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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1930..

THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

MAIL REVIEWS.

THE SEX FACTOR IN MARRIAGE.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

but the dating which used to be customary owing to the idea that the "seabenst and vine". mirrors had to do with the first intercourse by.ed by Mr. Yetta In his essay on

between China and the West c. 120 "Bronzes" in the Burlington B.C, has been given up and this "Chinese Art," some in Siren's "hla-pattern is put down to the Tang tory, others in various atray pub- period. However, the Japanese discoveries in Corea confirm the eations. Naturally these are on the whole the best pieces, but the belief that those with the Four new matter is overwhelming; there Astrological Beasts in a curious has been nothing like it since the

linear style really do date back to Sumitomo Catalogues.

the Hun. I do not quite see, why Mr. Yetts puts his B 8 (PI, VIL) some two centuries earlier.

"Without Cherry Blossom,"

Panteleimon Romanoff; trans- lated from the Russian by Zarine; Ernest lenn, Ltd.} It would be hard to find any thing more dismal than tiese teles of student life in Moscow, under Soviet rule,

"The Sex Factor in Marriage; by

Never a sporting type, the sole Helena Wright, M.B., B.S.; interest of these "Unfortunates" Noel Douglas; 3/6.]

lies in a series of dreary love At the outset a great deal of affairs brief rather than ardeat. Trouble is taken to try to convincence the couples perpetually separate in distaste: seeking in people that such a work as this is ach new amour, the spark of joy a necessity; an extract from a which forever eludes them! speech by the Archbishop of Can terbury, a few sentences from one of the works of Havelock Ellis, followed by a long and laborious introduction by an M.A., D.D., all

leave us utterly unconvinced that there is any need for the book,

Who tot Russians could capture a thril, by rubbing elbows with a. seedy stranger in a railway-carri- nee, or by consummating their quions in squalid attics warmed by smelly oil-stoves!

perfumes and dainty lingerie) To the Frenchman (lover, of

such episodes were unthinkable! Likewise to the Englishman, whose devotion as

to his bath and well-cooked breakfast. exceeds even the lure of cabarets and champagne!

On reading on; one is left with the opinion that such books these serve merely as a Menns of expressing repressed desires of writers and of, (a few—we' hope)

readers, and not even the insertion of a leaflet stating that the pub- lication is for married persons only, or those about to be married, can make the book justify its existence. While good parents and

wise family doctors exist such works as these are worse than re- dundant.

By the way, if such store is het on-giving us in the 20th century the unadorned truth, why use diagrams that remind one of the crude illustrative attempts of cave men, when there are Available many excellent, artistic, true to nature and scientifically accurate drawings in any anatomical atlas such as Spalteholz?

IN SUBURBIA.

"Some of the English," by Oliver Madox Hueffer; Ernest Benn. .Ltd.]

Oliver Madox Heffer dipped his pen in sunshine when he wrote this delightful book,

It is a series of reminiscences of life la an obscure London suburb, disguised by the name of "Romford."

With a keen sense of fun and wide outlook he draws the char- acters of the dwellers in "Little Gray Brick Street." "Mrs. Mellon" and her cronies-will-lyr your cronies too, before you turn the last page!

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In these depressing days of un employment and the dole, English men are prone to view each other with a jaundiced and critical syu. Not so Hueffer! He be lieves in the fundamental strength and sanity of English character: and above all in the saving grace e humour which is it's greatest safeguard. His healthy views comie with the vigour of sea- breezes, blowing through a shut tered room.

This is a book to buy and linger over, when the jaded mind re- quires a tonic.

ROUND

Romanol writes

of children

that fathers, marriage without sions; but he solves none of these homes, and life without posses. problems, and his book will have little of value or interest for English readers.

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY

by

A... CROOK, OBE, MA W. KAY, MA, W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A. BS

PRICE $2.00.

NOW ON SALE AT THE

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CHINESE BRONZES.

["The George Eumorfopoulos Col-

lection; Catalogue of the Chinese and Corean Bronzes, Sculptures, Jodes, Jewellery, and Miscellaneous Objects." By W. Perceval Yetts. Vol. II. 75 Plates, 25 in Colour. (Benn.

£12 128.).]

(By Ellis H. Minns),

A little more than a year ago we welcomed Mr. Yetts's first volume dealing with 'ritual and other ves- sels and weapons, mysterious and impressive. Save for the first two or three items, which might more logically have gone with the vessels, the appeal of this volume is quite different: nearly half the plates are given to mirrors, and however much mystic significance we may read into it, a mirror tends naturally to elegance. Almost as many plates go to pretty hooks, buckles, and other adoraments of dress and equipment.

This volume shows us some 250 objects, about twenty-five appear in Mr. Koop's book, a few were trent-

THE CAMP FIRE

WHAT IS A SCOUT ?

The sun pever sets on the Scout flag.

It makes oue pause to think What is a Scout? What is this marvellous movement whose ten-. tacles have spread over the earth, gripping the heart of youth?

Twenty-one years ago the Hero of Mafeking and that great ideal ist, Lord Baden-Powell, conceived the glorious idea of a universal brotherhood of youth, aiming at a training for the physical, mental and moral development of mankind, The Scout movement was born in England in 1908. Chiif was the Orst foreign country to adopt it, then the United States of America.. To-day there are two millions of Boy Scouts in all countries of the world except Communist Russia. Alas, the cordon of Bolshevism keeps its youth in Ignorance of the bonds of a real and living brother- hood. There are fifty thousand Scouts in Australis, fourteen thou- Band of them in N.S.W.

There are ten great clauses in the scout law. A scout's honour ja to be trusted. If a scout says "On my honour it is so," that means that it is so, just as if he had made a most solemn promise..

The mirrors lend themselves peculiarly, well to coloured repro- duction, atill more "perhaps the hooks with gilt ground work and turquoise inlay, which became fashionable in the Han period (round about our era). The ren dering is perfect.

The bells and drums were kept for this volume because Mr. Yetts wished to give us essays on such objects. The first bell (AL I, II) bated is one of the most famous and de- Chinese bronzes in existance: it is one of a set dug up eighty years ago at Jung-ho in Shap-si: they all bear essentially the same inscription, and Mr. Yetts has established that these, and also their decoration, were produced by the use of dyes. An elaborate dis- cussion of the persons and places almost certain that the bells were named in the Inacriptiona makes it cast for a noble of the house of Wel, probably in the sixth century,

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The great thing is that in his introductory account of mirrors e tells us what is the meaning of ....ie queer designs, and by, translating all the Inscriptions tells 'one what to expect on other specimens: to some minds it is a comfort to know what things mean though the truly artistle regard this as "Ittera- ture," not art. The T'ang mirrors, 600-900 A.D., have strength of the Hàn, but have a kind of Louis Seize elegance which is quite delightful.

not the

There are about sixty hooks of various shapes and sizes from belts and horsemen's trappings. These came in when the Chinese largely adopted the practical costume of their nomad enemies, but they lent them a refinement, all their own, and these plates for the first time give us the colouring." The book will be most important for the study of these, as also for the "Scythic" objects which came in These from the same region. Scythic things have been so much forged of late that these exact pre- sentations of the specimens, in this collection, acquired before the Vogue for them arose, will always be most valuable for comparison. It is tantalizing that Mr. Yetta has postponed the discussion of them. to a later volume.

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certainly before 400 B.C. No one but an expert in Chinese history whose learning equais our author's dare criticize this conclusion, and if it can be accepted, it is. of the utmost importance for the study both of Chinese script and of style in bronze-work. This same plece serves also as a text for a study of this type in general, its pro- portions, the technical names for its parts, how it was hung, and how it may have been tuned by paring Of the miscellaneous objects on away the strange.projections upon the last twenty plates, small- its upper half; it is curious that bronzes and' fittings,' appliques, these projections survive as flat handles, legs, etc., by far the most roundels decorating modern interesting are the tallies in the Japanese bells. But no one has shape of a tiger with an 'Inscrip- succeeded in getting a sound toler- tion down his back halved by the able to our ears out of these division between presenter and elaborate instrumenta. Each of controller of credentials. That on the other two bella represents its Pl. Ixiv. is most remarkable for the own type, but not such an import-Scythic affinities of the animal-I ant one.

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SCIENTIST.

remember getting into trouble for trying to sketch it in an exhibition It is fortunate that the collec--moreover, it can be brought into, FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, tion contains a drum, of the sort relation with 'historical men who common all over S.E. Asia, as it extended the empire on its south- gives Mr. Yetts an opportunity to review the question of its origin and to deal with drums in anciently Corean vessels; in shape theytist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.]

Chinese literature. His conclusion la that this sort is originally Chinese, but reproduces a perish- able type made in pottery and parchment. This would not stand the wet climate of the South, so bronze was substituted and bronze drums became a regular diplomatic present made by the Chinese to their southern neighbours. Though some bear Chinese inscriptions I find it hard to believe that elther decoration or type was really Chinese:

* 4. Much the most attractive things in the book are the mirrors, of which some sixty are illustrated. The classification of types estab- lished by Chinese and Japanese scholars is accepted by Mr. Yette,

SCOUTING AND RELIGION.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, officially represented by the Bishop of St. Albans, Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, the Rev. J. H. Bateson, representing the Free Churches, and the Chief Rabbi, represented by the Rev. L. Rabinowitz, are the authors of a remarkable booklet now in the press.

ern border in the time of the Han. (Branch of The Mother Church, The last few plates contain most- The First Church of Christ, Selen-

are pretty but not as bold as the Chinese.

Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram Station!

11.16 a.m.

Sunday Service, August 8, 1930,

Subject:-"Love."

As before, praise is due to the author for his bibliography, some 160 additional items, the Caluese and Japanese titles written out in the beautiful script that adorned Volume I. It is a pity that it is

The Sunday School. is held on so difficult to mix Chinese typeSunday mornings at 10 o'clock. with Roman, as it is not always Wednesday Evening Meeting at] easy for a beginner to identify the 5.36 o'clock. Chinese words which Mr. Yotts has to bring in. But that is, a draw back of which not many will com plain: a good Chinese scholar will- have no difficulty; nor will it worry those to whom one Chinese letter is just like another. But all scholare or art-lovers who wish to know about Chinese bronzes will want this book. The Observer

THE GUIDE PROMISE.

On becoming member of the "Great Sisterhood of Guides," a girl makes this promise.

On my honour I promise- (1) To do my duty to God and the

King.

(2) To help other people at all

times.

(3) And to obey the Guide Laws.

The Guide Laws

ed.

glon," and it will be one of many

It is called "Scouting and Reli- | (1) A Guide's honour is to be trust. papers to come before the Anglican bishops at this year's Lambeth Conference.

Becauas the movement is inter-

Similarly if a scout officer says. to a scout, "I trust you on your The Scout movement's contention honour to do this," the scout is to

that it is definitely religious is carry out the order to the very best amply borne ouf in these chapters of his ability, and to let nothing by the leaders of religious bodies. interfere with his doing so. If a scout breaks his honour by telling a lie, or by not carrying out an honour to do so, he may be directed order exactly when trusted on his, to hand over his scout badge, and never to wear it again. He may seed." also be directed to cease to be a scout..

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

"Red Tape is 'System' gone to

A scout is loyal to the King, his denominational It is often accused country, his officers, his parents, of being non-religious or actively his employers, or those under him. pagan. Nothing is further from He must stick to them through the truth. thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy or who even talks badly of them.

SCOUTS TO FIGHT

:-FLIES }

An army of 850,000 will take the field when the American Boy Scouts declare war on insects, a campaign for which they are busily preparing

(2) A Guide is loyal to God, King,

and country.

(3)

(4)

A Guide's duty is to be useful and help others.

A Guide is a friend to all, and a bister to every other Guide, no matter what gocial class the other belongs

(5) A Guide is courteous.. (6) A Guide is a friend to animals. -(7) A Guide 'obeys orders.

(8) A Guide smiles and sings

under all difficulties.. (9) A Guide is thrifty. (10) A Guide is pure in thought,

word, and deed.

The Gulde motto is: "Be Pre

pared."

display the virtues of all the Scout fullcat protection against its mem-ous inspiration at all?" I agree. The movement's policy gives the Laws who has no conscious religi- bers being expected to attend sor-But in almost every case you will vices other than their own It is find that such men have behind always open to any church to or them the tradition of godly fore- ganise its own troop, nominate its | fathers who have passed on to them. own officers, and admit only its own that tradition of right living, members if so desired,

Mr. Stanley Ince, Warden of Roland House Scout Settlement, contributes a chapter on "The Bela. tionship of the Movement to Relig ous Bodios."

On has the fear that England in the economic world is trying to live upon the capital accumulated by more industrious generations: It may be, too, that we are living on or our moral capital, carrying on vir Referring to the Scout Laws, Mrtues that our fathers have built up, Ince writeat Instead of creating, now wealth-of To make the Scout Laws live we character by going to the vital need the dynamic force of religion. sources from which character If will bejsald: This Hoking-up springs. Truth, unselfishness, and

A boy learns by the principles of acouting: How to live, to have Talth, to be loyal, to develop charac tér, to place service above self, and to consider avery living thing. He learns by a jolly outdoor recreation through wood craft to become a happy, healthy, helpful citizen. -

Every Boy Scout on his anrol 2 ment makes a promise, on his honeury that be will do his best; (1)To a8 hil duty to God and the King; (2) w Łup oth mopla at i breeding grounds of the managulto; of the Scout Laws with religion is purity are tot developed by a good erall times; (8) to obey-

Those in the rural areas are arm Ing themselves for the fight by studying all about the posts they hope to eliminate. In the citien the Scouts are working with the health authorities to wipe out the

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DEEP SEA SCOUT CAMP.

Deep Sea Scouts from the RN. Barracks, R.N. Hospital, and Mer-! chant Seamon, have held the first Deep Sea Scout Camp over, held in Kent, at Walderslade:

The Flying Angel,' the Missions to Seamen Flag flow over the camp, and although rain fell most of the time, I did notimar the enjoyment of the Sailor Scouts.

The Headquarters Commissioner for Sea Scouts, Vice-Admiral A. V. [ Campbell, C.B., D.5.0., sent, a tele- gram of good wishes.

The Scouts attended a service on the Sunday at All Saints' Parish

Church, Maidstone, and a Scouts Own in the afternoon was conduct- ed by Missioner Walter Neilson,

The camping arrangements were made by Mr. George Collings, and Seaman J. W. Mounter acted as Camp Chief,

BOAT FOR SEA SCOUTS

Immediately after the "Cedric" vacated her berth in the Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, on Saturday last, the White Star Line presented a boat to a Troop of Sea Scouts.

This is the rd" occasion Con which the White Star Line have, in their training. this way, assisted Sea Sebuts in

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