Westminster Gazette (December 6 1911)

Westminster Gazette (December 6 1911)

Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlets

newspaper clipping, scrapbook

December 6th 1911

Lucy Lloyd (scrapbook of clippings ), Specimens of Bushman Folklore (Lucy Lloyd's scrapbook of clippings ), scrapbook (Lucy Lloyd's )

"Folk-lore of the Bushman." A short review in the "Westminster Gazette", which begin by describing Bleek's study of Native languages leading up to the publication of "Specimens", with Lloyd his assistant. It states that the volume is introduced by Theal who narrates some of the difficulties facing the Bushman researchers trying to publish the material. The author summarises some of these difficulties - not least having to learn a language comprised of "clicks and strange sounds". The author acknowledges how these trials were "conquered" with "patience and zeal" by the researchers who invented symbols for sounds, as described in Lloyd's Preface. The author feels that while the Bushman language recorded in the volume will be unintelligible to the ordinary reader, the English translations of the text will demonstrate how simple the Bushman's ideas about religion and explanations for natural phenomena were. They conclude by echoing Theal's opinion that the volume will be of most use and interest to the philologist and offer that, in their own opinion, the Bushman drawings and paintings reproduced in the book show "remarkable graphic and unstudied force". The name of the newspaper and the date are handwritten above the clipping on the scrapbook page. The scrapbook page number 23 is hand written in the top right-hand corner.