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Continued from Page 24
Po Buffets Bite Deep" is very
iy. In a Warwickshire wood un
THE ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
(Chstimmen from Prope to
EVERY P.C. A LINGUIST.
HELPING VISITORS IN
PARIS."
hoca
ed, and the invention of the story is as chinning no the realism of
so known as the English gentle. [American university life is-en-
mon. One cantat praise the
Paris policemien have trancing Bus Groucho, and Li.
English gentleman Joa highly. He taught foreign languages for some is being full of the right kind of years, but now if Chiappe, the pride, utterly reliable, incapable of Profeet, is determined that as far committing a vile action, conscious as possible every young policeman of the vital mission he is fulfilling must know at least one other lan that of being just himself. guages beside his own. WAS a tower of strength in the Eng
A pressman was present at an land of the nineteenth century, and,English lesson nt which 300 murdy moreover, was a model to the whole young policemen were being taught nation, which, to a considerable by M. Confida. They were all at extent, adopted his views and his teative, with their notebooks in their attitude towards life.
hands and the most up-to-date methods were employed by thoir young instructor.
American gangstar is found dead; then another. There are a retired colonel and two retired maiden and Victorian ladies and'a retired, rúmi. ruiner, and an inspector who will not. I hope, retire until Mr. Davia Hume has written a dozen mor tales about him, avoiding in those stress the slight tendency to characteristics of his company, which is quite unnecusamry,
His balance and swifts and humeur will do the work quite well It is a pleasant fact that his first chapter is doubly interesting when the last has been, road,
Sketch for a Classic,
The End of Mr. Davidson is neither murder nor detection. But
He
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There are two things in which a gentleman is supreme. The first is his capacity for behaving in pre-
A huge blackboard, worked eleo- cisely the right and correct mannertrically with coloured lights, show- in a world where everything is pre-
ed one after another the 80 korz words to which M: Confida has re- inly right and correct.
duced the study, of English for his beginners' class.
The gentleman is also unsurpass ed in the way in which he can give
up the struggle. No one but a One of the main ideas behind this mmits scheme is to enabled almost any Japanese Samurai who its dimax is death, and it is the hari-kiri can step out of
intence foreigner in Paris to obtain instant- first sketch fog a classic. If swith the supreme composure of the ly from a policeman the useful ad- pattern were directly controlled by English Empire-builder or the vice and directions which he now an intense poetic passion it would i be a classic. Mr. Davidson lives soldier overcome by odds. But often gets from that universal quis. through his lust twenty-four hours, hero, again, the tong is straight, |ance, he street interpréter and ties, and is buried; about him in the milestones not unfamiliar, and guide.
parate nterspersed incidents his family and acquaintances live their there can be no wavoring. own lives and reflect his. His eli- max is the moment of death, yet his climax rather is every moment, for in every moment he is lonely, active, and mortal. It is a pr Jectly simple book, with the sim plicity of pure style..
گرم کوردی
TRAMPS IN ENGLAND.
Tramping with Tramps." E3 the Rev. Frank L. Jennings Hutchinson. 78. 6d.
Mr. Jennings has walked, eaten and slept alongside the tramps who roam the English countryside. Abd hein some astonishing revelations o make about their way dr living In a wayside coppice near Stam ford he came upon a community of five men and three women ;
It is hoped that very soon one out
THE NEW WORLD..
of every three policemen will be able to talk, English, German or At the present moment hard beset Italian. At present 460 talk Eng- Though it may be, the British na-high and are postel on the main tion has no intention of giving up the struggle and expiring. It does not consider that it has been beaten at the great game of life. But it has become aware that the smooth days are over the days of the straight road with the familiar milestones. Now roads, narrow and winding paths will have to be ne gotiated.
A new world such as that into which Britain is entering will have no place for the English gentleman. The function of the Public School is over; there will be no further demand for its products. If the One man, with eyes as lifeless Public Schools do not want to be as gelatine, referring to a previous driven right, out of the market woman-mate he had had, said: they must radically revise their aays to ' I says, I've ad er methods of production; in fact, knockin' abt. wi' me for eight years. they must cease to be what we now You can love er, Bill, if you like. understand by a Public School. An 1 took "er.
We should not forget that even in Regarding their speech the the palmy days of the England that thor remarks that their bloodies was the gentlemann's paradise, many are our bothers. They, are terms of people reached the highest runge of emphasis, even of endearment." the social ladder without a Public Disraeli, the Mr. Jennings has a low opinion School training. of the present poor Inw aystem and leader of enlightened Conserva- remarki: The plaim unvarnished | tism, never went to a Public truth is that the casual ward sys- School. Nor did Joseph Chamber- tein 'does not tend, lo did these men lain. in their struggies; rather does it tend to keep them down."
thoroughfares and near railway stations, theatres, and racecourses; 180 others speak German, 100 Italian, and 100 Spanish.
LOST "CLIMBER CLUE.
UNDERGRADUATE'S. BONES BELIEVED FOUND.
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A message from Delphi states that a akeleton believed to be that of the young Oxford undergraduate Mr. David Cochrane, who disap peared last April, has been found, with a purse and a book, at the bottom of a ravine on Mount Kárfis, hear there."
:
ALDERSHOT TATTOO.
More than 3,000 troope will take
In post-war days a Public School part in the Aldershot Tattoo, the training has become stili less indis-first performance of which will be He writes also of the humour of pensable to & successful career. vagrancy, and describes how the Neither Mr. Bonar Law Mr. given on June 1. The chief spec- tramp when he enters a spike, Lloyd George nor Mr. Ramsay Mac. tacles will be a pageant showing or casual ward, secretes his stere Donald has been debarred from the the birth and growth of the British of cigarette onde in the "double premiership for lack of it. Indeed, crown of his dirty bowler-hat, awhile the Public School is a purely Empire and the Battle, of Inkerman aceret pocket in his muffler." or English institution, the Kingdom (Crimean War). Lehind In removable piece of len has long since ceased to be the pre ther in the heel of his large-sized serve of Englishmon only. Britona scones were rehearsed with toy
from other parts of the Kingdom soldiers.
boots.
Mr. Jennings has written a reland of the Empire are playing a markable book that is full of in constantly more prominent part in formation not, to be obtained else { politient life, and will end by where about one of the most tragic supplanting the product of the classes of humanity...
English Public School.
THE COMPLEAT POACHER.
LIVING LANGUAGES WANTED.
I remember, carly in the war, a young British officer telling me of his difficult as with the French population. "I could have spoken no to them in Greek or in Latin," he said, "but I don't know any foreign languages." This, of course, is one of the things that must disappear. Every educated Englishman" must be able to speak at least two living foreign tongues. The day of the classics as a formative agency for the young bas passed. It may be a pity. But, then. I think the passing of the gentleman a pity too.
"Cambrian Nights." By J. M.
Denwood Jarrolds. 88. Mr. Denwood, like the modern film producer, is a romanticiser of crime. Many poachers are doubt charming and admirable pe ple. At the same time, it is the the legality of their adventures, together with the hardships conse quent upon defiance of the law, that makes an account of them such an teresting reading. The author of "Red Ike," not content with hav; ing once roused our sympathy and excitement, has again constitute himgolf the poacher's literary apola. gist. His witnesses for the defence Are English poets who have them
Only, are we to" atop in our on- ward march merely because wo_can- ver been tempted-apparently not persuade ourselves to drop some by Ariel trennt and a dark night of the burdens to which we have Many of them. very likely did become attaühed 7 Aesthetics is not little quiet fishing in forbidden
D matter of Bocial necessity. waters. But it is dangerous to a Beauty will never die, as long as gue from the lyric to the fact. In
mon are honest and do not lose any "onse there are surely better their way in search of spurious grounds for removing restrictic ornamentation. than the loose habits of classicni posts,
Whatever may be lost in picture-
The author is more persuasive inqueness when the Public Schois. dianppear will be amply comx- his practical than his theoretic sated by the advantages of an [chap hrs. If you should wish to
make a career of salmon or trent educational systora adapted to its poaching, rabbit enaring or part purpose which is to produce citi- zens able to cope with the demands ridge netting on a neighbour'
of a new world. ground, you will find Mr. Denwood delightful and expert guide. But remember that besides technical lability, you will need an artist's
soul.
DANGEROUS PROMISES.
fulfilled. Miss Riddell's heroine, keeping such a promise, is led to Africa, and finds herself trying to care for the life and morals of a handsome young légionnaire whom "Perilous Love," By Florence she does not really love. Such a Riddell Geoffrey Bles. 7. Bd. situation cannot continue. And the Promises exacted by a dying mo-author ingeniously makes use of the ther to safeguard"an untable. son materials of tragedy and adventure. are liable to become tragic when to solve the problem which she line Continued el foot of next column.) "created.
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