Prize Competitions Montélimar," The first place in the March Competition was gained by Mr. Francis G. Berthoud, 4 Boulevard des Tranchées, Geneva, Switzerland, a prize-winner within the last twelvemonth; our prize of two guineas therefore passes to Mr. E. Mousel, Stonyhurst College, near Blackburn. We classify the sixty-nine versions received as follows: Class I.-Montélimar, Blackheath, Superannuated, J. E. M., Als ob, Eutychus, Tawe, Lacy, Nil desperandum, G. C. M., Barnum, Attente, Copt, Esse quam videri, Beetle, Chardonne, E. V. B., Auburn, Esther, Nemo, W. S. B., Emil Jay, Fidelis, Leander, Dane. Class II.-Trina, Garnet, Hippeus, Remembrance, Cadwal, Bésigue, Cobden, Eureka, Cunctatrix, N. K. G., Gurkha, Woodlea, Holly, Hope Surrey, Torquemada, S. J. B., Irene, Agricola, Fortunio, A. H. B., Nil desperandum (Mitcham), R. A. D., Cormac, A. K. M. Class III.-Kininvie, Bellum, Nunkun, A. J., Lindum, Nautilus, M. M., Yendu, F. H. D., Jam Satis, E. O. C., S. L. C., Asphodel, Poilu, Trèfle, Krampus, Bodley, Hibernia, Kim, L. M. P. est suivie d'une amélioration de votre sort, si légère soit-elle. ce soulagement vous apportera un véritable sentiment de bonheur. Oui, demain, toujours, vaut mieux qu'aujourd'hui ! Pour des hommes d'action, prêts à la lutte, ceci est évidemment un raisonnement servile, une force aveugle qui guide, sur la route de la vie, l'esclave sans volonté et sans ambition, dominé par le destin. Pour le Russe, dans les terribles conditions d'existence auxquelles il a été soumis par les systèmes de gouvernement qui se sont succédé, cette mentalité d'esclave, si paradoxale que la chose puisse sembler, a été comme un évangile sauveur. Si vous demandez à un paysan: Avez-vous le temps de rentrer votre foin avant l'orage? Avos, répond-il. Il y a dans ce mot plus que dans le "peut-être " par lequel nous serions tentés de la traduire. Avos implique l'idée de quelque chose de fatal, chargé d'un profond et presque terrible mystère, quelque Destinée redoutable, quelque Karma vengeur. TRANSLATED BY "MONTÉLIMAR " A prisoner once said to me : I Never despair, for to-morrow is always better than to-day. If life is hard now, the still more painful ordeals which await us will be less grievous to a man who has already inured himself to suffering. If bad days continue, you will yearn with your whole being for death, and this annihilation, which one usually regards as the most dreadful of calamities, will become the most welcome deliverance. If some spell of misfortune is followed by an improvement in your lot, however slight it may be, this relief will bring you a genuine feeling of happiness. Yes; to-morrow is always better than to-day!" 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As Blackheath " suggests, the passage was sufficiently straightforward to constitute an exercise in producing the best English equivalent, and the first five competitors ran each other very close. The passage was chosen of set purpose; if we only give very difficult extracts, we are in danger of quenching all smoking flax by limiting entries to those of an Honours standard. But, as all competitors are fluent in English, we expect a very high standard when the actual translation is easier than usual. Here we must mention "Krampus," who manages to compete worthily in a language not his own. " The gradual descent through Class I is due to such tiny points, of which the following are a few: "Copt turns a phrase awkwardly-a release most devoutly to be wished. Perhaps it was an unintentional omission of the preposition, but we can only judge by what is put before us. 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Eng., A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.Inst.M., APPLIED CHEMISTRY, including General Chemical Principals wishing to have their The Sections include Preparatory Schools, Boys' Schools, J. & J. PATON, EDUCATIONAL 143 CANNON STREET, LONDON, E.C. 4. Telephone: Central 5053. Bellum" and "Kim were careless over Si les mauvais jours se prolongent, thus If the evil days lengthen (" Bellum "); If hard times grow longer (" Kim "). The latter also translated Avos as D.V. and so lost the point of the author's explanation; he also calls his slave unwilling. A few translators jibbed at évangile sauveur, gospel saviour ("L. M. P. "); evangelical saviour ("A. K. M. "); and "Cormac got his confused with Karma vengeur thus évangile vengeur. We wish we had space to quote "Leander's" beautiful paraphrase; and the versions of "Copt, N. K. G." and A. K. M. would also have taken good places in a paraphrase competition. We received several nice letters, and thank "Esse quam videri " for letting us see a large and interesting photograph of the heads the size of a fist. Several points were raised about the last Spanish passage. We will take each item: first, we are sorry we omitted Remembrance" as one of the competitors who rightly gave with a certain decoction. Los pueblos que llaman de Pasao presents no difficulty to those with a living knowledge of Spanish; the idiomatic Santiago de Chile, Paris de Francia, and even Córdoba de Andalucia will readily occur to their minds. Therefore Pasao means the district in which the villages were situated. The contezuelas was a little more difficult, but several of our learned competitors have found the word in dictionaries. As we said before, they might have been seeds used as beads, but this is not stated. We must add that we really do think the passage, though slightly archaic, quite easy. We can only think that readers who did not find it so must have an academic rather than a living knowledge of the language. Qu'elle paraît route sans fin à perdre haleine, Quand la barbe au menton pointe, l'on peut muser Qui ne trouve trop court le chemin. Initials, or a nom de guerre, must be adopted by ALL competitors, but the prize-winners, and the competitors awarded the second place, will be required to send real names for publication if necessary. No competitor will be awarded a prize more than ONCE during a given year, though the name of the competitor gaining first place will be published each month. All entries, which must be accompanied by the Coupon printed on page 347, must reach the office by the first post on May 15, 1928, addressed " PRIZE EDITOR," The Journal of Education, 3 Ludgate Broadway, London, E.C. 4. (Continued on page 346) |