1936-03-19 — Page 14

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 19,

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LITERARY RACE.

"Has the 'debunking' of litera- ture been carried too far?" That was the subject discussed at the Authors' Club last month when the guests of honour at dinner were Mr. C. Fletcher Cooke, of the Cambridge President

Union, and Mr. Ian Harvey,

Gathering Energy for the Morrow President of the Oxford Union.

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The Chairman was Mr. Douglas Jerrold.

Mr. Harvey said that he was per- haps the only member of the Ox- ford Union who had not written n book. There were, two lines of approach to the subject they hind chosen for discussion. There was the line of literature, for Htern- ture's sake, and the other was literature and its effects on every- day life.

The literary circle in Oxford to- day was practically negligible. There was a definitely literary Ox- ford but it had not & very cl couraging place. One of the great novelists of Oxford wrote a book in which the following passage ap- peared:

"I was overcome with the troubles of the world, and I lay down and then I went and had a bath, naked." He did not know if the Indy In question was in the habit of having a bath In her bathing costume or not.

"ONLY HALF THE TRUTH"

In discussing literature, he was bold enough to include the Press. The "Isis" was the only under- | graduate paper in Oxford. It was the maxim of the "Isla" that the greater the truth the greater the libel, and they had found that the SELVEDGE. greater the truth the more expen- sive the libel. The charge concern- ing what appeared about the Dons worked out at a loss of £1 n line, and only half the truth was told.

What he understood by “debunk- ing" was mud-throwing; it was a wild revolutionary type of criticism

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Haig's 'Backs To The Wall' Message

A DELETED SENTENCE THE fact, not generally known, that Earl Haig deleted a sentence from his !famous "backs the wall" message to British troops on April 11, 1918, was mention- Earl Haig

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at- the memorial service at St. Columbia's (Church of Scot land), Pont-street, S.W., last month. The sentence, which was at the end of the message, ran: "Be of good cheer, the British Empire must win in the end.”

The message was issued during the German attacks jon a 50-mile front with the object, Earl Haig said, of "separating us--from the French, taking the Channel ports, and destroying the British Army." The mes- sage added: "Every position Imust be held to the last

man."

The Rev. Alexander Campsie aald he was convinced that the final sentence was cut out because London, Mar. 1. Determined to do away with savoured of "such boastings, as the time worn vaudeville joke probably realised in his soul that the Gentiles used." Earl Halg about postoffice pens the British it was only if the Empire remained General Post Office has distri-true to those great principles of buted 10,000 "de luxe" pens of right and justice, and to God, that streamlined design, vividly red the words could stand. and emblazoned with the initials Eighty-six branches of the "GPO."

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and amusing, but it was

gerous. The tendency of Oxford | journalism was to try to appeal to Romeone or something through abuse. It was, he admitted, amus- ing to be rude, but it was not valu able criticism of literary work.

Mr. Harvey thought it was time they started to build again. There was one who devoted his life to that work-one for whom he had grent admiration,

He referred to Mr. Kipling, and he believed that the nationalism Kipling preached was the right nationalism,

JOHN KEATS'S PERIL Mr. Fletcher Cotke said that Mr. Harvey had referred to "debunk- ing as "wild and revolutionary criticism," If he were to look at the word "debunk" in Murray's English Dictionary he would find

the definition of the word was "to

remove false sentiment."

He agreed with his Oxford friend

that we needed more construction. He held no brief for that autocratic criticism of the kind which nearly killed John Keats when applied to him by the Edinburgh reviewers. He regarded Mr. Harvey's fear of too much criticism as lacking in the sense of the historical process. Tasten did change.

He read recently a review by Henry James of a novel by Anthony Trollope. James's main ground of criticism was that Anthony Trot- lope had written about characters who were below the level of the upper middle class. He thought somebody should "debunk" Henry James.

Mr. Guy Boas said the question of "debunking" was not a new one. It was as old na literature, for was not Euripides accused of "debunk ing" the gods' Chaucer and Fal staff, too, were debunkers. Con- structive satire, he held, must be carefully differentiated from mud- alinging.

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The work was done under thre supervision of Genrikh Yagoda, Soviet, Commissar for Home Affairs, whose department his charge of the maintenance of in- ternal order

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The published becount of the sidered of great military import- ance, due to the alleged threat by two-year task said the construc- 10 Spelt a spot of bother in 1911. Japanese and Manchukune totion camps were, in effect, im- 11 This flower has a certain sult-

mense reformatorics where con- ability for church decoration. victs were reformed "by the great 12 A literary production in America

full of French gas, that The workers were fed, the ac- 14 is read, furthermore, in musical

Rocials. 16 Does wrong. labour they performed.

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Return of Flogging pathos of their task."

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Many work brigades, sald this report. consisted entirely of women, while others, made up of men, were headed by women.

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29 Strangely enough, it's the inside of this earthenware that they think pretty in France. Though situated in the Sunny Bouth, this island is, to a great

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In Britain Decried count stated, in proportion to the

Urging the abolition of flog- ging and birching. Mr. George served special dinners and per-22 Linked in as I am, I'd like to gó Benson, MI.P. for Chesterfield, told mitted to order dishes according a conference held in Leeds last to their particular tastes," sald month under the auspices of the the official organ of the Railroad Society of Friends that the "cat" Commissariat, Gudok.

11 savage and barbarous punishment which bad been abolished from practically every criminal code in the world except

An example of the conditions that, of the British Empire.

the workers had to face was given John Paton, secretary of in the same paper, which snid: Mr. the National Council for the Aboli- tion of the Death Ponnity, de clured that in the five years ended 1930 an average of 18 floggings a year were ordered by judges in England and Wales.

Band music was played through- During the past five years, how out the day aml night to spur the the number had jumped to workers to rush completion of the about three times that figure. Mr. station at Schmansk.

ever,

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"The workers became veritable heroes, often working up to their waists in icy water.

"Miracles of courage and eclf- ancrifice were performed."

Paton wondered, he said, whether Much of the region through that was an Indication of a ten- which the line runs was described dency in the minds of some British in the paper as a place of eternal Judges to revert to the barbarous fce and terrible frost."Associat. and brutal form of punishment. led Preas,

possibly reminiscent of Gustavus Adolphus, this is not a Royal Scottish burgh. 32 "Very Like a weasel,” 23 Shake-

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1 This Notts town must surely be digested by now (two words), 4, 6)

2 Perhaps such articles would be too expensive for an Abigail to bury.

3 The explanation of Sim Cude

when the cannon, evaded him. 4 Leverage.

5 Fine spot for a holiday, even if

the roads are for the most part, under water.

6.Poor horse!.

Three in Germany.

13 When heads are fnclined,

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father couldn't.

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