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Mrs. Sackville-West
Speaks in Bryn Mawr



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sixes and sevens with the world be-
cause he: could not decided what he
wanted.”

The Huxley introduction to his
Letters insists that he had a mes

sage, but he was too muddle-headed [

a philosopher to deliver it. He fail-
ed as a propagandist also because he
was apt to become shrill and strident.
There were conflicts in his philoso-
phy: he preached physical violence,
but loathed war; he wgs an individ-
ualist, but urged community life as
the ideal state. “That is why I al-
ways sigh when I come to a passage
showing him about to launch into a
tirade. The only message I have ever
found is. his real hostility toward
things of the mind. It was not
knowledge, but feeling and emotion
that he admired. He saw feeling as a

flow’ without any edges going from

one person to another.”

Lawrence’s outlook is shown by his
idealization of ancient peoples. The
Etruscans would probably have sur-
prised him by their lack of the idyl-
lie-if-he-had_ever known them; how
ever, there are lovely, lyrical pas-
sages in his Etruscan Places which
prove his gift for describing. land-
scape and climate in a visual and
tactile vein. Depth of feeling, not
conscious style, supplied him with
the right word. Although some criti-
cisms of poetry in his letters are
extremely acute, they are not couched
in the critical ‘jargon. “Literary—
no, Lawrence was never that. He
wrote as a bird might sing. On the
other hand—the bad sidé of the pic-
ture—when he was writing propa-
ganda, the critical faculty being lack-
ing, he ranted.” He was accustomed
to say, and this illustrates the atti-
tude of the inspired poet, “I don’t
know a thing if I don’t know it here,”
hitting himself on the solar plexus.

It is doubtful what he would have
accomplished if tuberculosis had not
carried him off at the age of forty,

whether he would have founded an
arcadian: colony or a flourishing
school of disciples. What smallj

amount of lucidity he possessed was
sapped by his illness. “It was a grea\
pity that he set up to be a thinker
at all. If he had been content to be
an artist, he would have avoided his
regrettable stridencies.”

The contrast between D. H. Law
rence and Virginia Woolf was more
definitely marked by Mrs. Sackville-
West because she was able to give a
very personal impression of the lat-
ter. It was said by someone who saw
Virginia Woolf at a concert that she
was “like a frozen falcon, so alert,
yet so still.” Although she is beauti.
ful, her beauty is not conventional,
rather “her face is like a transpar-
ent alabaster vase through which a
light shines.” She has great dignity
and distinction, but is gay and witty,
“a terrible tease, who loves to dig
people out of themselves, rather like
a corkscrew.”

Her writing she does in a cellar
with a leaky roof. Unliké most cel-
lars it contains the: overflow of a
printing house (the Hogarth Press).
as well as country produce (strings

of onions, apples and potatoes) from:|.

their cottage in the country. She,
herself, is constantly being edged
into a smaller space, which threaten-
ed to vanish not long ago. Mr. Leon-
ard Woolf, her husband, suggested
storing the family motor in her cel-
lar, at which she asked, “If you put
the motor in here, where am I to sit?”
“You can sit in the motor,” said he.
Miss Sackville-West’s comment was
that this © perhaps accounts for A
Room of One’s Own.

“Mrs. Woolf is the experimentalist
par excellence, never content to do
the same thing twice.”
an. austere judge, her father, she
served -a severe apprenticeship, and
did not publish until she was over

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thirty; an unsual act of self-re-
straint. The Voyage Out was a con-
ventional first novel, relating the ‘se-

possible line, and written in grave, !
measured English. Night and Day, |

her second book, might have been |

written by a contemporary of Trol-{
lope. But a short story, The Mark on
the Wall, published between these

quence of events in the straightes. |



| Woolf’s is that one ought to be able
to. write without consciousness of sex;
she quotes Coleridge in support of
it—‘a great mind,is always androgy-
nous.” ‘Most of ‘all she wants to
see the fusion of the two worlds, the
man’ggworld of activity and the wom-
an’s of poetry and charm.” That,
rather than impressionistic writing,
is her: contribution—feminine sens}
bility .plus masculine control. Her
| mind comes up to the ideal of Cole
| ridge. — :
In spite of having this perfect -in-
tellectual control, she is. not a cold
writer. To the Englishman the word
Bloomsbury is synonymous’ with



two novels of the traditional school, er ” “gritty,” and other unpleas-

should have shown much to the crit-
ics; it was her first experiment in|

her own peculiarly recognizable style,
and was, in addition, “the very first| site.
| —she does love life and people. It

baby of the Hogarth Press.”

Jacob’s Room grew out of it, a book |
“brilliant in the way that stained-|

glass is brilliant, finished, and fused |

finally into’a picture, a design. It'|

”

man.
method, as they did Impressionism in
Art, but Mrs. Dalloway created less
indignation:
and much abuse for an artist to en-
large the bounds of our conscious-
ness. The Waves still puzzles me; I
recognize the beauty and richness of
the writing, but I cannot read it with
the same pleasure as her others.”
Mrs. Sackville-West confessed to a
feeling of uneasiness since receiving |
a letter from Mrs. Woolf lately, “I'm |
writing a new novel. My word, how

ant adjectives. Such a jidgment may
‘hold true concerning Aldous Huxley,
but her temperament is exactly oppo-
“She has excitement about life

iis,a fallacy to suppose that because
you are intelligent, you have no blood
in your veins. She has no sham ro-
mance, but is looking out for true

is not a story, but a novel way of | romance and seems to be finding it.”

producing the biography of a young, Mrs.
Many people disliked this | lecture with a prophecy of the fu-

Sackville-West concluded her

ture, “One may discern the begin-
nings of a reaction against the awful

“It -takes—a- little time; sterility of the Aldous Huxleys.”



It is traditional that “the show
most go on,” regardless. Fresno
State College players, staging one of
their productions the night an earth-
quake rocked the Pacific West, upheld
the tradition in true trouper style.
Although frightened, the amateur
players continued to as chandeliers in. the auditorium ceil-
ing swayed, and the scenery “flats”



you will dislike it!”

Of the divisions of her Jesbaioue,_
her use of the time factor is the!
most interesting. Mrs. Dalloway is
compressed into one day. To the
Lighthouse is divided into three. parts:
with different tempo in each part,
the variations being used to effect the:
feeling she wishes to evoke. Her use|
of the time factor is not a trick, but,
an organic part of each book, as -
Orlando, which occupies three hun. |
dred years. :

Unlike Lawrence, she is a con-;
scious and intellectual artist; noth=|
ing is left to chance. By now, hav-|
ing thrown away the traditional tools, |
she has forged new ones, and, again |
unlike Lawrence, she has a Sonnets |
ling brain to guide them. There is |
one instance of lack of control at the |
end of Orlando, “but if she had gath.
ered the sprays together and assem- |
bled the loose ends, the book would,
have gained the needed clarity. Asa
rule, however, the brain rules in her |
work; she is always on the tight-rope |
of imagination, but very seldom tum-
bles_ off.”

In the detachment of her critical:
work something close to the mind of |
a sensitive, distinguished man _ is
shown. A favorite theme of Mrs.





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Lantern Electi
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The Lantern takes pleasure
in announcing the election of
Polly Schwable to the Business
Board as assistant treasurer.



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