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THE CHINA MAIL.
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SHAKESPEARE
"Great and Perceptive Love" by Chinese
IAN HAY'S PROTEST
Belittling Soldiers in Books
the Major John Hay Belth ("Ian Hay"), addressing a congregation of men
at Coventry Cathedral, uttered a spirited protest against books which belittle the soldier.
Discussing the attitude of Chinese
in Singapore towards Professor of English Language and Shakespeare's plays Mr. Erk Gillett, Literature at Raffles College says:
Since I have been in Malaya I
and one
Phantom A. P. G. Vivi{ Limited, 7/6-especially Thinking of far soldier of the 1914, pre-wank, one non-commission recall to mind
"I have been asked to speak of: generally Inclinalised in the have had the opportunity of seeing peace and war," he said. "A proper the Tommy ard Kipling some of the English teaching in the hatred of war recently has develop- ballade of er sloshing, un- schools and for eighteen months 1 ed, but the natural reprobation of rough and refines.
To have have been directing the studies of war is being allowed to obscure our imaginative soldier as a like my own students at Raffles College, judgment to such an extent that we thing In particular has are Inclined to transfer the horror By contribut in 1914, unthink struck me as a result of my obser- of war itself to the men who fought. (printable he is "The Old vations and that is the great and The soldi has suffered more ups able. Yerising to the
oc-perceptive love for the plays of and downs in popular esteem than Contempted in 1914, as he al-Shakespeare shown by Chinese of all
He could not help feeling ension age and always will do. ages. When there was recently a that he is being unnecessarily be ways has of "Lector" in the performance of Hamlet at the Vic.ttled at present. Indeed, he is In the
toria Theatre, a large portion of the being insulted. We are submerged Daily
audience was composed of Chinese by a flood of so-called 'war books" W
boys and girls and it is impossible which purport to depict the men to Imagine an audience more atten- who fought for us in the late war. tive and appreciative. The actors For the most part, they are depicted and actresses commented on this and as brutes and beasts, living like said that it was delightful to act pigs, and dying like dogs. Some of before people who enjoyed every these books were conceived in dirt, scene to the full
and published for the profit dirt will the bring. Even if this is not authors' intention, the books are so interpreted.
t, and the world wants, tures from the ordinary . the man whose few words in a diary bring vivid scenes and sensa- to him. Let him be, as ex-Serviceman said to me, bt just bloody and not too jerary, not many of us had The same capacity for enjoyment Įre to think in poems out is shown by Chinese students when here."
reading or studying a play of Phantom Brigade" certainly Shakespeare, and they are particu this want. This is a real ad-larly fond of the great comic charac. ture story--for old and young, ters such as Falstaff, Sir Toby Belch THC. Written in the simple and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Read nguage of a soldier-adventurer, ers of this note may think that my or all to understand.
remarks are merely platitudinous No bragging or spinning the and I am prepared to agree, but they tale. Full of true facts, abounding are written with a purpose. When in lively humour. Full of the joys, I was a child I suffered an occasions the disappointments, and the hard-at the bands of teachers who ob ships which were the lot of that viously regarded a play of Shake worthy band of heroes.
speare as a piece of drudgery and an Throughout this delightful story excellent opportunity for forcing the reader is brought in close con- down the pupils' throats numerous tact with the mentality of the notes on comparatively unimportant private soldier, giving the reader difficulties in the text. an insight Into the spirit that
I am very anxious that children. dominates the mind of Tommy in Malaya shall not grow up with a Atkins, which makes him indomit- feeling of animosity towards the able and unconquerable in adver-greatest poet and creator of charac- sity; generous and care-free inters in the history of English litera- ture, and it is for this reason that I Really a true pen pleture put forward a plea to ask the Chin- which never allows the interest to
success.
flag.
MODERN PAINTERS
Lovely Lines from "The
Mountain Glory ”
I find the increase in the calculable sum of elements, of beauty, to be steadily in proportion to the increase of mountainous character, the alope of the meadows, orchards, and cornfields on the sides of a great Alp, with its purple rocks and eternal snows above; this excellence not being in any wise a matter referable to feeling or individual preferences, but demonstrable by calm enumeration of the number of lovely colours en the rocks, the varied grouping of the trees, and quantity of noble Incidents in stream, crag, or cloud, presented to the eye at any given moment.
cae community to do all they can to encourage the presentation of Shakespearean playa by good com panies in this country. The demand for Shakespearo's plays in the theatres here is great. It is is great
any man.
Thus Journey's End' is intended to deal with an exceptional caso of war strain, bat sometimes it is said to be a representative picture of the British soldier keeping up his cour- age by drink. Would-be realista have overlooked the things that kept the soldiers going during the years of mud and blood, such as the feel- Ing that they were all in the same boat, all in danger of life, and a sense of honour.
The most admirable thing in the British soldier' was his unconquer- able cheerfulness in the utmost squnlour and discomfort, even in the face of death itself. In order to express a genuine horror of war, soldiers should not be printed in the blackest colour."
WAR AND CRIME
A library manager's statement of the kind of books we read is at first sight alarming, but not really so on. analysis. According to him, subject in fiction is more enthralling now than war; yet most readers
Drifts gently to sleep.
no
His climbing up spouts, mixing delicate poisons, and inventing monograms to pin to the victim's chest, are done În a world whence he emerges, after the mightiest of crimes, innocent before the law.
in India and in other eastern coun- would not care to see another actual tries. Wherever the Cambridge war. Next in popularity come examinations are held, the local murder stories; yet, so far from educational authorities would cer- being preoccupied with murder, the tainly welcome the annual perform average man would be disconcerted ance of the plays appointed for study to find a corpse on his library floor. by the examiners: and it should be He would be quite relieved even a comparatively easy matter for the when the police, whose incompetence educational authorities in the East is an axiom of the tales. took the to make arrangements with Mr. affair from his hands. Reading is Bridges-Adams, the director of the different from doing. Your crime New Stratford Shakespeare Com-fan will not injure the community. pany to send out a good company of Usually he reads his daily detective keen, young actors and actresses story late in the evening, and then, every year. The benefit to the With many a foul and midnight students would be incalculable, and murder fed. they would regard their studies with a new interest. An hour of Shake- speare under an uninterested and uninteresting teacher, is one of the Consider, first, the difference pro-worst thing I know. An hour under duced in the whole tone of landscape one who loves the world of one of colour by the Introductions of the greatest of mankind can be an purple, violet, and deep ultramarine inspiration that will last for a life- blue, which we owe to mountains. time. In an ordinary lowland landscape we have the blue of the sky; the green of grass, which I will suppose entirely fresh and bright; the green of trees; and certain elements of purple, far more rich nd beautiful than we generally should think, in their bark and shadows (bare hedges and thickets, or tops of trees. In subdued afternoon sunshine, are Bearly perfect purple, and of an exi quisite tone), as well as in ploughed fields, and dark ground in general. But among mountains, in addition to all this, larga unbroken spaces of pure violét and purple are intro- duced in their distances; and even near, by films of cloud passing over the darkness of ravines or forests, blues are produced of the most sub- tle tenderness; these azures and purples passing into rose colour of utherwise wholly unattainable dell- cacy among the upper summits, the blus of the sky being, at the same time purer and deeper than in the plaina.... Loveliness of colour, per- fectness of form, endlessness of change, wonderfulacas of structure, are precious to all human minds; and the superiority of the moun- tains in all these things to the low- land fo, I repeat, në measurable, an the richness of painted window matched with
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for alienating a child from Shake- Books of notes, so called "keya," | speare deprives that child of legiti- lengthy analyses and laborious ex-mate enjoyment. Every Chinese planations are enough to make child that I have seen possesses the Shakespeare turn in his grave. He power to enjoy Shakespeare to the wrote for the delectation of lively, full. It only remains to give all critical Elizabethan audiences. He our boys and girls an adequate op- had no idea of becoming an ex-portunity for enjoyment. It is the amination bogey for half the world. duty of every educated person to Every teacher who is responsible see that they have it.
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