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The New Review September 1943

1943

But the political field is fraught ;o enamoured of the true milk of the with problems upon the solution of Marxist work as were Lenin Engels which are bound to depend the speedy Trotsky and the original revolutionary defeat of the enemy and a just ordering :lique in Russia but there is no doubt of the post-war world) whatever' that he has found in the principles of Communism the basis for Wire [...] the fiendly societies like the Oddfellows Samuel Johnson's eulogy of the pub or the Buffaloes or the Shepherds offers the explanation of the influence is now put to other use ; the pub which that institution has had on our remains a place of entertainment and social life. [...] This light horse which was our only indigenous cavalry was the weakest link in the chain of the Indian army and has contributed to our defeat from the invasion of Alexander the Great in 325 B. C. down to the battle of Assaye in 1803 A. D. These troops were dagerous only to the helpless peasant and the unarmed trader and their part was played out when in the closing quarter of the 18th cen [...] Like the battleship and the plane the tank is only a means of carrying fire-power to the enemy ; and the same old story of tactical experience goes on in the duel between armour and fire-power ; in the end fire-power always wins. [...] I will reply with her that 'the idea of the manners of our times is more truly to be found among them than from any historian ; as they write merely to get money they always fall into the notions that are most acceptable to the present taste.' On the whole then it would seem that the Penny Dreadful is a symptom of the decay of culture ; that the decay of culture is the result of the decay of
history
Pages
90
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i A.S.J. Lallemand view
From the World of Journals
i-viii unknown view
This Side and That
161-168 unknown view
The Penny Dreadful
169-184 F.J. Friend-Pereira view
The Magic of Colours in Plants
185-195 F.S. Pew view
Loan Finance of Local Authorities
196-209 K. Jayaraman view
The Hoyizontal Dome in Western India
210-215 I.H. Qureshi view
The Organization of Minority Communities
216-220 A. Knight view
The Andhras
221-230 S.R. Balasubrahmanyan view
Newman and England
231-238 J.S. Narayan view
Some Recent Books
239-240 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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