"LIFE" OF VICTORIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 158, 6 July 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

"LIFE" OF VICTORIA.

TRAVEL IN NEW ZEALAND. VARIOUS NOVELS. On page one "Cyrano" reviews "The Spirit of London," by Paul CohenPortheim. Tennyson turned Arthur and his knights into very decent Victorian gentlemen.—Dean Inge. It is doubtful if a child, given the run of the larder, would overeat himself —at any rate, very oftenj—Mr. Walter de la Mare. In their satisfaction with little things, in their frank enjoyment of the smallest pleasures, our slum population enjoys life more than those who pity them.—Dr. Arthur Sliadwell. An epitaph by Mr. Rudyard Kipling for a Canadian war memorial has just come to light. It was intended for a bronze plaque on the Sudbury (Ontario) Cenotaph, but it was. not received until after the plaque had been cast. According to the London "Morning Post," Mr. Kipling composed the verfje in response to a request in April, .1028, when he was on holiday in the Mediterranean. The lines are:— Wo, giving nil, gained all, Neither lament us nor praise; Only, In all tilings teeall It Is fear, not death, that slays. It is just a hundred years since the 'first of Hans Andersen's fairy tales were given to a completely indiffenent world (says the "Observer"). He had to wait several years for recognition, and even then, as a "Times" writer reminds us, was criticised "because his tales pointed no moral." The surprising thing is that Andersen had no particular love for children, and did not care much for his fairy tales. He resented a sculptor's design representing him as the centre of a group of listening children, and hoped to the end of his days to be remembered as the author of his tedious novel, "The Two Baronesses."