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Ing wine-vats, shermen hauling Inlan

Inlanders, and to

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931.

the Scandinavian raider and BATHING BEAUTY,

crosses over to France with his learning. Very well, but how can you explain it, save by supposing a community of men in Europe, alert for learning as were merchants for gold, a community which was kept Informed as to where the best was to be had and was determined to have

it? Wo are right in supposing this, for when light begins to glimmer and day to break on the Dark Ages

long with their

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count for the folk stories? Take THOUGHT.

any of the fairy tales you know best:"Cinderella, Red Biding Hood, (Continued from Page 23

Beauty and the Beast? How can you explain that these tales are day's march, or piling It into canoes common not only to widely scatter by untracked river sides, familles ed nations of the race we call Aryan, loading their camels with figa and but common also to savages in dates for Smyrna, villagers tread-Borneo and Zululand; to South American Indi neta,

olive-gatherers, packers, The missionaries did not bring waggoners, long trains of Africay

en them, but found them, There are porters, desert caravaga with

rmed tribal and local variations, but the outriders, dahabeeyahs pushing up talez themselves cannot be miss we call them (thereby Imputing the Nile, busy rice fields; puffs of

or taken. amoke where the expresses run across from Canada, Siberin or northward from Capetown; New- foundland codfishers; trappers around Hudson Bay.

Then think of the wanderings, alighting, fertilizings, of man's thought. Someone gopies down 'n Ittle poem on

reed paper on the back of a washing bill: the paper goes to wrap a mummy: long con- turies pass: a tomb is laid bare of its covering sands and from its dead ribs they unwind a passionate lyric of The Lesbian poetess Sappho-

Bede's School.

In the

to them, I think, alone of our

own darkness no when daylight begins to flow, wavering, and spreads for as over the Dark Ages, what is the first thing we see? I will tell you what the first thing I see Is-It is tho ronds.

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Old Time Mental Picture. I see the roads glimmer up out of the morning twilight with crowds of men, like ants, coming and going upon them; meeting, passing, over- taking knights, merchants, car- ling's messengers rlera; justiciars with their trains;

foot, friars--black,

riding pont: white and

AL the beginning of the 8th century, in the remote north of a barbarone tract of England, a monk called Bede founds is school. He in, I suppose, of all men world the least, na we should put it self-advertising. He nowadays, just inbours there in the cloisters of Jarrow, never leaving them, intent only on his page for the love of scholarship. Between his solitary lamp and the continent of Europe strelches a space of fens : broad as two thirds of England Troops of horse soldiers, regiments and beyond that the Channel. But

of footmen

the light reaches cross and over; grey; pardoners, poor scholars, Fleets in full sail What sight men on the continent have heard minstrels, puck horses; pilgrims

earth ro lovely

of Jarrow; eyes are watching. Inbound for Walatngham, Canterbury due time Bede's best pupil, Alcuin or to Southampton to ship there for of

the shrine of St. James at Com. York. an invitation to the

kets an

for Rome. I sen the Court of Charlemagne to be ita postelia Folk Storles Problem. educational adviser, So Alcuin old Roman roads: Watling Street, But this is of course a mere coin. leaves York-poon to be destroyed Erming Street, Icknield Street. cidence, WH, but how so you sewith its fine school and Hbrary by Akerman Street, the Fosse Way; one

Say you: but my heart ah' above

them prizes

Thee, my Beloved.

MOM

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Misa. Rana Stibbe, one of the contestants in the International Bauty Pagesat to be held at Luna Park next month:

My discourse will end with a moral, I have often observed in life and especially in the matter of education, you too will doubtless have noticed, that what folks get cheaply or for nothing they are dis- poned to undervalue. Indeed, I sus- peet we all like to think ourselves clever, and it helps our sense of cleverness to adjust the worth of n thing by the price we paid for It. Chaucer's Mediaeval Scholar.

Now, the mediaeval scholar was poor, bitterly poor, and he bought his learning dear. Read Chaucer's account of him, even when he had attained to the dignity of clerk

of Oxenford. How happy would such a poor scholar deem us, who have printed books, good and plenty, who have newspapers brought to our door, and a University in our can in few hours be

MICHE, W where there are,

in

I

understand, 20 universities, (Laughter) and in a few days in the United States where recently a doctorate in philosophy was given for thesis entitled "A senle for measuring Antero-Posterior Pon- ture of Ninth Grade Boys"- (Laughter).

Nevertheless I tell you, that in the commerce and transmission of thought, the true carrier is neither the linotype machine, nor the tele- graph, nor the telephone, nor the load spenker, nor any such invent- Fed conveulence, but oven Burch a wind ns carries the seed "It may chance of wheat or of some other grain"; the old, subtle, winding, caressing, omnipresent wind of man's aspiration. For the secret

which is also the reward of all learning lies in the passion for the

Thanks to Speaker,

Cornwall; a third through Chester are packing their knapsacks, bid And so on to Anglesey; and aiding goodbye to their homes, and fourth, embankęd and difched, waving to the family at the gate, through the Cambridgeshire fons. as they dare the great adventuresearch.

In the middle ages, to ker these

and fare

Intellectual fur Paris, roads in repair WH one of the first

Faru queen

In thanking Sir William, Mr. M. calls on godly piety and tyou will Tie desire of the moth for the K. Lo sais Many of us here to- ever understand the middle ages start. The ineffuble spell of those day have, I venture to think, heard until

you understand their charltrent names, Paris, Oxford, Cam- many addresses by Roturlan Sir abli Cicer

all travellers. fo

Frity, Belogan, Suinonen! These William Hornell, and those who Turn to the Litany of the Church young men reach at length the city have had the privilege of listening of England's Boisk of Common which has been shining their

him

would naturally (x- Prayers: -

infamnation, The light fades down i prel 10 listen 20 a very its visionary spires to a Darrow interesting address. I CAD say, quisome aurdiaeval street in which without any fear of contradic the neweomer is one of a crowd; a tion, that those who came with that turbulent cried of the wantonest thought in mind have not been dis morals,

th

is thers, and appointed. In his talk Sir William Friendship, to be kept grown through has made many references to his- the years of later life, when all this tory, in such an interesting way as poning Pong bas di persad, the buys to heighten our imagination and have sluiten hands never to meet muke as wish that there were some of the books of reference at hand in again, and nothing remains in com

order to answer mun to Pick of York or Hans of

the conundrums the that Our Hungary but a memory of the old

were propounded by classroom, where they lifew thele fingers and took notes by the light of unglazed windows and shuffled their feet in the straw.

That it may please thee to pr serve all those who travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all such persons and chil dren and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives."

The Wandering Scholar.

I have no time, even if I had the ability, to attempt to draw for you men and women portcatta of the travelling these roads. Mediseval iterature. and

especially Chunicer, teems with pictures of them: pictures which, rend with imagination. will "depict

your chamber walls around as with a ¡ moving frieze, I shail conclude by shaving one familiar figure and for a minute or two presenting him to you with what he meant the wandering scholar.

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If i undersland various writers of history correctly I should im- agine that the history of any period Scotland's William Durbar.

muninne existence must William Dunbar, the great 15th necessarily end with a note of in- century moet of Scotland, was born terrogation. In view of the huge ex- in 1400. He went to St. Andrews panse of the future. As we sat and there graduated as an M.A. in here to-day, listening to Rotarina Ile is young and poor and care-1479. He then became an Obser- Sir William Hornell, I rather want- less. He tramps it on foot and, vantine Friar of the Francescaned to latter myself by asking "Are when his pocket is empty, he has no Order and started to travel. He we or are we not sitting here to- share in begging, and men find a took ship from Leith to the Thames gether to make history?" I really religious reward in doing him

then to France in a little think to-day we have sat down and penny, he being bound for one of

passenger ship carrying 100 pas made history, because I suppose in the great universities of which the

besides the crew. Then another 50 or 100 years time when world has heard; for Oxford, or follows an extremely moving picture another learned professor comes to Cambridge; for Paris or farther of the crowded seasickness on board give an address, he will ask the rea yet. for Bologna or Salerno. The we will not dwell on that. son as to why people from Singa

like.

Dunbar Keta to France. roves nove and other places take the risk No one quite knows how

it -JEM happened. The schools

of two

two mixes

with the scholars of the famous scholars have, we will say, Sorbonne, and returns to his home given Parts a certain prestige and vis London. On his way he pauses The mysterious word spre..da along to muse on London Bridge "usty the great routes, of certain brigge of pylers white"-Old Len scholar

called Abelard, whose voice don Bridge with a chapel on it, be will persuade a uinn's soul out of won trished in 1209, his own body. The fame of it for centuries the marvel of England spreads almost as pollen is wafted which remained, until the 18th cen- along the wind; but spreads, alights|tury- until Dr. Johnson's day and fertilizes. Forthwith. in all the only bridge spanning the the corners of Europe, young men Thames.

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