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THE WORLD OF BOOKS.
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Pen As Useful As
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["Digging Up the Past," by C. Leonard Woolley; Benn, 6/- net.]
success will depend, not on the merits of the story but your ad- herence to the proper formula. If the formula is correct, every thing is correct. depends on the public which buys the magazine.
And the formula
dence was purely scholastic, ro- aulting from a community of in- terests, but subtly their love for each other developed. The re- juvenating stream of happiness it released in the man, the spiritual it engendered in the growth
Temperamental Biography. woman, and the suffering decreed
"What Mr. O'Brien calls Lever by law for both, are here set down 4 dramatic and fascinating
charts of the circulation and of The letters also shed an story.
the public's response to the stories interesting light on lineckel's atti-the latter estimated not only by his most popular the circulation, but by those 'curi- tude towards book, "The Riddle of the Uni-
ous people who communicate to verse," and on the reaction of the the editor their opinions of the publie to it.
stories are religiously kept, and the patient drugged in strict ac- cordance with the varying move- ments of the graph.
To those interested in archaeo-in logy and to students of ancient history this book should prove as interesting as any novel. The learned and authoritative excava- tor shows here, as he did in his "Ur of the Chaldees," that he can use the pen as well as the spade. Not only are we told the methods and difficulties of digging up the relies of bygone civilisations but Also the reasons,
The enthralling and delicate methods of excavation employed by such experts as the author and Sir Arthur Evans are clearly de- scribed and tellingly illustrated by, examples drawn from many
Acids different
(Egypt, Meso- each potamia, Asia Minor, etc.), of, which may present its own peculiar difficulty. Along with this technical description of ac- tual digging we are shown some-
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by
A. H. CROOK, O.HE., M.A. W. KAY, MA.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.
PRICE $2.00.
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"It is true that literature, other than magazine literature and fic- tion, ช more resistant to the mechanical formula-moro ́
resistant. but. unfortunately, not Impervious.
beginning
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Its foll trail to bo seen
thing of the ingenious process of WRITING TO ORDER. fiction, it is out of place.
observation and deduction by which these finds are made to un- ravel the past. Such work is purely a labour of love and enthu siasm performed usually in un- healthy spots under uncomfortable
with conditions
unsympathetic oficials of suspicious governments doing more to hinder than help.
The opening chapter, named "Introductory." is chokeful of in- formation pleasantly put, and the too short volume is excellently il lustrated by no fewer than 33 photographic plates.
NATURALIST'S ROMANCE.
A Chief Librarian's
Protest.
.
hospitals, sald,that faw patients really knew what they wanted.. and practically none of them could voice their choice.
For instance, a few weeks ago an old patient came in again, and when she asked him if he would like some more books on applied. electricity he said that he would Having
sho
rather "have a classic." been had that way before. carefully naked him which classic, and back came the answer: "Nat Gould or Rider "Aggard."
aro
the
of
JAPANESE POETRY.
So long as the gems of literature not wisely to be ignored, Japanese poetry is entitled to care. ful study. How to suggest, ac- curately and effectively the signi- Acance of sound and scene in purl- ing stream, falling anow, cuckoo's nate, the music Insects and the joy of creeping things, is an art of power that the Japanese · poet has achieved in a manner and degree that can only be regarded as poetry. It is in this love and exploitation of beautiful things and places that the Japanese are an Incarnation of the ancient
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In other departments of the book --for example, that bastard deve- lopment of the modern writer, the temperamental blography, cursed Grecks. In regard to nature, the by every brarian because, whe Japanese do not admire expansive Ether classed in blography or in
views so much as little glimpse of beauty. They appreciate not "The formula is simple; take much great mountain heights and any well-known man whose stan- ranges, nor endless sea vistas, dard blography has been written
lakes or plains so much as they ap- this is necessary, because other-preciate definite scenes or facts re- wise you would have to hunt up
presenting much in little: the the facts yourself-flch whatever
multum in parvo of the ancients; suits your purpose, and serve with
or, better still, Quam multa! Quam dialogue drawn from your own paucis! That is, the concise In inner consciousness.
style and the pregnant in meaning, which, is, to the Japanese, the essential characteristic of a fine. poem equally with a fine painting. It is the scene rather than the scenery that concerns the poet.
Who that has seen the wild geese homing in the moonlight as winter approaches, their wing-tips over- lapping, does not appreciate the poetry of this tanka?
Mr. L. Stanley Jast, chief librarian of the Manchester Public Libraries, in his presidential ad- dress to the Library Association at Cambridge dealt with the atan dardisation of literature.
Was
:
even
name.
"When well done by a master, such as Maurois or Harold Nicol son, the result is amusing, It was not his purpose, he said, brilliant, though the subject Is to review, even curgorlly, all the neither Shelley nor Byron, but an- forces that were steam-rolling the cther man of the same
The gen-But when done, as it is now be world into uniformity.
ral Press
already stan ing done. by a score of second- dardised. The newspaper-with a rate imitators, the results are mis- few exceptions that still remain-chievous and debasing to the blo-
graphical currency." "The Love Letters of Ernsted to them--was not literature.
Haeckel," written between Mr. Jast proceeded to deal with Ho saw in the custodian of the 1898 and 1903. Arranged, the case of magazinca, "The occu- great reference libraries who col- with ДП Introduction, by pant of the editorial chair," he lected utterly regardless of the Juliannes Werner Translatealdis primarily-an-exponent of changing and accidental values ed by Ida Zeftin. Crown 8vo. big business, and turns out his of the moment, the one hope and Methuen & Co.: 78. 6d. net.] publication on the same lines as safeguard against the future given Here for the first time is reveal- Mr. Ford turns out his five or sixup wholly to the dread god of the
machine. ed the romance which flowered bo- thousand motor-cars per day. tween a renowned naturalist and a young girl, whose admiration for his backs prompted her to write to him. At first, their correspon-
ROUND THE
BOY SCOUTS.
Cross Channel In Folding Canoe.
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"If you want to write storles for him you must not waste your energles on creating, but you must write to pattern, and your
CAMP FIRE
DREAM COMES TRUE.
Sir Walter Besant's Double Forecast.
How two Boy Scouts crossed the The Sunday Referee has reveal- Channel in a canoe last year
ed how Roland House, the Scout route to Birkenhead, and of how Settlement in East London, once they were forced to turn back on the drama house of Sir Walter reaching London, has only just Resant, the famous novelist, has been revealed by Monsieur de become true as a centre of social Bonstetten, the Chief Scout for service. Switzerland.
In an article dealing with the
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Egon Barth and Fritz Weber of neighbourhood around Roland the Neuhausen Troop, 18 and 17 House, The Sunday Referee said:
"In Sir Walter Besant's fiction years old, set off from the bottom of the Chute du Rhin. on board a dream in his 'All Sorts and Con- "Klopperboot" n folding canvas ditions of Mon,' his heroine, Miss canoe, 18 feet long and 3 feat Kennedy, seeking an outlet för | wide. After going down the good deeds, set up as a dress-
Rhine, sleeping in a tant by maker at 29, Stepney Green..... the riverside, they arrived at "Near by she built a Palace for
Rotterdam on the twelfth day of the Peoplė,
the trip. Thence they went by
"Sir Walter lived to help his
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Hospital Readers.
Miss Redmayne, honorary librarian, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, speaking on libraries in
"THE BOY SCOUT" OF THE IRON- ROAD.
Shira-kumo nl
hane ushikawashi lobu kari n→→
kazuase mlyuru. -akl-no-yo-no-tsuki
Through the white clouds high, with wing-tips overlapping, wild geese homeward fly:
each afar distinctly seen
In the fair moon's autumn sheen. J. Ingram Bryan, in "The Literature of Japan."
: LORD BADEN-POWELL.
Sees When Scating Won."
Lord Baden-Pawell
bad
B
"The Boy Scout has emerged from the Derby workshops of the L.M. & S. Railway Company and was greeted by the County Com-special view of the new Boy Scout missioner of the Derbyshire Boy film, "When Scouting Won," Scouts, Dr. H. H. Berrirose, and which has been produced by Mr. Sir Henry Fowler, the Chief En- J. H. Martin Cross, of Minehead. gineer of the LM.S., himself a The Chief Scout, who thorough- former Commissioner of Boyly enjoyed the five reels of thrille, Scouts.
adventure and comedy, has since written congratulating the pro- ducer,
"The Boy Scout" is the most re- cent of twenty engines of the "Royal Scot" class to be built by the Company.
It is hoped that the Chief Scout and Chief Guide may shortly pay n visit to this new monster of the railroad and its sister engine,
The Girl Guide."
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
"The only discipline there is in the Scout Movement is the discipline of Common Senee.".
Brig. General E. Harding-
Newman,
Commissioner, S.W. Wilts
Boy Scouts.
Beautiful scenes of rural life and clever acting are features of the film, which shows the value of Boy Scout training in resource and deduction and its ultimate telumph in service to the commun- ity.
Those who BAW Mr. Martin Cross previous film, "The Lone Scout," will be glad to make the acquaintance of his clever actors again in his latest production, which is even better. The fact that the film is made on non-in- flammable film in both standard and 9% mm. sizes will ensure it a largely increased circulation.
SCOUTS' NEW RECEPTION ROOM.
traix to Calais. The port officer Palace-in-the-air on a sure foun- DON POTTER ON ROPE SPINNING the Reception Room and Reference was questioned as to the possibility dation in The People's Palace.
of crossing the Channel and A "Little can he have thought
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Sir Jeremiah Colman opened
Library at The Boy Scouts' Im- "Rope Spinning, by D. W. Pink-perial Headquarters in Bucking- pilot directed them. The two that one day Britain's heir-appar-ey, with a special chapter on
ham Palace Road, London, which Scouts embarked at dawn on the cat, princes and pilgrims of many How to Use the Lariat by Don he has presented, furnished and fourteenth day. At soven o'clock hues, faiths and tongues, an arch Potter, Assistant Camp Chief, Gil-fitted, to the Association.
The new accommodation, panel- abreeze sprang up, and the canoe blehop and scores of other folk of well Park," is the title of a bookled, and furnished in oak and lin- began to dance on the waves, but varied social and professional published by Messrs. Herbert after an hour the wind dropped. | status would gather within the Jenkins...
ed with glass-doored oak book- At eight o'clock they met
cases, has been constructed on the a two-and-a-half'. centuries' old
Don Potter to 80 well known first floor in the place of a block steamer. But let. Barth tell the panels of his dream house.
throughout the Boy Scout Move-
of old offices, tala.
"In the dream of real life, mont and as a roping expert that Mr. David Jagger's portrait of "I asked for the direction of after. Sir Walter's dream-house, the book is assured of a large. Dover. The boat drow alongside once like its neighbours, the abode circulation, more especially as it Lord Baden-Powell, which formed They let down a ladder. The cap of carriage-folk, had suffered diviis profusely illustrated with half-part of the world-gift at last year's tain shouted, Won't you come on alon into one-room tenements,it tone photographs and a series of Jamboree, is hung above the
mantelplace. board?" I replied, No, thank you, was bought by the Hon. Mr. very engaging thumbnall sketches Lord Baden-Powell received Sir Six. My question about the Roland Philipps, who planned to of novel design. The book can be Jeremiah's gift on behalf of The weather was answered; 'You will live there among his boye..... obtained from The Scout Shop, 25. have some fog. I again asked for Instead, this Roland, worthy of Buckingham Palace Road, London, the direction of Dover and the hie paladin-namesake of Charle 3.W.1, and Branches (price B/G encouraging reply came back: "You magne's days, went oversea to live post free 2/-). will never reach Dover!! Then the and die for England. steamer turned and we were alone. "He left the old house as his In our nutshell on the immensa living memorial for the use of sea. About ten o'clock Cap Gris East London's boyhood. T Nez disappeared and we had to "To-day 29, Stepney Green-iisa trust to our compass. Three kilo Settlement known as Roland- metres outside Dover there was a House to the Scout fraternity of alde wind and we decided to holat two continents.
our saile. We moved quickly, but
I had to row to avoid des-alcknels.
AWAKING OF SANTA CLAUS!
In many parts of the world Scouts and Rovers ave busy pre paring to do their extra good turn When Christmãs comes,
Boy Scouts Association. He re- ferred to Sir Jeremiah's many years of service as a member of the Council of the Boy Scouts As- sociation, and warmy thanked Sir Jeremiah for his munificence, of which this valuable and much- needed gift was not the first ex-
ampled to first ex
After the opening Lord Baden- Powell asked Sir Jeremiah's ac ceptance of the position of a Vice- President of The Boy Scouts As-
At 8.15 pm. we landed at Dover, Switzerland, their capital being ex-In Parth the Rovers are arrang-bociation, which Bir Jeremiah after having rowed for 10% Hours. hausted.
the Channel In folding canor, two
Ing to collect pld toys, and after gratefully accepted.
We were the first Swiss to cross Monsieur Bonstetten adds repairing and intivating them up Before the ceremony, Sir Jere
am sorry they did not get as far L German expeditions have succeed as Birkenhead, where life's aires
did not exist and where their days at Lonage and enterprise would certat Foreturned to have found Hide appre
ed before us
they will distribute them at Christ-miah Colman, Mr. David Jagger mas to poor children the help of and Mr. HL Anderson, the ar the police force is being enlisted chitect of the new rooms, were en- İn-Making out the
of re-tertained to luncheon by Lord
Baden-Powell
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