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ROME
Awaking from illusion and porting from fond prepossessions-what a long chapter, not even yet closed, in the story of the war that is for millions of people! True, some of us never cherished the illusion that the war was going to be * all over by Christmas" 1814; or that it would be won on the water, or won on the voluntary system, with business s usual"; or that Germany could be starved out by a ladylike blockade iu 1816, or conquered by talking amiable
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1917.
UNFRIENDLY LONDON,
A REAL INCIDENT.
the room. But after diligent searching There seemed to be no vacant chair in
I found one. It was at a table for two. The other chair was occupied by an officer from overseas whose features seemed familar to me. He appeared moody and dejected. He looked round the room with
Very uncheerful visage.
MEIOSIS.
{BY ARTHUR PONSONBY, M.F.].
SHAKESPEARE UNDER SHELL FIRE
AN ACTOR'S EXPERIENCE.
[BY MARTIN HANVEY.]
A muffled figure recognised me in the packet boat as fellow-worker in the curious as to my job. uniform of the Y.M.O.A. and was
"I am going to lecture to the men at
"56
About what?"
The other day I wandered into a It happened recently that afarm popular restaurant for tes It was
labourer, overcome by some desperato sort crowded with, bright and cheerful the early morning and deliberately drown- of melancholia, went down to a pond in throng. A small orchestra was in the
od himself. An old friend of his in the throes of ragtime melody. Good village was asked shortly afterwards what humour and animation prevailed. Wärit an appalling tragedy; he did not wring
-ho thought of the
ovent
He did not call depression was not a guest."
his hands and describe it as a harrowing calamity. After a pause he gave vent the front. the strongest expression ho could use. It his grief and horror in these
words: It's a pretty middlin' affair."
This was
of what grammarians call Meiosis. The rather fed up with it all? Dog-siol is as good an instance he could be found Can't you imagine that they are definition of Meiosis is understatement and war weary 1 Perhaps by reciting to This form of expression has become poets of to-day, have written I may bring so as to intensify,"
then what the poets of old,, and the soldier curiously common in recent years, Brianness of still carrying on; ***
back to them the tremendous worth-while. I am inclined to think, essentially British. who have a limited vocabulary and arc lecturing his congregation on the need of It originates for the most part with people He said, "Isn't it rather like the parson aware of the weakness of the constant use coming to church? But I wish you luck." of superlatives. Exaggeration fails to give the effect they want. The word has ceased to give special emphasis, so finest things went" best, and doubts
bloody
from very frequent use, while On my first night I was recognised and Fit still retains a certain decorative value, rushed for a recitation. I found the they have plunged into the opposite diree arose in my mind about the effect of that tion, and produce the effect of intensity Meiosis of feeling and enthusiasm by the use of
nonsense in 1917 about her coming revolu- tion. Nor did we all believe in the fairy I am unhappily not a communicative tale about the Russian steam roller mak-person, but found myself engaging my ing u nice, easy way for us into Berlin visu-te in conversation. My travels had by 1916 or nineteen something. Those included journeys through the territories were the grosser deceptions of the war of some of our daughter. States. And which spurious optimiste "te, not upon this subject we talked for a while Incing unpleasant truth affected.
We paid many a tribute to the loyalty of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa and the valour of the over scas soldiers now in the trenches.
But who can boast that, throughout the war, he has gone scot-free of all illusions and preposscasions). I have certainly had my share of them, home and foreign. For instance, I had till lately the illusion
I discovered that my new-found com- panion had been in some of the war's heaviest battles on the Gallipoli Penin Gula and in France, I asked him if he had any
I have," he replied.
most common of this kind of expression, For instance," not "arf" perhaps the if far more superlative than" very and middlin which can be still further intensified by saying pretty middlin'.
that Austria was (1) more or less & spent France licnlar desire to return to | outreaches the strongest superlative that!
force in the war, and (2) that we need wish I was returning to France tonight"
But why, I asked; “
which
lecture.'
Next day I was motored by a pretty
a great crowd of men with the broad- camp was pitched streamed into a hut girl up country. Down the hill on which
brimmed hats of the Australiau Čeremon- wealth.
These men don't know me, I think, and
not regard her, apart from Germany, as being in London ; don't you enjoy. I music halls h originated in the lecture. But as the head of the
a danger to the Allied cause. That dream has passed. I have rather slowly awakened to the truth that Austria is strong and that she is malign, I will return to this point in another article for it to an absolutely essential one if we are to preserve the Eatente and to win the war and will here only say that the policy of writing of Austria or of making-up with her, which still attracts uninformed minds at home. is foolish, sad, if carried out, would prove fatal. Delenda est Austria-that is a safer and a more manly plan
The reply was an emphatic "No!" He continued: London to ane is terribly lonely. I haven't a friend here. I don't know what to do with my time. There is nothing for me to do except go to the theatre. I would have liked to meet some English people. But no. And there are thousands of boys in the same situation Nowhere to go where one cun Indst friendly people people one can rely on Kiving you a welcorns.. are plenty of others. Now, in France I Heavens, there have my pals to talk to.”
assent. A
be found. The elliptical phrase 11 shall get an impartial judgment on don't think,"
a unique property is Y.M.C.A." introduces me I am ensured 1a very
also be a role shot in and yet it can a respectful hearing. In fact there is to convex every strong armative. It can thing but respect, and at the end of it convey emphatic dissent or equally I think of my lecture the tone
dial depends on There is no unity of mind between my less than ever. good in which it is used. Grammarians audience and me, and I believe is it my would find some difficulty in analysing fault. My remarks about war-weariness, this peculiar idiom. But, it is certainly about the worth-while-ness of their raci very effective. phrases which illustrate this form office, fall Hnt. I am only on safe ground
There are many other
my ipples, and he says. A tidy for Henry V." What is the matter! I will speech. If you ask in gardener if he has with Shakespeare's stirring speeches in
heavily laden. If you inquire of him like that) out more chaner, I do before you will know that his trees are very give the d-d lecture (for I begin to feel whether there was any rain in the night, another Australian contingent, poor beg I fear that I looked at this healthy and he says, "A nice drop," you will prob gars! The audience is immense, and st young man with amazement.
It was a
ably find that foods are about..
is their silenci. I am half inclined to blow to my pride as an Englishman to
say, Boys, let us stop this and get out hear such a reflection upon London's
into the sunshine." hospitality. I ventured to apologise. don's mighty big place, too preocupled
You needn't," he went on.
"LGB- in its own affairs. Besides, I expect London can't take everyone on Still, it's a blow One comes home to trust, coldness and indifference. Or thought. lessness."
Like the rest, I have had my illusions and prepossessions, then; they can no more be escaped than can the measles but I have never since the war started been under any illusion as to the worth: of Italian support, and the great beat and vitality of the Italian nation, because, travelling in the country in several years before the struggle begen, I had noted its energy and resource and its immense,
nations spent
brimming-over life. There may
or fast asleep. aho Boirth, but Italy 15 not of them. Never be deceived by her towers that breathe the lost enchantment of the Middle Ages by tho dolce far niente legend, by the olive and the vine, all
a household word. I and which may give you the impression that seen this young man's portrait displayed this
is a land,
the Lotus Eaters in the newspapers a few days before. Like where it is always afternoon. The towers He nodded an amused assent. and the lost, enchantments are certainly, because by the blessing of God
I handed him my card, with a cordial in my part of the world. He handed his invitation to spend a few days with me. I looked at the name.
V.C. I asked.
f
the name
Austrian (who is a German) has not got into the country and flayed it as he has flayed Serbia. The olive and vine are here all right-I nover saw them lovelier.
- FULL OF ÉNERGI,
But I do not believe in Italian Lotus Eater The Italian is inuch nearer my notion of a hustler than of a decayed grandes. He may knock off work for two
to room
feal
...
For
In connection with rain, I heard a policeman in London not long ago, while torrential downpour was sweeping
Pretty damp, through the streets with the force of waterspont remark to his colleagne. Not at all," say: "I see the truth. p." The reply was, "M'yes" now. There is no war-weariness. There such string language. Panich some time and they don't need to be told by a living
much as to say there was no need for is no dog-sickness. They are not' fed up back
gave a similar instance. The drawman of the tremendous worth-while-ness. ing depicted two youths looking from the of it all." summit of a Swiss mountain over a magni.
needn't rave about it like a bally poet. ficent view "Not bad," say's
After which I pitch my lecture into. Well, his companion replies, "
some bushes and a load is off my mind.
"Pearls before swine, sir," says a symme pathetic Tommy
one. you
*
*
Luckily, by my wife's advice, I had
If you ask your cook if she would like brouglit another string with my bow I to take a fortnight's holiday while her had tried that lecture on her before 1 young man has got leave from the front,started, with results that raised my first. she will not say Thut will be absolutely
the
with something else; take something-of
is I should like better thing in the world doubt in it. She said. Be prepared You here, with not a friend to will get will be, I don't mind if I'd "Dickens, and, mark toy words, they will to. It's a
s'a scandal, I burst in with warmth.
and soruchow it has more feeling in it than want The Only Way, Yes; I am Odd, isn't it? Well, I think I'll go and comes from America, is another instance Beary V's speech to his soldiers at the
having my
my V.C. leave the other.
Some
which, I believe,
Thereafter all went well. I gave them. see one of your shows. Sorry you can't of a strong superlative, although it is siege of Harfleur (near that very spot), come. A pleasant Journey north."
merely an abbreviation of the very mild and a few days later the "Crispin word somewhat."
speech from the same play within a mile
in
heard
to
27
MU PIEI,
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#
saw something of for niente in Pisa Iers the illuminated missal of modern shot dead washes and this blasted first German shells I've heard."
18
But I hadn't a pleasant journey north. was erestfallen, furious. I had read of by schoolboys. Their highest praise for a
This phraseology is adopted very often u 80 of Crécy," Hamlet, their beloved this man's extraordinary bravery in the person is conveyed by the word decent called--and one of the Christmas storic
Only Way for which they alwayd. newspapers. I had seen his portrait in though live heard the superlative of Charles Dickens. or three hours at mid-day in August. But many newspapo.of his honourable appreciate the vaine of Meiosis. We pre-my remembranee, Far up into the danger then think of the heat to-day in, say,de of his valour, which had won fer." He's not at all a bad chap
Articles had been beastly decent. And, indeed, we all One occasion stands out particularly Rome!
plenty; much. I have borne with it in March on him I know," platform, and the bronted in provid
• to
zone, I mounted the rickety Sahara for a little while, yet part of Cross And I had met him casually in a I don't think that would be very wise to-day
I have been wandering from room London restaurant friendless, impatiently carries more weight than That is the settle down as if the "unhealthy spot ? "mass of the greatest infantry in the world to another from one part of the garden waitin the
waiting in a vain attempt to get out would be ended; and he
day when his V.C. leave most idiotic thing you could do. And were 500 miles away, of the sun and the hot wind into some to the terrible sights and sounds of the luncheon in restaurant and saving,
could
go back when
You hear taan ordering his thing cool. But there is no cool; and yet battlefront to human companionship!
"Once more unto the breach, dese while I searched, the Italians were hast
think I'll have a little beef," you know musical scream in the aid! A crash! I friends, once- A thud! A sharp, ing back to their work.
Is this how Imperial London honours he means I must have beef, and ila gallant over-scas soldiers? Is there. me as much as the plate will hold The Italian is doing it; he is doing it nothing for theth but the society of street
The men pause.
watch me with a now. He was wide awake and full of harpies and the tavern A.C.
am afraid you are incorrect" can be in mysterious gria: Is that a German energy while I was trying to get to sleep.
certain circumstances a taore severe rebuke shell ask. There is a shout of than You are an infernal liar." last night. He had been up and doing
slaughter and Yes from a hundred for a good hour or two when I was sitting
Numberless instances might be given of me to say but "Oh, well, I'd better begin throats. There doesn't seem much else for instead of butter, at nine this morning.. down to complet, "with raspberry jam parody-spiritual? And does not Italy how our soldiers in the face of great again!
remember more about liberty than wahy dangers have jestingly, referred to the
Once more unto the The dolce far niente legend will not de intellectual: I have ventured to describe his two pals on either side of him had been again and sty. "It's all very well for nations have ever learnt She is poetic situation with some ridiculously inild
Thud ! in modern Italy. I may have fancied I
ribe remark. A soldier who lit his pipe after cream crash! (rauch nearer). I pauses insisted on it when I came in a little know Sicily and the Umbrian towna, Belgian tobacco will be the death of me" Another delighted shout from my audi-
Europe and 1 do not think those who
These you fellows, but, you know, these are the boat mund the curve of Spezzia a few Pisa, and Venetia would quarrel with the Captain Bairnsfather's Old Bill," who ence, who are evidently intensely inter-
bloody French years ago
metaphor as being fur-fetched. But it But this was not the Italy of new-New not enough for any nation to be even 18 admitted to be a very characteristic ested in watching me undergoing my crowded streets of Palermo, of Naples, refinements and the humanities the side of imperturbability, a quality of which while I wait for the crash, The fascina- Italy. I found and recognised her in the complete on this side, complete in the figure, is the incarnation of Meiosis. This baptism of fire. For some little time I deliberate understatement is the language cannot resist pausing in my recitation of Genon; as next week, after returning n from the heroic battles front, I expect to angels. We must have matter as well as it in one of the recent air raids when, on each pause the audience rocks with laugh-
Matthew Arnold's savi
saying, of VINE we
ve are rather find her in Milan
proud. An old lady showed tion of that moment in irresistible, and at Botive mu
must have Philistia ton in
to hurry to the cellar, wheter. At last I get so used to the experi- Bess, vigour. She cares, ever passion world and be in the forefront of civilisa replied, ately, for the old, I grant. She conserves nations to-day is tog' pressing to suffer window. Or, again, a man who was shop careful timing I can raise my voice with
'tion. The natural competition among
and then
ence that I can listen for the thud and stoutly refused to move, fron the treasures of the Renaissance as we it to be otherwise. I hope to show pre-ping, while the aeroplanes were overhead shout on the very word when I judge to our shade, have not yet learnt to db.sently that Italy means to be of the van
asked cnally, "How many are there, and the crash will come. Long practice at the does not knock down her most
ost in this march of the material. orious Pictures and status to the
will you give me 2lb of butter {NA pursiest hidder-the
theatre in dodging a cough in the audi galleries
And yet that my first glimpses of this
It is not bravado; it certainly is not are not full of Italian old masters, unlesz, great warring country when once aga speech which has become fashionable, It at last even overcome this ill-timed in- is not ence helps me at this exciting game, and insensibility nor
it just a trick of to the immense delight of my hearers we perhaps, these bave come through Eng
came through the Alps the other evening land. But Italy is out, too,
for the new appealed to soul" rather than to sub- trusion of German thells --Daily Mail. as well as the old. Browning-it is fair stance! The Mediterranean night was in this language, which is now so general, tells as they sing when writing of Italy coming. There were soldiers and using in las supposed from the few
us that a man must
two sides sailors of several nations in our train:auging instances one comes across from
stood about the corridors, and a cry particular pititude of mind and of it this would be possible in any other
time to time; something indicative of a for his wife.
and
fout hearing a syllable uttered. I doubt good wishes went ave two hundr
up from of little balconies and windows reconvulsion and afterwards
anation we are undemonstrative country. Who has ever travelled in have all been taught, it school that crowded railway carriage abroad in coa day, the
enthusiasm is rather had form. We prefer tinued silence? I is not unfriendlines stupidly stolid; it is partly shyness, raise the masses and give new hopes
and spontaneity of ashamed of them, and we are still more partly diffidence, partly. à new heart
and tv man-succeed on the that masterial side. It must succeed
svindly of its cuning of the Stockholm in the
of its cunning rascality, about without restraint. Helierne seems to embark on experiments of intercourse with factory and on the land.
the Science and efficiency
ire strangers, partly admire Spezzia who live between Genoa all round, a
it. We have
power, and inste
and suspi expression, and perhaps too partly lazi Imagine this i reconstruction of the whole fabric of the Italian war had started a fo enhanced it it is value of action vocabulary which at the best of times is- kinoncious of the orator. The capital and labour, the casting out of the days ago instead of May. 101h, but a soir words. Many a great man of fiction has unaccompanied by
Italy is a live nation, fult of zest, keen nations that are to set their stamp on the We Wait till I get my spect the scream, and after a little practice and
Germany
to his soul one for the world and one
nation
must
sides
this
A
if it is to come alive out of where the women and children crowded anal temperament, y
southwards of the
There
work anything in the world for good and and waited the great event ofaris-Lyons to conceal our emotions; we are rather on our part, or unsociability, nor Any spiritual purpose on earth and MFAR
endurance. It must if it is to achieve
alive
mach
of
Suck
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was no mis-
note,
ashamed of anyone who exhibits them denote po
even become a
NEGS.
rather
ལ
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defective powers of The war has quite exhausted our
For our
inarticulate Bentiments armies S
amazement,
indignation we can fad no
the honey of the hive of haunting yet homely loveliness, and been practical of anguish are not for appropriate lenguage. The mass of the
pampered, Pernicious drones that up too the
into power of new me the olives, the locust trees, and the dark
you have
Italy to-day. I have not seen the public ear. Gush and gas do not people consequently, who are the real
of adoration altogether these-ings must be in our COLOUgh the war am convinced August.
if we are to come really Cypresses greener, though it is mid Ppeal to us. we assume the cloak and creators of phrases and words, will have
I never saw the sky more mask of Indifference, callousness, and recourse more and
to mere deliberate that the instinct of reconstruction is por sharply clipt out against those wondrous temperamentally phlegmatic, and also flintlocks and muzzle-loaded cannon
tinted rose
nor the pathy; underneath the feelings are deep; understatement. the rocky
but they must be concealed. Moreover,
give a final instance of Meiosis: Promontmore
we are a silent people because we are when we had hows and arrows spears, The night came on too swiftly and at Levanto we had a final flash of in certain situations
because we realise the inadequacy of words assanit, and cantonade. Now that we talked of bombardment, storming, battery,
high explosives that chatter and blast in spend millions of pounds on shells and a way to make the very planet shake, te talk of a push. -Westminster Gazette
meating Italy as it gradually is England
KINDLY HUMAN NOTE
Italy is spiritual is not liberty thing infinitely apart from licence, its (Continued at foot of next column.)
many English people know that village: the Mediterranean, black and silver. Not those who do call it, I think, borage carriage or go in a packed Tube lift with
One can travel in a crowded railway Daily Mail.
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
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