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SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1931,
OF BOOKS
GEO. MOORE WALKS ing on a new story to-morrow.
<IN` BELGRAVIA.
"Greatest Book I Have Written."
PERFECT ENDING.
I called on Mr. George Moore at his house in Ebury Street to talk to him about his latest book, writes an Evening News pondent. Now
corres.
am going to write a book of, short stories, and.... He shook his head somewhat wistfully "Yes, I shall publish them, no doubt."
A young maid appeared at the bed-room door.
"Will you please bring me some ten. I am thirsty." Mr. Moore -called to her in a vofce that was She half angry, half astonished.
smiled and went off for the tea.
The fae blue eyes searched my Inco for A moment. Then he smiled.
this
"Now book-its title is "Aphrodite in Aulis”—is thing unusual in books.
some-
It is the story of the adventures of a young Athenian in the time of Pericles: and Mr. Moore postponed a serious operation and underwent a smaller operation last year order to finish it.
in
Further, it has only been pub. fished so far in a limited edition; and if you want to buy it now you must pay a great deal more than the three guineas for which it was sold by the publishers. A cheaper edition is to be published later in the year.
But Mr. Moore had something else to think about when I called on him.
"Do you mind ringing the bell?" he said as he motioned to me to sit down.
"I am longing for some
tea."
He watched me as bell.
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will tell you something that
you may interest
about 'Aphrodite in Aulla, You see, the ending does not please me much. The story just comes to an end, it has no great ending.
very
In Search of An Ending. "Now, as you know-though por- haps I should not say it-my book The Brook Kerith has a fine end- ing, and so Abelard.
has Heloise and
He broke off again. "Please ring that bell before the girl reaches the kitchen. It may possible remind her that I still want some tea."
Behind the slightly angry look in his eyes I thought I detected a faint twickle.
hard It was
to realise that Mr. Moore is within a month of his 79th birthday.
"Well, then," he continued, "here I found myself in the extraordin
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"Now I have a habit when want to try to find anything of that kind, of walking around Belgrave Square. So I took a walk in Bel- grave Square and came back with an ending of a sort.
I rang the ary position at the end of my life
without an ending for my story. His Next, Book. "Well," he said, after a moment, "I am tolerably well, considering everything. As you know, my book has at last been published and sold-nine hundred-odd copies at three guineas-but, of course, I have nothing to do with that. Now I suppose I shall go on writ- ing to the end."
He broke off. The clear blue eyes sought the door. A look of Increasing impatience growing In them.
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"Please ring that bell again. simply cannot get them to bring me a cup of tea, though I am long- ing for one."
I rang the bell again.
"Well," he went on, "I am start-
"It pleased me for the day, but no more. So I took another walk in Belgrave Square, but though on ending that was not bad came to me, it was not the ending for which I was searching.
"My Greatest Ending." "Some time later I went into the square and walked around it again and came back with"-he held up one beautiful white hand, a little frailer than I liked to sec, "Well, I
back with came blue eyes looked at
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Tit-Bita From The Annual Meeting,
"Both at home and in the Oversen Dominions and Colonies there has been steady progress and develop. ment everywhere during the past twelve months."-Chief Scout.
"The results already achieved upon the character and health of the rising generation .give one the highest hopes of the far-reaching possibilities which lie before the Boy Scout and Girl Movements in the future."-Chief Scout.
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Sir Arthur, continuing, said: "It is just 100 years since Charles Dickens entered the Press Gallery of the House of Commons; almost brilliant | sixty since day after day rich and
poor trooped past the flowers his grave in Westminster Abboy; and I ask you, how different would these one hundred years have been to our fathers' and to us in our turn with Dickens left out?
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with A glance of sincerity, "an ending which greater than them all!
"Greater than that of either of those other books I have mention ed, which have such good endings. The greatest of them all!"
He stopped. There was thunder in his glance.
"Please rig that bell again," he said.
Then he went back to his ending. "I wrote it and it is being printed Believe me", he replied, "it is the greatest ending I have writ- ten."
now.
He folded his long white handa. From under his thick white eye- brows the masterful blue eyes glanced into the fire and then at
me.
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"Good-bye, young man.
Do tell that girl to bring me up some tea.”
There
gentle, almost amused, look in the blue eyes.
WORLD WITHOUT DICKENS.
Sir A. Quiller-Couch on What It Would Mean.
"I think that many in this room if asked to justify their faith in Charles Dickens, might give this answer, among others--that in per- plexity or trouble they had turned to him and found help.”
This romark was made by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q") when speaking to the toast of "The Im- mortai Memory of Dickens" at the birthday dinner of the Dickens Fellowship at the Piccadilly Hotel, London.
Sir Alfred Robbins, president of the Fellowship, presided, and more than 200 men and women were pre- Thousands more joined in sent. the toast, Sir Arthur's speech being broadcast.
Among the guests was a woman another from Los Angeles, and from Boston, U.S.A. Messages were received from branches of the Fellowship in New York and
ps in the Montreal, as well me English towns.
now 600 strong (Scout membership for those who have taken up sea- going careers)."-Lord Hampton.
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A feature of the past year has been the number of Coming-of-Age Celebrations held by Boy Scout Troops.
These brought together a con- aiderable number of old members and in many cases the desire to form Old Scouts' Associations was expressed.
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Settlement), is now Scout
free all from debt, the mortgage, and loans having been paid off during the year. This was largely due to MA. C. Hewat (who left the residue of her funds to House), to the success of the annual Pantomimes and the support of the Settlement's friends.
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A Troop of Scouts has been form- ed in the let Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers for the band boys. Their Scouting is done entirely in spare time and special leave was granted for a fortnight in camp. The boys wear ordinary There are 15 Boy Scout Troops Scout uniform, the Scoutmaster is a and Wolf Cab Packs for blind boys, corporal and the Group Scoutmaster 8 Troops, Packs and Rover Scout Crews for cripples, 23 Troops, Packs This is believed to be the first and Rover Scout Crews for the time a Scout Group has been form deaf, and 33 Troops, Packs and ed among serving soldiers and is a Rover Scout Crews for the mental most valuable experiment AR thely deficient, administered by the of the boys at some stations have little to Special Tests Department do in their spare time.
Boy Scouts Association
a commissioned officer.
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During the year, Dr. Hurt, who was charged by the Boy Scouts of America with the task of producing a younger boy programme for the Scout Movement in that country, came to study the Wolf Cub Move ment in Great Britain. Experi- mente on somewhat similar lines are now.proceeding.in America.
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In the Punjab more Scouts have attended camp. and more Scout masters have gone through training courses, than in Any previous
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In the Leeward Islands Scouts have increased from 192 to 655 dur- Ing the year.
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In Fiji there are now European,
Fijian, Indian, Chinese and Rotu- man Groups of Boy Scouts.
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The industrial and economic de-
pression throughout the world caused a serious decline in oversea settlement from Great Britain and other parts of the Empire during the year.
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The Boy Scout. Migration De partment reports, however, that though the tide of this industrial depression has not yet wholly turn ed, there is newa of improvement and they are convinced that the con- dition is only temporary and that the recuperativa power of the great Dominions is such that the depres sion will quickly disappear.
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Of the profane the types were two, and both of them were highbrow.. The first of these is the more un pleasant. He is the fellow who, confronted with a great author's work, runs around the picture to pry into the artist's life. collect what discreditable gossip ke can, and poke from the back a dirty finger through the canvas."
Sir Arthur added that ho possessed a first edition copy of "Pickwick"-"unsalcable, so tatter- ed it is"-but, although he read "Pickwick" often he did not read that copy, "ao poignantly the very feel of Its nages recall eid voices, anxieties, night watches through domestic sickness."
Sir Alfred Robbins, proposing the toast of the evening, said: "Dickens once said, 'Let us be among the few who do their duty' To-night we are among the many who are doing their duty in all parts
of the English-speaking world in celebrating the 19th an- niversary of him who in literature is to us the Master.
"Searcely a magazine or news- paper appears without some ference to a Dickens character."
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During the year Boy Scout re- presentatives have attended confer ences promoted by the British Red Cross Society, the Council for tho Preservation of Rural England, the National Association of Boys' Clubs and the Band of Hope Union, amongst others.
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Under the supervision of Dr. F. R. Lucas, a new Scout film, "The Woodpigeon Patrol," was produced during the year.
Mr. Ralph Smart, Director, and Mr. Stanley Rodwell, Photographer of the British Instructional Filma, Ltd., succeeded in making a first class film with the help of a group of schoolboy Scouts.
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The Scouter, the official monthly organ of the Boy Scouts Associa tion, is becoming more and more the pulse of Scouting. The circula tion,
now over 25,000, has been rapidly rising, during the year.
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An important development among the Universities and Public and Preparatory Schools who have taken up the Boy Scout Movement is that at least two schools, Eton and Marlborough, are allowing their senior boys alther to run or to help to run village Troops of Scouts in the locality of the school.
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447 Scouts were placed in the Dominiona overgen by the Boy Scout Migration Department. settled in Canada, 148 in Australia,
9 in South 68 (an increase of 12) Public 24 in New Zealand, Africa, and 27 in other parts of Schools and 107 (an increase of 9) Preparatory Schools have Croups of the Empire. *
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New Public Schools to start
Gliwell Park, the Boy Scout Training Centre in Epping Forest,
year Scouts are Eastbourne, Haileybury, beat all records during the with 374 Scout and 221 Cub candi- St. Edward's, Oxford, and Mer- dates for training as Scout workers. chant Taylors. All but about 60 came from Great Britain and Ireland.
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The Scout, the official organ for Boy Scouts, is now entering upon twelve months during which Lord Its 23rd year after a satisfactory Baden-Powell has contributed a regular weekly yarn, he having been a regular weekly contributor ever since the paper commenced.
The Rosemary Boy Scout Con- valescent Home-at Herne Bay has
During the past five years 224 not cost the Boy Scouts Association
Pre Scoutmasters from 29 foreign - a single penny since it was sented to them by Mrs: Colebrook tions and three years ago, Boy Scouts and Dominions and Colonies have offer- Wolf Cubs all over the country haved themselves for practical train. ing made large contributiona to- ing by the Gilwell Park staff. wards its annual upkeep.
The Boy's Camping Fields at Glwell Park have been used and The possibility of a Dramatic appreciated by large numbers of Increase in the number of Rover .Festival on the lines of the Annual Scouts and Rover Scouts during the noted as appearing in the Press of
Boy Scouts Musical Festival Is year. under discussion.
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The year has been notable for the
Scouts (young men of 17 and over), the total for Great Britain and Ireland being 31,111.
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No fewer than 90,000 paragraphs and articles concerning the Boy Scout Movement were. actually
Great Britain during the Arst seven months of 1980,
A Religious Panel composed of of different de- During the past year no fewer representatives
1. OVERSEA CHIEF SCOUTS. Preparations for the World Rover than 475 Groups of British Scouts, nominations, is being formed to Scout Moot at Kandersteg this numbering 9,000, Scouts, have assist in effecting closer contact
The following appointments are Summer are steadily advancing, camped and hiked with Scouts of with Churches and Religious The camping space, available neces-other countries. The countries Budies, the general object being to announced: altates limita in the numbers of visited are-Algeria, Austria, create a spirit of partnership be-
H.E. the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Den-tween the Clergy and Scout Work Clarendon, Governor-General of the those attending from any one coumark, France, Germany, Holland,ers on which the fulfilment of the Union of South Africa, to be Pres!~ Hungary, Norway, Poland, Sweden First Scout Promise (duty to God), dent and Chief Scout for the Union of South Africa, and the Mandated and Switzerland.
Territory of South-West Africa, As the outcome of a Committes and H.E. RS. D. Ränking, Brl- charged by Lord Baden-Powell to tish Resident of Zanzibar, to be consider how best the results of the Patron and Chief Scout for Zanzi- World Jamboree could be utilised bar. Alga for the improvement and expansion ¦ · HE, Sif Graeme Thomson to bo of the Boy Scout Movement, · a Patron and Chief Scout for Ceylon. Development has been fordos nt H.E Brig. General Sir J. A. Imperial Headquarters.
Byrne to be Chief Scout for Kenya.
Experiments are being made in order to provide Training Course) for Sea Scout Masters partly with a view to furthering the Sea Scout Branch of the Boy Scout Move ment 0
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"An encouraging Item of the year's... progress has been the growth of the Deep Sea Scouts,
Trinidad received the gift of a permanent training centre as the outcome of the visit of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell.
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There has been an increase of 25,000 Boy Scout in British India during the past year.
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