SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930.
THE WORLD OF
CHOICE OF BOOKS,
this, "The difeulty is that when asked to make a choice like that few people will honestly choose what they'd rather take. They name What Would Your First those backs which they should read
Six Be?
as cultured persons.. Now, I submit that the best reason to put a book on such a list is because you really like it, and have read and re-read it a number of times, with increas- ed antisfaction at each roading You know it thoroughly from cover to cover, and you know that it will those books which I read, without never full you. My choice would be fail every year, or oftener... "Book of Snobs," "Sketches by
A FRANK OPINION,
One of the favourite games of literary folk nowadays seems to be to name the hundred best books, or to choose what books should be in every household, or, lately, to say what six books they would like to take with them to a desert island. I asked. Fraser what his choice
would be in the last case.
"Only six?" he asked. "Well, Ed take the books which everyone is
supposed to know, but which for
some
Surtees'
BOOKS
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accounts of Antarctic expeditions .... But there, I should have to cut down on the books of travel, or they would predominate.".
VOLUNTEER CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
admit that I, too, read the LECTURE AT HEADQUARTERS. books I like
Over and over again instead of those which I should read," said Fraser, "But whereas you glory in it, and refuse to mend and opportunity to improve my your ways, I only wait for the time
mind.
(a)
leave and, resumed duties a from August 1.
Strength.
The following have been taken on the strength and posted as under:-
No. 1588. Pte. F. X. Mendes, No. 10 Platoon, as from August 15.
No, 1589 Pte. J. A. V. Ribeiro, No. 12 Platoon, as from August 18.
No. 1590 Gr. H. C. F. Aria. Battery, ss from August 7.
No. 1591 Pto, E. D. Oliveira, No. 10 Platoon, as from August
Orders by Major H. B. L
commanding Dowbiggin,
the Volunteer Defence Corps, state:- Paradea. Corps Band. Band 'prac
19. on Mondays tices will be held only at 6 pm. until further orders. (b) Battery. A lecture will be given by Captain T. A. H. Coltman: R.A., at Headquarters' on Thursday, August 28 at 5.30 p.m.
On a desert island, now, freed from the Incessant and tire- daily bread. I would dig a com some neccasity of having to earn my
No. the fortable seat in the warm sand, and spend several profitable years in acquiring the education which I did
Boz" "Moby Dick" Hajji Baba of Cross," and probably one Isphaban,"
"Handley of the collections of Shaw's Plays "Heartbreak House," I think."
"What? I exclaimed aghaat, “And
nothing of Shakespeare or the
Bible?"
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
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I've reason
never read. There's Dante's "Inferno," for.'in-
"Well, I wouldn't have to include stance, and "Paradise Lost," and them in my liat," said Roland basely, Karl Marx's "Capital," and Bos--because the people who marooned well's "Life of Johnson," and the
me would be sure to Insist that "Psalms." and the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," or Carlyle's "French Revolution" .. 1. could name you a couple of dozen modern novelists that I haven't rend, and yet when whose work la men- tioned I have to give intelligent murmurs. I don't know why [ haven't read them. The "Inferno" is a translation, and I dislike all translations. I've read only the parts of "Paradise Lost" which every one quotes. I've tried and tried to read Karl Marx, If only to get an understanding of Revolu- tionists, but he is so deadly dull; I prefer the works of really Bery rebels. I bought Boswell gears ago in three great volumes which look well on my library shelves. I've always
maant to rend there, but the books. are so large and heavy and one can't support them easily in the hand when the lies in bed, and that's
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those would be in my
lug- gage. 38 well . 48 various Latin and Greek authors in the original and trauslated. The Book Clubs would hear of my fate, and would send me their best books of the month for the past few years. And American professors would
not receive at the various schools to which I was sent in my youth."
"I hope that in that
case you'd nover be rescued," Roland said, "for
you would become the most insuf- ferable of all prigs: the one who knows everything that, a really cul- tured person should know. You would be unfit for ordinary life, and priate quotations would embitter all} your beastly habit of making appro-}
your friends...."
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There will also he a Layer's Class under R.S.M. Worne the same evening.
on Thurs-
No. 1502 Pte. H. de Sa, No. 9 Platoon, as from August 20.
1593 Pte. A. A. dos Remedios, No. 9 Platoon, as from August 20. "
Allotment of Ranges for Instruction and Claasification. (A) Stonecutters-September `7 and 14:-Corps Signals, The Bat tery, Engineer Company, and Re- serve Company.
(e) Corps "Signals. Signal Class will parade at Corps Head- Quarters at 5.30 p.m. day, August 28.
September 21 and 28 and Octo- (d) Machine Gun Troop.ber 5-Portuguese Company..
(b) Kennedy Rond-September Parade at Causeway Bay Stablo at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, August 5, 12 and 19:-Portuguese Com-
28.
(a) Armoured Car Company. Car Section. Parade at Kowloon Canton Railway Garage at 5.30 n.m. on Friday. August 29 for driving instruction.
Motor Cycle Section. Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on, Friday, August 29 for Machine Gun instruction.
Gun (f) Machine
Company N.C.O.'s Classes will be held at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. in mufti on Tuesday, August 26- E.G.D. and Friday, August 29- Examination of N.C.O's for pro motion.
"It's a hard choice to make," Intervened hastily. "And perhaps rather fatile. With all the travel- ling I have to do you'd think that I'd have a strictly limited library. Yet there are on my shelves about thred hundred books, and try as I muy I cannot reduce the number. Most of them are old friends from whom it would be base to part. Others are books of assured reputa- tion which I like to see standing |about my rooms, for they give me hope that some day I may have time to read them. Rather than reduce 'Notice: At the Rifle Club shoot them
to six I prefer to face the on Sunday, August 10, Pto. R. M. problem of packing and moving Wood won the monthly spoon them every time we shift our abode. Į shoot. The Inter-section shoot And besides, there are no desert resulted as follows:- islands nowadays. They have all been appropriated by literary folk." |
-A.B-II.
Points.
192
171 164
"G" Section (Ist) "D" Section (2nd) "B" Section (3rd) "G" Section were represented
when I do all my serious reading, send me the contents of their six- H. G. WELLS'S SATIRE by Ptes. R. M. Wood and L. B.
Then you can hardly be expected to carry Roswell to and fro' on tubes and buses. They'd charge you for luggage. The "Palms"
ExCCAM
should be rend aloud, and Maria doesn't like to be read to. Carlyle's style puts me off: I can't keep up the present tense for long without fatigue. The only thing I know about Gibbon is that Silas Wegg read the "Deelite and Fall" to Mr. Boffin....
and then he thought it was the Russian Empire. Yes, given a couple of years marooned with the necessary library I would quite enjoy putting patches on my very ragged literary wardrobe."
The Difficulty.
"I think that's all rot," said Roland who had been listening to
font shelves...".
Shakespeare and the Bible. "That's not fair," I protested.
"Oh well," he said, after all, I knew enough of both Shakespeare and the Bible to write a number of passages out from memory, and that would occupy my years of lonely life
War Characters Thinly Disguised.
"The Autocracy of Mr. Parham,” H. G. Wells's latest book, published by Heinemann's to-day, is a fantas- tic satire on modern conditions.
Certain Imaginary British and American war characters are very; thinly disguised: for example the British Cabinet Ministers mention- ed in the book include: Mr. Ramsay McDougal, Mr. Philip Snowfield, Mr.
on the desert island. Think of the credit such labour would reflect on me when I was finally rescued. "Besides" he explained in answer to my objections that this reason ing was irrelevant, "you asked me about the books I'd like to choose, and I've told you. I'm not sure of
few more. There's "Farthest | Waxton etc. North," and "Trans-Himalaya," and the voyages of Marco Polo, and the
1
ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
WORLD ASSOCIATION OF GIRL
GUIDES.
London, July 18. The constitution for a World Association of Girl Guides and Boy Scouts has been definitely settled as the outcome of the In- ternational Conference held this week at the pretty New Forest village of Lyndhurst, Hampshire. Delegations from thirty nations formed attractive groups in their own national Guide costumes, not the least picturesque baing the -Indian Guides in blue saris, odged with white, and the Egyptians wearing black bereta. The Con- ference decided that the World Association should consist of the national association of the thirty countries represented, with ilberty to admit others, and that the Head- quarters should be in London. Opinion favoured the adoption for the Guides of a world flag emblem The generous gift from an Ameri- zerland for the use of Guides on
can delegate of a chalet in Swit-
holiday was announced. The Con- ferenca elected Lady Baden-Powell, Chief Gulde of the World, and was visited, by the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, and by Princess Mary, President of British Girl Guides.
SCOUT'S BRAVE WORK..
Rover Scout Philip Compton, of the Dorchester Y.M.CA. Troop, was working in his carpenter's
shop near the Mill Stream, when ho was attracted by the cries of women living near by.
A five year old boy had fallen Into the stream and was rapidly being carried down the stream
Without hesitation Compton ran to the bank, dived in and swam to the boy who was on the point of sinking. When He reached the bank the boy was unconscious, Salbut after the application of artin
Scial respiration, he was able to be
taken: home.
WELSH ARTISTS' EXHIBITION
FOR SCOUTS.
The illustrations are by cartoonist Low
CARDIFF ENTERTAINS.
the
Holmes. The next shoot will be held on Sunday, September 7 at 9 a.m. on the Peak Range.
Individual competition for Com- pany Commander's Cup and Inter section shoot all under Corps Championship conditions.
Transfer.
- No. 1455 Tpr. W. Harris- Walker, Machine Gun Troop, is transferred to Armoured Car Company. Car Section, with effect from August 22, 1930,
Leave.
No. 1189 L/Cpl. C. G. Silva, No. 10 Platoon from August 31 to September 30.
No. 1081 Sigm. E. H. Williams, ¡ Corps
Signals, returned from
pany.
(c) Peak-September 7 and 14:-Portuguese Company.
(Sgd.). W. H. G. GOATER,
Captain,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Notice.
The Portuguese Company will! hold the Annual Dinner and Dance at the Club de Recreio on Thursday. September 4 at 7.45 P.. sharp. Ladies are cordially invited to the Dance commencing at 9.15 p.m.
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SCOUTS GIVE COMMUNITY FIRE POSTHUMOUS AWARD FOR
EXTINGUISHERS.
In 1927 a party of Cardiff Boy Scouta, vlaited Denmark. Fifty
The Scout Troop at Cleeve Prior, Danish Scouts from Aarhus and near Evesham has presented the Horsens are now in South Wales village with three fire extinguish- as guests of the Cardiff County ers and placed them in suitable Boy Scouts Association. They places in the village. To obtain were welcomed on their arrival in the extinguishers and fittings, the London on July 3 by Mr. Hubert Scouts raised about £9. S. Martin, the International Com- missioner, and a party of Cardiff Scouts, and were the guests for the night of the 10th Chelsen (St. Columba's) Troop.
The Chlef Scout, Lord Baden- Powell, opened recently an ex- The following day they spent hibition of pictures by noted..sight-seeing in London and had Welsh artists. This was held at lunch at Selfridge's as guests of Harrods, through the kindness of the Danish Bacon Company, before Sir Woodman Burbidge, on behalf leaving for Cardiff, of the Monmouthshire Boy Scouts Association.
Lord Baden-Powell lent two of his own water-colour sketches, "North-gate Canton," and "Plum Blossom near Canton." He signed these and agreed that they should be sold for the Monmouthshire Boy Scouts Association. He was presented with Rh etching of Brownsea Island, the scene of the frat Boy Scout Camp.
F
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
A Civic Reception by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, tours of Cardiff and the mountains and valleys of LORD LLOYD ON THE EMPIRE, South Wales, excursions over fac- tories and down coal mines and the attempt of their Welsh hosts
Lord Lloyd who was High Com-
to outdo the famous Danish hos- missioner for Egypt and the pitality have all made them loath Sudan recently, and before
SCOUTING AND EDUCATION.
Mr.
that
SCOUT,
од
Scout George Dawson, a Chelms- ford boy, lost his life in the sea at Breadene, near Ostend August 3, 1929, in a vain attempt to rescue some of his companions. In recognition of his bravery, the Carnegie Foundation in Bel- gium has posthumously awarded him the Carnegie Gold Medal and the sum of £10.
SAILOR SCOUTS.
Deep Sea Scouts, the rapidly growing branch of the Boy Scout Movement devoted to Seafaring Scouts, have a good time when they reach port, judging by the reports of their activities in "The Tentacle," the periodical issued by the Deep Sea Scouts attached to Portsmouth.
Den
Y.M.CA.
at the Portsmouth
It mentions members visiting to face the day of their departure. was for some years Governor of Scotland, Gibraltar and Malta, and Bombay, was the distinguished plenty of good work done in their guest of 23rd Westminster (St. own Mary's Graham Street) Group of The opening ceremony was pre- cided over by Lord Swansea. Lord
Ernest Young, formerly Boy Scouts, at their concert.
Lord Lloyd in referring to Em- Assistant Secretary for Higher. Baden-Powell said that in his opinion the true artist was "one
Education under the Middlesex pire Dav. dwelt on the great re who tries to express, his sense of
Education Committee, and well sponsibility of the rising generation known as one of the authors of in the upkeep and development of beauty in such a way that others The Human Geographies," has ideals of service throughout the can also appreciate the beauty he been appointed Education Com sees, and become happier for it-missioner to the Boy Scout Asso-velopment he looked an the Boy
Empire.
Lord Lloyd said that in this de- and possess a higher ideal than was theirs before.!!
SCOUTS FROM NORWAY.
clation:
In this capacity he is prepared Scout Movement as one of the to give a limited number of lec- greatest assets of the present era tures, without fee, to local branches of the N.U.Tto Training
-SCOUT SHOP:
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A party of Norwegian Scouts, Colleges and to other educational from the 6th Oslo Troop, have bodies or Conferences, on certain been returning a visit to the Man-educational aspects of the Boy chester Grammar School Scouts. Scout and Girl Guide Movements Scouting history by being the Arst The City of Leeds is making. They had some interesting experi- with special reference to the train place outside London to have an ences while they were in this ing of character in the re-organie-official branch of "The Scout Shop f country, visiting the Ford Motored schools for Senior Pupils The Boy Scouts Associations Works, a Cotton Mill, the Manches
ter Fire Station and on Engine
Worke
GOOD TURN AT ROYAL SHOW.
Boy Scouts are annually in
This was opened at 4, Lower Equipment Department.
hend Road, on Saturday, July 19
"The Scout Shop"- has had "`a
The unique experience of their: trip was an excursion down New town Collfery at Pendlebury, Coal evidence at the Royal Agricultural romantic history since its incep
le such a rarity in their own coun Show. This year, it was, the turn tion in 1908 with the ordering of
try that they took home lumps of of the Manchester Scouts to be twelve of the familiar cowboy. coal as souvenirs, Look the handymen of the Show at the hats. To-day from its centre at football disposal of officials and public. Imperial Beadquarters in London, matches with the Old Mancuplant. Fifty-nine of them spent the it suppl Scoutin and
They played
The first match the
ARROWE PARK AGAIN. .
Although they were not quite a many in number as their brother Scouts last year, the Girl Guides
Jamboree when they held of Western Birkenhead, brought; back memories of the great World Rally at Arrowe Park.
their
Where before had stood myriads of tents, cows were grazing peace- fully-but the great difference was that not a drop of rain attempted to mar the enjoyment of the de- casion 1-
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