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THE SHAPE OF MODERNITY.
MODERN
WHERE IS CIVILIZATION. LEADING US?..
a hundred. Magnificent figures;
NEW HOPE FOR THE BLIND
SUCCESSFUL TEST WITH RABBITS.
An operation which may be do Bobas, morcover, made 5,410 veloped to afford a cure for a large runs in Test matches, including 15 category of blind persons is m centuries, and with either B.ferred to by the Curator, Bir Ar- ON ON TRIAL Fry, Wilfred Rhodes, or Herbert thur, Keith, in the annual report By C
Burns. (Allen & Sutcliffe has had a share in 24 first of the Museum of the Royal Col 10. Od.).
wickot partnerships of more than loge of Surgeons. Modernity, Mr. Burns cells, is
The outstanding problem is whe twenty years old. Briefly, it is a Rays Mr. Moult, and magnificent thera operation successfully now industrial revolution, but "ainteed they are; if we knew no executed on rabbits by Mr. J. revolution in consumption or enjoy. I more than the figures we should Tudor Thomas, the Welsh physio. want to read this story of the man logist, can be extended to human A century ago what is called responsible for them
beings, Mr. Tuder Thomas a re the industrial revolution meant But we do know more, most of porter was informed by Biz Ar only that old types of product us, for there can be hardly a game-thur Keith, has increased the pro were made in greater quantities. Now we have passed from laving Englishman who has not bability of success on rabbites for process-invention to product-in-seen Tobba in action.
this particular operation from 1 vention. The revolution of to- day is therefore mainly a change
in 10 to 8 in 10. . in the ways in which men enjoy life. Its organisation is a prob- lem of the market.
mont rather than in production."
Was-
How must it feel to be one of the giants of cricket? That is a ques- The oporation consists to trans). tion many people must have asked planting the cornea, or outer over. themselves, and it is answered ing of the eye, from one eye to Product-invention leads very far. abundantly in Playing for Eng- another, and affords a possibility The gramophone has penetrated the land.". We read how Hobbs was of curing the blindness. of persoNS. most primitive African village; in-out "first ball in his firat Test in whom it is caused by opacity of nermost China goes to the films; the innings in England, and how miser, the cornea. Their number consumption of oatmeal in Scotland ably he listened to the rain instead estimated by Sir Arthur at 10,009 bas fallen off by 30 per cent, and of going to sleep that night. And in the British Isles alene, we all eat out of tins; the motor then how he vindicated himself and
A Word of Warning. car provides an escape from village passed from strength to strength- gossip and often in consequence from traditional morality. The dark tubes to hide the dirt which men wore as clothing in the steam age are not modern. "Colour is coming back again in a world of electricity and internal combusionA FEMININE FATHER BROWN.bourhood of the stitches. engines."
. The worldly asceticism" which was the root philosophy of the first industrial stages-the gospel which held that life is a serious business, and in any case "business"--that is going, too. Unfortunately, we' have not quite endorsed the essen- tial modern philosophy." It is commonplace that work is for the sake of leisure; but it is the sort of commonplace which in, contem porary life is only in the school books,
Thus modernity equals the newly invented products; in other words, the fashionable means of enjoying leisure. An interesting concept, but what does it amount to 1. Mr. Burns will not let us despite con- temporary amusements. The sense of decline "he brings it out tartly is in those who stay away from cinemas and jazz dances, not in those who enjoy them. Jeremiada are, commentaries by professore upon a text they cannot read."
But what is there in this text professors cannot read! Your in satiable modernista have the air always of finding something. of deeper significance in jazz tunes than in polkas or can-cans, and in the cinemas of 1031 than in the panorama-an inferior but amusing mechanism of 1831. They never tell us what it is they find. Mr. Burns' stout and tonic pamphlet ends where it would be interesting to begin
HIGHLAND FOLK-TALES.
"Mr Tudor Thomas," added: Sir
it is all good reading, and full of Arthur, has developed a now tech rinecdotes, as doubtless many lovers nique. In all previous operations of cricket will discover for them. of this kind, the now portion of selves.
cornea has been stitched into post. ticn. After a time opacity has re- appeared, beginning in the neigh- Mr.
TALES FROM THE Moons AND THE MOUNTAINS. Donald A. Mac- kenzie. (Blackie. 7a. 6d.). We sometimes forget that racially Scotland is two nations, Highland- ers and Lowlanders.
Tudor Thomas has succoeded in se curing the new corned without the
SOLANGE STORIES. By F. Tennyson necessity for any stitches in the
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know) the operation The function of a crime story has been attempted on human be is, above everything, to give ono ings, the cornen was diseased in the shivers." says Miss Jesse, and addition to being opaque. In thes proceeds, briefly and delicately, to case it was not successful. It must illustrate her idea. She makes the be emphasised that, even if the detective. element unimportant, operation proves applicable to hu using it as a colourless background man beings, it could hardly hope to isolate the scarlet or pale blue to be successful unless the original. thrill entwined with the murders, cornea was in a healthy condition."
The Pedlar and "The Canary"
Details are given in the report are too slight in themselves to carry with regard to the progress of the her rather daring spiritualistic scheme for the Surgical Research ideas; such theraes require greater arm at Down House, Kent, the vigour of presentation. The other home of Charles Darwin, which has three stories, however, produce a been presented to the nation by genuine "frisson." Solange, the Mr. Buckston Browne. The main detective, is a feminine Father Brown, with this difference, that her unusual insight is the result, not of a mystical and humane point of view, but of a superadded sixth sense. She is a new edition of the lucky third son familiar in fairy tales. All the characters, perhaps, are seen through the spectacles of
fairy tale; they are smaller than life-size and certainly less subtle; their attributes are picturesque and reminiscently symbolic. They are the servants of the thrill; if they have any furthtr existence it does not appear on the surface.
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It is with the Highlanders, with "Red Ike" arrives with two pro the ones Gaelic-speaking area of faces, one by Mr. Hugh Walpole, book is concerned; "the land of the but he was in a great hurry when glens, the bens, and the heroes he wrote; the other by Mr. Fowler He is a well-known scholar in their Wright, who has completely re traditions and history, and now fashioned the book since Mr. Wal- he rotella some of their folk-stories, pole saw, it, making a decent nar- and very well ho does it. Herative of what had been a disjoint draws on various versions of some ed tale told in the first person. It familiar Lale, or he gives us some may be that this rationalisation has thing original, the fruit of his own į reduced the resemblance Mr, Wal- research. Either way he makes as pole speaks of. The book, as pub feel really in touch with the delished, is na romantic, thrilling, and licate yet robust character of the incredible as a book can be. The Celt a character deeply rooted in heroes are poets and poachers of the past and to-day still influenced hot blood, the heroines, if of gipsy by old belief and happenings, extraction, are. pare in passionate though a now world reigns.. loyalty, or, if white, however, While knowledge resides behind horrible their parents, are pure be this Highland folklore, it is also Cause a heroine must be so. There entertaining because it is often are at least five characters who in dramatic. For that reason Mr. baseness or magnanimity might do Mackenzie, who has already thrown murder at any time; the police many lights on the ancient kingdom never reat a moment and go down of Scotland, may hope to attract like ninepine. Virtue at long last the general reader as well as the wins through to a happiness mixed particular reader.......‚'
with literary delights (for the heroes read Homer in rocky fast. nesses while fugitives from law), vice drowns in dark pools or sinks nway into the city, gutters. And behind all this are the bills and. moors of Cumberland and great nights of starry skies. One hoped for rather mora of that and a sense of closer intimacy. A writer who socs tho new moon in the morning. As Mr. Thomas Moult reminds us cannot know much about night, in his pleasant foreword to this night-jars in the autumn-winter interesting book, Jack Hobbs has season make his bird-lore dubious. .batted on 102 occasions against Au Ho kay enormous zest, and shoata. tralia, South Africa, and the West forth love and blood and thunder Indies, and of those innings 71 wore indefatigably like a volcano in full against Australia and 29 against eruption. Why did Mr. Fowler South Africs/"
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