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mind of lief" and 'loath," in this
poetic usage. But the effort is dis
tinctly worth making, and most of
the road which Prof. Spaeth travels
makes easier going. And though he
sometimes approaches a paraphras-
ing Prof. Spaeth keeps astonishing
ly close TO the text, not only with the
accurate scholarship which avoids
any actual mistranslation but also
with a subtler feeling for the spirit
of the original. There need be no
hesitation in saying that this book
holds by far the most satisfactory
rendition of the best portions of Old
English poetry that has as yet been
produced.
This volume, he tells us, is partly
a natural outgrowth of class room
work; experience made, in a W..
in laboratory fashion, and tested up
on the undergraduate dog. That
they withstood that severe trial and
created a demand for publication is
itself a demonstration of efficiency
The book is aimed chiefly at the col
lege or high school student, as part
of a Survey" course in English, but
it also has a wider appeal TO all
cultured readers. 1t is equipped
with adequate notes and explanatory
matter, and a partial photography.
Indeed, the small essays Introductory
to the study of the heroic epic, the
saints legends. &c. amount % pref
ty comprehensive sketch of Old
English literature. They are not
only sound in scholarship bur beauti-
fully lucid in their own English
and. be it said whisperingly, not
every teacher of English literature
has himself so fine style and mas
terry of the language as Prof. Spaeth.
The book includes about two thirds
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New English for Old

OLD ENGLISH POETRY. Transla-
tions into alliterative verse by j.
Duncan Spaeth. Princeton, N. ].
Princeton University Press.
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Of the "Beowulf," a brief extract
from "Widsith," considerable pass
ages from the Biblical epics, (the
younger Genesis and Exodus) and
selections from the saints legends,
including part of the ''Elene" and
Saint Guthlac." Then follow SAM
pies of the religious lyric poetry,
from Caedmon and Cynewulf, and
"the Phenix," and specimens of the
secular lyric, ana OF the riddles and
gnomic poetry. The volume closes
with the historic war verse of the
Battle of Bruna anburg' and Bat
tie of Maldon." The selections are
made with good judgment, (but we
cannot help regret that the Judith"
is not included) and some lacuna
are filled in by supplementary ver-
sions in the notes. One may hope
that future editions may also be
equipped with detailed index, es-
pecially as the book is likely to be-
come a standard text for college and
school use.
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Reviewed by
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.

SONNETS TO a RED-HAIRED LADY
AND FAMOUS LOVE AFFAIRS
BY Don Marquis. Doubleday. Page
& Co.
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enjoy it for themselves. For exam
pie, of Paris and Helen:
He'd take her to see shows as hot
AS if they had been peppered;
Shed blush he never
changed a spot:
He was a Moral Leopard.
And oft. with bushes that would
make
Her brow and cheek and chin burn.
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She'd listen while this Subtitle Snake
Lisped her the PONIES of Swinburne.
We doubt if any more penetrating
comment was ever made on the
Tennysonian idylls than this Of
Lancelot and Guinevere, those
gloomy lovers whose pensive lack
of enthusiastic wooing has dis
contented generations of schoolgirls:
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and syntactic gymnastics on the part
Of the reader, as is in such lines as
For much shall suffer
OF lief and of loath who long endures
The days of his life in labor and toll.
1t will call for some effort for most
folk to rethink that eliptical sentence
in a familiar word order, and to get
the every day significance to his
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A Slave of Cleopatra.

The moral is: Observe your bent,
Your own traits mark and meas
ure-
If one has not the temperament
Philandering isn't pleasure.
It's gorgeous stuff, sparkling with
that high voltage clowning that is
only in the power Of a humorist
who is also a great poet and a great
artist.
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Duncan Spaeth. Princeton, N. ].
Princeton University Press.
"HEODORE ROOSEVELT, we
are told, once remarked of a
translation of ''Beowulf''-"Th
poem has undoubtedly been trans
lated out of Anglo-Saxon, but it
mas undoubtedly not been translated
into English" That is the trouble
with most attempts toward verbal
accuracy and close limitations of
Old English rhythms and allitera-
ton; they are not Ineligible to the
modern reader; as hard to follow as
Browning's unhappy versions of
Aeschylus. But the other extreme.
the attempt to make a modern poem
or ballad version in fluent modern
rhythms, is no more successful, as
the life of the original evaporates.
"A pretty poem, Mr.. Pope, but why
call it Homer?" "Beewulf" remains,
in fact. even more untranslatable
than the Iliad, and Cynewulf and the
Biblical songs are only slightly less
intractable.. AS Professor Spaeth re-
marks, "The. only way to get ac-
curately the movement of Old Eng
lish verse is to learn to read it in
Old English
None the less, there is happy
middle ground, wherein, as this book
shows, much can be accomplished.
Professor Spaeth comes nearer to
attaining the unattainable than any
of his predecessors in this field. He
demonstrates that 1T is not impos-
sible to reproduce for wider circle
of readers the spirit of the old
rhythm. ~ preserving its essential
requirements of modern English
speech" His versions are, for the
most part. easily readable:
That is an admirable rendering of
the opening lines of ''Beowulf," but,
even the reader ignorant Of Anglo
Saxon can see that there is a diff
ference in flavor, if he will read the
words of the original aloud 1--WE must
use, here, tn for the old letters. AMI
ae for the nnaIdHted vowels)-
The opening exclamation is signif-
icant; the whole movement is ,ejacu-
latory, and one needs to remember
that, as Capt. Scott Moncrieff points
out in apologizing for his own rug
ged version, "Old English poetry
was composed not for the librarian
but for the harpist," and was meant
to be shouted aloud to the harp
string"
Prof. Spaeth, on the whole, is ex-
traordinarily successful in holding
on to as much of this strenuous
quality as can safely be rendered in
our milder idiom. He always avoids
the pitfall of an unintentionally
comic effect, and his version is
steadily dignified, and often close to
the vigor of the original. He also
keeps pretty clear of temptation to
use the many arclaic or partially
obsolete words-a fault which mars
the otherwise astounding translations
by Stopford Brooke. But even Prof.
Spaeth sometimes demands very
close attention and a bit Of linguistic
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VTY HEN THE SUN moved from
Nv Nassau street across City
Hall Park to Broadway
and Chambers a horrid rumor went
the rounds. 1t was said that in tran
sit Old Don Marquis had lost his
scrapboeks. Every one knows that
almost anything may happen in the
confusion of moving. Newspaper
men particularly are sedentary in
their haunts: if, you, move them
around some of them are sure to ge.
lost. When my favorite evening
paper (the Evening PoSt) left Broad
way and Fulton street some fifteen
years ago a number of the veteran
printers in the outfit wandered for
years among the tombs of st. Paurs
Churchyard before they could find
the new quarters. And L remember
that Just after THE Sun Sid across
the park / called on Mr.. Marquis at
lunch time. "Where shall We eat?'
/ said as we emerged from the build
ing. II can't imagine" he said. look
iag about him bewildered. Il don't
know this part of town very we'll.
But we must be more concise. The
point is that Mr. Marquis's scrap
books might well have been lost III
the shuttle, and there were some OF
us who feared for a while that some
of Don's golden coinage of nonsense
had been poured irretrievably into
the great ocean of newspaper files
wh~nce (knowing the Incidence OF
our trade) we doubted he would ever
have them copied. Happily the
rumor proved to be exaggerated.
Mr.. Marqus's scrapbooks turned up.
and in the last year or so he has
been seining up from those coral
beds and caves of emerald some of
the choice doubloons of his fancy.
"The Old Soak.3 Noah and Jonah
and Cap'n John Smith," Poems and
Portraits" and now the "Sonnets to
Red-Haired Lady"-these four
volumes of collected ingotS, within
year, show how wealthy a salvage
those scrapbooks contained. And.
thank Heaven, they relieve some of
the lovers of Marquisiana from car
rying about with them those faded.
tattered clippings in their wallets
yellowed and crumbled little slices of
newsprint whereby many of us have
for months and even years preserved
some of Mr.. Marquis's best freaks.
Let us hope. incidentally, that the
next plumber to be raised from the
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

THE NOTION COUNTER: A FAR
RAGO OF FOIBLES: BEING
NOTES ABOUT NOTHING. BY
Nobody Illustrated by Somebody.
Dedicated to Every body. Boston:
Atlantic Monthly Press.
n HANDFUL of the most enter
~ tanning short pieces printed
in the Atlantic's "Contribu-
tors Club" are here bound in a gay
gingham cover under the title 'The
Notion Counter" The pencil of a
master of line has ''embellished"
these bits of fancy goods with un-
pretentious but remarkably effective
drawings in scale-mechanically and
artistically-with the text. Besides
the first skit, the remarks upon the
pessimistic atmosphere which per-
vades dyeing establishments, upon
the amazing. even affectionate, de-
mocracy which is IN evidence in the
places where ladies flock to buy bar
gains in pumps and slippers, and
upon the extraordinary appearance
in public of the contemporary 'old
lady," with two or three others, es-
tablish the merits of this uncom-
monty clever little book
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-01-06
Sentencing Judge Is
Called "~Grafophone''

KARACHI, India, Nov. 7-(Associ-
ated Press MaiD-The Ali brothers.
trial has Just ended here after hold
ing the attention of all India for sew
eral weeks, BY the jury's verdict,
the defendants were acquitted of the
charge of conspiracy to seduce Brit
ish troops but on the charge of max
ing statements intended to cause His
Majesty's troops to fail in their duty,
all except one were found guilty and
sentenced to two years Imprisonment.
The summing up by the judge to
the jury took about one hour and ten
minutes. The court emphasized the
majesty of the law and declared that
the jury must not give a verdict of
acquittal through fear of assassina-
ton because of threafs by Shaukat
Ali, one of the defendants.
The chief argument for the defense
was the plea that the accused had act
ed in accordance with religious pre-
cepts, over which civil law had no
authority. In reply to a question by
the Judge as to whether or not a man
who committed murder on the ground
of his religion ought to be excused
from punishment, Mohamed Ali said
he should be excused, if he really
could prove that his religion did COM
mand him to kill people, stating that
the loyalty of Moslems was condition
al upon the precepts of the Koran,
and that any government that for
babe the practice of these precepts
could not expect loyalty. The prose
cutor vigorously assailed this conten-
ton.
In an address to the court, Shaukat
Ali, is reported by the Sind Observer
as saying:
81 am a subject of God, and a free
citizen of India. | do not want the
king nor his court nor the army. Even
if | am prosecuted to death, | shall
be happy. 1t is my duty as a Mussal-
man, not only to free myself, but to
carry this message to every Mussal-
man in the country. Whoever kills
a Mussalman Intentionally, his pun
ishment is hell everlasting, and Gods
wrath and curse shall be on him.
Queen Victoria announced religi-
u freedom in her proclamation, but
when the matter comes to action, it
is unheeded. 1t is my duty to carry
the message of Islamic duty. | don't
care whether soldiers or others listen
to me or not. Mr.. Magistrate, you
might hang me on earth or sky. Do
what you like; l don't care. / can't
be friendly with the enemies OF
Islam"
Here the magistrate interrupted
him, saying that he was not prepared
to listen to political speeches. There
upon Shaukat Ali flew into a passion
and said: You are insulting my
faith. l don't care for you! What
are you here? You are a mere grama
phone"
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Basketball
EAST MAUI LEAGUE

Tuesdays results, Alerts SO, L. d. s..
6; NJ. H. S. 35, Sports Is.
Tuesday night saw the entrance in
to the league of the Latter Day Saints
quintet which opened activities at
the Waikiki gymnasium opposing the
Alerts and went down to defeat by
the overwhelming score of 1866.
Outclassed and outplayed through
III the entire contest the newer play
ers fought an uphill battle but at no
time threatened to overcome the lead
taken by the st. Anthony boys. Lack
of training was evident at all times
and the tendency of the Mormon lads
10 bunch together rather than play an
open game was n of the outstand-
ing reasons of their defeat.
The second game Alerts VS.. Sports
was fast and well played, furnishing
the spectators with many thrills to
which they responded by hearty cheer
ing.
Up to the end Of the first half it
was the Sports game but in the later
periods the High School boys came
back with a bang and more than
doubled their opponents score, the
final result being 1918.
FRIDAY night Puunene meets the L.
d. S. and in the second game the
Alerts play Kahului.
The Lahaina schedule for Friday is
Kan Ill VS.. Lahainaluna and l.. A. A.
VS.. Town Team.
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American Engineer In
Japan Is Decorated

TOKYO, Dec. 5-~(Associated Press
MaiD-Dr. j. A. l.. Waddell, one of
Americas formost engineering author
tiles, has been decorated with the
Second Glass ODder of Merit of the
Sacred Treasure, in recognition of
his aid to Japanese students of Engi-
neering. This is DR.. Waddell's sec
ond japanese decoration, the first be-
ing the Fourth Glass Order of the Ris-
ing Sun, conferred by Emperor Mel
il in 1883. DR.. Waddell was instruc-
tor at the Imperial University at
Tokyo about 40 years ago and rend-
cred valuable service in the founda-
ton of the engineering department of
the university.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-01-06
Big Week in Store
For Maui Movie Fans

When manager Harris of the Maui
theaters walked into Maui News
editorial rooms yesterday to hand in
some lad" copy, he wore a broad and
beaming smile that threatened to
eclipse the rest of his face.
Upon inquiries as to the cause of
all the merriment, he smiled more
broadly and asked that his next weeks
program be given the "once over" 1t
seems he had been reading the dope
on Doug Fairbanks new play 'The
Mollycoddle" and realization that he
would be able to show it to the movie
fans on Maui was the cause OF the I'M
disguised radiance.
Harris own words of praise are Its
a scream from start to finish and the
movie fans are in for a rare treat, and
then too, in addition to Doug for a
super-star in next weeks attractions,
we will present Priscilla Dean in
Reputation a big sever reel Univer-
sal Jewel feature and Elsie Ferguson
in "Footlights."
Now you know why I'm smiling.
Why shouldn't ] smile when | can
hand the fans a bunch of feature at.
fractions like that all in one week.
And say, Doug Fairbanks has got
the right idea when he said THE first
thing to do in the morning is to smile
then you will enjoy the whole day.
So it's me for the smile and so will
every person who ices that picture
Wednesday night"
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SPORTS
Junior Eleven
To Meet Lahaina Team

West Maui gridiron fans are to
have their expressed desire TO see a
football match on the Lahaina field
fulfilled, according to word received
from Jimmie All Sam the captain of
the Waikiki Town Team.
Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock the
local team will meet a Junior team
composed of boys from the West
Maui district and who will enter the
field under the team name "Lahaina"
with the determination to bring it out
of the fray on top.
The local team has an eve break
on victories, having suffered one de
feat at the hands of Maui high school
and has returned victor in their con
test with the St. Anthony Alumni.
Little is known of the Lahaina team
as the players have not been seen in
action against a junior team of prov
ed caliber, but reports from that dis
trict intimate that a possible surprise
is in, store for the Waikiki eleven
who feel confident of a victory.
Should Lahaina win the game il is
probable that a game between that
team and the Maui high eleven would
result, for neither squad could lay
claim to the junior Maui champion
ship with an undefeated eleven in the
field.
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ennis
Mixed DOUBLES FINALS


Tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 on the
Puunene courts, Eddie Tam and Mrs.
Paris will play against w. II. Engle
and Mrs. Fitzgerald to decide which
shall be the champion mixed doubles
team of the Island, Lngle and Fitz-
gerald having won their way into the
finals by defeating r. +. Deinert and
Miss Hassell yesterday or the Pun
nene court by a score of IS, 6 1, Ga.
The final match promise 10 be Il
very close contest and much inter
est is being displayed as a display OF
good tennis is certain.
The II. p. Baldwin cups will be
presented TO the winners of this final
match.
Entries are open for the ladies'
and gCntlomcn's round robin doubles
tennis tournament OF the Paia Athlet-
ic Club. ladies 10 be paired either with
another lady or a gentleman, accord
ing TO the drawing Experienced play
ers are to be paired with beginners
and less expert players. and pairs to
be handicapped or given odds accord.
ing to the judgement Of the commit
tee. Each team shall furnish two
1922" tennis balls for every match.
Used balls to be acceptable provided
they are lot dead"
This tournament opens to all mem
bers of the Paia Athletic Club,
wives of members, children of mem
bers, and such other members of the
community as the committee may in
vite to enter. Names are to be hand.
ed, mailed, or phoned to f. 7. Rose.
Grams at Paia and entries close Janu-
AIRY 18th.
Play will begin as soon as drawings
and handicapping are completed, and
to be conducted in accordance with
and subject to the rules and regula,
tons made by the committee.
Winners are to receive silver cups
presented by Mrs. II. A. Baldwin fo1
this tournament.
The committee in charge is f. p
Rosecrans, ID. C. Lindsay, w. A. Bald
win.
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weight control, and, third, racquet
swing. OF course, keep your eyes on
the ball; that is fundamental.
To hit straight off the backhand the
feet should be parallel to the side line
The toes making a right angle with it.
The weight should be on the left Cor
back) foot, and swing onto the right
Tor 'front.' foot at the moment of hit
ting the ball. The racquet should
meet the ball with a fiat face and the
top spin put on by the racquet trav-
cling over the ball, and under it, as
in a chop stroke. The racquet should
make almost a right angle with the
arm, but the question of whether the
hand should be shifted on the handle
is n purely of personal comfort. AS
a rule the hand is shifted slightly, but
if this is done get a firm grip of the
racquet before making the stroke.
The great essential in racquet work
for all tennis shots is TO hold the rae
quet tightly and hit firmly. Do not
slacken your shot.
The general line of the racquet on
the backhand drive is as follows:
First. When the ball is below level
OF the net it travels up onto the ball
and puts a small amount of top" on
it.
Second. When the ball is about
net high meet the ball fiat with medi-
um top"
Third. When the ball is shoulder
high or above, meet it coming nearly
fiat, but with a great amount of top"
spin. This is Teddy Pell's shot.
When wishing to hit cross-court of
the backhand, do not try to do it by
swinging your racquet face in various
directions, but change your footwork
so hat your shot can be a flat drive
in any case, advance your right foot
i'll front of or nearer the side line,
then your left and pull into the ball
as your weight advances onto it.
Above all things, have confidence
in your backhand. Expect to make
your shot. Strive for s~teadiness and
correct form before you try to score
off your backhand drive.
My next article will be '(The Vol
ley"
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-01-06
Physicians In London
Feel Pinch of Times

LONDON. Dec. Z - (Associated
Press NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and sur
geons have fallen upon lean times,
and complaints of d|windling prac-
tices are widespread. The other day
a doctor from the fashionable Harley
street district was sued in the courts
for a small debt which he declared
he was unable to pay because his
practice had dropped almost to the
vanishing point"
Fashinoable doctors say hat so
many ordinary practitioners have had
wartime experience with surgery
cases that. in thousands of instances,
they now do their w operating in
stead of sending their patients to
specialists. Another reason is that
many formerly well-to-do people who
would in other circumstances have
consulted a prominent physician
now go to hospitals here they OBJ
tain treatment at p lower cost.
Others say that woeen now prefer
TO be attended by doctors of their
wi sex and that psyAhoanalysis and
various forms of faith healing ac-
count for the falling off in the num-
Der of patients.
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Nights a Week
Basketball Schedule
Put into Operation

Basketball is now a twice a week
sport feature in Central Maui and
matches are played on Tuesday as
well as Friday evenings in the Wal
luku Gym. Another team has been
added TO the leagues membership, the
Latter Day Saints and made their first
appearance on the courts Tuesday
night. This necessitates a revision of
schedule and the following new order
OF matches is announced:
January 6, Friday-Puunene VS.. L.
d. s; Alerts VS.. Kahului.
January 10, Tuesday-W. A. c. VS..
Sports; NJ. II. S. VS.. L. u. S.
January 10. Friday--Puunene VS..
Alerts; Kahului VS.. M. II. s.
January II. Tuesday-Sports VS..
Puunene; NJ. II. S. VS.. Alerts.
January 90, Friday-Puunene VS.. w.
a. c.: L. d. 5. VS.. Kahului.
January "a, Tuesday-Alerts VS..
Sports; w. A. c. VS.. NJ. H. S
January 81, Friday-Kahului VS..
Puunene; Sports VS.. L. d. S.
January 81, Tuesday-W. A. c. VS.,
L. d. s.; Kahului VS.. Sports.
February 8, Friday-Alerts VS.. w.
\. c.; NJ. II. S. VS.. Puunene.
February Z, Tuesday-W. A. C. VS.
Kahului: L. d. S. VS.. Alerts.
February 10, Friday-Sports VS.. NJ
II. S; Puunene VS.. L. ID. S.
February IA, Tuesday-Alerts VS.
Kahului: w. a. c. VS.. Sports.
February Il, Friday-M. II. S. VS.
L. d. S; Puunene VS.. Alerts.
February q. Tuesday-Kahuiui VS.
NJ. II. S; Sports VS.. Puunene.
February "a, Friday-M. II. S. VS.
Alerts; Puunene VS.. w. a. c.
February 2S. Tuesday,. d. S. VS.
Kahului; Alerts VS.. Sports.
March 8, Friday-W. A. c. VS.. NJ. II
S.; Sports VS.. L.. d. S.
March Z, Observation-Disclosures VS.
Puunene: w. A. C. VS.. i. d. S.
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The S%portfolio

What football player kicked the
greatest number of consecutive
goals from touchdowns this year?
+. j. FL
How old is Zbyszko, the wrestler? Oh.
X. CD
Did a man named Grams ever fight
Battling Nelson? ". W
When was the Players League or
Brotherhood of Baseball Players in
existence and what cities did it in
clude? Cd. N. c.
A foul is called in a basketball game
just as one of the fouling side is
making a try for goal, the foul be-
ing called after the ball has left the
players hands and is in the air.
Does the goal count? &c. r. To