The Morning Post (December 21 1911)

The Morning Post (December 21 1911)

Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlets

newspaper clippings, miscellaneous clippings, scrapbook

Wednesday December 27 1911

Lucy Lloyd (scrapbook of clippings ), Specimens of Bushman Folklore (in Lucy Lloyd's scrapbook of clippings ), scrapbook (Lucy Lloyd's ), drawings (|xam )

"Specimens of Bushman Folklore. Collected by the late W.H.I. Bleek, Ph.D. and L.C. Lloyd. Edited by the latter, with an Introduction by Dr G. McCall Theal...[etc]." The article from "The Morning Post" begins by referring to the public knowledge of Lloyd's work on the valuable MSS of Bushman folklore. It briefly describes how Bleek and Lloyd accessed their subjects and explains how difficult the Bushman language is record in writing. It then provides to gives a brief overview of the content and structure of the volume. The author expresses the opinion that the book will be of great value to the philologist, folklorist, ethnographer as well as the psychologist and student of literary origins. They quote from and explain a tale of the First Bushmen and the Sun, commenting on different features of the narrative such as sounds imitating animal noises. The author comments on the "rudimentary stage of literary culture" indicated by the songs in the volume but also notes their value to the singer (referring to examples of the lost tobacco pouch song and the old woman's song to Canopus). The final paragraph of the article, unrelated to "Specimens", concerns the publication of a book by a Mr Knox about the climate of Africa and seems unrelated. The scrapbook page features the handwritten number 19 in the top right-hand corner. The name and date of the newspaper has been cut out and pasted above the clipping of the main article. Two handwritten clippings have been pasted on the scrapbook page facing page 19. The top one, written in pencil script, features Lloyd's address in Charlottenburg. The bottom clipping is writing in pen on a section of lined notebook paper. It features quoted text and concerns the artwork produced by the Bushmen staying with the Bleek and Lloyd family (referred to as "us" in the clipping): how examples of this art included in the volume were chosen not for their being "particularly good in themselves" but rather as evidence that ordinary Bushmen possess some measure of "artistic power". It is probable that this written clip relates to the conclusion of the review pasted on the opposite page, where Haddon feels that the illustrations in the volume are less skilled than Bushman rock art.