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3 Painters: You know them, of course, if you are in the swim.
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Laundry hand.
10. Was this the apple the Commls-
sar consumed."
11 Hatches easily.
12 This
means
Uttle Pierre.
bed for naughty
13 Continued development.
14 Halt wood and half anna-but has he a wooden head, or is it timber-loce?
17 There is character in this style
of writing.
19 The investment of Japanese in Cane keeps many a Frenchman from a life of crime. sce this flower in
23 You can
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winter.
Very
old clothes you may find in the box-room-
29 Black salt.
30 Unlike the Weasel, which only went pop, this went bang. 31.Sailing bare-headed, and not
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32 There's a lot in dress: Any
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33 Delest. (Anig.),
34 "Don't, Mr. Chancellor, too
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1 All the same.
2. You'll get a sneyd low in price.
in this Kent village,
3 Advice to an idle person, always
on the move, GM Tak
They easily become sen ̈pela.
戳
5 A form of design suggestive of
pokerwork.
6 Inhaled and exhaled in the Commons (Two words, 3, 3). 7 Feminine name. 13 Goes from
stitches.
side to side
in
15 One must admit that this Eng- lish elty sounds rather fishy.
10 Has
lack. 18 After which anger implies risk. 20 Draws.
21 Make uniform though it sounds like a very ordinary pair.
22 The dog "ex trap Y" can't fly.
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25 Deer,
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ESCAPE FROM SUDDEN DEATH
This poom was written by Julian Bell, whose death in the Spanish War was reported recently
UT the grey skeleton may stand more close Than sixty years a-cupboard: flying chance May Jolt her shuttles to a swifter dance. And Death be nearer than we could suppose.
The other day I saw his face,
True but for half a moment's space, But now a shadow's at my back, and grows As if a guttering candle burned space. Thinking of you, it had been hard to go To the damp worms, and solitary sleep: But were you gone? How little I've to keep
How little do I know.. You in my mind.
As ploughman near some ancient mound Have an old treasure found, Straight buried it again, and doing so Scarce called to mind gold glimmering under-
ground.
PIECRUST.
A handful of poor memories, there is all: Oh, well enough, if only 1, not knew The more profound, hidden extent of you. My knowledge mocks whatever I recall.
Could we but snatch a hasty spring. And snare the god, not yet a-wing, Hear nightingales before the cuckoos call, Hear to brave primroses the skylarks sing. Then let us fill a summer with delight Forestalling slower time, and swifter fate, And make the flowery pomp our subject state, And garland memories both for day and night,
Pan and Apollo let us pray
For the wild rose and wreathed bay,
And, when we've spent our gifts in the gods'
sight.
Look back upon a happy yesterday.
From "Winter Movement" (Chatto and Windus)
CIVILISATION
A DISTINGUISHED archaeologist By AN OLD STAGER||
has been holding a careful in- quest on the death of civilisations.
In
I
Dictator states preach war now, not as a vital defence against bor- barian assault, but as a means in itself of curing internal disease. The
of men deliberate segregation groups between which communica- as deliberately denied is "a fantastic move back to the most primitive conditions.
into
The efficient Coroner is Mr. Stanley sad testimony to the decay that has twentieth century, in Casson, a well-known Oxford Don, set in. The and his exelting
ing verdict is embodied fact, reverts to the Bronze Age, only "Progress and without its gigantle up-lift. thrilling Catastrophe: An Anatomy o: Human
impartially
Second in antiquity only to the Adventure."
e." Quite
His general diagonsts of the symp- commend it to anyone sumelently in Sumerian is the Egyptian civilisa- terested in the destiny of the human tlon. Yet it has bequeathed us prac-toms of evilisation's breakdown in race to devote a few hours to that leally nothing of value, and its de- any age la the failure of moral and my came, despite an ideal geogra- material progress to keep equal pace, fascinating theme.
phicat cradle, from within and not confess, if this diagonsis is
Is correct, There is a widespread popular without. When
the Greeks first as it very well may be, our present- superstition, fervently shared in even
circles though went to Egypt, declares Mr. Casson, day symptoms strongly suggest the the best democralle
and over-fatal inequality. The conflict of long ልደ satirised by Mr. G. B. awed by its antiquity
und Communism within Shaw, that the history of mankind whelmed by its multiplicity of gods, Fascism
ceremonies, what they national States is a normal develop- on this globe has been one slow but castes, and
advance trom primeval really found was a nation of feillir ment in the process of disintegration. and ruled with a rod of iron by a Society "The suppuration that ensues takes the form of demagogues and dicta- tors."
and
A Dunward Trend
the Dark Ages, towards the refulgent of Antiquaries! light of twentieth century Western Britain's Long Peace civilisation; that the minds of men have
with the process of broadened
Our own place in the pageant of the suns towards what Alfred Lord
past is vividly stated by Mr. "The unhoppy League of Nations," Tennyson called "one increasing pur-the
Casson. "From A.D. 100 to A.D. says Mr. Casson, "falled almost at Mr. Casson effectually slays that 100 all British except in the north birth to justify itself, and grow to He tells was as pleasant and peaceful a land maturity, through the inner wicked- Jabberwock at the outset. us that progress, which made greater as it is to-day. Never since liaveness of man, still apparently ignorant
Pax we had a
of this that to survive he must combine." strides when men talked less about kind that lasted for the vast space He tells us that America departed It, does in fact occur on occasions, as nobody except a fool would deny. But that it is cumulative and inevi- table no one can accept.
To
If he can get some of our up-10 date emotionalists to digest just that one elementary fact, Mr. Casson will not have written his book in valt He emphasises that we usually attach exaggerated Importance the relatively insignificant period of human existence known as A.D., which is not yet two thousand years old, and not nearly enough to the preceding 548,000 years B.C.
Almost at a Standstill
and
century.
Britannica
of three hundred years! But by from the venture through stupidity, A.D. 500 it had all vanished, and the Germany and Japan through malice. country had reverted to a condition and Italy "remains only because she
it had never perhaps seen be-believes she can do more which
damage fore." Yet the preceding standard inside than outside."He thinks civili- of public security had been greater sation is not on the brink of collapse, than at any period in Brilish history but has already some years ago col- before the middle of the nineteenth lapsed. "I wonder exactly how long It will take us to awake to the foet that before our very eyes the world And so we come to our author's) we lived in in our youth has passed verdict on contemporary symptoms. away, and with it the main props of I am not quite convinced that this civilisation." is as purely scientific as
So there you have the net result struction of the past. But it is im- of this scientille crowner's quest. Yet pressively sincere, And certainly Mr. Casson is not a complete Jere- based on close scientifle analogy. miak. He drops in the very last
his recon-
the
A
He reads all around us in Europe sentence of his remarkable book just We throw a chest, and pat our- a hint at the reappearance of an are one tiny crumb af
alone may selves on the back, about our won-ut Retrogression. The centrifugal sciousness of the comfort. "Con
downward derful modern discoveries, mechani-imovement of States
contribute to away from
Intranet modern civilisation.
atopping cal and otherwise. Mr. Casson, re-common ideal of life is the modern garding the acons through the Im- disaster. The first step on this de- courageous cynic might perhaps pre- partial spectacles
of archaeology, eline was the World War. "With the fer to scrap this decrepit brand of Ands comparatively little evidence dend who perished in that cataclysm, civilisation, and look forward to an- of human progress in the last two there perished also the major part other acon rebuilding a better. Or
would he really be a Superman? thousand years,
boasted of international morality." no modern discovery even comparable with "the genius who first connected sparks with fire or assoclated copu lation with childbirth for the first time." Attentively to ponder these scientifle assertions may be as intel- lectually bracing as a cold douche.
It is an engrossing experience to follow Mr. Casson on his shrewd re- distant Into the dim and searches
No Sherlock Holmes fiction past, can furnish anything like the meti- culous skill and courageous intuition that these archaeological sleuths dis- play in unravelling, amidst the dust of unnumbered
clues of humans, the fainti
Yet I doubt whether Mr. Casson's the best-seller circu- book will rqual the lation of the latest cheap detective comic what the ground- thriller. lings miss in art, literature, and life. for some lady People will queue up novelist's callow improprieties
Who would shun full-blooderi old Seu- tonlus like a plague. Perhaps il is Just as well. But certainly the High can afford a quiet chuckle Brows over the imbecililles of the Thick Ears.
Progress Intermittent
The oldest detected experiment in civilisation, erroneously called Pro- gress, was made by the Sumerians In the Tigris-Euphrates valley. It endured, before being extinguished by the Mongol invasion of three cen- turies after the Arab conquest of
for Persin,
four thousand
years. that
of tenure with security of Compare the eight hundred years of Greece, the nine hundred of Rome, and the thousand of Byzantium. Mr. Casson shows us how twice the march of civilisation has been arrested and put back by a Dark Age, first ofter collapse of Hilte Empire-
the partly due to neglect of sea power, partly due by the way-and then after the fall of the Roman Empire.
the
The plain moral is that: "Progress
is an intermittent phenomenon, and continual move forwards."
has
also
not
taken
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