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The Guardian from London, Greater London, England • 7

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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929. RESERVES FOR GORILLAS. THE: YOUNG POLE-SITTERS OF THE UNITED STATES to the Grand Jury-at the Old Bailey tfaU week. Is peculiarly un-Britisn. did not, of course, mean that there, must no more shaves and no more cuts txom tt joint: he was referring to criminal assault with razors and knives.

And the idea that it i3 hot only felonious but; worse still, ratber cricket," as one' The Nature of the Beast. might say-td use- a knife on your uuj By George Jennison. Current' about possible is a verv familiar one in courts Pi0-wnere they plead. Learn to usb your fists, my boy-the true Englishman is con means -for preserving the gorilla in our African dependencies brings that tent with nature's weapons, is variant of the same advice. It would AUTUMN FABRICS COLUMN.

The New Silks have arrived at LEWIS'S, and you can and should see them now in the windows and on the First Floor. They are particularly well worth coming to see, for the range of quality has been greatly extended. LEWIS'S have always sold excellent silks at moderate prices: they now offer some of the finest products of British and Continental weavers still very moderately priced. remarkable beast to the fore again. almost seem that there is sometnmg positively patriotic about Riving a really good punch on tfie nose.

Yet, sad to He' haB a queer record in history. sav, a punch on the nose is aiso qmie serious assault, and it will be no use saying About 600 B.C. the' Carthaginian Empire sent out their Admiral Hanno with a fleet of 60 ships of 50 rowers, carrying 30,000 of their surplus popu to the Bench. "'Please, sir. but.

the otner gentleman told me to 'Be British 1" lation, to found new colonies on the As for biting and gouging tmougu uu Atlantic coast of Africa. He passed also involve the use of nature's through the Straits of Gibraltar, would be almost better to go tor your nrmnnent with a razor, after the manner between the Pillars of Hercules, and of the buck nigger and other lesser breeds travelled south. He founded a colony at a spot as far beyond the Pillars of without the law. Hercules as they were from the homeland; thence he continued farther Stavery In Manchester. A correspondent hopes that south and arrived at an island in which was a lake, and in that another island of beetling cliff heavily.

wooded, in the recent note on Slavery in isngiana, was not "deliberately concealing evidence of Manchester's guilt in. this ihatleeven more recent than your London examples. occupied Dy a- wiia widb in which uib males were-far. outnumbered the females. We chased;" continues the admiral, "but could not catch the men, who scaled the cliffs and defended themselves -with stones, but we caught three who bit and scratched and struggled 'so we killed them and flayed them and took the skins back with us to Carthage.

For we went no Some time ago I came across a. reference to the following advertisement from a Man Chester paper in 1767: Any Gentleman or. Lady, wanting to purchase a Black Boy. 12 years of age, with good character. Has had the smallpox and measles.

Apply Swan and Saracen Head, Market Street. "It immediately suggested the more familiar advertisements of puppies, survivors of distemper. As I was both amused and horrified I copied the extract- down the time." further, as food was getting scarce." Those skins were placed in the Temple of Juno, and, according to Pliny, were there when Carthage fell to Borne. Thus the gorillas (for such I think they were) come into history- The Printed lug Velvet bAlle Mfiate DnlfA anecdote is valuable evidence or the extent of that voyage, for the gorilla has not been reported more than six At a time when the Rolls-Royce firm is degrees north, and in spite of the great numbers on the coast as far as Angola it is found more than thirteen degrees south. Until recently This loveliest of fabrics will lead the mode for formal afternoon and evening wear: Exquisitely supple, it drapes and hangs perfectly, and is almost uncrushable.

The newest of many designs is an irregular mottled fleck lemon on fawn on black, rose-and-beige on brown, etc. rl 34 inches wide. Yard'' zoologists thought that the animal was only found near the coast, neglecting, as Sir Harry Johnston complains, the one he recorded shot in 1904 by George Grenfell near the River Mutina on the north bank of the Northern Congo neglecting, I may add, the far more important testimony of Commander W. l-iovett Uameron. who writes in rejoicing in its success in the Schneider Trophy race it may be noted with interest that this famous partnership was formed at Manchester.

It was in the old Great Central Hotel in 19M just 25 years ago that Mr. Rolls first met Royce. The Hon. C. S.

Rolls had won' the 1,000 miles motor-car trial in 1900, and in 1904 he was looking for a car, preferably one vith three or four cylinders, to replace the Panhard in which "i till then he had been interested. The late Mr. Henry Edmunds, himself a pioneer in motoring, mentioned to him that at Manchester was Mr. F. H.

Royce, who. although his firm's work was confined to the making of electric cranes, was building a motor-car; and to Manchester Rolls went. Mr. Edmunds told the writer of this note: On the way up Rolls said, I want to make a car that will become a household word, just as Broadwood is identified with pianos and Chubb with safes." I introduced them at the great Central, and they at once took a liking to each other." After lunch Mr. 1861 Passing Runangwa Has I saw some gorillas (Soko), black fellows looking larger than men thev are said by the natives to build a fresh house every day." Runangwa Ras, on the west bank of Lake Tanganyika, Avon Foreman, aged fifteen, the pioneer of the new craze for "pole-sitting" which has-seized children in the United States.

His enthusiasm fanned by the exploit of one Shipwreck Kelly, professional pole-sitter, Avon mounted a pole and remained there ten days, ten hours, ten minutes, and ten seconds. Then he slipped down and was crowned champion juvenile pole-sitter of the world. He received a letter from Mayor Broening, of Baltimore, who commended his grit, stamina, and pioneer spirit." It is to be noted that Avon's perch is crude, featuring the pioneering motif. As other pole-sitters mounted their perches they became more elaborate, and were built with a view to comfort. On the right is Ruth McCruden, ten-year-old veteran equal rights sitter.

She remained aloft for fourteen days. 7.S0 south, 31.3 west, marks the easterly and in the interior the southerly limit of the gorilla. Roughly a total area of 1,200 miles north to south and east to west, and here in densely wooded and mountainous country the gorilla is found, with one enormous and notable excention. In Rolls went to see the Royce car, and a few weeks later the two had allied themselves the forests within the great sweep to the south and west of the Coneo. in together under the famous title which still perfectly suitable country, the gorilla remains, although Rolls, turning his attention to aviation, was killed iu a crash in 1910.

ana many otner mammals found on the MISCELLANY northern and easterly side do not Printed Moire exist hence it is suspected that that The House that Hans Built. Feminine area was comparatively recently jrreat fresh-water swamt). Observers of little social changes may have RUSSIAN WRITERS OF TO-DAY. Gorki's Influence. (From a Correspondent.) Maxim Gorki is the most read of The gorilla is a vegetarian, and requires an enormous amount of food to noticed a new but spreudim; fashion in names for places of refreshment.

"Tea- sustain his bulky frame. A bis male will stand 69 inches high, his chest is shop was perhaps never a very suitable description, since it suggested a grocery 62 inches or more, and he will weigh is altogether new this season, and a first' favourite in Paris and London. Very rich in texture, it comes in large and small bud, blossom, and leaf designs, beautifully printed in soft clear colours. -t 36 inches wide. Yard 7 3 Also in richer qualities.

Yard 159, 189, and 219 almost 6001b. The arm stretch of this store rather than a place for drinking from cups and saucers. The simple word monster may be nine feet. So said Du Chaillu. who was charged with exag Russian writers to-day.

The Russian Refreshments had its day, but it was State Publishing Company published rather impersonal. 'Both restaurait and gerating, but Ben Burbridge killed one recently only iust short of six feet tall. 2,322,000 copies of his 121 works in the 4 cafe tend to suggest tiie larger and more urban types of establishment. vears 1920 to 1928. After him comes Tolstoy, of whose works 1,826,000 copies The latest development is the use of a Its foot was twelve inches long, the big toe over six inches in circumference.

Nevertheless the leg and foot are the weakest part of the gorilla's structure, Christian name feminine, of course have been puniisnea, men rusnisin Prom Czecho-Slovakia or Scandinavia or some other heavenly inspired place where they do things differently (and therefore better) than in this ignorant island conies the news of the ideal house designed without regard to popular prejudices or tradition." It is round in form, and the entering passage leads into a central and circular hall from which the other rooms open following the course of the sun," so' that the bedrooms face east and the scheme moves on until the main living-room faces due south. The same result could, of murse, be achieved with a square house but then the residents would miss the chance of playing clock-golf from the central hall into the apartments that cluster lound it. It might also be possible to have a clockwork dial and pointer that would indicate the particular room that you ough to be in at any moment of the day. Almost any home is improved by a little system and self-discipline. Another form of ideal home has been designed by Professor Griintz of Jugo (1,661,805 copies), Turgeniev (1,638,000 which subtly implies a certain daintiness.

Tchekhov (1,103,000 copies). and on that account they always frequent rocky ground covered with dense vegetation. Temperature is to These figures show how great is the You may find examples in any county. In a recent tour in the Kipling country (writes a correspondent) I have enioved tea af. inem oi no importance.

The newly interest in the Kussian classics. Ihe interest in the younger writers is not nearly as great. It would be difficult Anne's Pantry," at "Priscilla's Tea discovered race, Gorilla berengeri r. ft 1 1 iouna arouna J.atce luvu. soinn Xkuumo, O.

XIUUBB DCTl IE Simply to say whether contemporary Russian miles north of Tanganyika, in the ten the sign Janet," and another distinguished ritory which the Belgian Government by thesingle word "Drusilla." One little tea-garden bore the sign Sally nas now allotted to them as a reserve. are found on Mounts Mikeno and Karissimbi. at ll.nnn fpot tho n( the perpetual snow. Thev are fifrrpH literature reflects the contemporary Russian mind. If the Russian mind is the mind of the Russian man in the street it can hardly do so, for in no country is there less contact between the man in the street and the creative artist.

The young writers still follow Russian literary traditions. Thev are all deeply influenced by Tolstoy, to meet the climate, and look most Velomr slavia. This also is circular in shape, but uuniicaiiy iiKe a in winter dress The lowland beasts -it is dug into the earth instead of raised Sabbath Problems. Painful confession from whose Sunday reading has brought him up against that "sordid science" of mathematics: Each week I examine with particular car the "sayings of the week" in the Sunday-press. I have stared for half an hour at the following, but have failed to fathom its less, and between the two lie many above it, thereby effecting an obvious grauanons oi nair and colour and even something of shape, but in dis economy in building material.

There is a big pole in the centre up which the residents can climb from time to time to position an are alike. Family Life. Dostovevsky, and Gogol. But there is one difference their hero is no longer a fatalist, but a man of action. That is, perhaps, the biggest change the Russian Revolution has brought upon Russian literature.

There is less self-analysis because life has become less introspective. But the younger writers are not realists realism has been receive gifts of buns or nuts. One Man's Meat Better per cent of a certainty than X. divided by 1 per cent of chaos. Sit'- Andrew Battell, a slave of Portugal The road-breaking season is still in full in Angola at the end of the sixteenth i i i is the ideal fabric for the light and graceful draperies.of the present-day evening gown.

The pattern is raised in velvet pile on a delicate silken ground; there are floral designs in multi-colours, and the grounds are of the season's newest shades. Among them are deeper tints suitable for bridge -coats, etc. 36 ins. wide. Yard AO swing, and such bits of London streets as oinugnt mem once more I do not like to miss any of the world' wisdom.

Can anyone help me? I hava read it everv wav. I Rimnoce H'mn AiniA. will not oblige by blowing themselves up before the world. He notes their abandoned. There are some in unpremeditated explosions are being human form, calls them Pon coaxed into chaos with the help of electric ot the type of iL.

T. A. Hoffmann, with unbridled imaginations and great by 1 the answer is but that doesn't make sense, and I don't see how you can (Mpungu), and in this evidence drills. The wielder of one of those instruments has just recommended his shattering plaything as an aid to health and the sound mind in the sound body. "A few weeks of audacity in their choice ot subjects.

Big Canvases. There is much writing about social JstUiuaure it.u.' this work have made a different person of me," be said. "I'm not carrying an ounce of flesh; I'm not turning a hair; I'm as Mr. William F. Broening, jlayor of Baltimore, whose letter to Avon Foreman, commending his grit, stamina, and pioneer spirit," started the epidemic.

problems, but the interpretation tends to be individualistic. A frequent subject is the clash between the peasant and the intellectual. Sex does not invade modern Russian literature as it does German -and American, perhaps hard as nails; and as for nerves why, don't know I ever had any!" HURT BY CRANE COLLAPSE, Two Birkenhead Corporation workmen were injured as a result' of the collapsel of a crane used in the demolition of building at the corner of Market Place! South and Chester Street yesterday Perhaps he hadn't and if he had, pre oi their ferocity, as this was but a bitter nickname on the coast for the Mpongwe, a powerful, brutal inland tribe at that time moving to the sea. He speaks of the shelters they make, and in this is confirmed by Heighten in 1S47, Du Chaillu in 1S61, and many recent observers. From them we know a general way that the gorillas live in small family parties under the rule of the master male, who makes his bed on the ground and thence' protects the smaller, weaker members of the band who are lodged in the trees around.

Hunters are unanimous in their reports that he will fifrht fearlessly when cornered. In this the gorilla bands seem more advanced than the other anthropoids, and they are certainly as intelligent in captivity when, as rarely happens, they become reconciled to the loss of liberty. sumably he has passed them on by this time to those who have to listen to his because of a certain contempt for detail and a preference for a large canvas and big daubs of the brush. The childish are read everything is at once translated Wells, Conrad, Sherwood Anderson, Jack London, Giraudoux, and Paul Morand. But there is no tendency to imitate foreign writers, only a thirst for knowledge.

disruptive solo on the asphalt. Gentlemen Prefer Fists. We do not want razors and knives to be used in this country," said the Recorder unities naiewooa oweu street had a leg fractured, and Harry Brownj (33), Havelock Street, received injuries to his head. Both men were detained a the General Hospital. Printed Velvet questions of love and death, right and wrong, bear upon modern Russian literature in a way that makes it more direct, more concrete, sensual, and greedy of life than it ever was before.

For the first time a Russian writer him from every part of Russia with all kinds of questions Tell me how to write Would you read this MS. "What is art?" "What is happiness? and so on. At the very beginning of the Revolution he started and inspired a young group of Russian writers. This group the Serapia Brothers (with Gorki as their spiritual father) was the starting point for the rejuvenation of has described' the pathos of workand action. He is Gladkoff, whose book Cement" was a-huge popular success Russian letters.

They have now all 400,000 copies were sold in two years. It is about a workman who discovers an (Jan such creatures be left in peace that their actions may be studied as living evidence of primitive government? From north to south and east to west the. negroes everywhere maintain that they carry 'off women. made names for themselves: Nikitin, Slonimski. Vsevolod Ivanov, Sosh- old factory which was abandoned in the Civil War.

All alone except that chenko, Fedin, Kaverin, and Tik-honov. there is a woman to encourage him Du Chaillu' quotes the story of a band Russian literature is, I think, more he makes it work again. Leonoff is a verv -powerful writer, and his hook The Thief is a true master of gorillas that were tarang up sugarcane. They beat off the negroes who attacked them, and some they carried national than it was, chiefly because the Russian patrimony has at last become rich enough for writers to find all they need in Russian life. piece.

He is in the tradition of Dostoievsky and Gogol, but has a strong away, letting them return later Soft chiffon velvet of beautir ful quality, in the tiny floral and conventional designs that are right for formal afternoon wear, and also in larger flower-sprays." The colour-range is exceptional, and includes the new garnet and dahlia shades, warm autumn-browns, marine and polar-blues, lacquer red. etc. 36 inches wide. ACj Printed Cr.epedeChine The new designs in this most popular fabric are particularly well worth seeing. There are lovely patterns of scattered flowers and sprays in natural colourings, most artistically, reproduced on pastel and deeper grounds.

The crepe- Many interesting writers are Siberians Nina Smirnova, Lydia Seifullina, and others, who' add a uninjurea, except uictit lugii auu finger nails were torn off. It is another old woman's tale, perhaps; yet many animals and other, monkeys carry off personality or nis own nevertheless. He is only 26 or 27. Babel, a Jew, has written stories, rather in the style of Gorki, and a large book on the Civil War. There is a book in three volumes "JVJ? better brand than the tThree Castles' strong, ethnographic quality to" their art' and a style" enriched with dialect.

food, and I have noted that chimpanzees try to "pull- away one's nails. DuJ by Sholokhbff'on the Civil War in the' isy way ot protest against the psychological -novel, the adventure novel." hitherto almost unknown in JJon. tie, too, is a young man, and it is his "first book. He comes from the Qhaulu was the first to notice that the gorillas watched- him in tracking, and he quotes the native: tale that the man-who drops his spear appeases the Russia, has -sprung up (Ehrenburg and As for the substance, a historian could not have done better. And the characterisation, as in all these books on-the Civil War, "is truly epicv Ihe historical novel is also popular, showing that there is a desire to.

look gorilla. ine ammai is in general soy and timid, but it will raid plantations and would -grow hold with immunity. The moral seems plain: give "them their WILLS'8 back. There1 are many so-called These young writers have an. extraordinary maturity.

who is modesty itself, once' said in a There are proletarian "writers." but' as far -as mountains and ring them in Kussia now. the actual writing is concerned' there is no distinction between and the others. The distinction is purely de-nine is oi.spieno.iaiy CASTLES for heavy -quality, penecr. Gorki as Inspirer. Gorki is indeed' the literary, leader 96 wide.

Yard of the young Russian writers, perhaps CIGARETTES: 20 for 14 MAGISTRATES' GIFT TO RESCUER. The Frodsham (Cheshire) magistrates yesterday made a gift of 10 to; Harry anion, of Frodsham Bridge, who, jumped into the River Weaver and saved the life of a boy whose companion was (Gtooloe RindaWtJ 20 for 16 lO for 8A because his own personality, so- harmonises -with 'their subconscious -ideal; His-whole life is a praise -of, work. And -he has a interest in the' humblest 'human being and the formal, and nothing to art. The'numb'er. of good-Russian- viters indeed, -enormous one remember all ithe'names.

the older writers Olga Count A. Tolstoy, Michael Sergeev-tsensky have themselves to the Aew structure of life." There is -a'ilgood' deal pf poetry written- in to-day, but it is of the" clever kind. quantities of European books miss drowned. Janion was -also presented with the Humane Society's Silver 'Medal most patient consideration for -every spark of talent. For years he lived at and answered "everv nn MARCBT STRBBT ItAMCJLEftXSm and certificate' and ap chetrae- for 10 1 of ihe stream of letters that cams- to yn-additionjjoe-magifftrates gifts.

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