- The English Magazine ‘Auspicium inelioris evi Volume“ S’ ssue the Third The Time for Action ts Wot Now ————————— tr srammes your editress as curious How Uldeule some people have Found it to accept he true nature. of The “English Magosine— that ts, co underStand that is general mag— Gike father than one dedicated to any part= {ular purpose or specialism. ‘Thove who have a suficlent dislike of the modern world have, on the whole, not found {his digicalty, They realise the'need for a gen- CRI Gnome of communication and entertain- ‘fone for sane and civilised people;-—but even Trnong those of traditional afinites, there fas been acertala tendency to wish to Bt the Tagasine into some recognised category ‘Eich atteragts have often centred upon the name iesell More than one reader has Tivumed—even after reading the maga Sine Tehat i is publication dedicated to the ‘Rudy of the English language. Certainly the Tanglage is one of ur concerns and not the [abt of them, but i is far rom being the sole br central theme of our work. Gthers have seen In the name a political ignifcance, one even going s0 far a8 £0 38 Et s magctine devoted to English mational~ Emi Long overdue. Certainly we feel» orop- tr patrigtism and a love of our native land ‘Breauhes there the man with sou! s0 deed Tao never to himself hath said, Tests ay ovo, my native land!” the poct asks; and indeed there are, in these Segenerate times, many such men. It is sin- Earely to be hoped thae none of them is aum= ered among our contributors. Nonetheless, "English nationalism”, with Jes unfortunate Implication of dlamembering our British na tom into petty nationalities could scarcely be Tureher fom our ehoughts. It was = Scotsman Atroce the lines ebove, and the land he refers this no less his than ours. But beyond this, fe is quite allen to the nature of Tne ‘ngish Magurine to purse & political “line” of aay sort. Individual con PRtors may do so, within reason, snd pro ided they remain independent of moder ary politics, but the Magazine itself is Ereendad for every treditionaiSt. whatever however loosely or broadly that word may be detined, Nonetheless,” twill be—and has been— cojoineds "you are_certeinly for some things id apaindt others, You surly have a purpose: ‘Our SeS purpose is to provide an accept able form of communication and entertain- Stene to chose wha are out of sympathy with the offelal and unoffical outlets of the red thos, known velgarly es "the mass-med~ ‘That takes precedence over any other ie Purpose whatsoever. In doing this we are, Tpoo facto, falling another funétion. We are Welling to create—not “ereating”, but pro- Midings as tt were, 2 workshop for the crea- Uon ofa new mode of consciousness. By discussing things which are not dis- cussed in the "mass-medla”, or discussing Ghings which are discussed therein in 573 tnd from points of vlew which are not nor~ faally “vallowed''®, we are broadening. the mental and moral horizons of ourselves, our ‘Riltibutors and our readers. As one contri~ Gator remarked itis noe suficlent to think « thing; owe mudk be In a position to say % pU~ DiEK and to receive. comment and critics rom cthecs, who, while Uhey may differ from, Gna grectiy, inhable the same “universe of discourse”: Only thus can thoughts and ide truly come into being and be properly real~ ised. ‘Another reader recently remarked that he had net been awars of the degree of de facto Censorship in the public “media” until he Saw such obvious and naturel points of viewFolumeS being expressed in The ‘Exlish Magszine and Feallsed that there. was vifewally no other Gute for thoughts ofthese Kinds, nthis connexion, our indapendence of any pressure. group of political, religious ot etic “tendency” [evita There are pub Tations whieh, upon one subject or anoth- tn say "forbidden things more forcefully Shu Consiftently than ‘The Engi Magaeine Goes: but nearly all of them are anlmated by port pris of one form or another, are in the Eiiiness of preaching or of propaganda, and therefore not open toa variety of approaches: hd, furchermore, while opposing the modera fos in one or’ more particulars, tend 10 Sccepe it uncrically tn mo arent not con ecied wih their Geldof specie! inere®t. There are those who would reproach us for cour lack of imolvernent in any form of seve "Chmpalging” for any cause which may be con ao tradtonality and we would take tls Spporcunity to reafrm the fa that we do, a2 policy, abstain from all such campaigns: Where we talk, for example, of the use oF fractional county” names, English. money Gesignations and) measurements, ve are SGdrtasing the personal usage oF our readers, ‘Meare not campaigning for changes of policy Un the part of public bodies. Ths 12 not 9 Sty thet we my noe ‘wish such campalgns Mellor that we are not willing, upon ocea~ Non, to. publicise Uhem—only tha “such ampalgning does not form apart ofthe work St the English agorne ‘There are thooe aa have said, who would reproach us. There are those who aceuse Us SFeing otrich-ike and who warn us grimy {hat this ib the Eleventh Hour and that The Time for Aon is Now. ‘We would depute this. Indeed, we would say quite categorically that xcept perhaps int few iolated cases) the Time for Adon Is ror now A irend of ours recently came tos Ih grost deprension of spies. She hed been tluying en old tranklul of pamphlets, matty bi fate-igsos vintage. Thay had covered 8 var~ Iety of sabjeds, from Church afar to dec. Tralisation and immigration. Nearly all of Them hed proclaimed iat this was the Eley= nth Hour that the Time for Aion was Then, nd that, in the words of another poet Unless somuthingdratets done =" ‘Teenty years on i all seemed rather fi tile They had moftly been right In thelr Way, Sfcourse, Nothing deafle was done, because those who cured ad not the power to. do Snyching etfeciv, and moat of the predicted lasts came to pase aa predicted. Let us Tie Gaglip Magayine Page hhave the courage to admit that it isthe same today. Traditionalit campaigning. of early Every sort In.a walte of afore. In some Ways tthe position ls betters in many ways 1 is tworse, We do not deny that the prospects for the middle-term future are dlstinetly less bleak; or at lea, the possibilty of some sort ff reftitution i not quite so closed as it was In those days; DUL as to the effectiveness of campaigning on large ‘public issues:—that hat not changed at all. If we wiah to take advantage of the break ing-up of the great ice-Boe.of the “liberal cansensds”, we will do so not by waSking our tnerglee on doomed campaigns, but by pre- paring s new mode of consciousness, by dis Gussing and developing new ideas” and by Dringiag those Ideas into the way we [ive our lives, from our dress, décor, speech and entertainment to our philosophy, our reading, four moral conduct and our art, so that they tay develop into a true ethos. This is not merely a case of making the oft of a bad situation. Traditionalift ond Peadtionary Ideas (with the admirable except ion of the raretBed but mathematically com~ plete Traditionalife ‘school of philosophy) Ure. due to their long suppression, nan sby— Binal State of vagueness and disarray, often Smounting co little more then noftalgia and Sentiment bolstered by sporadic and unpein- pled, paeudo-vellitarian justifications (not, ‘we halten to add, that we have any dislike of hnoftalgia and sentiment. They are signs of sound heart and they ceralnly have thelr place in these pages. We merely say that they Ere not suficiant on their own as a basis for Sion and reform. Our reasons must be real {nd principled, and not mere haphazard jult— ‘Beatlons’™; and our lives. must be the ex pression of ur philosophy). Action in the Sbsence. of underfeanding, method without Wrisdom, muft ultimately be pointless. The Graditionalie mut BeSt ind himeell before he attempt to reform the world Rousseau would have boen # pathetic fall ture had he attempted to foment 6 French Rey- ‘lution ins own time. His réle in the acon- Sertain thoughts and. ways of thinking and ‘being which led to revolution half a century Tater: That is how we see our ovn rdle in the economy of reconstitution. ‘The time for action will come, but Ie is certainly nat now. Miss PRISM For Tne Jouiest Wineess FUN INSIST ON IMPERIAL Bolumes Wireless The Rew Home Service A Conversation with Miss Lindy Lynne Part I Tae ENoUsH MAcAzINE: Were there ny eally usual or remartable events that hap Dened during the first period—the Oxford days, Shall we ay—of the Home Service? Miss Linpy Lyne: Not being “live”, of Course, we were not subject to such outst nding’ sloopers aa "The Fleet's Lit Up” tre~ Ferenc to a famous and very fy ow-the-air Micctiene” on HEB. C wireless 1 the 19305). Probebly the mo outftanding plece of hodicia! hilarity was the notorious 2Marsetl- lise incident. You are probably not aware (Gstess, you heard this programme) chet Wetichicriy. egregious piece oF awhulness Perpetrated by the Bootles begins with aren [ring of the Afarselloize. On one occasion & Droadeadt wene out which began in the fol~ Towing way--firft a Few bars of the Marsel- letsen very Btirving and all that. Then a few bars of that dreadful, grooshy singing. Utter forror, of course. Nobody knew what sort of S tape’ they had got hold of by miStake— ‘Them, before any One hed time to switch the {hung off the ‘sound of machine-gun fir, Sererming shells, mazsive explosions; a hoedle screeching across the Booties records then few moments of llence, broken by the demure voice of s Home Service announcer~ ‘Ete, primmer than aver, ffsuch a thing, were possible dlidently #0ying "This isthe Impe- Fal Home Service, We trugt that our IiSt- ners were not anduly inconvenienced by the preceding unseemly noise. | have” (and ero Eee could almost detect a slight maidenly Blush in the voice) “etways wanted to do that “Si-course, you have to Anow the Home Ser~ vice to realise how startling thus Was. That Sore of music ls never so much as mentioned Sn the Service; and that type of humour 1s ub not fe at all: Nothing like it before or since, what? The ENotish MAGAZINE: Was some one stcted? Miss Linpy Lyyase: No, but some one was pretty Sdly reprimanded, T can tell. you The Gnglif Magajne ages Caned, I shouldn't wonder. The Home Service Ie quite as Seige as The English Magazine, you Know. Ture ENGLISH MaGazine: Surely not! Miss Linpy Lynn: Well, nearly as trig. fe twas very well done though, and of course, the broadease got about to every one. The ENotisn MAGAZINE: You sold (lait Inate) dat the Home Service mouncers did rot Tidten to modem wireless—or, I presume, to that fther thin, Js that an obsolute rule? What do Jou think of moder broadcasting? Sfiss LINDY LYNNE! AS far as that, other thing goes, it ia an absolute rule with moBe people, is it not? Ie fs so insidious. Wireless: Wall slot ofthe chaps liften to Mr. Hubert Gregg each week. He is the lait of the real Gia shnouncers.""When he goes, so does my wireless" have heard several people say hae. He Sul writes his scripts, by the bye “Gtherwise, ay view is that the thing fs too unsound, Even quite nice, educational things ep dripping tn dreadful modern attitudes, thd ie ma adece one, It mult coarsen the mind. Let me give you an example. 1 elmo fever lien to anything except. Mr. Greee mow, but recently some one told me that there was to be an hour-long. programme eelebrating”® hat is one oF ehose swful neve ‘Words they tse) the old Children’s ‘Favourites Programme 1 liftened to thls. The music was Tory jolly, eacepe that the announcer would Keep talking over the records, cutting thers (Off, interupting therm with kis comments and So’on. The commentary ieself was juBt gre Jomer It felt compelled to treat the whole ‘ing with « sapercilious smugness and to be cynical about everything thet wat clean tnd decent and wholesome about Children’s SFaeowites. Now, this was not a deliberate {eftie attack on the programme. On the con trary it as, as Far as tho B.B.C. Is now e=p~ ble of such a thing, a genuine, noBtalgic eglebration”. The marrator had genuinely oved the programme. His attitude was MBC 2 fish of how deeply ingrained the hatred of— Of embarrassment about-—cleanliness “has become For example, do youl; remember that chasing resend of "Theyre Changing Guard St'Buctingham Palace"? OF course you do. Wells this chap played i, prefacing it by call- Ing it "Steidently middle-class". Now, realy, how could one possibly call that delicate re” ording, “Strident in any sense, whatever? These people are actually shocked by anything thet isnot common and Lov. After the record had finished he seid that it “oozed EmpireBolum € and Nanny”, Oozed? Why oozed? What can be better than Empire and Nanny? Why do we need some predictable brainwashee making predictable brainwashed remarks about every ote of music which is not. infeéted ith modern roctlessness? One more example, though I could give you dozens from this programme alone. The narrator referred to (Children's Favourites. ‘asthe "children’s ‘weekly Bx ofthe comfortable and the famll- Jar". Now, the word "Bx" used in ths sense {ig drugeaddicte’ slang for an intravenous in fection of the flthlel® drug obtainable hheroin. What tore of mind can apply. such Tanguage to the natural and proper need of children. for comfort and familiarity? The answer Is alittle horrifying:—the mind of any ‘Ordinary, modern BLB.C. "presenter. 'As | have said, this narrative was “ot tak Ing a naty, hosuile atitude to its subject, many do. Te wes sympathetic to its subject. ‘The examples T have quoted, and the many more I_inight have quoved, from the ‘pro- [gramme are slmply examples of the continual Sindercurrent of subversion that is present all the time In modern broadcasting, like the background, drone of the bagpipes.—And When Tsay “subversion”, Ido not mean pol- ‘tical subversion. I_mean the much deeper {ubyersion of our human feelings, our inno= ence, eur warmth and our loyaltie. 1 donot beliove that any one can Sten regularly to modern broadcadting without suffering deep, Subtle wounds anda. certain hardening ot ‘coarsening of the soul. ft is not this or that Sraument whlch will hurt one. ts the whole tone oF the thing!—and If you watch modern People in the frest and hear thelr talk, 1 Think you can see evidence of what 6s hep- Tore Exottstt Macaziie: Returning to The Imperial Home Service; it Ropped for ¢ time, dia te noe? Miss Liny Lysnge: Oh, yes. For quite + time actually. Mabe of the people involved left Oxiord. ‘The whole thing sas very In= Formal—very much based upon personal con teel and the passing of brosdeades from hand to hand, As we were less close together the Home Service jut petered out, really. I think People fill played the old broadcatts, but here were no new ones for some years. Tt ‘was not really until The Romantic got under ‘way that any one thought of reviving it. The idea was dlzcussed for ages—almose every tline some of the old set were together: but, ff course, things were not so easy with our living so’ far apart. One could not simply say:—"Let us meet together with our scripts on Tuesday and. Thureday afternoons.” Eventually Ie was St. Bride's who took the Jolly old plunge and volunteered. One mem- ber ofthe household had been s more or less regular brosdeafter in Oxford and another had been an occasional announcer, which was about as large a gathering of "old hands” as row exited in any one place!—ARRer all, the thing has always been rather small. St Bride's is the sort of place to which people {Bet from time to time—even though ie does take the Back of Beyond look like the Corner Shop—so ""gueft appearances” will be pos- ible, and vee also have a very Targe record Colleétion, which, ofcourse, Is vital am not [Boing co say who the announcers are, because Snonymity and. pseudonymity have always been the rule in the Home Service It will be a bitof an open secret for many of your rexd- fre, of course, but then Ie always was; sven £5, think some of the charactors may keep you guessing. Tate ENcLISH MAGAZINE: ‘Do you thin the Home Service ll be poorer for no langer being imine thick of things" Miss Lieoy Lysis Obviously st has dis- advantages, but T think there will be some ‘Mvantages too. For one thing, see have some Charming old wireless material Irom the "0s Sha 'gos—cStorias and things: that te some: thing'we never had before, We have a wider Audience, so, all im all, 1 think ie will bea little dierent. Whether better or worse, the ftidience sill have to say-1 Will say thsi—we fave some very. charming’ and inexpected Surprises lined up for you. Tur ENGLISH MAGAZINE: What atout the sound quality? Miss LINDY Lyxove: I think it ismuch the ame, We are using the same methods and we van have the same reel-to-reel as our maft- fring machine. We do have a rather better ‘Rudo than the room in Oxford, though. ‘Tne Exotis Macazine: I am glad to hear tats—that thee tte change, T mean. thin the Home Service would le something by being (oo fitiessly recorded. ‘That hiss ond crochle ‘ons always port of its charm and gave We that Gyilal-cet feeling which elmost excused the ‘Fenifd machine one was using to heart! ‘Miss Linby LYNNE: But you can hear every word. ThE ENcLISH MAGAZINE: Ok, every;— tanks t9 the crisp and careful enunciation of ‘your amcuncers: Which reminds ma, ia rund ‘tout sor of way: will you be having some of the ‘ohimsical features which made the Home Ser- Bolume 6 ‘vice 90 special? Tam thinking tn particular of the 1St-contny news-broedeais Miss LINDY LYNNE! Oh, yes, they were fas- Sinating, were they not? People sometimes Ssk where the Romantic idea of the ait con ‘ry comes. from and every one seems. to Sayi—"ah, from Moris, like those of Miss Langridge,” Bue | think those brosdeatts on the Home Service were the molt Important thing. They gave such @ Strong feeling of the ew conturys civilized, yet full of fascinating ‘new developments, I think one comes to un~ Serftand our ait century” much. better ‘through this-—swhat isle? Tes not Rion in the ordinary sense, more a sort of continuing Shared whimsy. What are those naws-broad- Salts? They are not comedy, not drama, not fidtion, not fhet. Little cameos, sometimes Pleasing, sometimes Fesrling,” sometimes Pucrling! or humorous, taken from a. miich Feeger Imaginative creation made by no one person and of which we may never_see the Stole. They” are a very cheracteriltle and Special produst of our Romantic world and Sensibility. Shall we be having thom again? Wait and seo! (Eitor's note: since the time of Unis, conversion, the’ arBt-centiry News ‘Broadeadts have returned resplendent) Tue ENGLISH Macazine: Was ihere any Jerious propose behind them? Miss Linmpy Lyne: When you say “behind them’, that seems to. imply that thay were fade with some set purpose. They Were NOt: they seere pure whimsy and will be again—if they re-appear. But f you ask "do they serve ft purpose", I think they do. They are good for morale, Everything ia the modern world le frying to convinea us that the modernist ré- time will go on for ever. Either we wil sink Seeper and deeper into the present morass oF prepackaged banality or else we will suc~ Eumb to some awful eataStrophe. I think the Home Service was reminding ts that the first Of those slternatives Is highly improbable and the second not inevitable. "There are Lots OF ‘ther possibilities here area few of them.” Jue ENGLIgH MAGAZINE: Turning to the music: ft used to be said that there was a rule Shout the exact age of the musici—that 0 fecord made after a certais date—some said Ioap-—coud be played. Was there? nd is there Miss Liypy Lyne: There was not and Is not. I think people hate occasionally said Chings like that as a sort of shorthand Way of describing the Home Servico’s music policy, ‘but really tes eather subtler thaa that. Te has to do with the fost of the musie as much as ‘Boe Gung Magajine Page ss Its date. Obviously by the 1960s decent pop lar music was pretty much finished, but I do fot think there would be am absolute rule fgaingt something from the last few decades being played if it was area! exception to the Palo, Gn the other hand, Glean Miller was ce= farded with great caution. Too modern in one for the Home Service. Vera Lynn was in--jult; much to the relief of many. Quite poppy” late '50e pieces were occasionally sllowed on the grounds of being “camp”—i7 they were specifically announced as "camp" ‘A’song called"Air't 1 Grand to be Bloomin’ Well Bead” was a roaring success in 1532, but it was barred by the Home Service on rounds of taste (quite rightly, im my view) “ithe Laughing Policeman” is Still under con- Sideration as to whether itis too raucous for the Service. { hope iti passed. Yue ENGLISH MAGAZINE: One is reminded ofthe famous directives of the "BB.C.1n Lord ‘Restn’s time Miss LINDY Lywve: That is right. There were various divestives on all sores of things Inthe New Home Service. Tur Enotist MAGAZINE: Shall you abide by the same rules now? Miss LinDY LYWNE: Oh, yes. We are great fespedlars of tradition. Tae ENGLISH MacAziNe: You said that you had some surprises for us: can you be induced 0 (hop ony ints bn thene sola? Mies Linby Lynave: Well, one of them Is father woolly, though not very wild Taw Evoristt MAGAZIvae: That sounds very promising — Sires Linoy Lyaee: Yes, i ts. But you will have to litenvin 6a fad out quite how pro- rising. ‘Tete EXctasH MAGAzine: We certainly shell Gnd T should lite Yo take this opportunty to thank you for producing sich a splendid Service for no Jeward May the Frperial Home Sertce 0 fom ‘Brength to Brena Miss LInDy Lenwe: Thank you so much, Your appreciation i our reward. (conculed) DOING RIGHT Dott right is first hard, then easy, then de- Tightful Sach is the history of eack vireue In the rove and in the individual. Its beauty may be hidden in the root of self-danial and effort, but it comes into all Bloom when, at Tengeh, the effort haz grown into a pleasure that we would not wilingly forego. cevion, HOT "SRI LANKA’ INSIST ON IMPERIAL.Bolum S © Sectal Criticism W Defence vf Natural Courtesy by Miss Priscilla Langridge L was rather wondering when the charming Mr Lenoir sould make is appearance in these pages and what he would have to Rtartle and amuse us with. 1 much enjoyed that gentleman's “modett proposal” In your Tae issue, but beg, nonetheless, to. difer vith ‘We aro all agreed, 1 imagine, that court= ‘sous or courtly behaviour Is the product of Flerarchical society In which Use. highest Classes set the tone which is emulated by those below them; and that conversely an ‘egalitarian’ society such as that of the tafe few decades creates a coarse and vulgar Standard of behaviour which ultimately per~ neates every class and creates a disrexpect— fal, ough and often violent climate. This 1s ‘obvious in theory and proven in practice. IM. Lenoir, while not disputing this, seems to dismiss Afr, Worlthorne's notion that a ‘diminution of the prevalont “yobbishness” of the madera world and a return to courtesy, tlecency and reepect for the better classes by che lower clasues can be brought about by fomething akin to market forees”™as a more Ierarchieal society—fnanetally ot any Tate-—is created by the abolition of punitive tnd levelling taxation. He makes two points: 2) that today’s money-geubbers do not an- GierStand or respact the concept OF a gentle~ fan and do not wish to be gentlemen, and By ehat respect for the better classes, was Originally compelled By force—that princes Ghd nobles originally wielded the iron Rat inthe velvee glove and that, only later fia ‘the velvet glove alone sufce; so that Someone with the right accent could (Quell unruly behaviour with @ glance. ‘These. t should be noted, are ewe quite separate points and M. Lenoles suggestion thee the better cleases should be armed, if answers either, answers only the second of them, If it fa’ true that the new "better lass" would be money-grubbing yahoos who espise the concape af gentlemantiness, what Could it possibly prot society to arm them? Tr should. like to advance @ proposition which solves both problems without resort~ Ihe to M. Lenolrs rather draftic measures. Fhe Cagih Magagne pane 6 put i to you that courteous or courtly beha~ our is naturel to mankind. This does not ontradi the proposition that. such beha- Viowr is created by a hlerarehical society, be- Cause hierarchical society is equally natural to mankind oth Toutishness and equality hee artificial, All| savage peoples, as vas Dolnted out in « recent Issue of this period Meal, are very courteous and very formal un- Tess they are in a Beate of degeneracy, Every, traditional civilisation has @ high Standard of Courtesy. Think of traditional Arab society, Sferaditional Chinese and Far-EaStern socie= ty, or of traditional Indian society. All of these were considered overweeningly elsbo- Fate in thelr courtesy by Webtern travellers, feven to the point of absequious insincerity. ‘When one considers that these three, toe ther with the European, are the four Forms of ‘hilised society kaown to the world, might it fot be more reasonable #0 pue # the other ‘wey about and say that, for all its gentle- manly courtesy, £0 despised by. modern Copitecialiy nilgerians, poSt-Renaissance European civilisation Was the least cout four civilintion i the world ‘Under normal circumftances human beings are ariftocratic, hierarchical and Courteous; only when disruptive, egalitarian ingututions are forced upon them do. they behave otherwise as a whole (at Is. not to say that. there may not be individual outs and degraded classes in any society). The idea of courtesy as something Enforced by upper-class bullies smacks of Socialiftic propaganda and of. Darwiniftic disrespect for humanity. as a whole-— Rather surprising, coming from M. Leno! ‘But. perhaps he has been. taking "Mr. Worsthorne t Uttle too seriously. That Gentleman says that hierarchical societies fave a continual “upward dynamic"s—that the lower classes continually ape the bet ter classes while the better classes ape the highelt class and the letter continual Ty betters itself to Keep ahead of the pollo Avnest theory and very cociological, Bue not quive in Keeping with the facts, In defence of this theory, Me. Worlthorne points out that the behaviour of the lower Glasses was improving throughout the latter part of the igth and the earlier part of the Both century, that they were becoming less Fough and more relied and that, had not the process been thrown into reverse in the evil ipoos, the whole of rociety would have be- Cine uniformly well-behaved. Any one. who Is familiar with the fats knows that this 1s Bolume S perfeétly true; but the Idea that this was the [nal phase of along and continuous progress from'the primordial slime to the arogee of Civilisation is nonsense. Hierarchical societies do not move contin= ually upward:—they may be disrupted by many things from the collapse of a social Seder (such ag that which brought about the European Dark Ages) to the inculcation of Seftructive liberal ideologies. The court, of louis xv wes fess formal and courteous than that of Louis Xv, and the court of Louls Xvi as less formal and courteous than that of Tous sev and it is worth noting paremthet- Keally dhat this decline in courtesy and form= sity went hand in hand with the increasing Sreaknoss and decadence that led to the French Revolution. ‘the urban lower classes in Viétorian Eng land were, rougher and coarser than they were Inthe iggos-—and even, in the moft degraded tases, somewhat rougher than they have yet become taday-—that ts not because they were hearer to the hypothetical ape-men, but be~ use thete traditional rural ie, with tts nat- tral grace and simple ceremony, had been dis Fapted by the forces of Industeal "progress "They became rapidly more civilised as the poverty and brutish conditions imposed upon Thom by the industriel syBter were amelira (tdpecthey naturally emulated the bef classes SF society where they could; and this had no- Thing todo with Knowt-vwielding tarons or pulntes The annual rumber of murders in the [ing Streets of the late- Victorian sums was higher than itis today; until the midile ofthe present century that number dropped rapidly ‘tha dramatically. Since then it has been i~ Creating again a2 civilised values have been progressively demolished by the egalitarian Rlcologues liberal, socialist or classless-cap- itelist) who occupy virtually every position ‘Of power and infuence, In American cities, Shere the cult of democracy and vulgarity hes gone much further, aad where cultural Yalues have been move profoundly disrupted dy "melting-pot” eanditions and ideologies, the murder rate is unprecedented. While T arm. not entirely hoftle to. the suggestion that some form of social disci- pline may be necessary to curb the worst el fnents of modern violence, 1 would polnt out thee, harsh prison sentences under brutal Conditions did nothing to eanoble the nine~ feenth century criminal classes. It is point Tess to crticlge the lower orders for falling to reapeck their betters when thelr betters hon to rock” music, talk about "ie The Engg Magazine Faye? ‘iyles", participate in television culture and froncraliy aloplay no qualities worthy of Fespect. “Coca-cola culture fs not natural. Tt is rmainained by @ continual Rood of noise, Jab= ‘ber, products end propaganda, and backed by Escal and lagal policies designed to choke off very form of traditional order. Cut off this ‘Rream, and normal, evilised human 1ife will begin to reassert itself. Political power may sometimes emanate from the barrel of & gun —Chilisation never does. = Why Should Ladies be Adbrefsedas Manuferipis? by Mr. Anthony Cooney ‘TweRE may be uglier sounds in the English Janguage than zero and Ms. but to date t have had the good fortune not to hear them. Both are imports of fairly recent. manifeSt- ition from the United States, where 2 Lt Is Tnovn as_an “elevator” anda Bat as. an wapartment™ BZorom may be dispoted of easily, since It 1s easier to say “oh, but "Ms." has the Backing of a particularly fatuous ideology, land all manner of otherwise sensible women Niccumb to what they suppose isthe fashion hd sign their names "Me. Frances Adams”, fr whatever. A courtesy title Is, by definition, given tiie, but part of the alliness of Sista" ig that requires the faux pas oF ‘appropriating i The root of the silliness Is thac ie srises from 9 misconception, and even fan ignorance, of the nature of the courtesy Intended eMrs" is quite simply an abbreviation of “inuSteess" Possibly the abbreviation was fever intended to be pronounced “miss”, but the English are lazy about their speech. Not to the Scots, and in the Highlands, where 2 greater degree of inBtincive courtesy rein~ forces a care about pronunciation, (eis, ll the cultom to addrecs amature lady as Mistress". And “mature” Is the operative ‘word here, for the tlele has really nothing to Go with marital Etatus. A woman who has eached her maturity le "MUBtress™ whether She be married or no. The custom is Bill ‘xtane where there is a high Standard ofBolum & domeRtic service. Cooks, whom it may be Supposed will have reached maturity before Schieving “that position, are given the ‘ourvesy address oF" Missis™, whatever their ‘morirital Bats. Miss" Is of course a diminutive, which ts something quite other than an abbreviation. Ie combines very happily the idea of tender— hess and respect for girls which Is common to Mankind. Needless to say. such dimini- tives are to be found in all languages. Tes not, however, ints origin as a diminutive, the {ele ofan unmarcied woman. Tt is easy to see how the ideas carried by the words wore trancferred to the idea of fnarital Ratuse A girl, or young Woman, I Imight be expected, was single. Some one ‘risking to poy a pretty compliment. to a Toman of more mature Years might addce her as/"Miss™, implying that he was deceived fs to her age by the bloom of youth Still dis= played in her features. Whatever the process, Enilss” has become the courtesy etle of an tunmarried woman, whatever hee yoars, and “Meso of a married” woman, however youthful she might be “The transfer of meaning dots create a problem, and ie would be idle £6 pretend that [does nots Upon receiving letter signed Frances "Adams, how should. a gencleman dress is repiy? A married Tady will feel that she has been dened her Status ax MIBt- fess of household if she is addressed 2s Miss", whilt-a single tady will be remind fed shargly that she has not achieved what Is, Ger all, the norm if she Is addressed as A Mes open the notion, erigbnating among Tnilitant. feminifts, that they” shouldbe Ridreased as" Manuseript", for which word “a” isthe common abbreviation “To solve the problem in this wey, however, 1s to deny and disparage 8 rich Yeln of Euro: pean culture, Marriage fs a Status, devoutly {To be desired by both men and women; to be proclaimed when fnally achieved. The better Eolution must surely be to return to the root Of the courtesy, that Ie, to propose a truly dient solution. A young. woman may De Siddessed as bilge” and a mature woman as ONtiRrese"" or Mea.” if te rast be Tazy. ‘Where the woman is unknown except by Correspondence, to address her as" bliss™ Becomes « pretty compliment, implying that her letter carries the aura of youth and beat "he an editor not infrequently. receive Mas. signed "Ma.”, togother with a Stamped, ‘Bie Engl Magazine Faye addressed reply envelope bearing the same Barbarism. ‘My response ie unchanging. 1 place the Me, together with 2 rejection slip In the envelope, over-type""Ms,”" with the word ‘Miltress™ and podt Ie back. Te is a proce- dure | would urge upon all who treasure the forms and rituals which give us our entity. Nippon wc i. Satine! rom nicl Siig The edlivess would like to remind readers that te comect way to adiress @ woman correspon flow tho. doce not indicate her tile tS as ‘oiiee” ‘Helpfil Hints Money for Mubdlies Max people baulk at the problems of quick ‘conversion oF pea-money Into English. You snl nd that all your diffculties vanish if you Follow these two simple rules: Rule 1s This isthe really golden rule. To con- vert any peacsim into real money, Just double Wine place the shilling Stone before the fa. flowe: so 10 np. = Go) = 2/04 20 mp. = Go) ‘rod 25 n.p.* Go) = s/eds 14 np. = GE) = 2/8 36 m mt Tf you have any digiculty in doubling awkward” numbers jue round them up oF Fe down co the neare®t five or nought: 50 78 mp. — A irelly call ie Bo-—i6/-. Remember, i Is qruch better to talk in very approximate Bg~ tures than to fll back on pea-money. Rule 2 Thing tn comme remember that the hip.” is a shilling piece, the "Yo mp." a two Tilting plece and the "go np." a ten-shilling pieces You need not worry about the odd Eoppers—lult round them up or down in Take a few minutes now to memorise these simple rules, practise them over the next few days, and never again will you Stop Short in some simple conversation about homely purchases, Knowing that you cannot Continue without caying something erooshy. ARTISTIC PURITY BEETHOVEN once dismissed a housekeeper who was in other respects an excellent Servant because she had told an uncruth, The Indy friend who had procared him this house~ Keeper quedtioned him about his severity, He feplied:—" Any one who tolls 3 lie has not a pure heart anid cannot make pure sou Magajine Page Bolume S ‘Boe Gna “The Home Fron Toothbrush Bictory | by Miss Lucy Locket. Drr-pir-prr-Daaii! as they say on the Imp- frlal Home ‘Service. Well, Beethoven does, Shyway. Vigtowy on all jolly old. fwonts, what? In my Taf report from the Home Frone, I had the unpleasant duty of telling You that our troope were at Huymle outside the town of Toothbrush. Well, no longer. Cir~ Ilan volunteers have rushed in like Billy-ho. Te was rather like Dunkirk,—except we won, Tor those of you who do not take in The ‘Rementec, some explanation may be due-ish. Twas explaining how easy It Is to throw out fll sorts of modern packaging from one's hhouse—aRer all, It is much smaller than ‘oneself, and Keeps Rill the way mice don't orien Tas forced to admit, im the way we war correspondents hate to do (unless we ‘work for the 8.8.0), that our troops were at Toss in one particular battle. That battle ‘was the Battle of Toothbrush Hull, Where on Crh, Tesked, can one find a toothbrush that oes “not make one’s bathroom look lke Something aut ofthe Inte soth cencury? How, trithout resorting to the old Gurkha trick of leaning one’s teeth with one’s elbow, could ‘one rid one's private theatre of jolly old com- bee of the multi-coloured plate mongtros- lies which appear to be the only provision ‘which the eapitalit Iackeys make for our oral Byaiene? I pointed ont Cand I thought 1 was futher 8 good one, sol am repeating it here ‘Come bock at the end of ehe paragraph if you fave alveady heard it) that they seemed £0 have inverted Henry Ford's excellent dictura thd told us that we can have any colour we want, provided its noc black. ‘Well, az I-sald (hello you rotters. Fancy skipping say Henry Ford wheeze), you chaps have pitched in like the proverbial goo uns. Toothbrushes of the moft excollent and un- 2xcepttonable order have been arriving at the Locketage by every post. My ales are so full that I have to sleep with an umbrella up to Fond off the fine rain of over-Strained platter. Wall, I cereainiy received two eoothbrushes, anyway. "The GrSe was from Mr. David Nash- Browne, and the second from Me- Redmayne Burrell, Hoth are band made from bone and pure brittle. One is made by Kent & Sons Ped, London Rd., Hemel Hempited, Herts, and the second by D. RiHarsis & Co. Ltd, 29 St. James's St, London, S.W.. Being. genile~ Inciy_nelther oF my correspondents men toned a price, and, belng a lady rather than @ Journalist, forgot to ask; but now you know There to get the things, at any rate Incase it nay influence your decision, I should probab— Jy mantion that the frSt Arm (Kent) is pat ronised by Her Matefty the Queen, and the second (Harris) by Her Mafedty Queen Eliza beth the Quen Mother ‘A recommended shop for such brushes Is ‘Taylor of Bond Street, which, n true English tration, ts not adtally In Bond Street a all, but at 74 Jermya Street, St. James's, London, SW. From America (I think we loft that. one, 00, didn't we?) Me. Donald Philippi sends in- formation of the mat remarkable catalogue Of Vidlorian dry goods. I have always won- Gered what thia American expression meant In'The Picture of Dorian Gray, some one asks that wicked Lord Henry Wotton "What are ‘American dry goods?™, to which Lord Henry ‘wickedly replies "American novels”. 1f that fad been ‘the only wicked thing he sald, of Course, the Bory wosld have ended much ‘more happily; burl was quite wicked enough to leave me with a life-long ignorance of the fue nature of American non-Liverary. dry goods. Enter the eforementioned catalogue (or “catalog” as ie rather quaintly terms sel. is called The Amazon Vinegar & Pickling Works Dey Goods Catalog, Well, you believe Lam cal~ 12d bucy Locket, don't you? Oh. Well this feally true, And am noe, unlike certain con [EFbutors whom | will forbear to mention, in- ‘ulging ina whopping and impertinent (in the ‘proper sense ofthe Joly old word, of course) Blgression, Because Iam now in 2 position to tell you that American dey goods are—well, just what you would expec them to be! ‘whlch Is to sey, more oF less anything which Trnot wet, Furthermore (and this ts what we ‘right call the nub or gilt of Uke matter), our Colonial cousins very liberally Stretch a point to include thinge vhich are often, but not tluays wet, such as toothbrushes. ‘So, dear reader, never be deceived by appearances. Thave, despite all indications to the contrary, Been adhering, with ive-ltke Fortitude to the point. And the point is chat the aforesaid American dry Vineger company (Gnd'na, American dry vinegar is not Califora~ fan sack) sell toothbrushes. One is a bone- dAnd-briltle job like our mative products, and Fetalls at $7.95 (00h, 1t does feel naughty toBolum 6 ‘write monay with points in) and the other Is ‘wood with natural dark beiftles; something Wwe do not seem able to get here. This can be yours for $5.95- The address of thls empor~ Kim is Amazon Vinegar @ Pickling Works Dry Goods, 2218 E. nth St., Davenport, ows, "These chape alco sell tooth powder made to “"Cheiterteld's 1060 formula of Myrch, Greis Root and other natural ingredients. NO Sugar, very refreshing.” Myrrh, | happen £0 Enow, eaives pretty ghaftly, s0 1 hope they have gone, 2s they say in those parts, easy om fe Buty you wane to pitch out even Euthy- tmol's border-line-aceeptable tube, and have fot a meld or a sensible child to make up Tome powder out of “Enquire Winn, this Jmght be worth a shot. For the sake of com= Pleteness, 1 should add that the Amazons iso sell*"The oldege toothbrush, a length of liquorice root. Chew or pound ‘the end to soften and make a beush-” And spit In the Comer hen finished, no doubt. Declined ‘with thanks, even at 756, So, the toothbrush battle is over. Another vidtory for the allies of Truth and Beauty over the forces of garish, multi-coloured dark- hess, No excuse ‘now except laziness. oF Cerna poverey (well, in the fatter case you (ould try 2 liguorice'r000) "A good general, however, never lets the cnemy recover his breath after a resounding Grubbing, ro 1 Gaking for a moment the press” card out of my hat-band and apply= ing a few Stars), turn ray attention at once to another Geld of combat, crusting my tried and Uttie hardened volunteers to eome up once nore with the goods, dry or otherwise ‘These, in fad, are dry except when ie rans Who knows where t0 get real fower pots? Now. it goes without saying, the plastic [rccitles which should all be rounded up and publicly burnt-—or rather, melted. Not, either, the pimminy, over-priced, ‘Hableatty things hae Took ay if they ought to be hanging in {the squeamish should skip the ret of this sentence) macramé potholders. No, 1 meen foal, honedt-to-goodness Bower pots that a Tettirespecting Flowerywe Man would not be Sshamed to be seen in. “There is something to be sad for knowing one's troops, turned to Mr. Redmayne Bar= Fell (well, you believe f am called Licy— (oh, no, we have already had that. Stunt) and pub to him the Flowerpot Queftion. He, after Uiltele practised commando-style reconnals~ Sance, Cold me that Worth’s Garden Centre had ecres of them, I thought this was all very Welly but T could hardly encourage my awe The Engh Magayine age sd ‘abiding eeaders to organise raids Into the entre of Worth's garden. mean, If he 13 & elghbour of Me. Burrell, perhaps they are ‘On that sort of terms; but a5 a general re= Commendation it seemed to be taking the Sommando fu a spot too far. However, 28 in the old soap advertisement, « friend told ime that the words garden ceure mean-—Well you do not know, 1 wil not take the re ponsibilty for deStroying your blissful in- ocence, Suice eto say that it makes more Sense if you epell it "garden center”. ‘So, Worth's, Garden Contes is in Bourne, Lincolnshire, should you be thereabouts. has accordiig to oir rource) "acres of terra Cotta Hower pots, from tiny ones to absou futely huge!” So can I ask all oF you to look fut for places which sell real fower pots. Try Git is not. too horrid) your Local gerden conten, ironmongers and “any other “likely place, Let us make a 8 oF names and ado Gfesses, so that all Romantics can get real ower pots (genden centers should probably hve their name and address taken in any Case). Another vielory is in the alr. ‘Speaking of those tiny Rower pots, did you now that they can be the homes of teeny baby Flowerpot Men, with darling squeaky little Wolves, and. sometimes no hats, boots or loves, because they are so little. Bil and Ben Shee found twa of them, and sang a song Gihich went “Wo hats, no boots, ne gloves.” to not suppose you will have the datlings SRealghe from the gerdsn center, but 70M pat them beside a chicken-house and keep a tor— toise: have several sizes of fower pot, all empty and ranged according to size—in pals; Shr and donot weed too often.—Well, who knows? T think the litle house knows something bout it Comespondonce Eloquent Glances MapaM, note that M. Lenoir wishes us to return toa time when some ono with the right SSeamt sould quell unraty fekaviour in public laces with © glance. This seems to mea harming idea. suppose the Best step is for the lower orders to.re-leara the art of telling tne’s accent from one’s glance; or perhaps the superior orders mast fe-learn the art of flancing in the proper aceent. Or perhaps oth. Certainly the looking glass has lately feceived several practice glances from, Your Ont Serve, Miss P.-P. TURNER. ‘Many a true word ts poten 1h jest. Bolune he Engliff agazine Pages Ing of harmony she had fel earlier in the day SHELMERDINE BY MISS PRISCILLA LANGRIDGE CHAPTER IIL Stee MERDIve BINGHAM, apr from the ote ‘oth century, finds herself tn the year 2014, nul {i despatched to Grancnester School for Young Ladies on a secret mission that ts secret even from er TETES A TETE ‘Tate Hope-Carrington Cup incident had three main results: it consolidated the general feeling, already abroad in the ‘Third, that Shelmerdine Bingham was Somebody (for the news of her explolt soon got about despite the reaolve of the twins and Alison to tell hobady save a few trufted confdantes); se Condly tt le the twins with a powerful re= Solve to-do something which would make 1 Clear that they were every bit ax dashing and ‘Fesourceful as cheie new friend; and thirdly, 1 ‘Rablished the game of dares as the it-thing for that term. ‘All Kinds of madeap Stunts were per- formed, even by some of the quieter members oF the forma,—in proof of their courage in the ‘Rice of a dare, Even the disapproving Marian Groene was finally prevailed upon to climb the fagpole in the Main Courtyard and leave her lace handkerchief uttering Just above the flag. But even the notable oecasion upon ‘which three girls came into a maths. lesson wearing carnations im their buttonholes—an Unheord-of deviation. from wniform regula Hlons-did not eclipse Shelmerdine’s classic Feats There were some who regarded a5 no more than false rumour, but they were decidedly in the minority “The feeling of anticlimax which often overtook Shelmerdine after some piece of fxeitament settled upon her with an unustal ‘weight about an hour afer the toaSt had been. Grants She fole litle surprised. that the business should have affected her at all. She feed moti! orer hie paSt year that she had ‘become increasingly blaeé about her pifer— Ings. She could eal « considerable gum in tthe morning, squander ie n the afternoon and have. pracucally forgotten. all about it by bedtime. The Cup affair had not only excited her more than anyehing had for rome time, but had broughe in ies wake & corresponding Iy dark reaction, ‘As she sat at prep. that evening, the feel- Became twifted about in her mind until I Seemed almoft that the Rone walls were losing in and taking poseession of hee. As IF intaking the Cup and winning the admiration ‘of the Inner Circle she had somehow com- ‘romised herself ven a part of hersolf up 25 S hottage to the outside world. Te didnot ‘make mich tense, admittedly, even to her; but that did not’ Stop the sensation from {naving at her, making her feel cold and dark find ae if she hed given away some part of her sell-possession. "This mood was not helped by the fact chat she had found her frfe day's lessons unutter- Abily boring. Nothing had been expected from her as she war not prepared. She could fol- Tow litte of what was being said and did not try. Possibly the enforced Inactivity ad led her to.dwell onthe Cup more than she would ‘otherwise have done, though even with this Gisvradtion she found much of the day very tedious “The kindly young Form Mistress, Miss Ling, had helpfully laid out with her a prep= tration plan which would help her t0 eateh up swith the form's work and algo allow her € iain something from the next day's lessons. ‘Shelimrdine had followed this with appar— ent intereft, partly because courtesy was Seeply ingrained in her being. Te was her ‘Strong sense of courtesy which mede her so ‘ifecive at being consciously impolite when ‘he wished; but she found it impossible to be rude merely through negligence. In any exse She felt immediately affectionate towards Miss Ling. Everybody did Nose of this, however, made the edtual ‘work of the preparation sny less repugnant. Granchefter, it seemed, expected Herculean Siiores s2 a mattar of course. Shelmerdine foyed with the Kea of simply not doing It ‘After all, she as not really a schoolgirl. But she supposed she must do something to fnaintain her cover. If she were expelled— Well, what If she. were expelled? ‘She had ever intended to flay here long. She would imply go on to new adventures. Yet, some. hhow, the didnot fool thot che wanted todo that ult yet: What pity Miss Taviftock had realiged her intelligence. The simpleft ching ‘would have been to play durab-bunny and to be incapable of all But the mos elementary efor, Wal, that tg what she would do anyway. Let them make of fe whst they wished. How fever intelligent she might seem in other ‘rays, she would juBt happen 0 be the mastBolune S Imprabably prepodterous academic duffer. ‘This thought chimed in. perfectly with her sombre mood, and It was with a cereain grim {fee that she began slinging down facts and figures upon a sheet of paper without the “smallefe regard for logic oF veracity ‘Shelmerdine was alone In the Third Form ‘rudy. Her lang Interview with Miss Ling had taken up molt ofthe offeal prep. period, and thus she began work just as the others were fnlshing. Perhaps the emptiness of the call room, with Its long Norman windows reHect- ing the candle fumes againkt the darkening sky, had helped ta bring on her mood. But ‘ow she felt freer for having no eyes upon her fd handled her papers almoft as roughly as the was handling her work. Several of them ureored off the back of her desk as the door swung open. She watched them seud_ along the duity doorboards and did not bother to pick them up. "The door had not opened by itself. A small irl by the name of Flavia Randall wat the motive force and she quietly entered the Foom. Flavia was rather a ftrange Little cree ture,” not overly popular with the form, though not adtually unpopular. Shelmerdine had noticed that she had a very particular Tanner. She carried herself very erect and Wwith an ariftoerstic bearing which seemed father quaint in one so young, for she was probably no more than twelve, being one oF those clever children who were. promoted ‘arly into the Third. She had no ‘lends and Seemed not to care whether people liked her for not, “The eat. who walks by herself, thought Shelmerdine. Flavia walked over to her desk as if she had come to. fetch. something. Then she noticed Shelmerdine's papers on the Boor. “I say, Jou have draped something,” she said, with an air of fendliness which was ‘anusual in her. “| know," sald Shelmerdine, not returning “Shall 1 pick them up for you?” Her speaking voice was clear and teribly, teribly precise. Mott people here spoke in'¢ precise fnanner which in Skelmerdina’s day “would Ihave been considered quite Suited, but in Flavia this was far more marked, to the extent that her own contemporaries probably ‘considered her Suited, "if you wish,” said Shelmerdino un- ‘expressively. Flavia picked up the papers, cafting her eye over them. "I say, these calculations fre not right” The Englifp Magayine Fuge “1 know," replied Shelmerdine curly “Aare you having trouble with them?” “Noy am not having any trouble at al “But, ifyou cannot get them right—" “You are leaping to conclusions, dear. 1k ts not so much that T cannot get them right. Perhaps I could IFT tried but Tam not tuping. Conseauently they are not giving me ny trouble. Now if that meets. with Your Spproval, perhaps I might be. permitted. to ‘Continue working-or rather not Working.” Flavia placed the papers on Shelmerdine’s desk and looked at her with a gaze that Was Somehow disconcerting. She fad hair of a molt remarkable fox-red, which made her pale skin seem simaie thereal by contrast; {id her large eyes were so clear and blue that they seemed almoge luminous in the candle~ light. She looked at Shelmerdine with a gaze thot was s0 utterly open and unguarded that Shelmerdine found t dificult to return. Shel- Inerdine had never Found any gaza dificult £9 Fecurn before, Not even when she was lying like an eftate agent. Flavi's azo, like er Yolce, seemed to be like those of other people DoFhee age only very much more so ""Veauld help you with the work." she said simply. Her voice sae without condescension or aay other note save that of &.simol pradtical dasice to help-that and, somewhere beneath many layers of Serie training in utter outward composure, an unaccountable nerv ‘don't need help," sald Shelmerdine. “1 ve settled upon my method and intend to pursue i "There lz not any need to be so independ cent, Lam your frend.” Choose my friends; and I am not being independent. I simply prefer to go through life effclentiy, Efficiency means getting the ‘maximim possible benest from the minimum possible efort, That is my approach to this ‘rock and shall thank you not to interfere. If Shelmerdine had fancied that she saw something of herself in this curlous child, she ecided that she was miftaken. Her quict persidtence in the Face of this snub was far From Shelmerdine’s nature and, Indeed, quite Inexplicable to her. happen to know that is not true,” she said quietly but with sbeolute convigtion ‘This nonplussed Shelmerdine. She knew perfeélly well that she had been talking the plain unvarnished. In fact sh couldn't have {got much plainer or less varnished if she had fried. "What on earth gives you that idea?” she asked. BolumeS “1 know about you,” sald Flavia femly— i er cea ees mle aati" know “Oh, sald Shelmerdine in her moft tan- guid manner." And what am?" "Youre a sport,” said Flavia. ""You cannot deceive me. I know perfectly well that ost ‘would not do something as unsporting az purposely. fuzzling your work; especially when darLing has given you 4 special prom Gramme and looked after you so nicely. You 4re Just hopelessiy out of jour depth and toa proud to admit iT underftand. { should be {bo proud to admit it too." ‘Now jut one moment, Shorty—" No, please, Shelmerdine—I Know you are years elder taan I, but I really do know the ‘work well.1 would probably be in the Fourth Ifthe Head was not chary of promoting girls ‘too far above their ages. Know fe sounds hi ‘iliating, but { promise that nobody will ever Know except you and You have pulled through your iliness so terribly bravely, you Simply must not baulk at this laf fence: Let mme help you over i, Shelmerdine, please do not be too proud. I want so much to help you Sind 11 respect you terely. “What a beastly crimp!” thought Shel rmeedino as she tidied together her books aid papers an hour later. “There, how was that?” asked Flavia, She had carefully and with the wtmo8t ead guided the older girl through the labyrinth of her fed preparation, laying things out 20 clearly that ‘Shelmerdine’s Keen intelligence could ‘ot fall to grasp them, despite the fact that she hed sever done work of anywhere neat this andard before, Boring tag degree," replied Shelmerdine. Flavia smiled warmly. She underivoud pride very well and kneve that Shelmerdine. could fot but hide her unnecessary ut all too poignant sense of shame beneath s camoul- ‘ge of rather cutting banter. Flavia wae prosd oo, but she was also brave, and ahe would not let herself be deBeébed from her set pur ose of helping her heroine—-forcing, her if hecossary—to conguer her inward enemy of Shame and despair. As a child, Flavia had been schooled to an extraordinary Standard of self-discipline. She coud, on demand, fvvaken every hour on the hour during the fight without a call, take a cold dip and re turn to sleep for the next hour. Duty, to her, was an ieresiStible driving-force, overriding Ml else, and in Shelmerdine she sum duty, Shelmerdine took toward schoolwork a wellitarian attitude not uncommon in her age Te Gaal Magajne ‘page 33 via. that t served no useful purpose; that the things) she was learning had’ no peacteal ‘application and that she would, in any case, Forget them within very short time of dis continuing her Studies. These arguments ‘would have been Strong enough in her eyes ven if she had been real schoolgirl. Az it ‘as, ime and effort spent. on Granchelter's Figorous programme of Rudy was doubly wasted. "*You know, you are more intelligent than soft of the girls here,” said Flavia as they ‘were leaving the room "You will saon eateh Up. You are que lucky in that respect.” “That is exactly what the Head ea” remarked Shelmerdine, “Well,” sald Fav “there you are then” “What a bebothering crimp,” Shelmerdine thought again. She had not intended to express herself in that silly slang, but those Seemed to be the only words which expressed hher exact mumce of miedness “The next day's lessons were much clesrer to her in consequence of her preparation, and Shelmerdine feit compelled to admit that st leat it passed the time to be able to under= Rand in pare what was going on. Nonetheless she war diftincly relieved when lunchtime ame and the twins turned her thoughts to more interesting fare “We need a dare,” said Dot. “Yes, you owe us one," said Carrie, “We did't do your [aft one, so i's Suit your turn to give us one,” said Bot ‘But it's got to be one we can do,” sald Carrie. “We oulda’t have done the Clip one, ‘We Bull don’t know how you got hold of." “Yes, how did you get hold of Ik?” asked Dot. "Well, what con you do?” asked Shelmer dine, ignoring the queftion. “They ‘can play the plano,” volunteered Alison. “Fourshanded, of course, Iwas. at their place over the hols. and they gave & rendering of ‘My Feet JuBt Dance Avray’ that ‘would leave the Leicefter Square’ Sit gap~ ine, ‘AL the mention of this title, the lanee Cucle burst into well-rehearsed three-part hharmony, for this was thelr. party piece “iio time walk down the Breet, Tim so ansious whom Fmay meet, ‘Cause when hear that thythin Sip feet ju dance aay.” The second verse war cut short by the Seentorian tones of Veronica Carslise: “An order mark For each gil singing ae table.” with a satisfied smile,Bolume S ‘Shelmerdine applauded the song vigorous ly go.as not to miss her share of the order marks, “Shelmerdine Bingham, take an_ order mark and three hundred lines,” said. Veron~ “May 1 ask," enquired Sholmerdine cold “why applauding is a greater offence than performing?” “Because doing it after I hed spoken was dred, deliberate defiance. Make It five Inundred for answering back” ‘Veronica closed the discussion by walking wks 1 was about to say before 1 was 0 rudely interrupted,” snd Shelmerdine, “the ‘wins planlgtie genius should aot be waSted, land hereby dare them to play "My Feet JuSt Dance Away’ on the Vi Form plano.” ‘The vi form piano was a good plano. It ‘was the only really good plano in the School. It was allowed to be touched only by mist ‘ese and the senior music scholars, and was inder the charge of Mise Maitland, who ‘detefted popular music of all kinds. said Shelmerdine, “though I warn you that you ‘may never want to hear the tune again by the time I've fished with I” Oh no you won't,” said Dot. ‘Ive’ conker,” said Carrie "But we'll have to Work out the beSt time to do it," said Dot Sais natwellement,” said Shelmerdine. The reit of the day passed uneventflly Shelmerdine found herself happy enough, though towards the end of the lessons it be gan to occur to her that there was really no Sway to evald writing Ave hundred lines for that vindiétive prie, Veronica Carlisle. She {ound her frame oF mind on the subjeét some~ shat curious. For ane ching, the argument that she was not really a schoolgirl failed to rouse any inner Beorm ageinft the imposi- tion. Perhaps she had worn ie out. Her whole Epirt positively rebelled against che tediura of such a punishment, and yet she was sur- prised to find herself quietly resigned to do- Ing its It was az if she were divided into two famps;—part of her hated the thought and the other half really did not mind at all. The obvious, and, to Shelmerdine, rather worry Ing, explanation—chat she "was becoming moulded into the Schools pattern—did not Seem to cover the case, Shelmerdina Sl ound lots of reeiftance within her to the ‘Bee Fall Ragagine Faye st ‘work of the School; but to this punitive Grercise, which, furthermore, she Strongly Suspected was mainly due to’ Veronica Car~ Tisle's desire to squash her at the BrBt pos sible opportuni, she found vireually none. ‘She hed been entertaining these thoughts as she mounted the EaSt Stalrcase to wash for dinner. At the top she encountered Jane Love, who gave her a pleasant smile. iiello, Fiddle,” said Jane. [e took She rmerdine & moment to realise that she was being “addressed, Jane's whole tone had changed since their lait encounter. To Jane, Shelmerdine’s. ‘demotion. made an almost Supernatural dlference, She was no longer a fretr-oqual, but. third-former, a. Huddle. Shelmerdine could teil that this was not in fay way a sight, It was jute the way of things 2s far as Jane, and perhaps not only Jane, was Concerned. The spell of st was so powerful that Jane looked at [eaft half-c-head taller than she had done before, Hello, jane,” sald Shelmerdine. How are we sevtling?” asked Jane. ‘Ob, well enough.” “Good. Pop slong and see Veronica, would yout, She has something to tell you.” nelmerdine popped Hello, squire, said Veronica cheerily as SShelmerdine entered. "Have you done those lines for me yet?” “No, Veronies,” sald Shelmerdine. Her hands were clasped behind her back ahd her Yoice was very small. Veronica, who had Pointedly not looked up froma some work that ‘She was doing, now raised her eyes to her visitor, perhaps fo make sire that this really wvas the same Shelmerdine Bingham; the one Sith: the disdainful ietle nose, the cool, Imperturbable voice and the smile whose ftuet, underStated arrogance was more com= plete than any arrogance she could remem= bent hadart ‘You ade time,” completed Veronica sarcaftically, as if she had considered this 3 ‘ite inadequate excuse, although she rust Rave Known that Shelmerdine could hardly have Begun them une afer dinner ‘Lam sorry,” said Shelmerdine simply. She felt hot. There was a touch of colour on teach cheek; unusual for her. She too Wor ered what had happened to her. She Knew, flthough she had not known ie at the time, thee Veronica's casual imposition ofthe extra two hundred lines for answering back bed Sone something extraordinary to her, hough ‘what it was she could not eel ‘OF course you hadn’t time,” said Veron Bolume S fa peremptorily. "You have had no free time, Since the lines were set Why on earth are you spologising to me?” “1 don’t know,” said Shelmerdine. What a ridiculous reply. she thought. She knew how fo hammer this sort of Wit into the ground ‘with one eyebrow, and yet she seemed incap- ble of anything mare than the feeble and Ihumblest of replies. "Well, are you going to find time now?" “Yes, Veronica,” Shelmerdine gezed at her Inquisitor. Her halr’ was raven black; her ‘complexion almait as pale as Sholmerdine’s town. Her eyes were very dark, and her black Syebrowa curved above them in well-thaped, tapering bows. Her mouth was well-sheped too, but perhaps 4 shade too. compressed, Sheimeraine fund herstf cing tbe with “Wrong,” said Veronica. "You are not go- ing to find time to do the lines. Ihave been peaking to Jane Love. It seems that you have sffveae deal of work to catch up on. They do hot want you to be burdened "with lengthy Impositions juSt ret. So 'm going to let you off the lines” “Thank you, Veronica.” Veronica returned to her work without dismissing Shelmerdine, who food for some Tninutes In uncertainty, not knowing whether to Ray or leave, Eventually she decided that ‘ich unceresinty was Toolish. She had only to {isk, When had she ever had eiffeulty im ask- {ng anything? She began to speak “sSilence,” sald Veronica without Looking ‘After what seemed like an hour and a half, bbut was probably no more than a few min ites, Veronica closed her book, Stood up tnd walked over to Shelmerdine- She was a ‘ery tall gir and she Rood For a moment, letting her superior height overshadow Shel- tmerdine. Then she slipped her long, pale Engere beneath Shelmerdine’s bob snd gently took her ear lobe. Shelmerdine’s ears. were hot and the fingers felt almast cold. Shel~ merdine looked Streight at the prefect, Showing not a Alcker of surprise, nor an} proteit as she pinched the lobe, making. it che, hear your work is going unexpectedly swell from what Tittle can be told in these carly days.” “Thank you, Veronics.” ‘Donte thank me. 1 Bll think you're an Idler.” ‘Sho pressed her thumbnail into the lobe. Shelmerdine did not wince. She Stood Reraight, giving no sigh thet she was being Rhe Englify Magazine "Baye 55 hurt, jt as Veronica yave no acknowledge- nt to the fact that ahe was Hurting, hee ‘Well, have a care, little one. There are more ways of killing & cat than choking ‘with lines. Do we underStand each other?” "Yer, Veronica.” “Good gir” Veronica dropped her hand land spoke in tone which implted dismissal but Shelmerdine had not been dismissed and id not "mover Veronica smiled. “OF you trot; the said wonder what that was all. sbowt? mused” Shelmerdiae as. sho walked. slowly down the Qarkly imposing passage known 35, tthe Long Corridor, n which Veronica's room ‘wae alttsted, placing a cooling Knuckle be- death ‘her throbbing. ear. The. queStion re ferred lese to Veronica's behaviour than to her own. “1 suppose you'll be out of commish. again this evening with ll those ines,” said Alison st dinner. shouldn't think $0,” said Shelmerdine, “rye been lot 08.” ‘Curl my toes!” epaStulated Carre. "You are honoured. "Your place in history Is ‘seured. Veronica Carlisle has let somebody (8 something and you are the letoffee.” “And. wo. thought. fetching the Hope- larrington Cup was «pretty tick,” sald Dot. “Why, the girl was jue warming up. What Is yout secret? Hypnosis? The Fourch Dimen Sion? Come now, your public has a right to Know" “The truth, fer, is rather banal. Higher authorities appear to have intervened on my behalt” “AppleStrudel miffed” She didwt pinch your ear, did sho?” asked Carrie, “"steordinary experience,” replied Shel- rmerdine. "Shouldn't have missed AF for the world” Te occurred to Shelmerdine, however, that she should be out of commish. if Flavia man- aged to buttonhole her again and she begen 10 wonder how she might give the wretched child the slip. She was pleased to find herself ‘wondering this, because there had been an ‘veful moment a¢ she had nursed her ear in tthe Long Corridor when the dreadful thought had occurred to her that she might somehow have become tama. She had not. She made up thor mind to go back to her former plan of be= said Dot. “I bet she wasTolan é The GuglipMagajine agesé The Gnglfp Hagayine Page s7 Ing a dunce, Not only did she consider the “Work worthless, but she did not want Alison “and the toring to find out about the business writh Flavia; not for the reasons for which Flavia. had. imagined. that "she would be shamed of her tuition, but because she could hardly imagine what three such game chaps ‘would think of somebody voluntarily doing xtra work "Az it happened, this latter queftion was anawered that very evening. After the bell Fang to sound the end of the compulsory prep. peed, Dot and Carnie showed no sign of put Bing away thels work, but Sayed on to contin tte with their Rtudies: She wes to discover that the twins were, in fac, moderately hard-work— ing and that Flavia was by no means alone in Considering it unsporting to give of anything fot within Striking diftance oF one's beSt. ‘Shelmerdine wat a litle surprised, but more plensed by the twins’ presence. It meant that Flavia could not, given her under~ Taking that nobody but she and Shelmerdine Should know, help her with her work tonight She packed up hor things and lefe the room ‘quickly, for fear that the twins might soon Aepart leaving her undefended. was « sound tnove theoretically, but she was soon to dis (over that it was a mistake, "AE Skeimerdine left the room, she was at ‘once greeted by Flavia. “Hello, Shelmerdine,” said that frall, fale personage. "I wae afraid for a moment that Jou mere going to Stay In there, which would Rave mede things a bit awkward, but T might have guessed you would think to come and meet me out here.” “SY really dont think there's anywhere oe could’ work, though, Shorty. The Coramon Room wil be full and there are bound to be chaps in the library.” Flavia smiled. an intimate, almoit glesly lietie smile, "Come ‘with me," she" said. "You'll see." Shelmerdine followed Flavia down the corridor and of along & side-passage. She Gras Still not very famulier with the layout of the house, At the end oF this rather narrow, ark passage was a door which looked as iF 1 Imight have. belonged to a boot-cupboard. Flavia opened this door and Stepped inside. ‘The room was hal-lighted by a small. fire burning in the grate, Even before Flavia had Iie the two candies which Stood on the little Imantelshelf—hardly more than an_ edge Formed. by the projecuon of the Victorian fattciron. freplace—Shelmerdine saw that She wes in 8 room which, while scarcely big- ter than the boot-cupboard she had at Exit Envisioned, was a tiny bedroom with velvet Curtains, 4 very fine miniature bureau and fietle upright chair, There was no room for fny furniture other than these two pieces and tthe bed; but the space above the bedhead was lined with beuutifilly bound books and the felt of the walls were covered with ornately [Framed pidtires, moSt of which appeared 0 be of some antiquity. In attempting to com pare it to Veronice's room, Shelmerdine real~ Fed how very fascinared she must have been Wich Veronica herself, for, despite the time he had spent there with othing to do but Took about, she could remember almost no~ thing of that room. Even so, she was sure that while fe was rather larger than this one tnd quite well-appointed, # certainly lacked the solid, though cosy, opulence of Flavis's bode. ‘Shelmerdine was rather taken aback. The only privacy forded toany third-former,her~ Sulfincluded, wos thet of 8 curtained cubicle n'a dormitory of sx to eight girls. Only the Mian few privileged Rith-Formershad shar~ ‘cdrooms and only a handPalof senior prefects fred rooms of their own. Not enly that, but Some servent was obviously detailed to light Flavia Bre before her arsivaly since, prestm- bly, she did not have a eBt-form fog for the Job te did members ofthe Sixth. “What a Jolly itele habitat,” said Shel~ rmerdine. “Where did you fd 2” COh, one has to have somewhere,” sald Flavia unformmacively. She reached above the bed for a book, “Jolly useful, though: T have tltsorts ofthings here that we might need.” ‘She opened her bureau and offered Shelmer~ tine the dellestely carved little chair, taking her own Seat on the bed, Just below the pll= Towsra position which, owing to the size of the room, was close beside Shelmerdine. She Smiled contentedly. She Pad always intended to move these itudy seasions Into her own oom, How useful of the teins to make the ‘occasion for the change so quickly. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT 1 DEMOCRACY is a goverment of all by & majorly of proetarians; @ soviet, 0 government by a small roup of proletarians; and a actator- ‘hip, a ovrmmment by a single proletarian. Inthe traditional and mantmous society there tsa 0 femment ty a hereditary aristocracy, the fimct= {on of hich te to marmtatn on existing order tase om eteral principles, rather than 0 impose the views or oritrary wil of any “par” or Bohm S Retew The Moonstone bby Wilkie Collins 11s with considerable pleasure, dear reader, that I commend this splendid book to your Bttention. Ie has been called one of the bed Curly detective Rtorles, but le ls something father more than a. detedtive Story. Te is, Tong and involved Story (running to nearly yoo pages in my edition) which embraces Gotn‘tragedy and comedy; pathos and hu- nour. Ifthe driving-force of the ftory Is @ ‘eep-laid. and many-foldedmyStery, occa Stoning surprise after surprise and replacing Old puszlement with new puzzlemont at each urn of the meticulously constructed plot, IF this, as I say, mule be acknowledged to be the Story's driving-foree, yee its theme Is Something deeper. At the heart ofthat theme lies an enchantment; or, €,be more specifc, ‘This Is @ modern book, of course, with all that the word Implies in the Year of our Lord 1868, and the curse is not openly acknow= Jedged to be real and effedtve; yet every event of the book proves i to be so. The Curse ia lad upon the eponymous Moonttone: ‘S'iamond of curious colour and prodigious ues which has been set from thme immemor= [Rin the forehead of the four-handed Hin- ‘igo god of the moon. The curse was laid up— ‘nay who should lay hands upon tis sacred Jewel and upon all who should receive It from Fim. This curse seas Srdt invoked in the 18th Century of our era by an oscar of the mar~ Sting Musculmans im che army of Aurung- {eher Since then the jewel had passed from and to hand among the followers of the Prophet, always carrying its fearful curse and tlways watched by three Brahmins to whom fell, generation upon geneeation, the heredit~ try task of watching the Stone and awaiting the time when, by whatever means necessary, Te might be wrefted from the hands of the uteatte (for even a foreign prince 1s out tabte inthe eyes ofthe orthodox Hindoo) and Feturned to the embodied Genius ofthe Moon. “Thus things Stood at the time when one John Hernenitle, « ruthless and dishonour- ble English oficer, after the Etorraing of Ser— Ingapatam, basely murdered the present possessor of the Moonstone with his. serv= Ents and Stole the gem, thus ful6lling the curse upon its lateBt victim and invoking it Spon himself Herneaitle, because of the ink= ling of this deed. that had leaked abroad, was shunned by Socie:y and died a bitter Iman. Resentful of his site's refusal to 2350 lace with him, He willed the MoonStone to fier daughter, hls nlece, to be givon as a gift upon her, ket birhday following his ‘Seath:—believing, fs to be inferred, thatthe ‘curse would take efectupon her, and, indeed, before the tone has Luin twenty-four hours In her Keeping her peace, her happiness and thove of all about her ave cruelly shattered, Here the Story proper begins, and here mult T put a guard ujon my tongue, IeSt 1 Should chance fo reveal something more than ‘ny reader will thaak ane for tailing him in Rdvance: for if this Is not only a detective iyitery, ie certainly ie a detective mystery. Let me, then, confine myself henceforth to certain generalities, Te has been sad of the country-house detedtive Rory that the English country house represents the Creat Good Place, that the crime is the shattering of its primordial hharmony and that the discovery and appre- hhension of the eriminal are the reStoration of Srder and truth Ir this i so (and the present Sreter is inclined to beliove it), thon The SMeonone, Banding close to the fountain- hnead of this tradition, enunciates the central theme in grander and more universal terms than fe sually the case. There s-a dimension tothis Story that Is almof® mythic: the origin~ fi thefe of the Moonstone, like the theft of the Ithinegold, Sands at the head ot a chain ff terrible fatality which muSt poison all it ouches until that sin Is stoned For and things fare put to rights, Frem the very beginning, Betteredge, the food cld retainer who begins {nd ends the main--the English-—part of the tale im his own hand, refers to the perpetrator bf the deed simply asthe wicked Colonel” fad lfirms that he Was “one oF the greateSt blackeuarde that ever lived "Having referred to Betteredge, let us turn ‘our attention from the side of evil to the side of good. Botteredge is not without his Little fuits (are you, dar ceacer?) But as we get 0 Finow hits, ore find in him @ greatly lovable ‘haraéter, {wish you sould all reed the book In my 1934 Collins edition. Ie has, facing page 128, a charming pifure of hire, with his Fespedtable tall-coat, his portly ‘gure and his dignided old Reward’s face which made ‘me love him all the more. With his pipe {emoked only in privacy, of course), and his charming faith in the virtues of Robinson Cri-Bolume s9e to cure all human ills, he finds a place in very English heart. More than this, he Ie thet molt essential attribute of the Great Good Place:—the true and faithful servant ‘When all the evidence appears to convict his young miftress ('my young lady” as, he Always calls her, in contradifinétion to her mother, who is "iy lady") of wrongdoing, he ays of the detective who haw prodiced the fridencer It was downright frightful to hear him piling up proof after proof against Miss Rachel and to know, while one was Longing €9 defend her, that there was na disputing what he said. 1am (thank God!) constitutionally Superior to reason. This enabled me to hold frm eo my lady's view, which Was my View also.” “This Is the true feudal spirit! This is the voice of the ‘world before the Fall! Turn to Lady Verinder, Miss Rachel's mother, againdt whom the spiveful legacy was diredted and {you wll ind'a woman ae good and a loyal to her servants as her servants are to her. She is 2s kind and a6 upright, a8 charming and a8 Alsciphined, ax wine and as true a5 lady, miSt- reas and mother might be. She earns the trib- lte of the dour but brilliant detective ser- fgeant, who calle her “one of the clevereSt Sromen in England”. Her daughter calls her, more simply, an angel” ‘Turn to Mise Rachel herself and her nobil- lay and Beatty of character shine untarnished through every dark event and become ever more apparent a1 the Btory progresses. Ar the shrewd and worldly-wise old faraly law= yor pute it:—~"Ie the plained evidence in the ‘orld pointed one way and if nothing but Ra Che's ‘word of honour pointed the other, 1 ‘would take her word before the evidence, Iaw= yer as Tam! Tam, pethaps telling a little Zoo much here, but { deaw my reader's atten lon to the fack that Ido not sey what she has for has not done, only that she has done all with the fneit and nobleft of motives. am Sure this Is telling my reader nothing, for those who have not the moral inBtinét co ake this magnificent child se her word are surely buried in the degraded depths of some lesser periodical than The Entish Magazine. Such are the characters atthe heart of this, sountry-house microcosm. Such is the goodly paradise which is tobe shaken to ies founda” Elons by the curse of evil; and such are’ che {food souls which will not falter for one mo- ‘ont in ther truth and righteousness as the Garkness descends upon them. “There are those, Thave heard, who say chat Mr. Collins sees the dark corruption Which The Engl Magazine ‘page 58 (according to modernift mythology) lurked always but an inch beneath the respectable Lunfce of Vidlorian aociety;—but then there tre always those who will twit any and every thing to thelr own ugly and subversive ends. There are those also (often the same people) who say that Mr- Collins's work was a pre- Cursor ofthe morbid (or, to use the modern- 18'S own language, psychotic) vision of cert fin modern strters in which nothing 1s what [seems nothing Is to be trusted, all is dark and chastic, The truth is that Mr. Collins sees the one thine that the modernift can never see. He Sees eve He sees it in hls ovm Viorian s0- laty jut as he would see ie anywhere, be ‘cause lt exifts and mae always exist as part ‘of our fallen human condition. To ace ev is hot a revole againft the Victorian world. On the contrary, to underitand the existence of vil is an essential part of what sets the Vidtorian. world apart from the “moders world. In ts liberalism, its progressismm and Its materialism, the Victorian mind is no di ferent from ours. Ie in es underStanding of ‘certain teuths-—and the cousequent uphold ing of ‘certain ‘values—which the ‘modern World fe too week and too cynical (weakness {nd cyniclem, contrary to Immature opiion, fre over close allies) to underStand and to Uphold—thst the Victorian mind difers from that ofthe moderne “The modern world is unable to aee evil be- ‘cause it does not believe in absolute moral Salues, Therafore when evil lz thratt upon it, Te perceives it as mere chaotic blackness. ‘The sign of an absurd, moaningless and hoitile Universe. Because he is able to see evil, Mr. Collins is able to see chat other thing which the mod- emilt Is unable to ree. He is able to see (good. The tivo are not separable. IF there are fo absolute moral values, then there Is no (vil and there is no good, ‘To see Mr. Collins's World as dark, absurd, riddled with corruption or ith “hypocrisy” that Pavlovian reliex-word which springs £0 the modernist tongue In connexion with all things Victorian is & pervarse misreading oF his work; « reading 50 grotesquely perverse that only an age whlch hos subjected Iie i= Self to a similar process of diftortion could even contemplate regerding i seriously Certainly hypocrisy exits in this novel, and the creature who fa the immediate cause ‘OF the niachief which besats Its central ehar= ‘tars is revealed at 1aft to be a very moni {of hypocrisy and of carnal msmorality. This Volume 6 vice, however, is set,off against the nobility Of the central cheradters, and the solid de~ cency of almoft all the other charaéters. The ‘essential subject ofthe book Is a sane, norm Al, healthy and very attractive world, threat ened by a deep and primordial evil which Is ‘mediated through-an immediate Sn incident- al evil. The theme, if you wish is the battle between light and darkness—the very anti- thesis of the madernift vision of the world in ‘which all sa murky and indeterminate grey. hypocrisy exdts, only the moft tendent— fous mind can draw from thls book the insane ‘modern inference chat moral Randards thern= Selves are to blame, and that one mult elimin ste hypocrisy by abandoning moral Reandards ‘On the contrary, the moral beauty and person al attractiveness of those characters wo act ‘with unswerving Integrity shows us in what direction we must look For trae worth. “The sound basis of traditional values spon hich reéts all thet Is good and wholesome inthis book Is nowhere better expressed than bby Betteredge, the firma anchor of the narra- Live and ofthe household; Betteredge, sro Is often a gure of fun, but always man of Rrerling worth and’ essential soundness. When commanded by his young lady ra asst im the experiment which it to load to the rs Solution of the plot, he says to the doctor's Assiftant who is direéting the experiment ‘Speaking as a servant 1 em deeply in ddebted to you, Speaking as a man T consider ‘youto be « person whose head fs full of mag ots, and I take up my testimony against your ‘xperiment as a delusion and a snare. Don’t belafraid, on chat account of my feelings as a ‘man getting in the way of my duty 25 8 serv= antt You shall be obsyed. The maggots not ‘lthStanding, sir, you shall be obeyed. rere is something quite outside the ambit of the tawdry modernist-mentaliy, Better fedge. is not the the. liberal's "economic man", nor the Mersift’s "proletarian", act- Ing under economic conftraine. Here is trad~ Ielonal man, acting, like Cordelia," according to his bond™, with all that thet implies In terms of traditional order and integrity. As if to underline the point, the doctor's assiftent asks Immediately aRerward""Do you think we ‘can depend on him?” and receives, from one who Knows the old servant from of old, the reply:—~"Implicily. When we return to the hhouse we shall find nothing neglected. and sothing forgotten.” Here we are touching something that les deeper than the explicit rationaliftic con sclousness of the Victorian mindy and Yee The Gayl Magazine page 59 Something which informs all that is truest and belt In Victorian literature even as fe i Forme all that Is truefE and bett In Vidtorian Ii Te is the fount and wellepring of honour, Intogrity and righteousness; the understand” Ing that all one does mud: be done in conform ity withthe archetypal function which one is called upon to full, be It that of servant or fentleman, migtress or miniSter, husband or ‘Wife. Mr. Collins indicates thot where this UnderStanding Is transgressed, tragedy—or rather deep pathos malt resulty as in the ase of Rosanna Spearman, unhappy vie oF ‘chain of transgression Which began before her Ife and resulted in i She ts a vigUm, although not'wholly an innocent one, a8 it her fiend, Limping Lavy, the Strange, il natured precursor ofthe tan-hating feminiSt hnarrdan of another age (Iknow little oF mod

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