This is a summary of the lesson Toys of Peace.

1. The Toys of Peace
by
H. H. Munro(SAKI)
Presented
by
Dr Noor Nigar

2. • Born in December 1870 in Burma
(Myanmar)
• Witty British author
• Used SAKI or H.H. as his pen
name
• Was a police officer
• Wrote political satires

3. The Toys of
Peace
The story " The Toys of Peace" was first published in the 1919
anthology of the same title.
It satirizes the campaign by the National Peace Council,
a coordinating committee of anti-war
organization, against violent toys.
It is ironical that the children learn a lot about violence from
their History book.
Children want to play adventurous games with the toy.
Children are resourceful and innovative.

4. Vocabulary
Squadron
Dreadnought
Panoply
Primitive
instinct
Impressionable
• a unit of one of the armed forces
• battleship introduced in the early 20th century,
equipped entirely with large-calibre guns.
• Impressive collection
• Basic
• The way people or animals naturally react or behave
• easily influenced

5. • Grunt
• Disinterred
• Poser
• Skirmish
• Evasively
• Intrigues
• Muzzle
• Façade
• to make a short, low sound
• Unearth or bring out
• a problem or question that
is difficult to solve or answer
• a fight between a small number of soldiers
• In a way that avoids something happening
especially something bad
• a secret plan to harm someone
• the end of a gun barrel
• the front of a building

6. • Dispatch
• Inkerman
• anticipation
• an official report on state or
military affairs.
• Name of a city
• Expectation

7. Characters
Eleanor Bope (Mother of Eric and
Bertie)
Harvey (Eleanor's brother)
Eric (elder son of Eleanor who is not
yet 11 years old)
Bertie(younger son of Eleanor who is
nine-and-a-half years old)

8. Cutting from London morning
paper about children's toys

9. Batteries of guns
Regiments of fighting men
The National Peace Council
Squadrons of Dreadnoughts

10. Why violent toys should
not be given to boys?
• Boys love fighting
• Boys love all the panoply of
wars (collection of war weapons/toys)
• It encourages the primitive instinct of the
children.

11. Exhibition of Peace Toys at Hague
Miniature civilians
No toy soldiers
No Guns
Ploughs Industry tools

12. Inauguration
of the New
Experiment
Eleanor asks Harvey to:
Get peace toys for her children on
Easter
Explain the toys to the boys
Interest them in the new idea of
peace toys

13. Why peace
toys?
Peace toys would give new impulse and
direction to the children's mind.
The children were at a very
impressionable age and the peace toys
would have good impact on their minds.
They would probably love peace and hate
wars.

14. Aunt Susan's
"Siege of
Andrianpole" Toy
The children did not need any explanation for the
toy.
They knew all uniforms and flags.
They even knew the names of the commanders.
Eleanor takes away the toy from the boys because
she heard them use objectionable language which
they said was Bulgarian words of command.

15. Why was
Harvey
doubtful
about the
idea?
Primitive
instinct
Hereditary
tendencies

16. Hereditary Tendencies
Great-uncles fought in
the most intolerant
fashion at Inkerman
Great grandfather
smashed all his Whig
neighbours's house in
protest of the great
Reform Bill.

17. Albanian soldiery
Somali camel-corps

19. Toys that
came out of
the box
Municipal Dustbin
John Stuart Mill (A distinguished civilian and an
authority on political economy)
Model of the Manchester branch of the Young
Women's Christian Association.
Robert Raikes (Founder of Sunday Schools)
Municipal Wash-house
Loaves baked in sanitary bakehouse

20. Toys of
Peace
Sanitary inspector
District Councillor
Official of the Local Government Board
Ballot Box
Tools of Industry (Wheel barrow and a hoe)
Ventilator (for ventilating sewers)
Model of a school of art
Model of Public Library

21. Toys of Peace
Mrs. Hemans (a poetess)
Rowland Hills (introduced
the system of penny postage)
Sir Herschel (eminent
astrologer)

22. John Stuart Mill
1. Municipal Dustbin
Robert Raikes
Municipal wash-house
loaves
Robert Raikes
Municipal wash-house
Sanitary inspector
District Councillor

23. 1. Municipal Dustbin
Eric: Palace of the Mpret of Albania
Bertie: 'Fort'

24. • A lead figure of a man in black clothes .
• John Stuart Mill
An authority in Political Economy

25. • A model of the Manchester branch of the Young
Women's Christian Association
Eric: Are they any lions?

26. • Robert Raikes- Founder of Sunday
Schools

27. loaves
Sanitary inspector
District Councillor
Official of the Local
Government Board

28. Tools of
Industry
• Wheel barrow
• A hoe

29. • Model Beehive
• Ventilator (for ventilating sewers)
• Model of a school of art and library

30. • Mrs. Hemans (a poetess)
• Sir John Herschel (eminent astrologer)
• Rowland Hills (introduced the penny
postage)

31. How to Play with the Toys of Peace?
Free fights
Rotten eggs Broken heads
Bleeding noses All drunk

32. Harvey Explains the formal
process of election
1. Votes are put into the ballot-
box.
2. Mayor counts the votes and
announces the winner.
3. The candidates thank the
mayor.
4. They will say that the
election was conducted in the
pleasantest and most
straightforward manner.
5. They part with expression of
mutual esteem.

33. Children's Holiday
Task
• History: Learn about the "Bourbon
period in France."
• Bourbon- European dynasty of
French origin
• Louis the Fourteenth (the king of
France who rules for 72 yrs, he
was popularly known as the Sun King)
• Principal wars fought during this
period

34. Harvey's
account of
battles
The battles fought during King
Louis were exaggerated and news
was not very reliable because :
They were no war correspondents
Generals and commanders
magnified little skirmish

35. Louis is now famous as a landscape gardener. He laid out Versaillies.

36. Madame Du Barry
• Eric: Was her head chopped off?
• Harvey: She was also a great lover of
gardening.

37. • Is it possible to compile (put
together) history without
mention of battles,
massacres(mass killing),
murderous intrigues and violent
deaths?
• Difficult to remove 30 years of
war.

38. Invention of
Calico Printing
Spanish Armada Battle of Waterloo

39. • Robert Raikes as Louis the
Fourteenth.
• Mrs Hemans as Madame de
Maintenon (Louis's wife).
• Muncipal dustbin has been pierced
with holes to accommodate the
muzzles of imaginery cannons.
• Mrs Hemans as one of the girls in
the YWCA who stabs Saxe.
• Soldiers take revenge and kill
hundreds of girls.
• Bertie empties red ink on the
building.