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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929, BOOKS OF THE DAY A KING IN HIS OWN COUNTRY. SAMUEL LANGFORD. speculations to be within his province j.1 i is me measure 01 ljangiora distinc tion among critics neitner imitatea by him from others nor imitable by but something entirely unique. H. S.

GREEK AND ROMAN BRONZES Greek and Roman Bbonzes. By Wini fred Lamb, M.A. London: Methuen and Co. Pp. xxiii.

261 and xcvi. plates. 25s. net. This book is the second of the series of Handbooks of Archeology which FOR EDINBURGH STUDENTS.

Dr. Cowans New 20,000 Gift. (From our Correspondent.) Edinburgh, Toesdat. Dr. Thomas Cowan, shipowner, of Leith, a previous benefactor of Edinburgh University, has given a further sum of 20,000 to the University Court to be used for the endowment of the Cowan Residence, which he hopes will be a social centre for male students of British extraction, and attract as residents young men who in respect of intellectual force and personal character are likely to have a useful influence on their fellow students and to become a credit to the University.

It may happen." savs Dr. Cowan, in announcing his gift, "that some such, students aie poor men who, without assistance, may be prevented bv monetary considerations from joining the community of Cowan House. I should like to place 20,000 at the disposal of the University Court to be held in trust by them as a fund, out of the revenue of which grants may be made to form, scholarships or otherwise, as the University Court may see fit, to promote the entry of thoroughly well qualified students as residents." are being issued under the general editorship of Dr. Arthur Cook. A volume on Roman Coins," by Mr.

Harold Mattinely. has alreadv appeared, and two others, dealing severally with "Greek Coine" and tjreefc Vases, are in course of preparation. The primary object of the series is to summarise what is known of the conditions and activities of ancient life, each province of the field being entrusted to an acknowledged expert. Miss Lamb's contribution in the form of the present work merits, ana no doubt will receive, general praise. Her position as Keeper of the Greek and Roman Department of the Fifczwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was itself sufficient guarantee that her scholarship would be adequate for the task.

But to a wide and profound knowledge of her subject she has brought other qualifications not less valuable. She has known how to arrange her material logically, how to select the best and most representative examples, and how to present the relevant facts about them in clear and readable form. Samuel Laugford. Musical Criticisms. Edited by Neville Cardus.

Oxford': The University Press. Pp. xiii. 154. 8s.

6d. net. Mr. Neville Cardus Las made a selection from the articles written by the late Samuel Langford in the Manchester Guardian" and put them into book form. Wisely, Mr.

Cardus has leit the articles to explain themselves, has confined his editorship to ahoosing them (this hard labour of searching through newspaper files no one would do except for love and in pious memory) and in arranging them so as to keep kindred subjects together. The book is a thin octavo with wide pages and margins, and is beautifully printed. Of all criticism that of music must be the most difficult, -for it has to translate into letters ideas and sentiments that belong to i different dimension of thought and experience. Some music there is which merely tells a story and is content to be ancillary to another art. But great music is absolute, and though most of us have a key of our own to its mysteries very few of us use the same key.

You can criticise music in a technical jargon that' means nothing except to musicians, or vou can splash about in a terminology that belongs to arts and does wrong to the spirit of music. But to express the inner meaning of music in terms that can bu generally understood even by the non-musical a rsie combination of qualities is needed. There must be musical scholarship, profound enough to dare to be simple; an idealism so nohle as to be infectious to others; a multiplicity of contacts with that borderland between reason and emotion in which music dwells; a literary style that is not merely exact but has the power of setting many different strings of sympathy vibrating so that the writer means more to the reader than he actually says in print; courage to attack empty pretence charity and patience to see the promise of future success even in failure; these and a hundred qualities more varied and subtle than those with which Cicero endowed his ideal orator. Langford had not in equa measure all the qualities of the ideal musical critic iti particular he never had the gladiatorial use of words. But he had more of the great essential qualities than almost anyone in our ti.e.

One who is not connected with the Manchester (Juardian" may be allowed to say that there are some passages in this book which express a greater refinement and delicacy of truth than musical criticism has ever attained in English before. PYJAMAS AND SANDALS IN THE STREETS. (Reuters Telegram.) Elizabeth City, North Carolina', IVesoay. Why girls are poimitted to dress com- ine capacity to do all these thines tfortably in summer while men swelter in at once is not commonly possessed by clothing weighing many timed even me uiusu eminent or arcnseolo-gists, and it deserves all the more to be recorded on that account. The book is important because it examines in a comDrehensive and systematic way an aspect of classic as miu'li has occasioned considerable debate in the news-pawn; 'ii the United States 'vccntly.

The i ilitor of the Independent." not satiMicd wtli commenting editorially on the suibjont, undertook to cauy his principles into effect, and attracted wide attention on Sunday afternoon by promenading in the principal streets clad only in pyjamas ami sandals. The police paid no attention to the A lion on his way to water in an African jungle. On the right is a lioness. The photograph is taken from Mr. Cherry Kearton's film Tembi," issued by the W.

and F. Film Service, Limited. LONDON SCHOOL OF processes and working conditions The school would be a centre where British public health workers could meet and discuss their experiences -with those of colleagues from other lands. ELLBSMEKK COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS. The lesult-s of the t-cholaiship examination at Ellesmere College, Shropshire, are now announced, awards having been made to O.

Hughes V. Harris (Bryn-tirion School. Kridcend. Glam.) J. M.

Lloyd; R. B. Pi itchard (Cathedial School, Llandaff); S. H. K.

Sandy (Leicester); M. 1. Edwards (Adaiu'6 Grammar School, Newport, Salop) M. Byrn, choral (S. Winifred', Llanfaiifechan).

The annual prize distribution at Baliol School, Sedbergh, took place last weekend. The prizes were given away by Mr. Gr. C. Meister, second master at sedbergh School.

The prizes included awards for rope-clim'uing and ldll-climbing. Dr Skeat reported on the progress of the school and the year's A gift from the sea has been provided for Castletown, Isle of Man, residents by the washing ashore of a large quantitv of new timber. Hand and norse-diawn vehicles have been requisitioned to transfer the wood, which consists of planks and fooaids of all sizes, to the town from the shoie. It is presumed that the timber has formed the deck cargo of a sailing ship and has been washed overboard ait tnat nas not previously been so treated. It gives in brief a history of bronzes from the prehistoric to the Roman period, including Etruscan work, which shows evidence of Greek influence.

The material discussed is of two kinds figures under life-size and decorative bronzes less than one metre high, the latter comprising reliefs, engravings, bronze vases, and objects that are not simply utilitarian. Both groups are so fully and excellently illustrated that, even without the meticulously documented text the work would still be of the greatest interest and value to artists and connoisseurs as well as to archaeologists L. B. B. A "MAD ENGLISHMAN." A Traveller ok the Sixties.

The Diaries of F. J. Stevenson. Edited by DougUts Timins. London: Constable and Co.

Pp. xvi. 308. 12s. 6d.

net. Few explorers have achieved the careless rapture with which Frederick James Stevenson flitted through theun-likelier parts of South America in the sixties of last century. A retired engineer, he travelled for the fun of the Dignified Design. The architects of the new school, Mr. MorJey Horder and Mr Verner O.

successes ot present and former pupils. Rees, have produced a building of simple but very dignified design. It stands near hygiene: Features qi New Building OPENING BY PRINCE OF WALES THIS WEEK. (From our London Staff.) Fleet Stheet, Tuesday. On Thursday the Prince of Wales is to open the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which its existence to the generosity of the the British Museum.

One side extends Langford made his own instrument for a considerable distance alonu Gower of criticism, and not without a hard struggle. Mr. Ciirdus tells us that at Street. The facade in Keppcl Street, with its high attic, carries as a decoration a frieze bearing the names of many the end he wrote with extreme facility. and if so he contradicted the saying that easy writing makes hard reauing.

early pioneers in hvcicne and tronical medicine. The balconies of the first-floor There was a tune when he wrote with great difficulty, which the result did windows indicate the nature of tome of the work to bo undei taken, for fhey are eniiched with the gilded bronze insects not always make worth while. He Rockefeller Foundation. Eight years ago the committee appointed by Sir mistakes fog for a twilight of the gods, a sharp-tongued but not unfriendly critic said of him, and not without truth, at one time; but out of these early atmospherics of Langford's style thing. His diaries show no particular interest in geology or ethnology; he rarely even shot at an animal unless he wanted to eat it.

For fun he explored the tributaries of the Amazon in a canoe; crossed the Andes on horse that carry tropical diseases. The Prince of Wales will be received on Thursday in the large, beautifully proportioned libiary, with its gieat windows overlooking a square and its gilded gallery. Most of the artificial lighting comes from sources cunnincrlv concealed, a schema Alfred Mond (Lord Melchett), the then Minister of Health, had found that the post-graduate teaching of public health in London was inadequate and was to come a halcyon calm and beauty in which sense and happv expres that is followed in the two museums and tlio laboratories, but a decorative effect is produced bv the creat liansinsr lamns back threaded the stormy archipelagoes of Southern Chile in a whaling boat caught Yungas fever in trying to cross from Bolivia to Brazil'; and finished by sailing over Lake Titicaca in a raft made of rushes. When hf sion were nobly matched. Langford was sometimes severe; but he soon learned that the true quality of a critic fallows more in praise than in hlame.

Others have blamed better than Ke, no one could praise so -veil. As was only of chromium-nlated metal and elass. These were designed by Mr. Rees, and have a suggestion of poised aeroplanes. The library doors of ebonised mahogany are thr work of tli Ohiswir-k- Art.

rimnn came home he took a flat in Holborn uneconomic, and had recommended that a central institution providing instruction in all branches of preventive medicine should be established and affiliated' to the L'niversity of London. It would have been very difficult to give effect to this recommendation at a time of such financial stringency, if it had not been that laduct, and. as his bioctratiher savs. Over the main door is a sculptured panei "entertained parties of schoolboys to enormous teas, thrilling them the while with wonderful tales of his adven -i. Jim; xveniijugioii, lepresenting a mother with a child clasped in her arms and a man slaying a thagon.

This typifies the hope of the future and the hem. atrainst diKpnsp. tures." He died three years ago, and f-H, nr 1 i- the Rockefeller Foundation, convinced The special feature of the large lecture theatre is the "back-throw" screen on that the need existed and that London was an incomparable site, offered the Ministry of Health 460,000 for the mi. j-imiim nas emreu nis voluminous diaries to thrill us. Mr.

Stevenson's chief points as an explorer were hi3 inexhaustible thirst for more and his power of noticing and vividly describing things. His account of the great earthquake of 1SC6. which wiped out the town of Arica while he winch pictures will be shown As the lighting apparatus is at the back of the screen it will be noiseless, and will throw no light across the theatre. A very important feature of the school is the museum, a lamp purpose of purchasing the land and building and equipping the schoo', provided the British Government gave a suitable maintenance grant. The main objects of the new post was only a tew miles away, is leally excitinir, as well as a vnliiablfi rfv.rH null, built with many bays Here the student may study complete series of diaerams and pictures recording ih He had a keen eye for local customs and conditions, and his sketch of semi- graduate school are to train men and women for the public health services symptoms and Statistics of diseases J.

nis section is civilised harb.irisui Indian defects emphatically not for the heie and abroad, to undertake lesearch general public nor are thp. hnftlH accentuated hy Luronean vices- morbid growths, nor the queer sights the tronical diseases work in all branches ot preventive medicine, and otherwise to reseaich. In 1924 the new School of Hygiene was united with the London ayiuuu inai occupies a large portion of ruthless. He found the inhabitants a contemptible lot, especially those with white blood in them. A 'few Indians are cautiously approved.

One wonders what they made of this nnwpnsnnnl-ilr- School of Tropical Medicine. This wa; gallery. But in the pubhr health section the exhibits relating to diet and the hygienic treatment of food are of more general interest. The ennrprrt nf to i to be expected in one so voluminous, his writing was unequal, but it was characteristic of him that the finer the occasion the better ho wrote. Though all the criticisms that Mr.

Cardus selects aro of hiuh quality, one likes better those which have to do with solo singing and playing than those which deal with symphonic work. As a critic of pianoforte music and playing. Langford has probably ncvr been approached cither for the iustire of his particulars, the sweep of his generalities, or the subtlety of his characterisation. The thirty pages of this hook beginning with the fine essay on Chopin's ballads and containing notices of recitals by Paderewski, Busoni, Moritz Rosenthal, Bauer, and others show Langford's genius at its ery highest. It is almost incredible that they could have been written in the short time between the end of a concert, and the time of noing to press, but their particularity shows that they must have been.

Besides, Langford's methods of work always had a lovable improvidence about (hem. In the case of any other man one would say that he was willing to produce an expectation of slovenliness in order to astonish the mora by the finished grace of the result, but Langford had too much art in his soul for this or any aTtifice. He was a great admirer of Hazlitt and was a master of the essay form. He had minute observation, and would often carry bis criticism to perhaps excessive detail. But his most quality was in the generalisations.

In his obituary notices or anniversary studies of great musicians, though he might have hardly a fact or a lie to bless himself with, he would make his subject intensely real by the romance of his aesthetic. Music was only one manifestation of the artistic beauty which was his life-cult, but he ahvas insisted that it had laws of its own which were not. to be understood or explained in terms of other arts. been to provide the stnripnts tegarded as a timely union. There are few diseases strictly limited to the tropics, but a great deal of research work has to be done with legard to the diseases chiefly encountered in the tropics, and the hygiene of the tropics requires special study, so the school will JPg THE II AIW thousands of mi: SBElliill Htamnedes or how Englishman, who for no plausible reason was always expecting them to take him into places which were dangerous to visit without being profitable.

One gathers that they respected him anyway, they obeyed and took him. at the hazard of their lives and his. He was a great instance of the Victorian "mad and his fine frenzy was well worth putting on record. P. J.

M. WHO HAS travelled es to show how the elephant ihe tiger springe, equips himself He has enquired of men who Africa and the Arctic and they continue the previous instruction and Kodak travelled provide wide opportunities for lesearch best possible conditions for their work Jight and ventilation have been the first consideration, and the maxima of thee are secured by the large windows which open perpendicularly on pivots, bv the wide open courts in the centre of the building and the system of diffused electric lighting. In addition to four or hve very large laboratories there are more than forty small research rooms ihe hole building is heated by the pan-d svstem, so that no heating pines or radiators are to be seen. On the'fourth and fifth floors of the building are extensive quarters for the animals, mice houses, monkey houses, and a separate building of unusual design intended a an insectarv. in this direction.

have all told him Kodak film. And if it's you taking a snap and it's not a tiger a Last year, out of the 250 post-giaduate students passed by the school, about 140 The Second Book-Crispin de Pass. Eleanour Sinclair Cresset Press. 30s. HoRTtrs Floridits.

Engravings by Introduction by Rohde. London net. had taken the course in tropical medicine lhese included missionaries, service- nren, men going out to plantations of various kinds in the tropics, and some all, but only Tim the terrier, Kodak film, bought in ths yellow box from the chemist, issdlltheone to trust. Because its good temper overlooks any little; mistakes, you make Because its speed gets good ship's surgeons. In the opinion of the school, all surgeons on ships that visit the tropics should be trained in tropical medicine, for they may at any time have to deal with tropical diseases.

At present, however, the proportion of those The history of flowers is part of the inheritance of literature. It would be hard to say how much we love any flower for itself, how much for its associations but, of course, the associations gather round them only because they are so beautiful in themselves. The peony is one of the oldest flowers in cultivation splendid as it is, it remains a mere peony, in solitary pride. But if the wild rose were a novelty to-day it would be a love-poem to-morrow." The charm of so qualined is small. There arc some sentences in a notice of Professor Andrew Balfour, director of the stag of the school, speaking at a luncheon to press representatives, said tnat tne school had six divisions, includ ethoeu great flat Piano Sonata which this writer has read through a dozen times, and each time marvelled the more at the siibtletv of their yjr I pictures in au lights.

Because ing public health, epidemiology and vital siausucs, oactenoiogy ana immunology it is the dependable film. irtisieal aesthetic. Langford is writing a uepartinent winch was trainine men Pass's engravings is in part and women who had decided to follow bactenological careers at home and abroad, and biochemistry, including me iumgio movement; tne eonata. It is the fashion, as much in the music of Beethoen as in the highest tragedy, to ieler all these changeful aspects of musical tneir age, lor nis iiortus rloridus dates from early seventeenth century, but they also have a beautiful resilience of outline and great clarity of design. The accompanying text, trans department of chemistry as applied to hygiene, which would be largelv con Codicil filial cerned with tramms the miblie health student in the analysis of water, sewage.

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S. ine uepartinent ot medical zoology has an aquarium and a large insectarium for the study of the forms of animal life tnat transmit manv tromcal diseases The department of tropical medicine and hygiene embraces the clinical work in tropical diseases, for which facilities are aSordei by the Hospital for Tropical diseases, in uoraon street. ir Holburt J. Wanng, non. treasurer of the school, said the building would foini to some moral struggle that is going on or deleted in the composer's mind.

One must have suffered oneself," says Vincent "to dare attempt the execution of this adagio of such intense emotional power and hovering between the gloomiest resignation and the most radiant hopefulness." We wonder how far such a view is true and how far such sublime transitions, contrast, and associations of style imply merely the profouD-Jest knowledge oimusic and its nature. The amazing thingis to feal that there is unity in such a work. The fact indicates that either the springs of joy and of sorrow are more Xclosely related than we think, or that they are both so greatly softened by the ideality of the arts that we are able to passVrom the one to the other as in a dream which relates all things, not so much to lifAas to itself. A profound truth, finely expresses, with the authentic Langford touch KODAKS BROWNIES oe one ci tne nnest ot its kind in the world. It had aroused treat interest KILLED BY FALL DOWN STAIRS.

Shortly before he was due to parade for duty last evening Constable Crellin, fireman, aged 33, of Monastery' Road, throughout- the world, for it would be of benefit to all countries. Professor Jame FOR HOLIDAY RECORDS. BUY YOUR CAMERA AND FILMS FROM son, the director of dudIic health studies said that theteaching material- in London was virtually unlimited. Helo had been Anfield, was found on the landing at the foot of the stairs at the fire brigade promised bv various Governmr.ut I'S; ALBERT departments, bv the Corporation of fhe i iY headquarters. Liverpool, with serious iniuries to the head and legs.

He had and let-them dp the DEVELOPING, PRINTING and ENLARGING. City of London 'nth its unrivalled svsiem tne, of markets, by the Port of London "Sani- Aran3P" hner Minnesota, which leit tary Authority, by the London Countv New York on Saturday iast for Boulogne Council, several of the City Comoanies, and London, are 2C Boy Scouts from and by leading manufacturers, wha Philadelphia, U.S.A., who are coming to would provide exhibits for the museum Great Britain to attend Jamboree at and faculties for students to study trade Birkenhead. apparently tripped up and fallen downstairs, for another fireman who was also preparing for duty heard a thud. Crellin died later in hospital. He was a married man and was going on duty for the first time after being off duty for a period.

which was his own. That no other. 4. Lttf MwlnHr. ESTABLISHED 187.

Tetatramt Ctmn Mamhtttar. Mtpdano MBO Central. musical critic ever thought such.