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GLASGOW SOCIETY.

"The Gulnea'a Stano.” By C. Stewart Black (Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Glasgow, ❝d.) A very interesting little play, ant- ty described as a gentle satire on Glasgow Society, Amusing the whole way through, it fills one with a feeling of sympathy for James, Perhaps more deserving of pity are Mamie and Jim, his son and daugh- ter, who in their ignorance of the true happiness of life, which springe from contentment, are ashamed of both their father and mother. Some amusing situations occur dur ing the visit of a neighbour also a member of "Society"--but the climax is the most laughable 'ovent in the play. Extremely well put together.

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Taken by colours the result is Batonishing. Looking through a few London and Provincial Direc- tories the writer found

The latter, however, was

a Black

of pre-

THE CONFESSIONS.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORIGINAL "STALKY."

[By Robert Lynd.]

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as barbor, plow, and allko.)

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Mr.

Ball, Boy, Cat, and Comb, Cack, and Co." was hotly attacked by On its first apearance "Stalky Crow, Dog, Doll, Hatchet, Girl, school-masters and other critics Friar, Goat, Greyhound, Lion, Posts, Ram, Spread Eagle, and Bishop.as not only unedifying but untrue to life. Señools and schoolboys, missionary date! Red was like-we were told, were not as wise a popular colour,

as the red Kipling represented them. We Ball, Bear, Cat (a freak of Nature have now the authority of Stalky indeed!), Cow, Dragon, Dagger, himself the real Stalky, General Poles, Rover, Red-streak Tree (so Dunsterville, who is so delightful named from a famous cider apple), all existed in England within the last 150 years, while a famous Con tinental example is the red shield (Rothschild) which gave a name to the famous firm of bankers,

One curious bookseller's sign of tragical omen was the "Axe." This was situated in Hosier. Lane, and marked the printing press of Wil- liam Gay. Here appeared "a By Petition of the Town and County of Leicester unto the King's Most Excellent Majesty.... printed for W. G. and to be sold at his shop .... at the signe of the Axe, July 20, 1642." Less than seven years after this Charles I. was beheaded.

Another interesting type of sign of knowledge which justifies writ- is where a classical or other allusion ing at all-experience. It is not has been misunderstood and dull and uninteresting to the out-rendered ludicrous. One example wider as one would expect, but the was the "Devil and Bag of Nails,"

Perhaps the first book of its kind, and certainly one of the most in- teresting books on the subject at the present day. Obviously written by one who possesses the only kind

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story is told with a simplicity which effectively concealed the

which appeals. How many know classic anything about the cotton trade at all? And out of the few that do. how much of their knowledge is correct? We are told that more than one third of the machinery of the great cotton industry is out of action. But why? Daily we read something about the matter in our papers; here is a book that explains and answers questions.

Other books of its kind, intelli- gently written by competent people, would do much to relieve the pre- valent ignorance or such subjects,

-S. C.

WAR

Satyr and

Bacchanals. Similarly the "Goose and Gridiron" is a corruption of the "Swan and Ilarp" (or Lyre) sacred to Apollo. This was the sign of a 'publique music house" atanding in St. Paul's Churchyard, and in some sense the precursor of the music hall of to- day. When its first use ceased, the neav proprietor or his customers parodied or corrupted the sign, which may be seen in the Guildhall Museum. To any Masonic readers this tavern is of especial interest in connection with the revival of Freemasonry in 1717. Another Instance is the "Ass in a Bandbox." which formerly existed at Nidd, near Knaresborough. This may be the vulgar description of a crest (a demi-animal rising from a coronet; for example), or may have reference to the clumsy infernal machine sent to the Lord Treasurer in 1712.

Some French cynic has sald

Was

no mischief in the

a

character that the fictitious

Stalky must at times feel jealous of him as a rival-nfirming that Mr. Kipling's critics were right. They were right, at least, up to a point. "Stalky and Co.”, was a pieture, not of English school-life, but of life at one particular English school. "Soon after the issue of that book," anys General Dunsterville, "I read frequent letters in the papers from old boys of various famous public schools, informing the world that their schools were not in the loost like that. Of course they weren't." There was fortunately only Westward Ho College, and, equally fortunately, Stalky, MeTurk, and Rudyard Kipling were from the be- ginning of the world destined to go to it.

one

It was a kind of makeshift

school, founded by "a lot of old Ad-

mirals and Generals" who were too

poor to send their sons to an ordin- ary public school. It was a school without traditions, and, as there was no "waiting list" such as might have led to the weeding-out of un- desirables, the boys were "a rather unusual collection of rough speci- mens." The teachers were able men, but unmanageable as 'a "team." In spite of the genius of the headmaster, Cornell Price, law and order secm never to have been imposed either on masters boys. One has only to read the account of Westward Ho in General Dunsterville's pages in order to realise why all Mr. Kipling's favourite characters are anarch- ists and why, passionately as he loves anarchists, he also worships discipllae as the only means keeping the bad kind of anarchists in order.

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of

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fandlord 24-Small jalanda 25-To fondle 27-Propheta 23-Fog

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(Tro solution of the above cross-word puzzle, will appear in Monday's issue along with new cross-word puzzle.)

At the same time, he also learned

Good Anarchists.

other side of the wood opposite the Stalky, McTurk, and Beetle were the good kind of anarchists. Their that Mr. Kipling grows up with a car. It is not to be wondered at rebellions went no further than strong belief in the necessity of re breaking the laws of schoolmasters. atraining the wild beast in man. the school who broke the laws that at Westward Ho that there is an by other kind of anarchist who, in schoolboys, and who were among spite of all his breaches of the law, the most monstrous bullies of whom is fundamentally a servant of the one has ever heard. "Life was cer- law. This is the type of human tainly very rough," says General being that he met in Dunsterville Dunstervile, "and bullying was and Beresford, the original Mc- rampant," and even he, who is the

Turk. It was through love of this least milksoppisk of mortals, speaks type that he afterwards created of "those harrowing years" in Mulvaney, Learoyd, and Ortheris. which he lived the life of a hunted It was through love of this type

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his explanation

SIGNS OF THE PAST.

Some time azo the writer contributed to Books of the Month an article on "Inn and. Tavern Sis," but he might have enlarged up the fact that the use of signs not confined to places of "refreshment for man and beast," but was common to every trade and "There sone professions. Such signe as world without a woman, a priest or the "Three Sugar Loaves," "Then lawyer in it." In our previous Tobacco Plant," "The Bible and article the "Good, and headless!) Dove" (the emblem of the Holy Woman," was mentioned, and, in a Spirit), "The Bible and Sun." "The sign derived from this, "The Cleaver." "The Pestle and Mortar," Honest Lawyer' appears with his should not be broken "the Child's Coat in Whitecross head in his hand to indicate the Street," "The Minister's Gown" only circumstances in which he (Bookseller's Row, St. Paul's could be honest. Another sign, Churchyard, 1769). "The Blue formerly to be seen. in Oxford Boddice," "The Hood and Gown," Street, and said to be the work of "The Golden Sheaves," speak for Hogarth was the "Man Loaded with themselves, and sufficiently Indicate Mischief," representing a mau the trade carried on within. carrying a woman, a magple and a The streets of London in the 17th monkey; the woman with a glass of century mast have presented a gay gin in her hand. Below appeared animal at the hands of the bullies. again that he created the heroes time"-and appearance with signs and emblema "A monkey, magpie and a wife Some of the examples of bullying of "Stalky and Co." General Dun- this:- of all trades hanging from brackets, Is, the true emblem of strife," which he recalls, are as ingenious aterville himself, looking back on suspended across the

I take whatever is offered me narrow and in other copics of this sign a as Chinese tortures-mock hang-the misdemeanours of his school- streets, or hung in a framework chain and padlock-marked "wedings of small boya from the top day, explains the nature of the at

and thoroughly enjoy good (often elaborate) above the sign lock"-unites man and wife,

thinge. I never want a second landing and holding a boy's ear tractive kind of young anarchist post, but, though gaudy and richly In certain districts a fixed type of against the thin panel of a door with

helping of anything, but I wil ornamented, the painting was often sign prevails, eg, in mining dis while another boy brought down a shali," he says, "be accused of in-

charming simplicity. "1 always take опе to please my bad and as the Taller (No. 18), says tricts many algns allude to pit hammer with all his force on the consistency. To be a robber of

hostess if she insists on it.. I they "made fritters of English." owners, tools of trade, etc. In

have no fada, and do not have to The Act of 1762 (2 Geo. III. c. II.) hunting districts "The Fox"

hen-roosts and the good, young,

swallow surreptitiously little RIKI ita enlargements compelled "Fox and Hounds" is common, Grab or Crab” (a slång word for an man' at one and the same time is tabloida to aid my diges-

tion' their removal, under a penalty of "Tally Ho," or "Harkaway" appear, infantry soldier), "The Hog in verging on hypocrisy. Well, I

to counteract the ill- £5 "and twenty ahillings a day for and famous hounds are commemor Armour," "Breeches

effecta and Glove," plead guilty to the inconsistency,

of bad cooking or continuing the same," but though | ated in auch signs as "Hark up to "Shears and Needle" (these last but not to the hypocrisy. The

poor wine. As a conversational- wherever possible they might be Glory," "Hark up to Fay," etc.

tailors' signs as was the "Golden point is that I am sorry to say 1

ist I have a stock of harmless placed on the fronts of the premises But very many signs were, and Thimble"), "Bullen Butchered" (at never was the good young man," anecdotes, and a smattering of to which they belonged, they were are, due to sheer eccentricity on the Hever in Kent, Anne Boleyn's but that is not to say that I was not knowledge of most things. in generally destroyed.

part of the proprietors. Among home, later corrupted into "Bull and trying, or, at any rate, wishing to vogue, and I generally agree. An interesting collection of these we may class "Balaam's Asa" Butcher"), "Bell and Dragon" be." There surely you have the

with whatever other people day. modern signs is to be found on cer- (usually with some witty or other (really an allusion to the portrait of

the eternal Kipling Add to this the fact that he has tain of the banks, etc. in the wise remark proceeding from its Apocrypha), "Goat in Boots", and hero-the robber of hen-roosts, the gift of laughing at himself, and neighbourhood of the Royal Exmouth), "Jim Crow," "Moonrakers" last, but not least, the "Anodyne who is a "good young man" at is more likley to tell you how, as change, some of which are quite alluding to the legend of the coun- Necklace." This however, has no heart.

general, he nearly fell off his horse sign works of art. One ancient house try folk who saw the reflection of illusion to Tyburn, but to a famous

"Youthful Conceit."

in the presence of the troops, than which still exists is the lana in a lake, and thinking it to panaces or "cureall" which would "Marygold" which now, as always, be a cheese; tried to rake it out), "help children to teethe, women in natured man who reveals himself ploits. He even tells how during Certainly it is an extremely good of any of his brilliant and heroic ex- adorns Messrs. Child's Bank, at "The Case is Altered" ("Credit is labour, or diseases of the head." in these pages. He calls one of his the Great War he was nearly killed Temple Bar.

dead"), "The First and Last" This establishment was altuate near chapters "Youthful Conceit," but by a flying cheese during shunting Taken as a whole, signboards may (showing a cradle and a coffin), Temple Bar. be classified as Biblical and Rell- "Dirty Dick," "Speaker's Frigate," But sufficient has been said to even under this title he confesses: operations on a goods train, and

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