Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 2
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
A mock-courtroom poem in which Tongue argues as counsel for Nose's right to wear the spectacles, winning a verdict that whenever Nose puts them on, Eyes must shut.
- p. 6
A note that English engineers are debating a radical concave road design with a central gutter instead of the conventional convex surface, and that wheelmen are firmly opposed to this innovation.
- p. 4
A pointed editorial comparing Russia's failure to evacuate Manchuria with Britain's continuing occupation of Egypt, arguing that all imperial nations are essentially land-grabbers and yet we remain patriotic.
- p. 4
A curious note on the Japanese practice of giving children multiple names at different stages of life, including a name chosen by lottery in the temple at one month old.
- p. 16
A quotation from the Bicycling World condemning widespread cheating in professional motor-cycle racing, where riders routinely double-claimed expenses and celebrated rule-evasion as cleverness.
- p. 16
A note reporting that an Oxford M.A. has written to the C.T.C. Gazette claiming his Beeston Humbler has covered 42,000 miles, surpassing the previous claimed record of 39,000 miles, and challenging American cyclists to beat it.
- p. 2
An opening poem challenging the complacency of a man who boasts of having made no enemies, arguing that a man of principle who has fought for duty must have made foes.