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1 Here, the lender conceals his

purpose:

3 The shrub that gives tone in a

coasting vessel.

8 A kitchen utensil that demande

aptitude first and foremost,

'9 Bait'

to Utter in a semitone,

·

11 The riddle is misplaced before

nightfall,

12 Grandfatherly ejaculation.

16 Just a penny roll. How funny!

17 A num can't be worked out in

the study.

18 This donizen of the deep la woll

armed.

21 Three or more.

23 One of the blues.

24 How the golfer does like lying.

Anglers aren't in it.

25 Inhabitant.

28 "The

car

I" take to

arrive

nt Queen Victoria's well-loved comer (anag.).

20 Dwellers here are thought to bo in clover though it can be so tumpy.

30 Stall treats (anag.).

11 The earth is boggy in front of

the don.

Down

i Musical gatheringe.

2 What the poet called the lawn.

3 Gun type of young horse.

4 The Westminster street that is

little before the rise.

5 Both in dumb crambo.

What an iden, though not every- thing.

7 Animal

9 Cupids.

13 Alf of a ditber.

14 A little more

and the body becomes inanimate. 15 Strength,

19 The first part of this light two- wheeled trade vehicle is reduced, so it costs less to run (hyphen), 20 Action of the alephant on enter. ing the Ark-according to the fox.

21 When the adhesive has been sot by Cook it will be most un- pleasant in the mouth,

22 Incites.

20 Indian butter.

27 Run for these without hiiting. 28 Act in a wrong way.

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An outspoken criticism of modern teaching of English in the schools and an appeal for English to be made the central and essen. tial subject of the curriculum was made by Professor J. Dover Vilson, Professor of Education at | King's College, University of Lon-" don, when speaking at Harrow ' School. He was addressing the third quinquennial conference of young public school masters.

The longer he lived, he said, and the more he had to do with univar- sity graduate students, to Bay: nothing of other so-called educated persons, the more urgently the pro- blem of written English forced it- self on his attention. The quality of the English, spoken and written, of university graduates was national menace. He lived in a suburb of London where there were a number of large houses with large gardens profusely stock. ed. But many of the housos contained very few books and those they had got were generally of the wallpaper variety; often nover opened but making a nice decoration on the walls. Most of the boys from such houses went to the public schools. Was it not true that to-day good English was heard in very few homes?

In the old days something went on in the home which had largely

disappeared now-the daily rend- ing of the Bible and the offering of prayers from the Book of Common Prayer. The young car was

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English prose ever written; the young vocabulary was enriched with the simplest words from the THREE lemons and three eggs, greatest things; the expanding two oza, butter and 16. sugar. mind was filled with countless images of the utmost grandeur. Add sugar and lemon juice. Dis Melt the butter in a double pan. So unconsciously and without the

aid of any pedagogue, the English solve slowly. Cool a little, and add people, or the God-foaring middle well-whisked eggs. Stir till thick. classes, Ilke the Greeks of old, Pat and cover. grow in grace, being nourished on music, the music of one of the greatest literatures in the world.

Pirandello Looks At America

TALKIES ARE TERRIBLE

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The playwriter Lulig! Pirandello will use the $10,000 of the 1934

Nobel Prize for Literature awarded him, chiefly to pursue his favourite hobby-painting.

The dapper, bald-headed, dark- skinned Sicilian disclosed that ho has already completed 30 paintings, in an exclusive interview with the United Press during a brief stay in London...

While dining at Gennaro's, well"! known Italian restaurant in Scho, Signor Pirandello took time out be- tween a plate of "Gnocchi" and a sip of bright red wine, to expound His theories on life, his low opinion

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"I am going to rest and devote more of my time to painting," he anid. "It's my main recreation. I paint mostly landscapes. I hope to exhibit them some day. Of course, I'll keep on writing, top. Next spring, I might go to the United States for a conference tour, if present negotiations materialise."

Signor Pirandello can talk with subtle humour of objective topics, but when subjective he assumes a different personality. Ho becomes His enthusiastic and dogmatic.

Italian sentences' acquire a terso- ness and incisiveness which enable him to express difficult thoughts with ense.

In these moments, bla aquiline nose almost touches the andwy Vandyke beard which jerks pugnaciously. His expressive heavy- bagged brown eyes resemble two points of steel.

"I have been following the can- temporary literary trend in the United States," he said, "and I see

it decisive signs of a brilliant artistic future. You Bec, the United States has suffered in these last few years. And American Art needed this auffering. Before the depression life overacas was too easy. People took it too light- |heartedly."

What did ho think of American actors?

Signor Pirandello thought the actors wero excellent, but the theatrical producera terrible.

"Commercialism," he said. Pro ducers are too business-like.. They only think of the money and do not hesitate to alter a play and distort oven its original meaning, for the sake of the box-office.

The rhythm and harmony whichish in this country had been much found their way into the secret hindered by uninteligent adoption places of the souls of modern of methods suitable to the teaching children were of a very different of Latin. That was specially no kind; they bellowed from the non-in regard of what was called Eng-

"I think, American producers are salective Toud-speaker, which was

underestimating the intelligence of never turned off. It was true that lish grammar. There was very their public. They are not educat if boys and girls heard the English little

between relation

graming the public's taste, and are im language less they read it more,matical knowledge and a command posing upon threatre-goers their but what did they read? Evening of English. The idea that we own taste, which obviously is un- newspapers, shoddy tales, and learned "correct" English by artistic because marred by commer- magazines for the most part

cialism." learning English grammar was one And what did he think of the of the Illusions bequeathed us by talkies? the classical tradition. We had

He sncered. His face expressed Inherited a still worse illusion utter contempt. He threw his about grammar from the Renais- sance that English grammar was

IN PLACE OF LATIN

The classics would never resume their ancient sovereignty, and their only possible successor was the English language for English a rather pale imitation of Latin boys. Yet so far English was only grammar. one of many subjects in the an-

Dealing with modern faults in archy of the modern school cur- riculum. That was partly because the writing of English, Professor It had not yet proved its title to Dover Wilson said the chief vico reign. The technique of English of modern English prose was the teaching, especially of English use of abstractions. There was speech and writing had still to also the cliche, the stereotyped be worked out. English, especial phrase, the mouldy outworn ex

ly the writing of English

hands towards the ceiling, and lifted his shoulders to the level of his thin white moustache.

"They are a bad copy of the theatre," he snapped.

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