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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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of hearing
4-Ald
B-A cleansing agant 9-Govern
11-Toward 12-An ancient Hebrew
Instrument
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18-Angar
20-A dish of green
herba
21-Nimio
23-Preatoue
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plural of nouns 47-Those engaged in
banking [49-Bone (Latin)
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62-Groan
54-Entangles 55-Serf
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23-To realat any au-
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25-Worship 27-8mall child
28-Goddess of mischiat
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31-In France, an abbot
| 33-An artificial space
for skating 36-Stains
37-Point of compass 38-Enclosure
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THE
THE CHINA MAIL.
WORLD OF BOOKS
WOMEN IN FICTION,
Sir James Barrie's Confession.
[By An Observer in London Daily Telegraph,]
eminent Scot, to whom the creator of "Peter Pan" owes a debt, Robert Louis Stevenson, had an uneasiness much like that which Sir James Barrie professes about his heroines, In fact, he was very shy of produe ing a heroine at all. The unfinished fragment might have given us one to remember, but we must be con- tent with Catriona and Barbara Grant.
Professor Abercrombie kened the endlessness of Shakespearean criticism to a cycle, and pointed out that a tendency had lately ap- peared to discredit the boundless liberty of interpretation, which the Romantics claimed. Criticism to- day, he said, relled more for ita interpretation of Shakespeare on patient and exact understanding of his worka.
Sir James Barrie has been making a confession about the women to whom he has introduced
I put them in evidence, not be- "Nevertheless, I have sometimes us. They are not what he meant
cause I think them of much import- thought I could detect signs that them to be. "It would scarify you,"
ance, but because of an illuminating the process, of Shakespearean critic- he assures us, "If you knew the flash of criticism in Barbara Grant's lam is once more on the turn,” he things intended my heroines to be at David Balfour, that he had added. "We
may perhaps have any. But they utterly turn away the largest feet in Scotland. I aus- come to the beginning of another from me and remain that ghastly pect Stevenson was feeling it un-revolution which will land us once word-respectable." .hope he does comfortably true that in their deal- more on the ground on which the not take it to heart.. It is not reallyings with the women in their books romantic attitude to Shakespeare his fault. He was born too late. novelists have very large feet. stood.
Much impressed by one of the early works of Mr. Shaw, he ended his admiring letter with a cry of anguish, "My God, what women!" Whether he would have liked the finished version of the Shavian woman any better we cannot tell, but I think he la fair evidence of uneasiness about male versions of the eternal feminine.
In these days It is almost impos. sible for a heroine to be anything but respectable, because all the re- strictions have been abolished. Every way of being shocking has now become conventional. If Sir James Barrie had been writing in the days when solemn reviews pro- nounced Charlotte Bronte and her heroines improper females, he might have had a chance of scandalising somebody. But now it is too late a
week.
He rather laboured this unesal- ness about the women of his creat-
ing. They come into his work "absolutely uninvited and give them- selves qualities the very opposite to those with which he had labelled them.". Perhaps we had better read this as meaning that he is particu- larly fond of his female characters, in which I gratefully agree with him, but it does suggest a certain anxiety. And it set me wondering whether the conscientious author who is a man is apt to be nervous
Yet the masters of the generation before his, Meredith and Hardy, were surely competent painters of women,
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A step further back, and you come to Trollope. He is being re- discovered just now, having been dead just the right time, but people who do read have always read him. These fashions only affect the in- telligentsia, an illiterate class. It cannot well be disputed that Trol lope's women are just as real as his men. He is best, no doubt, with the terrors, with Mrs. Proudle and the his women. Most men, Signorina, and the good women like suppose, are now agreed that women Emily Bold and Lily Dale have a authors are apt to produce men who tendency to be rather silly, rather are very queer fish. Is there anyIrritating.
the mole comparable disability in mind?
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Let us limit ourselves to British books. I know that what is foreign is always better, and the highest excellence is only to be found in those languages which nobody in Britain learns. "Count Caviarovitch of Ostrolenko," to take Professor Salatsbury's generic name for the eminent alien, has made all British authors practically obsolete. Still It is convenient to keep to books which people read. That other
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36-Gang
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40-Explore 42-An arm of the san
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4-A descendant
61-Printer's measure 153-Eye (Scot)
ROUND THE CAMP
PRINCE THANKS SCOUTS,
FIRE
·A NOVEL TENT.
On the return of H.R.H. the An easily erected and cheap Prince of Wales from his oversea camping tent was invented in 1926 tour, Lord-Baden Powell, the by a British Scout. There are no Chief Scout, sent him the follow-poles to it, and it can be pitched In ing telegram:"Boy Scouts have half a minute. followed Your Royal Highness's The front and rear of the tent adventures with close Interest are supported with "A" shaped and offer sincere congratulations shearlegs. These legs are hinged on your splendid sport and safe at the top and again halfway down, return."
so that they fold into a small com- In reply His Royal Highness pass. The hinged portions are telegraphed to Lord Baden- furnished with small side supports. Powell "My sincere thanks for
The legs are attached to the feat congratulations which you have so that the whole thing folds up sent me on behalf of the Roy together. Only two pegs one at the back and one at the frontare used, the four shearlegs forming paga themselves.
Scouts."
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK,
"Some folk complain that they don't get what's lue to them. They should be glad they don't "
547 FOR CRIPPLES:
The Boy Scouts of the Chester Group recen special effort to rela the
were
To pitch the tent, it is placed folded, on the ground, and the rear peg, which is fixed to a guy rope attached to the top of the shearlegs, is driven into the ground. The pegged down, and the tant is pitched
Blue Certificate, Bern Weaver (15), Elizabeth-street, Parkes,
"LET'S BE FRIENDS."
With the purpose of promoting friendship between Chinese and Japanese Boy Scouts, the Bhanghai College Boy Scouts are planning to have à camping trip to Japan. They will leave Shanghal some- time this month, and expect to be back at the beginning of August. They have received quite a num ber of formal invitations from the Japanese Boy Scouts and many other organizations who express deepest interest in welcoming them to Japan.
This trip is taken by the Scouts at their own expenses. They will visit the great cities such as Yoko hama, Kobe, Tokyo, etc. Accord- ing to their plan, one month will be spent in Japan altogether."
AS HE SEES IT.
Surveying the Juvenile Press under the above title. The World's Press News, in its issued dated April 24, gives the following eri ticism of "The Scout the official hoys' paper of the Boy Scouts As- sociation
I like The Scout There is freedom about it which a wholly engaging. It off times prints stories utterly impossible to be leve, but they are such jolly care free stories that the reader con- not help but enter Into the fun of the thing. From cover to cover, The Scout, is always Joy- pus. It is never pompous or sade On most camp altes, there or even too. Intelligent It Is sure to be some tree stumps that Just irresistible,
import
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"And that, I submit, is safe ground: safer, I belleve, than tho ground we stand on now. For how- ever romanticism may have rolled its eyes and rhapsodised, it did, at any rate, stand on this: that Shakespeare is to be regarded first and foremost as an artist, and his compositions us works of art."
One capital kind of mistake to which scientific or realistic criticism was peculiarly flable, he remarked, was to suppose that when the con- ditions under which an artist work- ed had been accounted for, the art- ist had thereby been accounted for. As an example he mentioned the typical realistic criticism "that Shakespeare could not have been a. pro- an artist because he was fessional man, supplying actors with plays that would go well on the stage and make money.
An Artist's Business. "Dislike the fact as you will," he commented, "make of it all the psychological mysteries you can, it is nevertheless the fact that an artist can quite well make a busi- ness of his art."
the
Is that true to human nature? I Unitess Shakespeare was regarded fear Thackeray thought "so. His rather as an Elizabethan dramatist masterpieces of the feminine-and than as a world-poot, he continued, some good judges have thought the development of his art could not Beatrix Esmond in youth and in be understood, for what Elizabethan old age incomparable-are of those dramatists had to give their au
of a spectacle who were "ither than a gude are." diences was That, I suppose, is why women are variety of life.
"That is why Elizabethan drama 80 contemptuous of his Amelia and his Laura and his Charlotte, And became the greatest exhibition of yet, is it a masculine vice, this mak- human character the world has aver Ing the good women insipid? Sure-seen, he declared, "from the heights ly, the women novelists have a still to the depths of it, from its most most im- unkinder hand with virtue. But tragic splendour, Ita this is the end of the space. Perhaps becile absurdity; that is why, as it is just as well.
swiftly as it grew up. Elizabethun drama decayed, strangled in its waste fertility." This demand was the governing condition under which Shakespeare worked."
SHAKESPEARE.
Plea for Greater Liberty of Intepretation.
"A Plea for the Liberty of Inter- preting" was the title of the annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy, delivered by Professor Lascelles Abercrombie.
It was heard by a large audience under the chairmanship of the President; Mr. H. A. L. Fisher.
TACT TO END WAR.
"The International Aspect of Scouting," was the subject of an address by the vicar of St. Ethal-. drada's Church, Fulham Palace Road (Rev. Leonard Spiller) to members of the Fulham Rotary Club.
7.
The field of Shakespearean studies was a vast one, ha added, and al most every kind of talent could find occupation there.
"But it all exists because Shakes- peare was a poet," he said in con- clusion. "all comes from that, and back to that everything goes at last. To regard Shakespeare as an artist is our first and last duty. But so to regard him is to admit what would never be denied in the case, of any other poet."
Gis
Poisoning.
The "Old Scont's"
Column.
If you are studying for your Ambulance Badge, the following will be of interest to
; you:-
In a case of ga'e poisoning open windows as quickly as possible, and place patient in current of fresh air or remove her from room where the gas is. Then ap
until ply artificial respiration breathing is restored.
In the course of his address Rotarian Spiller said he had had a great deal to do with international work in regard to Scouting, and be. considered there was a great deal In common in the ideals of Scouf- ing and Rotary. The Scouts work led on parallel lines with the Girl Guide Movement. A 1929 census showed that there were nearly two million Scouts in the world, and,
On falling through at the Birkenhead Jamboree 48. nations were represented. One of Accident the ice, spread your the most important objects of On Ice, aritis out well over Scouting was character training,
the surface on each an ideal that bad caught the fm side of the hole, that as wide agination of Chinese and African a space as possible may be boys as well as Britishers and covered and the weight of the body Americans, because it encouraged distributed. The rescuers should them to take a pride in their race. push a plank or ladder along the The movement fostered a spirit of Ice (until It extends well-over both world brotherhoodies faiden of the hole), and should then The League of Nations had creep along it to help the person given its approval of scont out of the water and on to the ing, and visits toforeign plank. If there is no plank, a rope countries which afforded a may be used an improvised one Important part of training, Ideas will do being widened and sympathies One end must be tied to a tree broadened in wonderful way, or held firmly by some one on the The Jamboree was a magnif
the stream. (Should the gathering that did much to spread break in the ice be lu » lake or the feel of World Friendship and pool, the rope must be held some Brotherhood,
distance from its weak edge) Meanwhile a second helper should carry the other end of the rope hole to the further side,
Arm ice
the pulled taut across the of the break lu
the person should be able to and be drawn up on to
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THE SCOUT UNIFORM.
The Scout hat has a wide brim right round it. This should al- ways be flat and stiff. A patrol leader wears a allver fleur-de-lis on the front of his hat. Under-
neath this is a silver scroll with "Be Prepared" on it. Hanging from the scroll, is a Httle knot of wire to remind the patrol leader of his dally good deed.
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The Scout shirt is khaki or blue, From heat, grief, and has a pocket on both breasts. Fainting. Joy, surprise, &c. On the left shoulder the Scout Be The heart stops for a wears his patrol colours, and 1%1⁄2 moment or two, patient becomes inches below his right shoulder he white and liable to fall, and to lose wears the name badge.of his troop. consciousness. Should patient be He wears round his neck a scarf sitting down, bend the body for coloured according to the colour of wards until the head is on or be his district. Round the neck also tween the knees to induce the is worn a white cord called blood to the head. This is usually lanyard. On the end of this is a aufficient to prevent unconscious whistle which goes into the left neas and to restore that arrested pocket. circulation if the fainting is not The regulation belt worn by compléte. If the fainting is com- Scouts is just a plain band of plete. lay the patient gently down leather without any metal rings In Bat upon the back (with the head it. On one part of the buckle is lower than the feet if possible), a fleur-de-lis, on the other part is unfasten all tight clothing. Open written "Boy Scouts," "Be Prepar- windows and doors, if indoors. ed." Prevent people from crowding A Scout wears ordinary navy round. Fresh air and plenty of it blue serge trousers, the legs of la necessary. When consciousness which should come down to one la restored, give tea, milk, or cold inch above the knees. Black stock water, or sal volatile. Do not give Ings and black shoes or boots alcohol in any form without the should be worn with a sock top doctor's ordere
of a colour arranged by the dis• trict committee. To finish off a little tab of green braid should be Just showing from under each sock-top
GUIDING.
All-round cords can be worn by any Guide who has passed her first- glass test, and seven other badge tests,
When you see a Guide with Pioneer written on her shoulder tape, it means that hers was the first company to be started in the district. Ambulance and sick nurse, have to be renewed every
The troop leader wears a strip of white tape along each shoulder strap and three strips down his left pocket. A patrol leader, weare two strips down his pocket, and the second wears one strip.
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