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THE "HONGKONG TELÉGRAPH,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929,

RADCLYFFE HALL'Sing in mind the teat of obscenity

laid down by authority.”:

Plot Outlined.

NOVEL

He than described. In brood-out-

JUDGE'S COMMENTS ON THE line the plot of the book,

BOOK.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

The appeal against the order made by Slr Chartres Biron, the, Bow-street magistrate, on Novem- ber: 16, that a number of seized copies of Miss Radclyffe Hall's book, "The Well of Loneliness" should be destroyed was dismissed

at London Sessions.

"Stephen is the heroine of it,” he said. "The story begins with her birth, and the child from very carly years la depicted as a child with unnatural tendencies. The book deals with the friendship of this girl, afterwards a woman, with three persons.

The first friendship is with a house-maid in the household. The friendship is but an incident in the Stephen. The second friendship development of the character of is with a woman called Angela, the wife of a man Raphael. Tho The appeal was on behalf of culmination of the story, is with third friendship, and this is the Messra, Jonathan Cape, Limited.

a woman called Mary, publishers, of Bedford-square, and

"Eventually," ho said, "the con- Mr. Leopold B. Hill, of Great Rus-test which leads to the conclusion sell-street, representative of the of the book is one for the posses- Pegasus Press, Paris.

sion of Mary between Stephen and

Sir Thomas Inskip, K.C. (Ata young man named Martin who Lorney General), Mr. Eustace Ful-had fallen in love with Mary. This ton, and Mr. Bentley Purchase mother and father of Stephen are were for the Crown, and Mr. J. B. represented as deeply disappoint- Melville, K.C. and Mr. Waltered with the birth of a girl instead Frampton were for the appellanta, of a son, but the story la concern- Sir Robert Wallace, K.C., presided not with the disappointment of ed over a Bench of Justices which the parents, but with the charac

ter of Stephen. Included two women.

Miss Radclyffe Hall was given a sent at the solleitors' table,

The Attorney-General, opening the case, said that the only point in the case was whether the book "The Well of Lonelincas," was an obscene production.

Test of Obscenity.

"The mother of Stephen, as the book proceeds," he added, "is de- picted as utterly out of sympathy. with the girl. The time comes when the contrast, is between Stephen's character on the one hand and the stern character of the mother."

in literature to women such as were described. One was in the first Chapter of the Epistle of the Romans and the other, was in the Sixth Book of Juvenal,

Sir Thomas said the whole book was meaningless except on the submission which he put forward. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, heHe knew of only two references, said, had given the following lest of obscenity: "Whether the ten- dency of matter charged with obs-enity is to deprave and corrupt to thore whose minds are open such immoral influences and in whose hands publications of this sort may fall." He was dealing with a case which concerned the practice of confession, and said concerning the books in that case, "It is quite ecrinin they would auggest to the minds of the young of either sex, or even to persons of more indvanced years, thoughts of a most impure character."

It would not be disputed, he said, that the vice was an un- natural one, and "The Well of Loneliness" was a picture of lo- dulgence in it. He read a number of long passages from the book, and commented on them.

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"What does this mean?" he ask ed of one. "Imagine a poor wo man or a young man reading it. What is the picture conjured up] at once? The man would ask: The Attorney-General then re-what does this woman mean?' lated the facts in the case. "The It corrupts him, conjures up a Well of Loneliness," he said, was picture which the writer of this published by Messrs. Jonathan book intends." Cape, In consequence of some attention which was drawn to the hook Messrs. Cape sent a copy of it to the. Home Secretary, appar- ently for an opinion as to il character. He read the corres- pondence between the Home Ster tary and Messra. Jonathan Cape, including a letter from Mesars, Cape, in which they said, "In view of your decislon we have no other course than to discontinue the sale of the book."

That, he said, appeared to be clear, emphatle, and unambiguous.. What happened was that instruc- tions were given to the printers at Frome, Somernet, to stop the printing of the book, but to pre- pare moulds of the type and' to supply or deliver in accordance with instructions the balance of

not the paper which had been used. That was done, Instruc- tions were given later that the title page and the fore page were to be set up in type and moulds similarly made of that type, be- rause it was not possible for the printers in Paris, who had been instructed to print the book, to set up type similar to that used in the book.

Circulars from France,

"One fact, that is important," | said the Attorney-General, "Is that the French firm, to the knowledge of Messrs. Jonathan Cape, cir- cularised a large number of per- sons in this country, advising them to purchase a copy of the book.

"I now come to the book itself," said the Attorney-General, and copies of the book were then hand- ed to the Bench.

He read the following passage from the paper jacket of the book: "The Well of Loneliness, Rad- clyffe Hall's now novel, is concern- ed with the phenomenon, of the masculine woman in all its im plications. The novel handles | véry skilfully, a psychological pro- blem which needs to be under- stood in view of its growing Im- portance,"

A further extract from the fac- [ket, said the Attorney-General, was an appeal, and a rather seduc- lve appeal, to all thoughtful people to read the book. He read the following extracts from the statement:

"It presents the life story of a girl born out of her physical sphere and whose devoted parents required and expected a son in her place. The pubilahiers have been dooply Impressed by this. study, and have felt such a book. should not be lost to those willing to understand and appreciate It." "That in Mr. Jonathan Cape's statement," anid the Attorneys General For all I know the book may contain very fine writing, “I have nothing to do with that. The whole question is obscenity, -bear-

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