SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MAIL REVIEWS.
JUTLAND BATTLE.
The Eple of. Jutland," by Shane Leslie; Ernest Benn, Ltd., 18/6.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
position: and the successes and that an intense concentration on failures of his married life. His the plays as stage performances ideals do not come to fruition has 'brought remarkable results. until late in life. but he returns Mr. Granville-Barker's prefacos from his pedagogic enreer satisfied may be mentioned na one of the that he has done his little bit to
nehievements of kelp the world.
An entertaining novel written
more
notable modern criticism.
Beginning with a very illumin-yone who must understand the survey made
ating
preface
by
over
Corimaader
North
Augustus Agar, V.C., which briefly describes the general run of the famous battle of Jutland "The Epic" by Shane Leslie tells us in poetry the evente, minute by minute, that occurred between the hours of 4 pm. on May 30, 1916, and 10 am. on June 1, 1916. Dur- ing those few hours we travel
milea many
the Sea with Its everchanging visibility in matty
ships with their ever-changing direction. History, detailed history, can be made a very dull and uninterest. ing subject, especially if it deals with a difficult and most technical subject, but anyone who reads "The Epic of Jutland" will find pleasure in reading sailing direc tions if they are worded follows:-
dificulties that surround a young man who tries to fight old and comparatively useless conventions.
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CONTRACT BRIDGE.
["Contract Bridge for All," by
A. E. Hanning Foster: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 6~]
A brand new book written in a
more extensive manner than Mr. Manning Foster's other Bridge books possibly because it la des- cribing and explaining a compara- tively new game. Any one has read. Manning Foster on Bridge will realise that all the informa- tion given in his Intest hook is first class and that his directions
who
sense.
Dr. Mackall's plea in for a large with intelligence, imagination, and common Most of us flatter ourselves that we have at least a share of these qualities. We are warned not to read too much about Shakespeare, and, particularly, not to rend Into him. This is excellent advice, no
Baconians are right in proving that if Shakespeare wrote the plays he must have been a very remarkable man.
The few authentic fragments of Shakespeare's life have been work- ed hard, and they don't help much That to bring a man before us.
of the serene, high-browed man portraits doesn't tell me much, and the death-mask (which lacks
authority. I suppose) seems more possible. I think he might have; been something like George Mere-| Watts portrait but in dith-not as Meredith is in the a photo. graph taken in middle-life. Dr. Mackai thinks it probable that Shakespeare never knew how good he is it is a curious point that he never bothered about the
It is well
doubt, but, like most things in this sonnets, adn they might easily have world of blurred outlines, it nd-
been lost. It is astonishing that mits of some qualification. For he should have kept out of sight: instance, we may venture to read
once, indeed, Dr. Mackail anys, he about him in Dr. Macknil's book. did project himself into the drama. and to read into him may be, after "Our revels are ended" is to be all, to read imaginatively, It is taken, then, as Shakespeare's con- good advice that we should in the acious farewell of the stage. In first place (but this may be long the three plays of his final period, past) read Shakespeare "largely, "Cymbeline," "A Winter's Tale," deeply, freely, incessantly," and and "The Tempest," he passes that we must be receptive rather from "strenuous magnificence" to than critical, going out to Shakes-triumphant case." are given in the simplest fashion. peare's world rather than confia- phrased, and perhaps Dr. Mackall The book also contains the lat-ing him to ours. To surrender to is right when he sees in this great est Laws of Contract Bridge issu-him is, in this view, the beginning trio that Shakespeare was losing "Then Jellicoe to Jerram signaled by the Portland Club and the of vital study and also, in an en-
his grasp of the theatre, that these led: Turn
Complete American Code.
larged and heightened degree, the
are, particularly plays to read. All desirous learning Con- end." Certainly you can't do that Learning is irradiated by enthu tract Bridge will be able to do so if you are bogging all the time siasm, and the critic writes with and all who think they know it over authorities and questing for eloquence which seems to over- will learn from this, the latest of Marlowe or Fletcher in every line.
whelm the sceptical element in Mr. Manning Faster's productions. But should you surrender yourself modern scholarship. There is a to Shakespeare more than to any fine chapter on "The Decade of one else? He will carry you with the Tragedies," which are seen as him often enough, and I don't see
an awakening rather than why you should not, even from the normal evolution, the plays of the beginning, be as alert critically previous decade being but "pro- na you can. You may revolt from logues to the swelling act of the a passage in Masefield or Gals- imperial theme." worthy, though with these you cannot look about for some in- ferior writer as responsible for the offence.
Four points away to give these
fish their stern And to the rest two points by
sub-division
Then two paints more, avoiding
all collision."
A BOOKMAN'S NOTES.
The Approach To Shakespeare.
The reader is taken minute by minute from commander to com- mander, British and German, to watch every phase of the world's greatest sea battle. "The Epie" tells also of the small trading.ves- sel which was the innocent cause of the two feets coming into con- tact; in fact, in order to be cer- tain that anything of the slighted. "with est importance has been missed out, one would have to rend through many less interesting ac- counts and they would have to be officit.
There enn he tittle doubt that this poem unbiased na it is, is a masterpiece and worthy of its place in all libraries.
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HAND OF FATE.
"The Parson and Clerk." by George Woden; Ernest Benn. Ltd., 7/6.)
Giles Atherton Rower. born in a hostelry named The Parson and Clerk, was intended by his parents to be a parson but fate with its usual tricks, turned him into a clerk and he spent his life.az a school master always militating against that same fate. This book give us in a most interesting
form
the life of Giles Atherton Bower. ia training which was forced upon him in Beu of educa tion: his courtship, which was also forced upon him by his lonely
ROUND THE
HOME OFFICE SCHOOL SCOUTS'
GOOD TURN.
The Boy Scout Group of the Essex Home School for Boys, Chelmsford, presented the Scout peace play, "Of One Blood," at Richmond, as a good turn in aid
of the Holy Trinity (Richmond) Boy Scouts' Camp Funda.
The play was given at the ex- pressed, desire of the Home School Scouts in return for kindnesses re- ceived from the Holy Trinity Scouts and their Group Scout- master, the Rev. Willon McCann.
The Holy Trinity (Richmond) Group and the Scout Group of the Essex Home School, whoac Head- master is Mr. R. H. Fish, are close- ly associated. Many members of the Richmond Scout Group have adopted Individual Scouts In, the Home School, and many of the older Holy Trinity Scouts have linked up with younger Scouts at
the school aa "big brothers to younger brothers who are orphans, or who have no outside friends, or very few.
The School Scouts were enter
tained by Scouts In the Holy Trinity Group during the week- end, in their homes and taken on various expeditions, including at tendance at a joint Scouts' Own Service on Sunday.
"The opportunity of seeing the result of the training given at this Home Office School, combined with the Scout Training in the School Troop, and what it can make of boys who previously have had hardly any chance," drew a dia ¿tinguished audience,
Dr. J. W. Mackail has publish Home revision." bia course of lectures given at Uni- versity College, London, on the Lord Northcliffe foundation. The title of the book is "The Approach to Shakespeare," and it is published by the Oxford University Press. Probably a good many of us, see ing this title, may be guiltily con- scious that our approach has been, haphazard and that it is too late to bring reason and regularity to
it.
This need not prevent our
gaining a great deal from an il- scholarly as we are, it is comfort- luminating commentary. And, un-
ing to be assured that "what is essential is that it should be made not from one angle alone, and that it should be founded on a broad basis of intimacy, broad without being discontinuous or superficial." Dr. Mackall wants us to get to the centre of things, and he warns us that the study of origin and en- vironment has its dangers, that "to lead everywhere is to lead no- where." Yet though, as he points out, a past generation inclined to believe the study of Shakespeare to be exhausted, it appears now
CAMP
FIRE
Sir Alfred Pickford (Boy Scout Headquarters Commissioner for Development), Admiral E. M. Phillpotts (County Commissioner for London), Mr. S. W. Harris, C.B., C.V.O. (the Head of the Childern's Branch of the Home Office), Mr. F. S. Scruby and Mr. W. H. C. Davey (Home Office
representatives) and the President of the Rotary Club (Dr. Johnstone) were among those present.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
Whilst a man
on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.
eits
DELIVERING THE GOODS.
Finally. Dr. Mackail suggests "placing ourselves at a point from which we regard the whole body of Shakespeare's work as an or ganic unity with a continuous life, with diversity of operations but one spirit." I am not sure that I understand this clearly; I don't know whether it would commit you, for instance, to Mr. Aber crombie, with his complete accopt- ance, as, opposed to Mr. Robertson and his wholesale disintegration and rejection. It would be im critics as typifying one's needs, pertinent to regard these eminent
but there seems to be a good deal to any on both aldes. Possibly, too, we may follow Dr. Mackail in regarding Shakespeare's work as the projection of a single per- sonality and at the same time, or in the next brenth, as impersonal, as "reflecting surfact, or rather, a translucent lens." I am not sug- gesting that Dr. Mackall is incon- sistent, but only that the subject is incapable of final definitions. Everybody is right about Shukes- peare, though some muy, be a little then others. Even the
more
SCOUTS' "BANUM & BARLEY'S."
When Lord Hampton, the Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts' Association, attended the Sea Scout Show
of the 9th Lymington Sea Scout Group, of which Mr. R. H. Hole is Group Scoutmaster, he was handed a programme which contain- ed the following limerick:
"There was an old man who burst
out so
That his wife said, "Good grael-
eus, don't shout so."
But he said, "Hip, hurray, I'm excited and gay, For I've just been to see the Sea
Scout Show."
A feature of the show was the large number of stage and circus properties made by the Group mem- bera, who presented "Banum and Barley's, the most sensational Circus Success this Solent City has
ever seen."
COSMOPOLITAN, BUT BROTHERS ALL!
-
"In the Hawaiian Islands there are 1,681 Boy Scouts according to their latest returns," says Mr. Hubert Martin, the Director of the Boy Scouts International Bureau.
764 Japanese, 260 Anglo-Saxons, "Included in this number are: Hawaiian-Chinese, 9 Spanish, 101 192 Chinese, 117 Portuguese, 18
Koreans, 84:
€8
have carried out a record number Throughout the world Boy Scouts
of Christmastide Good Turns. The great majority were effected on bo- half of children and young peoplé. Some, however, consisted in pro Filipinos, 26 Hawailan-Portuguese,
Hawaiians, viding for the needs of the old folk. 9 Porto Ricans, 4 Hawaiian- The Burley-in-Wharfedale Group Flipines, 8 Russians, 8 Hawaiian- of Boy Scouts good turn came Japancec and 1 Hawallan-African." under the latter category. They Cosmopolitan. but brothers all un- have just entertained 90 old folk of dar "BP" Scout Flag... their village to a New Year Teh and Concert in the village hall. - Neither were such old folk as were unable to attend forgotten by the Scouts. Some forty teas were sent out to those unable to leave their homes.
The Scouts clubbed together, in other in addition to raising money by enter tainmente, to defray the epat of their New Year's Good Turn.
His Worship the Mayor of Rich- After acting as waiters during the and and the Mayoress, the Demeal, the Troop provided a concert puty Mayor and Mayoreas, Lord and before leaving each man was Hampton (the Chief Commissioner given a packet of tobacco and each of the Boy Scouts Association), "woman a packet of tea,
TRIBUTE TO
When Sir David M'Cowan ad dressed 400 Boy Scout workers and
West of Scotland, be paid a high their friends from Glasgow and the tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder, and Chief Scout of the Boy Scout Movement,
total that in the life of
the Chief Scout every one, young, or old, could find an example, and one which they could not do better. than to emulate.
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Certainly Dr. Mackail is not in sympathy with those disintegra- tors who would make Shakespeare a king of shreds and patches. Hej might be careless, or even reck- less, but he knew his job. Ha didn't bother, about loose ends. reality. "The action of the play is the only To try to go behind it
is a course futile."
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