The Outlook (November 18 1911)

The Outlook (November 18 1911)

Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlets

newspaper clipping, scrapbook

18 November 1911

Lucy Lloyd (scrapbook of clippings) (her "Specimens" clipping from "The Outlook"), Specimens of Bushman Folklore (Lucy Lloyd's scrapbook of clippings) (article about in "The Outlook"), scrapbook (Lucy Lloyd's) (of "Specimens" clippings)

"Shorter Notices. Bushman Folklore." A short piece from "The Outlook" that begins with how interesting the Bushmen are and then reminds the reader how cruelly the vanishing race has been treated. The author compares their unique "art for art's sake" with the "purely decorative" art of the North African, then notes how their lore is also considerable and this is what is presented in Bleek and Lloyd's publication. The author offers the opinion that bilingual versions of their tales reveal an artistic primitive mind "far beyond" what others have "maligned". On the whole they believe the book to be a "valuable contribution to the study of African languages" (especially the useful page-by-page translations) - but that the "curious" folklore will be of interest to general readers. Part of the "valuable contribution" sentence is underlined in red. Written at the bottom of the article, in Lloyd's script, it reads "[Sent me in March, 1912.]" The scrapbook page features the handwritten number 21 in top right-hand corner.