SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1939.
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WEEK-END SECTION
DAVITT TO The Figure a Poet Makes
DE VALERA
Green fathers: The Story of the Trith Hunggle, by B. M. Fox. London: Socker & Warburg.
ronomie, and
contributes
Collected Poems of Robert Frost.
Henry Holt. York Collected Poems of Robert Frost. New
York: fialcyon Konse.
New There is a glud recognition of the long conservative. But he claims to be dislikes such labels, lost and the rest follows, Step by neither. He step the wonder of the unexpected thinks them ps useless as they are supply keeps growing. The impressly. Poetry is out of experience, tores little for the double talk of sions most useful to my purpose seca
THESE collected editions of THESE
the poems of Robert Frost take the reader through "A Further Range." Of course they are not the complete collected poems, happily. They do, how ever, between them provide two valuable additions to the 1930 edition. First, there is in the
ways those I was unaware of und politics, per s Its polities consists
so made no note of at the time when in having no politics except the ex- inken, and the conclusion is come perience of here and now so built to that like glants we are always to carry over into the future. hurling experience ahend of us to pave the future with against the day when we may want to strike a line of purpose across it for somewhere.
The second valuable addition to
Further
Range."
You
can
read
suave,
in conflict with the Black-and- na come is it the new matter--a tainly it is a Frostian key to the might read: "From Rats to Niches."
Macardie's
เ
Industrin movement is doing much In restore in Ireland the balance be- tween agriculture and industry which British control systematically crush- 667ILL SOMEONE plense
ed, he is still critical of that move- tell me who's fighting ment: "While it has been built up
and whom and why?" asked with national effort
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sacrifice, woman who sat near me at theafeguarded with national credit and fostered by specifle tariffs, the owner- movie made out of Sean
ship tbstantially remains not in the O'Casey's "The Plough and the hands of the nation but of private Stars." Her question has set interest, often external to the State," me wondering what the Ameri- can who reads of this life, or sees it on stage or screen, makes of it. In "The Informer" he saw the Irish Republican Army
surn it source book as
Republic" Irish Tans. He heard of Tans, Tom Pakenham's "Peace by Ordeal"--it 1 nies, Ausiliaries, G-men, and haps the best general guide yet the Irish Royal Constabulary. juhikhen to contemporary Ireland, and the personalities At "The Plough" he watched the the event: Irish Citizen Army under its which have made and are making it banner, the Plough and the Stars, join forces with the Irish Volunteers, under the green. white and orange Tricolour, to stage the Easter Rebellion.
gutobiography. Anderson, Grace
Maryogaphy be trade of Sinn Fein, the Wong, Robert Leung, Alfredo Patenay Party. The bich Re- Most of you found wo
Ribeiro, Cora L. Rocha, Samueludas Brother bood; at Khionists, eulty in picking out The
SE Keith | Churn,
Martin,
paralists, Republicans. Free Studen names of the articles in the Wong, George Hassan, Wilbur basket. Several of you, how Marshall, Susan Gehring. ever, only picked out five natnes. You were asked to give six
This is all my own work
Name
Address
Dear Kiddies.
names.
Agr.
Wa.
fiction.
Mary, De-Hards, In the
Puples
Trads Wa
and
ย De Valera's with Brassin
national
poems:
Mr. Fox's book is a clear and read-Holt edition a preface entitled, these new collected editions Is that able account of the political, social, The Figure a Poem Makes." both contain the complete text of "A
artistic movements which have animated Ireland during It may be worth the difference through the bucolic first volumes and, the past quarter of a century. While in price to most readers. Cer-nt last, find yourself in
setting. The subtitle faintly urban It is not that wholly, of
course, but The impleation is inescapable. The early poems mark the struggle of the Frost of the furrow, a man who got himself a country to come from and
poetry they bear the scars of difficult years. Ty the strange alchemy The scars of this life curae nil, not scars, but something between hart and joy. In these early pages are the Beat poems that are poems in sense that poetry is always a little the beyond the reader and behind poet. They are experiences in space und time.
what it is.
Horace Reynolds
No tears for the, writer, no frais for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of Lemem hering something I didn't know know. I am in a place, in a situs- tion, as if 1 had materialized from
util of cloud or risen
the ground.
The Coast of Donegal
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That, nuspect, is what Frost intends to do. method When most successful this produces poems of grent social sign!- i think the following lines ure among the most significant social Reance. observations of our time. Speaking af mankind, the poet asks;
Why is his nature forever so hard
to teach
That though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are, roughly, zones whose
laws must be obeyed,.
What basis there may be for And- ing something unsatisfactory in the mem of the Pullman is largely in the manner. The old edlet of being witty carried like a chip on the shoulder. Who says 1 am not funny? I'm the funny man of serious poetry. A great poet should be easy. This is how it is done. The hond s quicker than the eye.
Some have relied on what they
knew,
Others on being simply true. What worked for them might work
for you...
What law is it, though, that allows 10 latitude for the great peet. There are a half-dozen poems in the volume of the Pullman poet to place against My Cousin Justin, by Margaret Barring | yesterday, and startle us with speech
What happens, then, when the all the rest of the collected poems. to. Jondor: Jonathan 'ajer.
that has the imaginative force
truggle, at least the conscious strug-That's more than a fair average- Brun for Frost. And there is poetry.
gle for material necessities, is aver
"Trovide. Provide," doing what the With the separation of Lou and and the battle won? Let's look at Mis a delight to read: it is dots, and their departure from
down: The reason? Refer to pens at once. written quietly, with restraintDopegal, the book Inses a little of its record, You see, nothing hap pet preaches, marrying wit to wis- the Aranties of the mistrial move-and economy of words, yet withthar: but it remains a good story, the passage quoted frames the preface. Lam's experiences as a journalist in You go on writing as long as the ex- ment for
elf-suficiency, an easy, spontaneous air. She Dublin during the World War, Ber periences hurled before you last.
tn a Tanatical
After that you write "A Further What das he maite of the wetter if
Range." wm, boners, o porties, and is never insistent, never lainantskappy marriage
To tuna 1 t all be in effect, but arrests us
un-young recho is engaged in under- quien dhe British. www Thank lise the lane of a serret | failingly with a quick, sureground warfare wastik
and her faal return to Justin and the touch. It is a style that, in its ad house do unt fail to hold 15: naturalness and its reticence, is while the political background, the admirably suited to her method refond of the "Troubles" and the well suggested. If the Civil War, of narration in the first person; for it spares us any suggestion interst slackens a trifle it is because
becomes concerntrated of pedantry or egotism.
Bree main characters, and because
to the motor traffic, He hears of a here the writer hos carried her re- teence rather too far we believe in plan to move these folk away from them, but we never get to know them the farm to the city. That is worse well enough to escape a faint sur-than hunger, he concludes. it wasn't price at some of their actions. Never for him; he reaps what the land sow- theless, this is a fine novel, sensi- live, sincere, and convincing in its atmosphere.
Intermediates: Patricia Ozorio, Shona McIntyre George Elliott, Helene Ribeiro, Freddie Brown, The prize-winners this week Geraldine Silva, Betty Ellen An-
nis. Donald Marshall. Polettety Ylle. Horncio Ozorio, Beatrice David Odell (aged 11%), 218, | Edefonso, Vivian S. Borker. Alberose, Pokfulum.
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Hazel Cutter (aged 10), 101. d Taipo Road, Shurmshuipo,
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Gerak Marshall (aged 7), 4, ale i tu say Hillwood Road, Kowloon,
Coupons have been sont lo David, Hazel and Gerald which 1 want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offers in Wyndham Street. The con- pons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
The narrator is a young fresh girl of Huguenot extraction, Lou Delahnte, he is brought up with her cousin,
The answers to all tave questions are to be found in Mr. Fox's books, Clearly and imply Mr. Fox has told the story of the Irish struggle from This work, kadie, muy aptrt 1 1916 to the present tay. He diss pleasant sewife village for the the of the bleary and
* language movements rene and ha. narkerf Ix paint:
in tipulating 1 with letter: What you have th The reaugence of national feeling
t which
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the an qustom point your would expect to find the
from the time of Michael Davill pruple shown at the File I! YOU ta bere ard www. Thi Bath For prose pours (B) is the fire. of Irish labour bave frequently claim-Justin Thorauld, in the house of their
Polaremati Pra daze im t
ed that the sinews of Trish revolt grandfather, on the wild cast of VERI besting you GESWPLS with Podferier desed in the arms of Trish Industr, | Donegal. In this part of the story
B. Wate your answers in is best
and Mr. Fox writes of the beginmage
the authors at her best. The chil list, im me this name, age and address of tae, modern labour movement in coupon and send to Uncle Elde, eeland under Larkin and Connolly, dien are really sung and alive, and we are made intensely conscious of "Hongkong Telegraph." Wynthate He dresses the Anglo-Irish
their environment of the great stone Street. The competition does at 2 and the Civil War.
fortress to with- mansion, built like on Wednesday, pan
He writes as a Natunalist, but as stand the raging storms which keep a Nationalist who believes
the the inmates housebound for half the will again be given. There puze
nationalization of economic wealth.
winter, of the desolation of host and Good luck, kad ties.
He behoves with the Athlone Con- mountain, bleak yet beautiful, that gris that " Hepuble of a United surrounds it, and of the fierce rough- Behind will never be achieved except and-tumble of life among the villige by
muvement which
uproots
boys. We are aware, too, of the an- Capitalism on its way."
elent race in the background, Firewd. While admitting that De Valera's hard-working. and kindly, yet dreamers all, who brood over wrongs four centuries old, toit bark legends as to the happenings of
Specially commended for es. cellent work are the following: Uncle
Seniors: Paul Versoona, David
Mackie. Shamsher Singh, John
Eddie
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The man who once lived on the Pitle rocky form is the man who goes by in a swift motor and notes that the little farm has a roadside sland Pow. That is because its occupant are paster than the poet was.
Life the even crueler now, the prices me lower: they offer what they grow
Puzzle Corner Answers Cryptogram: The "Know nothing." a Favoured seeret political party which Americanism, existed previsus to the Civil War.
Four Musiclans: Show PLUS pan (Chapin, shoe Pl.US Bert (Schubert), ery PLUS atur (Kreister), motes PLUS
Mozart).
Tetter Juggling: Grading, niggard. What is the Size: inches x 10 inches.
Fun
With Antonyms: Produce-| waste; offy-provoke: cleanse-coll; interrogale-answer; perplex-clarify; quick-retard; elevate-rare: tndorke oppose; revake-admit; redeem-sell.
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ACTION SHOOTING
A subject such as this will make a good "action sequence”—a series of plctures showing the complete toss, step by step. Pove your subject in "slow motion," and it's easy.
ACTION shooting is one of the
Dost interesting phases of ama- tour photography-and good action pictures can be obtained with any camera, if you know how.
Interesting action "sequences" can be made in the mannor just do- scribed. For example, a series of a young woman tossing a beach ball. Two or three slots of ko swing, To "stop" true fast action, and each at a different point; a fourth got sharp pictures, you need a fast with the ball barely supported by shulterona that can be adjusted | her finger tips; a áfth with her arms to 1/100 or 1/500 second. Such a tally extended and the ball out of the camera is a wise investmont if you pleture. Such a sequence is enatly intond to do much shooting of un- obtained if the subject goes through posed action subjects-you simply tho action very slowly several times sol the shutter for top speed, adjust | —and it is surprisingly effective the lens opening for correct expos when the pictures are mounted in ure at that speed, and fro away. propor order in your album.
With lower cameras, however, In all action shooting, tako caro you can still got good action pic-not to become excited, or you may tures If you post your subject in preas tho shutter release too ferkily slow motion, Lot him go through the moving the camera and blurring natural motions of the sport-golf, the shot. Whon taklog a posedac tennis, or whatever you choose--but tion shot, of a subject that will stay have him more as slowly as possible. Then shoot when the action looks most affective,
a one place, it's often a good idos to put the camera on a tripod or some other arm support.
This trick will work for box cam-
Try your hand at action slots- oran, as well as tho many oxcellent! -folding cameras whose shutters ad- including a few sequences such as just no higher than 1/100 second, that outlined above. It's fatoresting And it la marvelously effective it photography--and good, fively shots well done, the pictures retaining a of this type add spice to your album,
John van Guilder genuino appearance of fast action.
But one Frost a century
ed in him. is nature's economy.
Again the Frost of the air-ron- ditioned Pullinan car looks out at twilight and sees a tone cabin and a figure in the doorwny:
He stood unshaken, and if grim
and gaunt, WIN not want.
It
.
necessarily
from
He had the oaks for heating and
for light.
He had a hen, he had pig in
sight.
He had a well, he had the rain to
catch.
patch.
10-by-20 garden
Who is the sad on now, who is the last, the figure in the doorway or the poet? is looking deep in as happy an occasion as louking deep oul? That is the reversal in "A Further Range." Such poems are a long way from "The Times Table" and To Earthward." About as far as the distance between the lone figure and the man in the Pullman.
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But is that to stand as blame? One critic, at least, has said so, Un what basis could such a conclusion be reached? The impleation is that success turns one from a liberal to
FOR ALL TASTES
Portrait of New York, by Felix Riesenberg
and Alexander Alland. New York: Mae millan,
So You're visiting New York, by Clara E. Laughlin, Boston: Houghton MT. New York, by Marjorie 11. Indiana-
polls: Bobby Merrill,
A Landmark itistory of New York, by Albert Ulmann, New York: Appleton. Century. Here is New York, by Heich Worden,
New York: Doubleday. Doran. Dining in New York with Rector, by George Rector. New York: Prentice
Ball.
THIS collection would probably
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never be encountered complete except on a table In a bookseller's shop or in a reviewer's lair. For the literary reader one could confidently recommend Felix Itiesenberg's book. with its lavoursome mixture of onecdote and history, all reflecting the tone
of a writer humorous and cultured, ripe in his knowledge of Manhattan. Tu complete this origin- at enterprise the volume is brilliantly illustrated by 04
Alexander Alland's Individually-studied photo- graphs, all made for this book.
Miss Laughlin's Intest addition to her "So You're Going" series is in the terse and readable style of her dozen or more other travel books, and will be especially serviceable to the first-time visilor.
What Frost is surest of and what the render is surest to get s the theme of freshness, a fresh way of looking at an old world so
As to make it seem new. A poem, he ys, should run from delight to wisdom. Most of his poems do more than that: they run both ways. He remains a poet to measure against poets.
John Ritchey
Be A Friend!
If you are a friend of man
Let him know it!
If you want to help, and can. Why not show It?
Your good will expressed in
dred,
May just meet another's need. But what good is any seed Unless you sow 117
When good fortune smiles on
you, Why not stare It?
Your brother's Joad will Ughien,'
too.
If you help bear it, Lay aside your pettiness, Help a neighbour in distress,
It will bring real happines If you but dare it!
This old world. we live in antil Needs our loving,
Needs our laugliter and good
will.
But not our shaving.
So, take me to be a friend And in unselfed service send Thoughts and deeds that truly
blend All-in living!
Elate 1. Ainsworth
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Permanent Waves
Marjorie His, who wrote "Live Alone and Like It," has provided a guide for the wonun vocationist that is filled with the practical and gay advice of one who knows her way about In the big town, and all the places that are not to be missed by one on n not too limited budget.
For those who find their greatest We use the anest Cluster Curt oll pleasure in looking up the houses of Lavender, non-ammonia solution and streets which have given a city its character, Mr. Ulmann's historical- descriptive book should prove to be a constant and rewarding companion. The gossipy informative content of Helen
Worden's book joined to her drawings, which have an impish way of discovering what is funny about any of her subjects, combine in u volume that will bear dipping. Into several times even after having been thoroughly read once.
That George Rector-who knows all the best places to dine--has put it all into this new book is all that need be sold in recommendation.
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