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LIFE OF MOSES
UNIQUE FIGURE IN HISTORY
["The Life of Moses" by Edmond Flag: (Victor Gollanez Ltd.,' 12/6 net.]
When I was a very small boy I was taught verses on the Burial of Moses one of which ran
"That was the grandest funeral That ever passed on earth; And no man heard the trampling Or saw the train go forth." thus, long before I had any consci- ous idea of the beliefs or references implied, I had imbibed certain views about Moses which must have left a permanent Impression. It was, not till much later that these im- presslona began to fado.
Most of us in our early school days read the accounts of Romulus und Remus and Numa Pompiliua; and it was not till years afterwards that the historicity of the Roman Kingship was even questioned. The gradual realisation of the mythical element in the early classical his- tory paved the way for a similar autlook towards the Hebrew legends, till Samson became a solar myth and Moses the synthesis of tribal unity and endeavour.
BUDDHA'S TEACHING |
NEW TRANSLATION FROM THE PALI
THE "EIGHT STEPS"
["The Word of the Buddha" by
Nyanatoka, (Mahathera) The Maha-Bodhl Press.]
The text of this book is a trans- lation from the Pall, which con- tains the actual words and teachings
The Buddha.
GUARDED HALO
DAY DREAMS FOR THE DRAB
["The Guarded Halo," by Margaret Pedler (Hodder and Stough- ton).].
When their uncle dies leaving them penniless, Shirley Wilson and her brother find it difficult to live. After some time she takes a post as companion to Kit Harford who has had to divorce her husband It is divided into four main (of which the visible sign lan namely: "The Noble lurking mockery in her eyes) and sections,
"The Noble goes to France with Kit and her Truth of Suffering."
Simon Drake. Simon loves Shirley, but she loves Neil Kenwyn, a strong man who rescues her from being cut off by the tide, but will not ask her to marry him be. "The last Troth" is fully dwelt cause he is under a cloud. Read- upon, and this forms the main parters of Miss Pedler will know, of of the book, as the Eight Steps course, that he is only shielding along the Path that leads to the another, and will not be surpris- Extinction of Suffering, each have ed to find that the other is the dead son of the delicate, exquisite a chapter devoted to their study.
old lady, and her gruff but kind- The eight steps are:-
hearted husband to whom' Shirley and her, brother afterwards go to- gether as secretary and companion rospectively.
Truth of the Origin of Suffering." brother, "The Noble Truth of the Extinction The Noble Truth of Suffering." of the Path that leads to the Ex- tinction of Suffering"
(1) Right Understanding,
(2) Right Mindedness.
(3) Right Speech.
(4) Right Action.
(6) Right Living.
(6) Right Effort.
(7) Right Attentiveness.
(8) Right Concentration.
After various other complica- tions involving a temperamental wife of the dead dancer, the Ronnie, all ends well.
This is the plot of an earlier
A Life of Moses strikes one as being in some ways rather strange, and naturally forces to the surface the two great viewpoints from
The true disciple of The Buddha, which the Mosaic tradition may be
We have the frankly must follow strictly along this book of Miss Pedler's, "The Bar considered.
Lover" repeated almost with eightfold Path, so that he may barian poetic viewpoint where, as
France doing Achilles or Aeneas, the whole is finally realise the "Law of Deli-exactly, only with
from Suffering." All duty instead of India for a little awathed in epic grandeur and mira-verance THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.culous achievement. This is quite those Steps are described and dis-foreign local colour. The charac- evidently the attitude of this book. cussed in minute detail, and theters are all impossibly noble and And of course it is really the only text is freely interspersed with tiresome in their, persistent mis- attitude to take. But under these notes and references, which help understandings, the plot has not even novelty or rapidity of move- circumstances such a book as the one to read more intelligently. present one ought to be inverse- The closing pages describe the ment to recommend it.
Like many other novels of its a great epic or other poem, like the laws which govern the lives of the
few day Odyssey or the Light of Asia. A Buddhist monks, which of course type it may furnish a mátter-of-fact.life in prose seems consist chiefly of the strict applica-dreams for the drab. but it bears little more reasonable than a life of tion of all teachinga mentioned little relation to real life. Adam, and might almost verge on above, to the daily life. The re- the comic.
ward for such virtue is the eleva tion of the Disciple to the position of a Holy Man, who by putting away all thoughts of the World and the evil it contains, lives only In a state of calm and Holy med- tation:
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 harbor, plow, and altho.)
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name of a married women 141-An Image of 42-A peralan city
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Downright Realistic There is the other type of ac count of Moses, of the downright realistic order. Moses is but Mr. Gladstone or Lloyd George or Mussolini (taxtes will differ as to the modern equivalent) transported a few centuries back. Hard un- imaginative writers can picture: Moses for us as a hygienic re- former, the gifted precursor of Lister or Pasteur. We are asked to belleve that the savage practices of circumcision and the taboo on pork were great hygienic and sani- tary institutions like inoculation "or antiseptics-but of course born out of due time. As well might we believe that the custom of the couvade was a piece of foresight in hygienic gynaecology, A lot has yet to be learned about the origins and affinities of the group of be lief which are epitomised In the Torah. But we must always re- member that they are a heritage handed down by immemorial custom
this is considered to he the "Law of Deliverance."
Even
For any but those who are stu- dents of this Religion, this is a very difficult book to read without whole-time concentration. though one grasps the idea of the high Ideals aimed at, as taught by the Buddha, the language of the text is very technical and would be very difficult for anyone except
student of either the Buddhist Religion, or Psychology to follow with any intelligence.
FANTASTIC TALES
Incidents "True To Life*
It has been said that the monotony
from a savage past:-and the savage of everyday life is of no use to the
Emulates O. Henry
John L. Murphy (above), whose wor is not a simple, but a very complex successful novellat, and that he creature. The simplicity, the direct-must seek strange, and unusual-stories have won him fame as a fiction writer, was made eligible for pardon ness and the utility are the inven- and highly improbable occurrences when his sentence for burglary was commuted by Governor Donahey of tion of civilisation, and are a mat-to crowd into his best sellers. ter of yesterday. A recent publica- There may be books which answer Ohio. Murphy's literary career is the tion has put this new point for us this description, but the average second to start within the walls of the Columbus State penitentiary, for it was with wonderful force and accuracy; render is wholly delighted with in-in this prison that O. Henry won Arst and we cannot do better than relter-cidents "true to life" when they are laurels as a weaver of short stories. ate it:-
80 piquantly related as in Sir James Barrie's works.
What a real change from the ultra-sophisticated novel is the tale
mother, given to us
in
"Savagery with its numerous taboos, its occultism and fetish, its complex ritualism, is mentally more intricate than civilisation. The minds of sav. ages are even more tortuous than of his they are confused; they are misdirect- Margaret Ogilvy. ed by crazy classifications and en- cumberred with symbolism, metaphor, melonymy and elaborate, falsifications; there is always irrational elaboration personality, which is at once strange and simple. His relationship with and disingenuousness."
When one reads an account of his another is tenderly portrayed. the motions of the earth and the Simple pleasures are surrounded by
Simple Pleasures
Here we have quaint glimpses of a
tilting of. Its axis, one is inclined a beauty all their own, and the
to speculate on the possible geogra- phical and climatic conditions that
author does not, for a moment, per- mit his reader to taste the flatness
might be if there were no temper- of boredom.
Roman
ate zone or if the diurnal rotation The White Bird can be read to were reversed so when one reads the children in the nursery to their the life of Moris one saturally won- huge delight, but you are likely to ders what would have been the get a lot of pleasure out of it, too, state of modern religious belief if it is one of those fantasies quickly the Christian Tradition had come read, and which becomes more de- down through Greek or channels Instead of through the lightful every time it is perused.
For a Few Minutes Hebrew Tradition-If the hard out-
Its charm is so compelling that lines of Sinai and the unproductive Syrian desert had been replaced by you ran pick it up for a five minutes' the flowing rebes of Aphrodite and read, and find, no matter to what the whispering auguries of Delphi Part of the book you turn, you are Jor. Dodona: Or in teleological thoroughly absorbed and fascinated
phrase, if God
as though this were your first ac- chosen Pythagorna or Plato as the effective quaintance with the story of David's happy childhood, and his wonderful vehicle instead of Moses.
adventures In Kensington. Gardens. A Window in Thrums is a witty with typical volume, packed examples of Sir James Barrie's great sense of humour.
had
Monotheism of the Desert
Of course the Christian Church as. It spread to Alexandria and into the Mediteranean basin gradually left the severe monotheism of the desert behind. lsis, Horus, Osiris, Athene, His plays are readable, too, which and Dionysus in their more par. cannot be said of every modern play- meating phases were incorporated wright, many of whose plays have in the Church Tradition especially to be witnessed to be understood. towards the south. The restric- Of Peter Pan I can say nothing that tions on image worship were moder would enhance it in the eyes of my ated or toned down and the Bell readers. It must already occupy glon gradually assumed its modern a prominent position. Even those eclectic form. Some, modern writers who have not read Barrie's books argue that some aspects of the have seeri, perhaps many times, this present Christian Tradition depend very enjoyable Christmas,VEYRA almost as much on Plato as on There is nothing forced about his Mozes (See Dean Inge: The Plato work. For his homely, narratives such as the one under review woula nie Tradition in English Rell are combined with an imagination suggest that modern Jewish thought glous Thought') But, we must ad- which always carries looked back to Lloses as one of the mit that the appearance of a book Into the heights whence it unique figures In the mouiding profContinued a foot of preceding
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