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There's a Force
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THE ANATOMY OF PRUSTRATION
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MATHEMATICH FOR THE MILLION
By Lanering Ilogben Allen and Unwin, 128. GA.J Ta not merely the coincl- dence of publiention dates which brackets these two
·books of ninjor importance, For Mr. Wells, at.70, and Pro- fesor Hogben, at 40, share a . common purpose-the education of the people to a realisation of The forces which, for better or worse, shinpo civilisation. If they understand them it will be for the netter. If they leave them to mystical interpretation Tew, it will be for the worse.
by the
Furthermore, Mathemalies for the Millem fills a gap in Mr. Wells' own encycloptedle work-The Science of Life, The Outline of ffistory and The Work, Wealth and flappiness of Man- And-which have excluded matheman- cal and phyalent selener prid general philosophy.
The Anatomy of Frustration ka Im- vortant not miérely as a provocative statystro humni and would alfalts or a te mustard-plaster which will irri- Tate metsy, but an a stunnary of Mr. Volks own roclusion, after 40 years of fundamentai (binking,
The krakku a post-mortem on belliontien
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Using the devies of un lotaginary dlar of eleven volines which re- jewest and motleyntheals of le reduș, for examines religiou and pet- CHBAZ at Vival, which his author, William Hurroughs Steele..
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meiger-Jumortality" or "The attempt df the individual to escape the coll- Tasav fra tratous nf death."
pt t Frustration of Grill: l' i.
his mustard. palposters, Bable to hat, the rn off 15 Steele devotes par- tealer attention to Mr. Ramway Muc- Dondo "bermee his fie spans thre whois story of political Socialism from
•he down to the twilight. He is to te amonstration rabbit to show how
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War and peace, cur- rency and economics, Fascism, Communiam, Nazizm, Bemitiam, tho League Naitons-pil provide examples of frus- iration. The League in described na n "carnival dragon in which a num. ber of men on their separate legs walk under cloth with a cardboard hend,"
Mr. Hogben is a Pro- fessor of Bocial Biology who approached mathe- malies an you and I might have approached it twe had not been scared off by Inborious bool-days apent in learning it no 631 abstract study instead of us something which con. come us and society- "an a mirror held up to civilisation."
He relates geometry. algebm, Irigonometry. logarithms and so on, not only to the history of Fremon Antelligence but In a work of living og tuality. With the help of J. F. Horrabin's Illustrate tions he makes mathie. mallest problems ༥ fascinating
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1936. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2,
edited by ROGER PIPPETT
A Japanese colour print by Suga- kudo, reproduced-from "Birls Flowers," edited by C. G. Halme (The Studio, 54)
mle tyrannychan no more powerful friend than the calculating prindere C Mattsont a bascaejedite of anthr mathes the grammar of saze and *arder, was contint plant the ratiount society in which there will be beimtre for all and poverty for nozie."
Instead has become the mystic ritual of the experts." Juntam Egyption priests who, by the simple mathematical device of the llometer which measured and predicted the filing of the Nile, used to bamboozlo the alty, no hayo modern mathemati cal experts become the high priests of Tals and airis, of economic foods and droughts
This book, I trust, will bring mathe maties to the milion.
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GOLD-and
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GOLD BLAST
By Adele Lezard
(Rich and Cowan, 183.) OHANNESBURO'S Jubilee has brought such a glut of books about gold that this fascinating metal has almost ceased to glitter. But here is one that is different. I opened it bored with gold and everything connected with gold. but soon I was ao fascinated in Miss Lezard's story of the Rand that I travelled with her for 50 years non-stop.
For this author gives us Reality as well as Romance. Her story is one of greed and graft and exploitation. Shr elis not only of the few who became
onuires, but of the many who work the boweln of the earth-sometimes a mile and a half and more beneatti the surface-so tint a stream of gold worth two thousand million pounds might go across the world.
She contrasts the simplicity of the Boer farmers in the early days of the Stand with the cuuning and dupitelty of human vultures from Europe. And the men whose land this was before. ither Boer or gold adventurer came? "Cattle, that is how the mtning indus- Just try saw the natives of Africa. black catie, to be driven and whipped, to make the, wheels go raind."
GOLD FEVER. By L. M. Neshill (Cape, 74, GA.).
HG. P.
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MEN, striking like demons in
darkness dust-laden Bald. Men selling Years their inves for rich rewards. Men
Ainging across the counters of Johannesburg saloons enough money in one evening to relieve a mutilla'a
hunger. That is the picture of Me on the Rand some years ago left to the living by 'n man now dead
L. M. Nesbitt, traveller, writer and serker after worial adventure, wan kliled in an air-liner crash last year. Gold Fever is his last lock. In it we see the Bouth African mites, the men who Alayed in them, and the grim, feverish yes they led, through the eyes of a young engineer just out from the comparative peare of Cornwall.
Nesbitt was one of those rare travel authors who really takes his render will him. You burrow a mile under Kround, struggling through clouds of flying grand fighting all the time against drend lung disease. Your eyes and throat are parched with the thick quarta dust. The average lie of the underground gold miner rarely lasted more than eight years. Then came ftenth.
in Gold Feeer there is hortar ansel humour, inughter and tears, anxiety and calm. There is everything ever
New! done in the name of gute:
Is Your Name
Joyce?
a paturally Fay and mirthful permetiality which is ruit nally downienst. If your home durer Monday befors you fortune, and-when it falls the 27th the muntte your luck is
The most promising hours are 4 jam, musi 7 m. Emeralı Are yınır bent grain, Ely
Luck wil bring you
In Love and faithful
This cheerful name expertinen
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Correspondence Must
* RK English, I had been led to belleve, were a race who always called a spade a spade, It was a national charac- teristie like cricket, the peculiar dampness of cabbage in country hotels and of the climate,
Receul øvrata,, however, in the form nt Letters to the Ecler, have revealed that the English, in their muitounily paradoxical way, are masters of slang. So far from calling a spade n.spade, they will, among themselves, call it Calaist angthink so long as its Identity
isot glven away.
Perhaps in a feeling for poetry, in- stinetten in the people, that Pinborates, synonymizes and disguises common- place ternis lote rich, metaphorleat planasca
Perhaps in just insularity, a sort of child-like predilection for secrecy, for endes and secret languages intelligible only to the gang."
On the other hand. It may be a mani- festation of L national dislike of Beduntry
I don't know. I'm only asking. Pedantry, I suspect, la considered in The popular mind to be rather bat
The essenen. Is couckeness_CLI you think it out); but ils'spirit is the upholding of tradition, of correctness. is the Taunting of tradition and cor. rectness; and the flaunting of anything ---particularly of knowledge and cor- reytness-is had form, according to English standards.
It's Not Lazy
So the English people, feeling that some things in 11s language are slightly simpcet, resort to slang.
Sling, according to the majority of the letters we have received on the subject, is not a lazy wny saying
things. I is by no means the line of least resistance, for In most cases o slang phrase is considerably longer than the original phrase it para- phrases
Am I wrong? Well, think of rhym- ing slang, the original object of which was to bewilder the iný eavesdropper by using long paruphrases for short Words Sult became "whistle and Aute." i phirase which is typical of the consistency of its inventors. It would
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have been eazy to cull a suit "whistle and bout," but the musical unity is kept, making the phrase more easy.
fr table had not become "Cain and Abel" the rhyming alongster might have picked upon "story and fable," In the same way as "wife" became, With magnificent insight. "trouble and strife." It might equally well have, been the "fork and knife," but it would have lacked that slightly mallelous commentary on the married ntato which makes an Immediate append to the user of the slang. Humour WillTM Out.........
It was trade alang, however, that' filled our posting,
Jargon, it has been said, in the off- hand talk of experts upon, their subaleej when speaking to other experts., Slan 19 Jargon minus. Slang in trades is Almost without exerption a refuge from everyday phrases.
It is the language of complaint, of of gri-l-trar-lt-bat÷IL'h Krousers,
But it is the-ume-old-story tellers, also the tagkone of a fare of people with a great sense of humor
Trade slain Is the worker's re action to oldal terms, his reaction to the bosses, his own way of debunking! and thus making tolerable—the Joh he has to do
He escapes, frum' rantine by under. emphasis. A sheet metal worker has When he a job of welding to do. starts, he calls it "atriking a belt." He escape, too. by over emphasistan to show his contempt.
The metaphorical 15 more plc- turerque, but also more obsctire in ity
origins, though the mlurry. "Cic » dow n" for "trating ' is almost ante. spearean in its invention
Cala
In curry, indeed that according to the heading of this article correspondence should have ceased bel fore the origin of some of the richer, slary phrases had been explained
When, in the London docks, thay want to say that a job has be stopped, they tell you that somebody
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"shed the game up." The veri "to slush" is as expressive as Americaniam ever heard on the 213 ESPN. It is also one of the few word that have been invented,
The Reason Why
The Americans, when they use slang. either employ words of European origin or inake up entirely new ones to suit new situations or professions. There was never a word for “atooge.”
Just in so Amerien invented one,
the 18th century somebody made u the word "pas." and it muck-a word without parents in Crence, Rome, or anywhere else.
I wnut, too, yery much to know why both railwaynien and road transport workers un the phrase, "Taking the
can inck" for frerectively) being held responsible for n'mishap and bởi In imposed upon. What was the origand can, and where was 1 teken back to?
Now I Wonder..
Rending (hrough the letters on slang during the last few weeks, I came to
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