. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II. No. 13. JANUARY 1921. PRICE Is. NET, DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- Iclge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. PubUshed b)' John , 5o.\ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free; single numbers, IS. net, postage 2d. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2S. td. net each ; postage
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II. No. 13. JANUARY 1921. PRICE Is. NET, DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- Iclge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. PubUshed b)' John , 5o.\ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free; single numbers, IS. net, postage 2d. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2S. td. net each ; postage j\d. Editorial Notes A HAPPY period spent recently in bed gave me an opportunity of rereading some of Dickens, and led me to the fascinating and interesting problem of Edwin Drood. This problem is an excellent one to study during an illness, not only because it takes one's mind away from the happenings of to-day, but also because its solution does not involve anything that is vital. How- ever the various problems of the story may be solved, no one—not even the author of the story—is one penny the worse. The problem of Edwin Drood exists, of course, because this last novel of Dickens has barely half been told, and because Dickens built up his stories according to a system on which conjectures may be based regarding the possible development and end of the story. * * « * * The problems in the story are these: (i) Was Ed\\in Drood murdered ? Is so, how, by whom, and where was his body hidden ? (2) Who was Datchery, the stranger who appeared in Cloisterham after Drood's disappearance ? (3) Who was the old opium woman called the Princess Puffer, and why did she pursue Jasper ? The last of these is not of great interest, and as the materials available for its solution are scanty, it has been dropped by most people. Not so, however, the others. 1 It was Mr. R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, who started the serious discussion on these problems. He put forward a view that Drood was not
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