginald's wife has twice made at- Irish Free State by the Sinn George V.
Feiners.
The first book is perhaps of out- Evolution is the key that has open- the crucial experiment which will tempts on his life.
Every year the evidence grows standing interest on account of its Our two authors tell him if they are right or not. Once more living alone, he seeks stronger that the playwright, of graphic descriptions of Court Cere e many doors. sunumarize a wealth of facts upon This instance of our authors is consolation in his work, and time Stratford Was not the person monial and the Royal Prerogative, which any non-scientific reader may taken Troms Professor Koehler's ob- gradually heals his wounds, form Ins own judgment. Save servations of his chimpanzee Sultan. while holidaying at a Trappist mon-primarily responsible for the plays. but for a reader who desires some- thing leas topical and more con- other amazing astery that the second woman
stitutional Books Four and Six are evolution, no rational explanation Saltan 'did many of these endless frets has ever been things for a chimpanzee to do. He comes into his life. Seemingly pos-
obviously intended. put forward: and on the evolution sometimes tried to chew off a part sessing the qualities which Regin- imagines ary view not only are they explic of the end of a piece of wood that 'ald most admires he able, but full of meaning.
was too large to enter the hollow himself in love with her.
At the Zoo
monkey caĶes
apes and
at
the Zoo.
Close Cousins
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It is
she
afford to
Every year the mystery thickens round that most extraordinary of all figures in history, Francis Baron. According to the writer's
**The English King" provides taste he has variously been portray history in the form that cannot ed as the greatest philosopher of fail to appeal and has been based on of a piece of bamboo, and by forc- On returning from his holiday he the age or "the greatest cad in his-a long and intensive study of the ing the pieces of wood and bamboo is surprised and delighted to re-tory. Only time will bring to light King as an institution and consider- We have quoted a reference to the crowds that gather round the together made a jointed stick that :ceive a letter from the woman, and the real truth. But no writer now able personal observation of the
He was not only a his good resolutions dy to the winds of any standing can Of he could use.
Royal Family. This is borne out course, no evolationist believes that tool-using animal but a tool-mak- with the indiscretions which fol- ignore in toto the Bacon-Shake-
Indeed, if you want to 'low: He is soon cured however on
by the moderately intimate detaila man sprang from any living kinding animal.
speare controversy.
the pages. of ape, yel, as one of them puts it, know something of the psychology learning that the woman is an In-
The present volume goes the that have crept into "cone cas hesitate to belleve in his of the chimpanzee, consult Koehler, ternational spy, and after another whole hog. Not only was Francis Some of the stories appear a trifle meeting with her where he is on his Bacon the author of the Shake- unnecessary in that they describe emergence'a new creation'-from a stock common to the anthropoid Whether we go so far as Messrs, Huard for political reasons.
sperian sonnets and plays; he was events which are of very minor. to the early tentative Huxley and Wells or not, we must passes out of his life.
the responsible agent for much importance and are mainly put in men.' Long ago there was a part-recognize our zoologically close kin
more besides, as well as being the to emphasise the human character to the chimpanzee. ing of the ways it could not be
The closing chapters of this book son of Queen Elizabeth by the Earl of our King. "Through the loss than a million years ago: the invention of language we are made deal with the finding of the Perfect of Leicester.
A comprehensive glossary at the. anthropoids remained arboreal and free of a new mental country, to Woman, who is supposed to typify
The difficulty with all these all-end is a distinct asset and is the the ancestors of the men we know which they have no access; but we the perfect form of French Love.
embracing theories is that they one thing needed to complete what do not for that reason cease to be Friendship grows into love and prove too much. And the reader is perhaps the only book of its kind, became terrestrial. So far as we can judge from links that are cer- their close cousin, дпу
more we are finally given a glimpse of who opens a book prepared to ae- and certainly one of the best modern tainly not missing, but always in- thán, a mentally defective child the "Happiness ever after" which cept a cipher system must be in publications.
This is a book that would bear of we usually have to take for granted.doubt, amid the multiplicity of creasing in number, there were for
We leave Reginald as a proud ciphers, which one to accept. If translation so that people other than nore than long ages only tentative men like
ceased to stand
Father, with a loving and affec❘ we prove conclusively that Bacon English could learn more of the in Pithecanthropus the Erect, in Java, and Evanthropus, the Pilldown
tionate little wife as his life com-wrote Henry the Eighth by the let oldest institution of its kind, there
ters in the Epilogue reading is "The English King" man of the Sussex Weald, Even
panion.
Francis Saint Albans, are we to these were rather collateral off
consider it a more conclusive proof shoots than beings un the main line
of Baconian authorship when an- of man's ancestry."
other system tots up the lettering to the magic numbers 287 and 166? Or is the satisfactory proof from à number of cipher tests evidence of the falsity of all?
Our joint authors, Huxley and Wells, think it is perhaps not often realized how extremely close man's The resemblance to the apes is.
human struc- differences between ture and ape structures are only differences 02 degree. Their skeletons are not merely alike in general plan, but correspond actual-
to censes
be the son father, апу
his
Shakespeare normal blood-relationship with his cousins, because he entered realma of thought and expression of which they never dreamed"
As another evolationist puts it, "The evolution-idea gives the world of animate nature a new unity. All living creatures are part and parcel of a great system that has moved sublimely from less to more, All animals are blood-relations; there
is
nature."
"And what moves most sublimely, ly bone by bone. The resemblance. as evolution goes on, is a growing
between man and chimpanzee is dominance of mind in life.-Johu much closer than these facts alone O' London's Weekly.
would indicate. The visible re- semblance permeates every detail of their anatomy: equally close is their invisible chemical resemblance. Brain of the Apes
It is not true that there exist definite structures in man's brain which are absent in apes. That was demonstrated long ago.. "Man's brain and brain-case are propor- tionately larger; but, as Smith has shown us, this increase
STANDARD TIME.
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This is decidedly an unusual story though common enough no doubt during every day life, in some aspects
to rely or their own common sense.
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ALL QUIET ”
BEST SELLING BOOK IN THE WORLD
Only once in a hundred. years probably there appears a book that Or, again. if Bacon is proved to becomes a best seller all over the
They
the
The three types of woman are no doubt to rather overdrawn, emphasise them. The degenerate woman is fortunately rare, and is rather over-coloured. The 'perfect a kinship throughout animate woman is also a little too perfect be the son of three different per world. Booksellers as a rule take and would have been made more sons by three different fathers are best-sellers as seasonal incidents, interesting by possessing even a all the channels of evidence to be but the phenomenal success of that
Perhaps the safest small vice, which would have also distrusted? made her more human,
conclusion is that they show the war story, "All Quiet on We believe that this book has inadequacy of the present evidence, Western Front," is spectacularly been written with the object of We must wait with an open and outstanding even alongside the most offering
At all events we successful xovels of recent years. enlightenment to the receptive mind.
FirstIt was published in Germany at the young men who might be contem-have the sonnets and the plating matrimony, but though ad- Folio and they form the greatest beginning of the year, the author, mirable in many ways we would volume of literature that the world a German who served through the not advise them to take Reginald's has ever seen. No discovery as to war, and there it has sold over a adventures too much to heart, but their authorship will detract from million copies... It was translated into
their merit and originality.
English, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Hua- garian, Czecho-Slovak. Polish and Dalton, a clever daughter of a
Italian. within six months, and The night watchman in "Jack modern peerage and who is en-, ! O'Lantern" had settled down in gaged in journalistic work with everywhere it has risen up to the his little cubby hole prepared to the "St. Stephens Gazette.”
first place among the best-selling Sunrise Sunset spend the usual uneventful night are very happy together and the novels. It is still the best selling. when he hears a cry for help fol- marriage is a success but Rachel novel in the world. Everywhere it lowed by a splash.
is recognised as the greatest of all A shadowy always has the idea that his
the war books. form passes him and disappears people look down upon her, A
Of course, such a book that every into the gloom of the riverside son is born and Rachel appears log.
to neglect him since the baby one reads comes to the screen. The Police arrive and discover mur- spends his early life at Lowford cinema rights of "All Quiet on the Detec- visited at rare intervals by his Western Front" have been acquired by Universal Pictures and Maxwell which he The war breaks out and Arthur Anderson, one of the authors of Soon finds is intiately connected is killed. Then Rachel' takes up. "What Price Glory is arranging with two previous and unsolved her old life again and se regains the story. It is said that the price crimes. These have been attribut- the independence she had never paid for the film rights is about ed to one "Jack O'Lantern" and really lost.
$40,000. Wrench sets out to find him. As
There is a rapidly growing de- A very attractive story written
the war: one would expect he succeeds but in a style which at times rises to mand for books about the surprise as to the identity is great heights and is always good. Lately several books have had big Your susceptibility to "summer rather spoiled by the fact that it There is a great deal of pleasure sales. They have all put the war trouble" is increased by intestinal Amongst other instances of an congestion. The key to the sus early in the book.
is not at all difficult to guess it to be obtained from Without bluntly in plain language." "All
Capitulation." ape's intelligence is cited the case tainment, of good health during
Quiet" is not pleasant reading of the chimpanzee, though wholly the hot season-as
but extraordinarily impressive and all the year: "The Parson of Panamint" dia In Water untaught, who had the idea of round-lies in daily elimination a new series of short stories by Carew is on holiday in Europe America, several paragraphs have Weed" Virginia vivid. In the edition issued in. fitting one stick into the hollow of of the waste materials which, another to lengthen it and so get allowed to accumulate in the in- seves and is widely read There to meet a very old friend in the language would offend the Ameri
popular author who dewith her father, and is expecting been cut out; for their plain. testinal tract, pollute the blood and poison the whole system.
is due to the enlargement of parts: of the brain already present in the ape the parts concerned primarily with the faculty of association--- and no brain-organs are to be found in man which are not also to be
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found in apes. The ape, like our-Apr! 1 last to August 3 were der has been committed. selves, has its due share of reflexes £1,612,383, compared with £160ive Inspector John Wrench is put mother. and its complement of inborn in 730 in the corresponding period last atinets with their accompanying year.
in charge of thi emotions; but, like ourselves, it can not only learn, but learn rapidly. Though its actions, like ours, are al- ways built on foundations of re flexes and fustincts, yet the great majority of them are what they are because of the animal's individual experience."
at a banana which was out of reach
The Avoidance Of
Summer Trouble".
aré ten
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
of either stick by itself. "To do
complete tales, and it person of Glenn Hillier. The lat can censor. would be difficult to pick out any ter arrives late for his appoint- that is to anticipate experience by In Pinkettes you find a mild yet one of them as being outstanding ment and then rushes away before thought. What concerns us here is thorough laxative and liver re They are all good. Stories of the they have had time to talk. the fact that chimpanzees and other gulator which, taken when need old gold digging days related by Virginia learns afterwards that frue apes do have this culty of ed, goes far to avert "summer a "desert rat Chuckwalla Bill he is at the beck and call of anticipating experience, of putting trouble" and to ensure your gen Stories of fortunes found and (Cuckoo) Fenimore who is twp and two together so as to deal eral fitness, Pinkettes are ab gambled away, of mushroom him for her own purposes. with a new kind of situation in an tainable of chemists everywhere, towns and their passing, all pack- appears incapable of intelligent way, and that this power, 60 cents, the vial.
away and it is only af Fenmore is murdered and he Henry proved guilty of the ch that Virginia is able to say th the baneful influence has gone ouf of Glenn's life............
in spite of the most careful tests, has never been detected in any lower animal, even in tailed mor
keys,
The Experimental Mind
Many animals have that form
of intelligence which we may call intelligent learning, but no others
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