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CODE SYMBOLS
SYMBOLS FORM UNIVERSAL TONGUE
Another Example
Possibility of correspon figure, the imperfect past is now possible to write a could decode this. The sentence alphabetic order is the same as dence between Japanese and tense by a point under the great many sentences. and Hungarians, Americans figure, the imperfect future and Finns, Turks and Chin- tense by one line over the ese-in fact between any figure, etc. persons, whatever their ir "I" is represented by natural tongue-is seen by
a
sloping line like this, "you"
Netherlander, who has evolved a universal cipher by 4. "no" by /, and so on, the language, states a message verb "to buy" might be conjuge from The Hague,
ted as follows:
I buy
It is claimed that those who write a European lan-
I bought?' guage' could easily learn to to operate this code system I have bought; and thus to correspond with r had bought: each other, without know- ing each other's language,. while it would be possible to, I should buyi operate in almost any lan- guage.
I shall buy:
/ 235 A / 235 A
7 23s *
/ 235 A
/ 233 A
/ 235 &
I shall have bought :/ 235 A
Etc.
structure should of course be the natural sequence of numbers, agreed upon. The number of In other countries one needs two groups of words should be lists, one in alphabetical order, "I would have bought three developed further. But this in which the numbers, behind the should be work for professional words are the same for all linguists and codlats.
countries and a number-list for decoding,
houses" becomes:
235 A (3) 703 8'
Then follows the adjectives,
Two Lists Necessary
The originator of the plan is group C. If "big" has number: 18, "bigger" is written: 18 c.““biggest" So the original word-list, in L. P. Van der Brook," He feels and "I shall buy five big this case in the Netherlands that wide possibilities are open- houses." would then be translated language, consists of a number ing up in this way, but declaros of groups, in which the words are that an enormous amount of
18
/ 235 A (5) 18 0.703 Bnumbered consecutively. Decod, work still has to be done to With the help of the number ing is done with the help of this perfect this system, which he.. list any child in any country same list, because here the call "language without limits.”.
Nobel
Prize Noveller
drifting population of the American plains. She is more sentimental in her approach to the problem, but some of her portraits of the fruit- "SUMMER, 1914." By Rogor astonishing gift for making their picking tramps who drift from place
to place are unforgettable. Martin du Gard. Translated by arguments seem fresh and exciting.
The chief characters in the story- Dozens of human derelicts crowd Stuart Gilbert. Bodley, Head. are Jacques Thibault, journalist and the pages, but hor main concern is revolutionary, and his brother, en- 25%.
"The Thibaults"-the novel that
THIS is the second part of won the Nobel Prize for Litera- ture. It is a novel written on the enormous scable of Tolstoy's Book "War and Peace," the present section running to 1,079 pages, of the been extrusted by
Very long novels usually appal; but
Under this system words I should have bought; / 235 A £ 235 A are divided into groups; You buy: verbs, nouns, adjectives étc. Every word may be repre-
A Frenchman, after con- sented by a figure, followed by the letter indicating the sulting his number list and group. For instance, verbs knowing the easily remem- bered signs, will read imme- come under the group A diately: J'achete, j'achetais, Supposing that in an alphabetic list of verbs the etc.; the German: Ich kaufe, word "buy" has number 235, ich kaufte, etc. Then "to buy" is translated Proceeding to the cate-this one is engrossing from the be- Week into code by "235 A" In gory B, that of the nouns, his number-list the French- the word "house," for in- man finds in group A for stance, is given the number 235: "acheter," the German 703. According to this sys- "kaufen," the Britisher "to tem, "house" is written as buy" etc.
703 B, and the plural: 703 B. The foreigner now finds Indicated By Signs
him. in his number-list in group Conjugations are indicated B at number 703 the word by signs. For instance the "house" in his own language. imperfect present tense is The ordinary figures are indicated by a point over the written within brackets. It
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
...
gaged in medical research and at first. With four people: Show, the poor incapable of interesting himself in the settler who is driven by matrimonial
busker; the optimistic
pathetic ing to Europe. ·
It Is dimcult to "Stray," with her caninò devotion to isaster that is on the eve of happen- difficulties on to the roads; Duke, the believe that a man Snow; and the eccentric Miss Phipps 50 sensitive and whom the others cannot shake off. Idealistic as Jac- ques would have Kings' Masque. By Evan John. (Heinemann. 8. 6d.), his fellow-revolu tionaries vith
Mr Evan John, having written one thoso International successful historical rovel in "Crip- missions at a time pled Splendour" follows it up now new territory-the meeting-places of
of crisis. But M. with another. Marie Antoinette, her revolutionary. internationalists at du Gard has made a fine story of his well-meaning husband, her Swedish Geneva on the eve of the last war dreams, his contacts with his fellow- adorer Axel Fersen; are familiar.. and gives un portraits of every did revolutionaries and his tragedy, and figures on this stage. Mr John gives of revolutionary from the idealist of the no less tragic fate that befell them new life by looking at them who dreamed that the working-class his brother.
from a new angle. movement would compel world peace This novel has been placed by some The central character of his story to the bitter advocate of hatred and srities on the Tolstoyer level. Even Is Fersen, whom we see in Amerien killing who dreamed only of satisfy those who would demur to, this will at the siege of Yorktown and in in his lust for vengeance pleted find it an engrossing picture of an Sweden as the friend and confidant bourgeots society that had neglected
earthquake amid which modern war of the brilliant charlatan Gustav IIJ., and modem revolution were born. well as at Versailles and Trianon. There are readers, no doubt who
Mr. John has a gift for dialogue will feel that in its early parts this The Battlers. By Kylie Tonnant, which is timeless. His characters is yet one more discussion-novel of (Gollance. 95. 6d.)
talk modern idiom, yet it never con- The modern type. But, though we
trasts uneasily with their clothes or can foresee what most of his charac- Miss Tennant does for Australia their way of life. This is a book not ters will say. M. du Gard has an what John Steinbeck has done for the to miss.
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Good-Byes
BY KEMP, STARRETT
"CHILDID I TELL YOU-)
THE GOOD-BYE TO THE HOSTS WHO ALWAYS REMEMBER. SOMETHING ELSE
TO SAY... AFTER YOU'RE ALL WRAPPED
UP AND PRACTICALLY COMING TO A BOIL.
THE YOUNG ONES STILL SAY GOOD-BYE ON THE INSTALMENT PLAN...
WE SUPPOSE.
FIRESIDE KENNELS DOGS BOARQUED
SAYING GOOD-BYE FOR TWO WEEKS SEEAS LIKE SAYING IT FOREVER.
SAYING GOOD-BYE TO ONES NURSE MAKES ONE WISH THEY'D TAKE TONSILS
·OUT ONE AT A TIME INSTEAD OF BOTH
AT ONCE.
GOOD-BYE-E-EE
FOR-R-EVER-R-R GOOD-BYE
GOOD. BYE GOOD-BYE GOO-HOODA
BYER.
GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE
"WELL, SO LONG, MABEL, SEE YOU IN THE BROCCOLI
GARRREZ
OR ELSE. THE GUESTS, AFTER THEY GET OUTSIDE, THINK OF A LOT MORE TO SAY... WHILE
YOU SHIVER..
THEY SING GOOD-BYE BUT THEY NEVER LEAVE,
· YOU STICK AROUND FROM A SENSE OF DUTY WHILE THE TRAIN WAITS AND WAITS AND YOU. GET TO VISHING YOU WERE? AB DEAF MUTE...OR. AT LEAST THAT YOU'D.. LEARNED SOME KIND OF SIGN LANGUAGES:
Badger Bygdichti