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ARE THE ENGLISH HYPOCRITES?
THE FAMOUS
WHY OUR RESERVE IS OFTEN RUSSIAN LIGHT OPERA &
ATTACKED,
BY MARRIOTT-WATSON; ],
The Continental nations accuse us of hypocrisy. The question is whether we are hypocrites or only decent. There is
as à rule, a reserve. in the English nature
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AT THE
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which prevents the ultimate display of Thursday, June 23rd 1-- frankness It is always claimed that the French are logical, and the" claim is
Presents.
“The Merry Widow
"The Mysteries of the Harem"
true. They follow reason to its conclu Friday, Jane 24th 2- sion with ruthless integrity, and they deride us because we don't. But is it right to say that because of that we are hypocritical
Saturday, June 5th
I bave read French authors who meta- phorically made my hair curl-such as Zola, Pierra Louys, Catulle Mendes, or almost any one. But I certainly should | Monday, June 27th:--- be grossly offended if I were charged
with bypocrisy. I consider that I am
just decently reserved. The Greeka bad
"Gipsy Love"
"The Count of Luxemburg
canon which provented them from Tuesday, June 28th : |showing on the stage in action anything i
shocking.
HARROWING FRANKNESS
Aristotle, I think it was, first defined Wednesday, June 29th this dramatic law, and his term for it wasminron. So when Edipus put. out his eyes it was off stage, and the aurlience had only the resultant emo Lions So also with Shakespeare and Macbeth." Contrast with this the appalling scene in which Sarah Bern- hardt crept along the open stage with a knife or stekle-forget which-to Fill her tyrant." On these conditions the whoße Grand Guignol scheme is to be condemned. It may be logical, but it is not decent.
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It cannot be charged against us that we have this (shall I say 1) squeamish- ness as a mark of hypocricy. Once upon a-time we wern very different, and in line with the Continentals. It is not a national trait, but I rather think it is the evolution of a national characteris- tic. "Go buck to the Elizabethans, and you will find them frank and logicni enough. Conn later down the years to the eighteenth century, and you will find Swift, and Sterne, and Smollett, and many more The English character had not get got itself emancipated from the common voyage of national traits. But the process was beginning, and that pro cess was, to my mind, part the bene- ficent evolution of a nation's character. If you want logic and reality, you'can go to the hospitals, to the police courts. and elsewhere. There is plenty of them there. We as a nation now, not fearing Mrs. Grundy, have decided on definite limitations in crdinary affairs. We are not hypocritical, because we can free difficulties and dirt if it be necessary. But we want to keep open life as sweet as may be
DECENCY, NOT HYPOCRISY... -After" all, we must not forget that evolation has not ceased, but is still going on, The question, is whether we ara a little in advance of our neigh bours: I am disposed to "think 80. Please don't cast your eyes back to the mid-Victorian period, when there was no much false sentiment. To-day there is a great deal of ugly life if you seek it in dark corners, but because it is there it does not make us, who repudiatè it, hypocrites
It is true we cover it over out of & ht, as we "do common sets of ordinary life which are intimate or gross. Abroad, there is no concealment either of the one or other. Which is the better way I know which is the more comfortable way; nor do I wish to return to the open cesspools of our forefathers.
We have progressed, and we are still in pro- gression No, it is decency, not hypo- crisy, -apresA.
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A DEFENCE OF ANGLO-SAXON
HUMOUR
BY H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON,
are mainly composed of Anglo-Saxons,
but even within their boundaries the sense of humour is limited. The Irish for example, have no sense of humour). and I. think the Welsh are in the same caste
It may sound like a paradox tạ: say that the Irish people are without Ammour, but I believe it rig true, and I' believe that the present Irish tragedy
jury of three. Messieurs Bruyne, Fisher HAS Williams, and Lion, as representing the Reparation Commission, with Belgium as Jason and Austria:us the Drugan,
Under the terms of the Treaty of St. Germain Belgian claims the treasure proper of the Dider of the Golden Fleece, goldsmiths!, work, collars, insignia, and decorations preserved formerly in the Court Chapel at Brussels, and also arms, elebrated Frenchman which was an in- sense of humour.
I once read and reviewed a book by a would not have arisen if the Irish had a tapestry, javelins, and the like, bearing quiry into the superiority of the Anglo The tradition Irishman is humor the arms of the Order. I Igium also Saxon. The author, attributed this outs, but he is a claims the surrender of the Reubentiperiority in history to our public invented by others." He is not true to "stage" Irishman, famous Triptych of San Ildefonso, which schools. To my mind he was wrong; it was purchased and brought to Vienna is due to our sense of humour.
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simism.
typo.
Swift, and he was only an irishman be
The greatest exponent of Irish wit in cause he was born there,
in 1777 from the Abbey of St. Jacques
If you cast your eye over Europe, now Coudenhove; further, arms, equipment, and documents which were taken from divided into many componente, you will the Brussels arenal to Vienna in 1704 not find, so far as my experience goes,
Then the Scot that most maligned and the manueript originals, which served example, of Eussia and the Bolsheviks! but it is humour.
any real sense of humour. Think, for being The Scop's humour may be pawkye General de Ferraria for the Carte Well if that is too modern an instance, humorists are Scotch, and the Scottish All the Trini Chorographique of the Austrian Nether think of Tolstoy, Taurgenieff. Dostoier himorists need no mention, from Sin lands between 1770 and 1777. Both sides sky, and Gorky. The simple Arcadian Walter Scott to Sir James Barrio have agreed to recept the findings of the mind withers in the blight of their pea
Well, one geta back to the original jury. 19
elaim that humour abides in the Anglo- "**The Order of the Golden Fleece was Then come westwards. Has anyone Saxons and has roade them what they founded in 1430 by Philip the Good, over discovered humour in German literare. Shakespeare is surely, as in all Duke of Burgundy, who then reigned over ture, or in Turkish, or in Polish, or in things, an exemplar of this But, to well as other wide territories in France he is a most delicate wit, as is shown
argument. le the greater part of modern Belgium, as Hungarian (I don't know these langu-large and confirm my
and so make inquiries.). In France look away, and across the Atlantic. there
In the United States there is abundant and the Netherlands. The sovereignty of the Order, which is dedicated to our in its abundant and pangant literature and overflowing humour. This is Lady and St. Andrew, the patron saint But I can find in my reading no tracen derivative from the Anglo-Saxon stock. of the Dukes of Burgundy, passed by of what we know na humour. The nearest The German grins through a hors-collar
approach to it was in the "Tartarin " and his sense of humor? stays there. But. marriage to the House of Hapsburg in of Alphonse Daudet. I know a very dis the English strek in America produces 1477, and became attached to the Crawn tinguished man of letters who chuckles at the ripened fruit of the old tree of Spain, which for many years retained every sparkle of wit, but frankly con
my thesis is proven. Belgium, When the male line of the fesses that he does not know what hum As to what causes humour and Spanish Hapsburg came to an end in our is
and so desi ciden the empiry of the world I know, not, 1700 the Austrian branch of, the family
and cannot guess,
Perhaps some one laimed the Order, while the Bourbons
will elucidata it. At least it in certain reigning in Madrid have consistently conferred it as Kings of Spain.
P
101BH AND WELSH
II I am right, then (and I am subject that humour) is the saving mult of life, to correction), humour is the monopoly and that because we have it we are whis
of the Anglo-Saxon race. There islands we are-Daily Ery, DEDA VENEZN