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THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION

By E, G, Wells

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MATHEMATICS FOR THE MILLION

By Lancelot Hogben Allen and Uniein, 128, Gd.j Tis not merely the coinci- dence of publication dates which brackets these two books of major importanco, For Mr. Wells, at 70, and Pro- fesor Hogben, at 40. Hiro common purpose-the education of the people to a realisation of 1 Forces which. for better or worse, shape civilization. II they ouderstand them it will be for the helter. If they leave them to a by the mystical Interpretation Low, it will be for the worre,

Furthermore, Bathematics for the Million till a pop in Mr, Well' own encyclopedic works-The Science uf Life, The Outline of History and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Man-

al-which have exchiffed mathema- Coal and physical reince and general phillosophy.

The Anatomy of Frustration is in- portant not merely ann provient žve smalweds & human and world safirm

pa mestard-plaster which will feri. tale man, but a hutninary of Mr. Welly own concisions after 40 years of Fundinotal Thinkingt.

He holds a post-mortem on etvillation.

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traine the device of an imacthars eleven volumes widel es Hewed and made a synthesis of life oday, be examines religion and per- survival, which ke nuther

Broch Steelr, cntl. merger-inaamarindity" or "the attempt of the individual to esespe the con.

nave Trustration, et etenih,"

cheer on the Prustration of his mustards Collom 1 4 45 posters, able to take the skin of arushivo blam Sterle övéten par- Trular aflesition to Mr. Ramsay Mac. Donald "because Jan 11 spans the whole story of politira) Soetalisht froma the dawn to the twit He is made the demonstration rabbit, to show how

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Mr. Blogben is a Pro- tenor of Bocial Biology who approached mathe mntien as you and I might havo apprunched it If we had not been scared of by laborious school-daya spent in learning it as nu abstract study instead of as something which con. cerned in and society- "A mirror held up to eivlisation,"

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the graterr DI order, we cannot plan the rational society in which there will be le for all and poverty for none,”

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Ity Adele Lezard

Rich and Convon, 189.1 OHANNESBURG'S Jubilee ha brought such a glut of books about geld timt this fascinating metal has almost censed to giliter. But here one that is different. I opened it bored, with gold and verything connected with gold. but soon I was so fascinated in Miss Lezard's story of the Rand that I travelled with her for 50 years non-stop.

For author alves us Reality wall as Rumance. Her alary is one of weed and prafl and exploitation. She e not any of the few who became nallionairen, but of the many who work n the bowels of the earth--somethings

a mile and a half and more beneath the surface-so that a stream of guld worth two threand million poundin might go across the work.

Be contrasts the simplicity of the Borr farmers in the early days of the Rand with the canning and duplicity of human vultures from Europe. And the men whose hand this was before ither Beer or gold adventurer enne? "Cattle, hot in how the mining inclus. Jasl try aw the natives of Africa. black cattle, to be driven and whipped, to make the wheels go routal."

II. O. P.

GOLD FEVERL

By L AL. Nesbitt (Cape, 75, 64.).

for

MEN striking like demons in

darkness dust-laden

Men rold.

selling yirs of Men their lives for rich rewards.

inging across the counters of Feinmurstnærg rakons enough money In one evening to reideve a month's

hunger. That is the picture of life onl the Rand nome years ago left to the llving by man now dead.

Wan

L. M. Reabitt, traveller, writer and secker atter world adventure, Kied in airdner erash last senr.

1n w Gold Fever is his last book. see the South African miles, the thes who slaved in them and the grin. feverish lives they led, through the eyes of a young engineer just suit from the comparative prace of Cenwall.

Nesbitt was one of there rare travel authors who really takes his reader with in. You burrow a mile under ground, struggling through clouk of fying pell and gig off the thin

Your eyes against dread lung diento and that are parclied with the flu quartz dist. The average life of the underground gold miner party tusfert Then camer more than eight years, strath.

In Gold Fryer there is horror nur hummar, daughter and tears, nixiely and eain. There is everything ever

NOW done it the name of all

Is Your Name

Joyce?

This cheerful name expirare a naturally which is el Pay and mirthful personaflty

helly remet. t your min Meting beings you fortune, had when it fulle * the 27th

suan Month yout tuck In 11.

of

An

is The most promituje hours are 4 pum, soul 1747. Esmeralde, are your best Kask, they Calitat by kava Jack will bring you friends,

The tender press of spring leaves begin with one une pod and lieky ty te Time entènare alenet you.

3 in montened to yout The tomber all be used is after a mile for an

Correspondence Must

11E Elsh. I had been led ta, belleve, were a race who always called a spade a sada It was a national charac- teristic like cricket, the peculiar dampness of cabbage in country hotels and of the allinate:

Berent events, however, in the form of lets to the Editor, have revented that the inglish, in their nationally paradoxien) way, are masters of alang. So far from calling a spade a spade, they will, not themselves, call it alnim anything so long na its identity is not given away.

Perhaps it is a feeling for poetry, in- stmetive in the people, that elaborales, syumvinize aid diagulata common- pice terms into rich, metaphorica!

traps it is just insularly, a sort of chill-tike predilection for secrecy, for cuties and secret languages intelligible only to the gang."

On the other hand, it may be a mani- festation of national dislike of perfanity,

#

I don't know, I'm only asking. Pedantry, I suspect, in considered in the popular mind to be rather bad form. Its essence is conciseness you think it out); but its spirit is the -AplokcTug-of-ivutition, of corrECLEESS. It is the flaunting of tradition and cor- rentaeva; and the faunting of anything -particularly of knowledge and cor- rectness-is bud form, according 10 Boglish standards,

It's Not Lazy

So the English people, feeling that some things in its language are slightly Kuypert, resort to slang.

Stang, according to the majority of the letters we have received on the subject, is not a lazy way of sayingT things. In by no means the line of lenst resistance, for in most cases a slang phrase is considerably longer than the original phrase it para- phrases

Am I wrong? Well, think of rhym- ing tang, the original object of which was to bewilder the lay envesdropper by using long paraphrases for short Bult became whistle and flute," a phrase which is typical of the consistency of Its inventors. It would

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Inve been easy to call a suit " whistle and boot," but the mustent unity Is kept, making the phrase more cass.

if "table had not come "Calut and Abel," the rhyming sinngster might have picked upon "story and fable," in the same way as "wite bresme, with magnificent insight. trouble and strife," It might equally well have been the fork and knife," but it would have incked that slightly Dinllelous commentary on the married stata which makes Immediate appeal to the user of the slang. Humour Will Out

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11 was trade slang, however.tliál Alles our postbag.

Jargon, it has been said, is the off hand talk of experts upon their subjuet when speaking to other experts. Slat

Slang trades is is Jargon miras. almost without exception a refuge from everyday phrases,

It is the language of complaint, of grousers, of grin-and-bear-ft-but-it's the-same-ok-story tellers. Bat It is niso the language of n mare of people with a great sense of highr

Trade slang is the worker's re netion to offical terms, b. reaction to the borres, his own way of debunking and thus making tolerabs --the jobs he has to de

He escapes from routine by unter- emphasis. A sheet metal worker has Jab of well to do. When by starts, he calls it "triking i Baht." He escapes, too, by over emphasizing to show his contempl

The metaphorical is more turesque, but also more obseure in it

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origins, though the miner's "Kinga de o" for "sweating" is almost Blake ngerean in its tiventies

:

I am sorry, lnterd, that urcumthing is the Bradlig €11 El articly rerrespondence should hate cengit bes Jure the origin of some of the ticker slang phrases had hern explaited,

When, in the London docke, they want to say that a job hon bein stoppal, they tell you that somebody has stashed the time up." The verb

**to stash" de un expreveive as any Americanm ever heard on the silver screen. I is also one of the few words that have been inverted,

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1 want, fan, very much to know why bell rathwaymen und rond transport workera us the phrase. "Taking the

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