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THE CHINA MANDLE GUT

SIR, LESLIE STEPHEN.

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"THE KING'S ENGLISH

['Life and Internture.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924

some of the changes that came over

experienced youth were seen min-Life, publianed about four yours his thought in his early. college

handling a poor ees on an upgrade ago but let the readers of this in the street, some indignant sonk Journal make a note of it, if they days, and the effect of the great

would put a stop to it. But anyone do not know it. It is something writers and thinkers in the forms-

H. M. Tomlinson in the mey lack about the English lun- to discover that a writer, whose If there was a special prize for tion of the vine of young Coni-

Weekly Westminste] gunge with hoop-iron as he or she name is strange to us, and appears. miental equipment and intellectual, bridge men like dmself amid the

pleases, and apparently there is a to be strange, too, to the literary worth instead of for beautiful ankles ferment of a very active intellectual I saw it announced somewhere public which will pay to enjoy that enties, is not only one who seems or paddings for new-fangled bath natural aptitude for this difficult

Few men had greater that at least six hunded new outrage ne willingly as it will pay able to bring dens inte being, but ing dresses I think my vote would type of literary analysis and expres-novels are likely to appear in to see ants nibble each other at the ages English as thongs it were is be given for the late Bir Leslie sien. Then, too, he was brought forget what length of time, within struck me was the complete con- used before, Mr. Ward, in t Zoo. It is indeed puzzling. What youre and cly medium seldom Stephen-at Jenst amongst those of into person relationship with all the next twelve months by next fidence of these writers Their air arguments, is able to give that the last couple of geperations. the routest of the Victorian writers Christmas. It doesn't matter, of artful boldness when stating the illusion, and if there is anyone who then living from Carlyle and however, for the statement is like obvious, their complete assurance doubts that our language is dead in There have been others who show. Peniyson to Ruskin and Thomas those friendly paragraphs which in of originality-ne they laid down the hands of many popular writers. more in one particular sphere, such Hardy He was brought up in the

worn slabs of stereotype, we let him take, up "Ways of Life" as Darwin; or who fulminated with Faith and took Orders, as a priest of form, pa that seventeen million enough to ruin the constation of after an hour with the last popular HER INFINITE VARIETY.

Que begins to understand, the Church of England but ourly people lave visited the Doll's the strongest reader. And why is novel. a more terrifying thunder, such as tend that there was no common House, and that any amber of it caled "light erature? A then that reading really is un ad- Carlyle; but node showed the same ground between the doctrines of the millions of tons of water foll on ship is not called seaworthy when venture of the mind.

Church, and the fiamework of his

it will not fast; it is then not even Once again an attempt has been intellectual shrewdness, Among the innumerable objects minde to tell the story of the world's alotness and genuine good follow-utnal belief. He soon found how London during the last wet day. aahip. Water is not called bright found laid out befög him at the greatest lovers. We have an Eng. ship, with so few angularities of impossible it Ane for him to remain. The advantage of such truth is that when it is thick with mud and Naturally-Mr. Ward's prosent ↑

a clergyman, and be called in Mr. it is immaterial whether one be smells of duck-weed. A baker who little handbook is not like that. lish translation of Claude Ferval's mind, as Leslie Stephen. If there

Thomas Hardy to witness his deed lieves them or not. Nothing is favoured his sawdust bine with It is not a challenge, but an exposi world's feast, books were certainly Life and Death of Cleopatra te intellectual world as there is in cut him aditifs from Cambridge, and changed, but clearly one tay superante would find himself before and most practical statesmen, will

was an umpire or referee wanted in of renunciation. This renunciation

bluebottles because he had no eur- tion. I suspect that the orthodox,

men write, surely I may the romantic story of Antony and have filled the position with the literature. Jokingly ho refers to house is somewhere shout, and that ench literature "light," or even implications in his swift and lucid !pageant of history the nuthor tells the 'sports' world no man would he turned to seek his livelihood, in pose, if it is desired, that a doll's magistrate. So why do we call strongly' dissent from some of the

LAMB, THE CRITIC.

anil occasions of joy which Lamb

bookd

one of Blas most precious, and after eune pięlings, “What any

reud?" he mys to Wordsworth, of Caryl on Jah, six folios. "I like

Hurst and Blackett). In this

moral

Cleopatra and the all-conquering Crest.

The details of the life and

sane impartial justice as he.

In the Playground of Europe he breathed for his love of the Alps;

bools and books," he confesses times of these immortals are pretty and no less an authority than Lord most of the doctrines of the these shores.

the test of the book-lover.

It is all in accor}}

literature," and pay even and six for something we do not get?

*

He was die finest of all readers. Well known to all of us in these Morley.runks it with parts of bishop, or which can swallow any we inspect the photographs in our estheties as easily as appears to be Though it was not intended to do

far more instant than Coleridge; not to be the unwares-by a Blake ( must look on hin us on of the most istrcordinary persons of the age," he says of him, on But a light and partial aequaint-

days. But the story, as it is told once more, enthralls us again. It has the permanency of a ballad, and will last as long as loveitali.

Then there were the theatres, which Tab loved next to books.

Leslie

the prospective Sinecurus he lost by the last wet day mis mee or less

analysis of the history of ethics giving up the Church, but Sir

but it is a clarifying little book and Leslie Stephen's was not one of wet, and that las regarda hetion a

in a society which is how, so badly those minds which can renounce deep depression is now appronehing

lumbered with the irrelevant de T wish it were possible to awaken it of many philosophies 15 Apostles' Creed and you remain with that good humour in which the consciones in the matter ought to serve the path-finders well. formula as if he liked it. He felt jolly noming paper. I saw quite possibile in morals. We all know.. for I imagine Mr. Ward would like Lord Morley, that no softness

f speech will disguise the porten- a nice picture last week, perhaps are morality as soon as we see 1, is 'only good when men begin to ses

resent-the suggestion that the "goal""," and never afterwards nike air it. For the book's, quality, let us easier. We are never mistaken take about it. Nothing could be take this passage: If modern any practical

tons differtuces between those good a photograh as my favourite who admit a supernatural revels illustrated daily has over published tion and those who deny iL.**

ethics inculeate

sured.

Hawthorne und Charlotte Bronte reaching the high-water mark of English prose in our time.

There are some books which we should re-read at least every four years-Compromise, The Study of It is much to be regretted that It hud words under it that anyone about wrong-doing-that is, about lesson. it is that of not being ance; on by Wordsworth when the finest sentence describes & picture Sociology, The Egoist, The Origin he gives a little of the inward could spell out Zoo Monkey-ings done not according to our hypnotised by the fnaf at being

of Titian) and can instantly detect

ideas. I am reminded of this by Lyrical Ballads are confiting all

and minutely expose the swollen. Species, Physics and Politics, kings of his own mind while the Selects Banana for his Dinner,

change was pong on. "I have no

an addition to the little library of Present must all things.be, mea... judgments, and he can pick out at contemporary delusion of a would etc... and especially

the World's Manuals

The constructions of his- reason to think," he says, that

(Oxford). sight She Dwell Among the Un-he Michael Angelo, the portentous Stephen's English Thought, in the the story of my wiser-life would

University Press 28. Gd. A and science, the infinite exten- froggen Ways" as "the best piece Martin,

But the interesting point about History of Ethics," by Stephen of rust and future, have to be in the list interesting, and, Literary, Eighteenth Century. in, il and cum define precisely the

were it interestings I should still the paragraph which announced, in Ward. Ent a word first as to the in himself. He. is encouraged to some extent weakened man's belief defect of nich of the look, in one

philosophical, economical, and

prefer to keep to myself. Yet round figuros, the extent of the World's Manuals, a series of take what he believes to be broad of those imparable letters of

volures that serve us introductions Views: he shows a perverted pride original thought in it doesn tg in English like Lamb's, master mind. Illogicality and ver- mental evolution akin to Stephen's so intimate and bluge never escape.

would dearly like to have his auto-s an item of literary news. It is guge. Literature. Seinen. His. fundarmental:

small factor in a movement over aften make you laugh or cry.

IC

biography of it Students of litern-time some difference was made, for aid Geography.

"They are which he has un control. Yet he is clucidating - Bis style becomes

Or again, read his Science of inre and of character, however, though it is not for us to say whe-by scholars, they are well written, deceiving himself. foo urtfully aims at simplicity of

quintessentint when he speaks of

Importance is

• expression."

ich these in the stage, as in that tiny master. Ethics, and then read the ethical ought to be very glad of one piece ter such news should come under they are designed not only to not a matter of size: microscople stances because the final, test of piere, On the Acting of Murder, theory of any of our other lenders, of good fortune. One of Sir Leslie Market Reports, or Eduation, or give the student some iden of the views are haud views fuse. Alper crite is in his reeling of contem which ends the books of Elia, with Green's Prolegomena, Moore's Bephen's greatest contemporaries Public Health. It is very puzzling. handiks, but they are addressed all, the distance recedes from whate porary work and Barob must have its great closer the Beethoven soft Principia Ethica, or Sidgwick's Whitford a picture of him presented of new novela, feeling that I had sufficiently alive to the value of he stands he is the centre of the

and closest friends drew in Vernon Some weeks ago I made up a bale also to general renders who are found it air easier to be right, wondering close, after all the fethod of Ethics-and you see the by a before every one else, about

surger He understands a leg of

master hand--the incidenta read all the science, history and Trading to welcome authoritative measurable spaces. He may Abster, and Bord and Cyrintton in its quiddity. He stands difference at once. At every turn alone being fetion:

poetry that I wanted, and that this and scholarly work if it is presented pe at the stars, yet without him Fourncur, then to the accurate wondering, amid the commonplace, with these writers you are founder- The present volume is a collec light matter would go wry well to them in terms of its human in the frosty concourse does not run. critic that he was of Coleridge, a trials of life, like prineval man ing in a Serbonian bog: in Leslie tion of essays which appeared during a rest while some mularis terast and in a simple style and Heps farthest who goes not at all: who, rather than run races with the very time when he was under with the sun and sture about him." Stephen you have a clear-cut state- eleven years ago in the National was diminishing. I wanted to he moderate compas.**

time, busies himself with that the "whit and wind" of Coleridge's. He is equally certain of Shake- ment. It has the advantage, too, Review" and ne now collected in amused and entertained. But it was

wherein time enters least, and is influence. And in writing of pics speare, of Congreve, and of Miss of being the nearest approach in the book form for the first time. horrible. My temperature rose.

bold enough to live, as it has been. tares, though his knowledge is not Kelly. When he lefines the actors, English language to an acceptable j

No apprentice would be allowed to The author of the "History of ordnined, for a short hour. for a so great, nor his instinet so wholly, his pen seems to he plucked by the ethical theory-at least in the opin

play jejune Jacks on bricks, or thies in this series I remem- little white. Only by forgetting "according to knowledge," he can very wires that work the puppets.-ion of the present writer.

cowhide, or timber, or spring cab-bered at once. I have never heard time does he invest himself and his write as no one has ever written Arthur Symons, in "Figures of In the volume before us, Some in praise of Titian (so that his, very Several Centuries."

buges. Somebody would stop him that he is popular. I know of only doings with the salutary magic of Early Impressions, Sir Leslie traces

If a hearty but in one other book by him, "Ways of eternity!"

esene, o Muning :- "It is-luft of There has been no criticism of social theory are there handled by any who have parsed through a novels to come, is that it was given to Art Religion, Thilosophy, Lain seeing himself as an infinitely

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A. H. CROOK. Some Early Impressions." Lexlip Stephen. The Hogarth Press, London, 78, 63.]

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the young man who fancies

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