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HORIZONTAL

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B-Bod

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12-Nano

14-Bind

15-Boy

16-King of Baahan

(Bib.)

17-A house pet 10-Luka-warm

21-Motric fand meandrej

22-A short jacket 24-A plunge

25-Part of a boat

26-Any one inheriting

from a deceased

28-8kin

person

29-An English

navigator

30-Flourished

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.) 4D-Mischievova child 13-Affidavit 41-Fatigued

16-Verbat 43-A trep

18-Part of foot 44-Recording Secretary 20-Take the load in

(abbr)

21-Mimic 45-Boy's nama (short) |23-A rivar of W. Africa 46-Corrode

25-A closed motorcar 27-A rank

48-Point of compass

(abbr)

49-Season

¡50-A unit of weight 62-Beast of burden 53-Amend

VERTICAL

1-A stupid person 2-Cices by

8-A settled habit

4-To decompose and

partly melt

B-A food fish

6-Middle

· 92-A mestura of length 7-By reason of

3-To support

36-An enclosure

38-Trim

0-Ardent

10-Nourish

11-Silda

28-Employ bully In

work 30-Precloue stonos 31-Knock

33-Roformed (abbr.) 134-A ralsed platform 135-A tree

38-Cone-bearing tree 37.Want 30-Bent 41-Domesticate 42-Venture |46-Pròfix" Apart 47-A child's hat

49-Initials famous ).6.

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THE WORLD OF BOOKS

MAIL REVIEWS

New Work by Sir Oliver Lodge

["Phantom Wall", by Sir Oliver Lodge, D.Sc., LL.D., M.A., F.R.S.; Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 5/- net.]

beauty and orderly arrangement; so we take heart and are content to wait till Te can apprehend

reality more clearly. We need not

Those who are old enough to have ascended the Pisgah-hoights of experience, and studious enough to be able to survey the ocean of eternity from Darien-like peaks. may at moments attain a

larger sense of vision; and thus, like Tennyson's Ancient Sage, may re- call to a more reasonable sanity those harassed and distressed ones who complain that the outlook is dark, and we tempted to cry out against the heavens in futile despair

ba perturbed by the difficulty of understanding the nature of our sensory surroundings, nor by the brevity of our inherited association with a material body. We find that we are greater and more enduring than any self-constructed instru- Modern physice is insisting that ment of manifestation here and most of our mundane experience is now. We recognise the beauty and illusory, that even space and time adaption of nature as so far re- if taken separately are abstract vealed to us; and we frames dependent on our limita that the glory and grandeur of the have faith tions, and that we are surrounded universe, when at length we by phantasmal appearances through mere fully able to appreciate it. are which our senses cannot penetrate. will eclipse the imagination of Matter is what we primarily appre-poets and exceed all that we can hend through the senses; but the desire. nature of matter is mysterious. The unit of matter has been con- ceived or at least expressed In various ways. Einstein and Eddington formulate it as a curva ture of hypergeometrical space, and say that the curvature broad- casta its effects as gravitation {They contend, not that matter la something producing that curva ture, but that it is that curvature, and that the laws of motion which it follows are appropriate to space time of many dimensions. W. K. Clifford anticipated BOMO such possibility by a atroke of genius some half century ago. See for instance an Article of his in the Fortnightly Review for 1876, and Professor Eddington's Article in Mind for April, 1920. Thus mat- ter is thought of as a configuration Br warp in A reformed and unspecified ether of space. Other. views are also given, including De Sit Broglie's and Schrodinger's. Oliver states that the attempt to visualise reality, to expresa funda- mental things in terms of anything apprehensible by the senses, has been largely given up. It seems to be generally agreed that our phy sical perception of existence is but a shadowy phantom of reality.

Mind Animates Matter

Yet the mind of man tries to penetrate through the illusion and get to the reality behind. It re- fuses to be limited by sensory ex- perlence: it seeks to break through phantom walls. Instinctively the mind feels that it must have some affinity with those basic realities lying behind ap pearance, whatever their ultimate nature. may be. Mind animates matter; its incarnate function is to interact and interfere with physical processes. We know at first hand that our individual self can guide and dominate events in the material world. We are not depressed there. fore, but rather are exhilarated to find how effective are our mental operations, how vital our inferences and Intuition, how secure and vivid our spiritual apprehensions, compared with the meagre informa. tion received and submitted to mental interpretation through our animal senses.

Adaption of Nature Even through them, however, we perceive that the world is full of

AUSTRIA'S ANTHEM

Haydn's Hymn Restored

to the Army

"For wert thou born or blind or

deaf, and then Suddenly heal'd, how would'at

thou glory in all The splendours and the voices of

the world!

And, we, the poor earth's dying

race, and yet

No phantoms, watching from the

phantom shore,

Await the last and largest sense

to make

LADY HOSIE

"Portrait of a Chinese Lady"

[Portrait of a Chinese Lady, by Lady Hosio, (Hodder and Stoughton, 21/- net)]. ' Everyone knows that China's civi- lization is in and that the impingement of the a state of fiux,

Western upon the Eastern mind has shattered preconceived standarde. social and intellectual A revolution is taking place in the as well as machinery, moreover, has had the the political world. The coming of

same stupendous effect as in the Occident.

education, transport, even pastimes, Buying and selling housekeeping, are all affected by these new menna which are at China's disposal. In her book, Lady Hosle has drawn a portrait of the living China of to- day.

The speakers and actors in the drama are personal friends portray- ed from the life, who took her Into the intimacy of their thought. We share their laughter, their troubles. their problems.

The heroine, Mra. Sung, is a charming young married woman, radiant and tender. She is the daughter of one of China's great statesmen, who'happily combined the old classical traditions of learn-

who had his children taught on the ing with a modern education, and

aame lines. Her husband, who was trained abroad, is a business man in Shanghai,

Mra. Sung and the author met on? a steamer on the great river-the Yangtze and became fast friends, i meeting thereafter in Shanghai, And show us that the world is Sung was so deeply entertained and Peking and other places. Mra. wholly fair"

The phantom walls of this

illusion fado,

The Ultimate 'Reality "it ja because a beneficent spiritual world has to me become the ultimate reality that I have composed this book," says Sir Oliver Lodge.

Sir Oliver deals with:- 1. The interest of the plain man

in religion

2. The possiblity of survival from a scientific point of

view.

9. Materialistic objections and

difficulties

4. The mechanism of aurvival 5.-Problems raised by the idea of

survival M,

interested by her new friend's com- ments on Chinese life that she would greet her with the re- quest, "Tell me some tales of my own people!"

In this book, therefore, Lady Hosle sets down, very much as she told them to Mrs. Sung, the stories of country-folk, rallway experts, university women, and many others, who make up the various strata of society in China as elsewhere, just as she had heard them from their own lips.

It is of New China that the author writes, and with sympathy: slo with hope and good cheer. On the whole, she shows is this very human document that Chinese peo on the growing proof of aur-ple of to-day are facing gallantly vival

6. Practical problems following

7. The meaning of existence 8-The new outlook in physica 9.-A survey of obscure psychic phenomena needing investiga- tion

10.-Discussion of the possibility

of premonitions. 11-On the asserted difficulty of the spiritualistic hypothesis from a scientifle point of view. 12. The influence of demonstrated survival on selence, philo- sophy, and religion,

'HEART'S MELODY"

A Notable German Talking Film

For a long time the question of

The first German talking film of hole, the Ula'a the "Bundeshymne," the National wita Erie rommer as producer, is "neart's Me.ody,!" Anthem of the Austrian Republic, worthy of Pommer's reputation. has been passionately discussed be- With true Germaa thoroughness, tween the majority parties and the every sound imaginable, from the Opposition. After the collapse of farmyard to the street, and from the barracks to gipsy orchestra, has the Monarchy, the then Socialist been reproduced. There is as little Government abolished. Haydn's old conversation as possible, but an popular hymn, "Gott Erhalte," bo-Englan, French, and Hungarian cause it was a glorification of the version has been made at ons and

the same time. Emperor and the Hapsburgs.

After some time a new hymn was and should have a world-wide suc

The story is simple, and pathetle, introduced, to the words of a poem ceas, A Hungarian village girl by the then Chancellor, Dr. Renner, comes to the city as a servant and under the title of "Der Berglaender meets the young soldier bund," which the composer Wilhelm dreams.

of her But she stays out too late Kienzi set to music. But both the and loses her situation; her inex words and the music lacked direct perience drives her into the es appeal and simplicity. People found tablishment of an infamous old it difficult to sing and follow. On woman. Months later her young many festive occasions it was not lover finds her again and scorns her. even known to crowds of patriotic Her death is as pathetic as that of Austrians,

any Américan Berven child. The Hungarian folk-songa will enrich the repertoire of "theme songs."

With the ascendance of the Chris tian Socialists, propaganda in favour of the fine old melody began, and Ottokar Kernstock, a Catholic Litigation is threatened by the priest and author who died not long trustees of St. Aidan's, Small Heath, ago, wrote new words to the music, against the Bishop of Birmingham calling the anthem "Sei gesegnet for his refusal to institute the Rev. ohne Ende." The Social Democrata G. D. Simmonds to the benefice. opposed it vehemently, saying, that the use of the old melody might pave the way for, a return of the Hapsburgs. But the Vice-Chancel lor and the Army Minister, with the Cabinet's, consent, have introduced it to the Army, whence it will pro- bably once more find its way to the massen

Dr. Barnes declines, to defend his position in the courts. He de clares that the lease is moral and spiritual, not soga and that he could not obey an order from the High Court such as the trustees sought, even if it were issued. “

· Defending the Socialist Govern- In foreign countries the old Aus ment's record, Mr. Thomas, in a trian hymn has survived the co-speech at Penge declared that the lapse. Some time ago, when Unemployment Insurance Bill, al famous Viennese doctor and social though it would add from 100,000 reformer visited the United States to 180,000 names to the x the band played "Gott Erhalte in would merely remove the burden his honour, although he is a prumli-66aff-chin(sfanahoë-from-the-Boardg ent Social Democrat:

the untried seas of modern exist ence into which thoir anclent barque has been so suddenly launch- ed.

In his closing words, this dis- tinguished scientist says "Our birth may be 'a sleep and a forget- ting', but not our death. Death ro-: leasés us from the burden of the flesh, introduces us to the glorious! company of those who have gone before, and opens out a majestic panorama of love and service,"

VILLAGE IN PRISON

Results of an Anatolian Village Feud

A eurious story comes from Karabak in Central Anatolia. The village is situated in the neighbour- hood of Konla, the ancient Iconium. The largest and finest house in It belonged to Murat, a merchant. Ishak, the hodja, was his enemy. One fine morning he declared to the peasants that Allah had ordered him to demolish the merchant's house, under the foundations of which

description of a spot where an in- there was a plan with the exact

meuss treasure is buried

Without any.

the hesitation peasants seized their axes and mat- tocks, and in a few hours the once beautiful house was completely pull- ed down. No one of them was more eager in the work of destruction than was the hodja himself.

The merchant, however, was not slow in taking action, and a force of gendarmerie came riding at full gallop to Karabak. Meantime, most of the peasants had returned to their homes, so only the hodja and a few of the villagers could be arrested and taken to Konla. Fol lowing the cross-examination, the gendarmerie returned to the village and arrested some fifty other per sons, so that about half of the in- habitants of Karabak are likely to ait In prison at Konia,

The hodja is said to be endeavour- Ing to give the impression of mad- ness.

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