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many, Dr. Barnes offers this selec- tion of his utterances in 'their own setting and in the main in chrono-
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logical order, choosing as the less- New Chemicals Concern "House" er of the two evils to risk of end- ing those who like to close their help in allen- minds rather than Miss Ivy M. Clayton really oughtating the masses of thinking men not to do these things. And yet. and women.
why not? Her latest book will sell. Though insisting on the theory like the proverbiul hot cakes, and of Evolution as an established fact, we suppose the modern author's the author speaks with most toler ant appreciation of such men as
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The "China Mai" has received
a copy of the first issue of the Magazine of Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited (January 1928). The production is well worthy of Sir Alfred Mond's words: "The
What does
LCL Figures. Says Mr. Henry Mond:-
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928.
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industry....'” • On the other hand there is wide. shillings gladly spent by hysterical principle of Christian ethics.
A cartoon entitled "The Bridge" flappers, anaemic youths and others and open dissent from much of the is particularly topical and strik- who feel that an impossible tale of theology of St. Paul, and St. Augus-ing, and emphasises the view of tine, and of the mass of beliefs en- the management of Imperial Chemi- romance in the desert brings
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Catholic or Protestant, for every- can possibly come To quote two examples of Miss thing which
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"Sacramental Magic" is repeated.the necessary staff and equipment
.man.
of opal light through the duskyy denounced, and "man's ape-like to give employment to one
ancestry is reiterated with in- With a capital of £50,000,000 - the creasing emphasis.
average holding of each share- These. Sermons and Addresses holder is about £550, so that over eyes burning like two fireballa, he cover a great variety of occasions £1,000 must be provided to give
and were given before a wide as one man employment." strode back into the tent "Beryl,"sortment of audiences to West- he said, his voice ringing out like minster Abbey congregations-Con- ferences of Modern Churchmen- a bugle call upon the night."
Oxford and Cambridge under- graduates-Women Teachers---Hor- The story involves a forced im-
un- ticulturista Psychologists - the prisonment, a seduction, the
men-the British Medical Associa tion Science Masters-enthusiasts on Eugenies-the Members of the
avoidable consequences thereof, a British Association-Free Church- flight and of course, an ending as sweet and cloying as Lyle's finest product. How long. O publishers, Union Educational Association-
POETRY.
AS IN THE AGE OF EPIGRAM.
It is the fashion for those who how long will you flood the market Westminster Schoolboys--and the admire the romantic revival of the this type be- mid-day congregation at a weekly early nineteenth century to dis-) with books of
with Parish miss
a somewhat cavalier fore a wearied and nauseated read-service in Birmingham
Church.
gesture the poetry of the so-called Its artificiality ing public rebels and refuses to
Augustan Age. buy your trash? "The Sheik" has
has with them become a by-word; it is readily labelled as a time of a lot to answer for he was lowed by the Son of the Shelk"
"Swains" and "Nymphs," of impos- and a whole tribe of minor sheik-
sible shepherds and simpering ahep- lets; the hero of "Desert Flames"
herdesses, of "finny tribes," "gal- and "feathered linaceous fowl" flocks." The characterisation is true enough-up to a certain point; but the romanticists, in attacking the narrow imaginative range and en-faith should offend! The title of the cult for correctness
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HORIZONTAL
1-Upbraid
4-To be in state of
obullition
7-Personal enemy 8-Volatile liquid 12-Turi
14-Within 15-Clainterred 16-To depart 18-Wanting in courage 20-Large wooden hammer 23-Expressive of
denial 24-Cultivated-land Re-Carnivorous
*mammal 28-Food
29-A yellow pigment 30-Heavy blow (pl.) 81-Endeavored
33-Dissolve
34-Part of boat 36-Wager
THE INTERNATIONAL EYMDICATE
HORIZONTAL (Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont)"
|39-Vast region of
N. Africa
41-Comparativa sumx, 43-An awkward violinist
|44–in'a like manner. 45-A well (alang) 47-An addition 48-Nave of a'wheel (49-8light depression
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35 Consuma
36-Narrow hand of
cloth 38-Round protuberance 39-Land-tax levied in
the Shetland (slands
40-Immediately succeeding
42-Instrument of
punishment 44–Quantity of money 48-To exist 48-Expression of Joy
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(Tre solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
Throughout these thirty-one Ser- mons there occur criticisms of fol- those who oppose scientific pro- nouncements of truth, but there is more predominantly the positive assertion of what is a reasonable is a distant descendant of some faith, service, devotion, self-sacri
It is true that the search for what doubtful origin, of the orifice, toleration, untiring parsuit of
to truth.
epithet led to over-emphasis, and ginal, How many more are
"Should Such A Faith Offend"1
in time to the development of what come? Many, we fear. A certain
amounted to a current coinage in section of readera will never rebel No Christian could desire that his
which words. Thus phrases, that in them! they not only tolerate but courage books of this type and lap this volume vindicates the Bishop marked the poetry of Pope and his selves were excellent, through pro- up. sickening sentiment as so many of Birmingham on this point. Yet school, are apt to deal too leniently cess of usage fell gradually to a For most faiths de offend and even scan- with the unbridled emotions of their peculiar ineptitude. It became the kittens would lap up cream.
as dalíse dissentients if proclaimed own time. It is not altogether un-custom to write poems on abstract; tunately not all authors
usual, for instance, to find these subjects-The Progress of Error, Miss Clayton, but alas, they lan-boldly or plainly enough.
The personal humility and graci- poets occasionally approaching Retirement, and so forth-compng- guish in obscurity while she blazes
ouaness of the writer, as revealed perilously near to writing non-ed in rhyming couplets of standard in fume.
by what, he says and his manner sense. We remember Arnold's of saying it, proves at what a cost strictures on Shelley's lines: he speaks out in such an open fashion. This should be appreciat-"On the brink of the night and the ed even by those whom his faith may offend, while all who at all My courses are wont to respire. pretend to enjoy an open mind will But the Earth has just whispered a
warning find here much that is helpful, It is but a few years since Dr. much that is inspiring, and much Barnes, then a Canon of Westmin-stimulus to healthy thinking.
are
-K. E.
"Desert Flames" by Ivy M. Clayton, (Stanley. Paul Co., Ltd.)
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type logically developed in an al- most standard phraseology. The reaction against these "prisoning bonds" came toward the end of the century, and is very well illustrated by Cowper's poem, The Task. Here
When they chose, these poets had we have a poem which is "entirely an efficient manner of character- independent of natural transi tion," and which moreover is writ-isation, as may be seen in Pope's
estimate of Addison: ten in blank verse. The difference "Blest with each talent and each ster, preached in the Abbey on the
Now, the eighteenth century poets is at once apparent between Cow-
art to please, subject of "Evolution" in a man- ner which aroused considerable chosen to put forward as 'his might be insincere, stilted, un-per's manner and the stilted fashion
with ease." controversy. On his promotion to "Apologin" a selection of addresses imaginative; but they seldom wrote then in vogue. He begins with And born to witty converse,
over several nonsense. It is the peculiar weak- some lines that "sing the Sofa" be-
The poet could offer practical ad- the See of Birmingham he found evenly distributed
Presence,
Dr. Barnes has deliberately
That their flight must be swifter
than fire,"
live
art, not chance, As those move easiest who have
learned to dance.
offence;
the sense."
He. could, furthermore, propose excellent moral apothegms in un- forgettable couplets: "Honour and shame from no con-
dition rise;
himself confronted by the preval-years, lest any newly worded state-ness of the romanticists-in the cause his Indy had laid this task vice in an attractice form: ence of Anglo-Catholic belief and ment of his ideas might be colour-days of Shelley and Keats, and upon him but almost immediately "True ease in writing comes from practice in the Diocese of which ed by incidents, or events of the since that they sometimes give to he steps out of doors. The scen- He will most certainly the world poetry that is quite in ery is authentic; "rafing wind" he had now become the spiritual moment. head. In consequence Dr. Barnes have his reward by being read with comprehensible (though doubtless blows in our faces and all the plea- has of late been at much pains to appreciation by people of widely highly imaginative) and then blame sant outdoor noises reach our ears; Tis not enough no harshness gives expose and denounce the errors of differing shades of belief, includ- the world for lack of appreciation. Cowper revealed vistas of the era There were two qualities in the that was to follow. It was reserv- mediaeval superstition which cen- ing those whom he attacks, for he tre around the Eucharist in the sincerely attempts to be impartial, eighteenth century poetry which ed for Wordsworth to preach the The sound must seem an. echo to Catholic interpretation of the Real and though in some measure the confer upon it a peculiar value. gospel of the new poetry, to estab-
Bishop shows himself to be a One was the rational point of view lish the Romantic Revival.
a twice-told This is, of course, Only six months ago an incident stormy patrol, on the whole he is which entailed a consistent clarity
an al tale; but we must not allow our of thought; the other was
much the took place in St. Paul's Cathedral, truly more of a dove of peace.
"Torp." most meticulous nicety of expres- selves to forget how Was exception London, where publicly taken by a leading Anglo-"Should Such A.Faith Offend?" sion. There is always something amazing nature of the revolution Catholic to the Bishop's appear- A series of Sermons by the Rt. finished about it even in the case may have blinded us to the genuine Act well your part, there all the Rev. E. W. Barnes, Bishop of of the minor poets whose lack of excellence of the classic age. The worth makes the man, and want ance in the Pulpit: this sermon is
Birmingham. included in this book.
(Published by imagination is apparent. When the fact remains that for happy phrase, Mesars. Hodder & Stoughton. poets of the century had anything for neatly turned epigram, for feli- The rest is all but leather and 7/6 net.)
to say, they were careful above all citous couplet,. the best poetry of to say it neatly and clearly; there the eighteenth century must be no doubt about it. The been surpassed in English litera. So far Pope, the master; but he Prof. Soothill, M.A., who is act-thing must be clean-cut, even ture. Nor was it easy, in that day had worthy followers. The Ode to many utterances of the last few ing as visiting Professor at Colum-sparkling; and thus It is that we and age, to attain recognition. The Evening, by William Collins, con- years "that the most characteris- bin University, New York, till June, find so much that is said, as it were, litterateur must be a man of mark; tains some passages of true tie and most criticised elements in lecturing on "Chinese Language and once for all, not only by Pope, but he must show something of elegance toral beauty, such as even Words- a highly original stanza with books well-ed in my teaching should be fully repre-Literature," has a new book in the by not a few of his followers. In living as in art. With wit well-worth would have approved, couch-
form: sented." While he realises that in Press. It is entitled, "China and This was the "Age of Reason," the nurtured, and thus voicing modern ways of think-England," and is being published "Augustan Age," but it was also the bred," he must be "wisely careless
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