,,the ,,little ,,review ,literature ,drama ,music ,art ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,,editor ,,march1 #aiad ,a ,letter ,john ,galsworthy #c ,five ,japanese ,prints ,arthur ,davison ,ficke #c ,the ,dark ,flower and the ,moralists ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson #e ,a ,remarkable ,nietzschean ,drama ,de,witt ,c4 ,wing #h ,the ,lost ,joy ,floyd ,dell #aj ,paderewski and the ,new ,gods ,the ,editor #aa ,the ,major ,symphony ,george ,soule #ac ,the ,prophet of a ,new ,culture ,george ,burman ,foster #ad ,how a ,little ,girl ,danced ,nicholas ,vachel ,lindsay #ah ,the ,new ,note ,sherwood ,anderson #bc ,rahel ,varnhagen3 ,feminist ,margery ,currey #be ,tagore as a ,dynamic ,george ,soule #cb ,the ,meaning of ,bergsonism ,llewellyn ,jones #ch ,rupert ,brooke's ,poetry #bi ,ethel ,sidgwick's ,succession #cd ,letters of ,william ,vaughn ,moody #bd ,emerson's ,journals #db ,the ,critics' ,critic #bj ,new ,york ,letter #dc ,,the ,,little ,,review ,fine ,arts ,building ,,chicago ,volume #a ,number #a ,copyright1 #aiad1 by ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson #be cents a copy #b4ej a year ,,the ,,little ,,review ,,march1 #aiad ,announcement ,the realm of art is prodigious2 next to life itself the vastest realm of man's experience4 ,appreciation has its outlet in art2 and art 7to complete the circle and the figure7 has its source in--owes its whole current--to appreciation4 ,that is1 the tides of art would cease to ebb and flow were it not for the sun and moon of appreciation4 ,this function of the sun and moon is known as criticism4 ,but criticism as an art has not flourished in this country4 ,we live too swiftly to have time to be appreciative2 and criticism1 after all1 has only one synonym3 appreciation4 ,in a world whose high splendor is our chief preoccupation the quality of our appreciation is the important thing4 ,life is a glorious performance3 quite apart from its setting1 in spite of the kind of part one gets1 everybody is given at least his chance to act4 ,we may do our simple best with the roles we receive2 we may change our lines if we're inventive enough to think of something better2 we may alter our business to get our personalities across more effectively2 or we may boldly accost the stage manager1 hand back the part he'd cast us for1 and prove our right to be starred4 ,the player who merely holds madame's cloak may do it with dignity and grace2 and he who changes his role1 with a fine freedom and courage1 discovers that he's not acting but living his part6 ,for this reason we feel that we needn't be accused of an unthinking all's-right-with-the-world attitude when we assert that life is glorious4 ,and close to ,life--so close1 from our point of view1 that it keeps treading on ,life's heels--is this eager1 panting ,art who shows us the wonder of the way as we rush along4 ,we may as well acknowledge right here that we've never had a friend 7except in one or two rare instances7 who hasn't shaken his head at us paternally about this attitude toward art4 ,it's purely transitional1 he says1 tolerantly2 life is so much more interesting1 you see1 that you're bound to substitute people for art1 eventually4 ,it really doesn't matter so much that ,alice ,meynell wrote ',renouncement' as that ,mrs4 ,jones next door has left her husband4 ,well1 he's wrong2 at least1 he can't speak for us4 ,wells said to save the kitten and let the ,mona ,lisa burn2 who would consider anything else8 ,we think it's rather silly in our paternal friend to argue with us so heatedly--beside the point6 ,it's not a question as to which is more important--,renouncement or ,mrs4 ,jones4 ,we're merely trying to say that we're intensely interested in ,mrs4 ,jones1 but that ,mrs4 ,meynell has made our lives more wonderful--permanently4 ,,the ,,little ,,review means to reflect this attitude toward life and art4 ,its ambitious aim is to produce criticism of books1 music1 art1 drama1 and life that shall be fresh and constructive1 and intelligent from the artist's point of view4 ,for the instinct of the artist to distrust criticism is as well founded as the mother's toward the sterile woman4 ,more so1 perhaps2 for all women have some sort of instinct for motherhood1 and all critics haven't an instinct for art4 ,criticism that is creative--that is our high goal4 ,and criticism is never a merely interpretative function2 it is creation3 it gives birth6 ,it's not necessary to cite the time-worn illustration of ,da ,vinci and ,pater to prove it4 ,books register the ideas of an age2 this is perhaps their chief claim to immortality4 ,but much that passes for criticism ignores this aspect of the case and deals merely with a question of literary values4 ,to be really interpretative--let alone creative--criticism must be a blend of philosophy and poetry4 ,we shall try very hard to achieve this difficult combination4 ,also1 we mean to print articles1 poems1 stories that seem to us definitely interesting1 or--to use a much-abused adjective--vital4 ,our point of view shall not be restrictive2 we may present the several judgments of our various enthusiastic contributors on one subject in the same issue4 ,the net effect we hope will be stimulating and what we like to call releasing4 ,feminism8 ,a clear-thinking magazine can have only one attitude2 the degree of ours is ardent6 ,finally1 since ,,the ,,little ,,review1 which is neither directly nor indirectly connected in any way with any organization1 society1 company1 cult or movement1 is the personal enterprise of the editor1 it shall enjoy that untrammelled liberty which is the life of ,art4 ,and now that we've made our formal bow we may say confidentially that we take a certain joyous pride in confessing our youth1 our perfectly inexpressible enthusiasm1 and our courage in the face of a serious undertaking2 for those qualities mean freshness1 reverence1 and victory6 ,at least we have got to the age when we realize that all beautiful things make a place for themselves sooner or later in the world4 ,and we hope to be very beautiful6 ,if you've ever read poetry with a feeling that it was your religion1 your very life2 if you've ever come suddenly upon the whiteness of a ,venus in a dim1 deep room2 if you've ever felt music replacing your shabby soul with a new one of shining gold2 if1 in the early morning1 you've watched a bird with great white wings fly from the edge of the sea straight up into the rose-colored sun--if these things have happened to you and continue to happen till you're left quite speechless with the wonder of it all1 then you'll understand our hope to bring them nearer to the common experience of the people who read us4 ,the more ,i see of academicism1 the more ,i distrust it4 ,if ,i had approached painting as ,i have approached book-writing and music1 that is to say1 by beginning at once to do what ,i wanted 444 ,i should have been all right4--,the ,note-,books of ,samuel ,butler4 ,poetry is in ,nature just as much as carbon is4--,emerson's ,journals 7#ahef-ahfc74 ,life is like music2 it must be composed by ear1 feeling and instinct1 not by rule4--,the ,note-,books of ,samuel ,butler4 ,a ,letter from ,galsworthy ,written from ,taormina1 ,february #bc1 #aiad4 ,,my ,,dear ,,madam3 ,you ask me to bid your magazine good speed2 and so far as ,i have any right1 ,i do indeed4 ,it seems you are setting out to watch the street of ,life from a high balcony1 where at all events the air should be fresh and sunrise sometimes visible4 ,i hope you will decide to sleep out there under the stars1 for what kills most literary effort is the hothouse air of temples1 clubs1 and coteries1 that1 never changed1 breeds in us by turn febrility and torpor4 ,enthusiasms are more convincing from those who have not told their loves too often4 ,and criticism more poignant from one who has been up at dawn1 seen for himself and put down his impression before he goes on ',change4 ,there is a saying of de ,maupassant about a writer sitting down before an object until he has seen it in the way that he alone can see it1 seen it with the part of him which makes him ,this man and not ,that4 ,for the creative artist and the creative critic there is no rule1 ,i think1 so golden4 ,and ,i did seem to notice in ,america that there was a good deal of space and not much time2 and that without too much danger of becoming ,yogis people might perhaps sit down a little longer in front of things than they seemed to do4 ,but ,i noticed too a great energy and hope4 ,these will be your servants to carry through what will not1 surely1 be just an exploit or adventure1 but a true and long comradeship with effort that is worth befriending4 ,so all good fortune6 ,very faithfully yours1 ,,john ,,galsworthy4 ,five ,japanese ,prints ,,arthur ,,davison ,,ficke ,i ,,kiyonobu ,,speaks ,the actor on his little stage ,struts with a mimic rage4-- ,across my page ,my passion in his form shall tower from age to age4 ,what he so crudely dreams ,in vague and fitful gleams1 ,the crowd esteems4-- ,well6 let the future judge1 if his or mine this seems-- ,this calm ,titanic mould ,stalking in colours bold ,fold upon fold-- ,this lord of dark1 this dream ,i dreamed of old6 ,,ii ,,figure ,,by ,,okumura ,,masanobu ,garbed in flowing folds of light1 ,azure1 emerald1 rose1 and white1 ,watchest thou across the night4 ,crowned with splendor is thine head3 ,all the princes great and dead ,round thy limbs their state have shed-- ,calm1 immutable to stand-- ,gracious head and poisd hand-- ,o'er the years that flow like sand4 ,,iii ,,pillar-,,print ,,by ,,kiyomitsu ,a place for giant heads to take their rest ,seems her pale breast4 ,her sweeping robe trails like the cloud and wind ,storms leave behind4 ,the ice of the year1 and its ,aprilian part1 ,sleep in her heart4 ,wherefore1 small marvel that her footsteps be ,like strides of ,destiny6 ,,iv ,,pillar-,,print ,,by ,,toyonobu ,o lady of the long robes1 the slow folds flowing-- ,lady of the white breast1 the dark and lofty head-- ,dwells there any wonder1 the way that thou art going-- ,or goest thou toward the dead8 ,so calm thy solemn steps1 so slow the long lines sweeping ,of garments pale and ghostly1 of limbs as grave as sleep-- ,i know not if thou1 spectre1 hast love or death in keeping1 ,or goest toward which deep4 ,thou layest thy robes aside with gesture large and flowing-- ,is it for love or sleep--is it for life or death8 ,i would my feet might follow the path that thou art going1 ,and thy breath be my breath4 ,v ,,pillar-,,print ,,by ,,harunobu ,from an infinite distance1 the ghostly music6 ,few and slender the tones1 of delicate silver1 ,as stars are broidered on the veil of evening4444 ,he passes by1 the flute and the dreaming player-- ,slow are his steps1 his eyes are gravely downcast2 ,his pale robes sway in long folds with his passing4 ,out of the infinite distance1 a ghostly music ,returns--in slender tones of delicate silver1 ,as stars are broidered on the veil of evening4 ,the ,dark ,flower and the ,moralists ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,the ,dark ,flower1 by ,john ,galsworthy4 7,charles ,scribner's ,sons1 ,new ,york47 ,a book that has beauty as it's given to few books to achieve it has been the innocent cause of more ignorant1 nave1 and stupid condemnation than anything published for a long time4 ,even the ,english critics--who usually avoid these shallows--in several cases hit the rocks with awful force4 ,and all because a man with the soul of the old gods chose to tell1 quite simply and with inexpressible beauty1 the truth about an artist4 ,the ,dark ,flower was everybody's opportunity to deepen his vision1 but nearly everybody decided to look upon it as an emotional redundancy4 ,perhaps this doesn't do some of them justice3 ,i believe a good many of them considered it positively dangerous6 ,my quite spontaneous tribute to ,galsworthy's ,mark ,lennan--before ,i'd heard anyone discuss him--was that here was a man a woman would be glad to trust her soul to4 ,and1 in view of how silly it is for a woman to trust her soul to anyone but herself1 ,i still insisted that one could do it with ,mark ,lennan3 because he'd not take charge of anyone's soul6--his wife's least of all4 ,of course1 to love a man of his sort would mean unhappiness2 but women who face life with any show of bravery face unhappiness as part of the day's work4 ,it remains to decide whether one will reach high and break a bone or two over something worth having1 or play safe and take a pale joy in one's unscarred condition4 ,with ,mark ,lennan a woman would have had-- la ,browning--her perfect moment2 and such things are rare enough to pay well for1 if necessary4 ,all of which is making a very personal issue of ,the ,dark ,flower2 but it's the kind of book you've got to be personal about2 you revise your list of friends on a basis of their attitude toward ,galsworthy4 ,after ,i'd finished ,the ,dark ,flower--and it had never occurred to my nave mind that anyone would disagree with me about it--various persons began to tell me how wrong ,i was4 ,mark ,lennan was a cad and a weakling--decidedly the kind of person to be kept out of a good novel4 ,the very beauty of the book made it insidious1 someone said2 such art expended in defense of immorality would soon tend to confuse our standards4 ,someone else remarked patronizingly3 ,oh1 ,the ,dark ,flower may be well done and all that1 but personally ,i've always had a passion for the normal6 ,but1 most maddening of all1 ,i think1 were those readers of thrillers1 of sweet1 sentimental stories--those persons who patronize comic opera exclusively because they see enough tragedy in life to avoid it in the theater--who asked earnestly3 ,but1 after all1 what's the use of such books8 ,what possible good do they do8 ,on another page of this review such questions are answered with a poignancy ,i dare not compete with4 ,i want to try1 instead1 to tell why ,the ,dark ,flower seems to me an altogether extraordinary piece of work4 ,in the first place1 constructively4 ,the story covers three episodes of a man's love life3 ,spring1 with its awakening2 ,summer1 with its deep passion2 and ,autumn1 with its desperate longing for another ,spring4 ,but the handling of the episodes is so unepisodic that you feel you've been given the man's whole life1 day by day1 from ,oxford to that final going down the years--sans youth1 sans spring1 sans beauty1 sans passion2 sans everything save that faint1 glimmering light--far out there beyond4444 ,this effect of completeness is achieved1 ,i think1 by the remarkable intensity of the writing1 by the clever 7and by no means easy7 method of sometimes allowing the characters the author's prerogative of addressing the audience directly4 ,highly subjective in everything that he does1 ,galsworthy has reached a climax of subjectivity here3 ,the ,dark ,flower is as personal in its medium as music4 ,in the second place--the great matter of style4 ,every page shows the very poetry of prose writing2 there's an inevitability about its choice of beautiful and simple words that makes them seem a part of the nature they describe4 ,for instance1 to choose at random from a multitude of exquisite things3 444 under the stars of this warm ,southern night1 burning its incense of trees and flowers2 or1 ,and he sat for a long time that evening under a large lime-tree on a knoll above the ,serpentine4 ,there was very little breeze1 just enough to keep alive a kind of whispering4 ,what if men and women1 when they had lived their gusty lives1 became trees6 ,what if someone who had burned and ached were now spreading over him this leafy peace--this blue-black shadow against the stars8 ,or were the stars1 perhaps1 the souls of men and women escaped for ever from love and longing8 444 ,if only for a moment he could desert his own heart1 and rest with the trees and stars6 ,with a single clause like for ever part of the stillness and the passion of a summer night ,galsworthy gets effects that some poets need three or four verses for4 ,in one place he defines for all time a ,chopin mazurka as a little dancing dirge of summer2 in another gives you with one stroke an impression of his hero that it's impossible to forget3 ,he looks as if he were seeing sands and lions4 ,in the third place1 ,galsworthy's psychology is profound--impregnable4 ,one simple characterization will serve to illustrate3 he describes a man's face as having the candour of one at heart a child--that simple candour of those who have never known how to seek adventures of the mind1 and have always sought adventures of the body4 ,as to the lesson of ,the ,dark ,flower--its philosophy1 its moral--,i can only say that it hasn't any such thing2 that is1 while it's full to the brim of philosophy1 it doesn't attempt to force a philosophy upon you4 ,it offers you the truth about a human being and lets it go at that--which seems to be the manner of not a few who have written greatly4 ,for the other sort of thing1 go to any second-rate novelist you happen to admire2 he'll give you characters who have a hard time of it and tell you just where they're right and where they're wrong4 ,i can see how you feel you're getting more for your money4 ,i can't help feeling that everything ,galsworthy has done has had its special function in making ,the ,dark ,flower possible4 ,the sociology of ,fraternity1 the passionate pleading of ,justice and ,strife1 the incomparable emotional experiments of ,a ,commentary1 the intellectuality of ,the ,patrician--all these have contributed to the noble simplicities and the noble beauty of ,the ,dark ,flower4 ,the ,garden ,my heart shall be thy garden4 ,come1 my own1 ,into thy garden2 thine be happy hours ,among my fairest thoughts1 my tallest flowers1 ,from root to crowning petal thine alone4 ,thine is the place from where the seeds are sown ,up to the sky enclosed1 with all its showers4 ,but ah1 the birds1 the birds6 ,who shall build bowers ,to keep these thine8 ,o friend1 the birds have flown4 ,for as these come and go1 and quit our pine ,to follow the sweet season1 or1 new-comers1 ,sing one song only from our alder-trees1 ,my heart has thoughts1 which1 though thine eyes hold mine1 ,flit to the silent world and other summers1 ,with wings that dip beyond the silver seas4 --,alice ,meynell's ,poems4 7,charles ,scribner's ,sons47 ,a ,remarkable ,nietzschean ,drama ,,dewitt ,c4 ,,wing ,mr4 ,faust1 by ,arthur ,davison ,ficke4 7,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york47 ,have you thought there could be but a single ,supreme8 ,there can be any number of ,supremes4--,whitman4 ,mr4 ,faust is the embodiment of the ,nietzschean attitude toward the universe4 ,this characterization consciously ignores the legendary ,faust of ,goethe as having no vital kinship with his namesake4 ,there is of course a skeletal likeness one to the other1 but the hero in ,mr4 ,ficke's drama is incarnated with modern flesh and endued with a supreme will4 ,his unconquerable spirit is not that of ,goethe's ,faust but of ,friedrich ,nietzsche4 ,incidentally and singularly it is the spirit of ,whitman4 ,and these two men1 more than any other two or twenty in the realm of literature1 represent the undying god ,pan1 or the spirit of ,youth4 ,nietzsche and ,whitman are the understanding comrades of the young-hearted and open-minded4 ,mr4 ,faust's creator may have no conscious knowledge of ,whitman's poetry1 which is a matter of no moment1 but he has read ,nietzsche1 and that is momentous--indispensable--in relation to this splendid result of white-heat intellection4 ,i say intellection because ,mr4 ,faust is not so much a work of art as a remarkable example of reproduction4 ,i know that1 although the thought and feeling of the work rise in places to the power of an inspiration wholly personal to the author1 never ,thus ,spake ,zarathustra4 ,for that is an original1 authentic voice which1 like everything else in nature1 has no substitute or duplicate4 ,i can fancy a strong1 healthy1 organically cultured young man1 just beginning to feel his way into the realities that lie outside the ,american cornbelt1 by chance taking a peep into one of ,nietzsche's great books1 and1 fascinated and quickened by that marvelously contagious god1 leaping to new heights of his own manhood4 ,i should guess that in this instance the young man1 who happens to be a lawyer1 thirty-one years old1 living at ,davenport1 ,ia41 was temporarily ,christianized by bad luck1 illness or something of the sort1 and in this extremity1 kicked by ,nietzsche1 experienced the feeling of personal adequacy to which ,mr4 ,faust gives utterance4 ,recovering himself1 he avowed his own godhood1 even to the last ditch6 ,and that is the triumphant ,youth--the ,nietzsche--of the thing4 ,a day or two subsequent to the appearance of ,mr4 ,ficke's book upon the market ,i had the pleasure of hearing it read1 with well-nigh perfect sympathy and appreciation1 by the foremost ,nietzschean expositor in this country4 ,like other listeners ,i was amazed1 charmed and aroused4 ,were these results referable to the play alone or in part to the reader1 or to both8 ,to what extent1 ,i was compelled to ask1 was the effect illusory or hypnotic8 ,i had read some of ,ficke's verse1 which had given no intimation of anything in its author so heroically ,nietzschean as ,mr4 ,faust4 ,i had consequently tabbed ,ficke as probably a poetic possibility1 provided he lived a dozen years in an involuntary hell1 undergoing a new birth4 ,entertaining the doubts indicated by my questions1 ,i read ,mr4 ,faust to myself1 trying it in my fashion by the trees1 the stars and the lake4 ,subjected to this test the play did not have the ring and lift which ,i had heard and felt when it was read--perhaps ,i should say given an added vitality--by a ,nietzschean philosopher4 ,it now impressed me as an extraordinary tour de force1 reaching in some of its passages a species of accidental trans-,nietzscheanism4 ,written in blank verse1 the superior quality of which is admirably sustained1 the style of the drama is undeniably poetical1 as ,edwin ,bjrkman1 the editor of ,mr4 ,kennerley's ,modern ,drama ,series1 states in an interesting biographical sketch2 but where there is so much consciousness of workmanship--so much preoccupation with an imported idea instead of sweeping control by an inner1 personal urge like that1 for example1 which produced ,thus ,spake ,zarathustra--poetry is not to be expected4 ,what surprises me is that1 despite this restriction1 ,mr4 ,ficke strides upward in many lines to the borderland of the gods4 ,in the first three acts he writes as one possessed--as an intellectualist furiously interested in ,americanizing1 if you please1 the racial implications of the philosophy of a superhumanity which will always be associated with the name of his temporary master1 ,nietzsche4 ,in these acts there is a deal of amazing revealment of insight2 of aspiration for transcendent goals2 of the spiritual insatiability of man4 ,and there is a cold humor4 ,underneath the whole thing lies its own by-product3 social dynamite6 ,i think that ,mr4 ,ficke finished his play in three acts1 but he added two more--to make it five1 ,i was about to say1 but in the fifth he achieves a measurable justification1 for the last sentence1 ,touch me across the dusk1 is poetry--the wonderful words of the dying ,faust1 addressed to ,midge1 the only person who understood him4 ,near the middle of the opening act1 ,faust1 roused by an inquiring mind to an analytical protest against things as they are1 says1 444 ,i would go ,out to some golden sun-lighted land ,of silence4 ,that is poetical2 it is cosmic in its feeling4 ,looking at a bust of ,washington1 he enviously--no1 compassionately--remarks1 444 ,not a star ,in all the vaults of heaven could trouble you ,with whisperings of more transcendent goals4 ,at this juncture ,satan appears1 gains recognition by recalling an incident involving ,faust with a blackmailing woman in a college during his youth1 and thereafter tempts him into empty1 unsatisfying paradises4 ,in his wandering and winding pilgrimage through the world ,faust makes the footprints that we recognize as those of our own humanity1 seeking its way--somewhither4 ,he is offered but rejects peace1 happiness1 salvation and all the rest of their related consolations1 knowing that none of them could satisfy his restless heart4 ,to his uncomprehending friends he is lost1 and ,satan himself1 to whom in such circumstances he is obviously resigned by society1 fails to claim him4 ,but ,midge1 the heroine1 knew him2 she could touch him across the dusk1 which was his kind of immortality4 ,and so ,faust1 with a vague consciousness of his own godhood1 a sense of his own supremacy1 an unshakable faith in one thing--himself--passed from the earthly freedom of his will into the great release4 ,it is altogether too early in the morning of humanity to expect to see this play or one like it on the stage4 ,that it should be written by a young ,american and published by a young ,englishman is enough to satisfy those who would enjoy its presentation1 and those to whom it would be ,greek or unpleasant1 whether they saw it or read it1 must wait for its truth through their children--across the dusk6 ,the ,lost ,joy ,,floyd ,,dell ,there was once a lady 7,i forget her name7 who said that love was for women one of the most important things in the world4 ,she made the remark and let it go at that4 ,she did not write a book about it4 ,if she had considered it necessary she would doubtless have written such a book4 ,consider the possibility--a book entitled ,woman and ,love1 a book proving with logic and eloquence that woman ought to love1 and that1 unless she loved1 the highest self-development was impossible to her and to the race6 ,it is not entirely absurd4 ,such a book might have been necessary4 ,if half of all womankind1 through some change in our social and ethical arrangements1 refrained from love as something at once disagreeable and ungenteel1 and if the other half loved under conditions disastrous to health and spirit1 then there might have been need for a book preaching to women the gospel of love4 ,it would have been time to urge that1 hateful as the conditions might be1 love was for women1 nevertheless1 a good thing1 a fine thing1 a wonderful and necessary thing4 ,it would have been time to break down the prejudice which made one-half of womankind lead incomplete and futile lives1 and to raise love itself to its proper dignity4 ,well1 we are in a condition like that today1 only it is not love1 it is work that has lost its dignity in the lives of women4 ,it is not love1 it is work from which one-half of womankind refrains as from something at once disagreeable and ungenteel1 while the other half of womankind performs it under conditions disastrous to health and spirit4 ,there is need today for a book preaching to women the gospel of work4 ,it is time to break down the prejudice which makes one-half of womankind lead incomplete and futile1 because idle1 lives4 ,we need a book to show women what work should mean to them4 ,and1 curiously enough1 the book exists4 ,it is ,olive ,schreiner's ,woman and ,labor4 ,it is a wise book and a beautiful book4 ,there are statistics in it1 but there is eloquence flaming on every page4 ,it is a book of the joy and the significance of work for women4 ,when ,olive ,schreiner says work1 she means it4 ,she does not refer to the makeshifts which masquerade under the term of social usefulness4 ,she means work done with the hands and the brain1 work done for money1 work that sets the individual free from dependence on any other individual4 ,it is a theme worth all her eloquence4 ,for work and love1 and not either of them alone1 are the most important things in the world--the supremest expressions of individual life4 ,h4 ,g4 ,wells on ,america ,i came to ,america balancing between hope and skepticism4 ,the ,european world is full of the criticism of ,america2 and1 for the matter of that1 ,america1 too1 is full of it2 hostility and depreciation prevail--overmuch2 for1 in spite of rawness and vehemence and a scum of blatant1 oh6 quite asinine1 folly1 the ,united ,states of ,america remains the greatest country in the world and the living hope of mankind4 ,it is the supreme break with the old tradition2 it is the freshest and most valiant beginning that has ever been made in human life4--,the ,passionate ,friends4 ,paderewski and the ,new ,gods ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,i shall keep always1 as my most unforgettable memory1 the thought of a certain afternoon during ,paderewski's tour this year when he walked quietly back across the stage1 in response to an encore1 and played ,schumann's ,warum4 ,it was somehow heart-breaking4 ,it was a more poignant questioning to me1 than ,arnold's unquenched1 deep-sunken1 old-world pain-- ,say1 will it never heal8 ,nothing that ,i have ever heard or seen has given me so vivid a sense of being in the presence of an art that is immortal4 ,it seems to have become hideously popular to love ,paderewski4 ,the critics will tell you that it's only done in ,america2 that ,europeans have any number of idols they put before him2 and that we who persist in calling him the greatest are simply under the spell of an old hypnotism4 ,there was a time1 they'll concede1 when he came like a conqueror1 royally deserving the flowers we strewed4 ,but now--there's ,bauer1 there's ,godowsky1 and ,hofman1 and ,gans1 and ,busoni6 ,one local critic has even gone to the length of saying that since the ,american public has sat at the feet of these men and learned sanity in piano playing it has no enthusiasm for ,paderewski's neurotic1 disordered1 incoherent music--his woeful exaggerations of sentiment and hysterical rhapsody4 ,i should say some unpublishable things to that critic if we should ever discuss the subject4 ,the three most interesting human faces ,i know are ,forbes-,robertson's1 ,kreisler's1 and ,paderewski's4 ,in the ,english actor's there is a meeting of strength and spirituality 7not the anmic spirituality of certain new cults1 but a quality of soul that makes him a prince1 a philosopher1 a lover1 a soldier1 a sad humorist1 all in the limits of one personality7 that means utter nobility4 ,it can be as cold as a graven image1 or as hot with feeling as a poet's4 ,depth upon depth of subtlety plays across it--not the hypnotic subtlety of the ,orientalist1 but the austere subtlety of an ,english scholar and a great gentleman4 ,in ,kreisler's there is a meeting of strength and sensuousness that means utter fascination to the artist who would paint him--utter revealment to the musician who would analyze his art4 ,for the secret of ,kreisler's personality and his music lies in that finely balanced combination of qualities3 a sensuousness that would be a little overpowering1 a little drugging1 without the gigantic strength that seems to hold it in leash4 ,that balance makes possible his little air of military jauntiness1 of sad ,vienna gayety2 it gives him that huge effect of power that always makes me feel ,i'm watching the king of the forest stride through his kingdom4 ,you need never expect emotionalism from this musician2 he's too strong to give you anything but passion4 ,in ,paderewski's face there is a meeting of strength and two other predominant qualities3 sentience1 ,i think1 and suffering4 ,it's difficult to express his great1 interesting head in a series of nouns2 but there are some that come near to it3 mystery1 melancholy1 weariness1 a sort of shattering sorrow2 always the sense of struggle and pain1 and always the final releasement--in music4 ,for while you can conceive a ,forbes-,robertson away from the stage1 and a ,kreisler apart from his violin1 you can never for a moment think of ,paderewski without his piano4 ,not that he's less of a man1 but that he's the most sensitized human instrument that ever dedicated itself to an art4 ,to resort to the most overworked phrase in the language1 ,paderewski has a temperament4 ,somebody has said that no fat person ever possessed one2 and after you've speculated about this till you begin to wonder what temperament really is1 you can come back to ,paderewski as the most adequate illustration4 ,ysaye is the best example ,i know of the opposite4 ,when strength turns to fat 444 well1 we'll not go into that2 but to make my point--and there's certainly nothing of personal maliciousness in it--it's necessary to reflect that obesity has some insidious influence upon artistic utterance4 7,schumann-,heink is an artist in the best meaning of the word2 but no one ever talked of her and temperament in the same breath1 so she doesn't negate the issue47 ,but ,ysaye's tepid1 wingless1 uninspired music--his utterly sweet but fat music--that appears to attract thousands of people1 is as lazily inadequate as its creator would be in a marathon4 ,it's as though his vision had dropped slowly away with every added pound of avoirdupois4 ,or perhaps it's because vision has a fashion of dropping away with age4444 ,ah6--but ,paderewski has the years1 too1 now1 and his playing is as virile1 as flaming1 as it ever was4 ,an artist--with a temperament--doesn't get old1 any more than ,peter ,pan does4 ,paderewski's furrowed face shows the artist's eternal striving2 his music shows his eternal youth1 his faithfulness to the vision that furnishes his answer to the eternal ,warum8 ,this is the secret of ,paderewski's white magic4 ,he's still the supreme god6 ,bauer plays perfectly within the rules--exquisitely and powerfully--and misses the top height by the mere fraction of a mood1 the simple lack of a temperament2 or1 as ,o4 ,henry might have explained it1 by the unfortunate encumbrance of a forty-two-inch belt4 ,hofman has an impatience with his medium1 apparently1 that leaves his hearer unsatisfied with the piano2 while ,paderewski1 though he transcends the instrument1 does so because of his love for the piano as a medium1 and forces his hearer to agree with him that it's the supreme one4 ,godowsky forces things into the piano--pushes them in and makes them stay there2 ,paderewski draws things out1 always1 and fills the world with them4 ,i can think of no comparison from which he doesn't emerge unscathed4 ,if ,i were a musical reactionary1 this judgment would have no value here2 but ,i'm not4 ,classical perfection is no longer interesting2 ,beethoven seems no longer to comprehend all music--in fact1 the people who have no rebellions about the sterility of the old symphonies are quite beyond my range of understanding4 ,but ,paderewski plays the old music in a new way1 gives it such vitality of meaning that you feel it's just been born--or1 better1 perhaps1 that its composers have been triumphantly revalued1 rejustified in their claim for eternal life4 ,his ,beethoven is as full of color as his ,chopin2 and who1 by the way1 ever started the popular nonsense about ,de ,pachmann or anyone else being the supreme ,chopin exponent8 ,no one has ever played ,chopin like ,paderewski2 no one has ever made such simple1 haunting melodies of the nocturnes2 no one has ever struck such ringing ,polish music out of the polonaises1 or such wind-swept cadences from the ,berceuse2 no one has ever played the ,funeral ,march so like a cosmic procession--the mighty moving of humanity from birth to death and new life2 no one has ever so visualized those orchestras of butterflies that played to ,chopin in the sun4 ,i have still one great wish in the world3 that some time ,i may hear ,paderewski play on a ,mason and ,hamlin--that piano of unutterable depth and richness4 ,the fact that he's never used it is the one flaw in his performances1 for no other instrument that ,i've heard gives you the same sense of drowning in great waves of warm sound4 ,the combination would convince even the followers of the new gods4 ,but1 old or new1 and even on his cold ,steinway1 no one has ever drawn from the piano the same quality of golden tone or dared such simplicity of singing as ,paderewski4 ,to put his genius into a sentence3 no one has ever built so strong a bridge across the gulf that yawns between vision and accomplishment4 ,the ,major ,symphony ,,george ,,soule ,round splendor of the harp's entond gold ,throbbing beneath the pleading violins-- ,that hundred-choiring voice that wins and wins ,to over-filling song2 the bright and bold ,clamor of trumpets2 'cellos that enfold ,richly the flutes2 and basses that like djinns ,thunder their clumsy threatening1 as begins ,the oboe's mystic plaint of sorrows old3-- ,are these the symphony8 ,no1 it is will ,in passion striving to surmount the world1 ,growing in sensuous dalliance1 sudden whirled ,to ecstasies of shivering joy1 and still ,marching and mastering1 singing mightily1 ,consummate when the silence makes it free4 ,the ,prophet of a ,new ,culture ,,george ,,burman ,,foster ,a profound unrest tortures the heart of the modern man4 ,the world1 slaughtering the innocents1 is meaningless2 life1 bruised and bewildered1 is worthless--such is the melancholy mood of modernity4 ,today life is a burden to many to whom it was once a joy4 ,decadents1 they call themselves1 who rediscover the elements of their most personal life in everything that is weary and ailing4 ,we are all more or less infected with this weariness and ennui4 ,the blows which the spirit experiences from opposing sides today are so powerful that no one is in a position to endure them with equanimity4 ,the forces resident within the soul no longer suffice to give support and stability to life4 ,hence our culture has lost faith in itself4 ,our civilization is played out4 ,what the ,germans call ,weltschmerz has come over us4 ,philosophers have fashioned it into systems2 singers1 into song--the sad but not sweet music of humanity2 sufferers all1 into a sharp cry for redemption4 ,deniers of the malady must have their eyes opened by physicians1 scurrying around curatively in this humanity4 ,first of all1 there are those who borrow their panacea from religion4 ,they demand a reform of the ecclesiastical life according to the sense and spirit of primitive ,christianity4 ,they propose to recover the religion of ,jesus1 and to find in it healing for all the diseases of the times4 ,but this remedy is so complicated that it reveals rather than heals the whole disunity and distraction of our present life4 ,it was ,tolstoi1 in garb of desert prophet1 who would restore original ,christianity4 ,he preached a radical reversal of our cultural life--a monastic asceticism1 a warfare against all life's impulses1 on whose development our culture is founded4 ,and ecclesiastical liberals would do virtually the same thing when they try to extract from the religion of ,jesus a food that shall be palatable to modern taste1 and then call their ragout1 compounded according to their own recipe1 original ,christianity4 ,there are other voices1 noisier and more numerous4 ,these hold ,christianity in all its forms to be the hereditary evil of humanity1 and see the salvation of the world only in a purification of life from every ,christian memory4 ,owing to the brisk international interchange of ideas today1 ,buddhism has awakened a momentary hope1 as if from the religion of far-off ,india a purer spiritual atmosphere might be wafted to us1 in which we could convalesce from the ,christian malady4 ,now1 what shall we say of all these strivings to heal the hurt of the modern mind8 ,all of them have one adverse thing in common3 ,they would tear up an old tree by its roots1 and put in its place another tree equally as old and equally as rotten4 ,there is something reactionary in all of them4 ,they want to cure the present by the past4 ,it is precisely this that cannot be done4 ,if ,christianity was once original1 spontaneous1 creative1 it is so no more4 ,we cannot lead an age back to ,jesus1 which has grown out beyond him4 ,and the ,buddha-religion is no more youthful and life-giving than the ,jesus-religion4 ,it is indicative of the depth of the disgust and the extent of the confusion on the part of the man of today that such a hoary thing as ,buddhism can make so great an impression upon him4 ,a revived1 renascent heathenism1 even as compared with ,christianity1 would mean a reactionary and outlived form of life4 ,that men of moral endeavor and scientific vision could hope for a substitute for ,christianity1 a conquest over ,christianity1 in a rebirth of paganism1 is a new riddle of the ,sphinx4 ,one way only remains out of the aberration and dividedness of our present life3 not backward1 but forward6 ,no winning of a religious view of the world in any other way6 ,no pursuit of the tasks of the moral life by those who seek a real part and place in the modern world1 in any other way6 ,hence1 a man is coming to be leader--a man who1 as no other1 embodies in himself all the pain and all the pleasure1 all the sickness and all the convalescence1 all the age and all the youth1 of our tumultuous and tortured times3 ,friedrich ,nietzsche6 ,i do not know how many of you know the poet of ,zarathustra4 ,but if you do not know him1 if you have never even heard his name1 yet you do know him1 for a part of him is in your own heart and hope4 ,if you have ever thought seriously about yourself1 if you have even tried to think seriously about yourself1 you have taken up into yourself a part of ,nietzsche as you have so thought4 ,even without your knowledge or intention1 you have passed into the world of thought for which the name of ,nietzsche stands4 ,it has been only now and then1 in quite significant turning points in human history1 and only in the case of the rarest of men1 that such an influence has gone forth as from this man4 ,once in the horizon of his power1 and you are held there as by magic4 ,and yet not in centuries has a name been so reviled and blasphemed as his4 ,anathematized from the pulpit1 ridiculed from the stage1 demolished by any champion of blatant and blind bourgeoisie1 refuted regularly by pedants1 he is still ,friedrich ,nietzsche1 and1 unlike most preachers1 his congregation grows from year to year4 ,newspapers1 always sensitive to the pulse-beat of mediocrity1 tell us that the man is dead2 that he belongs to the past2 that he is already forgotten4 ,but he is more alive1 now that he is dead1 than he was when he was living4 ,dead in the flesh1 he is alive in the spirit1 as is so often the case4 ,superficial misunderstandings1 transient externals1 regrettable excrescences--these were interred with his bones4 ,the real and true ,nietzsche lives1 and has the keys of death and of hell4 ,who has the youth has the future--and this is why the future belongs to ,nietzsche2 for no contemporary so gathers the youth under his shining banner4 ,and it is because the moral seething of our time1 our struggle with questions of the moral life1 are recapitulated and epitomized in ,nietzsche1 that he stands out1 like an ,alpine apocalypse1 as the new prophet of our new day4 ,the mysterious need of a man to find himself in another1 another in himself1 as deep calls unto deep or star shines unto star1 is met in the resources of the great personality of ,nietzsche4 ,the new day whose billows bear us afar began with doubt4 ,first1 a doubt of the ,church and its divine authority4 ,a violent1 devastating storm swept over popular life4 ,the storm was speedily exorcised4 ,again-- ,the sea of faith ,was once1 too1 at the full1 and round earth's shore ,lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled4 ,a new faith emerged from the old doubt1 like sweet waters in a bitter sea1 and kept man a living soul4 ,the sea is calm tonight2 ,the tide is full4 ,but the calm proves to be treacherous4 ,the tide of the new faith now in the bible1 and in the doctrine derived from the bible1 went back to sea1 and now ,i only hear ,its melancholy1 long1 withdrawing roar1 ,retreating to the breath ,of the night-wind down the vast edges drear ,and naked shingles of the world4 ,the human spirit urged a new1 mightier protest against the ,it is written1 which was said to put an end to all doubt4 ,the new doubt1 as free inquiry1 as protestant science1 flung down the gauntlet to the bible faith4 ,no page of the sacred book remained untouched4 ,only one certainty sprang from this new doubt--the certainty that the sacred book was a human book4 ,therefore it had no right to rule over man4 ,man was its judge2 it was not man's judge4 ,it must be measured by man's truth1 man's conscience4 ,how1 now1 should the timorous heart of man be quieted in the presence of this new doubt8 ,at once new props were offered him--truth and the state4 ,what science recognized as true1 what morals and bourgeoise customs and civil law sanctioned as good--these were now proffered man1 that he might brace up his tottering life thereby4 ,trust the light of science1 and you shall indeed have the light of life2 do what is 'good1' and you shall be crowned with the crown of life4 ,this was the watchword4 ,then there stirred in the womb of present-day humanity the last1 ultimate1 uncanniest doubt4 ,if we doubt the ,church1 why not doubt the state1 too8 ,if we doubt faith1 why not doubt science1 too8 ,if we doubt the bible1 why not doubt reason1 doubt knowledge1 doubt morality8 ,even if what we call true be really true1 can it make us happy8 ,can the men who have all the knowledge of our time at their disposal1 can the scholars1 can the cultivated1 really become fit leaders of humanity through life's little day8 ,is not that which is called good grievous impediment in our pilgrimage8 ,law1 morals--are not these perhaps a blunder of history1 an old hereditary woe with which humanity is weighted down8 ,this doubt--long and ominously maturing throughout the spiritual evolution of our new time--finds its most radical1 most conscious1 and most eloquent expression in ,friedrich ,nietzsche4 ,he launches this doubt not only against all that has been believed and thought and done1 but against all that men believe and think and do today4 ,he shakes every position which men have held to be unshakable4 ,an irresistible1 diabolical curiosity impels him to transvalue all values with which men have reckoned1 and to inquire whether they are values at all2 whether good must not be called evil1 truth error4 ,as ,nietzsche ventures upon this experiment of his curiosity1 as he advances farther and farther with it1 suddenly he laughs with an ironic1 uproarious laughter4 ,the experiment is a success6 ,in the new illumination all the colors of life change4 ,light is dark1 dark is light4 ,what men had appraised as food1 as medicine1 evinced itself to be dangerous poison1 miserably encompassing their doom4 ,and since men believed that all the forces present1 dying1 poisoned culture1 were resident in their morals and their ,christianity1 it was necessary to smash the tables of these old values4 ,in full consciousness of his calling as destroyer of these old tables1 ,nietzsche called himself the immoralist1 the anti-,christ4 ,morals and ,christianity signified to him the most dangerous maladies with which men were suffering4 ,he considered it to be his high calling as savior to heal men of these maladies4 ,he sprang into the breach as anti-,christ4 ,like ,voltaire1 he was the apostle and genius of disrespect--respectability was the only disgrace1 popularity the only perdition4 ,nietzsche the ,immoralist1 ,nietzsche the ,antichrist6 ,dare we write his name and name his writings without calling down upon our much-pelted heads the wrath of the gods8 ,does he not blaspheme what is sacred1 and must we not1 then1 give him a wide berth8 ,there are the familiar words concerning false prophets in sheep's clothing1 but ravening wolves within4 ,such wolves there are--smooth1 sleek men1 paragons of virtue1 and morals1 and faith1 but revolting enough in their inner rawness as soon as you get a glimpse of their true disposition4 ,conversely1 might there not be men who come to us in wolves' clothing1 but whose hearts are tender and rich and intimate with a pure and noble humanity8 ,we know such men4 ,friedrich ,nietzsche was one of them4 ,he was a true prophet4 ,all his transvaluations dealt deadly blows at the old1 false1 man-poisoning prophetism4 ,what if more morals matured in this immoralist1 more ,christianity in this anti-,christ1 more divinity in this atheist1 than in all the pronouncements of all those who today still are so swift to despise and damn what they do not understand8 ,even ,christianity1 at its origin1 in its young and heroic militancy1 was not so amiable and harmless as we are wont to think4 ,it1 too1 was born of the doubt of that whole old culture2 of the most radical protest again status quo4 ,it1 too1 leagued with all the revolutionary spirits of humanity4 ,and it1 too1 revalued all the values of faith and morals4 ,what if this new ,nietzschean spirit of life's universal reform1 this creative1 forward-striving genius of humanity1 be once yet again embodiment and representative of life's essential element of rejuvenescence and growth8 ,what if true prophets are always men of ,sturm und ,drang1 men of divine discontent1 fellow-conspirators with the ,future8 ,anti-,christs8 ,these are they who blaspheme the holy spirit of humanity4 ,immoralists8 ,these are they who say that life is good as it is1 and therefore should stay as it is forever4 ,faith8 ,this is directed1 not to the past1 but to the future2 not to the certain1 but to the uncertain4 ,faith is the venturesomeness of moral knighthood4 ,nietzsche was a ,knight of the ,future4 ,why1 then1 should not a magazine of the ,future interpret ,nietzsche the prophet of a new culture8 ,man as the goal1 beauty as the form1 life as the law1 eternity as the content of our new day--this is ,nietzsche's message to the modern man4 ,in such an interpretation1 ,man and ,superman should be the subject of the next article4 ,how a ,little ,girl ,danced ,,nicholas ,,vachel ,,lindsay ,being a ,reminiscence of ,certain ,private ,theatricals 7,dedicated to ,lucy ,bates7 ,oh1 cabaret dancer1 ,i know a dancer ,whose eyes have not looked ,on the feasts that are vain4 ,i know a dancer1 ,i know a dancer1 ,whose soul has no bond ,with the beasts of the plain3 ,judith the dancer1 ,judith the dancer1 ,with foot like the snow ,and with step like the rain4 ,oh1 thrice-painted dancer1 ,vaudeville dancer1 ,sad in your spangles1 ,with soul all astrain3 ,i know a dancer1 ,i know a dancer1 ,whose laughter and weeping ,are spiritual gain2 ,a pure-hearted1 high-hearted ,maiden evangel ,with strength the dark cynical ,earth to disdain4 ,flowers of bright ,broadway6 ,you of the chorus ,who sing in the hope ,of forgetting your pain3 ,i turn to a sister ,of sainted ,cecelia1 ,a white bird escaping ,the earth's tangled skein6-- ,the music of ,god ,in her innermost brooding6 ,the whispering angels ,her footsteps sustain6 ,oh1 proud ,russian dancer3 ,praise for your dancing6 ,no clean human passion ,my rhyme would arraign4 ,you dance for ,apollo ,with noble devotion3 ,a high-cleansing revel ,to make the heart sane4 ,but ,judith the dancer ,prays to a spirit ,more white than ,apollo ,and all of his train4 ,i know a dancer ,who finds the true ,god-head2 ,who bends o'er a brazier ,in ,heaven's clear plain4 ,i know a dancer1 ,i know a dancer1 ,who lifts us toward peace ,from this ,earth that is vain3-- ,judith the dancer1 ,judith the dancer1 ,with foot like the snow1 ,and with step like the rain4 ,the ,dream of the ,children ,the children awoke in their dreaming ,while earth lay dewy and still3 ,they followed the rill in its gleaming ,to the heart-light of the hill4 ,from their feet as they strayed in the meadow ,it led through caverned aisles1 ,filled with purple and green light and shadow ,for mystic miles on miles4 --,from ,a4 ,e4's ,collected ,poems4 ,the ,critics' ,critic ,,galsworthy ,,as ,a ,,greek ,do you read ,arthur ,guiterman's rhymed reviews8 ,they are not to be taken too seriously1 of course1 though they are generally sane2 but in the one on ,the ,dark ,flower he asks if such things don't tend to weaken our moral fiber6 ,wow6 ,probably ,homer might be said to do the same thing2 we'd better take it out of the schools1 hadn't we8 ,there's an episode ,i recall about a female person named ,helen1 who was torn from her adoring husband1 etc41 etc4 ,you know ,i don't believe in weakening moral fiber1 but beauty is beauty4 ,all ,i could think of1 in reading ,the ,dark ,flower1 was ,greek classics4 ,do you remember that exquisite thing 7is it ,euripides87-- ,this ,cyprian ,she is a million1 million changing things2 ,she brings more joy than any god1 ,she brings ,more pain4 ,i cannot judge her2 may it be ,an hour of mercy when she looks on me4 ,galsworthy's hero was just a ,greek1 swayed by ,aphrodite4 ,there's no question of morals4 ,and besides1 he behaved pretty well--for a man6 ,,the ,,case ,,of ,,rupert ,,brooke ,i can't share ,,the ,,little ,,review',s estimate of ,rupert ,brooke4 ,i'm reminded immediately of something ,i found not long ago by ,herbert ,trench3 ,come1 let us make love deathless1 thou and ,i1 ,seeing that our footing on the earth is brief1 ,seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die ,mocking at all that passes their belief4 ,for standard of our love not theirs we take ,if we go hence today ,fill the high cup that is so soon to break ,with richer wine than they4 ,ay1 since beyond these walls no heavens there be1 ,joy to revive or wasted youth repair1 ,i'll not bedim the lovely flame in thee ,nor sully the sad splendor that we wear4 ,great be the love1 if with the lover dies ,our greatness past recall2 ,and nobler for the fading of those eyes ,the world seen once for all4 ,swinburne's ,from too much love of living1 ,from hope and fear set free ,i like better so far as the music of it is concerned2 and fully as well1 perhaps1 as far as ideas go4 ,there is something rather conscious and posing in ,mr4 ,trench's effort4 ,and you see why ,i think of him when ,i read ,rupert ,brooke4 ,there is the same memento mori1 the same hopelessness of outlook4 ,it seems a pity to me1 when a man can write as well as ,brooke does in ,the ,hill and in that exquisite sonnet beginning ,oh6 ,death will find me1 long before ,i tire of watching you1 that he should waste his time on stupid1 unpleasant cynicisms like ,wagner and that ,channel ,passage1 in which he doesn't know which pain to choose--nausea or memory4 ,i believe an ,englishman can't achieve just the right degree of mockery and brutality necessary for such an effort4 ,take ,heine1 if you will--7,i'm a ,heine enthusiast72 he could do it with supreme artistry4 ,do you remember the sea poems--especially the one where he looks into the depths of the sea1 catches sight of buried cities and sees his lost love 7ein armes1 vergessenes ,kind78 ,it finishes with the captain pulling him in by the heels1 crying1 ,doktor1 sind ,sie des ,teufels8 ,heine can touch filth and offer it to you1 and you are rather amused--as at a child4 ,but ,englishmen are too self-conscious for anything of that sort4 ,you are shocked and ashamed when they try it1 feeling in a way defiled yourself by reading4 ,it irritates me1 and ,i wish ,mr4 ,brooke would stop it1 right away4 ,he's too worth while to waste himself4 ,,the ,,feminist ,,discussions ,do you know the story of the man1 elected by some political pull to a judgeship in ,indiana1 who1 after listening to the argument for the plaintiff1 refused to hear anything further4 ,that feller wins1 he said decisively4 ,on being told that it was customary and necessary to hear the defendant's side also1 he duly listened1 with growing amazement4 ,don't it beat all8 he said1 pathetically1 at the close2 now the other feller wins4 ,in much the same frame of mind ,i read the articles that are appearing in the current magazines on the subject of feminism and militancy4 ,edna ,kenton's in ,the ,century is the only one that is content to give one side of the case4 ,decidedly1 you will say on reading it1 ,that feller wins4 ,the ,atlantic prints an admirable article by ,w4 ,l4 ,george on ,feminist ,intentions1 and follows it hastily with a rebuttal by ,e4 ,s4 ,martin 7,much ,ado ,about ,women71 fearing1 ,i imagine1 lest it would seem to be bowing its venerable head before new1 profane altars4 ,life gets out a really excellent suffrage number1 sane and logical and reasonable1 and has followed it up ever since with all the flings it can collect against suffrage1 militancy1 or feminism in any form4 ,a recent amusing instance of this is a letter by one ,thomas ,h4 ,lipscomb1 who signs himself1 alack6 ,a ,modern ,man1 and adds that his name is legion4 ,judging by the terror in the communication ,mr4 ,lipscomb's modernity goes back as far as the ,old ,testament ,proverbs1 and the womanly ideal he so passionately upholds is in all respects the one the writer of this particular proverb acclaims4 ,i have heard it used as a text so often1 and have had it grounded into the very framework of my being so consistently1 that it seems almost strange and irreverent to regard it with an alien and critical eye4 ,and yet--just see what is expected of the poor thing3 ,she ,seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands4 ,bringeth her food from afar4 ,riseth while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household2 ,considereth a field1 and buyeth it2 with the fruit of her hands planteth a vineyard4 ,her candle goeth not out by night4 ,she ,layeth her hands to the spindle2 and her hands hold the distaff4 ,maketh fine linen1 and selleth it1 and delivereth girdles unto the merchant4444 together with a few other airy trifles such as bearing and rearing children1 ,i suppose4 ,but most significant of all-- ,her husband is known in the gates where he sitteth among the elders of the land4 ,i should think so indeed6 ,there seems to be little else left for him to do4 ,i can almost hear the writer smacking his lips over this description1 which no doubt tallies closely with ,mr4 ,lipscomb's own notions4 ,for all this she is to ,receive of the fruit of her own hands1 and her own works shall praise her4 ,possibly women have tired a little of letting their own works praise them--and nothing else6 ,but ,i am taking the letter too seriously4 ,to go back to ,the ,atlantic1 ,i find ,mr4 ,george1 who is in full sympathy with the movement of which he writes1 classifying the demands of the feminists as follows3 ,economically1 they intend to open every occupation to women2 they intend to level the wages of women2 in general1 they wish to change the attitude of those who regard women's present inferiority to men 7they frankly admit that there is inferiority in many respects7 as inherent and insuperable1 by demonstrating that it is due merely to long lack of thorough training--7an old friend1 apparently1 in a new dress67 ,they wish also gradually to modify and change existing marriage laws so that they will be equally fair to both sexes4 ,a careful re-reading of ,mr4 ,martin's article fails to reveal much in the way of counter argument to ,mr4 ,george's forcible appeal4 ,there's a great deal of courteous agreement and some rather good satire1 but against the specific counts of the feminists' intentions ,mr4 ,martin raises no telling argument4 ,we hear that whereas fathers wish all earthly blessings for their daughters1 mothers do not1 as women are jealous of women2 also that mothers fear the modern woman on account of their sons1 for whom they in turn wish all possible good3 the modern woman will not make a good wife6 ,angels and ministers of grace defend us6 ,in a double quality as daughter to a devoted and loving mother1 and as a devoted and loving mother to a most precious daughter1 ,i throw down my glove4 ,i am sure ,mr4 ,martin has never acted in either of these capacities1 so precious little he knows about it6 ,besides1 ,i do want my son to have everything that the world provides in the way of blessings and happiness1 so ,i want him to have as a wife a thoroughly modern woman with an awakened soul and a high ideal1 to finish the good work in him which ,i have at least endeavored to begin4 ,as ,i read further1 however1 the cat begins to poke a cautious head out of the bag4 ,women1 ,mr4 ,martin argues1 are not responsible for the blessings the feminist movement is trying to bring them4 ,it is men6 ,that is why he is so particular to tell us of the careful solicitude of a father for his daughters4 ,men1 right along1 have procured all happiness for women2 or1 if not men exactly1 at least a sort of ,zeit ,geist--,i believe he calls it necessity4 ,and the poor deluded feminists are simply the little boys running along by the side of the procession and hollering4 ,the procession is made up of vague forces1 working nowadays for the enlargement and betterment of life for women--forces1 he quaintly complains1 that are making things go too fast their way already4 ,so we must take all credit from ,luther and ,knox and ,calvin and the reformers of all times and give it to the ,zeit ,geist4 ,they1 too1 are little boys1 ,i suppose1 who ran along and hollered4 ,at least they hollered lustily and well1 and the feminists are in good company4 ,and the peroration--every true woman will appreciate this3 ,what a husband sees in forty years1 maybe1 of the good and bad of life for a woman2 what a father sees in his daughters and the conditions of modern life as they affect girls--those are the things which count in forming or changing the convictions of men about woman's errand in this current world4 ,well6 ,however far the ,zeit ,geist has progressed in other directions1 it is plain that it has not made inroads on ,mr4 ,martin's consciousness of the present state of affairs4 ,who has given men the power and right to decide about woman's errand in the world8 ,for lo6 these many years we have been letting husbands1 fathers1 and brothers decide for us just what it were best for us to do2 and if the new idea has any significance at all it is just this3 that we feel able to decide for ourselves what we most want and need4 ,m4 ,h4 ,p4 ,the ,new ,note ,,sherwood ,,anderson ,the new note in the craft of writing is in danger1 as are all new and beautiful things born into the world1 of being talked to death in the cradle4 ,already a cult of the new has sprung up1 and doddering old fellows1 yellow with their sins1 run here and there crying out that they are true prophets of the new1 just as1 following last year's exhibit1 every age-sick ,american painter began hastily to inject into his own work something clutched out of the seething mass of new forms and new effects scrawled upon the canvases by the living young cubists and futurists4 ,confused by the voices1 they raised also their voices1 multiplying the din4 ,forgetting the soul of the workman1 they grasped at lines and solids1 getting nothing4 ,in the trade of writing the so-called new note is as old as the world4 ,simply stated1 it is a cry for the reinjection of truth and honesty into the craft2 it is an appeal from the standards set up by money-making magazine and book publishers in ,europe and ,america to the older1 sweeter standards of the craft itself2 it is the voice of the new man1 come into a new world1 proclaiming his right to speak out of the body and soul of youth1 rather than through the bodies and souls of the master craftsmen who are gone4 ,in all the world there is no such thing as an old sunrise1 an old wind upon the cheeks1 or an old kiss from the lips of your beloved2 and in the craft of writing there can be no such thing as age in the souls of the young poets and novelists who demand for themselves the right to stand up and be counted among the soldiers of the new4 ,that there are such youths is brother to the fact that there are ardent young cubists and futurists1 anarchists1 socialists1 and feminists2 it is the promise of a perpetual sweet new birth of the world2 it is as a strong wind come out of the virgin west4 ,one does not talk of his beloved even among the friends of his beloved2 and so the talk of the new note in writing will be heard coming from the mouths of the aged and from the lips of oily ones who do not know of what they talk1 but run about in circles1 making noise and clamor4 ,do not be confused by them4 ,they but follow the customs of their kind4 ,they are the stript priests of the falling temples1 piling stone on stone to build a new temple1 that they may exact tribute as before4 ,something has happened in the world of men4 ,old standards and old ideas tumble about our heads4 ,in the dust and confusion of the falling of the timbers of the temple many voices are raised4 ,among the voices of the old priests who weep are raised also the voices of the many who cry1 ,look at us6 ,we are the new6 ,we are the prophets2 follow us6 ,something has happened in the world of men4 ,temples have been wrecked before only to be rebuilt1 and destroying youth has danced only to become in turn a builder and in time a priest1 muttering old words4 ,nothing in all of this new is new except this--that beside the youth dancing in the dust of the falling timbers is a maiden also dancing and proclaiming herself4 ,we will have a world not half new but all new6 cry the youth and the maiden1 dancing together4 ,do not be led aside by the many voices crying of the new4 ,be ready to accept hardship for the sake of your craft in ,america--that is craft love4 ,some ,letters of ,william ,vaughn ,moody ,edited1 with introduction1 by ,daniel ,gregory ,mason4 7,houghton ,mifflin ,company1 ,boston47 ,i shall never forget how1 at sixteen1 ,i read ,stevenson's letters and thought them the most beautiful things in the world4 ,i shall never forget similar experiences with ,keats and ,browning1 and finally with ,meredith2 and now comes another volume of letters by the man who might be called the ,american ,henley 7though that only does him half justice7 to keep one up at night and teach him unforgettable things4 ,people have been saying that this collection doesn't represent the best letters ,moody wrote4 ,certainly if he wrote more interesting ones the world ought to be allowed to see them1 for these are valuable enough to become an ,american tradition4 ,the following is typical3 ,to ,daniel ,gregory ,mason4 ,,dear ,,dan3 ,i have just heard from your sister-in-law of your enforced furlough4 ,i am not going to help you curse your luck1 knowing your native capabilities in that direction to be perfectly adequate1 but my ,methodist training urges me to give you an epistolary hand-shake1 the purport of which is ,keep your sand4 ,i could say other things1 not utterly pharisaical4 ,i could say what ,i have often said to myself1 with a rather reedy tremolo perhaps1 but swelling sometimes into a respectable diapason4 ,the dark cellar ripens the wine4 ,and meanwhile1 after one's eyes get used to the dirty light1 and one's feet to the mildew1 a cellar has its compensations4 ,i have found beetles of the most interesting proclivities1 mice altogether comradely and persuadable1 and forgotten potatoes that sprouted toward the crack of sunshine with a wan maiden grace not seen above4 ,i don't want to pose as resourceful1 but ,i have seen what ,i have seen4 ,the metaphor is however happily inexact in your case1 with ,milton to retire to and ,cambridge humming melodiously on the horizon4 ,if you can only throttle your ,daemon1 or make him forgoe his leonine admonition ,accomplish1 and roar you as any sucking dove the sweet vocable ,be--you ought to live4 ,i have got mine trained to that1 pardee6 and his voice grows not untunable4 ,i pick up shreds of comfort out of this or that one of ,god's ashbarrels4 ,yesterday ,i was skating on a patch of ice in the park1 under a poverty stricken sky flying a pitiful rag of sunset4 ,some little muckers were guying a slim raw-boned ,irish girl of fifteen1 who circled and darted under their banter with complete unconcern4 ,she was in the fledgling stage1 all legs and arms1 tall and adorably awkward1 with a huge hat full of rusty feathers1 thin skirts tucked up above spindling ankles1 and a gay aplomb and swing in the body that was ravishing4 ,we caught hands in midflight1 and skated for an hour1 almost alone and quite silent1 while the rag of sunset rotted to pieces4 ,i have had few sensations in life that ,i would exchange for the warmth of her hand through the ragged glove1 and the pathetic curve of the half-formed breast where the back of my wrist touched her body4 ,i came away mystically shaken and elate4 ,it is thus the angels converse4 ,she was something absolutely authentic1 new1 and inexpressible1 something which only nature could mix for the heart's intoxication1 a compound of ragamuffin1 pal1 mistress1 nun1 sister1 harlequin1 outcast1 and bird of ,god1--with something else bafflingly suffused1 something ridiculous and frail and savage and tender4 ,with a world offering such rencontres1 such aery strifes and adventures1 who would not live a thousand years stone dumb8 ,i would1 for one--until my mood changes and ,i come to think on the shut lid and granite lip of him who has had done with sunsets and skating1 and has turned away his face from all manner of ,irish4 ,i am supported by a conviction that at an auction on the steps of the great white throne1 ,i should bring more in the first mood than the second--by several harps and a stray dulcimer4 ,i thoroughly envy you your stay at ,milton--wrist1 ,daemon1 and all4 ,you must send me a lengthy account of the state of things at ,cambridge4444 ,if the wrist forbids writing1 employ a typewriter of the most fashionable tint--,i will pay all expenses and stand the breakage4 ,i stipulate that you shall avoid blonds1 however1 they are fragile4 ,,william ,,vaughn ,,moody4 ,there are over a hundred letters here1 written to ,mr4 ,mason1 ,percy ,mac,kaye1 ,richard ,watson ,gilder1 ,josephine ,preston ,peabody1 ,edmund ,clarence ,stedman1 ,henry ,miller1 ,robert ,morss ,lovett1 ,ferdinand ,schevill1 and others2 and every one of them shows ,moody's remarkable gift of metaphor1 his constant striving to win for language some new swiftness1 some rare compression1 his belief in the positive acceptance of life1 his paganism1 deeply spiritual1 and as far as possible removed from the sensualism the thoughtless have found in it4 ,mr4 ,mason furnishes an introduction that is masterly2 and the first and final drafts of ,heart's ,wild ,flower are included1 proving vividly how this poet disciplined his rich imaginative gifts1 training away from a native tendency to the rococo to the high1 pure dignity that marks his finished verse4 ,this volume is invaluable4 ,certainly with two such authentic voices to boast of as ,whitman's and ,moody's this young country of ours has reason to be proud4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,a ,feminist of a ,hundred ,years ,ago ,,margery ,,currey ,rahel ,varnhagen3 ,a ,portrait1 by ,ellen ,key4 ,translated from the ,swedish by ,arthur ,g4 ,chater2 with an introduction by ,havelock ,ellis4 7,g4 ,p4 ,putman's ,sons1 ,new ,york47 ,for certain distinctive women ,rahel ,varnhagen lived2 for the same women ,ellen ,key has written this appreciation of ,rahel4 ,by the woman to whom fine freedom of living and fearlessness and directness of thought are the only possible terms on which she may deal with the social situation in which she finds herself this book will be read and re-read1 and pencil-marked along the margins of its pages4 ,the rare woman1 here and there1 who worships simple1 direct thinking 7which1 after all1 takes the most courage7 will know how to value ,rahel4 ,always she thought truthfully4 ,the woman who has been filled with joyful new amazement on finding that her only reliance is on herself--that she may not depend upon this person or that convention to preserve her happiness--will know how to value her4 ,just so far as any woman of today has become interested in her own thoughts and work1 is the originator of ideas1 and knows the joy of making or doing something that more than all else in the world she wants to make or do1 so far she is nearer to becoming of the size of this great woman4 ,such a woman will share with ,rahel ,varnhagen the certainty that higher morality is reached only through higher liberty2 such a woman must demand1 as did ,rahel1 periods of that recuperative and strengthening solitude1 both of thought and mode of living1 which only the self-reliant and fearless can endure4 ,she knows that she herself1 not convention1 must furnish the answer to questions of right and wrong by earnest1 free inquiry and by testing every experience4 ,the acceptance of no convention was inevitable to ,rahel1 as she thought of it4 ,she put it to the best of scrutiny4 ,what value was there in it8 ,it was not violating conventions which she set out to do1 but meeting them with a quiet1 sincere inquiry of the reason and truth they contained4 ,rahel ,varnhagen lived in ,berlin a hundred years ago and was probably the most beloved and much-visited woman of those whose salons attracted the notable men of the day--,fichte1 ,hegel1 ,prince ,louis ,ferdinand1 ,fouqu1 the ,humboldts1 the ,schlegels1 ,schleiermacher1 and other giants of the time4 ,rahel was a woman--the lamentable rarity of them6--whose influence was not through her literary work 7her letters to friends are all that we have of her writing71 not through brilliancy of speech alone1 nor through her munificent patronage of the artists and literary men of her day 7she was not rich1 and we read of the garret in which she entertained her friends71 but through the richness of her personality1 the glowing warmth of her sympathy1 her understanding1 and the wisdom of her heart4 ,and the value of ,rahel to us lies in the calm directness1 the innocence1 as she herself calls it1 of her thinking4 ,to her went the acclaimed wise men of the day for the comfort of her fearlessness and simplicity of thought upon their questions4 ,she was said to be brilliant4 ,she was not brilliant in the sense of being learned1 or of being capable of mere intellectual jugglery and fantastic adroitness of thinking2 she was brilliant in the crystal clearness and the sure rapidity of her thinking4 ,the unexpectedness and strangeness of the simple truth she spoke bewildered people4 ,for this reason she could say1 ,i am as much alone of my kind as the greatest manifestation here on earth4 ,the greatest artist1 philosopher1 or poet is not above me4 ,this passion for truth in her own thinking was the origin of her social value4 ,its stimulus to others was immediate1 and her recognition through it of the important things in life made her detect at once those people and things that were original and valuable in themselves4 ,rahel's most comprehensive significance1 writes ,ellen ,key1 lay in augmenting the productiveness1 humanity and culture of her time by herself everywhere seeking and teaching others to seek the truth2 by everywhere encouraging them to manifest their own culture2 by imparting to others her profound way of looking at religion1 men and women1 literature and art2 by judging everything according to its intrinsic value1 not according to its deficiencies2 by everywhere understanding1 because she loved1 and giving life1 because she believed in liberty4 ,think always1 ceaselessly6--this was ,rahel's cry4 ,this1 she said1 is the only duty1 the only happiness4 ,to a young friend she wrote1 begging that he keep ploughing through things afresh1 telling him that he must always have the courage to hurt himself with questioning and doubts2 to destroy the most comfortable and beautiful edifice of thought--one that might have stood for life--if honesty demands it4 ,and so1 having thought out things in the most utter freedom1 unhampered by old preconceptions1 and finally unafraid of the starkness of the truths which she faced1 she let nothing prescribed be her unchallenged guide or stand as a substitute for her own vigor and hardness of thinking4 ,this is why she said that she was revived by downright brutality1 after being wearied by insincerity4 ,a virtue1 so called1 had to give a very good accounting of itself to ,rahel4 ,she demanded that it answer a certain test before it could be called a piece of goodness4 ,for instance1 in many cases she recognized in performance of duty mere acquiescence--a laziness of mind which does not bestir itself to ask what right this duty has to impose itself4 ,patience to her was often lack of courage to seize upon a situation and change it to suit the imperative demand to express oneself4 ,the more ,i see and meditate upon the strivings of this world1 wrote ,rahel1 the more insane it appears to me day by day not to live according to one's inmost heart4 ,to do so has such a bad name1 because simulacra of it are in circulation4 ,of these simulacra we are familiar in every age--the amazing antics of certain self-styled radicals1 the unaccountable manifestations of those who1 while professing liberality of view1 seem to have no standards of values in their extravagances of living4 ,rahel could understand every nature except the insincere and unnatural4 ,while we mourn or exult over the eager efforts of women in our day to evolve completely human personalities1 it is interesting to read ,rahel's summing-up of the feminist movement3 ,has it been proved by her organization that a woman cannot think and express her ideas8 ,if such were the case1 it would nevertheless be her duty to renew the attempt continually4 ,and how1 exclaims ,ellen ,key1 would ,rahel have abhorred the tyrannical treatment of each other's opinions1 the cramping narrow-mindedness1 the envious jostling1 the petty importance of nobodies1 which the woman's cause now exhibits everywhere1 since1 from being a movement for liberty in great women's souls1 like ,rahel's own1 it has become a movement of leagues and unions1 in which the small souls take the lead4 ,since it is reality and not appearance that alone could stand before ,rahel's devastating scrutiny of human things1 and since to her the highest personal morality consisted in being true1 coercive marriage seemed to her the great social lie4 ,how could one of her simple clarity of thinking be anything but outraged by the vulgarities of an average marriage8 ,is not an intimacy without charm or transport more indecent than ecstasy of what kind so ever8 she demands4 ,is not a state of things in which truth1 amenity1 and innocence are impossible1 to be rejected for these reasons alone8 ,of the evils in ,europe she cries1 ,slavery1 war1 marriage--and they go on wondering and patching and mending6 ,rahel believed that in the existing institution of marriage it was almost impossible to find a union in which full1 clear truth and mutual love prevailed4 ,of ,rahel's nature1 warm1 richly exuberant with a healthy sensuousness and desire for sunlight1 ,jean ,paul's letter to her gives us the essence4 ,wingd one--in every sense-- he wrote1 you treat life poetically and consequently life treats you in the same way4 ,you bring the lofty freedom of poetry into the sphere of reality1 and expect to find again the same beauties here as there4 ,biographical facts are negligible here4 ,even comment on the interpretive insight of ,ellen ,key seems not to be essential1 though without it this book could not be4 ,it is the personality of ,rahel ,varnhagen that matters1 and the influence of that personality on the men of her day4 ,rahel is distinctive as a challenger of the worn-out social and ethical baggage that somehow1 in all its shabbiness1 has been reverently1 with ritual and with authority1 given into our keeping by those who were as oppressed by it as we in turn are expected to be4 ,with the simplicity of her questioning the honesty of these conventions1 ,rahel has made worship of some of them less inevitable4 ,some ,contemporary ,opinions of ,rahel ,varnhagen ,,cornelia ,l4 ,,anderson ,heine said3 ,i should wear a dog collar inscribed3 ',i belong to ,frau ,varnhagen4' ,rahel's power over the brilliant minds of her day lay in her own wonderful personality4 ,she was unique1 knew it and gloried in it4 ,she wrote to ,varnhagen1 her husband and lover3 ,you will not soon see my like again4 ,she understood thoroughly the limitations of her sex4 ,they are so surprisingly feeble1 she says2 almost imbecile from lack of coherence4 ,they lie1 too1 since they are often obliged to1 and since the truth demands intelligence4 444 ,i know women3 what is noble in their composition keeps together stupidity or madness4 444 ,and she speaks of their clumsy1 terrible stupidity in lying4 ,but1 despite ,rahel's opinion of women1 or because of her understanding of their needs1 she was a true feminist and looked toward their liberation through development and self-expression4 ,ellen ,key writes3 ,how ,rahel1 with her lucidity of thought1 would have exposed the modern superstition that it is in outward departments of work that woman gives expression to her human 'individuality4' ,she says by true economy 'nature keeps woman nearer to the plant'6 ,this 'economy' is easily understood2 it is because the tender life is woman's creation and because that life requires tranquillity for its genesis and growth2 because a woman taken up by the problems of external life 444 no longer possesses the psychological qualifications which are indispensable in order that a child's soul may grow in peace and joy2 because1 in other words1 children need mothers1 not only for their physical birth but for their human bringing-up4 ,rahel hits the very center of the spiritual task of motherhood when she says that if she had a child she would help it to learn to listen to its own inmost ego2 everything else she would sacrifice to this4444 ,the progress or ruin of humanity depends1 in ,rahel's prophetic view1 upon the capacity of the mothers for performing their task4 ,how ,rahel had listened to her own inmost ego is shown by the following characterization by ,ellen ,key4 ,rahel probably did not know a single date in the history of ,greece1 but she read ,homer in ,voss's translation2 it made her declare that 'the ,odyssey seems to me so beautiful that it is positively painful1' and she discovered that ,homer is always great when he speaks of water1 as ,goethe is when he speaks of the stars4 ,probably she could not enumerate the rivers of ,spain1 but she knew ,don ,quixote4 ,in a word1 she was the very opposite of the kind of talent that passes brilliant examinations and is capable of carrying 'completely undigested sentences in its head4' ,what ,rahel could not transform into blood of her blood did not concern her at all4 ,there was such an indestructible 'connection between her abilities1' such an intimate 'co-operation between her temperament and her intelligence1' that there was no room in her for all the unoriginal ballast of which the views and opinions of most other people are made up3 she could only keep and only give what was her own4 ,what ,rahel's power over her contemporaries was we may gather from what they say of her who was ,rahel and nothing more3 ,heine describes her as the most inspired woman in the universe4 ,t4 ,mundt calls her the sympathetic nerve of the time4 ,the ,austrian dramatist1 ,grillparzer1 relates3 ,varnhagen went home with me4 ,as we passed his house1 it occurred to him to introduce me to his wife1 the afterwards so celebrated ,rahel1 of whom ,i then knew nothing4 ,i had been strolling about all day and felt tired to death1 and was1 therefore1 heartily glad when we were told that ,frau ,varnhagen was not at home4 ,but as we came down the stairs1 she met us and ,i submitted to my fate4 ,but now the lady1--elderly1 perhaps never handsomer1 shriveled by illness1 reminding me rather of a fairy1 not to say a witch1--began to talk1 and ,i was altogether enchanted4 ,my weariness disappeared1 or perhaps1 rather1 gave way to intoxication4 ,she talked and talked till nearly midnight1 and ,i don't know whether they turned me out or whether ,i went away of my own accord4 ,never in my life have ,i heard anyone talk more interestingly4 ,unfortunately it was near the end of my stay1 and ,i could not repeat the visit4 ,the ,poetry of ,rupert ,brooke ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,poems1 by ,rupert ,brooke4 7,sidgwick and ,jackson1 ,london47 ,the unusual thing about ,rupert ,brooke--the young ,oxford don whose poetry is just finding its way in this country--is that he has graduated from the ,french school without having taken a course in decadence4 ,the result is a type of ,english poetry minus those qualities we think of as typical of the ,british mind and plus those that stand as the highest expression of the ,french spirit4 ,there is nothing of self-conscious reserve about ,mr4 ,brooke2 and yet it is not so obvious a quality as his frank1 unashamed revealment that places him definitely with the ,french type4 ,it is rather a matter of form--that quality of saying a thing in the most economic way it can be said1 of finding the simple and the inevitable word4 ,mr4 ,brooke stands very happily between a poet like ,alfred ,noyes1 in whom one rarely finds that careful selection1 and the esthetes whose agony in that direction becomes monotonous4 ,for example1 in the first sonnet of this collection3 ,oh6 ,death will find me1 long before ,i tire ,of watching you2 and swing me suddenly ,into the shade and loneliness and mire ,of the last land6 ,there1 waiting patiently1 ,one day1 ,i think1 ,i'll feel a cool wind blowing1 ,see a slow light across the ,stygian tide1 ,and hear the ,dead about me stir1 unknowing1 ,and tremble4 ,and ,i shall know that you have died1 ,and watch you1 a broad-browed and smiling dream1 ,pass1 light as ever1 through the lightless host1 ,quietly ponder1 start1 and sway1 and gleam-- ,most individual and bewildering ghost6-- ,and turn1 and toss your brown delightful head ,amusedly1 among the ancient ,dead4 ,there are about eighteen words in this one sonnet chosen with infinite pains2 and yet the effect of the whole is quite unlabored--an effect of spontaneity reduced to its simplest terms4 ,perhaps the point can be made more emphatically by a miscellaneous quotation of single lines1 because the poignancy of ,rupert ,brooke's phrasing leaves me in a torment of inexpressiveness1 forced to quote him rather than talk about him4 ,here are a few3 ,like hills at noon or sunlight on a tree2 ,and dumb and mad and eyeless like the sky2 ,the soft moan of any grey-eyed lute-player2 ,some gaunt eventual limit of our light2 ,red darkness of the heart of roses2 ,and long noon in the hot calm places2 ,my wild sick blasphemous prayer2 ,further than laughter goes1 or tears1 further than dreaming2 ,against the black and muttering trees2 ,and quietness crept up the hill2 ,when your swift hair is quiet in death2 ,savage forgotten drowsy hymns2 ,and dance as dust before the sun2 ,the swift whir of terrible wings2 ,like flies on the cold flesh2 ,clear against the unheeding sky2 ,so high a beauty in the air2 ,amazed with sorrow2 ,haggard with virtue2 ,frozen smoke2 ,mist-garlanded1 and a thousand other things that somehow have a fashion of striking twelve4 ,there's a long poem about a fish1 beginning ,in a cool curving world he lies ,and ripples with dark ecstasies4 that flashes through every tone of the stream's drowned colour from blue brilliant from dead starless skies to the myriad hues that lie between darkness and darkness4 ,and there's one about ,menelaus and ,helen containing this description3 ,high sat white ,helen1 lonely and serene4 ,he had not remembered that she was so fair1 ,and that her neck curved down in such a way2 ,the simplicity of that last line--but what a picture it is6 ,the important things about ,mr4 ,brooke1 however--and of course this should have been said in the first paragraph--are his sense of life and his feeling for nature4 ,of the first it might be said that he is strong and radiant and sure--and at the same time reverently impotent4 ,the ,hill1 which ,i like better than anything in this collection1 will illustrate3 ,breathless1 we flung us on the windy hill1 ,laughed in the sun1 and kissed the lovely grass4 ,you said1 ,through glory and ecstasy we pass2 ,wind1 sun1 and earth remain1 the birds sing still1 ,when we are old1 are old4444 ,and when we die ,all's over that is ours2 and life burns on ,through other lovers1 other lips1 said ,i1 --,heart of my heart1 our heaven is now1 is won6 ,we are ,earth's best1 that learnt her lesson here4 ,life is our cry4 ,we have kept the faith6 we said2 ,we shall go down with unreluctant tread ,rose-crowned into the darkness6 444 ,proud we were1 ,and laughed1 that had such brave true things to say4 --,and then you suddenly cried1 and turned away4 ,everything in it--with the exception of kissed the lovely grass1 which might easily be spared--is fine2 with unreluctant tread ,rose-crowned into the darkness6 is vivid with beauty2 and when the simple dignity of such brave true things to say has swung you to its great height1 the drop in that sudden last line comes with the most moving wistfulness4 ,there are several poems1 too long to quote here1 which show ,mr4 ,brooke's affinity with the outdoors2 but perhaps even five lines from one of them will suggest it3 ,then from the sad west turning wearily1 ,i saw the pines against the white north sky1 ,very beautiful1 and still1 and bending over ,their sharp black heads against a quiet sky ,and there was peace in them4444 ,not long ago ,i asked a poet in whose judgment ,i have a profound belief1 to read these poems of ,rupert ,brooke's and give me his opinion4 ,after looking at two or three he said he was afraid he wasn't going to like them1 but the next day he reported that he wished to retract1 making the magnificent concession that some of ,brooke's moods are healthy6 ,of course there are a number of things in this volume that can easily be interpreted as unhealthy or repulsive1 like the ,wagner3 ,creeps in half wanton1 half asleep1 ,one with a fat wide hairless face4 ,he likes love music that is cheap2 ,likes women in a crowded place2 ,and wants to hear the noise they're making4 ,his heavy eyelids droop half-over1 ,great pouches swing beneath his eyes4 ,he listens1 thinks himself the lover1 ,heaves from his stomach wheezy sighs2 ,he likes to feel his heart's a-breaking4 ,the music swells4 ,his gross legs quiver4 ,his little lips are bright with slime4 ,the music swells4 ,the women shiver1 ,and all the while1 in perfect time ,his pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking4 ,but it seems something more than that to me4 ,as an attack on ,german emotionalism--however unjustly1 from my point of view1 through ,wagner--the poem struck me as an exercise of extraordinary cleverness4 ,i don't know that anyone has ever said so effectively the things that ought be said about that type of emotion which feeds not upon life but1 inversely1 upon emotion4 ,mr4 ,brooke's pictures have much of the quality of ,bcklin's4 ,that first sonnet can be imagined in the same tone values as ,bcklin's wonderful ,isle of the ,dead1 and the closing lines of ,victory need the same medium3 ,down the supernal roads1 ,with plumes a-tossing1 purple flags far flung1 ,rank upon rank1 unbridled1 unforgiving1 ,thundered the black battalions of the ,gods4 ,seaside needs an artist like ,leon ,dabo3 ,swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band1 ,the crowd's good laughter1 the loved eyes of men1 ,i am drawn nightward2 ,i must turn again ,where1 down beyond the low untrodden strand1 ,there curves and glimmers outward to the unknown ,the old unquiet ocean4 ,all the shade ,is rife with magic and movement4 ,i stray alone ,here on the edge of silence1 half afraid1 ,waiting a sign4 ,in the deep heart of me ,the sullen waters swell towards the moon1 ,and all my tides set seaward4 ,from inland ,leaps a gay fragment of some mocking tune1 ,that tinkles and laughs and fades along the sand1 ,and dies between the seawall and the sea4 ,how perfect those last three lines are6 ,how skilful1 in painting the sea1 to concentrate upon something from inland1 making the ocean twice as old and vast and unquiet because of that little tinkling tune4 ,one will find in ,rupert ,brooke various kinds of things1 but never attitudinizing and never insincerity4 ,he is one of the most important of those young ,englishmen who are doing so much for modern poetry4 ,he is essentially a poet's poet1 and yet his feet are deep in the common soil4 ,swinburne would have liked him1 but the significant thing is that ,whitman would1 too4 ,there are several poems ,i have not mentioned that ,whitman would have loved4 ,tagore ,as a ,dynamic ,,george ,,soule ,we do not agree that ,tagore is a dynamic2 we find him a poet whose music is more important than his thinking4 ,but we are glad to print this interesting analysis4 ,in ,the ,crescent ,moon1 with its ravishing beauty of childhood1 in ,the ,gardener1 with its passion of love1 and especially in ,gitanjali and ,sadhana 7,macmillan71 with their life universal and all-permeating1 we have found the poet ,tagore and been grateful4 ,it remains to ask3 ,what has ,tagore done to us8 ,what is he likely to do for the future8 ,what has been his answer to the promise and the challenge of the world8 ,religions have provided one answer4 ,in his zeal of affirmation the prophet has declared that the individual lives after death2 that in some unseen world completion shall be attained4 ,yet increasing millions find this explanation fading into unreality4 ,if one living organism is perpetuated after its physical dissolution1 why not another8 ,we can account for every particle of life which the blossom loses by its death4 ,some has passed to the seed2 the rest finds its chemical reaction1 which in turn produces other forms of life--in entirely new individuals4 ,to assert that the original blossom lives in an unseen form outside the realm of thought is preposterous4 ,why should it8 ,its function has been accomplished4 ,the sentimentality behind this thinking is a weak prop for a vigorous mind4 ,and exactly the same reasoning applies to all living organisms1 including man4 ,the more intelligent part of mankind has also outgrown the conception of a definite heaven4 ,it is impossible to imagine a satisfactory heaven for the individual4 ,a place where there is no strife1 where everything is perfection and completion--what joy is to be found there8 ,the essence of life as we know it is growth and survival2 its happiness comes from the exercise of a function4 ,growth and survival postulate extinction2 in heaven an individual would evaporate4 ,some thinkers have made a substitute religion of humanity4 ,they find solace in action tending to make the world a better place2 they have been gratified by an imaginative conception of a future heaven on earth4 ,as a religion of morality and action this is magnificent4 ,yet its dogma does not satisfy4 ,a heaven on earth is no more conceivable than a heaven anywhere else4 ,if we find our happiness in action1 how shall our descendants find happiness when there are no more evils to conquer8 ,though a static condition of blessedness be the goal of humanitarian endeavor1 it is the progress toward it which furnishes the joy4 ,the ,oriental thinker has looked for his answer in a different direction4 ,though the individual is partial and unsuccessful1 life as a whole is always triumphant4 ,cannot the individual by contemplation identify himself with the world-soul8 ,can he not tack himself on to this all-inclusive life by denial and forgetfulness of himself8 ,brahmin saints have done so imaginatively4 ,but such an answer is no answer4 ,we are individuals1 after all1 and thinking of ,nirvana will not rob us of our separate bodies and minds4 ,contemplation is not a substitute for living4 ,the doctrine of transmigration is equally unsatisfying4 ,if an individual never succeeds in any single life1 innumerable chances will be mere repetitions of tragedy4 ,the only hope of such a process would be a final heaven on earth1 which is just as inconceivable as that of the humanitarians4 ,we cannot now be satisfied with theological answers4 ,nor will the world ever find an answer permanently satisfactory4 ,is not this as it should be8 ,a fixed system of thought which answers every spiritual craving must be a shell around the individual1 preventing growth4 ,it finally ceases to be a dynamic and becomes a wall in the way of the feelers which mankind is constantly sending into his spiritual environment4 ,it forces him to rest4 ,it eventually turns all his expansion into the lower planes of life4 ,it is deadening1 suffocating1 as soon as he reaches its limits4 ,of what nature1 then1 must be the religion of the modern man and woman8 ,first of all1 it must not be imposed from without2 it must grow through the personality and find its being there4 ,it must not only square with every known fact of science and thought2 it must stimulate to a fervent desire for new understanding4 ,it must not deny or destroy life2 it must be life's essence4 ,it must ring with a call to the individual to assume his proper dignity of life4 ,it must harmonize with the laughter of children and with the bitter beauty of a winter sea4 ,it must flame with emotion1 yet be keen and hard as a sword4 ,and it must be not a self-constituted standard with which every other thing is arbitrarily compared1 but a principle of growth making necessary in us vision1 strength1 freedom1 and fearlessness4 ,it is my feeling that ,tagore will suggest to the modern man such a religion4 ,he gives expression1 though not1 of course1 perfect expression1 to a synthesis of many latent instincts of the modern mind4 ,he glories in understanding1 not only facts and truth1 but emotions and all manifestations of life4 ,he calls us to see vivid beauty wherever it is found4 ,he acclaims the aid of science in extending man's personality throughout the universe4 ,he sees the oneness of all life1 and bids man stand erect on account of this eternal and timeless force coursing through him4 ,he sees the oneness of humanity1 and the necessity of perfecting human relations4 ,he depicts purity without asceticism1 vigor without brutality4 ,he emphasizes joy and action4 ,he does not blink the fact of death1 but robs it of horror by showing it as the natural end of a victorious life4 ,while he encourages by the idea of an ultimate goal1 he inspires by the conception of a real connection with infinity here and now4 ,revering the universal life1 he sees that it finds expression only in individuals1 and that the law of our being must be to live as completely as possible4 ,many before ,tagore have said these things partially4 ,but it remained for a poet who combines the intelligence of the ,orient with that of the ,occident to say them all1 and to say them with such beauty and simplicity that a large part of the world listens4 ,if he succeeds in making us conscious of such a religion1 he will have quickened life and made it potent as few artists can4 ,ethel ,sidgwick's ,succession ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,succession3 ,a ,comedy of the ,generations1 by ,ethel ,sidgwick4 7,small1 ,maynard and ,company1 ,boston47 ,ethel ,sidgwick is the world's next great woman novelist4 ,though ,i confess eagerly that ,i enjoy her novels more than any novels ,i've ever read--,i mean it literally--it isn't on so personal a basis that ,i offer the judgment4 ,but ,i'm confident that within ten years the critical perspective will show her on this pinnacle4 ,since ,george ,eliot and the ,bronts1 ,i can think of no woman who has focused art and life so intensely into novel writing--though even as ,i say this ,ethan ,frome looms up and leaves me a little uncomfortable4 ,but the important thing is that ,ethel ,sidgwick is going to count--enormously4 ,people who aren't yet aware of her 7and there seem to be a lot of them7 can be easily explained as that body of the public that neglects a masterpiece until it has become the fashion to acclaim it4 ,but ,ethel ,sidgwick has written a novel that's more important than any number of our traditional masterpieces4 ,for instance1 it's a much more important story than ,vanity ,fair2 just as ,jean ,christophe is more valuable than ,ivanhoe4 ,the novel of manners has its delightful place1 and so has the historical romance2 but the novel that chronicles with subtlety the intellectual or artistic temper of an age is as much more important than these as ,greek drama is than the moving picture show4 ,i know there are people who'll read ,succession and continue to prefer ,thackeray's geniality to ,miss ,sidgwick's brilliant seriousness and her humor that's not at all genial--but rapid1 sophisticated1 impatient of comedy in the accepted sense4 ,ethel ,sidgwick might write a radiant tragedy1 or a wistful satire1 or a sad comedy2 ,i can never imagine her being anything so obvious as merely comic--or genial6 ,she doesn't laugh2 she couldn't chuckle2 she has just the flash of a smile1 and then she hurries on dazzlingly1 as though things were too important to be anything but passionate about4 ,she doesn't warm the cockles of your heart--or whatever that silly phrase is2 and she doesn't do crude1 raw things to show you that she knows life4 ,she goes down into the darkness rose-crowned1 in ,rupert ,brooke's gorgeous phrase2 when she goes into the sunlight it is always with something of remembered agony4 ,that's the fine quality of her vitalism4 ,she's too strong to be hard1 too steel-like to be robust4 ,she's like fire and keen air--to borrow another poet's phrase4 ,she reflects life through the mirror of a vivid personality--which is one way of being an important artist4 ,she assumes that you're also vivid1 and quick1 and subtle1 and this gives her writing the most beautiful quality of nervousness--the kind you mean when you're not talking about nerves4 ,in short1 ,ethel ,sidgwick is the most definitely magnetic personality ,i've ever felt through a book's pages4 ,succession1 though complete in itself1 is really a sequel to ,promise1 published a year ago4 ,the sub-title presents the idea1 and can be concretely expanded in a sentence3 ,antoine1 child-wonder violinist1 and the youngest of the celebrated ,lemaures1 revolts against the musical ideas of his grandfather4 ,here it is again--the battle of youth and age1 made particularly interesting because it's a purely intellectual warfare1 and particularly charming because its participants are such delightful people4 ,the first glimpse of ,antoine is irresistible4 ,after a series of concerts in ,england1 he is being taken by his uncle to their home in ,france4 ,m4 ,lucien ,lemaure has chosen the long route because his nephew has an odd habit of sleeping better on the water than in any house or hotel on shore2 and while he doesn't understand this nephew1 he has vital reasons for considering him3 for upon ,antoine's delicate shoulders rests the musical honor of the family4 ,sleep well1 mon petit1 he said1 in the tiny cabin4 ,we are going home4 ,antoine1 who had no immediate intention of sleeping1 was staring out of the dim porthole of a fascinating space of the unknown4 ,that is home to you8 he asked vaguely4 ,to be sure4 ,my first youth was passed there1 like thine4 ,after an interval passed spent in a vain effort to imagine his uncle with no hair on his face1 ,antoine gave it up and recurred to the window4 ,i wish ,i lived on the sea1 he murmured4 ,in the train1 flying toward ,paris1 ,lucien refers to the last ,london recital1 when ,antoine had made both his uncle's and his conductor's lives a burden by his indifferent rehearsal of his grandfather's latest composition4 ,antoine's outburst had outraged ,lucien1 to whom faith in his father's character and genius had1 all his life1 amounted to a religion4 ,what will you tell him then8 said ,antoine1 turning his dark eyes without deranging his languid attitude along the seat4 ,just that ,i said some 'sottises1' the same as always8 ,he is not a child1 thought ,lucien instantly4 ,he is clever1 maddening4 ,of course1 my action will have to be explained4 ,i shall say1 he said aloud1 with deliberation1 that we differed about the concerto4 ,that you were difficult and headstrong over that1 which is certainly true4 ,you have admitted since that it was too much for you1 eh8 ,yes1 said the boy4 ,it is an awful thing1 but ,i played it4 ,i had to have something real that night4 ,you imply my father's composition is not real8 ,oh1 do not1 said the boy1 under his breath4 ,i have remembered he is your father now4 ,to be sure1 said ,m4 ,lucien1 with stateliness4 ,and have you no duty to him as well8 ,i shall see him soon4 ,i shall remember then4 ,antoine diverted his eyes1 to his uncle's private relief4 ,do you think ,i do not want to remember1 after that8 ,i should think you would be ashamed1 said ,lucien1 by way of the last word in argument1 and retired to his paper4 ,you like me to be ashamed1 said ,antoine1 snatching the last word from him1 though still with a manner of extreme languor4 ,good1 then1 ,i have been4 ,it is not--he watched the trees of ,normandy sleepily--a very nice feeling4 ,i am glad you know what it is like1 at least1 growled his uncle into the paper4 ,don't you8 said his nephew4 ,what it is like1 is to make you feel rather sick--all the time--especially while you are playing it4 ,what8 ,the thing you are ashamed of4 ,how ,i wanted to hug him6 ,antoine1 said ,lucien1 rising and discarding the paper1 do not be absurd4 ,here1 look at me4 ,you suffered that night at the concert1 eh8 ,you excited yourself so much1 little imbecile4 ,are you tired now8 ,no1 thank you--this is ,france1 replied ,antoine4 ,that is a ,french cow1 he murmured1 not so fat4 ,that is a ,french tree1 not so thick4 ,the sky is different1 and the sun4 ,the concerts will be easier1 ,i expect4 ,but the first glimpse of ,m4 ,lemaure1 the grandfather1 is reassuring4 ,in fact1 he's almost as irresistible as ,antoine1 making you realize immediately that the battle is going to be a subtle one1 and that it may be difficult to know which side to take1 after all4 ,the old musician asks about the last recital4 ,i was not at the last orchestral1 ,lucien answers4 ,i left him in ,wurst's charge1 and went to the country1 444 ,i should not easily desert my post1 as you know2 but the boy made it clear enough he had no use for me4 ,he clung to that sacr concerto of ,tschedin1 which he knows you detest1 and which ,i never thought in a condition to perform4 ,he mocked himself of my objections1 contradicted me1 eluded me1 and twisted ,wurst round his finger at rehearsals4 ,and ,wurst8 ,wurst found him charming4 ,he has ,russian blood himself1 and had known the composer4 ,he has encouraged ,antoine's revolutionary tendencies from the first4 ,the pair of them took the last concert so completely out of my hands that it seemed fruitless to remain4 ,bb forgot himself1 pronounced ,m4 ,lemaure1 still quite at ease4 ,indeed the situation so reminded him of ,antoine's childhood that he longed to laugh4 ,what did he say1 and when8 ,we will not revive it1 said ,lucien4 ,when he came to his senses1 he apologized sufficiently4 ,perhaps he was not well 444 when is the first engagement--,sunday8 ,let him be for a time4 ,there is no harm4 ,lucien grunted4 ,i shall not disturb him while he is seasick1 if that is what you mean4 ,it would do him no harm to play scales all the week4 ,scales--as you will1 but not persons4 ,not ,dmitri ,tschedin1 ,i mean1 nor even me4 ,it is intrusive personality1 always1 that disturbs the current of ,antoine's philosophy4 ,father6 ,how absurd4 ,but ,i have long remarked it4 ,his own individuality fights the alien matter1 and it is not till he has either rejected it or absorbed that he is steady again4 ,wurst and his ,russians have excited him--nothing more natural4 ,for me1 said ,m4 ,lemaure1 plunging into memory1 as he stood by his son's side at the window1 at his age1 the realm of music did not hold such petulant passions1 any more than it held flat heresy1 like that of ,sorbier and ,duchtel4 ,antoine adores ,duchtel1 remarked ,lucien4 ,there is no fighting there4 ,bon6 ,the old man laughed4 ,heresy on the hearth then1 if it must be so4 ,so long as he does not play the stuff in my hearing4 ,there are over six hundred pages in the story1 and they cover just a year and a half of ,antoine's life4 ,this appears to be an impossible literary feat2 any orthodox novelist will tell you that you can't hold a reader through six hundred pages with the story of a fourteen-year-old boy4 ,but ,miss ,sidgwick's holding power is--well1 ,i read ,succession during a brief trip to ,boston1 and much as ,i longed to absorb ,concord and all its charms1 ,i found ,i only had half my capacity with me2 the rest was with ,antoine1 and it stayed there till in desperation ,i shut myself up in a hotel room and saw him safely off to ,america with his nice1 wholesome1 inartistic father4 ,then came the awful realization that ,i'd have to wait a whole year for the next volume--for surely ,miss ,sidgwick intends to make a trilogy4 ,the explanation of this absorption is simply that ,antoine is so interesting4 ,his professional life is dramatic2 but even in the commonest experiences of every day his world is as vivid as it can only be to a dramatic nature4 ,for instance1 in this little scene with his brother3 ,there was a little thing on legs1 he announced1 that went under the carpet just now4 ,it was rather horrible1 and ,i have not looked for it4 ,a blackbeetle1 ,i presume1 said ,philip4 ,it was not black1 said ,antoine4 ,it was pink--a not-clean pink1 you understand4 ,i found it--a pause--disagreeable4 ,how could you find it when you had not looked for it8 said ,philip4 ,another pause1 ,antoine considering the point1 which was an old one4 ,you will catch it1 he suggested1 shooting a soft glance at his brother4 ,why should ,i8 said ,philip4 ,they're perfectly harmless4 ,i shall dream of it1 said ,antoine1 shutting his eyes4 ,it was too long1 do you see1 and pink as well4 ,his brow contracted1 and he finished with gentle conviction4 ,if it comes upon my bed in the night1 ,i shall be sick4 ,of course1 most interesting of all is his musical development1 in which are involved several personalities of striking character3 ,duchtel1 the revolutionary1 more a son1 after the ,french fashion1 than a man or a musician2 ,savigny1 the celebrated alienist1 who treats the child hypnotically in his severe illnesses2 ,lemonski1 a rival child wonder1 who is like a pig1 and vulgar--which it is silly to say1 because he is a beautiful artist1 according to ,antoine2 ,reuss1 the great ,german conductor1 and the boy's staunch friend1 who hates the cursed ,french training of making life weigh so heavily on its youth2 ,jacques ,charretteur1 the vagabond violinist1 a man to play ,french music in ,france2 ,ccile1 the aunt1 who has the perception to understand the little genius with the dark eyes1 whose expression was so beautiful that she could hardly bear it2 and ,ribiera1 the famous ,spanish pianist1 who warms the piano1 in ,antoine's words1 and calls the boy an intelligent ape1 by way of expressing his admiration4 ,all these people are drawn with consummate skill4 ,i think one of the most poignant passages in the book1 to me1 is ,antoine's description of how he had rat the solo at a ,london concert4 ,it was at the end of the season1 and he had been harassed by a thousand needless frictions3 ,the first part had gone pretty well1 though ,i did not like how the ,duchtel sounded4 ,i thought that was the violin1 perhaps--and a new room4 ,it was a bad room1 pretty1 but stupid for the sound4 ,i heard much too much1 so ,i was sure they were not hearing properly4 ,they were extremely still1 and made a little clapping at the end4 ,i did not find it a good concert1 but ,wurst in the interval said it was very well1 and ,i should not excite myself4 ,so when ,i did not1 then ,i was tired1 and it seemed stupider than before4 ,and at last that thing came1 the ,mirski ',caprice1' which you know how detestable4 ,the passages are hard in that thing1 but ,i know them4 ,every morning ,i played them to ,moricz1 so now ,i do not trouble4444 ,and then1 in the middle of it1 ,i heard ,peter ,axel playing wrong4444 ,and ,i was frightened horribly4444 ,and ,i made him an awful frown for forgetting it1 and ,peter was looking at me4 ,his face was not happy like it generally is4 ,it was like one of those worst dreams4 ,and1 of course1 ,i stopped playing1 because it cannot be like that4 ,and ,peter said ',go back1' very quietly1 making a lot of little passages and returning for me to find1 do you see8 ,he gave you a chance to pick up1 eh8 said ,philip4 ,and you couldn't4 ,couldn't6 ,i would not4 ,i was furious--awful4444 ,i said a rude thing to ,axel in passing1 and went off the estrade4 ,and they all clapped together down there1 bah6--though they knew it was not finished4 ,they were sorry ,i had stopped--because they were people who like a difficult ,caprice1 to be amused by it4 ,but ,i was not amused4 ,nor ,peter1 very much4 ,he laughed sharply4 ,don't1 ,i say1 said ,philip4 ,it's all over now4 ,it doesn't matter1 really4 ,everybody forgets1 now and then 444 ,i do not1 said ,antoine4 ,i do not know how it is to forget4 ,i know that thing--,i know all the little notes1 long ago1 before ,moricz--since years4 ,it is not possible to forget a little concert piece that you know4444 ,did you go on again8 ,yes4 ,after ,wurst had finished talking1 ,i had to4 ,i should not have for my uncle1 but ,i had to for him4 ,he was violent1 ,wurst4 ,he said it was indigne and lche if ,i stopped1 and a lot of other words4 ,he was like a little dog barking4 ,a man like ,wurst does not 'rater4' ,he does not know how that is done4 ,his head has all the big scores inside4444 ,he did not see how it was for me to stand up on the estrade again1 with quantities of beautiful people looking kind4 ,it would have been so better if they had siffli1 like here in ,paris4 ,the book closes on an unexpected and suggestive note4 ,antoine1 who had always realized that his grandfather couldn't bear his being different in music1 had taken quietly to composing the kind of things he loved4 ,he made a quintet in which ,ribiera was given a brilliant piano part1 and which he thought beautiful--extremely4 ,but when they played it for him1 though he was moved to cry1 he found its ideas not so good as he had thought4 ,whereupon he plans to produce better ones in his new overture4 ,succession is a masterpiece of art1 and ,antoine is the most lovable and interesting character in new fiction4 ,the ,meaning of ,bergsonism ,,llewellyn ,,jones ,bergson's philosophy is the antithesis of the natural-science view of the universe as mechanism4 ,in that view the laws of nature are fixed sequences controlling matter1 or energy1 and the more complicated and faultless the mechanism the higher the life4 ,just how this mechanism became conscious of the fact that it was a mechanism--caught itself at itself1 so to speak1 and announced the laws of its own being--is a question as puzzling as the old theological one of the aseity of ,god--which is simply a ,latinized way of asking how the deity could1 being infinite1 turn himself inside out in such a manner as to become aware of his own existence and attributes4 ,in fact1 the two questions are one and the same4 ,according to ,bergson1 mechanism not only cannot explain consciousness1 but it is the very antithesis of conscious life4 ,behind mechanism he places an inextinguishable but not uncheckable vital urge with endless potentialities and with no fixed goal4 ,the progress of this elan vital is through resistance to matter1 which is simply the reversal of its own movement4 ,the onward urge is what ,bergson calls pure duration or motion1 and its collision with its own reverse movement is what appears to us as space4 ,the actual situation of life at any given time is simply a modus vivendi between this spiritual activity striving to be free1 and the reverse movement4 ,we know1 of course1 that the physical universe is simply energy running down4 ,just as a glass of water cools off1 so the sun dissipates its heat1 and so1 we are learning1 the elements break up into simpler forms1 giving off their contained energy in the forms of heat and electricity as they do so4 ,but on the other hand the plant takes unto itself that energy of the sun1 and with it builds up again the inorganic salts from its soil into higher forms with a greater content of stored energy4 ,what the plant does1 says ,bergson1 is typical and symbolical of what all life does at all times3 sets up a reverse current to the running-down tendency of the universe of matter4 ,life cannot do this easily1 but has to adapt itself to the resistance of the downward flow4 ,it does this through its motor reactions1 its sense organs1 and above all through its intelligence when that is evolved4 ,the evolution of these things gives us our ideas of space4 ,the insect cuts up its environment into spatial forms easy for it to deal with4 ,man with different sense organs probably lives in a different space world4 ,as a thing is where it acts1 it is obvious that the boundaries of things in the material realm would be quite different if we had1 for example1 some sort of sense organ adapted to identify things by their electrical properties4 ,but this identifying of things by spatial and material concepts--the mathematical order--is instrumental to the ends of action1 and the original consciousness of life1 while it included the potentialities of intellectual knowledge1 was instinctive4 ,instinct1 according to ,bergson1 is first-hand knowledge1 but knowledge incapable of conceptual extension4 ,it is therefore no use in the practical affairs of life1 but certain and immediate in its apprehension of the actual flow of life itself4 ,in its broadened form of intuition it is responsible for all the valid and original insights of the philosophers and poets4 ,the structural and dialectic forms in which philosophies have been given to the world are simply the intellectualizing process which philosophers have used to buttress--and which they have often thought produced--the insight which was prior to and independent of the system4 ,bergson's doctrine has been seized upon by apologists for every creed and for every iconoclasm4 ,bergson has been accused of every intellectual crime1 from being the intellectual father of syndicalism to being the last rich relative of struggling obscurantism4 ,the protestant theologians talk glibly of ,bergson's idea of ,god1 and use him as a stick with which to beat the hated materialist4 ,bergson himself would never apply his philosophy to the uses of the syndicalists4 ,the argument of the syndicalists themselves is simply an ingenious parody of the ,bergsonian philosophy1 as it is so far developed4 ,as mechanism and the mathematical order1 they say1 do not represent life1 we cannot by the means of natural and sociological sciences predict in advance what life will do1 and what forms it will take4 ,we cannot base revolutionary action1 for instance1 along ,marxian lines1 because the whole ,marxist philosophy rests upon the assumption that life is the slave of material forces--chemical firstly1 and economical in the human drama--and that it will therefore follow along predetermined lines4 ,if life is an elan vital1 breaking its path as it goes1 and only able to think in terms of the past1 then revolutionary activity must cut loose from the reactionary intellect1 and trust itself to its instincts2 fight its way to that freedom which is impossible in the mathematically determined intellectual realm1 and which is equally impossible of achievement by mere intellectual foresight4 ,so the syndicalist in the name of ,bergson cuts loose from all theories of the future he wishes to bring in1 preaches the general strike for its stimulating effect on the emotions of the proletarian constituents of his social elan vital--quite careless of whether it would ever be a practical success or not--and deliberately cuts loose from all forms of bourgeoise culture4 ,but the anti-revolutionists point out that ,bergson does believe in the intellect as a guide to the practical affairs of life2 and industry and production--the field of the syndicalist--are far more mechanical than they are vital4 ,in man's industrial relations he has to approximate himself as much to the machine as possible1 and for ,bergson's anti-intellectualism to be applied to this particular realm of life is as great a calamity as could happen to the doctrine4 ,and then these conservatives proceed1 less justifiably perhaps1 to train the captured gun of intuition upon the syndicalists4 ,the racial intuitions1 they say1 are older than the race's newly-found intellectual conceptions4 ,for generations the race has lived by certain instinctive rules of conduct4 ,religion1 custom1 and patriotism1 these are all sacred because they are extra-intellectual1 and they dare us to disturb these sacred things4 ,it is a strange sight--this most revolutionary philosophical doctrine being used to support all the prejudices that the ages have handed down--but we cannot deny that it is a plausible use of intuitionism1 and a more legitimate use than that to which ,sorel and his followers have put the teachings emanating from the ,college of ,france4 ,perhaps the most detailed application that ,bergson has yet made of his philosophy to the affairs of life is his application of its principles to the puzzling sthetic problem of laughter and the comic4 ,his theory is that laughter is a social corrective directed against the man who allows the dogging steps of mechanism to overtake him and imprison his spirit in a web of meaningless action4 ,the man who is walking along the street should be going in a determinate direction with a determinate end in view1 and with the ability to get there in spite of reasonable obstacles4 ,so says society4 ,when he becomes abstracted1 walks mechanically1 and in consequence falls over a brick1 we laugh at him4 ,he has permitted himself to become a machine for the nonce instead of a self-conscious spirit1 and society cannot afford to have its interests jeopardized in that way4 ,the ,international ,journal of ,ethics for ,january1 #aiad1 contains an article by ,j4 ,w4 ,scott1 who accuses ,bergson of ethical pessimism on the grounds of his view of the comic4 ,he points out that the psychology of comic action1 as ,bergson works it out1 is precisely that of moral action4 ,for in moral action1 too1 a man does what is habitual1 what is against his own self-conscious impulse1 what is mechanical in that it is a fixed course of conduct pursued without reference to the favor or disfavor of the environment4 ,the life impulse must be1 he convicts ,bergson of saying1 adaptable to its circumstances2 it must insert itself between the determinisms of matter2 it must pursue the crooked path where the straight path is too difficult4 ,it cannot follow its moral ideal without making itself ridiculous1 as indeed in real life moral people are always doing4 ,this criticism hangs on the acceptance of a moral ideal1 and if we must have an ideal in the sense of a goal beckoning us from the future1 then the criticism is well founded and ,bergson is an ethical pessimist4 ,but systematic ethics have been denied by other philosophers before ,bergson1 and most people of modern temperament are quite willing to let the whole question of a priori ethics drop4 ,they might not be willing to exchange it for the very unpoetic utilitarianism which has so often been offered in its place1 but ,bergson offers something more than that4 ,if he be an ethical pessimist1 he is not a religious pessimist4 ,of religion he has not yet spoken1 except incidentally4 ,obviously so long as he uses the scientific method in his philosophy1 proceeding from facts to their subordination in a picture whose values are given by intuitions1 he cannot present a systematic philosophy4 ,but in spite of the fact that pessimism--not only in ethics but in his view of the content of personality and its relations with the universe--is charged against him1 ,bergson means to be decidedly optimistic in his treatment of personality4 ,in his article in ,the ,hibbert ,journal for ,october1 #aiaa1 occur these remarkable words3 ,if then1 in every province1 the triumph of life is expressed by creation1 ought we not to think that the ultimate reason of human life is a creation which1 in distinction from that of the artist or man of science1 can be pursued at every moment and by all men alike8 ,i mean the creation of self by self1 the continual enrichment of personality by elements which it does not draw from outside but causes to spring forth from itself4444 ,if we admit that with man consciousness has finally left the tunnel2 that everywhere else consciousness has remained imprisoned2 that every other species corresponds to the arrest of something which in man succeeded in overcoming resistance and in expanding almost freely1 thus displaying itself in true personalities capable of remembering all and willing all and controlling their past and their future1 we shall have no repugnance in admitting that in man1 though perhaps in man alone1 consciousness pursues its path beyond this earthly life4 ,on the other suppositions of ,bergson's philosophy this is by no means so far-fetched as are most theories of immortality4 ,for the consciousness which cuts out the patterns of our spatial life here could easily cut out others in the beyond1 like enough to our present ones to carry on the continuity of our active existence4 ,the idea of survival1 or an idea that may be applied to transmundane survival1 is suggested by ,laurence ,binyon in a recent volume of poems entitled ,auguries4 ,he writes3 ,and because in my heart is a flowing no hour can bind ,because through the wrongs of the world looking forth and behind ,i find for my thoughts not a close1 not an end1 ,with you will ,i follow1 nor crave the strength of the strong ,nor a fortress of time to enshield me from storms that rend4 ,this is life1 this is home1 to be poured as a stream as a song4 ,this is quoted not only because it represents the poetical realization of ,bergson's message1 but because it points to one reason why the charge of pessimism has been brought against ,bergson even in this connection4 ,if only progress is our home1 if there be no stability1 how is that permanence of values to be achieved which ,hffding declares to be the essential axiom of religion8 ,we may love our faithful dog1 but according to ,bergson it represents an evolutionary blind alley4 ,we may create as we will1 but we shall survive our creations4 ,here1 after all1 is at the best a tempered optimism4 ,no reunions are promised in the ,bergsonian paradise4 ,only a perpetual streaming that does not1 so far as ,bergson has yet told us 7and that is an important point7 ever wind safely home to sea4 ,instinct and ,intelligence ,clarence ,darrow recently echoed that high estimate of instinct at the expense of intelligence which has been the fashion since ,bergson4 ,some of these days1 when that case has been overstated often enough1 there will be a return swing of that pendulum4 ,the instinctive wasp who1 in order to paralyze it1 knows how to sting a caterpillar as though she knew its anatomy may not always seem in all respects superior to the human surgeon who does actually know anatomy and can apply that knowledge in a thousand ways--versus the wasp's one4 ,some day it will strike some one that no creature has an instinct against poison comparable in delicacy1 subtlety1 and fullness with a chemist's noninstinctive1 intelligent knowledge of poisons--and nonpoisons4 ,so with a number of things4 ,the pragmatic objection to our present glorification of instinct is that it tends to become a glorification of intellectual whim4--,george ,cram ,cook in ,the ,chicago ,evening ,post4 ,the ,jewels of a ,lapidary ,emerson's ,journals1 ,volume ,,ix1 #ahef-ahfc4 7,houghton ,mifflin ,company1 ,boston47 ,at least nine events of permanent historic interest have occurred in ,american literature within the past few years3 they are represented by the publication of nine volumes of ,emerson's ,journals4 ,those who are trying to achieve a personal religion1 which acknowledges ,god as an immanence instead of a proposition1 hail with a quiet joy every extraction from the great mine in which ,emerson stored the jewels of his life4 ,if we do not recognize them as lapidarious we must perceive them as the better metals of ourselves1 for this friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit inhumed those spiritual values which all men at some time or another seek as their own4 ,emerson buoys us up for our common struggles and makes us conscious of that aid which is the awakening of latent power4 ,he composed the bricks which thousands of builders have used in fashioning beautiful personal temples4 ,i dot evermore in my endless journal1 he wrote to ,carlyle2 444 the arrangement loiters long1 and ,i get a brick-kiln instead of a house4 ,speaking of his philosophical work he confesses a formidable tendency to the lapidary style1 and adds1 ,i build my house of boulders4 ,emerson's published journals are kilns and quarries from which the foundation materials for the edifice of character have been obtained by countless builders4 ,if he could not construct a system of philosophy1 as ,arnold alleges1 he could and did provide the boulders and indicate the pattern which others have used4 ,he is a part of every well-read ,american1 and1 chiefly through ,carlyle1 still lives in the land of his forefathers4 ,he was an inspiration to ,whitman1 one of whose specimen days closed with a long and blessed evening with ,emerson4 ,such evenings are as real now as in ,whitman's time1 and are more commonly experienced1 for ,emerson is westward-bound4 ,he has traveled slowly in this direction3 boulders are not carried by exploiters and pioneers who build and live in a world not of the spirit but of the senses4 ,with the establishing of easier communication between centers of thought and fields of action in ,america1 ,new ,england boulders were brought hither1 to chink the crude walls of western life2 and it is a token of ,emerson's vitality and spiritual universality that his bricks and boulders are discoverable in all sorts of shacks which men are trying to improve4 ,lumber decays1 but boulders remain1 and some of them become talismanic4 ,in reading and re-reading ,emerson's ,journals one is impressed with their remarkable quotability1 and in this mechanical handiness of his work we have a partial explanation of the slowness with which it has been assimilated4 ,boulders are fated to be knocked about before they are appreciated4 ,we throw them at one another with a sort of physical dexterity until1 burnished and transformed1 they are recognized as adapted to higher uses4 ,we do not flippantly quote or mention the authors who have become personal to us2 ,i quote ,emerson's ,journal as a blessed soliloquy4 ,d4 ,c4 ,w4 ,new ,york ,letter ,,george ,,soule ,the most interesting hours of the last week ,i have spent in listening to discussions of the futurists4 ,someone told of a superb incident recently reported of a speech by ,marinetti1 the enunciator of the futurist philosophy4 ,marinetti1 after denouncing the past in his usual method1 proceeded to eliminate women from his world4 ,but1 said someone1 how will you continue the human race8 ,we will not continue the human race1 rejoined ,marinetti1 with superb clat4 ,daring and magnificent utterance6 ,but1 after all1 perhaps he is the only sane one1 and the norm of human intelligence quite insane4 ,that fits in well with the recently reported discovery of a ,paris scientist1 that all variations in the course of evolution are the result of disease1 and that there would have been no man had not some ape had a parasite in his thyroid gland4 ,all of which goes to show that ,i was right in my statement 7which ,chesterton probably has said before me7 that all logical extremes are illogical1 since the world is based on an eternal paradox4 ,really it is quite simple to follow the futurist line of thought once you get the hang of it4 ,for instance--two developments of painting predicted at the ,troubetzkoys4 ,in the first1 each plane in the cubist picture1 instead of being colored1 is to be numbered1 and the numbers printed in a catalogue opposite the names of the colors for which they stand4 ,thus any approach to the vulgar intrusion of realism would be avoided1 and abstract beauty furthered4 ,what chances for the imagination6 ,and think of the subtle possibilities in the mathematics of color6 ,one could surely express by some abstruse quadratic a color quite beyond the realm of visual possibility1 and thus man by one gigantic tug at his bootstraps would pull his soul out of its finite limitations4 ,the second school was aptly named the auto-symbolists4 ,in this school ,nietzschean individualism attains its sublime extreme4 ,the artist1 instead of expressing his spirit in the vulgar symbols understood by everybody1 arbitrarily chooses a symbol known only to himself4 ,if he wishes to depict a determined man going up a mountain on a mule's back he may paint a mouse-trap4 ,to him the mouse-trap perfectly expresses the particular feeling he has when viewing his own mental image of the picture he has decided to paint4 ,what matter about anybody else8 ,if you ask him cui bono8--he will reply3 why any bono at all8 ,and1 of course1 he is perfectly logical4 ,and the satisfying aristocratic aloofness of his position6 ,if people--as they surely will--study his mouse-trap and discuss in vain what it portends1 if they pay vast sums for his pictures and start a literature of criticisms to guess his unguessable riddles1 so much the better4 ,he can laugh at them with diabolical glee4 ,everybody is a fool but himself1 and he can go on creating in the seventh circle of his own soul undisturbed by the barnyard cackle of the world4 ,has the cubist literature of ,gertrude ,stein awakened echoes in ,chicago8 ,i have read it without understanding before this4 ,but one night my host--a great1 strong1 humorous1 intelligent hulk of a man1 himself a scoffer at cubism--read part of her essay on ,matisse so that it was almost intelligible4 ,his inflection and punctuation did it4 ,her chief characteristics seem to be an aversion to personal pronouns and a strict adherence to simple declarative statements1 untroubled by subordinate clauses or phrases of any kind4 ,her thought1 therefore1 resolves itself awkwardly in a four-square way4 ,the multiplicity of her planes becomes confusing after a page1 but each plane stands alone4 ,thus--7,i quote inaccurately7--,some ones knew this one to be expressing something being struggling4 ,some ones knew this one not to be expressing something being struggling4 ,this one expressed something being struggling4 ,this one did not express something being struggling4 ,which1 of course1 is the cubist way of saying that ,some thought he was trying to express struggle in an object1 others thought the contrary4 ,as a matter of fact1 he sometimes did express struggle2 sometimes he did not4 ,but it seems her early work is now getting too obvious1 so she is in the throes of a later phase4 ,in her ,portrait of ,miss ,dodge she has eliminated verbs and sentence structure entirely1 flinging a succession of image-nouns at the reader4 ,one can surely not accuse her of prettiness4 ,the craze for colored wigs is1 of course1 an outgrowth of futurism4 ,why should a man be any color except that which his will dictates8 ,this has long 7a few months7 been the cry of the painter1 and the smart set has echoed3 ,why should he8 ,women in green and blue wigs have been seen in ,new ,york already4 ,but1 of course1 it would be senseless to stop there2 if one has an orange toup he should surely have a mauve face4 ,yellow complexions are worn with indigo hair4 ,we have long been accustomed to blue powdered noses on ,fifth ,avenue1 and the setting of diamonds in the teeth is an old story4 ,the only trouble with this epoch-making idea is that it is old4 ,phoenician women did it6 ,and wasn't it ,edward ,lear who wrote of ,the ,jumblies3 ,their heads are green1 and their hands are blue1 ,and they went to sea in a sieve8 ,of course1 if one doesn't believe in this new development of art1 but is naturalistic1 he should be brave enough to chase his idea to its lair and act upon it1 like ,lady ,constance ,stewart ,richardson1 who is now tripping about the homes of the rich in ,new ,york with nothing at all on--or worse than nothing4 ,forgive my preposterosities6 ,but the ridiculous seriousness with which everything unfamiliar is taken by a sensation-sated haute monde is such a brilliant target for satire4 ,i think with immense relief of a wonderful bit of sky1 and a long stretch of beach1 and of all things tangible and--yes1 though it may be bourgeois--healthy4 ,to a ,lost ,friend ,,eunice ,,tietjens ,across the tide of years you come to me1 ,you whom ,i knew so long ago4 ,a poignant letter kept half carelessly1 ,a faded likeness1 dull and gray to see4444 ,and now ,i know4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,strange that ,i knew not then1--that when you stood ,in warm1 sweet flesh beneath my hand1 ,your soul tumultuous as a spring-time flood ,and life's new wonder pulsing in your blood1 ,i could not understand4 ,i could not see your soul like thin red fire ,flash downward to my gaze1 ,nor guess the strange1 half-understood desire1 ,the tumult and the question and the ire ,of those far days4 ,i saw your soul stretch longing arms to love ,in adolescent shyness bound1 ,and passionately storm the gods above4 ,yet1 since my own young heart knew naught thereof1 ,you never found4 ,it is too late now4 ,you have dropped away ,in formless silence from my ken1 ,and youth's high hopes turn backward to decay4 ,yet1 oh1 my heart were very fain to-day ,to love you then6 ,culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light4 ,it has one even yet greater6--the passion for making them prevail4--,matthew ,arnold in ,culture and ,anarchy4 ,the ,irish ,players3 ,an ,impression ,a small1 low room with walls of cool green-grey2 in the center an old brown fire-place with a great black chimney2 on the hearth a light like a deep raspberry2 at each end a chair of smudgy brown2 near the front a table toned with the walls2 on it two black mugs and a stein2 in one corner at the back1 piled against the green-grey1 flour sacks the color of dirty straw2 and standing in the foreground1 balanced as ,whistler would have done it1 a miller in a suit of brown1 a thin widow in rusty black1 a fat widow with bustles in rusty black and dirty white4--,somehow one planned beauty in that place4 ,the ,novel of ,manners 444 ,and yet1 even into ,mrs4 ,wharton's work is creeping slowly a part of the tremendous socializing spirit of today--the realization that group backgrounds1 unlighted by a sense of their relativity to other groups1 and to life1 do not amount to much more than painted scenery4 ,over in ,england1 ,wells1 with all his tremendous burden of national background and customs1 manages1 often with a desperate wrenching of impedimenta1 but always with a great resolve that commands admiration1 to inject into his massive ,english settings a humanized world atmosphere as well4 ,wells writes not of ,englishmen and ,england1 but of ,englishmen and the world4 ,and ,galsworthy1 his soul permeated by this new social sense1 writes down1 in his ,english men and women1 all humanity1 with all the tragedy and plaintive joys of human life1 with the desires and hampered fruition of the desires of all living things1 as his background4 ,not the world alone1 but life1 is the stage4--,edna ,kenton in ,the ,bookman4 ,a man should always obey the law with his body and always disobey it with his mind4--,james ,stephens in ,the ,crock of ,gold4 ,there are two great rules of life1 the one general and the other particular4 ,the first is that everyone can1 in the end1 get what he wants if he only tries4 ,this is the general rule4 ,the particular rule is that every individual is1 more or less1 an exception to the general rule4--,the ,note-,books of ,samuel ,butler4 ,forbes-,robertson's ,hamlet ,all my life ,i seem to have been asking my friends1 those ,i loved best1 those who valued the dearest1 the kindest1 the greatest1 and the strongest1 in our strange human life1 to come with me and see ,forbes-,robertson die in ,hamlet4 ,i asked them because1 as that strange young dead king sat upon his throne1 there was something1 whatever it meant--death1 life1 immortality1 what you will--of a surpassing loneliness1 something transfiguring the poor passing moment of trivial1 brutal murder into a beauty to which it was quite natural that that stern ,northern warrior1 with his winged helmet1 should bend the knee4 ,i would not exchange anything ,i have ever read or seen for ,forbes-,robertson as he sits there so still and starlit upon the throne of ,denmark4--,richard ,le ,gallienne in ,the ,century4 ,to feel1 to do1 to stride forward in elation1 chanting a poem of triumphant life6--,james ,stephens in ,the ,crock of ,gold4 ,why is it that in some places there is such a feeling of life being all one2 not merely a long picture-show for human eyes1 but a single breathing1 glowing1 growing thing1 of which we are no more important a part than the swallows and magpies1 the foals and sheep in the meadows1 the sycamores and ash trees and flowers in the fields1 the rocks and little bright streams1 or even than the long fleecy clouds and their soft-shouting drivers1 the winds8--,john ,galsworthy in ,the ,atlantic ,monthly4 ,the ,dying ,pantheist to the ,priest ,henry ,a4 ,beers1 the author of this dynamic poem from which we quote only a part1 is a professor of literature at ,yale--a man supposedly conventional and soft spoken6 ,take your ivory ,christ away3 ,no dying god shall have my knee1 ,while live gods breathe in this wild wind ,and shout from yonder dashing sea4 ,o no1 the old gods are not dead3 ,i think that they will never die2 ,but ,i1 who lie upon this bed ,in mortal anguish--what am ,i8 ,a wave that rises with a breath ,above the infinite watery plain1 ,to foam and sparkle in the sun ,a moment ere it sink again4 ,the eternal undulation runs3 ,a man1 ,i die2 perchance to be1 ,next life1 a white-throat on the wind1 ,a daffodil on ,tempe's lea4 ,they lied who said that ,pan was dead3 ,life was1 life is1 and life shall be4 ,so take away your crucifix-- ,the ever-living gods for me6 --,the ,yale ,review4 ,interesting ,new or ,forthcoming ,books ,classification in this list implies a review in an early issue4 ,notes of a ,son and ,brother1 by ,henry ,james4 ,collected ,essays of ,rudolph ,eucken4 ,the ,fugitive1 by ,john ,galsworthy4 ,plays1 by ,tchekoff and ,andreyeff4 ,stories of ,russian ,life1 by ,tchekoff4 ,selected ,essays of ,alice ,meynell4 ,second ,nights1 by ,arthur ,ruhl4 --,scribner4 ,stories of ,red ,hanrahan1 by ,william ,butler ,yeats4 ,the ,tragedy of ,pompey1 by ,john ,masefield4 ,chitra1 by ,rabindranath ,tagore4 ,the ,possessed1 by ,dostoevsky4 ,the ,flight and ,other ,poems1 by ,george ,e4 ,woodberry4 --,macmillan4 ,when ,ghost ,meets ,ghost1 by ,william ,de ,morgan4 ,nowadays1 by ,george ,middleton4 ,angel ,island1 by ,inez ,haynes ,gillmore4 ,euripides and ,his ,age1 by ,gilbert ,murray4 ,social ,insurance1 by ,i4 ,m4 ,rubinow4 --,holt4 ,the ,world ,set ,free1 by ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 ,the ,way of ,all ,flesh1 by ,samuel ,butler 7new edition74 ,wagner as ,man and ,artist1 by ,ernest ,newman4 ,the ,philosophy of ,ruskin1 by ,andre ,chevrillon4 --,dutton4 ,little ,essays in ,literature and ,life1 by ,richard ,burton4 ,beaumont1 the ,dramatist1 by ,charles ,m4 ,gayley4 ,arthur ,rackham's ,book of ,pictures4 ,prostitution in ,europe1 by ,abraham ,flexner4 --,century4 ,the ,poems of ,francois ,villon4 ,knave of ,hearts1 by ,arthur ,symons4 ,essays of ,francis ,grierson 7new editions74 ,the ,fortunate ,youth1 by ,william ,j4 ,locke4 --,lane4 ,the ,making of an ,englishman1 by ,w4 ,l4 ,george4 ,the ,truth ,about ,women1 by ,c4 ,gasquoine ,hartley4 --,dodd1 ,mead4 ,our ,friend1 ,john ,burroughs1 by ,clara ,barrus4 ,paul ,verlaine1 by ,wilfred ,thorley4 ,the ,japanese ,empire1 by ,t4 ,philip ,terry4 --,houghton ,mifflin4 ,knowledge and ,life1 by ,rudolf ,eucken4 ,the ,science of ,happiness1 by ,jean ,finot4 --,putnam4 ,florian ,mayr1 by ,baron von ,wolzogen4 ,socialism and ,motherhood1 by ,john ,spargo4 --,huebsch4 ,richard ,wagner1 by ,oliver ,huckel4 ,the ,education of ,karl ,witte1 translated by ,leo ,wiener4 --,crowell4 ,crowds1 ,jr41 by ,gerald ,stanley ,lee4 ,a ,thousand ,years ,ago1 by ,percy ,mac,kaye4 --,doubleday4 ,the ,masque of ,saint ,louis1 by ,percy ,mac,kaye4 --,stokes4 ,old ,mole1 by ,gilbert ,cannan4 --,appleton4 ,poems1 by ,brian ,hooker4 --,yale ,university4 ,the ,clean ,heart1 by ,m4 ,a4 ,hutchinson4 --,little1 ,brown4 ,some ,scribner ,spring ,books ,notes of a ,son and ,brother ,by ,,henry ,,james ,illustrated1 #b4ej net2 postage extra ,this is the continuation of the account1 in ,a ,small ,boy and ,others1 of the early years of ,william and ,henry ,james and their brothers1 with much about their father and their friends4 ,the story of the life in ,switzerland and ,geneva1 and later on in ,newport and ,cambridge1 tells not only their own experiences but a great deal about such men as ,john ,la,farge1 ,hunt1 ,professor ,norton1 ,professor ,childs1 and ,ralph ,waldo ,emerson1 who was a close friend of ,henry ,james1 ,senior4 ,the description of the ,civil ,war time and of ,wilkinson ,james's experiences with ,colonel ,shaw's colored regiment are particularly interesting4 ,the illustrations are from drawings made by ,william ,james in the early part of his career when he was studying to be a painter4 ,shallow ,soil ,by ,,knut ,,hamsun ,translated from the ,norwegian by ,carl ,chr4 ,hyllested4 #a4ce net2 postage extra ,introduces to the ,english-speaking world a writer already a classic not only in his own country but throughout continental ,europe4 ,the publication of ,shallow ,soil is accordingly a literary event of the first magnitude in the sphere of fiction4 ,hamsun is the greatest living ,scandinavian novelist and this work alone justifies his fame4 ,it is a social picture of ,christiania1 and indeed of generally modern life4 ,a ,village ,romeo and ,juliet ,by ,,gottfried ,,keller ,with a ,biographical and ,critical ,introduction by ,edith ,wharton4 ,translated by ,a4 ,c4 ,bahlmann1 #a4jj net2 postage extra ,this love story of ,swiss peasant life--whose title conveys the character of its plot--is generally regarded as the finest and most representative production of the great ,swiss novelist4 ,but it has a still further element of interest beyond that which necessarily attaches to so fine a piece of writing--the singularly modern spirit which actuates the characters and inspires the writer4 ,plays by ,bjrnstjerne ,bjrnson ,translated from the ,norwegian1 with ,introductions1 by ,edwin ,bjrkman4 ,each with ,frontispiece4 #a4ej net2 postage extra ,second ,series ,love and ,geography ,beyond ,human 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that4 ,too fine1 and not fine enough4 ,i couldn't be a saint and martyr1 and ,i wouldn't be a soulless doll4 ,neither one thing nor the other--that's the tragedy4 ,it has a deep significance when taken in connection with the feminist movement of today4 ,mural ,painting in ,america ,by ,,edwin ,h4 ,,blashfield ,illustrated1 #b4jj net2 postage extra ,the entire volume shows clearness of thought1 careful analysis of the topics discussed1 and a facility of expression that is seldom found in books written by men of action rather than words4 ,its perusal will repay any one of culture4 --,the ,american ,architect4 ,charles ,scribner's ,sons ,fifth ,avenue1 ,new ,york ,two ,important ,biographies ,published by ,houghton ,mifflin ,company ,two ,americans1 great in the world of politics and illustrious in their citizenship1 have lately come into their full stature of fame through the lives of ,,lyman ,,trumbull and ,,harrison ,,gray ,,otis4 ,,the ,,life ,,of ,,lyman ,,trumbull is the work of 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the half-dozen women writers who are contributing work of real value to modern ,english fiction4--,sunday ,times4 ,,promise #a4ce net1 carriage extra ,she appears to us to possess that true imaginative gift1 as distinguished from the mere power of vivid reporting1 which is the necessary qualification for continuing to produce work of permanent value in fiction4--,times4 ,for a first novel ',promise' is exceptionally able--one that should have notable successors4--,nation4 ,we are left to hope that the life of this ,english ,jean ,christophe will continue through at least another volume1 filled with people as variegated and attractive as those to whom we are introduced in this4--,spectator4 ,it is difficult to imagine anything being better in its kind than ',promise4' ,it is the account of a human life from infancy up to the early beginning of a public career--one only wishes it were to be continued in another volume6--,chicago ,evening ,post4 ,,le ,,gentleman3 ,an ,idyll of the 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the ,freedom of ,thought ,william ,r4 ,shepherd's ,latin ,america ,w4 ,t4 ,councilman's ,disease and ,its ,causes ,c4 ,m4 ,andrew's ,the ,colonial ,period ,william ,mac,donald's ,from ,jefferson to ,lincoln ,f4 ,l4 ,paxson's ,the ,civil ,war ,a4 ,f4 ,pollard's ,the ,history of ,england ,w4 ,warde ,fowler's ,rome ,benjamin ,moore's ,origin and ,nature of ,life ,thomson and ,gede's ,evolution ,william ,mac,dougall's ,psychology ,r4 ,r4 ,marett's ,anthropology ,j4 ,r4 ,mac,donald's ,socialism ,w4 ,t4 ,brewster's ,writing ,english ,prose ,john ,masefield's ,shakespeare ,g4 ,l4 ,strachey's ,landmarks in ,french ,literature ,g4 ,f4 ,moore's ,the ,literature of the ,old ,testament ,b4 ,w4 ,bacon's ,the ,making of the ,new ,testament ,bertrand ,russell's ,problems of ,philosophy ,,william ,,de ,,morgan',s ,,when ,,ghost ,,meets ,,ghost ,new ,novel ,a long1 delightful romance in the measure and vein of ,joseph ,vance4 #fb pages4 #a4fj net4 ,,inez ,,haynes ,,gillmore',s ,,angel ,,island ,new 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recall the best period of the eighteenth century1 whilst in his designs for tapestry he frankly emulated the light grace of the ,french craftsmen4 ,yet he could treat sterner subjects in a severer style4 ,his large canvases1 dealing in a realistic and dreadful fashion with the horrors of the ,french war1 prove that he was artistically the precursor of ,manet4 ,his etchings are superb4 ,goya's life was as full of incident as that of ,benvenuto ,cellini4 ,although a ,court painter he was a fervent ,republican4 ,at last1 sick of ,bourbon misrule1 he fled to ,france1 and died in ,bordeaux1 ,april #af1 #ahbh1 at the advanced age of eighty-two4 ,the ,science of ,happiness ,by ,,jean ,,finot ,author of ,problems of the ,sexes1 etc4 ,translated from the ,french by ,mary ,j4 ,safford #ho4 #a4ge net ,the author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment1 as well as many allied questions4 ,amid the noisy tumult of life1 amid the dissonance that divides man from man1 remarks ,m4 ,finot1 the ,science of ,happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls4 ,knowledge and ,life ,by ,,rudolf ,,eucken ,author of ,the ,truth of ,religion1 ,the ,life of the ,spirit1 etc4 #a4ei net4 ,by mail1 #a4fe ,professor ,eucken's plea in this new volume of the ,crown ,theological ,library is that the only knowledge which may be termed genuine springs from the demands and aspirations of man's own deepest life4 ,the book forms an excellent epitome of the author's views concerning the need of a ,metaphysic of ,life4 ,one ,generation of a ,norfolk ,house ,a ,contribution to ,elizabethan ,history ,by ,,augustus ,,jessopp1 ,d4,d4 ,author of ,the ,coming of the ,friars1 etc41 etc4 ,third ,edition4 ,entirely ,revised and ,reset4 #b4be net ,dr4 ,jessopp has lent interest to everything he has written1 and this study of his throws a welcome flood of light on a period which has been distorted alike by fanaticism and ignorance4 ,it is a contribution to ,elizabethan history of the first importance1 particularly as a picture of the relation of the ,jesuits to the political events of the time1 and of the attitude of the government toward them4 ,the author in elucidation of the merely personal narrative has introduced certain phases and aspects which have been neglected or ignored by other historians4 ,the present edition has been revised with the aid of the author's memoranda made during the last thirty years4 ,the ,sonnets of ,william ,shakespeare ,new ,light and ,old ,evidence ,by ,,countess ,,de ,,chambrum #ab ,full-page ,illustrations4 #a4ge net4 ,by mail1 #a4ij ,this new edition of the ,sonnets contains a readable as well as scholarly contribution to a most unsettled literary problem4 ,there is new evidence solidifying some old theories1 and there are ingenious suggestions opening up new vistas to the exploring mind4 ,continuity ,presidential ,address to the ,british ,association ,by ,,sir 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net4 ,the ,youngest ,world ,by ,,robert ,,dunn ,dr4 ,frederic ,taber ,cooper1 the well-known reviewer for ,the ,bookman1 who read the advance sheets of ,mr4 ,dunn's remarkable story of ,alaska1 ,the ,youngest ,world1 says3 ,plenty of authors have given us the physical suffering of the far north3 the dropping away of the outer veneer of civilized man and the reappearance of the human animal1 the brutishness and degradation brought about by cold and darkness and hunger4 ,mr4 ,dunn's book stands in a different class3 there is no mistaking its absolute first-hand reflection of life--the life of strange1 motley hordes of drifting outcasts and adventurers4 ,but unlike the ,jack ,london school1 he never forgets that man is a little lower than the angels1 as well as a little higher than the beasts2 he never loses sight of the innate greatness of humanity1 the greater spiritual as well as physical heights to which he may aspire4444 ,the book is good1 big1 significant1 coming as it does in a 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