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A BRILLIANT BOOK
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*THE GREAT VICTORIAN." Edited by H. J. Massingham and Hugh Massingham. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd. 88. d not). Omnibus volumes are sign of the times, for who can wait in these kretie days to digest various large toms when, by perusal of cum in- formation enn he swallowed quick ly in the form of conenitrated ésence? And here we have the heroes of n massive and long-wind-
ng, the majority of whom have already had volumesi devoted to their lives and work, presented to us for the first time clustered to gether in due solitary, albeit solid, publicat
Hoover, the solitary volume is packed full of variety, interest, and entertainment, from the proface of the Brothers Massingham to the last essay of Edward B. Tylor, of wh many people, even. Victorians themselves, will probably ask""'who was he, and what had he dose to I included anng the great Vietu
HE
THE GREAT VICTORIANS
rians " He was, we tnay-tell them for their enlightenment, the father of English Anthropology.
Literary Giants Prominent.
Terry might have been given ha)' niche ahing the Victorians, far she certainly belonged to that not able procession, and could well have represented the stage. Music is certainly more difficult, but was not the ever delightful Gilbert and Sullivan combine essentially a pro duct of the Victorian age!
Dificulty of Selection.
Indeed, quite a slice of entertain-j The editors allay much criticism ment is derived from wondering by admitting that they found it ex- why one 'should be chosen and an-tremely difficult to make a solec. other left. Why, too, should so tien, and in their introduction many of the chosen great be liter- ary lions, and the stage and music to severely omitted. Statesmen there are, but not very many, and apart from the literary lights, there are General Booth, Burne Jones. Cobden, Darwin, Dinraeli, Gladstone, W. G. Grace. Newman, Florence Nightingale, Palmerstku, Peel, Cecil Rhodes and Salisbury,
they give a goodly number of names' they wished to include among the great, but which, for one reason or another, were left out. The forty nonographs finally included all written by well-known people, and each one makes good reading. all the more so if one does not en- tirely agree with the writer's criti-i Inverness Con- cisms, writes an rior" correspondent, For our- The rest of the gallery, though selves we particularly enjoyed Gen- not entirely given over to literieral Booth by St. John Ervins, the ture, all published books of one Brontes by Rebecca Weit, and kind or another. Only three wo- Charles Morgan, Robert Browning men, the two Broutes and Florenen by Lascelles Abercrombie, George but Eliot by V: Sackville-West; and n Nightingale, that, we suppore, is as it should be, great many more, including W. G. as women's Piner was the Home in Grace by Neville Cardul, who per- haps stans up best of all the Vit the day, and her lord and mas
all percentage out of forty,
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CHILDREN'S
ABOUT CRICKET
UNCLE JACK'S LETTER
PROCEEDING with our talks on
bowling, there are one or two thare general principles which I had not the space to include in my pre. vious articles. They are certainly important, though. About the length of the run, for instance. I notice far too matly young bowlers treat- ing the run to the wicket before. The delivery of the ball in a haphazard way.
I watched a boy of about fifteen bowling the other day. He sent down one over. For every ball of that over he started his run from a ! slightly different position.
This change of position meant that
he had either to change the number
of strides he took before, delivering
the ball, or else he had to fit his
CORNER
BY UNCLE JACK.
GOLD FISH
DEAR KIDDIES,
Apparently one of my nieces won a gold fish at St. Andrew's "Olde English Faire" for the latest request is that I should tell you all about gold and silver
I now want to add a little to my opening notes about the run up to the wicket. It is almost a truismfish. to say that the best bowlers
BY JACK HEARNE, Middlesex and England
are
strides in to the distance he had left those with the most natural action, himself to run.
When you see a first-class bowler Watch Charlie Farker, Maurice carefully measuring out the iliatanes Tate, Harold Larwood, or Ian Pee- from the wicket for his ran, and bles. There are four bowlers of dif. then making a mark on the turf, do foring types, yet the action of each not conclude that he is being merely finicky. He is being wise. Decide me is beautifully anturul; there is
the length of run necessary to a particular type of howling, and stick to it
There is a disinclination, too, on the part of many bowlers to try experiments. Let me illustrate my meaning with a serap of convaTAN- tion which I overheard in a county chub pavilion the other day..
These fish abound in the fresh water ponda, lakes, and rivers of Chika. The colours of goldfish vary
The hint of the triumphant churlatan which comes to us when we road of Grace (just as the same hint comes to us when we rend of Ciladstone and Irving)
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To explain the working of for appear to this flippant genera- tion to have blown out fulsomely eign exchanges in a simple manner not easy, and the frequent dis all the objects of their adinira- tion; they seized on the day's location of the principal exchanges heroes, and invested them with during the war has not conduced the significance of a whole tradito the simplicity of the task. But tion. In each epoch of prospe- the author has succeeded in ex- the lay mind lucidly rity, when the idea of material plaining to expansion was worshipped for its and plainly, the intricacies involv ed in the subject. The erratic own sake, even the yast runs made on a cricket field by W, G. movements in rates have also furni Grace seemed symbolical; his hed him abundant material from which to draw the necessary illüs prepetual increase of authority' performance suited a current levetratives in support of his theories. and respect for size and prospe Of particular interest are the two rity. W. G. became an institu. chapters on Eastern exchanges. Ex- tion in a day of institutions, ali change with the silver-using coun-I of which, like the Albert Memo tries of the East is a general source rial, had to be impressive by of trouble to people dealing with sheer bulk. W. G. himself, of these countries, and these chapters course, did not know what he will, ao doubt, be greatly welcom-
the national cuned by many. stood for in sciousness: he was content to be n cricketer. He shared none of the contemporary modern habit of self-exposition,
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A Brilliant Book.
The Massinghams have not only done their work of editing well by giving us a most stimulating book
In such circumstances, the revi to which so many brilliant minds sion of many pages that appeared of to-day have contributed, but in former editions has been neces their introduction is also well
sary, Much of the book has been worth reading. Is it not time, how rowritten, new matter incorporat ever, to form a truer estimate ofed, and attention has been given to Queen Victoria than that afforded the numerous changes necessitated us by the moderas, and initiated by the suspension of the Gald by Lytton Strachey in his Life of Standard. the Quren? The Massinghams 'dis- miss her contemptuously na sentially unimportant a personali- ty, and a uice old lady who "managed the nations as she would manage a kitchen."
so es.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
*GAUTAMA Buddha " by N: K. Venkateswaran- Educational Publishing Co., Madras, 80s. Victoria had hor faults, we all
The life of Gautama Buddha is admit, but in kocking her off the very high pedestal she occupied lacidly outlined in this little book ness not become far too much de those who have not studied any de- during her life-time, has her like. which should prove valuable to faced She did not possess the tailed biographical material re- kind of personality most admired. garding this great religious tea- at the present day, but she was too
a great deal. Some are nearly all strong a, character to be ticked off
thany ways she was by no
cher.
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A story may be told," writes gold, mingled with red; some areas essentially unimportant, and in the author as often as it can be marked with fine blue, brown," or
means told with interest and may even bei silver; but usually their colour is a brilliant gold. The silver fish differs only in colour, which is similar to that of silver paper, with scarlet fins and marks on the body,
Extremes of heat and cold do not seem to bother these fish, as they appear to live equally well in a trik, a glass bowl, or in a pond in) the open.
If you keep your fish in a glass globe it should be a large one, and about three-quarters filled with pure water. You should he very careful to place the bowl in a cool place, Place a little fine gravel at the bot- well away from the fire or the sun, tom and a few branches of box tree; for the fish to rub against, but these should be changed about once П week.
Do not run away with the silly rhythm in the ran up to the wiiden that fisis do not require fool, ket, and at the right moment the just because they will live for d whole body comes into action as well long time on pure water ouly. as the aşın:
I have been fast bowlers take tringly long run. Half-way through that run, however, these fast bowl ers pulled up and almost stoppel. What is the good of running twenty A famous bowler was watching the yards to deliver a fast ball if in play. One of his colleagues got out the middle of the run there is a to what was a rank bad ball. Thehalt ↑ The object of a run is to Lowler turned to a friend who was I never have the bear and said: luck to get a wicket with a ball like that." The candid friend gave a very truthful reply. Of course, you don't," he said, for the simple reason that you never bowl a ball
Like that.".
work up speed,
They like best bread and biscuit crumbs, but these should be given very sparingly. They will also feed.
duckweed. This you can obtain from almost any small pond.
You can quickly tell if one of your fish is unwell, because you will observe him frequently coming to the surface of the water for air. He I cannot lay down a hard and looks dull, and his movementa are When you are sure of fast rule as to length of run. That sluggish. must depend on the individin his ill-health separate him from the wler. The one rule which can be rest of your fish at once, for theit laid down, however, is this: don't disease are mest difficult to cure and make thia run any longer than is very contagious. absolutely cessary in the interests of the type of ball you intend to deliver. The exaggerated run, the unnecessarily long one, is just so much waste of energy. And the bowler, of all players of the game. cannot afford in waste his energy.
The Fali Toss." The candid friend was right; the howler to whom he was speaking ecarcely ever sends down a bad ball,
The fast bowler relies on pace to Yet the bad ball will often get i wicket when the good ball fails. Feet him his wickets almost entirely, 1-liked also the final remark of the but the fast bowlers and the medium fast bowlers are considerably helped
candid friend. Those are the best if they can make the ball werveur balls which get the wickets. Howing-t it on its way to the bats was.nd literally correct, of course, bif there was sound wisdom behind his rentark..
Damian, b
8ome bowlers make the ball-awerve. unturally because of a combination
An ali example of trying an ox of body, and arm action, and it is periment, as geessional full tomct enay to teach bowlers how to
If you will only reniember to giva your fish plenty of room and an ample supply of pure fresh water,
Cheerin. you will have very little trouble.
UNCLE JACK.
-TO-DAY'S PROVERB.
It is better to turn back than to go astray.
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quits striaght will often get a wit make the ball swing But there ja and socoñu unge
hot when good deliveries have fail-a way of holding the ball which the scam at the top of the ball. This ed. During this present season I gives it a tendancy to swerve Put swerver, is bowled this is the sim have seen three first-class county, the thumb underneath the ball and plest way I can describe it as hatsmen got themselves out in one touching the seam Place the first though the object is to rend the
(Continued of foot of next Column), team of the ball as the batetan. innings to fulpitcher
a nice old lady" in the sense in told usefully, provided the interest which one rather patronisingly uses behind the recital is enough and that phrase.
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