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Sherlock Holmes and Father's Day

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"I had the story from my father" [HOUN]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xj8H-9U55M8/VYbThzQtdXI/AAAAAAAAgVo/uXIxXCmOvO0/s1600/Trevor%2BSr.%2B-%2BGLOR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="490" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xj8H-9U55M8/VYbThzQtdXI/AAAAAAAAgVo/uXIxXCmOvO0/s640/Trevor%2BSr.%2B-%2BGLOR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />From the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Altamont Doyle to the various fathers and father figures in the Canon, it's fascinating to consider paternal impacts in the Sherlock Holmes stories.<br /><br />Far from being a homogeneous and idyllic characterization of fatherhood like some greeting card, fathers in the Sherlock Holmes stories are a mixed bag. The heroic John Ferrier and magnanimous Grant Munro represent the best in fathers, while on the other end of the spectrum, the nefarious Grimesby Roylott and Jephro Rucastle show just how abusive and criminal some can be.<br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/134350122&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="ihearofsherlock">ihearofsherlock</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/i-hear-of-sherlock-26" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Episode 43: Fathers in the Canon">Episode 43: Fathers in the Canon</a></div><br /><br />Perhaps this is an opportunity to listen to <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose43" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 43</a> of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> again (or maybe for the first time)—an evergreen episode in which we dissect and analyze certain father figures. Interestingly, many stand-in fathers tend to be better paternal figures than biological fathers. See if you agree.<br /><br /><div>We're acutely aware  that some of the fathers in the Sherlock Holmes stories had certain dastardly deeds associated with them. Individuals such as Jephro Rucastle and Grimesby Roylott spring to mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>But what about figures who occupied a position as head of the household who weren't necessarily fathers themselves? In <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles24" target="_blank">Episode 24</a> of <i>Trifles</i>, we look at some of these parental units.</div><div><br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/328006256&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/24-heads-of-household" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Heads of Household">Heads of Household</a></div></div><div><br /></div><br />And until next year, we have the pleasure to wish you a very happy Father's Day, however you celebrate it.<br /><br />--<div><br /></div>

Sherlock Holmes and Father's Day

"I had the story from my father" [HOUN] From the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Altamont Doyle to the various...

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Episode 218: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sportsman

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"the prize at Olympia" [LAST] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wbaCdxUNmgI/YMlLv3X6gmI/AAAAAAABUR4/sheSDkl3YaosyovoL8F1xpLlSCNtv67qwCLcBGAsYHQ/s831/ACD%2Band%2BTouie%2Bon%2Ba%2Btricycle.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="831" height="468" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wbaCdxUNmgI/YMlLv3X6gmI/AAAAAAABUR4/sheSDkl3YaosyovoL8F1xpLlSCNtv67qwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h468/ACD%2Band%2BTouie%2Bon%2Ba%2Btricycle.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It's a well-known fact that Arthur Conan Doyle went up against the legendary cricket player W.G. Grace on the field in 1900. But his interest in sport went much further than that.<div><br /></div><div>From cricket to golf, motorcycles to auto racing, downhill skiing and more, Conan Doyle equated physical fitness with fitness of the mind and spirit. He even went as far as championing the British Empire concept for Olympics following Great Britain's sorry showing in the 1912 Summer Olympics.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mark Albertstat, MBt., BSI ("Halifax") joins us to talk about all manner of Doyle's athletic interests, from his very early days to his final years. Mark recently wrote an article for <i>Canadian Holmes</i> on Conan Doyle and the 1912 Summer Olympics, and is an authority on Conan Doyle and sports.<br /><div><p>We have another <b>Canonical Couplet</b> after the interview. If you are chosen as a winner, we have a mystery prize from the generous gifts sent to us by Tony Quattrochi.. 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Episode 218: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sportsman

"the prize at Olympia" [LAST] It's a well-known fact that Arthur Conan Doyle went up against the legendary cricket player W.G...

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Baker Street Elementary — Naturally Super

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“no ghosts need apply</span>” [SUSS] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a5SpxLyFVzw/YMV6ZpgvLGI/AAAAAAABUJQ/wgZlMIkqLS8EPg4KVt2hNTPUBP6WJ-UNACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a5SpxLyFVzw/YMV6ZpgvLGI/AAAAAAABUJQ/wgZlMIkqLS8EPg4KVt2hNTPUBP6WJ-UNACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>We have very few "ghost story" elements in the original Sherlock Holmes stories. As Holmes reminds us in "The Sussex Vampire,"</div><div><blockquote>“This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain.”</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, we were led to believe<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span>through creative storytelling and incredulous observers<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span>that the supernatural was present:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, when Dr. Mortimer suspects the hound of being supernatural, he follows up with  “Since the tragedy, Mr. Holmes, there have come to my ears several incidents which are hard to reconcile with the settled order of Nature.”</li><li>Later, when Holmes mentions something about the devil’s work, Dr. Mortimer wonders if Holmes believes in the supernatural. Holmes answers, “The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”</li><li>In "The Devil's Foot," the vicar Roundhay burst into Holmes's cottage, screaming “We are devil-ridden, Mr. Holmes! My poor parish is devil-ridden! Satan himself is loose in it! We are given over into his hands!”</li><li>And in "The Sussex Vampire," the title itself gives us to believe that there are supernatural elements afoot. Holmes, from the very outset, is skeptical of anything of the sort, reminding Watson, “The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.”</li></ul></div><div>Not that Conan Doyle didn't have experience with stories that were other-worldly. "J. Hababuk Jephson's Statement" is a fictional version of the <i>Mary Celeste</i> incident; "Lot No. 249" is the original mummy story; "The Horror of the Heights" makes us wonder what lurks in the skies above; and "The Terror of Blue John Gap" puts our thoughts to what lurks in the earth below.</div><div><br /></div><div>His ability to create believable scenarios and build suspense through the eyes of his narrators made him a superb storyteller indeed. Perhaps we were never quite to frightened when reading the Sherlock Holmes stories because Watson, our narrator, is fairly fearless.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fortunately, most feet remain flat-footed on the ground at Baker Street Elementary. And some students remain flat on their backs...</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTzFjJcrLSg/YMV6dirK2II/AAAAAAABUJU/Wt_h96iDVecafoCnY6kvknIHGoSGw8lUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTzFjJcrLSg/YMV6dirK2II/AAAAAAABUJU/Wt_h96iDVecafoCnY6kvknIHGoSGw8lUgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HlnviPlWwu8/YMV6dkok3dI/AAAAAAABUJc/RWmgzGTTe1E2DJT-Zy9tll2QTbLfO4ZxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HlnviPlWwu8/YMV6dkok3dI/AAAAAAABUJc/RWmgzGTTe1E2DJT-Zy9tll2QTbLfO4ZxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E9mbPYiFkOo/YMV6dhpSqjI/AAAAAAABUJY/-g0Dh0N5up0X-ok-pnavuw41KRrUakvwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E9mbPYiFkOo/YMV6dhpSqjI/AAAAAAABUJY/-g0Dh0N5up0X-ok-pnavuw41KRrUakvwgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aq3yN6h6gGM/YMV6eLcHMzI/AAAAAAABUJg/d-rWpfyW_SUDfHtd0Y3d7_p2KuzUEuliwCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aq3yN6h6gGM/YMV6eLcHMzI/AAAAAAABUJg/d-rWpfyW_SUDfHtd0Y3d7_p2KuzUEuliwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hn1tb_gnU7o/YMV6eQzSLfI/AAAAAAABUJk/RTzkN-UhkLkytIKKhVBFGCiIb7xUjHKSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hn1tb_gnU7o/YMV6eQzSLfI/AAAAAAABUJk/RTzkN-UhkLkytIKKhVBFGCiIb7xUjHKSgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGhfiUX0OoE/YMV6e13uXAI/AAAAAAABUJo/Lv-oWZITmUodXWK2C2XLYDIYoavwM5HVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGhfiUX0OoE/YMV6e13uXAI/AAAAAAABUJo/Lv-oWZITmUodXWK2C2XLYDIYoavwM5HVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B108.7.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div><div><br /></div></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary — Naturally Super

“no ghosts need apply ” [SUSS] We have very few "ghost story" elements in the original Sherlock Holmes stories. As Holmes reminds...

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by Scott Monty

The 1932 Clive Brook Sherlock Holmes Feature — Restored at Last

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"The air of London is the sweeter for my presence" [FINA] </h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VCQlLFFdgCA/YL5I3nf7PkI/AAAAAAABUDg/ML3hAladWuUdEvcwC4LtDYzN14S1jIYeACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/Clive%2BBrook%2B1932%2BSherlock%2BHolmes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VCQlLFFdgCA/YL5I3nf7PkI/AAAAAAABUDg/ML3hAladWuUdEvcwC4LtDYzN14S1jIYeACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Clive%2BBrook%2B1932%2BSherlock%2BHolmes.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: screen capture (YouTube)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Bitter-sweet news on the Sherlockian film front.   </p><p>The good news first: the <a href="https://www.moma.org/" target="_blank">Museum of Modern Art</a> has restored the 1932 Fox <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023460/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_25" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a></i> with Clive Brook in a sparkling new print with a crystal clear soundtrack. Technically, this has not been a lost film, but the nasty DVD dupe we’ve been stuck with does the film a cruel disservice, making it all but unwatchable.   </p><p>What the MoMA restoration reveals is a droll pre-Code feature that ranks among the most stylish Sherlocks made in the black-and-white era.  This was a major studio production, directed by one of Fox’s leading directors, William K. Howard, and filmed by the legendary cinematographer, George Barnes.</p><p>This is not a production for Sherlockian purists, but for non-purists it’s a pleasure to watch a great studio director in top form having fun with Holmes and Hollywood genres: Moriarty is on the loose, importing American gangsters and their continental allies to wreak havoc on London pubs [!] with Tommy guns, hand grenades, and speeding cars. </p><p>Holmes, not to be undone, counters with his genius for scientific investigation. Clive Brook, usually the stiffest of British matinee idols, loosens up with sardonic one-liners and elegant banter, having a fine time jumping off a balcony to fight one of Moriarty’s henchmen. </p><p>Howard and Barnes turn this into a series of visual tours-de-force. The first scene sets the tone, a court sentencing Moriarty to death in a series of silhouettes and close-ups slowly revealed behind raised veils. Moriarty then delivers a curse in a rich Scottish burr by the great silent actor Ernest Torrence. This sets the tone for a virtuoso display of powerful shadow effects, whip pans, shock cuts, flash-backs, weird angles, and complexly staged deep focus shots.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">From Gillette to Rathbone</h3><p>Of particular interest to Sherlockians is how the movie fits into the trajectory from William Gillette to Basil Rathbone. The Fox film illustrates what gets revealed when we can see fine prints: a benchmark with links to the past and future. </p><p><i>Sherlock Holmes</i> was adapted by young Bertram Millhauser, the first of several Millhauser-Holmes screenplays that starts with Gillette’s play<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span>or rather with Gillette’s reinvented characters. The plot itself owes nothing to Gillette<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span>it might be called a sequel but Millhauser is too unbridled. Alice Faulkner is now Holmes’s long-suffering fiancée; Moriarty has been turned into a homicidal jewel thief; and Watson has been replaced by both Billy, Holmes’ adoring apprentice, and Holmes’ Scotland Yard arch-rival turned co-conspirator [Alan Mowbray]. </p><p>Brook himself provides the clearest through-line to Gillette, the patrician Holmes par excellence. If Rathbone and his successors are high strung<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span>the high E-notes on the Sherlockian violin<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span>Brook continues, along with Wontner, on the Gillette low G, graceful and imperturbable. This is the debonair Holmes, whether in his spats and cutaway, or in his smoking jacket and Gillettian dressing gown. </p><p>And much would be recycled into the Rathbone films. The opening court scene would be re-used (to flabbier effect) in Rathbone’s 1939 <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, as would the idea of Moriarty being a cunning jewel thief. And Millhauser would steal from himself when recycling the jewel thief angle (<i>Pearl of Death</i>) and placing a gangster hideout behind the shooting gallery at an amusement park (<i>The Spider Woman</i>).</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Now for the Challenge</h3><p>So much for the good news. The difficulty is that MoMA’s restored print is currently all but inaccessible. Currently, it has only been shown for a month as a one-off in MoMA’s online film series, available to <a href="https://membership.moma.org/" target="_blank">members only</a>.   </p><p>Otherwise, The Walt Disney Company controls distribution rights, and getting them to release the film is likely to be an uphill battle. So far Disney has shown little interest in vintage Fox films, and in fact, has discharged Fox’s restoration chief of staff.  </p><p>Even Fox’s Cinema Archives series, which had been the studio’s quirky way of distributing its old movies on an expensive, on-demand line of no-frills DVD-Rs, has been put on hold.  And even if the merged company were to add the 1932 <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> to the list, there is no guarantee they would use MoMA’s sparkling print.   </p><p>So, for now, we need to wait and see what Disney plans to do. Or perhaps some enterprising individual ought to petition Disney to get things started...</p><p>Watch this space. </p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Further reading by Russell Merritt, BSI ("The Trepoff Murder")</h4><p>Gillette’s performance in the 1916 film version of Sherlock Holmes: the 2016 <i>Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2016/12/27/bsj-2016-christmas-annual/" target="_blank">The Day After Christmas: First Encounters with Gillette's Silent Sherlock Holmes</a></i>.</p><p><a href="http://www.bestofsherlock.com/movies/1950s-tv-history.htm" target="_blank">Holmes and the Snake Skin Suits: Fighting for Survival on '50s Television</a> (Best of Sherlock)  </p><p> </p><p> </p>

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by Russell Merritt

Book Review: One Must Tell the Bees

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"living the life of a hermit among your bees and your books" [LAST]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ggqa9YIbQQI/YLrzjGCcIpI/AAAAAAABT-g/ymPkmm8TA_MXL-msiktzbQHIrp0DmqLIACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/One%2BMust%2BTell%2Bthe%2BBees-cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1000" height="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ggqa9YIbQQI/YLrzjGCcIpI/AAAAAAABT-g/ymPkmm8TA_MXL-msiktzbQHIrp0DmqLIACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h560/One%2BMust%2BTell%2Bthe%2BBees-cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Holmes! Watson! Lincoln?! Booth?! The American Civil War?! The swamps of Virginny, the chalk hills of Sussex? </p><p>All these and more await the reader of J. Lawrence Matthews' fine new novel <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3cjgqj6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Must Tell the Bees: The Final Education of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>.</p><p></p><p>For a man who is considered immortal by most of his faithful readers, Sherlock Holmes has tasted death at least a few times. Famously his fall from the Reichenbach began this trail; Doyle famously desired to end his connection to the Baker Street sleuth, but Sir Arthur soon found that life without Sherlock was just not worth living. He never again attempted to end the life of the world's favorite sleuth.</p><p>Other authors have considered the ultimate passing of the great detective, but surprisingly not many hits come up when searching for the death of Sherlock Holmes. Many works confront the elder years of the Baker Street sleuth, but who has the temerity to write the last moments of the immortal?  </p><p>In his new novel, <i>One Must Tell the Bees: The Final Education of Sherlock Holmes</i>, author J. Lawrence Matthews gives readers a chance to perceive the scene we all know must have taken place sometime during or after the Great War—Holmes's last dated case is "His Last Bow," in which Watson assures us that Holmes is still alive though slightly rheumatic—the death of Sherlock Holmes.</p><p>First news of Matthews' novel instantly thrilled me, as early publication info purported it to be the story of a young Sherlock, brought to America and immersed in Washington City as the Civil War explodes around him. Hints pushed me further—Holmes on the trail of the assassin! Booth cornered and the game afoot! I eagerly consumed the novel, which, at 500+ pages, took a few weeks. </p><p>To give a quick encapsulation—<i>One Must Tell the Bees</i> is at once the tale of Holmes's "first" case ("The <i>Gloria Scott</i>" and Barry Levinson's <i>Young Sherlock Holmes</i> notwithstanding) and the tale of his last case—respectively, the hunt for the killer of Abraham Lincoln and the search for a killer who strikes on the train Watson takes to visit his old friend in the English countryside. </p><p>Much of the novel is told in the voice of Sherlock Holmes, as he recounts the tales of his formative years and how he and his brother attained their positions and connections in the British Empire. The rest of the novel is in the voice of Watson. </p><p>Matthews creates a fabulous version of the end of the American Civil War and the hunt for Booth that will have readers turning their pages swiftly, eager to see Holmes on the trail of perhaps the most famous murderer of the 19th century. </p><p>Also included in the work is much biographical information about the nebulous early years of Holmes, and even a twist on his name and that of his hyper-productive brother, Mycroft. As the scene shifts to the second mystery and the solving of the train murder, the family tree of Moriarty is explored, as is the master plan of Holmes's greatest opponent. Fans of both the American Civil War and of the immortal sleuth will take great delight in this amazing novel.</p><p>Certainly, any novel with major intent will raise questions in readers, and my mind filled with queries as I considered Matthews' assertions about the nature of the relationship between Lincoln and Holmes, and also about a friend Sherlock makes in the War. </p><p>The Black youth who accompanies Holmes on the trail of the assassin raises questions of race in the Canon, and exactly how Doyle, if not Holmes himself, perceived color and race in his era and country. </p><p>Just as problematic for some readers may be Matthews' continued lionization of the American traitors Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, but overall the novel has a positive tone and gives the reader an amazing vista across which the action is set: the streets of London in Holmes' youth, the muddy byways of Washington City during the crisis of secession, the swamps of Virginia on the trail of Booth, and of course the peaceful English countryside of the Seven Sisters of Sussex and the local pubs and farms nearby.</p><p>Any review of this book would be remiss if it did not mention the powerful climax, which as mentioned above gives readers a chance to perceive and consider that which few writers and filmmakers have dared to envision: the final breaths of Sherlock Holmes.  </p><p>I will not spoil the plot points but will leave the clue that the story's back end is set near the end of World War I. The passion and empathy with which Matthews constructs these scenes make the book a gem, a treasure to be talked about and remembered for some time to come.</p><p><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3ciZCZE" target="_blank">One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes</a></i> is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.</p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Must-Tell-Bees-Education/dp/1736678337/ref=as_li_ss_il?dchild=1&keywords=one+must+tell+the+bees&qid=1622864329&sr=8-2&linkCode=li1&tag=scottmontys0e-20&linkId=7ddeae580160c031df21c2488972cefa&language=en_US" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1736678337&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=scottmontys0e-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=scottmontys0e-20&language=en_US&l=li1&o=1&a=1736678337" style="border: none; margin: 0px;" width="1" /><p><br /></p><p>--</p><script type="text/javascript">
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Book Review: One Must Tell the Bees

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by N. Thomas Padilla

Baker Street Elementary – A Marked Man

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>“on the down grade</span>” [VEIL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znl22pjOJrQ/YLUgGLHDu4I/AAAAAAABT1w/vdxTEK6LXNk_0cqvDX_i1QnMFqnoktSDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B107.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znl22pjOJrQ/YLUgGLHDu4I/AAAAAAABT1w/vdxTEK6LXNk_0cqvDX_i1QnMFqnoktSDgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B107.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Thinking about the actions in "The Three Students," where we find that the tutor Hilton Soams is concerned because someone has disturbed papers on his desk, we have to wonder.<div><br /></div><div>Students who were going for the Fortescue Scholarship had to submit an exam that included "a large passage of Greek translation." There is no indication that the students would have had knowledge beforehand of exactly which work from the classics would be the subject of their translation.</div><div><br /></div><div>The proofs of "half a chapter of Thucydides" arrived at Soames' rooms, and were left out when Gilchrist happened to stop by. Now, he wouldn't have had to copy the entirety of the paper (nor would he have had time to do so) while Soames was out. But all he had to do was to verify which chapter the excerpt was from.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then, Gilchrist could retire to his room and study the chapter in question.</div><div><br /></div><div>But here's our question: if Soames had to review the proofs for accuracy, then perhaps he could have used them to his advantage. That is, if they were taken from a different text than the students had in their possession, variations or inaccuracies might have been helpful.</div><div><br /></div><div>That is, had Soames left any errors in the text in place, they would have acted as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry" target="_blank">mountweazel</a> of sorts and indicated who was translating the proofs in hand versus who was copying from his text.<div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, a weasel of a different sort is lurking at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LH5QRj0njPE/YLUggmcK08I/AAAAAAABT2s/Z2txsQnlMOY9IiN0JZwpwT_VAZBr3iyEACLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B107.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZrR6XWGeN0/YLUgiSK8J3I/AAAAAAABT3E/ceV23nrhOzE4L5rirHiooBlYHpZEtq0sQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary%2B107.8.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div><div><br /></div></div><div id="BC50F916_456F_EFDE_717A_89FB2DA8C3B7"><div></div></div><div id="1C3D0C7D_ABD9_AA0E_5834_523E2A0BEEB7"></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – A Marked Man

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by Scott Monty

Episode 217: The Staunton Tragedy

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"many excellent qualities" [MISS] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXZ2WDPNN2s/YLPAaPyeraI/AAAAAAABT0g/Z4T21DiZ3UAPT-Jp0Ax63sM7MWu-iE8dQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/MISS%2BMSS.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="800" height="357" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXZ2WDPNN2s/YLPAaPyeraI/AAAAAAABT0g/Z4T21DiZ3UAPT-Jp0Ax63sM7MWu-iE8dQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h357/MISS%2BMSS.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>One of the latest books in the BSI Manuscript Series from the BSI Press is <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2020/12/30/staunton-tragedy/" target="_blank">The Staunton Tragedy</a></i>, the manuscript for "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter."<div><br /></div><div>Edited by Wiggins emeritus Michael F. Whelan, the book brought together Sherlockians of all stripes for a wide variety of essays about and related to the story. The story itself was fairly thin and didn't present anything in the way of crime-solving on Sherlock Holmes's part, but the essays in <i>The Staunton Tragedy</i> make up for that.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Series production manager John Bergquist, BSI ("The King of Scandinavia") and transcriptionist-cum-annotator Phil Bergem ("Birdy Edwards") join I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere to talk about this book and their collaboration on manuscripts that spans 10 books.</div><div><p>If you are chosen as the lucky <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz winner, we have a wonderful collection of Sherlock Holmes puzzle and quiz books. 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Episode 217: The Staunton Tragedy

"many excellent qualities" [MISS] One of the latest books in the BSI Manuscript Series from the BSI Press is The Staunton Tragedy...

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by Scott Monty

New Lecture Series on Conan Doyle Honors Neil McCaw

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a course of lectures ” [COPP]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U6kGG7b1CA8/YKq4JXkkZQI/AAAAAAABTpA/isLxJz8qdhECbl8AZZdj5DKIKVLx_s7owCLcBGAsYHQ/s910/Conan%2BDoyle%2BCollection%2BPortsmouth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="910" height="366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U6kGG7b1CA8/YKq4JXkkZQI/AAAAAAABTpA/isLxJz8qdhECbl8AZZdj5DKIKVLx_s7owCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h366/Conan%2BDoyle%2BCollection%2BPortsmouth.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>May 22 marked the 162nd anniversary of the birth of Arthur Conan Doyle. His legacy lives on in legions of books, collections, societies, and discussions across the world. And of course, in his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.</p><p>It also lives on in a new lecture series from the Portsmouth City Council as part of <a href="http://cd.visitportsmouth.co.uk/conandoyle" target="_blank">The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest</a>. </p><p>Professor Neil McCaw was an individual who promoted his memory in his work and volunteering. Professor McCaw was a professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at Winchester University and became involved in the Collection in 2005, where he spent his time advising on the initial cataloging and identifying it as a unique and diverse collection. Neil McCaw passed away last year.</p><p>Neil went on to give wider academic talks globally about the Collection, which broadened our audiences, producing texts for exhibitions that have toured around the world to diverse audiences, writing and producing a facsimile for "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" and then later on curating the <a href="http://cd.visitportsmouth.co.uk/conandoyle/you-dont-know-sherlock-holmes-yet" target="_blank">You Don't Know Sherlock Holmes, Yet exhibition</a>. </p><p>Professor Neil McCaw was a true advocate for the collection, and his expert knowledge and advice have given a legacy to this world-class Collection, maintaining Richard Lancelyn Green's original bequest to make it accessible to the public.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Lecture Series for Professor Neil McCaw </h2><p>To commemorate Professor Neil McCaw's commitment and dedication to the Conan Doyle Collection, and to showcase the legacy of his work, by sharing learning and broadening the knowledge of the collection, the Portsmouth Conan Doyle Collection will be hosting a series of virtual talks with people — authors, fans, academics — who are also passionate about Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and who have a connection to the Conan Doyle Collection.</p><p>This is the schedule of upcoming talks, all of which are free to the public and will be held on Zoom; registration is required.</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Parsee Lawyer, presented by author Shrabani Basu</h4><p>When George Edalji, a young Indian lawyer, is convicted of mutilating horses in a Staffordshire mining village in 1903, he appeals to Arthur Conan Doyle to clear his name. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, accepts the request and proceeds to investigate the case. Based on letters, police records and home office files, Shrabani Basu, author of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3oMMa51" target="_blank">The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer</a></i>, goes on the trail of Arthur Conan Doyle as he wears the hat of Sherlock Holmes and uncovers the dark secrets lying in the English countryside. What is revealed is a story of racism and police corruption at the turn of the century. It is the only case that Conan Doyle investigates personally, with startling results.</p><p><b>May 27 at 7:00 pm BST</b></p><p>More information / registration: <a href="https://portsmouth.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=100173479 " target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle and the Case of the Parsee Lawyer by Shrabani Basu</a> | Portsmouth Library and Archive Service (spydus.co.uk)</p><p> </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Early Sherlock Holmes Fandom from 1890s-1930s, presented by scholar Katharine Brombley </h4><div>Summary: Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure and to this day has a huge following from Sherlockians, fans, and scholars alike. But when did this start? Kate will discuss her findings from the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection and explain how the first British readers of Sherlock Holmes interacted with the stories, setting the foundations for the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. She will cover Victorian and Edwardian fan fiction, collecting, and the first Sherlock Holmes Society. </div><p>Kate is a PhD graduate from the University of Portsmouth and wrote her thesis 'Possessions and Obsessions: Fandom and the Case of Arthur Conan Doyle' in 2015. She is currently Senior Associate Editor for <i><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose212">The Conan Doyle Review</a></i>, an academic journal for Conan Doyle scholars.</p><p><b>June 3 at 7:00 pm BST</b></p><p>More information / registration: <a href="https://portsmouth.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=100174766 " target="_blank">Dr Katharine Brombley ‘Early Sherlock Holmes Fandom from 1890s-1930s’</a> | Portsmouth Library and Archive Service (spydus.co.uk)</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Arthur Conan Doyle, money, and the centenary of the Casebook, presented by author Alistair Duncan</h4><p>This presentation takes a look at the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and money, beginning with his early career, before moving onto a brief examination of the final series of stories known as the Casebook - this set of stories turns 100 later this year.</p><p><b>June 10 at 7:00 BST</b></p><p>More information / registration: <a href="https://portsmouth.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=100174775 " target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle, money, and the centenary of the Casebook by Alistair Duncan</a> | Portsmouth Library and Archive Service (spydus.co.uk)</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">The Glamourous American—William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, presented by author S.E. Dahlinger</h4><p>At the height of the Great Depression, a Connecticut Yankee in a deerstalker cap trouped America in the Final Tour of a legendary play about a very British detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Tonight’s talk is about the enigmatic actor, his career and his castle, and his role in reviving the Sherlock Holmes franchise to the joy of fans on both sides of the pond.</p><p><b>June 17 at 7:00 pm BST</b></p><p>More information / registration: <a href="https://portsmouth.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=100174768 " target="_blank">S.E. Dahlinger “The Glamourous American—William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes.”</a> | Portsmouth Library and Archive Service (spydus.co.uk)</p><p><br /></p><p>This should be a marvelous series of events. If you can't make it to Portsmouth in person, this is the next best thing.</p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><div id="F97D4EF4_D0FA_3BC9_C88A_107D623BCF22"><div></div></div><div id="1C3D0C7D_ABD9_AA0E_5834_523E2A0BEEB7"></div><div id="6DF6BBFC_5DDA_9461_A5C0_84B63836F22F"><div></div></div><div id="1C3D0C7D_ABD9_AA0E_5834_523E2A0BEEB7"></div><div id="AE660E57_66BF_8AEE_0750_67D6856476DD"><div></div></div><div id="1C3D0C7D_ABD9_AA0E_5834_523E2A0BEEB7"></div>