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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1952,
Life With A Genius..he SNAPSHOT. GUILD
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religion fathers,
his
TENNYSON WBS tolerable. The sardonic apostle of work THOMAS CARLYLE: the man's chief aims in life is the
Life and Ideas of a pursuit of happiness. Ho dia- because he was a big man and, even wrote of Lady Ashburton's İlked Tories (especially the powerful snoker. Ile was the "grand and noble endurance of Prophet. By Julian Symons Hebrew
He did not cunjuror" Disraeli). only English poet of the age want of work." Gollancz. 21s. 308 pagos. Liberals (especially the windbag whom Carlyle did not advise in mean to be funny,
No. wonder that Jane looked JAVING discarded one half Gladstone), the idle rich and the try prose instead,
with sour lazy poor. The whole "literary of
Action, revolution, a complete on the friendship tho
Thomas contempt.
canatile he looked upon with sweeping away of the accumu sarcasm and a jealousy which sho Calvinistic
of the world lated rubbish or the ages. That mado
the Carlyle
himself
enough Carlyle looked for man but was, what
hide and which any of the other half. He
a philosopher would prophet
The Chartist movement coughi descended on London in the
kave detected. thirties of
his eye. Hope for England Iny contury last
to preach the virtues of work and
there perhaps. silence.
He brought with him a sense of mission, a clever wife and a tendency to constipation,
He was affileted by noise, fools und the popular superstition that
A British
HO
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DICKENS was a good, cheery litle fellow whoso theory of life was utterly wrong. He thought, men ought to be buttered up! Still, Dickens was worth some- thing-say a penny, to read an evening.
Crossword
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ACROSS
3 Dares (8).
scene of crime (3).
28
Be undeciled (5).
DOWN
the
2 Courteous (3).
3 Panorama (30).
4 Specimen (4).
Obtain by threats (0),
15 Frolics (5);,
of
was not woman.
The servant
On the day of the promised uprising of the people, he sol
problem was a One muld, ut manfully from his house in constant plague." Cheyne Row. Unfortunately, he whom Jane had trusted, not only forgot to take his umbrella ond gave › rowdy parties, but was the rain began. After sheltering delivered of an illegitimate child for a little in Burlington Arçade in the house. A scene of the philosopher of revolution supremo drama took the bus home.
In any cake,
he was 1101 0
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to
was narrowly
"Walle
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averted.
GEORD
the mall room
think that the MALCOLM THOMSON people, poor
welches,
could
govern themselves.
They were taking fes
do
tu
Conscious
was in labour in
at the end of the dining-room, Mr Carlyle WIE
In the dining-rooms Jewsbury talking to
"In
Sidelighting helps make a pretty girl prettier in this Informat
portrait
backs to the sun
Sidelighting Snaps
as bud as the aristocracy of with Mire whom Carlyle said, with savage him!" Irony, "What do those highly beneficial
of individuals
her unusal society for their wages? Kill talents, her fading looks, her hold on the con- partridges. Can this last? No, weakened tumacious
she genlus
hud by the soul of mon." etc., etc.
married, Jane gave herself up to self-pity and waspishness. When friends spoke to Carlyle of the blind adulation with, which the M habitually work with their ing the sun.
MOST picture takers likely to squint than when fac When his brother John, why wives of great men make them. was travelling physician, to look ridiculous, he said.
Naturally, sines, in a that ef countess, ventured to argue that that respect, I have been most
this is in this type, the 1tures We suspect that he had not seen enough of the mercifully spored."
part a hangover from the early lighted by direct sunlight, days of the box camera. Film want b use a somewhat lenger aristocracy to understand them,
days.
exposure, han you otherwise the prophet's eye flashed. "N.. Jane was the harder-heated speeds were slow In those perhaps net, sir. I was never and move perceptive of the two. Ta picture a person or group of would. Increasing the lens open- attached to any
Nobleman or She suffered
people acceptably, full frontal ing a full s'op will do the frict more. It was.u
Only mealy Or halving the shutter noble woman in capacity of household doomed to unreppi-ighting was neccesney
"spord. The lover" "method" flunkey or in any menial capacity ness, yet it seemed doubtful if when the subject faced the sub followed here; an exposure of whatever." The doctor, crushed elther would have been more and the camera was pointed and penitent, sent his brother a happy with another mate. When Away from it, could a good pie- 1/25 at 5/11 being used instead of the normal exposure of 1/50 length of tweed for a suit.
Jane died, Thomas mourned ture be made. with extravagance and sincerity.
Don't let the sun's rays
This cin en your lens. avoird in several waya! by using a leras heed, by shielding
Bub
more and more camera; the same opening.
results
RS! you
WUS
Call be
films with fast But brother John was in the end justified. For Carlyle fell
Julian Symons produces a are finding that better under the spell of the formidable highly readable picture of this can be had by plcturing people Lady Ashburton, frequented her carnest, tempestuous Victorian when the sun strikes them from the lens with your hand, er by luxurious court, wrote secretly menage, laying more emphasia one side or behind. Sidelighting placing your camera so that the to her for years, refused to see than is usual on its comedy. He or backlighting, it's called. how the association pained his holds the balance evenly be- For one thing. It tends to re- your subjec; or some other ob
Jean is in the shadow east by
wife, Jane, and began to think tween
shadows man and wife. He is duce the
which full that in the aristocracy might, sympathetic but not reverent. He frontal lighting cften produces. after all, lle England's hope. writes to a nice length
Anather-the
less subject is
YOU WERE ON THE ROOF OF A HIGH BUILDING AND TO REACH THE OPPOSITE ROOF YOU HAD MERELY TO STEP OFF AND ON
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BUT ON ONE PARTICULAR OCCASION YOU WERE FRIGHTENED AND HAD TO FEIGN ILLNESS 80 THAT
YOU NEED NOT CROSS
Ject.
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7 Plea of absence from
8 Gem (8).
10 Proclamations (5).
13-Liberate (7).
13 Repose (4).
17 Lays bare_(7).
18 Satisfied (7).
20 Burden (4),
21 Starts to fall (7).
20 Feet indignant about (G).
27 Complete (6).
28 Slack (5).
24 Comes down (8).
5 Elevates (U).
Bed-linen (6).
9 Agreement (8).
11 Evil spirit (5),
12 Foreign coins (5).
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16 Numeral (5).
18 Dustard (0).
19 Looks after (6).
22 Removes the skin (5).
23 Fruit (5)..
24 Precipitous (3).
25 Merriment (4).
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HOT THE 15) AND
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