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LITERATURE AND THE PRESS.
Mr. A. E. W; Mason, the novel ist, responding to the toast of "Literature and tho Press," at the thirty-third annual dinner of the Readers' Pensions Committee at the there Holborn Restaurant; said really was no dividing line between the two in the present time, and he doubted if there ever was such a division.
Addison, Steelc, Swift, and others all wrote in periodicals be- fore those writings appeared with in the covera of a book. There was supposed to be a certain perman- ency in real literature, but who was to lay down the law about perman- ency
"AUTOCHTHONIC."
BOOK, GOSSIP.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This crass-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional- phonetic spallings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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AMERICA'S CRAZE FOR NEWNESS.
"QUEX" WRITES OF NEW YORK LIFE.
ff
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VIEW OF MR. NOYES.
Few món can have had more varied opportunities for studying life in great cities than "Quex" of Mr. Alfred Noyes, the poet and the "Evening News. His com- author, who has already been four-ments on men and manners interest teen times across the Atlantic, has and amuse thousands of readers lecture every night, and we suspect that hir left London for another
Canada and the United Who Told You That?" feature i tour in States. He was accompanied by responsible for most of the next-day his wife, whom he married only two lancheon anecdotes inflicted upon weeks ago. The lectures will be on "The Bond of Literary Union." Us. Recently "Quex" visited every one and everything worth visiting At Waterloo, before he left, he in New York, and he has recorded talked of America and the Ameri- is impressions of American social cans, a country and a people he and business life, politics, horse knows intimately.
shows, night clubs, and a host of other things in "New York, by "Quex,'" which Messrs. Stanley Faul will publish in the early
"Americans are awfully kind," he said, "but they suffer from the The idol of one generation is illusion that theirs is a new country the derelict of the next and may and they are always insisting on its For instance, was be the idol of the third generation. newness.
Downs
autumn.
1.
of
I think it is interesting to specu-walking over the Sussex
The opening of the 220th Annual late whether the man seribbling with an American the other day, histories of pirates and riminals when he noticed a barn with a Commencement Week at Yale was and dropping in between books like pretty mellow coloured roof. "Ah!" marked by the production Robinson Crusoe and the Plague he said, 'what a fine old barn. That Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" in the of London, realised that he was is the kind of thing we haven't got new Harkness University Theatre. in our country. Why not? I ask "Record is lacking of any produc- going to live among immortals,
ed, 'Because it is too young, he tion of Coriolanus since 1811," am pretty sure Defoe did not care.
"I do not believe for moment said. I saw that barn built. It is says a special to the "New York Times" of 18th June, "when Mr. that those old sailor men who went only about fifteen years old,
"They are trying to make their Siddons, in her last year on the from Falmouth, Penzance, and Ply- mouth knew when they were writ-literature 'new' as well, and cut it atage, headed a company which Ing up their logs on the Spanish off entirely from Europe. Not even played it in Covent Garden Lon- don," In connection with the the Declaration of Independence; Main that they were going to be could do that. They even say their acclaimext hundreds of years after literature must be autochthonic. wards as masters of the English When I heard that I looked up the
language.
above, it is interesting to note that Dr. Horace Howard Furness, Junr., has just completed five years of
The New
"I doubt of the man writing inward to see if it had been made in continuous labour on "Coriolanus." Kansas, but I found it came from This, the latest volume in the New the Greek and meant springing Variorum Edition of the Works of from the native soil. No litera- William Shakespeare, will be ture has ever been entirely free published in the autumn by J. B. from the influence of other cou Variorum Edition, begun by the
Livincott Company... tries. You cannot produce 籍 branch without the parent tree, famous Shakespearean scholar, the and if it had not been for the in- late Horace Howard Furness, and influence of the classics and so on, continued by his son, now numbers there could not have been an 20 volumes, including two volumes
of "Hamlet." American literature.
the wings of the theatre, Bomc- times plays of his own, sometimes touching up plays by other people to keep the Globe Theatre going know, or very much cared, that three or four centuries afterwards he would be acclaimed as the very wonder of English literature. All we can say is, that so long as men are driven to work in the effort to elathe with the dignifled beauty of the English language their ideas and their notions and their emo tions, so long literature will be alive and will be honoured."
HILLAIRE BELLOC.
GIFTED WRITER WITH WIDE KNOWLEDGE.
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вет
"Bismarck: the
Story of a Fighter" is uniform with Ludwig's famous "Napoleon," and the price is 218, net.
ary good work in America, and "They are doing some extraordin-
On October 18 Messrs. Allen & producing frat-rate poetry. But Unwin published the long-looked- the men who are doing it are those for detailed biography of Bismarck, whom America does not recognise, hv. Emil Ludwig. like J. Hall Wheelock, who wrote 'Black Panther. There is a lot of twaddle too, and this is hailed as really great poetry. This is an- other proof that the United States The first to appear of the four is just like any other country. Even new volumes in the Whitehall their language was made in Series, promised by Messrs. Put-. Europe."
nams this autumn, is "The Trea- Mr. Noyes said he found a great aury," of which the author is Sir difference between Canada and the Thomas Little Heath, States. "They have an vision, and I think they are more the previous volumes in this series imperial K.C.V.O., F.R.S. As in the case of patriotic in Canada than we are in of Popular Handbooks, the author England. Their literature is dif- gives first and foremost a plain ferent. One of the finest poems:
war description of what his Department is, and what it does, its place in the British system, and its relations to the other public departments and to the Civil Service. Sir Thomas was Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, 1913-1919, and "has been Comptroller-General of the National Debt Office since that
..
If you break faith with those who
dic,
We shall not sleep though poppies
grow in Flanders fields, was written by a ̈Canadian, Colonel John McCrae.
K.C.B..
In Hillaire Belloc we have one of the most ardent aons of another great religious community-the Roman Catholics. A distinguished graduate of Balliol, a gifted writer with a wide knowledge and an ima- gination, that is akin to inspiration, he has throughout his public life warmly espoused the claims of his faith. And with tongue as well as pen; for he is a brilliant talker, with the conviction of deep, sin- cerity borne upon his every. tenee. Even so, he has found time to indulge extensively in author- ship upon historical, military and other subjects, and for four years he was a member of Parliament. As long as 1910, he retired from many people with jaded literary "Profits and the Pen." by Hugh the House of Commons-where, to nistes, who cannot appreciate good Tuite, 38. Gd. net, issued by the
wholesome fare, but have to be Gregg Publishing Co., Ltd., ie be candid, he was not the Euccess tickled and scorched with highly- helpful, thoughtful and stimulating hi friends had expected him to be;
and has devoted himself to litera-spiced dishes-people who want treatise, invaluable to the profes- ture, of which no small part has beef literature has always been the all who wish to acquire the art of mustard and hot brandy. 'Roast sional journalist, the free lance and benn dedicated to his ligious beliefs.
writing for the press successfully. The book is full of interest, which is sustained throughout every | chapter each of which reads with
the interest of a novel.
an
PLANT LIFE.
NON-SCIENTIFIC READER STAGGERED.
re-
"There is great hope for the future in Canada and the United date.
Over here there are States,
too
best-Chaucer was roast beef liter- ature; and so was Shakespeare,"
in
•
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At the age of 57, he has
output equal in quality (and in most cases In quantity) to that of any other first-class British author.
His versatility is indicated by his In- imitable "Cautionary Tales" where delicate instruments their fatigue "Murugan The Tiller," by K. S. in the fate of Henry King, who when they are overworked, and he Venkataramani, is the latest book came to an untimely end through has even made a plant drunk, He from the pen of the well-known chewing bits of string, is set down remarks that the ludicrously un-author of "On the Sand Dune," and as a warning to children who do steady gait of this plant when in- "Paper Boats." Simpkin, Marshall not consider breakfast, dinner, tea toxiented "could, no doubt, be have just published the book at 78. and supper sufficient for the human effectively exploited in a tem- 6d. net. It will give the English frame!
perance lecture."
render a better insight into the As a result of these experimentation of the Indian social point of
Hindu mind, and a better apprecia he has reached the conclusion that
view. plants, instead of being less senst- tive than human beings, are many respects more sensitive. In Chapman & Hall have just deed, in the light of his discoveries, published "Menageries, Cireuses one becomes inclined to attribute and Theatres," by E. H. Bostock, In recent science there has been an
almost human
illustrated, 188, net. Mr. Bostock personality no more fascinating research than to plants, especially when in gives the story of his menagerie that pursued for many years by Sir some of his chapters one happens from its beginning till its trium- Jagadis Chandra Bose, first at the upon such subheadings as "Death Phant success, and has innumerable Presidency College, Calcutta, and under Chloroform," and "Plant stories to tell about misadventures afterward at the Research Institute Scalded to Death or when one with animals, fires and other dis- he has himself founded in the same reads that "Mimosa is late asters. The book is not to be re city. His latest volume, entitled riser."
garded as a theatrical history. It "Plant Autographs and their Reve In an appendix Sir Jagadis Boscia as full of exciting stories as any lations," records discoveries that suggests that India, through her book of adventure. are enough to stagger the non- habit of mind, is peculiarly fitted scientific reader. Its author has to realise the idea of unity, and to Cassell's have just published localised the "heart" and "nerve" of see in the phenomenal world an "Life, Journalism and Politics,” by plants, he has wounded them in orderly universe. And certainly J. A. Spender, in two volumes, at order to learn how wounds retard this volume makes one increasingly 428. net the set. The book is rich growth, he has observed how they conscious of a mysterious unity of in varied interest. It is informed respond to the stimulus of a thrash life that embraces plants as well by an intimate knowledge of the ing, he has measured by means of as men and animals.
I GUESS I'M SUNK -
I CAN'T JUMP ACROSS
THIS SUPPOSE I'LL BE,
BOILED FOR THEIR
DINNER!
MICKEY DUGAN?
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HORIZONTAL -What is the sound made by a clock? 5-A number 7-Proteadings (Latin)
11-British peninsular
and export in 5. Arabia 12-Marose 13-Airmen 14-Who was the
preatest tanar of recent years! 15-Combining form,
For 16-What Jovial friar.
was the associate of Robin Hood? 19-Inquires -20-Point of the
compass (abbr.) " 21-Crooked
23-Who was the third son of Adam? 26-To soak through, as
рогов
27-Be removed 29-A high motentain 31-To open (poat.) 82-Etruscan household
god
33-A wher 35-To decline gradually
30-Possessive pronoun
40-interjection
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
VERTICAL (Cont.)
41-Worthless leavings (10-A minor Hebrew
44-Consumes
16-Lashod
49-Gestura
prophet
17-To employ 18-Small bed 21-Minstrel
20-What is the chief
river of Australia? |22-Carried off
61-What collegiate
town te opposite Windsor, on the Thames, England? | 62-A river in N. France, 53-Reverberated
A chair 150-A river In H. W.
Belglum
VERTICAL
1-Who is Chief
Justice of the U. Si Supreme Court? 2-Unoccuplad 3-What island is at
the southern tip of India?
4-A joint of the human leg 8-The clenched hand
-Large mans of
atone
5-What famous sailor
23-Worry (cotor.) 12+Who wrote "Man
Without A Country?"
25-Quick and active 26-indigent 28-On a higher plats [20-A musical note 134-What is the most
important product of the Southern States of the U. 5.7. 38-Interjection
37-in no manner $9-What Egyptian god was the husband of the goddess lux? 41-A Hebrew measure 42-A roll of names 43-To emit melodious
sounds
7-A division and city 44-Terminales
of N. British India 46-To blackon with
soot or smoke 48-What olly was the
scene of Homer's Mlad?
was shipwrecked and lived on a
desert lstand?
9-A long, pointed.
tooth
47-Comfort
48-One who dyea
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tlons of celebrities in politics and circles, and it abounds in apprecia- journalism and literature. In all these personal sketches there is what may be called the Spender touch-an unfailing urbanity of tone and an appreciation of points of view different from the author's. The author relates his adventuras in Brent as a membber of the Mil- ner Commission, and records the im- pressions of America he received during his visit to Washington to attend the Disarmament Confer- ence. À chapter on India contains glowing passages which show how deeply he was moved by what he saw in the course of his journey- ings in that great Dominion,
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