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to be said. But no faction, can hope to rule a nation on such lines. The day is long past when Jews were regarded as social pariahs. By a wonderful evolu tion and a steady triumph over disabilities and oppression, they have produced a host of men of distinction and power in all walks of life, especially finan- cial and political. Any plan of

HOW I READ MYSELF

By

ROBERT LYND

A Correspondent has written for my opinion on the best books for reading in bed..

TO SLEEP

"

The Very Idea!

PLEASE DO NOT CHIT By Eddin "1.0.0.” Kally. MONEY!

What, we have often won- dered, was it like?

in a room that contained nothing but the Intest sensational fiction. I should in time get tired of Myra "His own choice of bedside books, with the red hair and the green he declares, is as follows: 1 eyes, and of the wicked Sir Charles, Montaigne's Essays; 2, W. Hand of the blackmailer with the

We have often heard of Hudson, Cobbett's "Rural Rides" gun in the sports car; and in a

Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity" or have even asked us for some. White's "Selborne"; 3, a cur mood of reaction would long for the stuff. Sometimes shroffs

Blenkinsop's "Economie Causes of "It would be difficult to make a the Peloponnesian War-for any better selection if one must make a book, indeed, that did not happen selection at all. For my own part, to be there. however, I confess I have no special

rent book.

ostracism is bound to arouse world antagonism and can never hope to succeed. The world to day wants broad-mindedness and toleration. A vitiated sense of ultra-nationalism can only lead to world disaster. That is why,

In bed, one likes to have within on large and general grounds, bedside favourite among, books. I the Nazi campaign will assured-go on reading in bed what I was reach one or two books that one

chair, knows so well that one can ly meet with widespread dis- previously reading in

whether it is Wordsworth or Wode-into them almost anywhere,

of enjoyment. approval.

house.

I do not know whether Dickens would be a good author to

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read

And we're always known that people who sit behind large cages in banks, with heaps of brains protruding from inrge bald heads like an ostrich egg, only pinker, have most of it. But none of them" have ever given us free sample,

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in bed if one bad never read out what all this gold trouble in

with it.

So we decided yesterday to find Shipping Prospects

him before. Probably he would the world was about. Or, if Imake a change, it is keep one awake all night. But First of all, we discovered, gold There seems to be good usually in favour of a detective what an excellent book "Our Mu "WIRED FOR RADIO |ground for the air of cautious story. I find that there is nothing tual Friend" is to go back to be, is useless to-day because you can't

All closed models of the new Warren at the annual meeting ing one to sleep. There is a com- asleep. Let that arch-scoundrel

optimism adopted by Mr. J. P. like a really exciting story for send-tween getting into bed and falling eat it, or wear it, or light a fire Rockne Six line are wired for of the Kowloon Dock Company mon theory that the best books to Silas Wegg, open his lips to speak radio,

with regard to the future of read in bed are those that will and at once all seems for the best somnolence. My in the best of all possible worlds Sce and drive the New Rockng the shipping industry. During soothe one into

lown experience has taught me the last three months there has other-wise. I sleep most chaily THE WEIGHT Six to-day!

been a reduction in laid-up Bri-when I am reading a book that OF SHAKESPEARE tish tonnage of 325,000 tons makes me long to keep awake in

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gross.

about one-tenth

cluded in the list,

So useless is gold that if the world is ever to go straight again we must go back to the old system of Barter.

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ten

Of course, this barter business doesn't always work. is all very well in theory, but it

About a month later, Feto rings

Pete and us tried the scheme last Christmas. We asked Pete what he'd like for a Christmas present. "Well, if it's all the same to you, This is about 10 per order to find out what happened, All the books that people praise

rather have the money," he said. cent of the total of idle, tonnage and when through sheer weariness as bedside books are, like "Our Eddie, ole pal ole pal, ole pal, I'd

Mutual Friend," good dipping

So we gave him a ten buck note. per I cannot keep even one eye open.. three months ago, or 15 cent, of the idle tonnage if we The usefulness of detective books. Boswell's "Johnson" and He asked us what we'd like for a

pro- present. exclude vessels more than twenty stories for reading in bed may, Tour to the Hebrides" are

"If it's all the same to you, years old. He would be an think be explained easily enough, bably the best books of the kind optimist who considered that In reading a detective story one is, in the English language. Lamb's Pete, me boy, we'd prefer the

use of only letters and essays are almost as

So he gave us back our much of the twenty-year-old imagine, making

of one's brain. good. And, besides the books name money, too," we replied,

dollar note. tonnage will ever go to sea Even if this one-tenth is enor-ed by my correspondent, Walpole's again in competition with mo-mously excited, the other nine lettera, Pepys, Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men," Thoreau's "Wal- dern vessels which can operate tenths gradually relax into a gentle den," Religio Medici," "Pride and at costs ranging from 50 per drowsiness against which, after a Prejudice," and Mr. Norman Ault's

Supposing you. keep a butcher's cent. to 75 per cent. of those of time, the one-tenth struggles in Elizabethan Lyrics" might be in- these old ships. We may there- vain.

shop. What with spring coming Take, for example, 4 recently fore deduce the notable fact that

Shakespeare is one of the best on, and the birds twittering in the all the reasonably economic ton-published sensational novel, which

authors to read in bed, but he wrote trees, and the G. F. looking askance an inconveniently large number of at the soup stains on your vest, nage now idle will be absorbed begins:

Murder had been the fixed pur-plays, and a one-volume edition is you naturally feel like a new suit. within about eighteen months at

pose for two weeks of Eyliffe at once too bulky and printed In So you pop along to Pete, who is the present rate of progress. Trent Van Maarden, the scion of too small type to make a perfect a tailor and you say: "Look here, And it cannot be objected that j one of the oldest Dutch families of the last three months have seen New York, last descendant, of the 200k for holding under a bedside Pete, you make me a nice new auit,

lamp.

with an extra pair of pants thrown a very notable increase in world naine of Jan Van Maarden, friend

The Oxford Dictionary, again, in, and I let you have half .a and some trade. It has been quite mo- of the great Peter Stuyvesant.

giblets." derate, and the rate of increase At first sight that may not ap-would be an ideal book to read in dozen Sunday joints

And Pete says: That's Oke THE NAZIS AND THE is attainly unlikely to be any pear o be a sentence likely to in- bed, if it were possible to read so next year. duce the innocence of sleep. It large a book in bed., Books for lower 'during the JEWS

may be)", and presently This examination leads to the contains elements more suggestive reading in bed, however, have to be by me, Hec. (or Charlie, as the

af nightmare horrors. The fact judged not merely by their contents case Whilst it is now made clear conclusion that a distinct re- remains, however, that at the back but by their size, weight and type, around comes the suit. that it is the Nazi Party, and vival in shipbuilding, more of one's mind one does not believe The fact that Marcus Aurelius has not the Hitler Government, particularly cargo shipbuilding, sufficiently in Eyliffe Trent Van for a long time been a favourite which has proclaimed a uni- is much nearer than is generally Maarden to care whether he com- bed-book is said to be largely due versal boycott of Jews through-imagined. It is frequently for-mits murder or not. He does not, to the size, weight and type of the

like Raskolnikov, in "Crime and popular editions of his work. but Germany, the situatiofi is, gotten that scarcely three years Punishment" become one of our own

AND WHAT none the less, far from reassur-ago most of the world tonnage flesh-and-blood neighbours, dis- ing. Indeed, as Herr Hiller is was fully occupied and that the turbing the depths of our terrors the head both of the Govern-figure for idle tonnage was and sympathies. If Eyliffe chooses I am not sure, however, whether happen to be an undertaker instead ment and the Nazis, the impres-negligible. Even a 10 per cent. to commit murder we feel that it reading in bed is a practice to be of a butcher, you offer him a nice, sion is naturally created that improvement in world trade will only be a make-belleve murder commended. Most of us were slap-up funeral, with feathers and the boycott has official sanction, would set nearly all the idle by a puppet. Nearly all the most warned against it as children, and tomb-stone and he says, "But I ne- enjoyable detective storles-whe-if you took a plebiscite of the com-ver felt better in my life. What the more so as Hiller himself ships moving, and it is surpris-ther Conan Doyle's or Edgar Wal-munity to-day you would probably could i do with a funeral?" has long been known for

So you settle matters by giving hising how rapidly tonnage could lace's are stories about puppets find that there are thousands of anti-Jewish outlook. The only be absorbed. And once tonnage and raake-believe. Even while we good citizens who prefer to put him a chit for one posh funeral. circumstance which can dispel begins to move again there are being harrowed, we know in themselves to sleep by counting to be supplied on demand.

of our hearts that there is no need to imaginary sheep or, like a man I Now, chita written on perish. this belief will be "for the Gov-should be a boom, if only

i know, by counting the people with able paper have a way of wearing ernment not only to disown temporary duration, in the ship-worry. Though the heroine association with the movement, repairing yards.

imprisoned in a cellar, gagged and whom, during a long life, he has out. Not that any we've signed bound, with the water slowly rising quarrelled.

have, but it can happen. but to take energetic steps to

to her chin and a tarantula about see that it is suppressed.

If people must read in bed, how to drop on her from the ceiling, we realise that there is nothing in the ever, and if I am asked to express situation to prevent an honest man an opinion on the best books for Speaker, assured the foreign An amusing article in a re-from enjoying a good night's sleep. reading in bed, I must give my vote press that the Government had cent issue of the Bookman pokes no intention of discriminating good-humoured fun at those who THE PERFECT against Jews or of interfering take their culture for an air- SCOUNDREL

Much and often as I enjoy read- The book to avoid reading in bed with their personal liberties, ing" in the circles they frequent. whilst Herr Hitler himself has Pushkin, Russian poet, is the ing detective stories in bed how is the fairly well-written serious promised effective justice to all peg on which Mr. Winthrop ever, I should not care to be doom-book. This awakens the spirit of religions and races. Yet we Parkhurst hangs his homily.ed to sleep for the rest of my life criticism-and the reader." now have a situation in which At a parlour gathering some

It

was less than a week ago that

Captain

Goering,

the Nazi

Culture on a Peg

read.

the Nazi Party is to put into highly cultured person, in re- effect a rigorous anti-Jewish verential tones, utters the poet's name. "Ah, yes," his hearers campaign affecting schools, the legal and medical professions exclaim, knowingly, "Pushkin." and businesses generally. Even Then silence. All-including one are equally newspapers are to be compelled the cultured to join in the movement, those afraid of being asked to quote which do not do so being banned the poet, not a line of whose from German houses, while no poetry they have ever German businesses will be per Mr. Parkhurst's gentle satire mitted to advertise therein. If this is freedom and justice, the finds even larger scope when it terms badly need revising. comes to pronunciation. What Whatever the grounds for com suspicion is directed at the un- plaint against the Jews, there fortunate indvidual who accents can be no possible justification the word "irreparable" on the Really, no self-re- for the employment of such third instead of on the second

syllable! methods. The root of the trouble would appear to lie in Nazi in- specting scion of the intelligent- toleration. The Nazis have no sia can be expected to invite of his 'in one but out-and-out such an one to dinner. use for any

Beerbohm, Nazis all other schools of inimitable pen portraits, de thought are practically grouped scribes the peculiar, not to say

the together as enemics of

superior, sense of satisfaction State. Such a complex is sure the average Englishman derives ly sadly out of joint with mo- from the knowledge that he has dern conceptions. It is charged at his command some colloquial against the Jews, amongst other French and a not too comic ac things, that they are Marxists. cent. Until, on one inauspicious. Some may be, but it is surely a day, he hears another English- straining of the facts to class

man who possesses still more all Jews as of one political per colloquial Trench with an suasion. Common-sense rejects any such contention. Thus to cent much less comic. Such en- counter spells his -Waterloo. classify the Jews and to subject Philosophy holds no panacea to despairing mood. them to universal persecution is

cheer his

Max

ac-.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. only likely to heighten racial Disillusion haunts his ever more

prejudices and possibly lead to excesses of the gravest kind. halting essays at talking French. of the habit. One pet Pushkin If this is the Nazi conception of Sometimes it even breaks him. government, little more remains taken less often for an airing.

Į TO AVOID

either for books that can be read over and over again or for books that no same man wuld wish to read a second time.

"Here you are, madam, a perfect match for your costume

and would you care to see our new spring line?"

you up, and complains that the last three joints have gone a little so-40, And then you say, "I'm sorry to only more so, owing to the weather. hear that, Pete, but as your suit has started bagging at the knees,”~~ we'll call it quits.

On the other hand, should you'

So in order that there shall ne no diddling or dirty work, you have this chit printed on something more permanent than paper, such as cop- per, or gold, or silver.

And there you are.

money.

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That's

A TRAGEDY OF LAUGHTER. In the course of a long experi-

mers (said he, blushing like a ence covering some nineteen sum- pillar-box) I have noticed (and you'd better take a long brenth here, because this is going to be a dickens of a sentence), I

have noticed that owing largely to lack of enterprise, Initiative, foresight, eagerness, inventiveness, exertion, Imagination, authority, unanimity, strategy, assiduity, capability, and a few other virtues that I haven't room for, the modern party is too often a full-fled dop; with all the guests over-fed and all the couches overloaded, the best chairs full of obese indies, and old fogies making agricultural noftes in the next room because they work so hard at meals that they're tired out, Well, we must after all that.

We must do something to get a spot of pep into the doings, liven. things up. (Loud laughter, in which two other people joined.)

This stopped him and what ho- was going to say for the beneßt of our Bright Young Things and their cousitis, the Not Quite Right Young Things, was irrevocably lost to his world.

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A DETTER WORLD. When we pass on to our reward, we will do so with the knowledge that we have left this world a better, purer, and nobler place than we found it.

When we think of all the tempting unkissed girls we have met in Hongkong, of the gallons of beer to entice drinkers, of the opportunities for gambling and dissipation-In short, of all the wickedness that is in our Calony '—then' we ̈ find It pleasing, to reflect that we have done our darndest to remove most of the temptations.