Bohemia : the all-Australian literary magazine

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Nf 059.45 BOH
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Melbourne : Bohemia, 1939-1967
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Eighth Issue (November 1939)
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Bohemia  

ART COMPETITION  

(SEE PAGE 2)  

Registered at the G.P.0., Melbourne, for  

transmission through the Post as Periodical.  

Mateship  

Art  

Letters  

THE ALL-AUSTRALIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE  

EIGHTH ISSUE.  

MELBOURNE.  

NOVEMBER, 1939.  

Bohemia  

IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY.  

Subscription 3/- per annum,  

plus 1/- postage.  

NEWSAGENTS and CLUBS please note:  

DISTRIBUTING AGENTS: Messrs. George  

Batchelor Pty. Ltd., McKillop St., Mel-  

bourne, to whom all applications for par-  

cels must be addressed.  

LITERARY CONTRIBUTORS: Please ad-  

dress your contributions to The Editor,  

“Bohemia,” Bernard T. Jones Co. Pty.,  

Ltd., 1-7 Knox Place, Melbourne. Liter-  

ary and Art Fellowships’ reports must be  

in at least days before date of publica-  

tion, which will be on the first of each  

month. Other communications should be  

addressed to—  

THE MANAGER, Osborne House, 399  

Little Collins Street, Melbourne.  

The Bread and Cheese Club does not  

identify itself with the views of any writer  

expressed in these pages. As Literary Club,  

it has no political opinions nor ecclesiastical  

leanings.  

IN THIS ISSUE  

ART COMPETITION  

MR. GROUCH  

MIMA ANDREW—Short Story  

J. ALEX ALLAN—Open Letter  

LEADING ARTICLE  

NATHAN F. SPIELVOGEL—Humor ..  

DESMOND FENNESSY—Humor  

LETTERS  

J. ALEX ALLAN—Verse 10  

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS 11  

BLANCHE E. MILLER—Verse 12  

JACK SORENSEN—Verse 13  

BOOK REVIEWS 14  

SOCITIES 15  

CHILDE MICKLE’S PILGRIMAGE  

THE BOOK OF THE MONTH  

Reviewed by  

ALLAN W. DAWES  

TRAVEL books came in with Exo-  

dus and don’t suppose they’ll  

go out until Norman McCance sells  

the Celestial rights of “Gabriel Takes  

His Last Trump” and Bob Croll re-  

mainders the 57th printing of “Walk-  

ing All Over God’s Heaven” at fire-  

sale. They will, in short, go on and  

on, which, one supposes, is only to be  

expected of travel books.  

Peripatetic poetry, however, has  

shorter history. Pilgrimages that pay  

were invented by Byron mean  

those geographical jingles that rime  

and ramble through the flora and forni-  

cation of foreign parts, combine rumi-  

nation with reminiscence, take in  

little wish fulfilment, stop off here and  

there for spot of politics and end  

on the old familiar note of interroga-  

tion.  

Latest of the dithyramblers is Alan  

D. Mickle, with “The Pilgrimage of  

Peer.” Childe Mickle meccanises an  

innocent experiment in modern globe-  

trotting by attaching wings of song to  

his ocean liner and, when he climbs  

down into prose style, by adopting  

form of expression which suggests  

translation of the Koran by James  

Branch Cabell.  

It has charm of its own, but suf-  

fers think from certain tyranny  

of repetition which seems to be in-  

separable from practically all set forms  

except perhaps the sonnet and, in  

good hands, the ballade.  

This, for instance, which is Mickle  

au naturel, —  

“All ages have great men, but all  

great men have not opportunities. The  

time must be ripe and the place ready.  

There are always souls that seek the  

glory in life as bees seek the honey  

in flowers. But the same Nature that  

sows million seeds that one shall find  

cl fertile soil and suitable conditions  

and flourish and become tree, is also  

prodigal of great men.”  

And again:  

“Man must find an antithesis, great  

opposition; for the object of life is  

message, service rendered to Pos-  

terity, and he must have resistance  

against which to shape that message  

as another man carves his name on  

rock. But the rock must be found,  

the tool be nearby, and the glory thirst  

that will fashion the dream that will  

guide the tool. Without his mighty  

labours Hercules becomes nothing.”  

So far, so good. Now consider  

Childe Mickle:  

“And on the steamer’s deck stood  

Peer with his newly-valued qualities  

like unkennelled dogs straining eagerly  

and excitedly on their leashes.  

“And he said, ‘I have dead past;  

have lived as the plant whose root  

is so deep in the soil that it never sees  

the sunlight and knows not that its  

hunger is for the sunlight that it never  

sees’.  

“And he said, ‘But now am like  

the plant that breaks through and  

throws aside the heavy earth and be-  

holds the sun. have emerged from  

my dead past; enter living future.  

And shall go where shall go, do  

what shall do, see what shall see.”  

“And saying over and over to him-  

self these words Peer set forth upon  

his pilgrimage.”  

You see? Many “ands” make hard  

work. Or, if may labour the point,  

defeated on show of “ands.”  

Skip the “ands” ... score of para-  

graphs on one page beginning with  

the useless conjunction is the sort  

of torture Childe Mickle invented  

(Continued on Page 14).  

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