The Bookfellow.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 18

The Bookfellow.

—•— ;i (By A. Q. STEPHENS.} | ™ i % __T-to_____ts fttbtheb ; i-R______""__-C"__SCrES. ■ 7. ' P« iaM)i-3Q.:ra_o I a.er. "hose "Remin- -j, .-ar. ha- wrtf.-n ->"urther Kemi-.- "= --»:.-f-' M_ tr.-i.jr.: •-"• net,. The *; ■ T.t.r 1 C 'U_,-t. iv- H,:_tr? ja.-: 5 , v. ~7.177T t ■ ■ - -T.-! fcllpbi-siot*- "" f'-Tl Th' -'b-'T : = '.:-: '.. r--r---t ess nf »tnrl_-. « h::-! -tt be: t'. bi;«, and tad then svrum ; r The rr.irie-s _»-c cr.j-.;«'.: Mr. Hynd- ? He :- a good par'.i-ar.. Plainly he h_; ' tr:-: to be impartial: but his judg-p-ar Sua". And vha; judgment is tn-:'- be might retort. What esea appears final unless reader? are preir=po s ed to agreement? True, we n.ere'.y suggest ihe impression that hi? udvueucv leave?. Usually Mr. Hyc-__a n | l is so vigorous an advocate that one's, ■ .-ft thought is-. Surely there is some-1 thing to r-e said on the other side, lie' j does not -rrrae to ■ ■?:: vie lion : h° argues! past :t. I >evenhe>s i :: : s f jn t0 watch Mr ; j bread of Mr. Bernard '■".aw—inte Mr. N ". thai Mr. Kvnlmat :- uridulv cepre-i | '-' * ' " | "To r-e it seems c-er:a:u tha:, as I have' ■ saic bet-.re, Sbaw is inuiebled _j b, = immeI dia:e literary imp-.:.- and turn inward-I jtne stage-play to another c-ountry_i-_ of j j vsc-ar WJde n_ writes at hi, best | I The socirTy which pampered and spo.it bim. I j but wlilcb at -Oil-111 be despjsec. - nen ; ] Shaw first entered up-..- Luaduc life, it j I ;e airbos; incredible thu; Oscar's essays and. | plays and dramas should no: have had ' an effect upon tne mind and mc ! of l man bike Shaw. "Th. Soul o: Man j Under stviausm' a.nd Dorian lirey strike! a deper cote :ha:. Mtaw fe:_iself has ever. U:rj.-k. v, Lie. thorigh Oscars plays are: j D<«t a:i of equal men*, rbe.r perfection of ! Lttrrary form must time appealed strongly i ' -.l> Shaw, whose c of fr.oTetl.Ees* i ■ iv t:s own writing is obvious in ci ervthing , be publishes. . . \ "What a pity it i> that Shaw should have I st-t'e-j :be natural growtc of his mind avid racked h!» intellect to by his' ] confoundedly inappropriate diet "Why has , | Shaw D-. pathos: How is j- be is desnTute ! | of poesy; What makes his Jhumocr comparatively thin!- V.'by do h s dramas tend j ! to peter oct at tbe latter end? I say :: ail; I with '- bhd-r'-p and certitnde: because his frw.d :- I--* suited to our camnaide r-.-.nnate. i and bis d.-.r.k does h:m no good It: Sicily. J 'or Tastpatia. at Sar.tn Kar_r.a. Tape Town. <■- ("-.piano, -bei-e v.--.:arlar. vagaries may he pardoiable. t hunch 1 should be sorry "--. try TbfTi. on myself ever, there. But in England aiwi In I_>cdon. to ssv nothing of Ireland ard Dublin, ".bey are a sheer tempting of Providence to reduce a man to his ,'! west possible ■ -crturoou denominator. "Take Si >w r. -w nnd feed b-m up for 3 .»«... ,-.- tire fiesn dishes, artfully con.. bred -'d carefully co.ked. Tan. a highlyskilled Frer.c-h chef u> him ia every depsnraet: c* bis cl-.rions for him -fret hlack-ia'-k. or. better stiii. The highest • class" of Burgtbdy of the Komanee rotui • varier-v b->r_ in c p-"«J year, ard Sha* , w.,l:.|' ** raise,; 10-ttwlth to the "Th power n * htelle-tual attainment H* strong human symnathie-. n" ion.er half-socred ' by albuminous indigestion, w u n!.l bring the . i tears ;., our eyes and tend Them ger:!y as they coursed down cur cheeks. I.yri'-s - . - PT .,- : «:-_ f,.t-nT. and lufinile fancy would 1 lITPT-il'y ripple ont of him. wh:ie bis blank r "and his rhyme/i oonpleis ¥.-~M he :h* joy of all mankind. A* to his humour, Mer.-u'ti" whom Shakespeare kiliej. as he himseif confessed, in f-rdcr to prevent Mercuric 'from killing hira. would be a me-e lav -srtire by the s-de of the irreprossiWe 3 ...'■■ s;ers Stavr should f'imlfh forth for ns. - H's plays. too. would then work steadily ; -p" to a convincing and even ce'ich.Tful 1 artistic -lose ureas he should t-hrk n ' well now and atrcin to give v- a coda to = his d-nrra-i- svtnphony worthy to rank w-Tta the fifth 'a-t ■•'. Mc —ban: of - '"■?.': :: is of bo tse :aik:ng It this case : .».,,,.•»,-_ feecii.ir' is not leg_Uy :».Im:ss.r>,e. '-~,-_ '.-.:■ 'j l an «-.'t " * ,! ; "- j ''' ' a * 1 ~ —-iV.e sure of a !<et-u r 'badnez—ar . on!a eh be would, like thnt potentate, go . .'-"■„ Tbe possibilities if Bernard Shaw -s meat-eater aad a!co_e!i*t must " !-. ,-'.,,f.r, he left permanently to orr imag- - !', i; r * fnr ,-e-.ic-ment. and their re_!is.ation l '__' or!-- he acbievri ir his next--what am. ' Mr. "nyncrman has _ great deal that is •' worth reading to say about rSoeialLsts - and Socialism, about Michael Daritt. W. '■ I stead. H. the South Afn- - car. war." the menace of Germany, and \ sobie new ________-in- sToarES. 1 WW the Sew Zealand diggings were In : -! _ b.,h tide of success, and men who were in'-kv "could maie a .=3-1 fortune yr-,—a * • somnarativch s-hort time, by washing ?v.^ • out of tbe alluvia: gold-bearing »trareL t there --amc inio being -a organ.set ga.ng o. -, men who would go from one field to another " and apprcpria:e likely-looting cLa:i_s that were beinc |.roiiiahly work-*d by others. c These marauders being chiefly Irishmen, n they were called Tipperary Boys. or i- shortly "Tips." The goilfieids were at that r time under The control of Th» " Crown Commissioners, who. though they had ■c no Immediately available force at their com i- mand to enforce their decisions, were as a -y rule irop'.i-ltly obeyed. With the "Tips," • , bowever. dimcnlTies frequently arose. They refused to abide by the rulings of the Crowx

-T.-n>sg-jonp-s_ or evaded them :~ some .y. became the Terror of the cot—-try. It r--. chance- that in one -is-Huct four m>:r>ot_., soorr Gerrr-ir,- were mal..ug exj_n; wages it a c_i__; of their own when c came _uw the proe""pec_" ■re Tavonratiic, and ordered the iierniais . As tee "Tips" were niimero-.i> nnd a>ed. ..he Vrcrm_us were oblige, t • give ii. ahaMoned :heir '_am, and wetl off . r :b.- t-'i-r :•• ing eisev, ntr-. One ot thetu, w-:-\e-r. :..k_ a trip doWu to tbe t'.-i>w_ i •jin.;s£,oner a;i told vi:_ whs; t_d -ay nee 1 That luncuonary s: once rode -,■ t: • i_i_.-i __d iieremptonly order--- t-C i ":-p.- ;..- .-lear out :he-_se!vos. Thry d.- i , . __d :b- w, re re:iistalitd _.-fore : i vmi v ..-s' b< r i'_ No i-ov-.T .- a .- ;_i-£ :urLt-i rtu-.:. -Tips' aga.i, ■a Lii__y Uire__- of v. u_i wo-id impi* •• :l'- I ----oiis :: They cc-m;._i-fd a_a — j :■ ~TT-r. n.-ver-.li-.-ie-s.s. _p;. :■--£ air'Sb to : - . row r, * oinsniss.oner. »liti :o:G :---: _.i.... :._- lit- -.•_-. :...; r--.!-_. ..y a„:r..2.a em .:: -.D».r '.2111, Low. >,l: he woi_J __,< j : ~;> w. re ns-fc:lj dea': with i- trie ion? ' :.. c:.-: --jvised :l. lv. -v the t_eia_iT—ne, :■ :k .-.. .-.i-er boje. it.; i_ey J.c ::.■ 'T:;>s wa? •\.-.o'-n:ra!ed on th- :•- .. vi richer lun -•'-• .ti_.;c:e_. 1_ those u=y* _.. to-- »">'= »'*» :-. down a; _rjterv-'.» io r.a_E by escort .:: tas -rediTed :l ::.-- :-...-ks to sac cL_i.ii jet*- :: came— store;-. (:... necessa-y for -pai-st Tie l — laiice Ar:-r noon.an .. year had gone :.... ;_e "Titos' _11 re .-te: T . D_ne<__i :.. d:vi_e up Th- very rg- ..a.. ■..„: of goid t_-y _ad rearmed. , ha. ._■ .1 good time _j_e:_er 'I'i-7 Ibe-" - ---.i t __■_■-:?_ froi it- ..-. — . less ihe :a-i •si '■ ::...- liv-ir.,. t._: i.e. rj cred-t-d by r;v_:e .Ed.vi-iual ■■ .-r-i ;.: it- sjiil.- time. '• ;-. .ess yrj.j :r-.-:.-: ,---. : :. 1 consequent.y '■:-■ '-.:.: ■-?- T-. : :-,-_■ 7 ~Th i= - . __-j :-?eu _n-r._b:e-iy iDeited '...: of his 1 .:- •:...-. |.y the wr_.i-.tij men who had bevn I c nu'l-it tave r-'-: -7> "'•■''- ncd-T-r ..rdinary : ire-_ l »_ii;i>- s . H-v.dc -•■" - wfe a: I ■ hllirt--. that c-.-.:._--i his r.ew of m_::ers • d.s_ppt-_red :- s. if weets. <>_ L.-----itt-j :: y"3_c krif.w- :h_i: ::*- hud :---■_ j '_:'*• aTTDaz.nii'y -c-ssfcl. aTid th-t 2 goll- - - ••-' unprecedented wealth tan rewsrde-l J - —:,-•_ ;_ :Le :,.-d Those -ho had ; r--vloa>ly benefited hy hi? work s.->-l tea. d : .T*-r. —-.+--5 InFisted Ttis Time 'bat eact , houj-J rjv- h.r_ T-otLieztinz STTT'sTanL—il on ' ■-._:.:. .ir.l :_a: i.t_v those w_o w,._..i i_ 1 age f..rrc.-.: y :-efore__.Bd to j p B»j_s for work.-c; r-p la. hould s--.-c.n2p£i:.\. Th*- Th-r- ---._* gu.Tr a '.f well-io-do « :o tare in The ven-ure t_d Co w.-.t :h- '. rty * rospenor. ITvery-.hii:- seeniet qu:: f >o-ii-T3.1 i_ _-or>d falrt The expedititn started, rxukinr; for 3 dis- ' .-ir: previously aIL--:~t L3«-xp.ored. Thon-h , -caPTorr--d ::. -ov.rh -.r-_velliD7. ; * waj. _c■ r: -y-.nr work A: a=-.. rtfi -':- war...-, pa-ty 11::? -.ts; h» nr.r! made bi> way t,. anott-r ::' .-T-iLjiTP vl-ri-. :.. 11.*:.- ---...--'-. !■-.: t-r-r— --:>-1 entlr-ly - tide, -r,.v ti:j.'--t,-.;.: prea' har_*_:p-. f.< _. rh. -tr « a» ■-f --=-3 '..r! NoThiE- "a- fv-r !«sr>! ■■: ■>-- t«:.~. ;-.: p:ospe.-.:.r i_ New Ze_ STORXES OT KIKG EDWABD. "Kinr Edward in Hi* True Colours..'' by Edward ix-ppe. collects a -Treat, deal . 1 information ir. read.a.bie form. Tne rcyal subject is followed through ie-ad-passages of life, favourable and unfavourable: and. though th.- tone 1? t-uiogistit. and >ir kidney Lee'- memoir is tha rac terised as unfairly belittling, Mr. L.e<rg- dotrs -noi leave an imprrssion of ex'-es»iv.- etilogj". We see the Prince ■ f \\'a!es. t'j.. |..np kept in under the domination oi V'-feu Victoria, prevented from foiio-amg the c_.reer of _.!- own that mi2h: ha\r deveiopeu hi< : i_r.»od nature and good intelligence he possessed: force of c'naracter. m hi- djfiic-ult circumstances, he could ?*_.7Ce!v be expected to show: his influence was patriotically exerted: and a more vigorous monarch might have left _3 0rK serious occasion for complaint. \\ c canco: imagine any .-f King Edward's critk-s periorming his responsible better; since, if it is really true that he remained little more than an agreeable nullity, it is not at all clear that, in his (.ircumscribed field of effort, emphatic action would not have been disastrous. Perhaps the chief virtues oi a British king in the twentieth century are tact and discretion: and whatevei happened in the youth of the Prince, it seems to be conceded that King Edward exhibited these virtues efficiently. Pii Sidney's account appears to be writter from the wrong point of view. Mr. Legge writes with some acrimony of the Emperor William of Germany, tc whose disadvantage gossip has beei needlessly collected. Mr. Legge'=. book indeed, collects a great deal of coun gossip, readable- and other. Past thi gossip, he does elucidate his subject; anc be traverses with industry a wide fieic 'of inquiry. Documents, impressions, anc opinions by other commentators are ded to hi- story: and there are a dozei -.ortraits of King Edward. Queen Alex j andra. and of the "four generation-' I commencing with Queen Victoria, A story of relic-s from Boston: — I "I_ ISBO. when the Prince was over he-i lon a vi«iT To the President a _r_nd reviev 1 was sriven ir. fair hncrrar rljrht here It : Boston: and after the display, luncheon wa: served in the rotunda, on the review pround t-be feature of :he "spread* belli:; wild &JCi After lanch. The Prince r-sme on: of tbi 1 rotunda. I was movinc off when, with 1 ' look vrruch would hare melted a ws-on losi of Cints. Mrs. Brown said, -uhl <~orpor.l rat': you -rive mc something that the Princi of Wales has Touched I don't «a> -ha '.: :-. a« I'.ziz a-- It's poroerhiap. I.' It = C'rrl. 3 flsblK.De ' I "This set mc thinkinc. "(Veil.- I said I Til get yon those duck bones that 1 Re•here or. the Prince's platel' This ius tickled ber to de_Th. 'If yon win. Co: i pnra:.' she Raid. 'I shall you kindness to my dyin' day.' I went over v ! tbe tatvle where The Trince had sat, plcki--,:p every on° of the duck bones ne ha l >f: on liis plate, and passed tbem on 1 M-s Brown, who cave mc three dollar 1 for The prize, and went away as pron . :i_- a Thanksirlvhi' tnrkey ! .--VThy cot do a little, more b-stlnesr 3 winl i these !-ones?*' I said to myself. So I strolle. ; round the :ti v >ies. collected all tbe bene ' whi h the other people had left o I their platter-. and made tbem up int. ! quite a number of little j-irt-e.s. and trade :nen-. off to my friends as the real ori-rins drjok-r.on.--s which ;he Prince of "vVal-s ha left on his plate! It was a rerrular clncr and I cleared foT-ty-eistrt dollars by t> ileal! Thai's bow 1 go; my first : | life from your ITin<-e of Wales, th* lor« | lies: yo-t-: -rerjilerriiri I ever stmci."