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THE AGE. SATURDAY. JUNE 3. 1033. 'lllllllllllilllllilWHlllll'lllllllllllllllllillW VINE- BOROONDARA YARDS.

THROUGH THE NOVELISTS' EYES. I SIGFRID KARG-ELERT I MEN; and Affairs iThe Genius of the Organ. Bach's prophetic works, real wing the pos- sibilities of the modern organ, infinitely! expunded its technicul and tonal resources. In true- creative, spirit, he has woven his ideas into original pal tenia of lasting love-f liness." Karg-Elert muy now speak, first ubout his method of composition, ami then about his interest in Australia, which I IB; in BY W.L.8. rjmji'i'jjmum'iximn ry a.e.H.N.

For many years, before wheat urowlnpi (T Palm Suuduy this year tho most History Mr. Lloyd Gconie. Tho passage iu ques notable conmoscr of modern orcau No. IV. i "The American Tragedy." BY A.A.P.

SOME EARLY STAGES. ATTACK ON RAMSAY MACDONALD. tion was written some years ago, and was, I need hardly soy, not iutended for became the i sphere of action of the primary producer in Victoria, viticulture flourished, and tho vine held pride of place as the chief agricultural product of the From the early fifties, both music died iu Leipzig us the bells were: ringing for the afternoon service. Sigfrin comes out in a description of his family life on Chris turns evu, 1023. The extracts are from a long letter, closely wrtten on nublication.

Throunh some most blame The truth the novelist tells is often iiiiimi.miiiiinii.i,iiir, gy JQt mi.hinii...iii.i.iiiT,iin.i,n.;IM-i hurg-iOlert was born In Obcndorf in J87T. From humble circumstances ho aruduatcd worthv inadvertence on my part it preceding und concurrent with, tbe gold- escaoed my notice, ami was not deleted other than he intended if he is ti true1 novelist, in whom accuracy of observation hus become a second nature. Hib mind nume. Not all ot thu "lireci;" statues mining eru, the acres of the vignerou COMPARED with Wie Egyptian sculptor nt thA time of Rumeaea tho through the village school, the choir of hit. John's church.

Leipzig, the university and see. in marble or replica, are ot true om the proof. J. wish to express pun- 'Die attack which Lord Suowden uiude laat week on his former political chief, Mr, Ramsay MucDonald, tbe Prime Minister, has caused comment throughout the British Empire. In the course of a speech in the House of Lords requesting a statement of the Government's policy on the forthcoming World Economic Con workB as a camera, allowing tho light of Greek or mm.

many being copies inudc by were looked upou as the pride and promise of our agricultural lands, licly. ns I hove alreudy done privately, to couservatorium of the same city, until he twenty-eight wictits ot foolscap, giving a wonderful insight inty a modern com', potter's mind. Philosophy, patriotism; poetry, criticism, art und religion all find a place in this letter, the language beiti us original us the music of his organ works. European "Old Master is but aa a thing life to etch its own shapes on the sensitive omuu sculptors ot a luter date masterly Mr. Lloyd' George my sincere and extreme of yesterday.

Again, the antiquity of the became at length a composer und execu plate of his temperament. Ho it Is with as repetitions, but lacking in a greatei and until the introduction of the English sparrow and the all-pervading regret. tant of the first rank. Egyptian, fur-reaching though it is, shrinks Theodore Dreiser's "The American or less decree the divine touch of ori The life of Karg-Elert was full of trying phylloxera scourge, which were the funds Personal Abuse. to comparative modernity beside the sjian of years which separates him from the, ference, Lord Snowden described the Tragedy." He has set out to give us yet About three weeks qsq a thounhfc situations und exciting incidents.

His ginal inspiration. Marble wos not the only material used by the Greek It is necessary to go back to an earlier deep thought, -universal sympathy and in blossom coniG timidly gliding to me. Palaeolithic Cro-Magnon artiBt, tho few another sample of his yeasty philosophy; ho has actually produced something vastly colossal "Jupiter," at uiympm, and a cen era 1 1 on to get tbe full flavor of per remaining evidences of whoso art are mental causes of viticulture's declino in the fields around Hie metropolis, the vineyards of Boroondara flourished and prospered exceedingly, and were the chosen field of action of many of the city's Minerva" of like proportions in the domitable Bpint made bim the unique! figure iulho organ world of his day, Every Prime Minister's reply to a similar demand iu the House of Commons us "absolutely staggering," and continued "I know not whether this is due to tho Go-vprnmpnt bavin? no Dolicv. or to Mr. more valuable a striking criticism of the sonal abuse which enlivened public life Parthenon, wrought by Phidias, were both viewed with admiration, und even wonder, by tho Augustus Johns and Max Mel- bases of Americas civilisation.

in England. Disraeli provides an excellent well-trained organist took the greatest de The American Tragedy" is in many illustration of what was expected from 1 was thinking, you are, 1 urn sure, another organ infant. Just come along, I won't hurt you. It hecanto a kind of Saru-bandc in flat minor, very original iu thu' harmonics. Then came an excited move- en iu sharp minor; then an Italian blue episode, then biomi choral move hat is termed chryselephantine, oi orked in gold and ivory.

It seems pity- light in hut wonderfully individual cruu drums of today. There may have been Lradimr citizens. MacDonald's constitutional inability to' ways one of the worst novels ever written. leader in attacking his opponents. Of tions.

For some ho was too advanced, for The pioneering zeal and energy of the Its style must bold the record among artists in tho world before him, but it is hurdly likely, for the Neanderthal race Lord Palmerston he said: "If a traveller others too imaginative. His native con- du Castella brothers. Paul and Jlubert, ful to have to relate that no work of this! type survives, for though religion in one mood fostered the arts, it had in another: serious writers for clumsiness and careless- make a clear statement. suggest Cabinet should look into the case of tbe Prime Minister. It Is a positive donger to the frores preferred Kegor, loving logic rather both at Heidelberg and in the valleys Dreiser, ith an American scorn immediately preceding him was of a distinctly lower level of development, dif were informed that such a man was leader of the House of Commons he may begin to comprehend bow the Egyptian? of the Unner Yarra.

are world famous on unhappy way of judging all such mani for outer appearances, is. apparently quite1 country that its affairs should be in the ment on the sliurp minor notes, appus-sionata. As yet I could not tell what it wanted to be. With a burlesque curtsey than poetry. Like Eucken, Kuig-Eleit made Mb reputation abroad before gaining due recognition in his own land, lie kept.

festations emanating from rival sects as Vering, St. Hubert' and M. de Pury's Yeringburg spread the fame of the light content to garb ins ideas in a suit of fering little in appuaruuee und habits from! the forest apes. Tho Cro-Magnon wasj orshipped an msect. lou are hands of a man who every tune he speaks exposes bis ignorance or works of the devil.

The English Purituns crumpled reach-me-downs which would fill very peculiar scherzo, witli rollicking the British school of players iu mind, de Australian wines throughout Europe, but at once a marvel and a mystery; the of the sixteenth century put to the flame now exhaling upon the constitution of your country all that long-hoarded venom staecati and witty pizzicato effects, niado lighting in their appreciation and superior the well-bred soul of an English novelist with horror. He sets before him the marvel being his skill as a delineator of many priceless paintings of alleged Popish1 the early efforts and successes of the vinneronB nearer the metropolis are i(s entrance. Then bass-like motiv iu and all those distempered humors that interpretative powers. the animal life of his time, and the mys origin, and the zealots of the early Uiris- four measures inarched solemnly on, suyv: almost forgotten. Boroondara in the Sigfnd father was a journalist, and til Such a personal attuck by one man on another, with whom lie has been closely associated in political life for a generation is uuusual, but there is much reason to tery in the shrouded darkness in which fifties and 'sixt es ranked with honorable, but dangerous, aim of telling "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" about his characters; the result is a huge book, lacking all the ulce have for years accumulated in your petty heart and tainted the current of your mortified life." hU term of existence is enveloped.

It is tho unreformed religion, but the family of twelve was brought up in the doctrines the Upper Murray. Emu Creek truo that bis title to recognition ing Hern I am, here 1 stay; dress me, put several stories on my head, I shall carry everything; I am an obstinate fellow. Ne light camt to mo. Ah I you tion church of the fifth century were not far behind the crude barbarian invader of his tiino iu reducing to debris the graven images of Pugan idolatry, which, unfortunately, included many masterpieces of believe that political friendships are not and Geelong districts and the Upper of the Evangelical church. many an He described Gladstone as "a sophis a quite slender record of performance, Yarra fields as the chief vine-grow- proportion, the balance of detail, the selection of the telling incident and the sup other musician, his real training wu: tical rhetoriciuu, inebriated with the exu very deep, and that many of the men who no closely associated by party ties have but a poor of one another's nor can we do more than conjecture as; to his political, social or ecouomic attitude' inir areas in the State, and the leading gained as a boy chorister.

Unremitting tho greatest period of Greek nrt. Fol are perhaps a basso. Yes, yes, ostiiuiUv you are going to say. Good guess, I feel pression of the insignificant which marl; berance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can exnonents of tho art and science oi vitv study under Leipzig masters ripened Im lowing upon the decline and extinction of towards life; but, judging by the few fos mlturc Hawthorn, Jvew and the out ail times command an interminable the great Hellenic period came the duwnoi silised or semi-fcssilised physical remains1 bi'uin power and strength of character. Lord Snowden's attack on Mr.

Ramsay I recalls tbe anouymous attack made on tho latter in tbe "Labor the well-built novel. Nevertheless, it is a readuble, even an important, book; for Dreiser has tho one essential quality ot the novelist a sympathetic understanding the art of the Christian Era, entailing a ind inconsistent series of arguments to which have come to light, he appears to lying fields of the adjacent district of Nunawading won many a prize and trophy through exhibition of their pro complete wiping of the and the be malign an opponent and glorify him have been a person of good physique, with self." a frontal development equal to that of the Monthly" of January, 1925, after Mr. of human nature. He may not bo able ginning of a long evolutionary progress in art, subject to the operations of many ducts the older centres oi Europe, But in his earlier days, when he was to delight us with the graces of good writ normal man of to-day. His talent ran1 to tho depicting of familiar animals the Among tbe pioneers in the district were schools and movements.

lUacDonald's first term of office as Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary of the first Labor Government formed in Eng-: ing, but he can move us to pity for our startled, but, friend, see a merry fugue in tho wrinkles of your face. ConiJ nearer, friend, you are just what I need-' And now I can overlook a whole complex, which, in its themes, is fully developed and quite a unity. Thu themes go in regular rhythinio formation from ono movement into another, forming ut tho same time contrast, and The sections of a work in process ul becoming aro then quoted, after which the composer proceeds. "Is this now a' Suite or a Symphony The latter titb J. Everist, building surveyor ot Mel struggling for political recognition and advancement, Disraeli displayed much greater powers of abuse.

In one of tbe reindeer, the mammoth, the horse and the human brethren. bourne, the Count Ahnant de Dollon, bison a species of specialisation not in land. Tbe writer of this article in tbe In arousing our sense of pity he has DOG AND DINGO. series of Kunnymede letters which he "Labor Monthly who wob believed at1 frequent in our own day and, having chosen a difficult theme, for the book is contributed to the 'Times" in 1836, he- the time to have been a Cabinet col access to sophisticated methods or pro concerned with tho perpetrator of a par referred to Daniel O'Counelt, the Irish cesses, he made the most of the means ticularly vile and callous murder, it is just league of the Prime Minister, complained lb at Mr. MncDonald on assuming control BY W.M.

leader, the following terms: "He is such a crime as sets us wondering, as we at hand, scratching his impressions from At the time of which I write I had two systematic liar and a beggarly cheat, a of the Grace aban read of the facts in our newspaper, how sounda too pretentious, the former to life on a fiat bane, and ueing for needle doned the foreign policy for whioh the swindler and a poltroon. His pub much of the brute human nature may con meagre; well, then, I shall numo tlnt-ruther largo opus Suite Symphonic in Labor party stood. At that time the lic and his private life aro equally pro tain, which seems toVemove its doer a sharp flint point. This was in his capacity as a black-and-white man, but he was also something of a colorist, with homes, one at Jeeralung and the other near Traralgon At the latter place I would oamp when I came in for provisions, and was too late to return1 to sharp minor," The letter resumes on tho fligate; he haB committed; every crime purty while in Opposition had been demanding a revision of the German repara that does not require courage. from all kinship with ourselves.

ilut Dreiser shows us the man as he wasr-uioHt astonishingly like ourselves: showa decorative tendencies, and there being no tions, evacuation of the Kithr by France the farm the samo duy. On one sucn In a Bpeecb which Disraeli delivered at artists' eolormen to draw upon he charged! his pallet with the reds, yellows and1 us the circumstances of his life moulding' occasion. spent the night Aylesbury, when he was standing as ti mid Belgium, evacuation of the Rhmeland by the Allies, revision of the peace I was. surprised on opening blacks provided by the earth and residue candidate for Parliament, he said of O'Connell: "A denunciation haB gonu and cramping his character, and the, scurrv of uncontrollable events driving treaties and the breaking up by diploma of lire. Lack of material, no doubt, ham following day, 5 a.m.: believe it dots, become a symphony.

The thought had. not permitted mc to rest. I must firc copy everything down, then I will see where 'the mb In any case, a of small stuff will have to go in order to. bring out more the broad outlines. Tho climax of a symphony must of course bo more universal und body-like than in suite.

I feel I uin only ut the beginning my door in the morning to find a fox terrier pup lying on tbe mat. Ho wagged tic action of the war-time grouping of him on to a deed which no. longer strikes forth against the House of Lords, and pered jus progress and sot a curb to bis Kuiopean nations into allied, enemy and his already docked tail, and looked de outside the. range, of normal hu om whom 1 From the paid agent ot tne ambition, but he was at least spared the neutral States. manity.

In doing eo the book unintention Papacy. It is as natural for Mr, worst ot the distractions which have pur lighted when he saw me, just as if I had always been his master. And as I was Jn the course of this article the writer O'Connell to cry out 'Down with tho sued so many succeeding generations of said: "MacDonald, faced by this tr- dogless," and the pup was evidently ally provides a telling accusation of the environment which has impelled a fcllowl creature, neither better nor worse than House of Lords as for a robber to cry of a larger work. I burn and rave of artists. His studio was, in fine weather, the open air.

and in bad, the home-cave, "master! ess," I adopted him at once, and started my duties by giving him a good inendous toek. simply gave it up. He was! not beaten in the struggle. He did not1 struggle at all. Ho threw aside, as if in the rest of us, towards the electric cnauy out 'Down with the gallows Both arc national institutions very inconvenient in these respective careers.

When 1 on the walls of some of which evidence of breakfast. his guts as a deoorator still survive. panic, every principle lie had ever pro An early start having to be made on Its outward themo is the charge of tbe people against Clyde Griffiths in the murder of Roberta Alden; its inner truth is fessed, every policy ho had ever sup listen to him I am reminded of what the great Dean Swift said of a gentleman horseback to the farm, tho question In the survivals an unequal, degree of merit is to bo noted, and quite possibly tho art life of the period had its pot ported. Instead of trying to secure that the charge of Clyde Griffiths against the arose, would the pup when 1 who was almost as anxious to plunder treaty revision which he had declared people in tho murder of a human mounted, I need not have worried, Ireland as Mr. O'Connell himself, though boilers and geniuses, and even connoisseurs 'essential on grounds of honor and ex for he followed readily, though I had to not quite so successful! mean William or dealers, to gratify a desire for The gravamen of the charge lies tins: that in the twenty-three years of his shorten my spirts in cantering and trot Wood, who tried to impose on them with may not have scrupled to pediency he made tho sanctity of the Versailles obligations the basis of his policy.

Instead of attempting as even ting, for, did I get a chain or so ahead brass farthings 'These are the last howls knock the artist on the bead with a existence life consistently cheated Clyde! of the inspiration of spiritual standards.1 of him he yelped most piteously, for of a dog dissected alive stone axe and help themselves to the THE FARNESE FtORA. There was nothing in his surroundings pick of his masterpieces. wos very young. Vhcn I arrived at the farm and entered the house, the dog KARG-ELERT. Karg-Elert waa very fond of cats, unci threatened to take home with him tlie sped men on which be lavished Jove and many caresses at -Forest Hill, He was very fond of ladies and cats, he said, especially tlie latter.

Asked to give reasons for his preference, ho said that cats hud never caused him any suffering. But he liked them both; they had much in common I If cats had less variety of face, they had more variety of color, and both had variety of form. An Indignant Irishman. which could BUggest any ideal worth The predilection for animal life would living by, iu a language which he naturally followed me in. I made bim But O'Connell could give as good as he inner delight.

Oh, what puiiiful, whipping hours of unrest aro these in the midst oT the travail of creation. One would not change with kingnot even with the Prime Minister of Saxony." hud admiration for tho Tho next extract begins, Christmas Evo 10 p.m. "The lights (on the Christmas' tree) have gone out. One after another' flared up as if fighting for its life; ono after another got tired and closed tho little eyes for ever. Involuntarily ono' thinks of human lives.

Will my good wife and delight of my soul, my child; will we some day gradually cross over to' the other side in sleep, or will we flicker, scourged und driven by necessities and fears When will our little light ccaso to burn Has not everyone of us already passed the dark portal once? It was a true German hour, full of kindly soulful?" ness, in which one's thoughts turned inward; the beautiful radiant tree with the? crib of' Bethlehem beneath it. Those whom wo loved and love but arc separated from ua were there, represented by their suggest that when not following nrt his could understand. Every influence countryman of the de Castellas, and stanch believer in tbe Australian poten eceived. In the course -a speech: his Tory predecessors had attempted to secure a reduction of reparations claims, he tacitly accepted the preposterous figures of St. James's, end devoted him-! self to the task of squeezing the maximum possible yearly contribution from the workers of Germany.

Instead of breaking down the war-time grouping and the wartime, psychology, he made it his first get out by scolding, and when again he intruded I cuffed him, though not too normal occupation was that of a hunter1 that played upon him forced him delivered at a meeting of trade unions. tialities of the vine, and Edward Khull, ol towards an empty materialism; all the nard, and so cured him of the habit on whose kill depended his own and the! family sustenance. Technically, bis work in Dublin in 1835 he said: I must con well-known and prosperous gold broker! of Elizabeth-street in the 'fifties, while! aspirations of this not unimaginative This was pi-oof to me of the pup's intelligence, and I was well pleased. was aound and full of character, but there1 fess there is one of the late attacks on me which excited in my mind a great deal) youth were turned towards the acquisi many smaller fields produced notable spe is doubt as to whether he had any per tion of a vulgar luxury, the essential A month or so passed when, ono even talents, and carried him early into the of astonishment It is this: That at cimens of marketable grapes of many sonal control over, or made any use of, the effort to strengthen the Entente, and to promise that in case of need Germany tack made at Taunton by Mr. professional ranks.

He did not escape the varieties. ing, while it was scarcely dark, as I sat in my kitchen waiting for the kettle to I beasts lie drew with such intimate skill emptiness implied in the phrase "a good time." His natural human cravings were everywhere- thwarted by the cramps of hardships of poverty, which seem indis In the annals of political turpitude ther. should find herself confronted by Eng Everist's was the most notable vineyard is the human element is conspicuously boil, the pup I had called him), land, Belgium and France inflexibly is not anything deserving the oppellation pensable to the ripening of artistic genius, of the day within easy reach of Mel lacliing iu his drawings. There have, how with cringing walk whimpering the united as they were during the war In but fought his way to success, like Elgar poverty, of spiritual emptiuess, and of loneliness. There was nothing to awaken bourne, quite a number of trophies giving ever, neen tound small individual car of blackguardism to equal that attack on me.

What is my acquaintance with while, entered and crawled under my acquainting himself with every type of in evidence of his enthuBiusm and skill as a in him the pride of honor, the inspiration vings of human figures of this period which show signs of an advancing culture stead of bringing pressure upon France to bring her troops out of the Kuhr, he declined to interfere in the matter at all, this man Just this: In 1831, or the grower, as well as the suitability of his strument, playing and writing for very inferior bands earning what he could to of beauty, and the satisfaction of service. seat. I felt sure there was good reason for his so doing, and that something was wrong. I neither scolded nor cuffed beginning of 1832, the borough of Wy and intelligence both bb regard tbe artist acres for outstanding quality and excel It is this cramping of spirit aided by the nor did he even obtain assurances that further incrcaBo his experience. Keepiug combe became vacant.

He got an intro and his subject material, lence. His property wnB on the hill be photographs; they stood in the sheen the Tree of Love. Wo had put the dead irony of events that drives hira to mur but picked him up to carry hiin out the Cologne area should be evacuated in touch with Leipzig, he embarked upon As to what happened to close the career tween Upper Hawthorn and Kew, and der. Never does Dreiser actually state the tho larger forma of composition, such as and promise of this remarkable race noth nd tho distant beloved in the centre of duction to me, and wrote me a letter stating that I was a Radical Reformer, and as. he was also a Radical- laughter) comprised the area noT7 contained by Au- again.

I had not taken more than three steps beyond my door when a loud and in accordance with the treaty-JitntiHi'v, 11W5, truth he does not even show that he is consciously aware but whether by ing quite conclusive seems to be known, uut-ii-road and Ktklnre-street west and our circlct liir opera the symphony efforts which widened his creative range. angry Dingo howl, not more than four and was -going to stand upon: the. Kadi, east and Barkers-road and Harcourt-street "Aud who else was there All my A us- It flourished for some thousands of years, and then disappeared from the face "All these things might have been would have been difficult to secure. The ehaigc which MacDonald has to meet is teen or mteen yards away, made me accident or design, the careful accuracy of his picture remorselessly drives home1 Study and friendship with Grieg proved eal interest for the borough of Wyconibo, tralian friends who had sent us visible- north and south. His residence stood until; of great value to Karg-Elert in giviug him of the earth victims perhaps of a glacial where, he said, as there were many per signs of heart-elevating sympathy by gifts, jump, and the little fellow tremble.

Dingoes are very fond of puppy flesh, and the implicit criticism of the industrial visitation. sons of that way of thinking, who would quite recently on the Barker's-road frontage, and was one of the pioneer home-Hteads in the Boroondara shire, the ori letters or program uics all wcro with towns of the middle west. America or I not iimt lie i uui eumta tcuuiwhi them, but that he did not so much as try After a long period of darkness, 'ast- command over the expression of personal feelings. But parting with Grieg was as necessary as meeting him, if the younger und they all, triends aud blood relations. modern industrialism stands as convinc bo influenced by my opinion, he would feel obliged by receiving a letter from ing thousands of years, a gradual revival to do so.

He threw up the sponge as he ginal Crown purchaser, from whom be had this one was after Bob, and too well the little fellow knew it. I should mention that Bob's sleeping place was in a large box (on its side) in the chimney corner. ingly arraigned as in any of the conscious formed with us one big family. We havo sung tho dear old German Christinas began to take place not in Europe, but man were to grow into complete indepen the ring. The reasons for this ine recommendatory of him as a Radical diatribes ot Sinclair or 11.

ju, Mencken. southward and- eastward, with wide- pitiful surrender are not far to seek. To His letter to me was so distinct upon tlu bought the section, being l. si, Murphy, with Dean Hussey Burgh Macartney the owner of the adjoining acres on the Carols, and made trip to Italy by dence. And the valuo of Karg-Elert to music is that he possessed a definitely new I was sure that Master Dingo would re spreading racial, developments, knowledge subject that I immediately complied with Almost inevitably one sets Dreiser's talk of trenchery is absurd.

MacDonald was never in his life guilty of so virile turn, so, before I turned for the night creative sense, and ultimately gained com ot wnich is constantly being added to tho request, and composed as good a north. book beside Arnold Bennett's "Old Wives' Tale." Both detail with meticulous ac I placed the box over the dog and put a Snnctissiina, which has become an espeei-, ally calm sweet sound by the singing my lovely little Kathleen, who pouted her lips like a bird ot paradise. letter as I could on his behalf, Mr. Dis- a crime. The plain fact, in plain lan While Dr.

Henry Backhaus was develop plete freedom of expression. The works by which he became world famous made persistent and laborious scientific research, When the Pharaohs reigned in Egypt say, large stone on top of the box. Also 1 aeli thought this letter so valuable that! ing the Bendigo vineyards at Emu Creek, curacy the lives of ordinary people mov three thousand years ago the established guage, is that he funked the job. It would have meant hard fighting, and Mac-Donald is, well, not a fighting man. It and Theodore de Ravin the equally famous ing against a drab background; both show! The clock strikes 11.

I will wake up the, he not only took the autograph, but had it printed and placarded. It was, ir)( fact, the ground upon which he canvassed Mount Dove fields, Everist was producing nations of the world had attained a high level of culture. Mighty eities had arisen would have meant hard work. And Mac- dear. children, my good good wife, all, and the madonna-like Gabriclla, on a Smaller scale equally noteworthy results, and should not be forgotten in the gorgeous palaces housed the courts and the borough.

He was, however, defeated, Donald is incapable of sustained, mental effort. Anyone who haij been associated but that was not my fault. I did nol annals of Victorian viticulture. retinues of dynastic rulers, who held spiri with him in uny real work will have un demand gratitude from him, but I think, iwho is staying with us to-day. They aro sleeping in their clothes, peacefully likoj the shepherds in tho fields.

All of us will now go to church, where the The Count Alinant de Dollon's home tual as weir as. temporal power over life wasting away the potentialities of human beings; and both tell deeper truths than they intended. Bennett meant to be but there is a certain epic quality in his book. He meant to show his two ageing heroines as pathetic; but we come to admire them. Looking at his characters with observant sympathy, painting their portraits with conscientious myriads of subjects.

Under such condi if he had any feeling, he would conceive and acres were between Tooronga and Au pleasant memories of his aversion to detail, to precision, to 'brass tacks of bis had done him a civility at least, if not a tions the spirit of art incffacable and un- mas festival bcgius at midnight. tendency to wool gathering, of his hnbit service, which ought not to be repaid by burn roads, on the Kooyong Kootr-now Gardiner's Creek where Mr. P. J. Cato's home, "Knwarau," now stands.

The count Idllable flourished and developed, accepted we will open our hearts to the deepest of avoiding difficulties and decisions, and atrocity of the foulest description. and encouraged as a vital fac.tor in tho in and most beautiful mystery which human- was a highly-esteemed member of thel (Cheers.) The next thing I heard of him tellectual advancement of the nation. accuracy, he found in them a deeper qual- of finding refuge in cloudy generalities! from bard facts. To use plaiu words, he was that he had started upon the Radical email community of the early borough of ity than perhaps he expected. That qual In tho matter of ancient works of art.

ity knows. And wo will inude in out; prayer nil those who are komcthing to interest for Marylebonc, but was again subject, in tho passing of centuries, to is shirker. And, like innny of his be is filled with pity for himself and to whom wc arc something, ami. defeated. Having been twice defeated much wear and the survivals naturally chiefly those created iin bronze whenever circumstances force him to un- in the Radical interest, ho was just tbe follow fw the Conservatives (laughter) or stone, and though detached examples desired and unaccustomed effort He the animals also which servo us with such faithfulness.

Then there will be a living current fiom being to beiug, and one feels a higher unity in om dismembered time. Now our way leads out into and accordingly he joined a Conserva tive club ami started for two or thrc ot works executed color as wall decorations have come to light, it is by its sculpture, or, in the case of the cavo man, scarcely made a speech as Premier which did not appeal for sympathy on the ground of overwork. Yet ho ennnot be clasped places the Conservative interest his etchings, that its quality and tendency tho glorious Christmas night. The snoWu (Loud laughter.) At Taunton this to Ik among the hard-working Foreign Minis creant had the audacity to call mc on must be Like civilisations, ters, of whom Palmcrston and Lord Cur- periods in art have their graduated dawn Why, I was a greater in zon stand out in the traditions of the cendiary in 1831 than I am at present- lies deep; the moon is mirrored in lions of prisms. What peace people Why do wo make our beautiful life God has made for beauty so hard fur--ourselves Foreign Office.

His boasts and self-corn- zenith and decline, and in Egypt and 'as far down the centuries as the close of the I ever were one (laughter) and if I am, miserations impressed his audiences. His he is doubly so, for having employed me, officials read them, with polite amusement. Itojian Renaissance, the priest from hii temple exercised, in the interests of hi; (Cheers and laughter.) Then he calls me Karg Elert w-as the' only German i Tbey knew how he preferred sitting by the gods, considerable control over the artist traitor. My answer to that is, he is musician to retain British honors' aftorV Are at Chequers or Downing-street control which, while it restricted the liar. (Cheers.) He is a liar in action the war.

He was elected doctor of musio reading or drafting despatches, attending creative instinct, did much to uphold hw and. in words, nis life is a living lie. (honoris causa) of Edinburgh University, prestige, and greatly facilitated his out a banquet or garden party to studying a financial problem. They remembered He is a disgrace to his species. What state of society must that be that could put.

Among the notable examples of the sculptured art of Egypt still extant arc tolerate such a creature having tin how in the days when he was supposed to be learning the ropes he would give his attention to eulltmr and eagerly reading and an honorary fellow of the ltoyal College of Organists, London. ihi followed'! Max Ileger as professor of composition at Leipzig. His niottu was "The most beautiful harmony is tho harmony of the soul." the seated Ilgure of The Scribe, a force audacity to come forward with one set foil and vital piece of work, and the mag of principles at one time, and obtain every, word of insincere adulation which nificent enthroned statue of RaineBes II. political assistance by reason of those be could find in the British or American now one of the treasures of Turin Mu principles, and at another to profess dia press, seum. The decline of Egyptian sculpture set in about one thousand years before metrically the reverse His life, I say "Add to this temperamental indolence INTELLIGENT COMPANION.

SHIP. Christ, but though its quality as art de again, is a living lie. He is the most degraded of his species and kind, and Ens A VINEYARD ON THE YARRA. tbe desire of the man to stand well with i tho people amongst hp now found i himself thrown, his eagerness to show teriorated the racial characteristics mainod unaffected through the long re land is degraded in tolerating or having upon the face of her society miscreant cord ot Persian, Greek and Roman inv Ity springs from the great tradition of of his abominable, foul and atrocious Hawthorn, having been well established for many years beoro the borough was sions. Chaldean and Assyrian art, be tli em Hint a Lossiemouth loon could satisfy alt standards of qualification for ft Premier of Britain; his pitiable anxiety to the English middle classes the tradition nature." (Cheers.) longing (approximately) to those times, founded in 1803.

He bought grapes ex of respectability. Not a very thrilling The "Times," in its issuo of 26th No i lorgct und bury the past when he was the was of more primitive kind, and was employed chiefly to depict incidents in vember, 1835, contained the following detested Socialist and pro-German; his tensively besides growing the vine, and in overy way gave his aid to the fastdevolop-inir industry. work, certainly, but with its spiritual signification; for it implies a pride of honesty of independence, of a determination to master life. It has itfl nolntn of honor lines addressed to Daniel 0 Connell: the lives of kings and other matters of vanity and susceptibility to flattery, and AMESES II. local interest, executed with a rude vigor you have the psychological explanation of The writer's granrtpnrents well remem ber the bundles of grapes being passed which it iB treachery to betray, and whioh give a zest to tho outwardly dull and unsuccessful lives of Constance and Sophia A Woman's Cry.

BY e.l.r.. I was greatly interested and impressed' by the article Intelligent Companionship which was published in your paper a feiv-days ago, as it so very much applied td my owji life during the Inst few ycurs. Due to tho depression ami cit'cumslimccSt it has been iny lot to accept any position' that has come my wuy, bringing mo iu contact with all elusses and conditions of people. And what a revolution it has been 1 It has cntuilcd long hours, harlt' work and variety of experiences all oj which help to form character. Nevertheless, through It all I have missed most "intelligent eompnnionship." I will not ins conduct.

i Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd I George. In stone relief, but with little sense of grace or Perfection of beauty did not declare itself till the advent of the Greek artist, about six hundred years before Christ. In its earlier stao-es his between wooden rollers and mashed end mingled on tho floor by the ready foot Scum condensed of Irish bog, Ruffian, coward, Boundless liar, baao detractor, Nurse of nun-dors, treason's factor Spout tliy filth, diffuse tliy slime, 1 Blinder is to tlieo no crime.

Safe from challenge, safe from law, Who can curb thy callous jaw Who would sue a convict liar On a poltroon who would fire tholr appearance about 1010. Tho urcntov number of these were given at recitals in tfaines, Where JJrerder finds only a final emptiness in tho provincial industrialism of America, Bennett reveals in the English hi I- i i i i of his Swiss employes, with carts con. St. Peter church, Melbourne, by tho stantly orriving and departing from the writer, who wus fortuuatc in procur work was naturally influenced by the art uiuviL wuubiy mi iiiuvi ni'Luci ui Bimiluti life. busy "ohnis," the building in which the ing in advance ol English organists ft is well known that Mr.

Asquith, as head of tho Liberal Government, did not have a high opinion of the character of I bis colleague Air. Lloyd George, and this Both are characteristic in this respect which had gone before, and the later glory of his achievement was divided replying to another attack press platforms, cellars and vats were a number ot the master's foreign publi contained. Edward Khnlfs yards wore ot the novelists ot tneir respective nations. Broad generalisations about lite cations. On receiving programmes of pretty equally between sculpture and ar on him by the ''Times," wrote in the course of a lengthy letter.

"Of course the recitals, Karg-Klcrt responded with opinion was strengthened nfter Mr. Lloy ohiteoture and tho perfect adaptation of Is not my purpose- to bandy words with correspondence, in which be arnduallv re- about opposite do Dollnn's, on the south side of Toornk-rond, his property, "Tooronga," with its homestead at the sum-mil of the high hill above the creek, rary topics are always dangerous, and more dangerous still when they touch upon national traits: but it is reasonably safe to say that almost every contemporary American novelist of importance creatures so contemptible as yau are vealed in intmato terms his ideas on the Georges participation in the plot which vosulted in tho resignation of Mr. As-! i quith in December, JlUO, as head of the Your rascality is purely venal, and has deep problems of life and art. soy the world, is devoid of boiuc impossible I But it is a rare thing to. moon' one to the other.

It is true that in these latter days, with tho coming of Kodiu and tho later Epstein, there haa de-eloped a schism concerning Greek arta tondency to regard it us too monumental whero the Tooronga brick pits aro now in no more individual malignity in it than In 1030 London organists inaugurated a Government, and bin succession hv Mr, bears witness to a certain hollowness of; operation, being an early landmark, only Karg-Elert festival, which the emnnoscr Inevitably belongs to beings who sell their Lloyd George. Mr. Asquith, however, nevei life, while almost every English novelist, however caustic his criticisms, is forced set rabbit trups one on each side of tho I I had been asleep about an hour when! I was awakened by a row that should waken all the dingoes that had ever lived and died. 1 jumped opt of bed and, in pyjamas and slippers, faced the cold night air. in order to investigate.

I found that the trap had got the dingo (tho largest I havo ever seen) by tho tail, instead ot the leg, an altogether unusuul happening, and, just as remarkable, it was holdins him. He was howling enough for ten of his tribe, howling in pain and panic, and Bob, a good was howling iu terror. The dingo, being held only by the tail, had a good deal of freedom, and 'limned from me, and as often at mc, ns tried td deal a blow that would end his1 troubles, Tii his efforts he often jumped on top of Bob's box. when the little fcl low within thought the bruto was trying to get him. Fortunately it was moonlight, so, ere long, I got in a blow that settled tho business.

I did not even release tho trap, but made a rcctrrd sprint for the blankets, so severe was the cold, In tho morning I skinned the dingo, nnd when doing so found Hint it hud been in a trap before, ono leg having been broken and in ended in a crude wnv. I recently demolished. Mr. L. AlcKinnon souls to literary assassination, who attended, 'len recitals of his works were In its perfection and not human eiiouuh, piiblfcjy attacked Mr.

Lloyd George and Col. Edward Ward were later ownersj from their nature would be actual assas given. Last year the United States and to make his bow to tradition. That does Tlltfl Hint. Hit nntu'irhot ntwllnn Uitaua, other than Parliamentary terms.

But pnople of either sex who aro really interested In events that matter. Tho highly intellectual stand on a plane above; but, speaking generally, the average individual seems nut to bo bothered topics that muko up congenial companion-Bliip. The extreme iguoruitco of and occupants of the land. sins if they, lived at a period of history not mean, of course, that idealism, nobi Canada wore visited, tho reecnllon uoinu1 rillil flllntvtlitr f(ii am li it nilannnllnntlnn nf when Mm. Asquith published her book, iity, linoness of tradition are more rare when the wages of villain? of that de tho Greek tradition In, the statuary of 1 'luces and 'Persons." in Mnv.

1025. 'I he J. C. Cole, whose well-known nursery and paddocks wore llrst on the sito where the ot tne most enlliusinstlc American typo, ono the muster did not wish lo live scription bore a reasonable proportion tc in America than elsewhere, or that 1 lie vices of industrialism have nuule less in tlio mte: jath and 10th' centuries, its in following passage was found in it! "A Richmond racecourse now IIcb, and later through a second time. In all cities Knru- tho lure you receive for dilferent onl; roads in Knglaud.

It is the outlook of iTciii'lmnm, a Icllow lunchet in Madrid, llueneo oil tho art of the world stauds secure as something fundamentally sane day facts aud knowledge boru of unlurui because bloodless ntrouity. on Tooronga-road Messrs. Thomas John the novelists which dnler. On tlio whole, the American writers arc more closely fn do not condescend one remurk on the son, who. published booklets in the sixties "sked ino if there was anyone left who believed in Lloyd George.

1 answered liloit'e supremacy as tlio foremost composer for the organ was fully recognised. Hud it not been for the wor, Karg-Elert and suronely beautiful. It Is worthy of turpitude of the party to which the note that established national religion that Mr. Lloyd Geo mo 'a absence of uolitl- 'Times' is- now attached, and whose have always sought alliance with the tine touch with everyday life They do not live in tho tittle rabbit-hutch of literary London, peeping out nt ordiuary human beings from between the bars. Moreover, would havo visited Australlo.

having on the rose and the vine; J. Scott, whose garden lay. between the present positiou of tho Hawthorn station and tho St, James's Park Hill, and John Allen, tul pviudple, incapacity of straight dealing patronage it corns by a political and per sonal meanness hitherto unknown in th arts, and throughout Greece and its de menus in several Biatcs, and admiration for our pcoullor forms of plant and animal pendencies the temples erected to the aim pathetic Ignorance of foreign nffatii luu) brought a dnzzlinu oarcer to seclusion, in America voice ot materia mm is history of British literature, You have made literary vilencss a byword. It Is really discreditable to Britain that it whoso garden and vinos wore on tho lower 1110 mods wore more or 1cm elaborately Ho (the Frenchman) thouoht that Mr. side' of llarcourt-strect, immediately south An Molboiirno has taken interest In Halted vith many of whlcli louder, more insistent, less ashamed tit itnelf, Its boom drowns the cultured tones of New York and Boston, whereas London Oxford and the Sussex manor nhould be known that so much atrocity of Everist i property, were leading horti nvo In he I omul scattered about in the art ho depraved, bo unprincipled a vilenena had tho skin tanned because of its great sire, and Bob (as cute a dog as over cleaned a bone) has gone the way of all; uoscrvsnco ana intelligence is appalling.

At present my own lifo is very stilted, duo to long hours, and when day is domn I. mil too fatigued to bmlgo forth- uny where. Anj thercloro starved of real aud Intelligent compiiuioiiship, nut can dldly admit in time it dulls one's rennrtca. and dwarfs one's conversational powers. It regrettable when people have so many npiiortnuitles for cultivating tho.

mind anil genial outlook on lifo in theso modern days that they let 'all pass and fill their existence with vnpid, uninteresting matters that bofo tin- would-bo Intelligent. 'lov Heal eompnnionship is My on hopo Is whep conditions and finances provo I can go forward and sock that-which means everything to mo. ij modern composition, tho opinions of our leadiiig musicians on Karg-EIert's works Uoyd Georgo had been exposed, und was no longer a serious politician, 1 said! tliat tho word 'serious' bad nt no time centre Woit, and further revealed the 'limes nas exnioitco, snouiu nave culturists of tne day, who added vine growing to their other Interests in the found any countenance or support. may ue of value- Marsha Hall said. uesu, many, many years ago.

to the tn tho form of casts in pla ter. neon applied to him." soil. house can still make themselves heard, and may still be mistaken for the voice of the nation. The crassucxs of the newer industrial towns of America weighs upon the nnvelint'H mind like suet nuddintt "Wtoit Chopin did for the piano and its literatim, Karg-Elert has done for the When the book was nublishcd there had In August, 1807, a report on tho merits Among the most famous of the Greek Kdtnbiirah, save the "Weeklv Renlts. A NAME FOR THE NEW ARRIVAL.

been nu indefinite reconciliation between, colonial vines was Issued bv tho no. buildings were tha Parthenon, at Athena organ." Aor a study of tho great Clin- The HUlo boy was a groat admirer of man." is without doubt the pioneer of ehean coif oneu to tho nnh)ir. Lnnrimi the true-blue Liberals under Mr. Asoultb growers' Association, and Boroondara and conne Bnd Fuguo Trilogy, with ohoral, op. the temple of Minerva on the island of Ogina, and the temple of Jupiter, at upon a bad digestion.

Jt Is Amorionus ot the type of Drcisar, Sinclair Lewis, John dos Parroa and Elmer Rico who tho Beatrix Potter books, and perhop and the Liberal followers of Mr. Lloyd ailjncent exhibits were culled from many county council is rpgorded ns having douo riw ttart wrote, "Inking into eoiv "The Itoly-noly Pudding" 'was hit irreuteAt ucorgo, and the publication this cli vineyards, among them "Olenalra," "Bal. Uiympia. A rich acquisition mndo by slduratiou such technical details ns mas a great inmg in providing pitch and putt COlll'DHM nt nixnpnfw vnmtfl jMigmmi was what' is known as Tho Kl linraging vh.w of Mr Lloyd George by Mrs. A suit I th naturnllv ea.iiied DOimterna wjn," "Slirnblnnds" (another Balwyn! field), "Spring ITill." "Kooinna" mill One day his granny -had a great piece of news to tell him.

"You have a now brother, Billy," she bury Park, but tho Edinburgh pitching tery ot form, unlimited contrapuntal resource originality of liarmonlo progres gin Marbles; originally decorating the Hon in both groups. When tbe attention nine-hole eournn nt IWtnhftlL. on.u said; "now you must enoose a very moo name for htm. oi Airs, Asquith was drawn to the offend- Iploycr no moro than 8d. per round, or have painted the dangers ot fmiuatriaiimn, most clearly for us, but the disease Iftj no mora local infection, nlthouifh tho largest and mont hectio spots of the have eome out upon the American portion of tho body politic.

The novelists of thatl country arc not simply drawing attention! to the nil in kb of their own household; they are rather prophets, WRtimrg an idolatrous gonoratloii. i sion, In addition to the sheer musical beauty of his vast creative output, Sigfrid Kjirg-Elcrl Is tho most- Important com Tim HHIa filinn (hnnoliL deelilv for "Ivanhoa Lodge.1' the last being across the Yarra on the Old Heldolberg-rond, where the old liomestoads of D. Wright and D. C. AfcArthur still stand n.

reminder of the rarly yards on Hie northern tide oi the she wrote the following letter mi niiu nlBUT IJV 1 per enimlfifcrina the names of his heroes, Parthenon and "acquired somewhere nboiit tho beginning of the nineteenth century by a British Minister, to Turkey-Lord Klgitwwhn, by so doing, showed his oal un good Englishman mid added fvlvarloiisly) an cvcr'luatlng lustra his An item of religious Intelligence -front Memphis. Tennessee: Viisl Presbyterian Church. Holeunib Is the Kiuaueinl Depression1 Dis'ippemlng i If Sn, What l.cwnns are We Mrs. Hi own will slug! Mini nh Mc. tiuil Hinte-iiinin." to me "Attention has been bon ho said.

'T know I T-ot's cull him icnit bo hrtd on various rvoijiis at wit'i "IN to a pn win co in m.v new book Hnniuel Whiskers' IV- Aiaucuesicr. uuar poser ot organ niusin since John Sehusllan Ihii In the opinion of I'mrrssor lloinze. "Knig'Hlerl, rich with tho hciUnso of lunun-i- copper )tw uin nee ol eiuh and river, m' dlun." "likli hitifth are said abbuti.