1936-03-19 — Page 2

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OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE 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, President of the 'Cambridge Union, and Mr. lan Harvey.

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The Chairman was Mr. Douglas Jerrold.

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

The literary circle in Oxford to- dRy was practically negligible. There was a definitely literary Ox- ford but it had not # very CHI- 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 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 bald chugh to include the Press. The "Isis" was the only ander- graduate paper in Oxford. It was the maxim of the "sis" that the greater the truth the greater the libel, and they had found that the SELVEDGE. greater the truth the more expen-

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What he understood by "debunk- ing" was mud-thrawing; It was a wild revolutionary type of criticism

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936.

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Italian artists enrolled in the army in East Africa, have cut this giant head of Il Duce in a rock conquered in the neighbour- hood of Adowa.

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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 to the wall" message to British troops on April 11, 1918, was mention- ed at the Earl Haig memorial service at St. Columbia's (Church of Scot- S.W., land), Pont,street,

last month. The sentence, which was at the end of the message, ran: "Be of good cheer, the British Empire inust win in the end."

The message was issued during the German attacks on 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 said he was convinced that the Anal sentence was cut out because London, Mar. 1. Determined to do away with anvoured of such boasting as the Gentiles used." Karl Huig the time worn vaudeville joke probably realised in his soul that 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 British Legion in the Metropolitan "GPO."

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which was sometimes spectacular RUSSIAN WOMEN HELP

and amusing, but it was also dan- gerous. The tendency of Oxford Journalism was to try to appeal to somicane or something through! abuke. 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 great admiration.

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

JOHN KEATS'S PERIL Mr. Fletcher Cocke 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

removo false sentiment."

He agreed with his Oxford friend

that we needed more construction. He held no brief for that autocratie

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 lucking in the historical process. sense of the Tastes did change.

He rend recently a review by Henry Janies of a novel by Anthony Trollope. James's main ground of criticism was that Anthony Trol 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 as literature, for was not Euripides accused of "debunk- ing" the goda? Chaucer and Fal- staff, too, were debunkers Con- structive satire, he held, must be carefully differentiated from mud- slinging.

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A new strategically-situated railroad through 1,365 miles of the Soviet Far East has. been completed after two years of night and day work by convict labour, it was announced yesterday.

Parallelling the Trans-Siberian occupy the near-by Mongolisa Railroad, also owned by the Union people's republic.

The work was done under the of Sochlist Soviet Republies, the new railroad runs from Karimsk, supervision of Genrikh Yagoda, near Chita, north of Mongolia, to Soviet-Commissn-for-Home Khiarovek in Far Eastern Affairs, whose department has charge of the maintenance of in- Siberia,

It passes through a zone con-ternal order.. sidered, of great military import The published becount of the ance, due to the alleged threat by two-year task and the construc-10 Spelt a spot of bother in 1911..

totion camps' were, in effect, Im-11 This flower has a certain suit- Japanese and Manchukuoans

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

full of French gus, that The workers were fed, the at-

labour they performed. In Britain Decried count stated, in proportion to the The best shock-workers were Urging the abolition ging and birching, Mr. George served special dinners and per- Benson, M.P. for Chesterfield, told mitted to order dishes according

held in Leeds last to their particular tastes," said 24 Furs. a conference month under the auspices of the the official organ of the Railroad 20 Many work brigades, said this 29 Society of Friends that the "cat Commissariat, Gudok,

and barbarous was

or a -savage

report. consisted entirely had been punishment which

women, while others, made up of abolished from practically every men, were headed by women. criminal code in the world except An example of the conditions that of the British Empire. the workers had to face was given Mr. John Paton, secretary of in the same paper, which said: the National Council for the Aboll- tion of the Death Penalty, de clared that in the five years ended 1930 an average of 18 loggings a year were ordered by judges in England and Wales.

of flog-

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

"Miracles of courage and self- sacrifice were performed."

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

Paton wonderod, he said, whether Much of the region through that was an Indication of a ten-which the line runs was described deney in the minds of some British in the paper as a place of eternal judges to revert to the barbarous leo and ferrible frost."-Associat-

led Press. and brutal form of punishment.

The Long And Short Of It

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Strangely enough, it's the inside of this earthenware that, they think pretty in France.

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31 While possibly reminiscent of Gustavus Adolphus, this in not a Royal Scottish burgh. 32 "Very like a weasel," as Shake-

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

3 The explanation of Sim Cudo when the cannon evaded him. 4 Leverage.

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