The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 33

THE AGE. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1938. LITERARY SECTION fflCusic in London.

If I Were Dictator of Australia. the twelfth article, written by a young Australian, on the theme Dictator oi Australia." Each contributor to the series, now closed, Indicated on previous Saturdays, under the age oi thirty years. Each free hand with, however, one proviso: religion and denominational-ism to either public affairs or the Individual were placed outside the dictator's activities. Many Interesting views have been expressed. publish some oi them 'It I Were was, as was given In relation scheme oi a SYMPOSIUM OF YOUTH Continued.

iiT directly antagonistic to the fundamental assumptions oi organised society. To none oi the views expressed was "The Age" committed, directly or indirectly. The articles Illustrated a most interesting cross-section oi the thoughts and Ideals oi Australian youth. They therefore rendered a service to our readers, and are contributions of value. Next winter a further series oi articles holding the mirror up to youth's aspirations will be Inaugurated.

Ed. "The Age." political systems, some only In be entrusted with the task that he had shown himself most capable of performing. The mechanic would have shown that he bad the aptitude for the wrench rather than the trowel; the carpenter for the saw rather than the shovel. And so It would be through the had failed at the latter Instrument, double-basses "sawed horn playing was Incredibly bad the piston mechanism of that instrument not being generally used the good feature mentionable being that trumpet and trombone players were as good then as now. And the result as a whole was that the few good artists playing In orchestras were unable to affect performances because of the number of Inferior artlsta all around them.

The present very different standard of orchestral playing has been reached, says Sir Henry Wood, by reason of several Influences. Among those (Influences were his own contribution which very rightly and without any false modesty, he sets down clearly with the Queen's Hall orchijtra. and the details he Insisted upon, such as fully marked orchestral parts for uniform bowing, an absolute rule of auditions for applicant players, a law against deputies, and his own aim at tho high standard of German orchestras and the Lamoureux and Colonno orchestras of Paris. Other Influences were the appearance in orchestras ot exceptional solo players of horn, oboe, flute, clarionet, bassoon, tuba, for example, the Influence of visiting great artists who at rehearsals gave the orchestral players invaluable advice; and the Influence of composers whoso music, within the past fifty years a continuously more complex music, has made ever more Increasing demand upon the players of that music. Sir Henry Wood might have added the influence of the many conductors who have left-this and that mark of artistry upon the orchestras in their hands, some of them England's own and some of them guests from abroad.

There has been a long procession of them within such a period as fifty years, some of them men of genius, many of them conductors of line artistry. All these influences have contributed something to the great progress of orchestral playing here, and, as said, they should offer interesting suggestion in respect of Australian orchestral performance, now so well set upon a forward movement which should do much to raise the efficiency in Australia of this greatest of musical instruments. No standard can be too high. For the work of an orchestra is the work of due interpretation of the so much and so great, music entrusted to them, much of It the greatest music the world possesses. Gustav Hoist Hoist Is a musician remembered here with affection by many, and in other places there will doubtless be those interested to know that his daughter, Imogen Hoist, has written a delightful book descriptive ot her father and of things that filled his life and surrounded his work.

This book, published by the Oxford University Press, with a preface by Vaughan Williams, will give Its readers a clear conception of a gifted composer who, struggling always against physical disability and, in his early years, against extreme poverty, preserved a sunny nature, and a firm belief In music as thought and not sentimentality; and lived to see a rich man admire so much his opera. The Perfect Fool, as to give him a sum of money large enough to relieve Hoist thereafter from much of the problem of making ends meet. Sir fflenry 'Wood. (From a Special Correspondent) LONDON, October 1. I one night of this week London's predominant Interest, so far from being of musical flavor, was concerned with the loud speakers which In thousands of homes gave forth the speech of Herr Hitler to the massed company of his own people gathered In the Berlin Sports-Palazt, and beyond them to the peoples of the world at large.

We here listened, dismayed, to that spate- of words, which so constantly was a rising tide of passion and invective, and to the roars of acclamation with which its immediate audience greeted those outbursts. By speaker and listeners alike a tumult and a shouting of incredible violence. The speech ended at last, and for myself, by way of respite, I tuned in to the Promenade Concert of that even-ins. Unfortunately, this was the Wagner night of the week, and, curiously enough, at the very moment of the ending of Herr Hitler's speech the B.B.C. Orchestra was engaged upon the Meistersinger Overture, music of an opera, which, more than any other, inserts at least the artistic claims of Germany.

And Just as the roaring excitements of Berlin's night died away the Meistersinger Overture at London's-Queen's Hall was rising to the climax ot a final thundering out of that central theme which suggests the essential Germany as represented by those Meistcrsingers of old. Moreover, as Sir Henry Wood and the orchestra were leaving nothing to chance in the way of fortissimo asseveration of the pomp and glory of German art, this music, at that moment, seemed to make remarkable and not too pleasurable coincidence with the sterner claims of the vociferous speech to which one had just been listening. But all this was on Monday night. To-day we could listen to the Meistersinger Overture with no thought of it other than wondering admiration for its magnificent music. Circumstances alter cases.

Sir Henry Wood Friends of Sir Henry Wood gathered in Queen's Hall a few days ago for the unveiling of a bust of the conductor. J- antagonistic to present social and ness of a humankind whose vitality has been sapped by centuries of domination, mental and physical. But I have confidence that not all shape has been pummelled out of human thought by the blows ot adversity and the pressure of vicious sophistry; that. through a process of mentnl regeneration and with a stiffening of the backbone of hope and courage, Australians could attain a nobler social stature than to-day they dream possible. Life's Fundamentals Man has been given life and the means to sustain It.

That Is the fundamental of human existence, and It Is the foundation upon which the glorious edifice of the new Australian democracy would be reared if I were Its Dictator. Not for the benefit of one man; not for any group of men, was this country of ours so generously endowed by a bountiful nature, but for all. That Is the only principle Involved. All other considerations are consequent and subservient, and as far as they conflict, false. My creed must then be the control of man's needs by the people as a whole for the benefit of the people as a whole; in a sentence, State control of production and distribution.

This' much achieved, the rest would be easy. I can visualise every man with his own particular role to play And each compelled to play it; each In his own sphere, great or small, contributing to the well-being of his fellow men. There would be no haphazard filling of vocations. Each man would MELBOURNE for aid In the embellishment of tha social structure which I would build. There, incompletely, Is a description of the internal economics of my new Australia, Is It necessary to add that there would be ceaseless striving after self-sufficiency This would probably never be entirely achievable, but for those products that would have to be drawn from ether countries, after all resources had been exploited to the limit of the people's ingenuity, I believe we would have indigenous pro ducts of our cwn to exchange and to spare.

Must I expand on the means by which Australia's defences are to be strengthened to the stage where any invasion could be successfully resisted and state that every man vould be expected to fight for, give his lire for, if necessary, the country that had given him his all I believe that when the taint of old social systems haa been eradicated from their veias, new generations would be glad to defend their country and its new standards of civilisation. Health and Education On the efficiency of the unit depends the perfection of the whole; the fewer the rotten plank3, the stouter the ship. And. the success or failure ot this new and more wonderful Australia would, perhaps, depend more than anything else upon the efficiency of the individual. Particularly would this be so at the outset.

And so, in fabricating my Ship of State, my earliest aim would be to ensure that each human plank was as efficient as human nature would allow. It would be necessary for each individual to give of his best, and this he cannot do unless he Is healthy, physically and mentally. From the available human material could be moulded, I believe, the greatest nation, the finest civilisation of all times. Probably it would be the physical well-being of the people to which I would first turn by hand. Health would be the concern of the nation.

They would be made healthy and kept healthy with all the strength that would lie the hands of a Dictator. Whatever else they might write, historians would never be able to record that the health of the people defended largely on the generosity of benefac- 1 tors. Physical' health would permit the State to achieve the utmost In the realm of the mental development of the individual. Education would be compulsory and free. Not upon the whims of a child or the wishes of a fond parent would the youth become an architect if he would make a better plumber, an engine driver if he could serve his people more usefully as a teacher.

The decision would res( with those trained to know. Where a youth was adapted to a trade or profession, he would be passed on for higher education; It would still be compulsory and free. My teachers would be the best that money could buy in the world; i research would be continuous and intensive 1 If I were a Dictator I The vlstaa are limitless; the treatment of the mentally diseased in hospitals rather I than paols; giving parents the incen- tlve oi security to bear children; cultural education. What would not i be possible In this grand new A us- tralia Here then, broadly, Is my programme as a Dictator; describe it as you will. I firmly believe that it could be more than a dream.

And, If it should I fail, 2 would be the first to remember that with all Its shortcomings and all I Its muddling imperfections, Australian dnmociacy in 1938 could really have been very much worse. 1 SIR HENRY WOOD. which has been placed in a nlcho In the wall at the back of the ground floor, and, therefore, facing the space of what becomes the -promenade In that series of concerts with which Sir Henry Wood's name Is chiefly associated. The tribute to him was concerned, also, with the fact that this Is the Jubilee year of Sir Henry Wood as conductor a fact which will be further celebrated next week by tho Albert Hall concert arranged with that view. Sir Walford Davies unveiled the bust, and In the course of his remarks said that Sir Henry Wood's record as a conductor comprised 3000 promenade concerts, 600 symphony concerns and 100 Sunday concerts a terrific record, he excusably urged.

The famous musician replied briefly with an expression of warm thanks. Orchestral Performance As is fitting. Sir Henry Wood has had something to say this week regarding the progress of orchestral performance in England during the fifty years of his connection with it. His remarks, made in a newspaper article, are certainly Interesting, and should not be without value to Australian music, which, In the realm of orchestral performance, now Is making the longest and strongest step forward It has ever made. For Instance, Sir Henry Wood observes that in his young days, except from the few excellent players available, the violin tone of such orchestras as there were here was "terribly rough." The approach of a solo passage for violin was looked to with misgiving, and the violins generally "bowed anyhow" as a matter of fact, one may safely comment, they did that until quite recent years.

Viola players, Sir Henry Wood went on, were recruited from violinists who Clifford MAURITIUS. TECHNICAL COLLEGE BOYS DISCUSS EMINENT LIVING AUSTRALIANS. XVI. gamut of human activity. No good surgeon would be wasted as a poor engineer; no man would dig a trench or pave a road if he could better manipulate an artist's brush, compose a concerto or write a sonnet.

To the men who had shown the aptitude would I give the responsibility of tilling the soil and winning our country's mineral resources. And the conversion of the fruits of their labor into the needs of the people would be the task of those who had shown themselves best equipped for it, just as would be the distribution. Products of the earth would be the property of the people; they would be treated In the people's factories, and sold In the people's shops. Each man would be rewarded according to his value to the people as a whole, and none would be denied the opportunity of demonstrating his greater worth. And who will deny that the reward of the humblest laborer would not enable him to share more liberally In those things which give savor to life than he did in 1938 Australia The real wealth of the nation, things which are necessary to sustain life, will at least be as great; probably the more efficient allocation of occupations will Increase it.

There would merely be a raising of lower living standards and a reorientation Z.T.W. ASKED one day, "Do you think Christianity Is a failure one of England's greatest contemporary men of letters answered, "Why, It has never been tried." That would be my reply to any who should ask me "Has democracy failed Democracy has not failed; It has never been given a chance to succeed. I believe that democracy could be made a success a glorious success; I believe it could reshape all human thought and human endeavor, and make this world of ours what the Supreme Being intended It should be when He created it and mankind. And it would be with this dominant thought, this lodestar ever in my vision, that I would enter into a dictatorship of Australia. It would not be easy; no reform was ever that.

It would be crowded with complexities; encircled with difficulties. There would be opposition by those who would perceive the end of unjust privileges In this new Australia, and perhaps conflict with those who have been deceived into believing that democracy, as it Is known to-day, is the ultimate aim in social progress. But what erusader ever won a worth-while goal without a struggle 1 I believe that this new and greater democracy could not be achieved without fundamental change. Modifications of the present system would be worse than useless. Existing Institutions, considered individually, function as successfully as would, any others in Australia's half-way design of democratic government.

My plan Is not new; by no stretch of the Imagination could it be considered original, but that docs not rob it of an lota of Its promise. It has been tried; generally it has failed, but not because of any inherent defect in the plan Itself, but through a weak- in many parts of thi country and made a close study of Its problems. It was in June and July of 1928 that he led the expedition across the Kalahari, on behalf of the British Government, for the purpose of surveying a route over portions of the desert where water could be lound. This great tract of waste land, about 120,000 square miles in extent, forms part of the Immense tableland of South Africa, and over the greater part is about 3000 feet above sea level. Although its weather by day is unbearably hot, the nights are bitterly cold.

For generations the Kalahari desert has been a death trap to white men. David Livingstone, accompanied by William C. Oswell, crossed It from north to south in 1849, but hundreds of others who have ventured in, to search for gold or to hunt big game, have left their bones on Its parched and desolate soil. Most of them, probably, died of thirst; others were killed by wild beasts and many fell victims to the poisoned arrows of the savage little bushmen who eke out a living in the inner recesses of this strange waste land. In 1878 a large party of Boers set out from the Transvaal with 300 waggons and a great herd of cattle, on a trek across the Kalahari desert to establish a new settlement on the other side, but few got through alive.

More than 250 human lives and 9000 cattle were lost In the venture. Captain Clifford and his party set out in motor trucks from Mahalapye, Bechuanaland, travelled by night and rested by day, and after a hazardous and adventurous Journey, reached Victoria Falls in 21 days. The story of the expedition is told by T. C. Bridges and H.

Hes-sell Tillman In their book "More Heroes of Modern Adventure." It has been published also by Sir Bede Clifford himself. As Governor of the Bahamas, Sir Bede Clifford devoted himself with energy and enthusiasm to the development of the natural assets of the islands and succeeded In bringing about considerable Improvement in their trade and tourist traffic. Official recognition of his successful administration was manifested in his appointment as Governor of Mauritius. He married. In 1925.

Miss Alice Dcvin Gundry, of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., and has three children. With Captain Corcoran, he can truthfully say: "Though related to a I can hand reef and steer," for he Is a skilled yachtsman. To quote, in conclusion, from the Bahamas Magazine "He is a sporting Governor, but he Is known also as a working one, too. He has aa Encyclopaedia Britannlca in his library, but he Is really a living encyclopaedia himself, for he has a retentive brain that has stored up the salient facts of informative conversations. His Interviewer will find himself being interviewed, and there are few subiects, technical or otherwise, that he cannot freely discuss." Sir Bede GOVERNOR OF BY F.F.

Cj f. 5 UT mA MHEN Captain Bede Clifford, in 1931, was ap- I VMBf pointed Governor and Commander in Chief of Wv the Bahama Islands, he was hailed as the Youngest Governor in the British Empire. He was men nj ytuis ui uyw. ii wua wiiuen ui him: "He earned governorship by learning to govern; he has been private secretary to Gover of the title to the higher, based on a man's own worth. Right to Citizenship There Is not one person who cannot perform some useful service, no matter how humble; and unless he gives that service he would not expect to share in the products of others' labors.

There would be work for all, and all who were physically able would have to share it, else forfeit their right to citizenship in this new Australia. But the disposal of the reward would be THE WORLD. left to the earner. He would still be able to purchase, his glass of ale or to attend the theatre or ballet. He would not be able to Invest his earnings; his only source of wealth would be himself.

But if he wished he would still be able to save his money to purchase a car, maybe a yacht, or any other luxury within his capacity. If he desired the State would guard his money for him, but he would not expect to Interest on It. He might even have to pay for the convenience. Only the nation would benefit from human effort; no man would be able to employ another for his own profit. Money would be relegated to its rightful place as merely a convenient means of transacting business.

Australians In 1938 would have demonstrated how highly they regard the Parliamentary institution, and even as a Dictator I would not deprive them of this Joy entirely. I would insist, however, that seven distinct Parliaments, with thirteen Chambers, is an extravagance for 6,000,000 people. Perhaps they could be content with one Parliament, composed of representatives elected from within their ranks of each trade and profession. To this single Chamber would I look A.C. A SELF PORTRAIT.

Van Gogh It spoke with a trumpet blare which admitted of no evasion. He had at first no art to fall back upon. That was to come later, and at a loose end financially he took employment as usher In an obscure London private school, a type of Job for which his new convictions rendered him manifestly unfit, and further employment as a sort of lay preacher at Amsterdam, where his father was a Lutheran pastor, proved too limited in Its scope to satisfy his order for service. 80 van Oogh undertook, under the auspices of the church, the duties of resident missionary at Borlnage, a coal-mlnlng district In Belgium, and It was there that, when nearly 30 years of age, his career as an artist began. To the conveniently-minded person who can trim his sails to the winds of policy life Is always possible, but to van Gogh, who was, in the more spiritual sense of the term, a Socialist, the spectacle of the appalling conditions under which the coal miners of the Bonnage lived and worked, and the tatuity of preaching the gospel of love and righteousness to people so placed, came home to him with such force as to completely shatter the exalted sense of service which had at first upheld him.

It strained to breaking point the link with the Lutheran church, These men, with their MASTERPIECES IN ART. nors-General in Australia and South Africa, which gives him a fellow feeling for his own staff." It might have been added that the young Governor had learned many other things in the world of hard experience, for although a member of ah old aristocratic family, he had set out as a youth to A van Gogh Portrait. carve his own career; had fought throug'h the Great War, and later distinguished himself by leading the first British expedition across the Kalahari desert. It did not take 'him long to prove his worth in vice-regal oflice. In 1933 he was created a K.C.M.G., and in May last year, after six years as Governor of the Bahamas, he was appointed to the higher post of Governor of Mauritius.

Still one of the Empire's youngest Governors, Sir Bede Clifford is recognised as an exceptionally able administrator, and friends who know his ability and capacity for work predict a great future lor him in the Imperial service. A native of Tasmania, Captain Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford is the youngest of the three sons of Lord Clifford (William Hugh), tenth BaVon of Chudlelgh, scientist, inventor, and count of the Holy Roman Emnlre. Even more remarkable, In many respects, than the career of his distinguished son is that ot Lord Clifford himself. He was not born a direct heir to the peerage, being but the second son of the eighth Baron Clifford. At the age of 18 (In 1876) he left the ancestral home In England to seek his own fortune, and migrated to New Zealand.

There he obtained employment on a sheep and cattle station, and after some years marrldd, and took up farming. Two sons were born In New Zealand, and in 1890 the family went from there to Tasmania, where the father secured a farm at Colebrook, near Hobart. The third son (Bede) was born In the same year. In the meantime the eighth Baron Clifford had died and been succeeded by his eldest son, who, having no family of his own, took his brother's eldest son, Charles Oswald Hugh, to live with him In England. The two younger boys, Lewis and Bede, remained with their parents at Cole-brook.

When they were old enough to bo to boarding school thev were sent reviewing the lives of British artists we are inclined to find in that of Benjamin Hay- don, with his soaring ambitions and ill-starred end, a figure of stark tragedy. The slings and arrows certainly did not spare Haydon, but when we set his adversities against those which shadowed the existence of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, they seem petty by comparison. While the reputation of Haydon died with him, that of the Dutchman has survived, and, despite Its divergences from the bcalcn track of art, has blossomed Into fame. Though by common repute the artistic temperament Is more liable to effervesce than that of the normal Individual, It is by no means a rare thing to find It function through the medium ot a cool head and alert eye to business an aspect more evident possibly In the Anglo-Saxon than in the Continental type, to- which there still clings some savor of Murgcr a Vie Boheme. If by the term "Bohemian" Is meant a rejection of conventions In favor of principles.

Vincent might well be so described, for the troubled laLLer years HI I soul and body destroying work, paid for at the rate of two francs and a half a day, he came to love and spiritually mourn over, and in an idle moment, impressed, perhaps, by some memory ot the Goupll days, he made a rough sketch In pencil of one of them a black, ungainly stooping figure on his way home from the pit. He had had no training In art. no method of attack, but an intense consciousness of life, and. as he declared later In a letter to his brother, a compelling urge "to paint humanity, humanity, and again humanity." From now on hla mind and body were given up to art. Not the art of any school or cult; for though the work of contemporary painters such as Millet, Cezanne and Gauguin Interested him, his school was Nature, and his working hours were measured by the daylight and his 1 capacity for physical endurance.

Art was an absorbing passion, 1 which had' Its source in a deep well of pity for the world's under-dog, and beauty. In the ordinary sense, had no 1 great place In It. The warped form of the under-fed, under-paid, slave-worker deep down In the bowels of the earth, had more charm for van Gogh than that of the most beautiful lady, and he strove working Incessantly, and never really satisfied with his results for the sense of form and mastery of line which he knew his pictures must possess to give them significance as records of conditions and personalities. He painted, and drew in chalk, numerous self-portraits, 1 and was also painted by Cezanne, -Gauguin, and the American, J. Ruasell.

His own versions are ot the uncompromising kind, which did not admit of special lighting or arrange- 1 ment, and are curiously at variance with the Russell portrait, even to the point of suggesting a quite different type of person. That the artist varied his technique In dealing with the human subject is evidenced by the treatment of the portrait here reproduced, painted In oils about 1887, and that of An Actor, belonging approximately to the same period. The absence of school training was probably the salvation ot van Gogn as an artist; for what he had to give was the outcome of a personal emotion which a skilled execution would have robbed of much of its significance. Such things as the painting The Prison Yard or the drawing The Dead Woman wore not mere essays In morbidity, but rather Impressions of the artist's Intense mental realisation of the actuality of such things, recorded faithfully, but with a diffidence never altogether overcome, concerning his ability to give them adequate expression. The period between van Gogh's Mrst experimental sketches of the Belgian miners and hLs death In 1890 was only ten years, and It was In the last two of these years that his best work was done.

Ho was considered, from the orthodox point of view, an abnormal product in art, but everything he did was a matter of faith, for without question the strong religious zeal which marked the earlier years passed Into his art, which became In turn a ruling motive. One bright ray of temporal happiness was the strong mutual attachment existing between the artist and his brother, Theo, whose faith In Vincent never wavered, even when It meant a steady drain on his own slender resources. The Anal phases of tne pageant ot trials, hopes and ambitions urn gradually, but with an Implacable closing movement. All the world knows the grim story of the severed ear, so well told by Irving vtone In his book "The Lust for Life." and soon after came the end of Vincent van Gogh from a bullet fired by his own hand while under treatment fcr brain trouble at Aries, In France. (Photo.

London. BEDE CLIFFORD. SIR Successful Colonial Administrator. as boarders to Xavlcr College, Kcw, Melbourne, where they remained from 1902 to 1907. His old school mates ot Xavlcr College remember Bed Clifford as a slim, studious uoy, always at or near the head of his class, serious In manner and conversation, but quick to see and enjoy a Joke.

After matriculating he returned to Tasmania, and Joined the Australian Intelligence Corps, but later engaged In surveying work In West Australia, and eventually went to England. During the World War he served with the Royal Fusiliers In France, and rose to the rank of captain. Some months before the armistice he was invalided home. During the war period a notable change had taken place In the Clifford family. The ninth Baron Clifford died in 1916 and was succeeded by his younger brother, Captain Clifford's father, who bade good-bye to his modest Tasmanlan home to become Lord of Chudlelgh, Devon.

In his new domain the erstwhile farmer was able to devote his attention more fully, and with greatly Increased facilities, to the scientific Investigation which for years he had been conducting In Tasmania, notably In the field ot radiology. His subsequent discoveries have been ot the utmost Importance. Including as they do the Clifford color rays, which ho discovered In 1922, and which lea to his making visible the colors of the ultra-violet and infra-red rays. In 1918 Captain Bede Clifford returned to Australia to take the appointment of private and military secretary to the Oovernor-Qeneral, Lord Novar (then Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson). At the end of Lord Novar'a term of office In Australia Captain Clifford received the appointment ot secretary to Prince Arthur ot Con-naught, Oovernor-Qeneral of the Union of South Africa.

Tha prince was a cousin of King George and the selection of the young Australian to accompany him as his chief stall officer in South Africa was a high tribute to Captain Clifford's character and ability. When Prince Arthur returned to England In 1924 Captain Clifford remained In South Africa as secretary to his successor, the Earl or Athlone (brother of Queen Mary), and from 1927 to 1931 was representative (In the Union ot South Africa) of the Government of Qreat Britain and Northern Ireland, During his sojourn ol eleven years In South Africa Captain Clifford travelled BY VINCENT VAN GOGH. of his life were one long struggle against concessions to policy, even where concession meant physical ease, good company and popular acknowledgment, It Is true that In the beginning Van Gogh, as a successful salesman In the employ of Qoupll, In London, conformed without scruple to the ordinary usages of society. He sold his prints Impartially to the customers, regarding philosophically the unseeing eyes with which they rejected good examples for bad, for the Are from heaven had not yet descended upon him. Its descent dated, It was said, from an unrequited love affair which brought about a revulsion in his sense of values, what hod before seemed good standing revealed as evil, and vice versa.

The results affecting young Vincent's duties as print salesman were disastrous. Important clients resenting being told that they had no taste, and that the prints they purposed buying were bad prints, took their custom elsewhere, consequent on which the offending salesman received-his conge, and the firm of Ooupil knew him no more. Prom now on this life, which had so far preceded along pacirio lines, was doomed to be tempest-driven. To the normal man conscience addresses herself In a still, small voice, capable of being Ignored or further muted, but to -v A- IpT Spy i-'i I ii-', I Sir Bed Clifford in one ot tha ilx-whaaled trucks In which his expedition conquered the Kalahari desert. (Pholo.

from "More Heroes ol Modera PORTRAIT OF AN ACTOR, BY V. VAN GOGH..