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Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides an overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to 1987.
Since that new Tower of Babel was erected, Westminsterhas watched other foundations arguing andstriving to discover the correct pronunciation of classicalLatin. Despite the periodical rebukes of its rivals,it has held stubbornly to its course, knowing that thereis no sure means of recreating the speech of Cicero andthat Westminster at least is too deeply bedded in thepast to bend before each new breeze of educationalfashion. A hundred customs are preserved to teach newgenerations that progress need not be divorced from thehistoric sense: when the bell rings for prayers at the endof afternoon school, a Second Election knocks with hiscap at the doors of the form-rooms adjoining school andcalls out, "Instat quinta", or, on "plays" (half-holidays),"Instat sesquiduodecima", although the actualhour is now nearly one o'clock; a Second Election hasknocked thus since the time was told from a single clockand shouted through the school by a junior; beforeprayers begin, the doors are locked, and, when they areopened, one of the School Monitors[2] mounts guardoutside to repel a chance raid by the "sci's"[3] of theneighbourhood who in less orderly days carried on atown-and-gown warfare against the school. At thelowest, such customs are a picturesque survival, likethe Latin play acted in College Dormitory, the PancakeGreeze on Shrove Tuesday, the countless phrases[22]and customs which only a Westminster understands andwhich all Westminsters love; perhaps, too, they foster,in the alien and the iconoclast, a sense of the past. Abbeyand School are a monument to continuity and orderedprogress; in 1906, they were a monument at which theleaving seniors had been involuntarily staring for half adozen years.
Only in the dignified atmosphere of the Debating Society,when a general election had sent hundreds of radicalsto Parliament and proved that radicals existed, inhundreds of thousands, outside it, did radical policy geta hearing. Political interest revived sharply in 1905and 1906: more than ever did the rising politicians usetheir privilege of attending debates in the House ofCommons. It has been said that politics are made tolerablein England by the fact that hardly any one takesthem seriously except the politicians, who are for themost part not English; but they are dangerous foodfor the young in the expectations that they arouse andin the disillusionment that they entail. After nearlytwenty years of tory rule, the liberals in 1905 werehealed of their long domestic dissensions and assured ofa majority; the ministry so judiciously chosen by SirHenry Campbell-Bannerman was overwhelming in itsvaried strength; with the pacification of South Africaand the repatriation of the indentured Chinese labourers,the dark infamy of the Boer war and of acalamitous plunge into Rand politics were to be forgotten;social reform was sketched with a bold hand; amessage of peace and good-will was sent to the otherpowers.
In all political relations an Irishman interprets patriotismto mean his love for Ireland; in all relations withthe British Government Ireland is offered, a year toolate, what she would have accepted thankfully a yearearlier. When English political parties are vying withone another to press upon Ireland a remedy for whichthe time has passed, it is hard to recall the days whencoercion bill trod on the heels of coercion bill and"twenty years of resolute government" was proposed asthe blunt, common-sense method of curing a nation thataspired to independence: Ireland turbulent, it was said,was unfit for self-government, Ireland at peace nolonger wanted it. In two hundred and fifty years England[45]had tried every expedient, from the Cromwellianmassacres to the Wyndham land act, with the exceptionof just that political autonomy which she blessed sofervently when it was won by Greece and Italy, Bulgaria,Servia and Roumania. Still the Irish dreamedof a national destiny, still the imperial genius of theEnglish bled Ireland slowly to death. More than acentury after the act of union, a conservative ministrydiscovered that perhaps the Irish really desired to controltheir own fate; and the twenty years of resolutegovernment ended in an abortive scheme of devolution.It is true that Mr. Wyndham, a great scholar, a greatergentleman and one of the greatest friends that Irelandever had, was denounced, betrayed and left to die heartbroken;his work lived after him; and, when the Liberalparty returned to power in 1906, it was agreed, thoughnot admitted, by all that some concession must be madeto the Irish demand for home rule; all in turn now prescribemilk, when brandy is required, and brandy, whenoxygen alone will save the patient's life.
A new chapter in dramatic history was opened byPinero with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray; and, thoughShaw and Barrie were not yet come into their own,though Galsworthy and Barker were not yet articulate,the last decade of the nineteenth century was the summertime of the British stage for a hundred years.Irving ruled still imperially, with Terriss, Forbes Robertsonand Wyndham among his marshals; Boucicault,Toole and Bancroft were still alive; it was not yet impossibleto find a theatre for serious drama, and theseductions of burlesque and of musical comedy wereconfined to Daly's and the old Gaiety.
By the end of the South African war London hadbecome a cosmopolitan place of entertainment with moremoney, a greater zest for pleasure, a larger proportion ofsycophants and a weaker control by any recognizedgroup of social leaders than any other European capital.The first flood of Rand, Jewish, American and nativecommercial wealth, which had been at least in part unobtrusivelyabsorbed, was followed by a second floodwhich English society was still too much saturated totake in; and for a dozen years the tottering sea-wall ofsociety was buffeted by angry and uncontrolled wavesof wealth. As the new rich of those days had abandonedone social sphere without establishing their positionin another, their first task was to surround themselveswith men and women who would accept their hospitalityand mitigate their solitude; a few impoverishedpromoters furnished lists of eligible names; money andthe amenities of the big hotels, which were then springingup in London, accomplished the rest. During thoseyears there was on one side a steady stream of rich newcomerswho asked only that their parties should be wellattended; on the other, a stream no less steady of thosewho saw in this opportunity the finger of God. 2ff7e9595c
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