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"H.M.V." SERIES OF THE WORKS OF GREAT
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Album
No. Composer
223
BEETHOVEN
211
BORODIN
242
BRAHMS
198 CHOPIN
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Work
Choral-Symphony Quartet in D. Maj Sextet in B Flat Maj
Four Ballades
Symphony in G Maj Violin Concerto Quartet in C Min.
GILBERT & SULLIVAN Complete Operas
164 ELGAR
210
195 LALO
224 LEONCAVALLO
50 MENDELSSOHN
216
MOZART
103 PUCCINI
84 RACHMANINOFF
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
232
68
SCHUBERT
209
SCHUMANN
54
STRAVINSKY
192 STRAUSS
114
TCHAIKOWSKY
237
WAGNER
Symphonic Espagnole PAGLIACCI (Complete Opera) Trio in D Min. Concerto in A Maj. Madame Butterfly
(Complete Opera)
Concerto No. Z Scheherazade 1Symphonic Suite) Album of Songs Concerto in A Min. Petroushka (Music for the Ballet) Rosenkavalier (First Act) Pathetique-Symphony
Die Walqure (First Act)
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RACE PURITY is
HE' word "Race" has come into much prominence of late, especially amongst those who have keen nationalist view.
It is one, inorcover, which has caused considerable confusion and which is frequently very loosely employed in argument. The ordinary man does not usually go deeply into these niceties, and
that is all the more rea- son why, when ጌና argue, we should clearly deline and correctly use. our terms.
But before we can dia- cuns raco, wo must BRY what wo delivered
mean by it. What in a race?
To start with, a raco la A nation not a nation.
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NEW LOCARNO PROSPECTS
In his reference to the nation's military obligations last week, Mr. Anthony Eden made it clear that Britain is still anxious to see a new Western European settle- ment concluded, to take the place which of the Locarno Pact,
Germany has denounced. A well-known commentator, writing from IIome, however, hazards the view that the prospects of a new Locarno being negotiated are not two ele- too bright. There are ments in the proposals for the new Treaty that to British eyes First, seem of vital importance.
owing to the advent of air power. Britain is no longer an island, invulnerable to attack, and there- fore, though ten years ago she was quite willing for the sake of peace in
Europe guarantee
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any reciprocal guarantee for herself, to-day she is asking that obligations, of this character should be equally bind- ing on all In the second place, it is realised that it would be a mistake to tie the hands of France and Great Britain by a Western Pact in such a way as to leave Germany free in Central and Eastern Europe. Moreover, Italy appears to be definitely on- posed to making the guarantees of the new Locarno reciprocal and Germany to allowing any reference to Eastern Europe in a pact that Herr Hiller contends should be confined to the West alonc. There have been long delays in the negotiations, but the ball is kept rolling by occasion- al notes of enquiry from Italy
is a political organisa- tion. A Negro born in England belongs to the British nation, but can- not be said to belong to A British rnce.
Race is an entirely physical term. It is used 10 classify people in accordance with thetr complextons, colour and texture of hair, colour of eyes, height, build, and, in particular, shape of bend,
Anthropologiets, in fact, treat the races of man very much as they might the various breeds of dogs and pigeons. But while the breeds of dogs and pigeons have dif- ferent points which can be nicely sorted out, un- fortunately this is not the case will man.
JUST A MYTH
says Lord Raglan,
who has made Anthropology a lifeștudy. ·
with fair hair and blue eyes. The last two, taking mankind Rs a whole, are very uncommon characteristics.
ONE OF THESE EIGHT PEOPLE IS ENGLISH: WHICH?
Above, from left to right: A girl from Soviet Russin, a Finnish athlete, Miss England, 1934, and the head of the Krupp munition works in Germany. Below, from left to right: An Austrian quarrymaster, a Danish beauty queen, the president of the Swins Confederation, and a girl athlete from Ilungary.
It would be most con- venient for our classif- cation if all black men were short; If all yellow men hud round heads; and in white men bad fair hair but this does not happen. The Negroes include the Nilotes and the Pygmies, who are the tallest and the shortest people on earth. Most of the yellow propics are round- headed, but quite a lot of them are
In very long-hended.
Europe many people combine a very white skin with very black hair.
It has to be recognised, then. that there are very few people in the world who can be said to be of pure rate. It is clearly absurd. therefore, to lay down the law about the mental qualities of par- Heular human groups while even their physical characteristics are so lil-defined and little understood. The politician and the "patriot rush in where the scientist fears to tread.
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Roughly speaking,--anthropolo-. cists divide mankind into six races.
Of these two are black, the Negroid and the Australoid, distinguished from each other by the Negrold having woolly hair and the Austra- told wavy hair.
Then comes the yellow or Mon- golold race. which includes the people of Eastern Asia and the Indians of America. This race. bas a yellow or lawny skin, high cheekbones, and black, straight hair,
Coming nearer home, we find three races Of these the most numerous is the Mediterranean or brown race with 'n sallow or light brown skin, short and slight body, black wavy hair, and a long head with a narrow forchend and thin sharp-featured face. It is found in
Northern
Whether these racial types are due to diverse origin. to mixture of carller races, to climate. or to chance variation, is disputed. IL appears.. however, that if what- ever causes operated In the past to produce these varieties are atili oper- ating, their movements are too slow to be per- .oclved.
It is possible, for ex- ample, that blackness of skin was developed as a -response to a hot cli- matc, but it is quite cer- taln that people, who migrate to a hot climate do not develop a black skin, even in thousands of years.
Parts of South Amerien are as hot as any part of Africa, yet the Indians who have lived thero for untold centuries are not black, but yellowish brown. Conversely, the Tasmanians had ved probably for тапу thousand усать in a climato
that ilka
of England, yet they were black, or nearly so.
In Europe there are no real racial divisionR. The Germans and the French are two political groups of mixed racial type. The Germans are. roughly, two thirds Alpine and one-third Nordic, while the French are something like half Alpine, one-third Medi- terranean, and one-sixth Nordic.
conquered India, Persia, North Africa, and Southern Europe, and has many representatives in the Brillah Isics.
The Alpine ፓርቲ 13 found throughout the Inland parts of Europe and Asia Minor, and is pre- dominant Iri many European countries. Including France and Germany. In Britain, though less common, it is fairly numerous. Its members are usually short and rather squat, with round beads, snub doses, and straight dark hair.
The last race, the Nortlic, is much the least numerous, and is almost confined to the shores of the Baltic and the North Seas. Its members are tall, tong-headed"
Dare To Be A Lowbrow
CAN you read the works of Dickens, taste. Here again, I am afraid I am Thackeray, Scott, and the other a hopeless Philistine, I would rather classic novelists, from cover to cover, eal a tasty saveloy thun the choicest No? enviare and I like cabbage far better with complete enjoyment?
than asparagus. When it comes to Neither can 1.
drinking, the only beverage I really enjoy ie beer.
COME & CONSULT THE and Germany. During the last picture gallery, gazing in
ELIZABETH ARDEN'S
Can you walk through any great rapt few weeks, two events have oc- admiration at the pictures which curred which are likely to have renk in the opinion of artists a profound effect on the future masterplees of the brush? Frankly, I of the new Locarno, Belgium has made. a.striking announce ment about her own foreign
cannot.
I do not brag about my want of appreciation of the work of the great painters. It is #. defect in my policy, which, whatever is education. All my life 1 haule fob may signify, clearly reveals her too busy at my own particular dislike of regional agreements to acquire sufficient knowledge and her determination, so far as the principles and traditions of ari
REPRESENTATIVE ON THE DAILY CARE OF THE SKIN AND BE ADVISED AS TO YOUR INDIVIDUAL regional pacts. The
NEEDS.
A. HOPELESS PHILISTINE
word with awed attention, remark- ing when he has finished talking that he is "too clever for them" and his conversation "above their heads," Such compliments as these he swal- lows greedily.
In fact, the highbrow is not a mon of exceptional intellect or culture.
It is all very silly, because ten to one he has been apouting a lot of When I was younger I used to feel a little ashamed of my failure to rubbish about science, philosophy, or appreciate the things which superior literature, winning the respect of his people told me were beyond all ques- audience because he has a smattering lion the best. Somehow I felt Dint I of these subjects of which they know was a low fellow with vulgar taster. nothing at all,
But I have lived long enough to know that a man's genuine likes or by copying the habits of other people, and that to stick to the things he genuinely enjoys is the only way to up his pretence of intellectuality are net his rightful share of the pleasures almost beyond belief. There
people who parade in their bookcases the works of authors who are "nice of life.
to know," while stacking hidden cup- boards with the books they really like reading which do not bear the classic starp.
The original Celts, who were half Europe, largely Nordics, yet the British "Celts "of to-day are chlofly Medi- terranean, whereas the Bretons are chledy Alpine. Similarly, the Jews of Europe, who are mostly do- scended from converts made by Jewish, misalonaries at the be- ginning of the Christian era, are of very mixed but chiefly Alpine typo.
The whole idea that there are Innate mental differences between people of different races is based upon prejudice rather than upor fact. This applies not merely to alleged differences between Euro- pean races, but to alleged differ- ences between whites, blacks and
yellows.
Intelligence tests carried out in- Australia and South Africa have shown that black children are not inferior in intelligence to white children. These results have caused some surprise, but there is no rea- son why they should. Intelligence in children is the result of quick sight and quick hearing.
Every child born with good eyes and good cars is born intelligent, though in most cases the child is soon made stupid by disenso, duli surroundings and dogmatic tench- ing.
So-called racial differences, 50
far
as our evidence goes, are merely differences in upbringing. Nationalism exists and thrives on The entirely falso belief that these artificial, and often non-existent, differences are innate and un- alterable.
dislikes are his own, not to be altered but just an intellectual snob. The from a German?
"TOO CLEVER" •
lengths he will go to in order to keep
样
are
sce, no man ever calls himself a high- ago, and there the books are to-day, brow. It is an epithet bestowed upon as good as new, never having been him by ordinary chaps like you and opened except perhaps once in a way
by visiting friends.
How is it, then, that we often can, or think we can, tell a Jew from a Christian, or a Frenchman The answer is that every human group, whether religious, linguistic, or even pro- fessional, has its characteristic facial expression.
Many Jews have a trick of draw- Ing up the corners of the non- trils: many Frenchmen have n trick of clightly pursing their lips and raising their brows; and we have our own tricks by which In the foreigners recognise us. same way Mohammedans tend to have a rather gloomy, fatalistic
expression.
her own armaments can
secure to enjoy myself in an art gallery. that end, to remain neutral in While, as I say, this is nothing to "the next war." She will abide boast about, it is certainly nothing by obligations already incurred, to be nahamed of, and I refuse absolutely Lo apologise for my
Of course, if you follow my plan and especially the League of ignorance of things which I have Nations Covenant--but she will never had the time or opportunity you will sometimes be sneered it. By
BOOKS FOR SHOW fools, it is true, but they will sneer. not add to them-especially in the to learn.
The sneerers. will be people called
A man I knew, when he married It is the same with music. I listen highbrows. You have no doubt met
and set up a home, went and asked a Italian and German
man of taste Foreign on the wireless to all sorts of more them. They are u peculiar breed.
Do not confuse a "highbrow" with clergyman what books Ministers have met in Berlin to or less tuneful sounds, but for the
"of and education ought to display on life of me I cannot tell whether, a man, or it may be a woman, of his shelves. Suitably advised, he see how far their conflicting in-judged by the ear of the expert, the latty taste and culture, wide reading straightway bought the lot in hand- terests. eg. in the Danube Valley, tunes which please me are good and profound knowledge. For, you some bindings. That was ten years may be reconciled, and how far music or bad. THESE CONSULTA-harmony can be achieved in their respective foreign policies. It is
I like any kind of joyful noise. me. TIONS ARE AB-
very probable that Belgian cold- ness and Italian and German Seldom can I give a name to any
If we meet him in a public-house It is not that this man dislikes read- or a club, shall we say, we instinc- ing. On the contrary, he devours veiled opposition to the new piece of music unless I have been
told beforehand. Several times
a week They are SOLUTELY.FREE-
Locarno may result in the whole have listened to playing which has tively dislike him. Something in his several boole
"Thriller" type, detec idea being abandoned. Though delighted me, and been told after-speech and manner freezes us. In mostly of the
where the this may appear at first sight towards that it was something from deed, I always wonder
adorn his bookshelves where de luxe be a disaster, it could be a bless-Chopin or Brahms. No one was more highbrow can possibly feel at home. ive stories, and so on. These do not like a Nordic, even if he is Hitler
he is in the company of really in-editions of Shakespeare, Milion, and Ing in disguise, if it brought the surprised than I was, As far as my tellectual people he is just as uneasy Carlyle stand in all their splendour,
musical taste goes it might just ns peace-loving nations away from cually have beca a merry Jingle from there. They like him no better than The best joke of all is to see this pre- we do. They gauge to a nicely his clous humbug show his friends round reliance on regional pacts back Jack Hylton or Henry Hall.
mental calibre, which is seldom high, his library. He has learned a few The highbrow is happiest when he wisecracles, and just enough literary if faithfully interpreted, woulding there are similar
Even as regards eating and drink-
conventions can gather around him a group of patter to save him from making a give all that the regional pact which "the best people are supposed people, budding highbrows bem-
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to obey through inborn superiority of selves, who will hang upon his every
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If he
Anyone can stand in front of a looking-glass and make himself look like a conventional French- man, Jow, or sergeant-major, but it la impossible for a man of the Alpine raco to make himself look
himself,
---To-day's Thought·
PEOPLE atki, whose common ties are gone; Who, mixed with every race,
are lost in nona.
-GEORGE CHABBE.