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GENERAL THE HON. NEVILLE GERALD
LYTTELTON.

VANITY FAIR.

LONDON, AUGUST 29, 1901.

MEN OF THE DAY.—No. DCCCXXI.

GENERAL KELLY-KENNY, C.B.

M R. KELLY joined the Army as Ensign in the Queen's
Royals three-and-forty years ago (being then
eighteen), and went with his Regiment to Africa in the
same year. He was soon appointed A.D.C. to General
Wynyard; and in 1874 he assumed the surname of Kenny.
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A. Jephson, when he got a Medal and Clasp and Mention.
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command of a Division of the Transport Train, and won
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whom he is proud. Later he commanded in the Orange
River Colony; and now he is enjoying a well-earned
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JEHU JUNIOR.

154

VANITY FAIR

AUG. 29, 1901

THE COUNTER-CHECK QUARRELSOME.

"FAS EST ET AB HOSTE DOCERI." We have learned the lesson of mobility and individual intelligence behind the butt of a rifle from the Boers. They have taken a hint in war by Proclamation from Lord Kitchener. General Delarey has issued a counterblast to the Commander-in-Chief's ultimatum, and the next move is with us. For the Boers began. After invading our country, for military reasons with which the moral and material damages suffered by British subjects did not interfere, they annexed British territory by Proclamation. And, according to some of our Moralists, they were quite right. We have not only made war upon these Shepherd Kings, a sufficiently heinous offence in itself, but have added insult to injury by ignoring their annexations before extinguishing their independence. Delarey has reasserted the belligerent rights of the wrecker-bands, and if he can support his claim by superior force, and Lord Kitchener cannot, the victory in the paper war will be his. But the paper war is of no avail unless the "sword and gun fighting" gives it force. Self-preservation is acknowledged to be the first law of nature, and it is assumed in many quarters, in defiance of history, to be the first law of nations also. But Mr. Kruger's policy of national self-preservation, involving, if necessary, the extermination of the nation to be preserved, does not commend itself to practical observers; and with all respect to the invincible ignorance of misguided beggars, we take leave to doubt whether it will commend itself to the patriots principally concerned after the 15th of September next.

The lodged hate and the fixed loathing of certain combatant irreconcilables it is not difficult to understand. But it is difficult to understand how such an attitude can excite anything more than a very academic admiration among citizens of a State which has been put to incredible expense and inconvenience by the criminal effrontery, or 'equally criminal' criminal ignorance, of those who ought to have directed the dogged instincts into a channel more subservient to the general good. Mr. Kruger's devotion to the letter of Holy Scripture goes a long way to the hearts of some worthy, simple folk; but quoting the Bible in a fatalistic spirit never saved a man or a cause yet, and the pathetic insolence of appropriation cannot make wrong right, nor alter unpalatable facts. What Lord Kitchener has proclaimed, that Lord Kitchener will undoubtedly carry, when practicable, into effect. Delarey's counterblast is directed as much to his friends in England and in Europe as to the victims of ambition and fanaticism in the annexed Republics. It has naturally caused a glow of enthusiasm and an outburst of delight in the pro-Boer camp at home, as well as among the Messrs. Facing-both-ways who are stalwart as to bringing the War to a successful close, and yet cry out on the barbarity of inflicting any suffering or even inconvenience on the enemy. If Lord Kitchener was wrong, Delarey has cancelled the wrong—so far as government by Proclamation goes.

There seems to be a nascent hope in some imaginative quarters that Malta may be the ally of the confiscated South African States in bringing the Empire, embodied in Mr. Chamberlain, to its knees. Europe looks on hopefully, while the Maltese also join the campaign of Proclamations. It would almost seem as if Mr. Kruger's Admiralty agents were seeking a Mediterranean base for their naval operations against Great Britain! The meeting of the Pan-Celtic Congress in Dublin at the same time would seem to have a certain minatory significance. The Tael, and the Maltese, and the Celtic—if the Celts could only get over the truly Celtic confusion of Babel—would make a linguistic triple alliance before which even the unspeakable compere of Abdul Hamid (according to the gentle Watson) would shrink with shivered eye-glass, and orchid withered to its base. Mr. Chamberlain, if we may believe the organs of the

Celtic Tael, is making another South Africa of Malta. This, with our faith large in the future destinies of that great and hardly ransomed land, we would gladly believe if we could. But with all confidence in Mr. Chamberlain's genius and courage and far-seeing patriotism, and with all respect for the proud and generally loyal islanders who have misunderstood the Colonial Secretary on the question of the Maltese and the English languages, we cannot see how the mineral and agricultural resources of the tiny, though important, islet can be made equal in value to the vast territories forfeited by Messrs. Kruger and Steyn. But this is one of the things which it takes a pro-Boer intellect to understand.

THE CELTIC MOVEMENT.

BY AN UNPREJUDICED ANGLO-SAXON.

BILINGUAL movements always move me much: One language—'tis my own—for me suffices.

It should suffice, then, for Maltese and Dutch, And I would welt And weal each Celt

Out of his—ugh !—Pan-Celtic low devices, And teach him, wailing, he should never teach Another language than our English speech.

Those who would woo or chide or preach or curse Must find the chance in Celtic tongues denied them;

How poor is Gaelic, inexpressive Erse! And Welsh—oh ! what, What is it not?

I quite admit I never yet have tried them;

But English, of all languages there are (I know no other), is the best by far.

But Celts would have our children, they confess, Whom pedagogues in stern correction may lick, Learn the Lord's Prayer in Welsh, Erse, Breton—yes, Alack, it's true!— In Cornish too,

And splutter through the Decalogue in Gaelic; While schoolrooms should resound with echoing spanks For those who do not know the Creed in Manx!

So we must learn the Celtic way to talk, Our own inadequate beyond dispute is, Must learn to sternnulate and hem and hawk, Must wildly choke And then evoke

A gurgle to disclose their speech's beauties;

For 'tis those choking gurgles which reveal The music of all Celtic tongues, I feel.

Last, Mr. Yeats has promised Irish plays: To English ears he doubts not to endear them.

Though now far off they take their vagrant ways, I own aghost They may at last

To London come—and I may have to hear them!

Hence all I feel must rather still be felt

Than spoken as I could speak about the Celt.

M. S.

VAIN TALE.—No. DLXIV.

AN ACHIEVEMENT.

I DON'T think I am what is called a ladies' man, but I seem to have been always surrounded by girls. When I have time I will think out the reason of this. Perhaps it is because I have always been indulgent towards the sex, with one exception. I asked the exception if she had any theory to advance to explain this seeming paradox.

"I am growing to think you are a ladies' man," was her reply.

"Ladies' men flirt," I said. "And I have just expressed the strongest condemnation of Armitage's attitude towards Lady Clare. How do you account for that?"

"What is your objection to his flirting with her?"

Girls have a genius for evasion. I resolved to shift my ground altogether.

"I waive the objection. But I still condemn his ambition. He wants to marry her."

"There are those here to whom a little ambition would be of service."

"Meaning me?"

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VANITY FAIR

AUG. 29, 1901

THE COUNTER-CHECK QUARRELSOSE.

"FAS EST ET AB HOSTE DOCERI." We have learned the lesson of mobility and individual intelligence behind the butt of a rifle from the Boers. They have taken a hint in war by Proclamation from Lord Kitchener. General Delarey has issued a counterblat to the Commander-in-Chief's ultimatum, and the next move is with us. For the Boers began. After invading our country, for military reasons with which the moral and material damages suffered by British subjects did not interfere, they annexed British territory by Proclamation. And, according to some of our Moralists, they were quite right. We have not only made war upon these Shepherd Kings, a sufficiently heinous insult in itself, but have added offence to injury by ignoring their annexations before extinguishing their independence. Delarey has reasserted the belligerent rights of the wrecker-bands, and if he can support his claim by superior force, and Lord Kitchener cannot, the victory in the paper war will be his. But the paper war is of no avail unless the "sword and gun fighting" gives it force. Self-preservation is acknowledged to be the first law of nature, and it is assumed in many quarters, in defiance of history, to be the first law of nations also. But Mr. Kruger's policy of national self-preservation, involving, if necessary, the extermination of the nation to be preserved, does not commend itself to practical observers; and with all respect to the invincible ignorance of misguided burghers, we take leave to doubt whether it will commend itself to the patriots principally concerned after the 15th of September next.

The lodged hate and the fixed loathing of certain combatant irreconcilables it is not difficult to understand. But it is difficult to understand how such an attitude can excite anything more than a very academic admiration among citizens of a State which has been put to incredible expense and inconvenience by the criminal effrontery, or equally criminal ignorance, of those who ought to have directed the dogged instincts into a channel more subservient to the general good. Mr. Kruger's devotion to the letter of Holy Scripture goes a long way to the hearts of some worthy, simple folk; but quoting the Bible in a fatalistic spirit never saved a man or a cause yet, and the pathetic insolence of appropriation cannot make wrong right, nor alter unpalatable facts. What Lord Kitchener has proclaimed, that Lord Kitchener will undoubtedly carry, when practicable, into effect. Delarey's counterblat is directed as much to his friends in England and in Europe as to the victims of ambition and fanaticism in the annexed Republics. It has naturally caused a glow of enthusiasm and an outburst of delight in the pro-Boer camp at home, as well as among the Messrs. Facing-both-ways who are stalwart as to bringing the War to a successful close, and yet cry out on the barbarity of inflicting any suffering or even inconvenience on the enemy. If Lord Kitchener was wrong, Delarey has cancelled the wrong—so far as government by Proclamation goes.

There seems to be a nascent hope in some imaginative quarters that Malta may be the ally of the confiscated South African States in bringing the Empire, embodied in Mr. Chamberlain, to its knees. Europe looks on hopefully, while the Maltese also join the campaign of Proclamation. It would almost seem as if Mr. Kruger's Admiralty agents were seeking a Mediterranean base for their naval operations against Great Britain! The meeting of the Pan-Celtic Congress in Dublin at the same time would seem to have a certain minatory significance. The Tael, and the Maltese, and the Celtic— if the Celts could only get over the truly Celtic confusion of Babel—would make a linguistic triple alliance before which even the unspeakable compere of Abdul Hamid (according to the gentle Watson) would shrink with shattered eye-glass, and orchid withered to its base. Mr. Chamberlain, if we may believe the organs of the Celtic

THE CELTIC MOVEMENT.

BILINGUAL movements always move me much: One language—'tis my own—for me suffices. It should suffice, then, for Maltese and Dutch, And I would welt And weal each Celt Out of his—ugh!—Pan-Celtic low devices, And teach him, wailing, he should never teach Another language than our English speech.

Those who would woo or chide or preach or curse Must find the chance in Celtic tongues denied them; How poor is Gaelic, inexpressive Erse! And Welsh—oh! what, What is it not? I quite admit I never yet have tried them; But English, of all languages there are (I know no other), is the best by far.

So we must learn the Celtic way to talk, Our own inadequate beyond dispute is, Must learn to sternulate and hem and hawk, Must wildly choke And then evoke A gurgle to disclose their speech's beauties; For 'tis those choking gurges which reveal The music of all Celtic tongues, I feel.

Last, Mr. Yeats has promised Irish plays: To English ears he doubts not to endear them. Though now far off they take their vagrant ways, I own agast They may at last

To London come—and I may have to hear them! Hence all I feel must still be felt

M. S.

VAIN TALE.—No. DLXIV.

AN ACHIEVEMENT.

"Meaning me?"

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