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NATIONAL TEMPERAMENTS, CONCERNING OURSELVES AND FRANCE.
BY THE REV. C. A. ALINGTON, D.D.. HEADMASTER OF ETON]
for-
1925
DIFFERENCES.
SLUMP IN BRITISH COAL :
EXPORTS.
CUT PRICES FAIL TO WIN BACK TRADE.
The coal export figures for the first two months of the subsidy pericil, August and September, reveal a falling-off in trade, as compared with the same two months last year, of 2,395,000 tape.
shore. Thers appeared many years ago. a similar legend in "Punch," in which They have a passion for military glory the host at a shooting party, amazed at which finds no place in the heart of the seeing his French guest suddenly climb average Briton; they have a care for ing a tree, in reassured by the keeper: nestness and precision which seems to Beg pardon, sir. I think the gentleman us petty they are thrifty while we oard you say, "Bear to the right'. pride ourselves on being profps; we are to is notoriously difficult for any
Ts will be noticed that both these sell-critical while they are self-com
placant; in a ward, they are incurably nations to understand one another?
storien deal with sport, and it is a
cinssical wbile wo ara incorrigibly ro
This is half the decline of six million differences of comperament are reinforced
cherished Wlief of the English that sport mantic. In literature as in art they by the different history, to which those is one of the things which it is our submit to rules and regulations which
we could never tolerate, and the perfectons in the total output of the collieries, to which attention was drawn last week temperaments lead, and over all is cast mission to teach to the world, and not tion of their achievements, even whan wa
Daily News). the almost impenetrable veil of a foreign
least to the French, It is with some realise it, Iraves us cold in our appre says the Labour Correspondent of the language. Merely to understand a
In the early seventeenth century they thing of a shock that we read in the eign language will not explain n'people, but not to know it is in most cases to National History of France that about surrendered themselves for good and all i ment of 630.000 tons over August, but the year 1600 the English who were to"the classical tradition assuming (to quote the French National History once surprised by the French fashion (of demore) that outside the production of votion of games) copied it, though they antiquity no creation of the human mind deserved the effort of study."` To that considered the French very immode surrender they have been faithful; and The Little rate and to realise that the word the clean-cut classical outline chacas report existed long before was hail interises all their thought as it does their vented its abbreviation. In modern days French Girl brings this out with start- ing her religious views fax in the ex tennis and its derivative games exist to ling clearness Her English friend and prove our debt: in inventiveness at least treme, asks her by what right she calla we may claim to have improved upon herself a Catholic: F have been bup- our teachers.
abandon all hope of an explanation.
We are exhorted, for instance, at the present moment to try to understand what is happening in China, and are reproached, for our lack of comprehen sion of the Chinese character, but it must be sadly confessed that to the average man such comprehension is impossible land, that he is bound to be at the mercy of the expert. Mr. William Watson long age expounded the difference between East and West in a striking parallet be- tween a Collie and an Angora cat. The
former, imperasionable, interrogative, easily elated or dejected, is typical of demeracy, with its love of novelty and experiment betrayed by
The unweariable curiosity And universal openmindedness Of that all-testing, all-inquisitive nose The cat, herself immobile, imperturo able," surveys his effervescence and volatility with complete contempt.
Another brais dreaming another dream Another heart recalling other loves, Too grey and grave for our adventurous
hopes,
For our precipitable pleasures
august,
And in majestic taciturnity Refraining her illimitable scorn.
AMERICA.
too
But the differences of East and West are too old and too insoluble a problem to surprise or even to distress us: the shock is greater when our neighbours speak the same language and have the appearance at least of similag mental processes. No American can ever quite believe that the English really do think what they say they think, or mean what they say they hean, any more than Mr. Piccadilly Wodehouse's American in
Ju could believe that they really liked watching cricket or could compare baseball to hockey. And if Americans fail to understand us, our lack of com- prehension is at least as complete.
Me. Henry James, who of all writers was most competent to explain the two nations to one another, bus left a bril. International liant sketch in An Episode, describing the visit of an Englishman to America and the return visit of his American hosts, which dis plays their contrasting views of hos pitality, and another heroine of his Mrs. Touchett, sums up neatly the reasons (bearing upon minor points of British civilisation) which seemed to her to justify non-residence in England. "She detested bread-sauce, which, as she said. looked like a poultice and tasted like snap: she objected to the consumption of beer by her maidservants, and she affirmed that the British Jaundress was not a mistress of her art."
Our
OUR FRENCH NEIGHBOURS: But of all the Western peoples whom we fail to understand, none are so re- I'mote 11
nearest neighbours, the French At first sight it would seem as if a continued intereourse of nearly a thousand years must have brought with it some, mutual comprehension: we have repeatedly fought against them we have we have frequently fought with them learnt much from them in the way of literature and taught them (perhaps) a little: we have accepted Eings from across the Channel with a docility as complete as that with which we necopt their fashions, but we understand ane another as little as when the first Ner- man landed ar Pevensey, Such is the estranging power of a strip of water. no longer than the stretch of the Bath road which lies between London and Maiden- tead, and the gap is now far too wide! for any Channel Tunnel to close.
Language bas, of course, a great deal to say to it. The alienation of our twe tongues is so complete that an English- man approaches French with a suspicion and a difdence even greater than those, which are natural to him. In a sense, this is perhaps an unconscious tribute to our neighbours when we try to express ourselves in German we do not cou sciously feel that our results are uglier than those at which we aim, even when they are least successful in, conveying our meaning but in French we feel dis graced as well as defeated, as a cricketer way feel who knows that though a fast bowler may despatch him for nothing. it is only the low bowler who is likely to cover him with ridicule as well a
From this difficulty the French, 'no doubt, are free, but we like to think that their troubles are not less severe. It is no doubt an apocryphal legend which narrates; that Frenchman, on arriving at Dover, found himself con fronted with a large placard bearing the words Collapse of Kent," and bastily returned to the safety of his native
OUR WOMEN. ·
In her latest, and not least brilliant, Miss novel, The Little French Girl,' Ante Douglas Sedgwick brings out ad- mirably the reaction on her heroine of a sudden introduction to English Fur roundings She notices the ugliness of the women "she sees like jugs," she! thinks; their clothes expressed enterprise," and she saffers from the food, the bounteous graceless meals" and the sauces, made with our not properly cooked." She finds the subur
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of London mean and low and toad- coloured, and even the Kentish scenery insignificant and confond. looks to her its lack of design or purpose teasing her pind with its contradiction of the in- tinct for order and shapeliness that And the English girls who dwelt there. greet her with such noisy kindlinese have no doubt of their own superiority. French girls aren't much good at walk- Jouissez-vous le ing are they?" hockey-such questions represent their outlook, which is really summed up in A very Aunt Bella's sage remark
A very strange people, the French. strange people indeed.”
And to us there is no doubt they are profoundly strange. We might borrow another line from Mr. Willian Waison and call them alient to our achieve ments and desires," just as we are alien to theirs.
ciation,
art A conversation in
tised," said Alix, have been confirm. ..
The September figures show an improve reduction of 1,196,000 tons as compared with September, 1994, and 2,414,000 as. compared with 1923.
Exports for the two months are 5,792,000 tons less than in 19
FIGURES COMPARED. The totals for two months are:-
1993
1994
192
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Tans.
7,174,000
10,179.000
12,896,000
For the nine months ending September the nine n
1924 1923
1923 I go to confession and to Mass, at least at Easter. Most certainly I am Catholic You might as well say I was net French because I did not believe in the public as to say I don't believe in heaven. One is, and one is not. It is a question of being born so."
Tans 37,404,000
- 40,799,000 ... 39,472,000 The 1995 export is therefore 9,328,000
less than in 1993. tons less thaif in 1994, and 22,006,000 tons
FALL IN PRICES. Export values given in the Board of Trade returas indicate that export prices have been cut in an effort to recapture,
trade.
It is a question of being born syes, and it is doubtful if any words will get us nearer to an explanation of the differ ence between these two great irreconcil- able friends, the English and the French
The average value per ton for August remarks: "One and September was 198, as compared with After all, as another of Mr. Henry James's characters than one gives up one's grandmother. average vahie in September was 18s. H., doesn't give up one's country any more 93 6d. in 1924, and 235. in 1920. The
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