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emphasis; and the point is not always appreciated that punctua- tion, to quote from "The King's English," "as to do both logical and rhetorical work,” and, even apart from the sense, has a direct bearing on the emotional content of the writing.

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It is perhaps, therefore, trifle unfortunate that spelling, and not punctuation, has become a criterion of culture; and, whe- ther as the cause or the effect of this, that the schools devote so much more time to the former than to the latter. It must be add- ed, however, that neither is an in- fallible test; for Gladstone was Lambeth, a whatever doubts not good at spelling, and Dickens may surge in certain breasts, has was shaky on punctuation.

THE “LAMBETH

WALK”

now joined that select band of

places, including Tipperary,

Dixie, and the Swanee River, Stress On Style

whose fame has flown to the ends

of the earth, borne on wings of Style - in noses has definitely song which is tuneful, even if changed this year. Colour has not Mendelssohn's. In cities replaced the metallic shine on the where Mr. Chamberlain is almost upper part while the air intake unknown, in villages so remote openings have been lowered. Of that Munich arouses no echoes course, we are speaking of the either of praise or blame the new season's cars. "Lambeth walk" is a familiar For this is a year of styling ditty. That, at least, is the firm emphasis. The streamline trend of the past five years, after conviction of London.

smoothing off the rear ends of Indeed, at the moment, the cars, has hit the nose. It is real- "Lambeth walk" is the mostly only a style suggestion, for the famous of all methods of loco-changes have little or no stream- motion: It is more widely known line effect other than in appear- even than the Prussian goose-lance. Mechanical refinements step, and lacks the military a8-continue, but they are distinctly- sociations of that remarkable just refinements. Prices are gen- mode of perambulation, though erally lower in an effort to create Lambeth could, if it desired, re-new interest. Running boards ply to the mobilisations of the are much narrower and evidently Continent with the boast that will soon disappear, the last ves- even its babies are in arms. All tige of the horse and carriage this makes it the more striking idea in cars--for be it remem- that, according to competent ob-bered that some of the first auto- servers, such a thing as a "Lam-mobiles actually carried a whip beth walk" does not really exist, socket! for the people of Lambeth seem .walk pretty much the same as other men and women.

to.

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"old Totalitarianism In

Conscious that rule, by decree

Finally there promises to be some testing of a lower-price- But it is the habit of popular class market. One big manufac songs to celebrate places for rea- turer is reported to have a car at sons which, to the fine and cogent H.K.$2,000 or thereabouts, ready thinking of the logician, would possibly for Spring while a radio appear to be irrelevant. It is not manufacturer is reported to have a very much longer way to Tip-a very small $1,200 two-seated perary than to other Irish towns, car in the advanced-design stage, and compilers of statistics give little countenance to the supposi- tion that there are more folks at home” on the Swanee River than on other watery high- France? ways. Lambeth can enjoy its fame without any uneasy feeling that it is getting it on false pre-is dangerous to democracy, lovers tences..

of liberty may have taken en- couragement from the hesitancy Spelling Or Punctuation? of the French Cabinet to put quasi-totalitarian powers into ef- The Archbishop of York, Dr. fect. Five months elapsed be- Temple, remarked in a recent tween the French Parliament's speech that, intellectually, punc-grant of these powers and their tuation is more important than exercise. Provided as an aid to spelling. One has only to look a Cabinet burdened with the task back to the days when. spelling of putting things to rights in was largely a matter of personal France, the decree power seem- taste to see that the circumstance ed more like an embarrassment. not find them- was compatible with clear and The French do sensible writing. One the other selves at home in a totalitarian hand, Shakespeare's Poet, who atmosphere. protested:

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But recently thirty-two, decrees more to were announced, with .no levéll'd malice Infects one comma in the course come. They devalued the franc,

I hold,

increased taxes and postal rates, might have been taken literally, permitted modifications of the so wide is the power that punc-forty-hour week and put limits tuation can exert over meaning, on government spending. But As an illustration, there is the even though they roused hostility classic anecdote of the barber in many quarters, even to the who stopped at nothing, and point of demonstration general wrote upon his window:

What d'you think It is my whim For sixpence to give you

"A"shave and a trim; and subsequently explained hopeful customers that the rect way to read it was:

What! d'you think It is my whim

strike, Parliamentarians were in... clined to sigh with relief: That such laws could have been pass- ed by the Chamber of Deputies seems to be the consensus among to French legislators. So "totali- cor-tarianism" comes to France with a small "t". Only negligence and habit can give it a big one. The French habit is all in the other direction. And neglect of the pre- requisites of liberty is hardly an old French custom.

For sixpence to give you A shave and a trim! Here the meaning is dependent