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LECTURE ON BEING SENTIMENTAL.

EMOTION BROUGHT ON BY READING.

ARE YOU PREPARED

Against Children's Ailments?

. Fow children, cacape health troubles of some kind, and Wisc parents always keep Baby's Own The meeting of the English Tablets at hand for the immediate Association, held yesterday even- correction of infantile Indigestion, Ing in the Melona May Institute, constipation, colle, croup, fevers, was characterised by delightful colda, diarrhoea, worms and suck informality and friendliness.ike childhood anladies. Adminis Several members entertained tered at the first symptoms this parties for ten in the lecture room pleasant-tasting, before the meeting, and the seat-reliable children's medicine pro- Kentle, yet ing arrangements were informini.

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This departure from the custom vents the development of more

previous meetings was very wel-serious conditions. come and was much appreciated Baby's Own Tablets comprise a by a large and representative au- bona fide medical prescription of dience.

proved merit, the various ingred- lents, guaranteed pure and harm- less, being carefully balanced to provide an eflicient general treat- ment for all these ills of child- hood.

His Lordship Bishop Dappuy took the chair, n after the minutes of the November meeting had been duly read and approved, naked Professor Simpson to rend his paper. "Why we are sentimen tal."

are

The tablets have proved espec- The lecturer began by remarking inlly invaluble to babies during the that the sentimental is. concerned teething period. Teething pains, with trivial emotions; but trivial the result of derangement In emotions are, in a sense, of great stomach and bowels,

im- consequence, for sentiment is un-mediately eased by the administra doubtedly a characteristle of a civilised society.

tion of Raby's Own Tablets, and and men Who are devoid of sentiment are usual thun the child to enabled to obtain ly selfish, unserupulous, and dan the natural strength-giving sleep gerous, If we know but thing which is so essential to his wel is, where a thing is, and how long fare. it Imus ben, we anally know why it la; and in order to answer that Jast question, the speaker dealt Briefly with sentiment in morality justice, religion, politics, und art.

Sentiment in Art.

All parents should keep Baby's Own Tablets in the home 114 health anfeguard for their babes and children up to six yenes of age.

An ocensional tablet is an excellent precautionary measure against incomplete elimination of the bowels, that condition which Kiven riar to so many childhood troubles.

In art, particularly, the man-art- timentalist is apt to be considered 20 murulered Philistine, 2014 the most popular music and paint. inges are tauge wirfei; vertainly de pend on the sentinwotal for their Baby's Own Tablets are ublain- wide appeal, though their greatable from chemists everywhere. nega in not due to that. quality. The present-day revolt againat all sentimentality in ait has unfor tunately bete a companied two oflen by getting away from good drawing and good painting. but The very strength of that revolt is the greatest tribute to the force of sentimentality in our time.

In literature le more dificult to separate the sentimentality from the art. The English novel is the most popular form of litera Lare; it is also the stronghold of sentimentalism. The two best sellera of recent years, "If Winter, Comes and "The Gooti Com- panions," are both thoroughly sentimental.

The condition of drama is similar, for a play must make its effect on a large mixed audience and sentimentality, being the lowest common denominator of any large gathering, is the surest means of appeal.

In Literature.

Maurice CHEVALIER

-The Smiling Lieutenant

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After pausing for a moment to atress is definition of sentimen- tality as the exaggeration of minor) emotions, Professor Simpsos pre- ceeded to a survey of its develop- nent in Biterature. The first half of the eighteenth century wan elmaracterised by its love of com- mousense and hatred of sentiment, but the majority of people in those days were callous and brutal have a sentimental love story in because of this very lack, as may all his novels. Jane Austen alone) be seen, for example, in the of the great writers stood aside. grimly unsentimental painting of and warned bor readers ngainst, Hogarth or the work of Smollett ontimentality. Modern literature who can write unmoved by the is in close touch with sentiment, cruelty. coarseness, corruption, and men are much affected by E and callousness which he de- Beribes.

When Dickens, a hundred years later, handled similar themes, he was moved, and he wrote For 11 world that he knew would be moved too, to sympathise with suffering. The rise of sentimen- tality in literature began when the age of commonsense had reached) its climax.

re

re-

Itonascau began the great volution in the spirit and mind of man when he exalted sentiment, and especially sentimental love, as the ideni. After him

the surrection of this quality, which had been almost lont to letters since Cervantes, was rapid, Sterne in England, Henry Mackenzie in Scotland in prose;

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and after them the great Romantic writers in prose and verse, all followed the new apirit. Even Scott found it necessary to

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Such movements as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren and to Animals, the libera- tion of slaves, and humane legis- lation generally are the results of sentiment in literature. An Oscar (Continued on Page 11.)

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