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The Enigma of William
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of the findings of J. F. Looney and Percy Allen, and reaffirms that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Ox- ford, was the writer of those plays, poems and sonnets usually attri- buted to the Stratford actor. Standen is more convincing nega- tively
than positively: he gives quita plausible reasons why Shakespeare could not possibly have had the knowledge or the vocabulary displayed in those mas- torpleces, but he falls to convince
that Oxford was author or even the chief of a group of authors. In reading such books as this and Looney's we are remind- ed of Omar's remark and heard great argument about it and about, but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."
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in love with the young Socialist workman, "Kenneth." Though his beauty and likeness to a young Greek-God are constantly stressed, yet the idea conveyed to the mind of the reader is that of a singularly unattractive young mani
BOOKS.
Will, Wat, and Sandy replace the Graver William, Waiter and Alex ander in Wilson, Watson and Sanderaon. The prefix MAC is a characteristic of Scotch' names and has the effect of the son after them, as in the leading Celtic elas name of MucDonald. Thursfield, Thoresby and Thorley are Scandinavian original which are found to the south of the Tweed: but the name of the great northern god is nowadays more often veiled under such disguises as Tuttle and Tuffery, which give no hint of the original thunder.
variants of 2
Inquiring Spirit Stilled. Few people know or (unfortunate. With his surly manners, bad ac- cent, ill-fitting clothes, and repel-ly) care to know the meaning or Mrlant home and Mother, it is im- the origin of their names, even when possible to imagine the parents of these are continually encountered. Ursula calmly submitting to such In fact their frequency stilis the a marriage!
inquiring spirit. Shepherd explains Having got Ursula into an im- itself, but less obvious is the fact possible position as the wife of that Barker is a synonym for the this disagreeable young workman same word (but not for a loud dog the authoress suddenly gives up for a man who strips a tree-trunk), all attempts to solve the problem its present form haying been reached she has created, and decides that by successive corruptions from the Death is the only way out of the French Berger. Smith and Miller
Anglo-Saxon, good difficulty! She accordingly kills are
the bulk of off one of her victims, and to say which one it is, would rob the story of its only surprise!
their sole
Professor Connes has cleverly and humorously shown how it can be proved that Shakespeare, Bacon, Derby, Rutland, and Oxford each wrote the plays. But after all, in spite of Messrs Looney, Ward, Allen and Standen on the one side, and Saintsbury, Sydney Lee and J. M. Robertson on the other side, the question of the authorship is secondary to the grand fact that we have the plays themselves.
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A WINNER SPOTTED?
["Lovely Clay." by Maysle Greig, published by Ernest Benn, Ltd.; price 7/6 net.]
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The characters are all well and skilfully depicted, and this seems to make it all the more regrettable that Madeline Lynford could not find a better plot round which to group them.
ENGLISH SURNAMES.
The Norman invasion, followed by the long predominance of French in Court and Parliament, is enough to account for the large number of our French surnames, though it by no means follows that their bearers are of French descent. For the tongue of the dominant caste at once trans- In Mayaie Greig_latest_book_itlated into its own terms the names is probable that Ernest Benn, Ltd., of those who served it wherever these were directly derived from a have spotted a winner, though it is not so much the story itself as the
man's occupation, so that Arrow way in which it is presented which smith became Fletcher, Bowman be makes the book so attractive!
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The story deals with cabarets and night-life in London, and is like other stories of its type. The hero Guy and the heroine "Lyn" who stray in and become enmeshed in the gilded web. are likewise in no way new to fiction!
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corruption from the French Chasse-Loup or Louve, a nick-name for a Wolf Hunter, Cathedral (as a name) in a corruption of the quite English Gatherall, probably firat
thrifty and self-stinting person, and given unflatteringly to an
Fletcher.may not only imply French fleche but also old English Flesher, i.e., a Butcher. [From "A Year in England" by W. Thorley; Allen and Unwin.]
over-
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Stocks and Preference Shares, Celtic breeding, for outside Ireland Railway Stacks, Gas and Electri- and the Hebrides the original city Supply Securities, Breweries Distilleries, Industrial names, like the language, were often and
Rubber And even whera obliterated by the tide of conquest. Securities,
and Tea Mining OilShares, this was not done for him, the native It need hardly be added that these Shares, would often be very ready to filch occupational names are not now any Shares, and American Stocks, the appearance (and the worldly Index 3 man's business or mention being made in their course advantage) of a distinction which pastime. Mr. Baker may be an ac of more than three hundred sound his descent did not warrant, by countant and have never touched securities of all types. using instead of his own patronymic dough, Mr. Shepherd a schoolmaster. The "Guide" ends with a chapter an equivalent from the language of and have never held a crook, and entitled "Saving of Income Tax" his betters.
Mr Fisher a house-agent who has and appendices setting out the
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investmente. quently met with in the North of net.
minimum Stock Exchange commis- The characters are well-drawn England and in Scotland, very many
Many feminine forms have been sions, stamp dutles, and so on, with and convincing and one follows of the Highland people being nearly preserved as surnames, though lost perpetua! yield and compound in- their fortunes with a sort of
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son, though common to both sides corded in the names of those who finds it almost impossible to dia- what 18 moat ad- of the border, especially abounds to answar to Lightfoot, Redhead or tinguish
Mr. Caudwell the north of it, along with the Armstrong, while evidence of the vantageous in it. variant Henderson, though Andrew ancestral dwelling-place persists in has, therefore, been at pains to the factors affecting (Scotland's patron saint) has dis- those who are named Hill, Bridge, discuss placed as a christian name the older or Field, or compounds of such modern investment with the utmost form of Anders from which words. Purely French names like degree of charity, to give illustra the surname is derived. These Martineau may generally be traced tions which may be of practical names oftenost derive from the to a Huguenot ancestor who fled utility, and to present his facts In what object this authoress had in 'diminutive or popular form, so that across the Channel, but such names the most convenient form.
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THE PRINCE VISITS SCOUTS' NEW DEN.
TRAINING GROUND OF NATIONS.
During the Scout rear just con cluded Scoutmasters from highteen foreign countries have attended courses of training at Gilwell Park, the Scoutmasters' training centre in Epping Forest.
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ARE BOYS GROWING SOFTER?
Two schoolmaster speakers at the Conference of the Northampton Boy Scouts expressed, the opinion that the modern boy was less self- reliant than his predecessors.
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Mr. E. FLeach, speaking as a These Scoutmasters, who are school-master, said that he found additional to those from all parts there was a softening of boys. of the British Empire, came from They were losing their initiative; Austria, Armenia, Egypt, Holland, everything was organised for them! Siam, Belgium, Germany, United and nowadays they refused to play States of America, Finland, rough games. Writing in the Scouter, the Oblef When the Prince of Wales visit-Sweden, Czecho-slovakia, Estonia,
Switzerland, Scout gives an outstanding examed Christ's Hospital, Horsham, he Hungary, ple of what la meant by the 8th pald visit to the new Headquar- Norway and Denmark. Scout Law, "A Scout smiles and iters of the "School Scout Group, whistles under all difficulties." which the Chief Scout opened re-.
"The man I met was a pattern
to us all. He has visited practical- ly every country in the world, been on four expeditions to the Arctic,
cently. et du eta
During the Prince's visit to the Scouts, he watched a realistic ac-: cident in which the "injured"
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Islands, has wandered or the other demonstrations were also" in Bouth Seas, and so on. He is about progress during the Royal visit. 80, but with the appearance of a Outside the Headquartera a full- man of 50 and sized trestle bridge was in course He says of himself that down of erection, while nearby camp to the waist he is all right, below cooking was in full progrðas, that he is all to the bad. Suffering from thrombosis, his legs are in { constant pain, and practically on in his stomach. This causes him strike, so that he has to shuffle always intense pain, and for a long about with a stick. A bad tumour time obliged him to have a train- made the doctors say he must have ed nurse. But in time he taught
his leg amputated or he would die.
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
"Sometimes there happens to people of real intelligence that which happens to earn of ': wheat, which go on growing and holding their heads proud- ly erect, so long as they are empty; but when, in their maturity, they are filled and are big with grain, they begin to lower their heads in humility"
Montaigne.
SCOUTING IN WALES.
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Mr. K. R. Sleight, another school- master, endorsed this and said that ho agreed with Mr. Leach-" boya nowadays wanted carrying about." Several speakers pointed out that the remedy was a full ap plication of Scout training, and Mr. Plers D. Power, Headquarters Commissioner. for Scouts, laid em- phasis on the desirability of giving- boys more responsibility and lat ting them run their own show on the lines laid down by Lord Baden- Powell in "Scouting for Boys.":
CHESHIRE CHEESE'S THANKS.
The Secretary of the Cheshire Cheese Federation, in a letter to the. Press, has thanked the Che shiro Scouts for "a splendid ad- vertisement to their County's; an clent craft at a time when this is sorely in need of a leg-up.”
He said he would rather die than lose his leg, and he lubricated it independent, and manages
Signs of the times come from He also expresses the hope that heartily with healing pintinent and travel about the world. This kept his leg: Then he died-ac-he does, mainly on board ship Wales, with the news that Scout when makers in the industry have a chance of furthering the best tually died of pneumonia, so the where he is the checriest and mosting there is on the up grade, doctors reported and a coffin was interesting of company, especially Last year there were 558 Groups Interests, Et the Scouts Movement brought to the house. But some with young people; he is at the of Scouts in Wales with amem they will not lightly forgot the how, after an hour or two, als same time, large-hearted, and al- bership of 18,858, it was an- good turn, heart suddenly picked up again ways willing to help others worse nounced at the Annual Meeting of This Jetter is an echo to the and he has put his coffin away in n | off thị himself the Welsh Scout Council atan- Cheshire, Boy Scouts visit to the object lesson to drindod Wells,that the Groups Belgian Centenary celebrations at In to pain or have now increased to about 400 Liege They took with them a with and the membership has incress- Chenhire chease for HM. The
ed to nearly 15,000 40 King of the Belgians."
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