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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 1925
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At the moment when we are, celebrat ing the centenary of the first British railway there comes appropriately to hand from the Oxford Liniversity Press Miss Joan Parker's | Travel in England in the Seventeenth Century, (21a met. )” It is n book for which we are profoundly grateful. Got only for its delightful pages, but for the contrast it affords tween the conditions of travel 20 years ago aid the present day. As we survey those conditions and the danger that hoset man and horse upon the rend, we kantot" wonder that the traveller from the provinces to London almost always made his will before.Retting put on his | journey,"
"
IN MY DEATH AGONY.”.
THE TRAGEDY OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY.
A rather pathetic eche of the Naughty Nigties of the deathbed repentance of the artist who was the chief illustrator of that period of revolt, Aubrey Beardslay-- roines across the year's to-day Beardsley died in 1998. He was only a when he died; but he gave his name to a period in: the history of art. Some of Beardsley's drawings which may have been regarded as rather dating in bis owu tur. in the years now known as The Beardsley Period, might very well pass nanotie it today, so far as any hist of impropriety is concerned. Mrs Grundy is less easily shocked in the ginteen. ' twenties than she was in the eighteen. nineties.
But it equally true that some of ABOMINABLE ROADS.
Beardsley's work was much too Rabelaisian Seventeenth-century England, as Mito put it mildly--for gen rat circulation. Parkes reminds us, was not, a land of It is known to students of the Beardsley Well-defined roads and well-ordered period that his "Lysistro" drawings, for rivers; half the country was wilderness, instance, hud to be heavily censored before heath, or common: a good deal of the publication; that is, certain portions had to
by cut away. other hali, being worked on the old com raon field system of the long defunct fendal area Industry was in tale of transition. The only roads with any pretensions to good foundations were those made by the engintering k of Rome more than 1.400 years earlier. The riding-borse and the pillion-saddle were giving way to the four-wheeled waggon drawn by horses or oxen and the stage waggon was beginning to be known. The roads were abominable.
Even the Circuit visited Horsham, in the heart of the Weald, only for the summer assizes. The Duke of Sormer set, whose state. Petworth Park. Jay on one of the worst roads of the king- dom, found it, neeessary to keep a house at Guildford, at which to li whenever he made the journey to London. So dreadful was the way that Prince George of Denmark, when. in December, 1703, he travelled there from Windsor to greet the so-called King Charles of Spain to these shures, spent- Fourteen hours in his coach, which hadi to be prevented at intervals from sinking into quaguire by the imi boors" of Shases who accompanied its painful progress.
Beardsley himself, when he lay drip of consumption, evidently realised what harm. might be done to his reputation if, after his denth, any drawings of this sort r
Hence mained to brand him as a pervert. his dying appeal to his friend, Leonard Smithers, who was also publisher to some of the rebels of the 'niceties.
This letter, pitiful in its urgency, is quoted by Mr. Lewis Hind in his introduc tion to a large volume of "The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley" (published recently, The Bodley Hend. 2. 28). It was written by the artist at Mentone, only nine days before he died, on March 16th, 1898.
Mentone.
It ran
"
Jesus is our Lor., and Judge, Dear Friend.
I implore you to destroy all copies of Lysistrata" and had drawings. Show this to Fellitt and cônjure him to do the #61171", By all that is holy-all hud decrings
Aubrey Beardsley.
In my death agony,
It is perhaps permissible to winder-and with reasun-how far the dying man's charge was observed: and whether all the tad rawings were destroyed in accordance
with his wish.
Apropus this side of Beardsley's charac- fer, one of his friends wrote to Mr. Hind
The last dine miles were covered in six hours. Miss Parkes think it strange
He was never really bad. He lud a that the Sussex gentry preferred the bad roads, as some impediment to invasion, sort of impishly mischievous pleasure in but did not the grent Duke of Welling-shocking people that was all.'
·ton object to the Portsmouth railway be cause he thought it would help French troops to get to London?
"
But he had also, as Mr. Find adanite, a strange, age-jon. h.tuitive knowledge of things hidden and evil. It amused him to exploit this knowledge...."; an! no doubt that side of Lis character and work was exploited, uffer his death. to the detriment of his real reputation.
Some interesting glimpse of the
INNS AND ALEHOUSES. The increase of traffe, caused by 1
king improvement of the roads and the larger number of coaches, led to the increas of of that reputation can be gained init only inas and alehouses-though England from Mr. Hind's personal memories of the never seems at any time to have been young artist when he was still working as short of these. The great fins of then usurance clerk by day and drawing age were very different from the hotels if the night, but shohy a study of the
drawings in this book. of to-day. If. occasionally there were dishonest practices by ostlers and other servants, the gust" was treated with hearty hospitality. The host so long he remained sober--was the host who would entertain' the company with
His "merry tales and true jest!". daughter would play on the virginals: and his wife, who was not infrequently the sole proprieter, would greet the new arrival with a cup of sack and a dish of hot salmon, saying, if of the Northern speech,May God thank thre,"
Of course there was sometimes another side to the picture. Bishop Hurle arute of the Handsome, Hostess," whose pare your wel-come, and youre entertaisement her congty. which is put into the reckoning ton, and is the dearest parcellin it.' Nor was this all Sometimes the traveller would find biar- self paying extra. because the ins belong. ed to an ilderman or a gentleman of an- <ieat lineage. It was so at the George at Lancaster, where the host's brother was
FUMES.both a justice of the pence and "a chieft
EASILY. HANDLED.
INGREDIENTS
The most striking thing they show is that in the sarly work there was not the slightest Lace of the highly individual style which cables une te vay at sight: "That's a Benidsley."
Perhaps he realised that no amount of good work of the conventional sort gould ever make him a reputation; and so deli. berately set himself to cultivate a style which should be unmistakable-that would mark a dnswing us plainly Beardsley as if it were signed in letters & foot long.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CUBIT SqLENTIVIS, Gaoler and could "therefore procure his guests some commannd of the Castle Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram The tavern must have been a welcome Station-Sunday, 11.15 am. Wednesday, 5.30 refuge and a strength to those who had pm. Reading Room open Tudelay and
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Sir Ralph Verney, as upright a man us. that 24. robberies occurred near Lotalan ay in the kingdom, used the whole weight of his, înfurnce to extricate his between Alay and November... -
thebooty including five hundred two highway cousins from the con- guineas from the Earl of Magborough, sequences their actions. To one he fifteen thousand pounds from seven allowed 20 shillings a week after coming out of goal; he leat bis wig as disguise Western coaches thy twelve highway to assist in his escape; and he obtained men) and 7 like un from the reprieves and pardons for them. In like fashion his relative Lady Hobart used her No moral obloquy attached to him who powers of persuasion in the legal circles plied the trade. "As the "Cashiëred | in "which she moved. To the Verneys it Soldier" succinctly put it. ---
was a huge joke when Sir Ralph's uncle,
"Manchester carrier.
To beg is use, as have us pick a purse Dr. Denton, and his wife were robbed" on To cheat, mure base of all theft-that | the highway. One of his aunts vowed
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that the thief was Mir Ralph's younger brother, Harry, who was not ill-pleased with, the imputation, though Lady Hobart was persuaded he would have liked the money letter than the jeat. The joke! was carried still further, when another re lative, invited to stay with Sir Ralph ai Clayton, inplored his prospective host to - “/Tix_ great ́pity, auch "mên" should" bej shrit" bis frother up, for fear he meet hanged wrote John Verney, and if the] with us as the Dr. was mett with." public bad a good deal of sympathy for A mad world, my masters, a mad and the highwaywan "and" admiration for his lawless world. Miss, Joan Parken sees it exploits that did not prevent them from through the spectacles of ramanice, and going to see him "turned off." On one makes us do the same while under the occasion, so great were the crowds 'on the spell "of her entrancing pages. But, on wall of Ht. Sepulchre's Churchyaril on the sober reflection we think we would rather route of the procession, that it gave way, have the comfort of the Flying Scotsman killing one person and injuring several fra Rolls-Royce, and limit our ex- others.
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