. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II. No. 23. NOVEMBER 1921. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A 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
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II. No. 23. NOVEMBER 1921. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A 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. 6d. net each ; postage yjd. Editorial Notes Not many weeks ago we ^scd a strange phenome- non in British mentality and psychology-. During the meetings of the British Association, in which momen- tous discoveries in every branch of natural and applied science were being revealed and discussed by our most eminent scientists, a well-known film " star " arrived in England. We need not dwell on the many details of his popular triumph at the hands of both public and Press, to show how great and spontaneous it was—far greater and more spontaneous, for instance, than the interest accorded to the members or the discussions of the British Association. Now it serves no purpose to wail over such a phenomenon as though it were a proof of national decadence. We need to look at the facts clearly and cahnly. The facts are that Charlie Chaplin is in his own sphere a genius ; that the average man and woman need something not too serious to enliven their leisure hours, and that one of the easiest channels to such enlivenment lies through the moving picture ; that cinemas have spread to the smallest town and to the remotest corners of the w'orld. and are therefore able to bestow a world-wide fame on cinema " stars " such as no scientist, philosopher, or wxiter can expect to attain to till long after he is dead. But these are only
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