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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle hus been made by an expert bui one readers are warned to look and for occasional phonetic
spellings, such as harker, plor, ci altho.)
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6
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70 4
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+24
25
27
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145 145
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HORIZONTAL
1-A character In
"Oliver Twist"
B-A city in Oklahoma
9-faland group S. W.
of New Guinea
10-Into
12-Toward 13-Even (Poet.) 14-A precious stone 15-Great vulture of
Andes Mountains 17-A tribe of Israel 18-Porslan falry 19-Soft food for babsa .21-A musical wind in-
strument 24-To clip 25-Yonomous snake
(pl.) 28-River in 8. Caro-
Itna 30-To draw out 32-To Irritalo
►
33-Clattad blood 30-Sorrow (poot.) 37-Prefix-"more than" 41-Learning 42-A, musical wind In-
strument
43-An Egyptian god
depa
.
HOTZCHTAL (Cont.)| 46-Fantastis
44
VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-A bylvan deity
47-Ta string on a stick jg A New Testament
43-Gratty
62-Hired
63-A number
55-Alo 166-Old Duch (abbr)
67-Behold
159-The head, as of
wheat 59-Te stub, as one's
too 60-Smallest in value
VERTICAL
1-A bundle of sticks 2-Exlet 8-Rubber 4-A city in S. E.
France E-The Monale law
-A support 7-Ocean &-Mountaina of 5.
America 11-The Scandanavian
people
12-A high silk hat
(clant. Eng.) 10-A number
writer
|22-Personal pronoun
23-A city in Maine. 28-Landscapes
127-One of the churches
(abbr.)
29-An edible root of
Polynesia 31-U, B. allver coin
|34-Combining form-
"ali"
35-Appearing as if
·
gnawed 38-To perform 37-7o put Into a mall
box
38-To drive off j30-A email bird |40-A New England
State (abbr) 41-Hold out 44-Brie! 46-To fall 148-A worshipped Image
GO-Destiny 51-Personal pronoun 53-A drink 64-Exlated
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issued along with a new "cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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ROAR A LEERKRAID SOON RAIN Y AAR SIGELISSAND GNAW RENDS SIGH A GOT Dna GAD O AT NET D GLX UN NAB MEASVAG ERG RAVEN A YEARN
SNOWDROP TIME
Ah, hush! Tread softly through the
rizie,"
For there will be a blackbird sing.
Ving, or a thrush.
Like coloured beads the elm-turis
dush:
All the trees dream of leaves and
flowers and light.
And see! The northern bank is much more white we
Than frosty grass, for now is anOW-
drop time.. MARY WEBB In Poems and the
Spring of Joy.
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THE SHORT STORY
A Modern Form of Literary Art
of
The short story as we know it is Bankers generally understand
modern form a distinctively the constitution of their awn banks, and shareholders in bank-terary art. The Italian "novelle" ing companies can obtain the of the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- knowledge which concerns themturies are its predecessors rather as to those companies; but the than its ancestors; for the tradi- customera, who are a largo class, tion of Boccaccio, both in Italy and in France, can scarcely be said to usually accept the bank as an existing institution, and chiefly have outlived the Renaissance,
Practically then a fresh start was want to know the range of faci-
very recent times: lities the bank has to place at made within their disposal and the law which since Balzac hardly belongs to the governs their dealings with the main line of development, we may banker. Decisions of the courts regard de Maupassant as the father and also legislation from time to of the modern short story. And in time qualify conditions, and to Britain, so young is the art, we still first eminent meet such circumstances text have living the books on the subject have perladi-English writer, Mr. Kipling, whose reputation is primarily based on his short stories.
cally to be revised.
One of the most famous of these text books is "The Law of Bank or & Customer," first published in 1859 (by the late Mr. James Walter Smith, LL.D.), a new edi- tion of which-making the 26th thousand-is now provided by Mr.
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"G.B.S." ON HIMSELF
"Inflicts Pain Like a
Dentist"
Dr. R. F. Rattray, Principal of the Leicester University College. has issued a syllabus of a series of lectures to the students on "Bernard Shaw, in Life and Letters," to be given at the Leicester City Museum. Mr. H. A. Silverman, director of extramural studies at the Univer- sity College, forwarded a copy of the syllabus to Mr. George Bernard Shaw, who commented on the syllabus as follows:
"1. I never cultivated anything- From a horribly shy and diffident young man, producing an impress- sion of brazen impudence, because, I suppose, the ability of which I was unconscious asserted itself through the disadvantages and the ignor- ances of which I was too conscious.
"2, I repeat, I was not conscious of my powers any more than I was conscious of the taste of the saliva that was always in my mouth. I wanted to be a painter, and even an opera singer-not a writer. I wrote because I could do nothing else, and had to do something.
It is an extremely exacting form of literature. Its length practically limits it to the narration of a single episode; but the context of that episode has to be sufficiently sug Rested to maintain illusion; and a must suffice to very few strokes R. Borregaard, M.A.. barrister-at-indicate character, yet must achieve law (Effingham Wilson, Ga.),
their purpose with all the clarity that we expect to be attained by the more leisurely methods of the novel. Henry George speak, and was shunt- The success of our generation ined by him on to the economic track this difficult form of writing may well become its chief claim to dis- tinction in the literary histories of the future.
In addition to a review of the history and constitution of the different sorts of banks, the Edi- tor gives a plain statement of the law and of the various decisions which have been made of late years in elucidation of special
points. The book is therefore of se and value both to students of law and of banking, as well as to the large and daily increasing
class who keep banking accounts.
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"3. Karl Marx died just before I heard of his existence. I heard
which led me to Marx and Social- ism, but I never made his acquaint- ance.
"4. As to enjoying hammerings," I don't think this is true. Cashel Byron, when he said that he nearly killed his first opponent because he
Sale of Lulworth Castle did not know his own strength, ex-
Books
Some interesting books belonging to Mrs. Alfred Noyes, removed from the
What the Reading Publicbrary of Lulworth Castle in conse
Wants
quence of the fire there, were cold at Sotheby's on March 3.
They include first editions of Pope, Swift, Dryden and other great British
writers
Among the rarer works, perhaps the most notable is a perfect copy of the "Chastising of God's Children."
"The prouffytable boke for mancs soule and right comfortable to the body and specyally in aduersitec and trybulacyon whiche boke is called The Chastysing of Goddes Children." (Westminster, Wynkyn de Words). Its date is about 1492.
There is a hitherto unrecorded "Rock of Hours" for English use, printed at Rouen in 1520, with fifty woodcats.
American publishers have FCA- sons to be satisfied with the ac- tivity of their industry during 1920. The total production of new books and new editions was 10,187, as compared with 9,176 for 1928. Increases were recorded in the fields of fiction, biography, education and general literature.
Some observers have been troubled by the increase in the number of fiction titles. Joseph W. Lippincott, retiring president
These works are in black letter, as is of the National, Association of Book Publishers, told his fellow also "Eirenarcha, or the office of the Justices of Peace, together with an ex- publishers at their annual meet-position of certain difficult and obscure ing recently that the demand for words and termes of the lawes of this popular literature had caused a Realme." Its date is 1615. decline in the sale of the Music, heraldedic manuscripts, early "staples" of literature. The phrase, works on America, as well as some fine "Here is something new," he saw carly seventeenth-century flower paint. as the "open sesame" to sales.ings on vellum, were also included in He found "food for thought" in the sale. fact that
fiction in "becoming a leader.
The tone of Mr. Lippincott's re- marks, however, was not so pes. simistic as some of the headline writers would lead their readers to believe. For he pointed out that "the, crude and ephemeral will always fall by the wayside." Other publishers at the conven- tion thought the sale of classics continued normal.
Now, the popularity of fiction As such should cause no alarm.
WINGS
There come to the flowers In my gardan Butterflies, golden-spotted, tawny, Blue-spangled and sulphur; Glistening dragon-flies,
bumblebees,
Droning honey-bees,
zooming
Softly whirring comes The vivid humming-bird, Sipping, sipping, all day long.
Fiction is not, by definition, At nightfall I hear the flutter of the worthless. Has the "Iliad" influ- Luna's wings, as
enced mankind less than the "Re. She caresses the velvet cheek public," or "Hamlet" than the of the lily.
"Short History of the English
People"? The important question
Is not "Do you read, fiction?" but "What fiction do you read ?"
The Publishers Weekly believes that the total of fiction is swell- ed
and detectiva by mystory stories, which have enjoyed a vogue of late. No doubt; but it's only a vogue. Far more signifi- cant, probably, is the list of best- sellers for 1929. The fifteen best selling works of fiction Include only one mystery story. They in- clude three war stories, and of these "All Quiet on the Western Front" heads the list for the year. The general average of the list is reasonably high, None of these Afteen novels could be dismissed offhand 43 trash. The 'most popular include some of the best. Another cause for rejoicing among book lovers is the improve- ment in bookmaking. The Ameri can Institute of Graphic Arts is placing on exhibition from Febru ary 5 to 28, in the New York Public Library, its eighth annual selection of "Fifty Books of the Year" outstanding for beauty of, design. Nearly 600 volumes, we are told, were examined in mak Ing the selection this year. Not only is interest in beautiful books growing, but beautiful books, ara. A# becoming more numerous. the Fublishers Weekly algnificant. ly remarks: "The quality of de sign in this field has developed knowledge that has been used in frade books.
Really those who would view the publishing situation with alarm seam to have scant stand- ing space.
-JEAN M. SNYDER.
I
plained the savagery of some of my carly criticisms. It is true that I was, and to some extent still am, very sensitive; but on the other hand, I can stand up to, and even enjoy hammerings that drive other men to fury or reduce them to tears, And I often fall to conceive how they can be hurt by blaws that make me laugh when I.nap them myeclf.
"I Hit Hard" "When, as a critic or debater, I 'have' to inflict pain, I do it like a dentist, with great reluctance and with all the anaesthesia I can pro-
duce. But note that, as nothing is so maladroit as any show of sparing the victim's feelings always hit as excellently as I can, with an air of hitting as hard as I can.. I have a horror of humiliating or discourag ing people. I like my man to feel that he has had a good fight, and been worthy of my steel; and not that I' have been showing off my good taste at his expense.
"That is the line that leaves the least malice.
G. B. S. "P.S.-Only a keen or fairly erudite musician can deal with the artistic side of my career. I was quite well educated, musically and graphically."
Dr. Rattray atatea that he is de lighted with Mr. Shaw's notes on his syllabus.
Major C. F. Adams, who formed new branches of the British Legion at Appledore and Ruislip of the Rye branch, has been appointed organising secretary for the London
-area.
A man belleved to be Charles James Brown, aged about 40, who for some time had been living in a caravan near by, was found dead on the railway line at Mill Hill, N.W.
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