,,the ,,little ,,review ,literature ,drama ,music ,art ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,,editor ,,april1 #aiad ,the ,germ #a ,rebellion ,george ,soule #c ,man and ,superman ,george ,burman ,foster #c ,lines for ,two ,futurists ,arthur ,davison ,ficke #h ,a ,new ,winged ,victory ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson #i ,correspondence3 ,two ,views of ,h4 ,g4 ,wells #ab ,rupert ,brooke and ,whitman #ae ,more ,about ,the ,new ,note #af ,sonnet ,sara ,teasdale #ag ,sonnet ,eunice ,tietjens #ah ,the ,critics' ,critic ,m4 ,h4 ,p4 #ah ,women and the ,life ,struggle ,clara ,e4 ,laughlin #bj ,change #bd ,the ,poetry of ,alice ,meynell ,llewellyn ,jones #be ,an ,ancient ,radical ,william ,l4 ,chenery #bh ,equal ,suffrage3 ,the ,first ,real ,test ,henry ,blackman ,sell #cj ,education of ,yesterday and ,today ,william ,saphier #ca ,some ,book ,reviews #cc ,new ,york ,letter ,george ,soule #df ,william ,butler ,yeats to ,american ,poets #dg ,letters to the ,little ,review #di ,the ,best ,sellers #ee #be cents a copy ,,the ,,little ,,review ,fine ,arts ,building ,,chicago #b4ej a year ,,the ,,little ,,review ,vol4 ,i ,,april1 #aiad ,no4 #b ,copyright1 #aiad1 by ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson4 ,the ,germ ,in #ahej an astounding thing happened in ,england4 ,a little group of artists and poets1 known as the ,pre-,raphaelite ,brotherhood1 began the publication of a magazine4 ,it was to be given over to thoughts towards nature in poetry1 literature1 and art2 and it was called ,the ,germ4 ,the idea was ,dante ,gabriel ,rossetti's1 who was then just twenty-two years old4 ,thomas ,woolner1 of the same age1 and ,holman ,hunt and ,millais1 both somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty1 were dragged willingly into the plan4 ,william ,michael ,rossetti1 aged nineteen1 was made editor2 ,james ,collinson and ,frederick ,george ,stephens were added to the four original ,p4 ,r4 ,b4's2 ,john ,lucas ,tupper1 ,ford ,madox ,brown1 ,walter ,howell ,deverell1 ,william ,cave ,thomas1 ,john ,hancock1 and ,coventry ,patmore were intimately connected with the project2 and ,christina1 then eighteen1 offered her poems for publication therein4 ,the ,germ was published for four months1 and then it died4 ,like all serious things it could find no immediate audience2 like all revolutionary things it was called juvenile and regarded with shyness2 and like all original and beautiful things it has managed to stay very much alive4 ,for1 in #ahii1 a limited edition of ,the ,germ in facsimile was brought out1 and ,william ,michael ,rossetti wrote an extensive introduction for it in which he described minutely the whole glorious undertaking4 ,it is these facsimiles that we have been looking through with such awe1 and which tell such an interesting story4 ,here was a league of unquiet and ambitious young spirits1 bent upon making a fresh start of their own1 and a clean sweep of some effete respectabilities4 ,on the night of ,december #ai1 #ahdi1 when the first issue of the magazine was impending1 they met in ,dante ,rossetti's studio at #gb ,newman ,street to discuss a change of title4 ,the ,p4 ,r4 ,b4 ,journal and ,thoughts ,towards ,nature 7the extra-peculiar suggestion of ,dante1 according to his brother7 had been discarded1 and ,mr4 ,cave ,thomas had drawn up a list of sixty-five possibilities1 among them ,the ,seed1 ,the ,scroll1 ,the ,harbinger1 ,first ,thoughts1 ,the ,sower1 ,the ,truth-,seeker1 ,the ,acorn1 and ,the ,germ4 ,the last was decided upon and the first issue came out about the first of ,january4 ,seven hundred copies were printed and about two hundred sold4 ,this wasn't encouraging1 so the second issue was limited to five hundred2 but it sold even less well than the first1 and the ,p4 ,r4 ,b4's were at the end of their resources4 ,then the printing-firm came to the rescue and undertook the responsibility of two more numbers4 ,the title was changed to ,art and ,poetry1 being ,thoughts towards ,nature1 conducted principally by ,artists2 but all efforts proved useless4444 ,people would not buy ,the ,germ1 and would scarcely consent to know of its existence4 ,so the magazine breathed its last1 and its obsequies were conducted in the strictest privacy4 ,it did attract some critical attention1 however4 ,the ,critic wrote3 ,we cannot contemplate this young and rising school in art and literature without the most ardent anticipation of something great to grow from it1 something new and worthy of our age1 and we bid them godspeed upon the path they have adventured4 ,others remarked that the poetry in ,the ,germ was all beautiful1 marred by not a few affectations--the genuine metal1 but wanting to be purified from its dross2 much of it of extraordinary merit1 and equal to anything that any of our known poets could write1 save ,tennyson4444 ,well--the situation demands a philosopher4 ,we might undertake the rle ourselves1 except that we're too near the situation1 having just started a magazine with certain high hopes of our own4 ,on the cover of each issue of ,the ,germ appeared this poem by ,william ,rossetti1 the mastery of which1 some one said1 would require a ,browning ,society's united intellects3 ,when whoso merely hath a little thought ,will plainly think the thought which is in him-- ,not imaging another's bright or dim1 ,not mangling with new words what others taught2 ,when whoso speaks1 from having either sought ,or only found1--will speak1 not just to skim ,a shallow surface with words made and trim1 ,but in that very speech the matter brought3 ,be not too keen to cry--,so this is all6-- ,a thing ,i might myself have thought as well1 ,but would not say it1 for it was not worth6 ,ask3 ,is this truth8 ,for is it still to tell ,that be the theme a point or the whole earth1 ,truth is a circle1 perfect1 great or small8 ,patmore's ,the ,seasons1 ,christina ,rossetti's ,dream ,land1 ,dante's ,my ,sister's ,sleep and ,hand and ,soul1 ,woolner's ,my ,beautiful ,lady and ,of ,my ,lady in ,death1 ,tupper's ,the ,subject in ,art1 ,william ,rossetti's ,her ,first ,season1 and a long review of ,clough's ,bothic of ,toper-na-fuosich make up the first number4 ,in the others are ,the ,blessed ,damozel1 ,christina's ,an ,end and ,a ,pause of ,thought1 ,patmore's ,stars and ,moon1 ,john ,orchard's ,dialogue on ,art1 and many other things of value1 concluding with a review of ,browning's ,christmas ,eve and ,easter ,day1 in which ,william ,rossetti establishes with elaborate seriousness1 through six pages of solemn and awesome sentences1 that ,browning's style is copious and certainly not other than appropriate2 that if you will understand him1 you shall4 ,all this came to our mind the other day when some one accused us of being juvenile4 ,what hideous stigma was thereby put upon us8 ,the only grievous thing about juvenility is its unwillingness to be frank2 it usually tries to appear very1 very old and very1 very wise4 ,the ,germ was quite frankly young2 otherwise it could not have been so full of death poetry1 for it is youth's most natural affectation to steep itself in death4 ,but ,the ,germ might have been even more juvenile and so avoided some of the heavy1 sumptuous sentences in that ,browning review4 ,it would have gained in readableness without any possible sacrifice of beauty or truth4 ,in their poetry the ,pre-,raphaelites were as simple and spontaneous as children2 in their criticism they were rhetorical4 ,our sympathy is somehow very strongly with the spontaneity--whatever dark juvenile crimes it may be guilty of--in the eyes of those who merely look but do not see4 ,rebellion ,,george ,,soule ,sing me no song of the wind and rain-- ,the wind and the rain are better4 ,i'll swing to the road on the gusty plain ,without any load1 ,and shatter your fetter4 ,and when you sing of the strange1 bright sea1 ,i'll leave your dark little singing ,for the plunging shore where foam leaps free ,and long waves roar ,and gulls go winging4 ,sorrow-dark ladies you've dreamed afar2 ,i stay not to hear their praises4 ,but here is a woman you cannot mar1 ,in life arrayed2 ,her spirit blazes4 ,i shall not stiffen and die in your songs1 ,flatten between your pages1 ,but trample the earth and jostle the throngs1 ,try out life's worth-- ,and burst all cages6 ,man and ,superman ,,george ,,burman ,,foster ,in his voluptuous vagabondage ,rousseau at length halted at ,paris1 where he managed to worry through some inconstant years4 ,the thing that saved the day for him was the fragment of a pamphlet that blew across his path in one of his rambles1 announcing a prize to be awarded by the ,academy of ,dijon for the best answer to an extraordinary question4 ,had the renascence of the arts and sciences ennobled morals8 ,that was a flash of lightning which lit up a murky night and helped this bewildered and lonely wanderer to get his bearings4 ,thoughts came to him demoniacally which shaped his entire future and won him no small place in the history of humanity4 ,answer is ,no6 said ,rousseau4 ,and his answer was awarded the academic prize4 ,it seems strange that the history of his times sided with ,rousseau's ,no4 ,certainly it was the first fiery meteor of the ,french revolution4 ,it pronounced the first damnatory sentence upon a culture that had already reached the point of collapse4 ,in his own body and soul ,rousseau had bitterly experienced the curse of this culture4 ,it was largely responsible for his heart's abnormal yearning whose glow was consuming him4 ,instead of ennobling morals this culture had inwardly barbarized man4 ,then it galvanized and painted the outside of life4 ,and then life became a glittering lie4 ,thus ,rousseau became prophet in this desert of culture1 and called men to repentance4 ,back from culture to nature1 was his radical cry2 back from what man has made out of himself to what nature meant him to be4 ,nature gave man free use of his limbs2 culture has bound them with all sorts of bindings1 until he is stiff1 and short-winded1 and crippled4 ,according to nature man lives his own life2 man is what he seems and seems what he is2 according to culture he is cunning1 and crafty1 and mendacious4 ,the eighteenth-century man of culture hearkened with attentive soul to the dirge in which one of its noblest sons vented his tortured heart4 ,the melancholy music bruised from this prophet's heart silenced the wit and ridicule of even a ,voltaire1 who wanted to know1 however1 whether the idea was that man was to go on all fours again4 ,in a few decades the feet of revolutionary ,frenchmen were at the door ready1 with few and short prayers1 to bear to its last abode that culture whose moral worth even a ,french ,academy had called in question1 and for whose moral condemnation had awarded the first prize4 ,now it is our turn6 ,what is the good of our culture8 ,such is the query of a host of people who know nothing thereof save the wounds it has inflicted upon them--a host of people who face our culture with the bitter feeling that they have created it with the sweat of their brows1 but have not been permitted to taste its joys4 ,such1 too1 is the query of others who1 satiated with its beneficence1 have been its pioneers1--a ,john ,stuart ,mill1 political economist1 who doubts whether all our cultural progress has mitigated the sufferings of a single human being2 a ,huxley1 naturalist1 who finds the present condition of the larger part of humanity so intolerable today that1 were no way of improvement to be found1 he would welcome the collision of a kindly comet that would smash our petty planet into smithereens4 ,also1 there is your proletariat4 ,and there is your culture on summits far out of his reach4 ,the more inaccessible it is1 shining there with a radiance that never falls upon him1 the less does he reflect that all is not gold that glitters4 ,then there is your philanthropist1 foremost in culture of mind and heart1 surveying the masses far beneath him1 in the slime and grime of life1 and doubting at last whether any labor of love can lift men up to where he thinks men ought to be2 whether1 after all1 it can bring joy to men who are sick and sore with the load of life4 ,not to be partial1 one may magnanimously cite your philistine also--the man of the golden mean1 the man of sanity1 as mediocrity has ever brand-marked itself1 who hates ultra4 ,for the life of him your philistine cannot understand how a reasonable man can have any doubt about our culture4 ,does he not read in his favorite newspaper how gloriously we have progressed8 ,does he not encore the prodigious achievements of our technique8 ,has he not heard his crack spellbinder orate on the cultural felicity that follows our flag8 ,down with the disloyalty of highbrow doubters6 ,now it was from an entirely different side1 indeed it was from an entirely different standpoint1 that ,friedrich ,nietzsche contemplated modern culture1 particularly the national culture of the ,german ,fatherland4 ,what horrified him was not simply the content1 but the criterion1 of our culture4 ,he sharply scrutinized the ideals which we set ourselves in our culture4 ,he found not simply our achievements but our ideals1 ourselves even1 so inferior1 so vulgar1 so contemptible1 that he began to doubt whether even the ,germans could be recognized as a culture people or not4 ,hence ,nietzsche became the most ruthless iconoclast of our culture4 ,unlike the majority1 unlike the scholars1 the philanthropists1 the philistines1 ,nietzsche was not moved by the misery of the masses1 by the great social need of our time4 ,he did not regret that the boon of our culture was shared by so few1 inasmuch as1 in his opinion1 this boon was of very doubtful value4 ,he found our life so barbarous1 so culture-hostile1 that he still missed the first elements of a true culture among us4 ,hence ,nietzsche lunged against status quo4 ,he did what he himself called unzeitmssig1 untimely4 ,he flung a question1 more burning than any other1 into our time--more burning than even the social question1 constituting indeed the main part of that question4 ,it was the question as to how man fared in this culture--the question as to what man got out of it and as to what it got out of man4 ,never before had this question been put as ,nietzsche put it4 ,we should recall that ,nietzsche was not one of those who had experienced the extremes of either plenty or want1 nor was he one of those who filled the wide space between the two4 ,to him1 the pessimism of the discontented and the optimism of the fortunate and the satisfied were alike superficial1 if not impertinent4 ,it was not a question of happiness at all4 ,in bitter1 biting sarcasm he says1 with reference to the ,english utilitarian happiness morality3 ,i do not seek my happiness2 only an ,englishman seeks his happiness2 ,i seek my work4 ,no2 his was a question which his conscience put to culture4 ,was it a culture of the earth1 or of man8 ,here ,nietzsche probes home4 ,and he alone did it4 ,the most diverse censors of our time had not seen and said that no matter how desirable1 no matter how gloriously conceived the new order of things might be1 man must be the decisive thing2 man must tip the scales4 ,it was this that went against the grain4 ,mightier machines1 larger cities1 better apartments1 bigger schools1 what was the good of it all1 et id omne genus1 if new and greater men did not arise8 ,so said ,nietzsche4 ,and he said it with high scorn to a generation which had forgotten that man is not for culture1 but culture for man2 of man1 by man1 for man4 ,every people seems to pass through a period in which it is obsessed with the idea that the causes of popular prosperity are at once motive and criterion of culture2 that the natural laws of economics are the universally valid norms of the ebb and flow of human values2 that a balance on the balance sheet to the good1 the satisfactoriness of the statistics of exports and imports to the wishes of the interested parties1 are an occasion for jubilation over the ascent which life has compassed4 ,harbor some scruple as to whether the jubilation be warranted or not1 and you are at once pilloried as a pessimist and a malcontent4 ,and yet had there been no ,nietzsche there would still remain ,cicero's warning3 ,woe to a people whose wealth grows but whose men decay4 ,but there was a ,nietzsche1 and he dared to call even his ,fatherland ,europe's flat country--flat was a hard word for a land that could once boast of so many poets and thinkers4 ,but now the flatter the better6 ,but now no peaks to scale1 no yawning abysses on whose edges one grows dizzy6 ,nothing a single step removed from the ordinary1 the conventional6 ,now heights and depths1 distinctions and distances1 these are valid in the world of quantity1 not of quality2 of possession1 not of being2 of tax tables1 not of human essence and human power6 ,now all men are equal6 ,but ,nietzsche knew that if men are equal they are not free2 if free they are not equal4 ,with a fury and a fire that literally consumed him1 he dedicated himself to the task of leading men up out of this flatness1 away from this leveling--up to an appreciation of the potential--not the actual--greatness of man's life4 ,greatness is not yet man's verity but his vocation1 his true and idiomatic destiny4 ,greatness8 ,this is a man's strength of will2 the unfolding of a free personality4 ,to say ,i will is to be a man4 ,all human values are embraced in this ,i will4 ,to produce men who can say ,i will is at once the task and the test of culture4 ,this ,i will is the climax and goal of man4 ,in this ,i will vanishes every fearsome and disquieting ,i must1 every compulsion of outer necessity4 ,not the passive adjustment of man to nature1 but the active adjustment of nature to man2 nature outside of him and nature inside of him--that is human calling and human culture4 ,vanishes1 also1 every ,i ought4 ,man refuses to be ridden by a duty spook1 but subordinates even duty to himself4 ,duty1 too1 is for the sake of man1 not man for the sake of duty4 ,in the depths of his own being1 man reserves the sovereign right to speak his yes and his no to duty4 ,to his own will he subjects all good and all evil taught him by others1 past or present1 and thus occupies a standpoint beyond good and evil4 ,lord of the ,sabbath8 ,yes1 but lord also of standards sanctified by their antiquity2 lord of all the standards of life2 lord of all that has been written or thought or done4 ,and thou1 ,o lord1 art more than they6 ,thou--thou alone--art central and supreme and sacred and inviolable4 ,bring forth the royal diadem and crown him lord of all6 ,but not yet6 ,alas1 there are no such lords1 no such will-men1 personality-men6 ,such men are not ,gegenwartsmenschen1 present day men1 but ,zukunftsmenschen1 future day men2 not reality but task--our task4 ,that future man will surpass present man as much as present man surpasses the monkey which he in his development has left behind4 ,we are bridges from monkey to superman4 ,superman6 ,in him at last1 at last1 all that is unliving1 unfree1 withered and weak1 all that is sickly in man1 shall be obliterated2 and all the forces that are great and creative shall be unfolded and molded into cultural values4 ,this is the meaning of the superman of ,friedrich ,nietzsche4 ,malice and ignorance have vied--vainly we may now hope--in caricaturing it4 ,the way to superman is the rugged1 steep mountain path up to conscious deed and mighty achievement2 not the gentle incline down to stupid indulgence1 indolent disposition1 enervating or bestial impulsive life4 ,not that6 ,superman is precisely the man who overcomes the man of today aweary of life and athirst for death4 ,this preaching of ,superman might be called ,messianic4 ,it is the bold faith that we are not the last word of the ,word of life2 it is the glad hope that the best treasures1 the greatest deeds1 the supreme goals of humankind are still in the future4 ,nietzsche's message is a breath of spring blowing over the land proclaiming the advent of an issue from the womb of time of something greater1 better than anything we have been1 than anything we have called good or great2 the advent of a new day when our best songs now will be our worst then2 our noblest thoughts now our basest then2 our highest achievements now1 our poorest by-products then4 ,we shall usher in that day2 superman shall be our will1 our deed6 ,superman gives our life worth4 ,ours is the new1 exhilarating responsibility1 swallowing up and nullifying all the petty responsibilities which fret us today4 ,we have to justify our lives to that great future1 to that coming one1 to our children4 ,they1 through us1 must be greater1 better1 freer1 than all of us put together4 ,we are worth our contribution to the achievement of future man4 ,nay1 only superman can justify the history of the cosmos6 ,consider pre-human and sub-human life1 red in tooth and claw2 consider human life1 often not much better and sometimes much worse2 consider ourselves1 our meanness and our mediocrity4 ,is this all8 ,is this warrant for the long human and pre-human story8 ,can you escape the conviction that but for superman the eternal gestation and agony of cosmic maternity admits of no rational vindication8 ,breed1 then1 with a view of breeding supermen4 ,marriage8 ,let this be not for ease1 not for the propagation of yourselves2 the pushing of yourselves into your children1 parents1 but for the creation of something new1 of superman6 ,education8 ,not to assimilate the children to us1 to the past1 but to free them from us2 not ,vaterland1 but ,kinderland1 must be our concern4 ,children shall not sit at our feet but stand upon our shoulders1 that they may have a freer and broader sweep of the horizon4 ,and in our children we shall love the ,coming ,one1 prepare the way for ,superman1 that free1 great man who shall have conquered present petty man with all his slave instincts6 ,such1 at all events1 are the dreams of the great poetic and prophetic philosopher of the ,german ,fatherland of today4 ,all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures4--,nietzsche in ,beyond ,good and ,evil4 ,plato will always be an object of admiration and reverence to men who would rather see vast images of uncertain objects reflected from illuminated clouds1 than representations of things in their just proportions1 measurable1 tangible1 and convertible to household use4--,walter ,savage ,landor in ,imaginary ,conversations1 ,vol4 #b4 ,cultivation will breed in any man a certainty of the uncertainty of his most assured convictions4--,samuel ,butler in ,life and ,habit4 ,knowledge is in an inchoate state as long as it is capable of logical treatment2 it must be transmitted into that sense or instinct which rises altogether above the sphere in which words can have being at all1 otherwise it is not yet vital4--,samuel ,butler in ,life and ,habit4 ,lines for ,two ,futurists ,,arthur ,,davison ,,ficke ,why does all of sharp and new ,that our modern days can brew ,culminate in you8 ,this chaotic age's wine ,you have drunk--and now decline ,any anodyne4 ,on the broken walls you stand1 ,peering toward some stony land ,with eye-shading hand4 ,is it lonely as you peer8 ,do you never miss1 in fear1 ,simple things and dear1 ,half-remembered1 left behind8 ,or are backward glances blind ,here where the wind ,round the outposts sweeps and cries-- ,and each distant hearthlight dies ,to your peering eyes8444 ,i too stand where you have stood2 ,and the fever fills my blood ,with your cruel mood4 ,yet some backward longings press ,on my heart3 yea1 ,i confess ,my soul's heaviness4 ,me a homesick tremor thrills ,as ,i dream how sunlight fills ,my familiar hills4 ,me the yesterdays still hold-- ,liegeman still unto the old ,stories sweetly told4 ,into that profound unknown ,where the earthquake forces strown ,shake each pild stone ,look2 and exultance smites ,me with joy2 the splintered heights ,call me with fierce lights4 ,but a piety still dwells ,in my bones2 my spirit knells ,solemnly farewells ,to safe halls where ,i was born-- ,to old haunts ,i leave forlorn ,for this perilous morn4 ,yet ,i come6 ,i cannot stay6 ,be it bitter night1 or day ,glorious1--your way ,i must tread2 and on the walls1 ,where this flame-swept future calls ,to fierce miracles1 ,lo1 ,i greet you here6 ,but me ,mock not lightly4 ,i come free-- ,but with agony4 ,a ,new ,winged ,victory ,angel ,island1 by ,inez ,haynes ,gillmore4 ,henry ,holt and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,angel ,island is several rare things3 original1 profound1 flaming4 ,it leaves you with a gasping sense of having been swept through the skies2 and also with that feeling of new life which comes with a plunge into cold1 deep seas4 ,angel ,island is a new kind of ,winged ,victory6 ,innumerable books have been written about the conflict of the sexes1 about the emergence of the new woman4 ,most of them are dull books4 ,but ,mrs4 ,gillmore's is beautiful and exciting4 ,i kept thinking as ,i read it3 here is something absolutely new1 absolutely authentic2 something so full of vision and truth that it's like getting to the top of a mountain for the sunrise4 ,its freshness and its clearness are like cool morning mists that the sun has shot through4 ,but to discard vague phrases and get to the story--for it is not a tract1 but a novel--or rather a poetic allegory--that that ,mrs4 ,gillmore has written4 ,five men of representative modern types--a professor1 a libertine1 a soldier of fortune1 a mere mutt-man1 and an artist--are shipwrecked on a tropical island4 ,after a few days their attention is caught by what appears to be huge birds flying through the heavens4 ,the birds come nearer and prove to be winged women6 ,then comes the story of their wooing1 their capture1 their ultimate evolution into what modern women have decided they want to be3 humanists4 ,however1 this is going too fast4 ,the only way to appreciate ,angel ,island is to be conscious of the art of it as you read4 ,beginning with the shipwreck1 ,mrs4 ,gillmore creates a series of brilliant pictures that culminate in the flying orgies of the bird-women4 444 ,all this was intensified by the anarchy of sea and sky1 by the incessant explosion of the waves1 by the wind which seemed to sweep from end to end of a liquefying universe1 by a downpour which threatened to beat their sodden bodies to pulp1 by all the connotation of terror that lay in the darkness and in their unguarded condition on a barbarous1 semi-tropical coast4444 ,the storm1 which had seemed to worry the whole universe in its grip1 had died finally but it had died hard4 ,on a quieted earth1 the sea alone showed signs of revolution4 ,the waves1 monstrous1 towering1 swollen1 were still marching on to the beach with a machine-like regularity that was swift and ponderous at the same time4444 ,beyond the wave-line1 under a cover of foam1 the jaded sea lay feebly palpitant like an old man asleep4444 ,they had watched the sun come up over the trees at their back4 ,and it was as if they had seen a sunrise for the first time in their lives4 ,to them it was neither beautiful nor familiar2 it was sinister and strange4 ,a chill1 that was not of the dawn but of death itself1 lay over everything4 ,the morning wind was the breath of the tomb1 the smells that came to them from the island bore the taint of mortality1 the very sun seemed icy4 ,they suffered--the five survivors of the night's tragedy--with a scarifying sense of disillusion with ,nature4444 ,the sun was racing up a sky smooth and clear as gray glass4 ,it dropped on the torn green sea a shimmer that was almost dazzling2 but there was something incongruous about that--as though ,nature had covered her victim with a spangled scarf4 ,it brought out millions of sparkles in the white sand2 and there seemed something calculating about that--as though she were bribing them with jewels to forget4444 ,dozens of waves flashed and crashed their way up the beach2 but now they trailed an iridescent network of foam over the lilac-gray sand4 ,the sun raced high2 but now it poured a flood of light on the green-gray water4 ,the air grew bright and brighter4 ,the earth grew warm and warmer4 ,blue came into the sky1 deepened--and the sea reflected it4 ,suddenly the world was one huge glittering bubble1 half of which was the brilliant azure sky and half the burnished azure sea4 ,all this is gorgeous enough--this clear1 vivid painting of nature4 ,but when ,mrs4 ,gillmore turns her hand to the supernatural1 she is simply ravishing4 ,for instance3 ,the semi-tropical moon was at its full4 ,huge1 white1 embossed1 cut out1 it did not shine--it glared from the sky4 ,it made a melted moonstone of the atmosphere4 ,it faded the few clouds to a sapphire-gray1 just touched here and there with the chalky dot of a star4 ,it slashed a silver trail across a sea jet-black except where the waves rimmed it with snow4 ,up in the white enchantment1 but not far above them1 the strange air-creatures were flying4 ,they were not birds2 they were winged women6 ,darting1 diving1 glancing1 curving1 wheeling1 they interwove in what seemed the premeditated figures of an aerial dance4444 ,their wings1 like enormous scimitars1 caught the moonlight1 flashed it back4 ,for an interval1 they played close in a group inextricably intertwined1 a revolving ball of vivid color4 ,then1 as if seized by a common impulse1 they stretched1 hand in hand1 in a line across the sky--drifted4 ,the moonlight flooded them full1 caught glitter and gleam from wing-sockets1 shot shimmer and sheen from wing-tips1 sent cataracts of iridescent color pulsing between4 ,snow-silver one1 brilliant green and gold another1 dazzling blue the next1 luminous orange a fourth1 flaming flamingo scarlet the last1 their colors seemed half liquid1 half light4 ,one moment the whole figure would flare into a splendid blaze1 as if an inner mechanism had suddenly turned on all the electricity2 the next1 the blaze died down to the fairy glisten given by the moonlight4 ,as if by one impulse1 they began finally to fly upward4 ,higher and higher they rose1 still hand in hand4444 ,one instant1 relaxed1 they seemed tiny galleons1 all sails set1 that floated lazily1 the sport of an aerial sea2 another1 supple and sinuous1 they seemed monstrous fish whose fins triumphantly clove the air1 monarchs of that aerial sea4 ,a little of this and there came another impulse4 ,the great wings furled close like blades leaping back to scabbard2 the flying-girls dropped sheer in a dizzying fall4 ,half-way to the ground1 they stopped simultaneously as if caught by some invisible air plateau4 ,the great feathery fans opened--and this time the men got the whipping whirr of them--spread high1 palpitated with color4 ,from this lower level1 the girls began to fall again1 but gently1 like dropping clouds4444 ,they paused an instant and fluttered like a swarm of butterflies undecided where to go4444 ,then they turned out to sea1 streaming through the air in line still1 but one behind the other4 ,and for the first time1 sound came from them2 they threw off peals of girl-laughter that fell like handfuls of diamonds4 ,their mirth ended in a long1 eerie cry4 ,to me1 that is wonderful work--one jeweled word after another4 ,and it's sustained through the whole book4 ,but of course1 after this first sense of ravishment with her pictures1 you touch upon the deeper wonder of ,mrs4 ,gillmore--her ideas4 ,there are enough ideas in ,angel ,island to equip the women who are fighting for selfhood with armour that is absolutely hole proof4 ,the winged women differ in type as widely as the men2 and each man chooses very quickly the type that appeals to him most4 ,the libertine wants the big blond one1 whom they've named ,peachy2 the professor likes ,chiquita1 the very feminine1 unintellectual one2 ,billy1 the mere man1 falls violently and reverently in love with the radiant ,julia1 the leader of the group and the one your interest centers in immediately4 ,julia has a personality3 she appears to be pushed on by some intellectual or artistic impulse1 to express by the symbols of her complicated flight some theory1 some philosophy of life4 ,she seems always to shine4 ,she is a creator4 ,in short1 ,julia thinks4 ,the men plan capture and finally accomplish it by a time-honored method3 that of arousing the women's curiosity4 ,then follows a tragic episode when they cut the captives' wings1 making flight impossible4 ,of course1 marriage is the next step1 and later1 children are born on ,angel ,island--little girl children with wings1 and boys without them4 ,but all this time ,julia has refused to marry ,billy1 though she's in love with him4 ,her only reason is that something tells her to wait4 ,inevitably the women mourn the loss of their wings2 and just as they become reconciled to a second-hand joy in their daughters' flights1 ,peachy's husband informs her that flying is unwomanly--that woman's place is in the home1 not in the air 767--and that their daughter must be shorn of her wings as soon as she's eighteen4 ,what next8 ,rebellion1 with ,julia shining gloriously as leader4 ,she had been waiting for this4 ,and in ten pages of profound1 simple1 magnificent talk--if only every woman in the world would read it6--she explains to the others that they must learn to walk4 ,peachy objects1 because she dislikes the earth4 ,there are stars in the air1 she argues4 ,but we never reached them1 answers ,julia4 ,the earth is a good place1 and they must learn to live in it4 ,besides1 their children will fly better for learning to walk1 and walk better for knowing how to fly2 and she prophesies that then will be born to one of them a boy child with wings4 ,the women hide and master the art of walking4 ,while they're doing this their poor wings have a chance to grow a little1 and by the time the men are ready to capture and subdue them a second time they have achieved a combination of walking and flying that puts them beyond reach4 ,then the men submit 444 and ,julia asks ,billy to marry her4 ,that's all1 except one short chapter about ,julia4 ,she has a son with wings6 ,and then she dies--radiant1 white1 goddess-woman1 whose life had been so fine a thing4 ,the beauty of it all simply overwhelmed me4 ,all of which points to several important conclusions4 ,first1 that ,mrs4 ,gillmore is a poet and prophet of golden values4 ,second1 that prejudice is the most foolish thing in the world4 ,a general prejudice against that obvious form of comedy called farce might cause you to miss ,the ,legend of ,leonore4 ,and a stubborn caution in regard to allegories--which1 ,i concede1 generally are unsubtle--might keep you from ,angel ,island4 ,correspondence ,two ,views of ,h4 ,g4 ,wells ,i am just reading ,the ,passionate ,friends1 and every time ,i read anything of ,wells's ,i wonder why it is ,i don't like him better4 ,the ,world ,set ,free that has been running in ,the ,century was intensely worth while1 ,i thought--really prophetic4 ,one tasted something almost divine2 human nature is capable of such wonderful undreamed of things6 ,it was like ,tennyson prophesying the ,federation of the ,world1 airships1 etc4 ,wells does seem inspired in some ways4 ,but every time ,i read any of his novels--well1 you remember ,i have a distinct mid-,victorian flavor that has to be reckoned with4 ,i wasn't brought up in a minister's family for nothing6 ,i suppose it's what we used to call our conscience4 ,mine isn't much good1 alas2 ,i sometimes think of it as a little old ,victorian lady4 ,she sits in the background of my consciousness and knits and knits and nods her head4 ,meanwhile ,i go blithely about1 espousing all sorts of causes and thinking out all sorts of theories--imagining1 you know1 that ,i'm perfectly free4 ,suddenly she wakes up--she lays aside her knitting with a determined air and says1 ,mary ,martha1 what are you thinking about6 ,stop that right now2 ,i'm ashamed of you4 ,and she has authority1 too1 you know4 ,i stop4 ,ridiculous1 isn't it8--but so it is4 ,and every time ,i read a ,wells novel my little old lady folds her hands and sits up very primly and says1 ,aha1 you're reading something of that man's again4 ,well1 ,i'm not asleep--,i'm right on the job and ,i know just what ,i think of him4 ,so you see6 ,and the worst--or the best--of it is that ,i agree with her4 ,i can't like him4 ,i read along and it's all so reasonable--he's so clever and he thinks2 but his conclusions are all so weak--if he comes to any4 ,one passage in ,the ,passionate ,friends has made me furious4 ,how can a man who's at all worth while be so really wicked--7another word gone out of style74 ,i mean this3 ,it is manifestly true that for the most of us free talk1 intimate association1 and any real fellowship between men and women turns with extreme readiness to love4 ,and that being so1 it follows that under existing conditions the unrestricted meeting and companionship of men and women in society is a notorious sham1 a merely dangerous pretence of encounters4 ,the safe reality beneath those liberal appearances is that a woman must be content with the easy friendship of other women and of one man only1 letting a superficial friendship towards all other men veil impassable abysses of separation1 and a man must in the same way have one sole woman intimate4444 ,to me that is an intolerable state of affairs1 but is reality4 ,now can you suppose that is ,wells's own reasoning that he puts into the mouth of his unfortunate hero8 ,talk about ,edith ,wharton being thin-lipped in the pursuit of her heroines--that's a great deal better than being loose-lipped2 don't you agree with me8 ,it may be true1 and ,i rather think to some extent it is true1 that a man cannot have an absorbing friendship with a woman and not run the risk of falling in love4 ,but what does that prove8 ,that he should be allowed free rein and carry on as many liaisons veiled under the name of friendship as he chooses8 ,or unveiled1 rather1 for ,wells seems to want everything in the open4 ,he's like a child who says3 ,here's a very dangerous beast in a flimsy1 inadequate cage4 ,frequently he escapes from it and has to be put back in4 ,let's abolish the cage and let the beast run about openly1 doing what it wants4 ,and the good old-fashioned word for that beast is lust1 and it should be caged2 if the cage is getting more and more inadequate it's only a piece with what ,agnes ,repplier calls our loss of nerve4 ,how ,i liked that article of hers6 ,what in the name of sense are we in this world for if not to build up a character8 ,that's all that amounts to anything1 and it comes from countless denials and countless responses to duty4 ,and what ,goethe said1 some time ago1 is still everlastingly true3 ,entbehren sollst ,du1 sollst entbehren6 7,deny yourself1 deny1 deny47 ,he ought to know1 too1 because he tried indulgence1 goodness knows1 and knew the dregs at the bottom of that cup4 ,and ,i can't forgive ,wells4 ,he knows better than to let people make all manner of experiment with such things4 ,they wouldn't even be happy2 for happiness is built of stability1 loyalty1 character1 and again character4 ,my husband said1 after reading that passage in ,the ,passionate ,friends1 ,the trouble with him and the class he writes of is that they aren't busy enough4 ,let 'em work for a living1 be interested in something vitally for ten hours out of the twenty-four1 and they'll forget all about their neighbors' wives and be content with good men friends and casual women friends4 ,the trouble lies with poor old human nature1 ,i guess1 and the way it wants what it cannot and ought not to have4 ,but ,wells says all unreality is hateful to him4 ,let's tear down the barriers1 let's show up for what we are4 ,poor ,smith wants something his neighbor has--well1 let's give it to him1 whether it's his neighbor's success or his wife or his happiness4 ,nature is still unbearably ugly in lots of ways4 ,when we can train it to be unselfish and disinterested then it will be time to tear down barriers4 ,lady ,mary in ,the ,passionate ,friends is an unconvincing character1 too4 ,i can conceive of a woman who will take all of a man's possessions1 giving him nothing in return1 not even fidelity1 but ,i cannot conceive of her justifying herself unless she is an utter moral degenerate4 ,the danger of such writers as ,wells is that they are plausible enough till you look below the surface4 ,he tries to represent ,lady ,mary as charming1 but she1 it seems to me1 even more than modern society which he arraigns1 is honeycombed and rotten with evil4 ,m4 ,m4 ,the description of a little old ,victorian lady who sits in the background of our consciousness and plays conscience for us is charming2 but4444 ,she's a sweet-faced little lady to whom the universe is as clear as crystal and as simple as plane geometry4 ,she is always knitting1 and what she knits is a fine web of sentimentality with which to cover the nakedness of truth--for it is not seemly1 my dear1 that anything1 even truth1 should be naked4 ,this web of hers is as fine as soft silk and as strong as chain mail4 ,it's sticky1 too4 ,and it clothes truth so thoroughly that she grows unrecognizable to any but the most penetrating searcher--to ,h4 ,g4 ,wells1 for instance4 ,it's natural enough that the old lady should dislike ,wells1 for he's found her out2 he's made the astonishing discovery that underneath the web life is not sentimentally simple4 ,he discloses to her scandalized eyes various unfortunate facts which she has done her best to conceal1 as for instance the fact that there is such a thing as sex4 ,sex1 says ,wells in effect in every one of his novels1 is a disturbing element1 the disturbing element1 in life4 ,so long as sex exists it is a physical impossibility that life should be the sweetly pretty parlor game our little ,victorian lady would have it4 ,right here the husband of the little lady has something to say3 ,the trouble with him and the class he writes of1 he announces1 is that they aren't busy enough4 ,let 'em work for a living1 be interested in something vitally for ten hours out of the twenty-four1 and they'll forget all about their neighbors' wives and be content with good men friends and casual women friends4 ,this is an excellent example of what ,wells finds the next most disturbing element in life--muddle-headedness1 the lack of ability to think straight1 to think things through4 ,let ,wells be vitally interested in something for ten hours of the twenty-four6 ,doesn't he see that if ,wells had ever limited himself to ten hours of interest he would be making shirts today8 ,it is because ,wells works twenty-five hours of the twenty-four at being vitally interested in something that he is one of the major prophets of our time4 ,and the thing in which he is interested is life itself1 the great unsolvable mystery1 life which extends below the simple1 polished surface that is all the ,victorian lady knows as the sea extends below its glassy smoothness on a summer day4 ,one of the greatest things that ,wells has done for some of us who came on him young enough so that our minds did not close automatically at his first startling revelation1 is this3 he taught us to look at life squarely1 without moral cant1 and with a scientific disregard as to whether it pleased us personally or not4 ,we may not always agree with him--very likely we don't--but at least we must face the issue squarely and not take refuge in the vague sentimentality and slushy hopefulness of the ,victorian lady4 ,wells states facts and very frequently lets it go at that4 ,witness the shock this method is to our little old lady4 ,she asks how anyone at all worth while can be so really wicked as to write about sex and society as he does4 ,she admits that what he says is a fact1 but--it sticks out like a jagged1 untidy rock from the smooth surface of things2 therefore it is wicked4 ,as a matter of fact that statement of his has no more to do with morality1 is no more wicked1 or virtuous1 than the statement of a physical fact--to say1 for instance1 that glass breaks when hurled against a stone wall4 ,it is unfortunate1 but it is not wicked4 ,no1 the day of ,victorianism is past4 ,we are slashing away the web1 we are learning to think4 ,it is a slow and painful process and we know not yet where the struggle will end4 ,but at least we shall be nearer to the divine nakedness of truth4 ,if ,wells has done nothing else than to prove to us how much of our thinking is dictated not by our own souls but by the artificially-imposed sentimentality of the little old ,victorian lady he has done a full man's work4 ,and we who owe our emancipation largely to his vision can never be too thankful to him4 ,,frances ,,trevor4 ,rupert ,brooke and ,whitman ,you treated ,brooke in a masterly way in the last issue4 ,i saw many things ,i hadn't seen before1 and understood the ,wagner better4 ,but ,i disagree with you in one way4 ,the ,wagner and the ,channel ,passage are merely clever realistic satire--that's always worth while4 ,but it's the thought behind the ,menelaus and ,helen sort of thing that ,i don't like4 ,of course there's no doubt that ,helen grew wrinkled and peevish4 ,but to say that therefore ,paris in his grave was better off than ,menelaus living is just a bit decadent1 isn't it8 ,i'm forced to picture ,brooke as the sort of chap who couldn't enjoy a good dinner if he had to wash the dishes afterward3--instead of regarding dishwashing as a natural variety of living that could be thoroughly enjoyable with shirtsleeves and a pipe4 ,i'm afraid he wouldn't play ,american football for fear of getting his face dirty4 ,he's just a bit finicky about life4 ,he's afraid to commit himself for fear he'll have to endure something about which he can't weave golden syllables4 ,that's the reason ,i don't agree with you about ,whitman liking all of him4 ,whitman was frank about the whole world1 dirt and all1 and he accepted it enthusiastically4 ,brooke writes about dirt in such a way as to make it seem horrible4 ,this poem of ,whitman's will prove my point3 ,afoot and light hearted1 ,i take to the open road2 ,healthy1 free1 the world before me1 ,the long brown path before me1 leading wherever ,i choose4 ,henceforth ,i ask not good fortune--,i myself am good fortune2 ,henceforth ,i whimper no more1 postpone no more1 heed nothing2 ,strong and content ,i travel the open road4 ,the earth--that is sufficient2 ,i do not want the constellations any nearer1 ,i know they are very well where they are2 ,i know they suffice for those who belong to them4 ,still1 here ,i carry my old delicious burdens2 ,i carry them1 men and women--,i carry them with me wherever ,i go4 ,i swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them2 ,i am filled with them and ,i will fill them in return4 ,you road ,i enter upon and look around6 ,i believe that you are not all that is here2 ,i believe that much unseen is also here4 ,here the profound lesson of reception1 neither preference nor denial2 ,the black and his woolly head1 the felon1 the diseased1 the illiterate person1 are not denied2 ,the birth1 the hasting after the physician2 the beggar's tramp1 the drunkard's stagger1 the laughing party of mechanics1 ,the escaped youth1 the rich person's carriage1 the fop1 the eloping couple1 ,the early marketman1 the hearse1 the moving of furniture into town1 the return back from town1 ,they pass--,i also pass--anything passes--none may be interdicted2 ,none but are accepted--none but are dear to me4 ,mon enfant6 ,i give you my hand6 ,i give you my love more precious than money2 ,i give you myself before preaching or law2 ,will you give me yourself8 ,will you come travel with me8 ,shall we stick by each other as long as we live8 ,beside this1 doesn't the ,menelaus and ,helen seem like an orchid8--a very beautiful1 rich orchid1 to be sure1 but not of the ,whitman family4 ,,george ,,soule4 ,more ,about the ,new ,note ,the idea of the new note might be worked out more fully1 but after all little or nothing would be gained by elaboration4 ,given this note of craft love all the rest must follow1 as the spirit of self-revelation1 which is also a part of the new note1 will follow any true present-day love of craft4 ,you will remember we once discussed ,coningsby ,dawson's ,the ,garden ,without ,walls4 ,what ,i quarreled with in that book was that the writer looked outside of himself for his material4 ,even realists have done this--as1 for example1 ,howells2 and to that extent have failed4 ,the master ,zola failed here4 ,why do we so prize the work of ,whitman1 ,tolstoy1 ,dostoevsky1 ,twain1 and ,fielding8 ,is it not because as we read we are constantly saying to ourselves1 ,this book is true4 ,a man of flesh and blood like myself has lived the substance of it4 ,in the love of his craft he has done the most difficult of all things3 revealed the workings of his own soul and mind8 ,to get near to the social advance for which all moderns hunger1 is it not necessary to have first of all understanding8 ,how can ,i love my neighbor if ,i do not understand him8 ,and it is just in the wider diffusion of this understanding that the work of a great writer helps the advance of mankind4 ,i would like to have you think much of this in your attitude toward all present-day writers4 ,it is so easy for them to bluff us from our position1 and ,i know from my own experience how baffling it is constantly to be coming upon good1 well-done work that is false4 ,in this connection ,i am tempted to give you the substance of a formula ,i have just worked out4 ,it lies here before me1 and if you will accept it in the comradely spirit in which it is offered ,i shall be glad4 ,it is the most delicate and the most unbelievably difficult task to catch1 understand1 and record your own mood4 ,the thing must be done simply and without pretense or windiness1 for the moment these creep in your record is no longer a record1 but a mere mass of words meaning nothing4 ,the value of such a record is not in the facts caught and recorded but in the fact of your having been able truthfully to make the record--something within yourself will tell you when you have not done it truthfully4 ,i myself believe that when a man can thus stand aside from himself1 recording simply and truthfully the inner workings of his own mind1 he will be prepared to record truthfully the workings of other minds4 ,in every man or woman dwell dozens of men and women1 and the highly imaginative individual will lead fifty lives4 ,surely this can be said if it can be said that the unimaginative individual has led one life4 ,the practice of constantly and persistently making such a record as this will prove invaluable to the person who wishes to become a true critic of writing in the new spirit4 ,whenever he finds himself baffled in drawing a character or in judging one drawn by another1 let him turn thus in upon himself1 trusting with child-like simplicity and honesty the truth that lives in his own mind4 ,indeed1 one of the great rewards of living with small children is to watch their faith in themselves and to try to emulate them in this art4 ,if the practice spoken of above is followed diligently1 a kind of partnership will in time spring up between the hand and the brain of the writer4 ,he will find himself becoming in truth a cattle herder1 a drug clerk1 a murderer1 for the benefit of the hand that is writing of these1 or the brain that is judging the work of another who has written of these4 ,to be sure this result will not always follow1 and even after long and patient following of the system one will run into barren periods when the brain and the hand do not co-ordinate4 ,in such a period it seems to me the part of wisdom to drop your work and begin again patiently making a record of the workings of your own mind1 trying to put down truthfully those workings during the period of failure4 ,i would like to scold every one who writes1 or who has to do with writing1 into adopting this practice1 which has been such a help and such a delight to me4 ,,sherwood ,,anderson4 ,to ,e ,,sara ,,teasdale ,the door was opened and ,i saw you there ,and for the first time heard you speak my name1 ,then like the sun your sweetness overcame ,my shy and shadowy mood2 ,i was aware ,that joy was hidden in your happy hair1 ,and that for you love held no hint of shame2 ,my eyes caught light from yours1 within whose flame ,humor and passion have an equal share4 ,how many times since then have ,i not seen ,your great eyes widen when you talk of love1 ,and darken slowly with a far desire2 ,how many times since then your soul has been ,clear to my gaze as curving skies above1 ,wearing like them a raiment made of fire4 ,to ,s ,,eunice ,,tietjens ,from my life's outer orbit1 where the night ,that bounds my knowledge still is pierced through ,by far-off singing planets such as you1 ,whose faint1 sweet voices come to me like light ,in disembodied beauty1 keen and bright1-- ,from this far orbit to my nearer view ,you came one day1 grown tangible and true ,and warm with sympathy and fair with sight4 ,then ,i who still had loved your distant voice1 ,your songs1 shot through with beauty and with tears ,and woven magic of the wistful years1 ,i felt the listless heart of me rejoice ,and stir again1 that had lain stunned so long1 ,since ,i had you1 yourself a living song4 ,the ,critics' ,critic ,,agnes ,,repplier ,,on ,,popular ,,education ,through all of ,miss ,repplier's latest essays in ,the ,atlantic runs a note of appeal for the sterner virtues1 which she thinks are in danger of dying out under modern conditions4 ,so persistently is this note1 admirable in itself1 sounded1 that we wonder if it doesn't hark back a bit to ,sparta1 and the casting away of the unfit4 ,when it comes to the question of an education broad enough to fit the needs of every child1 we may all pause and take a deep breath4 ,we may not approve of a school of moving pictures1 advocated by ,judge ,lindsey1 and yet we may not wish to go to the other extreme of severe discipline advocated by ,miss ,repplier4 ,if only all children were of exactly the same type1 so that the same kind of schooling would suffice for all their needs6 ,or even if they could come from the same kind of homes with more or less similar ideals6 ,let us hear what she and ,mr4 ,lindsey have to say about ,tony--7,tony is a boy who does not like school as it is at present organized74 ,mr4 ,edison is coming to the rescue of ,tony1 says ,judge ,lindsey4 ,he will take him away from me and put him in a school that is not a school at all but just one big game4444 ,there will be something moving1 something doing at that school all the time4 ,when ,i tell him about it ,tony shouts ',hooray for ,mr4 ,edison6' right in front of the battery1 just as he used to say ',to hell wid de cop6' ,on the other hand3--,the old time teacher1 says ,miss ,repplier1 sought to spur the pupil to keen and combative effort1 rather than beguile him into knowledge with cunning games and lantern slides4444 ,the old time parent set a high value on self discipline and self control4 ,but can she believe for one moment that ,tony's parents ever dreamed of setting a high value on self discipline and self control8 ,or that ,tony's sister was taught to read aloud with correctness and expression1 to write notes with propriety and grace1 and to play backgammon and whist8 444 ,figurez-vous6 ,and so1 if we can reach little ,tony's darkened vision by the simple method of moving pictures1 keep him off the streets until he learns at least not to become a hardened criminal--are we not that much to the good8 ,tony will never1 never be ambassador to the court of ,st4 ,james 7or if he is going to be1 he'll be it in spite of movies67 but he may be a fairly honest1 happy fruit vendor some day1 instead of ,no4 #bjg in a cell4 ,useless to cite the dull boys in school1 who absolutely refused pedagogic training and later blazed their way--luminaries--through the world1 when once they had found the work that interested them4 ,to interest1 stimulate1 and arouse is the prelude to work2 and precious few kiddies1 except those who don't really need it1 do enough work that they dislike to strengthen their little characters4 ,but even if they do1 are those who will not to have nothing8 ,of course1 education is a thing that can't be disposed of in a few well meaning phrases4 ,miss ,repplier may be right1 too1 in what she says of the education of ,montaigne4 ,you remember he learned to talk ,latin under a tutor1 at an early age1 in much the same way that our modern young ones learn ,french and ,german4 ,all the boy gained by the most elaborate system ever devised for the saving of labor1 she says1 was that he over-skipped the lower forms in school4 ,what he lost was the habit of mastering his prescript lessons1 which he seems to have disliked heartily4 ,but how does any one know that that was all he gained8 ,i should hardly select ,montaigne as my model1 if ,i were trying to point out the ill effects of any particular type of education4 ,besides1 whatever its effect may have been on him1 ,i should hate to lose the mental picture of the little lad ,latinizing with the simple folk of ,perigord4 ,charming little lad1 and wonderful old father1 doing his best to elevate and help his boy4 ,no1 decidedly2 whatever ,miss ,repplier may do to dispose of ,tony and his ilk1 ,i am glad she had nothing whatever to do with the education of ,montaigne6 ,,the ,,little ,,review ,since it appears to be my duty to read all the critical journals and dissect their contents for these columns1 ,i can't in good faith neglect ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,i have just devoured the first issue4 ,what can ,i say about the superb announcement8 ,i agree ardently with it4 ,it needed to be said2 the magazine needed to be born4 ,there's no quarrel between art and life except where one or the other is kept back of the door4 ,anyone with a keen appreciation of art can't help appreciating life too1 and ,mrs4 ,jones who runs away from her husband can't fairly stand for life4 ,besides1 why should anybody object to a thing because it's transitorial8 ,everything is transitorial4 ,it must either grow or perish4 ,mr4 ,wing's criticism of ,mr4 ,faust is admirable--direct1 unpretentious1 sound4 ,but you must let me register a slight objection to ,dr4 ,foster's ,nietzsche article4 ,it seems to me there's just too much enthusiasm to be borne by what he actually says4 ,when ,i came to the end of that third paragraph on page fifteen ,i sneaked back to ,galsworthy's letter and found an answering twinkle in its eye4 ,i felt like going up to ,dr4 ,foster with a grin1 putting my hand on his shoulder and saying1 ,my dear man1 a candidate for major prophet doesn't need political speeches4 ,it is really not half so important that we unregenerate should give three cheers for him as that we should live his truth4 ,won't you forget a little of this sound and fury and tell us as simply as you can just what it is that you want us to do8 ,i went from his article with the impression that here was a man who was very enthusiastic about ,mr4 ,nietzsche4 ,i'm sure that's not the impression ,dr4 ,foster intended to make4 ,but ,i have a feeling that pure enthusiasm wasting itself in little geysers is intrinsically ridiculous4 ,enthusiasm should grow trees and put magic in violets--and that can't be done with undue quickness1 or in any but the most simple way4 ,nobody cares about the sap except for what it does4 ,and1 anyhow1 it always makes me savage to be orated at1 or told that my soul will be damned if ,i don't admit the particular authority of ,mr4 ,jehovah or ,mr4 ,nietzsche or ,mr4 anybody else4 ,that's all by the way1 however1 and the impression of the magazine as a whole is clear1 true1 swift4 ,its impact can't be forgotten4 ,you haven't attained your ideal--which is right2 but you've done so well you'll have to scratch to keep up the speed1--which is right1 too4 ,m4 ,h4 ,p4 ,women and the ,life ,struggle ,,clara ,e4 ,,laughlin4 ,the ,truth ,about ,women1 by ,c4 ,gasquoine ,hartley 7,mrs4 ,walter ,m4 ,gallichan74 ,dodd1 ,mead ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan has not told the whole truth about woman2 but she has told as much of it as has been told by any one writer except ,olive ,schreiner2 and although she has made no important discovery1 educed no brilliant new conclusion1 she has summarized the best of all that has been said in a book which can scarcely fail to render notable service4 ,it is interesting to recall how the truth about women has been disclosed4 ,the voice of ,mary ,wollstonecraft1 crying in the wilderness1 in #agib1 pleaded that if woman be not prepared by education to become the companion of man1 she will stop the progress of knowledge2 for truth must be common to all4 ,yet it was nearly sixty years before ,frederick ,denison ,maurice was able to open ,queen's ,college1 and give a few ,english women the opportunity of an education4 7,in ,america1 ,mary ,lyon had already broken ground for the higher education of her countrywomen47 ,here and there1 in those days1 an intrepid female declared herself a believer in woman's rights2 but her pretensions were scarcely honored to the point even of ridicule4 ,women were inferior creatures1 designed and ordered by ,god to be subordinate to men4 ,didn't everything go to prove it8 ,and1 indeed1 nearly everything seemed to6 ,in #ahfa1 several scholarly gentlemen in ,europe were delving in fields of research where they were destined to upturn facts of great interest to the inferior sex4 ,one of these was ,john ,stuart ,mill1 whose impassioned protest against the subjection of women was then being written1 although it was not published until eight years later4 ,another was ,henry ,maine1 who was disclosing some significant things about the ancient law on which our modern laws are founded4 ,another was ,lecky1 who was gathering material for his ,history of ,european ,morals1 from ,augustus to ,charlemagne1 and--incidentally--discovering that natural history of morals wherewith he was to shock the world in #ahfi4 ,but two of the others were searching back of ,augustus--back of him both in point of time and also in degree of civilization4 ,one of these was ,bachofen1 a ,german1 who published1 in #ahfa1 ,das ,mutterrecht1 in which he made it clear that women had not always been subordinate1 dependent1 but among primitive peoples had been the rulers of their race4 ,mc,lennan's ,primitive ,marriage1 published in #ahfe1 brought prominently to ,british thinkers this quite-new contention of woman as a creature born to rule1 but defrauded and degraded4 ,then1 in #ahga1 ,darwin startled the world with ,the ,descent of ,man1 and ,selection in ,relation to ,sex2 and those who accepted his theory of evolution had to revise all their previous notions about the relations of the sexes4 ,during the next quarter-century many minds were busy with this wholesale revision of ideas1 but nothing signal was set forth until ,charlotte ,stetson--working with the historical data of ,maine and ,mill and ,lecky and their followers1 with the ethnological data of ,bachofen and ,mc,lennan1 and many more1 and with the natural history of morals as ,darwin and ,wallace and ,huxley and their school disclosed it--declared that the enslavement of women was economic in its origin and in its final analysis4 ,this was not the whole truth1 but it was so important a part of the whole that the book ,women and ,economics may be said to have given the most productive stimulus the feminist movement had had since ,the ,descent of ,man4 ,scores1 almost hundreds1 of books dealing with some phase or other of woman's history1 appeared in the next few years4 ,but while many of them were valuable1 and some were all but invaluable1 none of them was epoch-marking until ,olive ,schreiner put forth her magnificent fragment on ,woman and ,labor1 the chapter on ,parasitism being the noblest and most pregnant thing that any student of woman has given to the world4 ,olive ,schreiner saw much further into the question of women and economics than ,charlotte ,stetson knew how to see4 ,she has a greater vision4 ,she perceives that women are ennobled by what they do--just as men are--and that they are degraded by being denied creative1 productive labor--not by being denied the full reward of their toil4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan does not advance upon the contribution of ,mrs4 ,schreiner1 as ,mrs4 ,schreiner did upon that of ,mrs4 ,stetson2 but she had less opportunity to do so3 ,mrs4 ,schreiner did not leave so much for some one else to say4 ,but ,mrs4 ,gallichan has summarized all that has been said more fully than any other writer has done2 and she has done it so interestingly1 so ably1 that she deserves grateful praise4 ,her book has three sections3 the biological1 the historical1 and the modern4 ,let no one resent or think useless an analogy between animal love-matings and our own4 ,in tracing the evolution of our love-passions from the sexual relations of other mammals1 and back to those of their ancestors1 and to the humbler1 though scarcely less beautiful1 ancestors of these1 we shall discover what must be considered as essential and should be lasting1 and what is false in the conditions and character of the sexes today2 and thereby we shall gain at once warning in what directions to pause1 and new hope to send us forward4 ,we shall learn that there are factors in our sex-impulses that require to be lived down as out-of-date and no longer beneficial to the social needs of life4 ,but encouragement will come as1 looking backwards1 we learn how the mighty dynamic of sex-love has evolved in fineness1 without losing in intensity1 how it is tending to become more mutual1 more beautiful1 more lasting4 ,two suggestions which ,mrs4 ,gallichan makes in the biological section are especially striking4 ,one is derived from the bee1 and one from the spider4 ,the bee1 she reminds us1 belongs to a highly evolved and complex society1 which may be said to represent a very perfected and extreme socialism4 ,in this society the vast majority of the population--the workers--are sterile females1 and of the drones1 or males1 only a very few at the most are ever functional4 ,reproduction is carried on by the queen-mother 444 specialized for maternity and incapable of any other function4444 ,i have little doubt that something which is at least analogous to the sterilization of the female bees is present among ourselves4 ,the complexity of our social conditions1 resulting in the great disproportion between the number of the sexes1 has tended to set aside a great number of women from the normal expression of their sex functions4 ,the danger to society1 when maternity shall be left to the stupid parasitic women who are unable to exist as workers1 is pointed out by ,mrs4 ,gallichan2 as is also that exaggerated form of matriarchy which is realized among the ants and bees4 ,and she reminds women who are workers1 not mothers1 that in the bee-workers the ovipositor becomes a poisoned sting4 ,she warns women not to become like the sterile bees2 but she warns them also against state endowment of motherhood4 ,and she does not suggest how the great excess of women are to become mothers without reorganizing society4 ,the second example she cites in warning1 the common spider1 whose courtship customs ,darwin described in ,the ,descent of ,man1 is a case of female superiority carried to a savage conclusion4 ,and from this female who ruthlessly devours her lover1 ,mrs4 ,gallichan deduces a theory for many of those wrongs which women have suffered at the hands of men4 ,man1 acting instinctively1 has rebelled1 not so much1 ,i think1 against woman as against this driving hunger within himself1 which forces him helpless into her power4 ,the stages by which parasitism was transferred from the male to the female still need some elucidation--like the stages by which marriage passed from endogamy to exogamy4 ,but ,mrs4 ,gallichan's suggestion about the male preserving himself by appearing as self-sufficient and as dominant as he can1 is highly interesting4 ,it will probably not be long before we know a great deal more of this4 ,in the historical section of her book1 ,mrs4 ,gallichan devotes four admirable chapters to the mother-age civilization1 and four others to the position of women in ,egypt1 ,babylon1 ,greece1 and ,rome4 ,of immense significance is the relation between the enviable status of women in ,egypt and that love of peace and of peaceful pursuits which characterized the ,egyptian people4 ,war1 patriarchy1 and the subjection of women1 have gone hand in hand4 ,social organizations in which might was right have minimized the worth of women2 those in which ingenuity1 resourcefulness1 and ideality were set above brute force have given women most justice4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan's chapter on the women of ,athens and of ,sparta is most suggestive4 ,so is that on the women of ,rome4 ,in her modern section she discusses women and labor3 ,the old way of looking at the patriarchal family was1 from one point of thought1 perfectly right and reasonable as long as every woman was ensured the protection of1 and maintenance by1 some man4 ,nor do ,i think there was any unhappiness or degradation involved to women in this co-operation of the old days1 where the man went out to work and the woman stayed to do work at least equally valuable in the home4 ,it was1 as a rule1 a co-operation of love1 and in any case it was an equal partnership in work4 ,but what was true once is not true now4 ,we are living in a continually changing development and modification of the old tradition of the relationship of woman and man4444 ,the women of one class have been forced into labor by the sharp driving of hunger4 ,among the women of the other class have arisen a great number who have turned to seek occupation from an entirely different cause1 the no less bitter driving of an unstimulating and ineffective existence1 a kind of boiling-over of women's energy wasted1 causing a revolt of the woman-soul against a life of confused purposes1 achieving by accident what is achieved at all4 ,between the women who have the finest opportunities and the women who have none there is this common kinship--the wastage not so much of woman as of womanhood4 ,she considers the women who have been forced into the cheating1 damning struggle for life1 and urges that the life-blood of women1 that should be given to the race1 is being stitched into our ready-made clothes2 washed and ironed into our linen2 poured into our adulterated foods2 and so on4 ,but her reasoning in this chapter is not very clear4 ,women1 to avoid parasitism1 must work1 and only a relatively small proportion of them can now find in their homes work enough to keep them self-sustaining4 ,protest against the sweating of women is not only philanthropic--it is perfectly sound political economy4 ,women workers not only should be protected against long hours1 unnecessary risks1 insanitary surroundings1 merciless nerve tension1 and the computation of their wages on a basis of their assured ability to live partly by their labor and partly by the legitimatized or unlegitimatized sale of their sex2 but this can1 and must1 be done4 ,yet1 when all this has been accomplished1 will ,mrs4 ,gallichan feel satisfied that the struggle for life is not cheating1 damning1 if owing to conditions we cannot regulate that struggle fails also to comprehend the struggle to give life1 to reproduce8 ,it is because we are the mothers of men that we claim to be free4 ,this is the keynote of her book4 ,but she is by no means clear in her mind as to how the mothers of men are to maintain themselves in a freedom which shall be real1 not merely conceded2 nor as to how the millions of women who1 under our monogamous societies1 cannot be permanently mated1 are to justify their struggle for existence by becoming mothers of men4 ,the something that ,mrs4 ,gallichan lacks1 not in her retrospect so much as in her previsioning1 has been lacked by many of the great investigators and writers who have built up the magnificent literature of evolution and evolutionary philosophy3 she has an admirable survey of the whenceness of life and love and labor1 but a short-sighted1 astigmatic vision of its whereuntoness4 ,if the sole purpose of life and love and labor1 among humans as among lower animals1 is to continue life1 to transmit the life-force1 then indeed are those frustrated1 futile creatures who are cheated1 or who cheat themselves1 out of rendering this one service to the world which can justify them for having lived in it4 ,but if1 as most of us believe1 we are more than just links in the human chain2 if we have a relation to eternity as well as to history and to posterity1 there are splendid interpretations of our struggles that ,mrs4 ,gallichan does not apprehend4 ,if souls are immortal1 life is more than the perpetuation of species1 or even than the improvement of the race2 it is the place allotted to us for the development of that imperishable part which we are to carry hence1 and through eternity4 ,and any effort of ours which helps other souls to realize the best that life can give1 to seek the best that immortality can perpetuate1 may splendidly justify our existence4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan's conclusion about religion is that it is an opium to which women resort when they have no proper outlet for their sex-impulses4 ,i am certain1 she says1 that in us the religious impulse and the sex impulse are one4 ,and when she was able to satisfy the sex impulse1 she no longer had any need of or interest in religion4 ,the limitations this puts upon her interpretation of life are too obvious to need cataloging4 ,and this is the reason she signally fails to tell the whole of the truth about woman4 ,this is the reason why the latter chapters of her book1 in which she writes of marriage and divorce and prostitution1 are of less worth to the generality of readers than the earlier ones2 though this is not to say that these chapters do not contain a very great deal of vigorous thinking and excellent suggestion4 ,but to anyone who holds that the continuance of life is the principal justification for having lived1 yet deplores free love and state endowment of mothers1 there is inevitably an appalling waste1 for the elimination of which she may well be staggered to suggest a remedy4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan's book is not constructive in effect4 ,but it is so excellently analytical1 as far as it goes1 that it can scarcely fail to provoke a great deal of thought4 ,change ,there is coming soon1 to the ,fine ,arts ,theatre--that charming ,chicago home of the ,irish ,players and of the new note in drama--a play with an interesting title4 ,it is called ,change4 ,it is to be given by the ,welsh ,players--which fact alone has a thrill in it4 ,but the theme is even more compelling4 ,two old ,god-fearing ,welsh people have denied themselves of comforts and pleasures to give their sons an education4 ,then1 when they expect to reap the benefits of the sacrifice1 three unexpected and awful things happen3 the student son has so fallen under the influence of modern skepticism as to be forced to abandon his father's ,calvinistic creed4 ,the second one has become soaked with socialism and syndicalism4 ,the third1 a chronic invalid1 is a ,christian and a comfort2 but he is killed1 quite unnecessarily1 in a labor conflict instigated by his brother4 ,then--the two old people again1 alone4 ,what can a playwright do with such a situation8 ,nothing1 certainly1 to attract a capacity house4 ,but we shall be among the first of that small minority who likes thinking in the theatre to hear what ,mr4 ,francis has to say4 ,his theme is tremendous4 ,the ,poetry of ,alice ,meynell ,,llewellyn ,,jones ,not least among the stirring events of our present poetical renaissance are the publication of the collected editions of the works of ,alice ,meynell and ,francis ,thompson 7,scribner74 ,spiritually akin1 mutually influencing one another in material as in more subtle ways1 their poetry stands in vivid contrast to the muse of our younger singers1 the makers of what ,english critics hail as a new ,georgian ,age4 ,that this difference gives them an added significance1 and not as some critics have said1 a lessened one1 is the burden of the present appreciation of the poems of ,alice ,meynell4 ,for there is a tendency for the reader who is intoxicated with poetic modernity to reason somewhat after this fashion4 ,here1 he will say1--as indeed ,mr4 ,austin ,harrison has said of ,francis ,thompson--is a reed pipe of neo-mediaevalism 444 a poet of the gargoyle1 not of this modern world1 and so neither in sympathy of thought or melody with us of the twentieth century1 its free life and vers libre4 ,all this1 of course1 because1 ,francis ,thompson was--as is ,mrs4 ,meynell--a child of the ,catholic ,church4 ,our supposititious reader will continue to the effect that there is no spiritual profit to be had in reading these poets when the modern attitude is to be found in such writers as ,w4 ,w4 ,gibson1 ,masefield1 and ,hardy4 ,but in so arguing1 our reader will be entirely wrong as to the facts1 and mistaken in his whole manner of approach to the realm of poetic values4 ,mr4 ,max ,eastman1 in his charming book1 ,the ,enjoyment of ,poetry1 lays stress on the fact that poetry is not primarily the registering of emotions but the expression of keen realizations4 ,a mathematical concept may arouse an emotion1 but the poet makes the actual emotion transmissible by his selective power in picking out the focal point of the experience by which it is aroused4 ,if poetry is essentially realization of life1 then we have no longer any excuse for asking our poets to share our doctrinal views before we consent to read them4 ,on the contrary1 we should be more anxious to read ,mrs4 ,meynell than ,mr4 ,gibson1 if we are modernists1 for ,mr4 ,gibson may1 conceivably1 not be able to tell us anything we have not already felt4 ,mrs4 ,meynell1 on the other hand1 can inform our feelings with fresh aspects of experience1 and she does so abundantly4 ,her ,catholicism is not mediaevalism1 but1 in so far as it is translatable into her poetry it is simply a vocabulary for the expression of certain emotional realizations of life which we modernists find it very hard to express because we do not have the necessary vocabulary4 ,what can be more modern than the doctrine of the immanence of ,god and his abode in man1 that much-discussed social gospel8 ,yet the following poem1 not in spite of but through its ,catholic terminology1 heightens our realization of brotherhood and dependence one upon another4 ,it is entitled ,the ,unknown ,god3 ,one of the crowd went up1 ,and knelt before the ,paten and the ,cup1 ,received the ,lord1 returned in peace1 and prayed ,close to my side2 then in my heart ,i said3 ,o ,christ1 in this man's life-- ,this stranger who is ,thine--in all his strife1 ,all his felicity1 his good and ill1 ,in the assaulted stronghold of his will1 ,i do confess ,thee here1 ,alive within this life2 ,i know ,thee near ,within this lonely conscience1 closed away ,within this brother's solitary day4 ,christ in his unknown heart1 ,his intellect unknown--this love1 this art1 ,this battle and this peace1 this destiny ,that ,i shall never know1 look upon me6 ,christ in his numbered breath1 ,christ in his beating heart and in his death1 ,christ in his mystery6 ,from that secret place ,and from that separate dwelling1 give me grace4 ,the spectacle of a general communion again gives ,mrs4 ,meynell inspiration for a poem whose last two stanzas apply equally as well to the secular1 evolutionary view of salvation as they do to the ecclesiastical view1 and whose last stanza is most suggestive in the light it throws upon the puzzling discrepancy between the littleness of man and the unlimited material vast in which he finds himself a floating speck3 ,i saw this people as a field of flowers1 ,each grown at such a price ,the sum of unimaginable powers ,did no more than suffice4 ,a thousand single central daisies they1 ,a thousand of the one2 ,for each1 the entire monopoly of day2 ,for each1 the whole of the devoted sun4 ,even so typically modern a philosopher as ,henri ,bergson would find one of his leading and rather baffling ideas beautifully realized in one of ,mrs4 ,meynell's sonnets4 ,matter1 ,bergson tells us1 in all its manifestations is moulded by a spiritual push from behind it1 so that the sensible world is not a mosaic of atoms obeying fixed laws but rather a cosmic compromise between matter and spirit1 a modus vivendi the operation of which would seem very different to us were our viewpoint that of pure spirit4 ,says ,mrs4 ,meynell in ,to a ,daisy3 ,slight as thou art1 thou art enough to hide ,like all created things1 secrets from me1 ,and stand1 a barrier to eternity4 ,and ,i1 how can ,i praise thee well and wide ,from where ,i dwell--upon the hither side8 ,thou little veil for so great mystery1 ,when shall ,i penetrate all things and thee1 ,and then look back8 ,for this ,i must abide1 ,till thou shalt grow and fold and be unfurled ,literally between me and the world4 ,then ,i shall drink from in beneath a spring1 ,and from a poet's side shall read his book4 ,o daisy mine1 what shall it be to look ,from ,god's side even of such a simple thing8 ,the sense of what might1 perhaps1 be called restrained paradox in that sonnet1 is frequently met with in ,mrs4 ,meynell's writings1 and it corresponds to aspects of reality which the old religious phraseology she has so freshly minted for us is alone fitted to convey4 ,the ,young ,neophyte is a beautiful sonnet enshrining the fatefulness of every human action1 the gift of the full flower which is implicit in the gift of the smallest bud1 the preparation we are constantly making for crises which are yet hidden in the future4 ,thoughts in ,separation also deals with the paradoxical overcoming of the handicaps of personal absence of our friends through community of thought and feeling4 ,not only are these paradoxes in human psychology delicately set forth by the poet1 but those darker ones of human work and destiny are consolingly illuminated in such a poem as ,builders of ,ruins--which does not depend for its quality of consolation upon anything foreign to its poetic truth4 ,one poem in the book is1 perhaps1 most remarkable for the light it throws upon the sense in which the term poetic truth may be used1 and as showing the difference between the poetic1 the realizable1 and1 therefore1 the true side of a religion--the side ,matthew ,arnold was so anxious to keep--and the mere theological framework1 always smelling of unreality and always in need of renovation4 ,the poem may stand as a warning against confusing real poetry--in whose truth we need not be afraid to trust because its author does not inhabit our own thought world--with versified theology4 ,if all of ,mrs4 ,meynell's work were like her ,messina1 #aijh1 then the critic and reader who now mistakenly shun her would be right4 ,and the poem is a curious commentary upon ,mr4 ,eastman's insistence that poetry is realization4 ,for in her other poems the author has presented those aspects of her religion which are verifiable in experience4 ,perhaps the quotations given above bear out that point4 ,but one aspect of religious thought has now been pretty generally abandoned1 not because it has ever been proven false1 but because we have never succeeded in realizing it for ourselves4 ,the ,god of orthodox church theodicy never did make good2 ,christ1 the ,saints1 and even the very material form of the cross itself had to mediate between man and the divine4 ,and it is precisely in the one case in this book where ,mrs4 ,meynell tries to present the governing rather than the immanent ,god to us that she fails--as1 if poetry be realization1 we should expect her to fail4 ,the first stanza of the poem addressed to the ,deity describes in a few bold strokes the wreck of ,messina1 and ends with the lines3 ,destroyer1 we have cowered beneath ,thine own ,immediate unintelligible hand4 ,the second stanza describes the missions of mercy to the stricken city1 and ends3 444 our shattered fingers feel ,thy mediate and intelligible hand4 ,the essential weakness of this dependence for poetic effect upon the two adjectives and their negatives is no less obvious than the weakness of the poet's attribution of such apparently impulsive and then retractatory conduct to a ,god whose ways must either be explicable in terms of a human sense of order or not made the subject of human discourse at all4 ,mrs4 ,meynell describes herself in one of these poems as a singer of a single mood4 ,some of her critics have taken her at her word and saved themselves some trouble thereby in their task of appreciation4 ,but as a matter of fact1 she should not be taken at her own modest estimate1 for her one mood is such a pervasive one1 such a large and sane mood1 that it pays to look at more than one aspect of life through its coloring4 ,and in truth1 besides her better-known poems which need no further mention here1 ,the ,lady ,poverty and ,renouncement1 for example1 there will be found within the small compass of her beautifully-housed collection of verse many aspects of nature1 all of them instinct with a mystic shimmer of life1 as well as aspects of the innermost life of man which it is given to few spirits to sing in words--only1 in fact1 to those spirits whose effort it is to make their poetry ,plain1 behind oracles 444 and past ,all symbols1 simple2 perfect1 heavenly-wild1 ,the song some loaded poets reach at last-- ,the kings that found a ,child4 ,to have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive1 and it is not denied to criticism to have it2 but then criticism must be sincere1 simple1 flexible1 ardent1 ever widening its knowledge4--,matthew ,arnold in ,essays in ,criticism 7,first ,series74 ,an ,ancient ,radical ,,william ,l4 ,,chenery ,euripides and ,his ,age1 by ,gilbert ,murray4 ,henry ,holt and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,the conspiracy of silence which oppressed the youth of those of us who were born in the late ,victorian era never seems more hateful than when some master hand connects the present labors of liberty with the strivings of the infinite past4 ,in some fashion the dominating spirits of a generation ago contrived to make the struggles for human freedom appear as ugly isolated episodes without precursors or ancestry4 ,they forgot the ,shelleys and the ,godwins and they even denied the significance of the classic forerunners of today's ardent prophets4 ,there were happy exceptions4 ,some of us cherish the teachings of a ,virginia professor who1 as far as the adolescent capacities of his students permitted1 bridged the gap between ,socrates's free questionings and the contemporary yearnings for a world of uncompromising justice and beauty4 ,what that ,southern student did for his small band of followers ,gilbert ,murray has long been doing for the great world4 ,his present contribution belongs to that satisfying series1 ,the ,home ,university ,library4 ,incidentally1 one reflects that this ,home ,university is one of the few institutions of learning which has completely avoided the blinders so many are complacently wearing4 ,the ,euripides of ,murray suggests to the author--and to the reader1 one may claim--both ,tolstoi and ,ibsen4 ,but1 one hastens to state1 ,professor ,murray is too learned and thoughtful a man to paint a revolutionary ,euripides such as ,the ,masses--much as one loves that exuberant ,don ,quixote--would delight to honor and to portray4 ,his onset1 however1 catches us3 ,every man who possesses real vitality can be seen as the resultant of two forces1 says ,murray4 ,he is first the child of a particular age1 society1 convention2 of what we may call in one word a tradition4 ,he is secondly1 in one degree or another1 a rebel against that tradition4 ,and the best traditions make the best rebels4 ,euripides is the child of a strong and splendid tradition and is1 together with ,plato1 the fiercest of all rebels against it4444 ,euripides1 like ourselves1 comes in an age of criticism1 following upon an age of movement and action4 ,and for the most part1 like ourselves1 he accepts the general standards on which the movement and action were based4 ,he accepts the ,athenian ideals of free thought1 free speech1 democracy1 'virtue1' and patriotism4 ,he arraigns his country because she is false to them4 ,the suffragist and the feminist movements have recently brought the great dramatist to his proper appreciation in respect to women4 ,some of the passages in the ,medea are quoted as often in suffragist campaigns as the words of ,bernard ,shaw or of ,olive ,schreiner4 ,this ,greek is sometimes said to be the first literary man who understood women4 ,for that reason1 as ,professor ,murray so charmingly emphasizes1 ,euripides was ever accounted a woman hater1 despite even the implications of his great chorus which sings so nobly woman's destined rise as a power in the world4 ,his statement of the cause of barbarian woman against a civilized man who has wronged her is incomparably more contemporary than ,madam ,butterfly1 and with ,murray we may doubt if ever the deserted one has found such words of fire as ,medea speaks4 ,and1 as the author continues1 ,medea is not only a barbarian2 she is also a woman1 and fights the horrible war that lies1 an eternally latent possibility1 between woman and man4 ,some of the most profound and wounding things said both by ,medea and ,jason might almost be labelled in a book of extracts ',any ,wife to ,any ,husband' or ',any ,husband to ,any ,wife4' ,the change which came over the spirit of ,euripides's vision1 as ,athens itself was transformed by empire lust from the first glories of ,pericles1 suggest again the purifying satire of our ablest moderns4 ,war is hateful and the picture which the ,attic dramatist drew of the horrors of dying ,troy leave little to the present imagination4 ,euripides accordingly became as popular in imperialistic ,athens as was ,bebel among the ,kaiser's ministers4 ,murray interprets this phase magnificently4 ,he concludes3 ,this scene1 with the parting between ,andromache and the child which follows1 seems to me perhaps the most heartrending in all the tragic literature of the world4 ,after rising from it one understands ,aristotle's judgment of ,euripides as the 'most tragic of the poets4' ,one has only to recall the brave gentleness of ,hector's wife1 described first in ,homeric words1 to agree with the present author4 ,on the purely critical side ,professor ,murray's words are vastly important4 ,especially valuable is his discussion of the chorus and the deus ex machina concerning which so much error has been taught since ,horace wrote on the art of poetry4 ,but this small book is not designed for those whose interest in ,greek drama is technical4 ,it is ,euripides1 the philosopher2 ,euripides1 the satirist of his times2 ,euripides1 the preacher of lofty virtues1 the apostle of new men and more righteous gods1 who concerns the great awakening world of #aiad4 ,the intellectual battles which ,euripides fought on behalf of ,athens have been waged again and often for the millions who slumber and are content4 ,they are being fought now with an intensity unprecedented4 ,so it brings courage and it brings calm to realize the continuity of the conflict1 and to recall the signal victories of the olden days4 ,gilbert ,murray's achievements are too numerous to permit praise4 ,one may only say now that the present book is in line with the fine things of his past2 that by virtue of his labors the world agony for liberty and justice and beauty reveals new phases of the intrinsic dignity and honor which have been its possession since men desired better things4 ,for those whose lives are chaotic personal loves must also be chaotic2 this or that passion1 malice1 a jesting humor1 some physical lust1 gratified vanity1 egotistical pride1 will rule and limit the relationship and color its ultimate futility4--,h4 ,g4 ,wells in ,first and ,last ,things4 ,isn't it possible to be pedantic in the demand for simplicity8 ,it's a cry which1 if ,i notice aright1 nature has a jaunty way of disregarding4 ,command a rosebush in the stress of ,june to purge itself2 coerce a convolvulus out of the paths of catachresis4 ,amen6--,some ,letters of ,william ,vaughn ,moody4 ,equal ,suffrage3 ,the ,first ,real ,test ,,henry ,,blackman ,,sell ,the query of the anti-suffragist--,will the women really use suffrage if they have it--was rather conclusively answered in the affirmative at ,chicago aldermanic elections on ,april #g1 when equal suffrage was given its first real test in an ,american city of first rank4 ,this election brought out many interesting incidents which might be considered as having laboratory value4 ,it has been contended by the antis that the women would be bad losers2 that they would not support the non-partisan ideals which are becoming a definite part of our new patriotism2 that the result of equal suffrage would simply be one of double vote1 wives voting as their husbands decided2 that the women coming out in the first enthusiasm of registration would not take the same interest in the prosaic work at the polls2 that the fights against bad nominees would result either in a duplication of man-run campaigns1 or in ineffective and lady-like campaigns4 ,the first of these contentions was proved untrue to even the most casual observer at the polls on election day4 ,the women were fighting uphill all the way1 and where the so-termed suffrage men were slightly unpleasant in their attitude towards the antis1 the women were all cheerfulness and all refreshing encouragement4 ,as one explained3 ,it has been the most wonderful feeling1 working shoulder to shoulder with the men in something that has really been our duty all along4 ,nine women candidates were up for election and not one was chosen2 and yet1 after talking with five defeated women candidates and three defeated men candidates1 ,i concluded that the women knew more about the philosophy of politics and its sad uncertainties than men who had been contesting for years4 ,true1 election to office is but a by-product of political experience2 it is a most coveted by-product1 nevertheless1 and when a woman like ,marion ,drake1 who ran a close race against ,chicago's bad alderman1 says1 at the closing of the polls1 ,i have not been elected1 but every minute of the time ,i have expended has been worth while and ,i shall try again at the next election1--it shows the right spirit and the fundamental error in the assertion that women cannot lose gracefully4 ,non-partisanism could be given no real test1 for these ideals seemed necessary of application in only two or three wards4 ,in one--the twenty-first--an alderman with a bad record was up for re-election in opposition to a ,republican of no particular merit4 ,the women got together1 with the aid of some of the better men1 and selected a non-partisan candidate4 ,this man was elected directly through the efforts of the women who1 ,republican1 ,democratic1 and ,progressive1 rallied in true non-partisan spirit to his aid4 ,as to the control of the women's votes by the men3 it is interesting to note that in the more intelligent wards there was considerable variance between the men and the women1 while in the wards of the poorer and less intellectually-inclined portions of the city the votes ran a great deal alike4 ,the women came out in good numbers and1 as a matter of fact1 the masculine vote was considerably higher than usual2 but even with this advantage1 the registered women outvoted the registered men by a small per cent4 ,the campaigns conducted by the various women were distinctly different from the ordinary political campaigns4 ,they were dignified1 straightforward1 strong1 and effective4 ,miss ,drake1 in her campaign against ,john ,coughlin1 colloquially and delicately known as ,bathhouse ,john1--the name originating from the fact that the gentleman in question received his political training as a mopper and rubber in one of ,chicago's most infamous bath houses1--made a direct appeal1 in a house to house1 voter to voter1 canvass of her ward4 ,in this way she told over two-thirds of the people of the ,bathhouse's territory all about the gentleman1 his ambitions1 his desires1 and his insidious motives4 ,and while she was defeated1 it must be remembered that though ,coughlin received a sufficient plurality1 he by no means attained his boast3--,i'll beat that skirt by #h1jjj votes4 ,in fact1 where his plurality at the last elections was approximately eight to one1 this year it was less than two-and-a-half to one1 making an obvious deduction that ,miss ,drake's campaign was decidedly successful even though she did not win4 ,the ,education of ,yesterday and ,today ,,william ,,saphier ,the ,education of ,karl ,witte1 translated by ,leo ,wiener and edited by ,h4 ,addington ,bruce4 ,thomas ,y4 ,crowell ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,mr4 ,saphier is a ,roumanian who came to this country only a few years ago and learned ,english4 ,the following review is his first attempt at writing1 and we print it just as it came to us1 hoping our readers will find it as interesting as we did4 ,french1 ,italian1 ,english1 ,greek1 and ,german at the age of nine1 a ,ph4,d4 degree at fourteen1 a doctor of laws and an appointment to the teaching staff of the ,berlin ,university at sixteen--these were some of the achievements of ,karl ,witte4 ,or shall ,i say of pastor ,witte1 the father8 ,for the boy had very little to do with it3 he was merely a piece of putty in the able hands of a strong-willed man who knew what he wanted and how to get it4 ,a child of ordinary abilities1 according to pastor ,witte and others1 ,karl absorbed an enormous amount of knowledge in a comparatively short time1 as a result of a method of education which began almost as soon as he showed intelligence4 ,the book1 originally written about one hundred years ago when scientific advice on the subject was lacking1 is a remarkable document4 ,it is full of useful information and practical hints to parents and people interested in the education of children1 even in this day of scientific methods and conflicting authorities4 ,but as we might have expected1 the discipline reminds us a little of the ,german ,kaserne4 ,the spilling of a little milk on the tablecloth was punished by enforced abstinence from all foods except bread and salt4 ,punishment as a remedy for an offense is always wrong1 because it does not prove the responsibility of the act to the child4 ,the spirit in which pastor ,witte went about his task is shown in the following passage3 ,the firmness in executing my purpose went so far that even our house dog knew the emphasis of the words3 ,i must work1 and calmed down the moment we spoke these words softly into his ears4 ,almost from the outset this made an enormous impression on ,karl4 ,he soon became accustomed to look upon his work time as something sacred4 ,the development of intellectual and moral courage1 the most important qualities any man or woman may possess1 were neglected1 at least were not given the attention they deserve4 ,to inculcate in the child a desire for liberty and social equality1 he overlooks entirely4 ,the father is really the more remarkable of the two4 ,a product of the method of education prevailing at the time1 he stands as a refutation of his own theories4 ,pastor ,witte conceived and carried out an idea successfully4 ,he did something1 at least theoretically1 worth while4 ,the son died at eighty-three4 ,now what difference would it have made either to the boy or to the world if his appointment to the teaching staff of ,berlin had come at a later date8 ,most methods of education aim at the training of the senses and the accumulation of facts4 ,while these are necessary1 ,i think the speed at which this is done is immaterial to the child4 ,some of the finest men and women1 who made this a better world to live in1 had no scientific training in their childhood or later4 ,we need not go back to history to find them4 ,maxime ,gorky1 for instance1 lost his parents before he was four years old1 and began to read under the supervision of a cook at sixteen4 ,jack ,london is another instance that suggests itself readily to one's mind4 ,of course these are exceptional people1 but take the thousands of able and brainy men and women in labor organizations and idealists in all walks of life4 ,usually they had very little attention from their parents1 either because they had no time or did not know enough4 ,these men and women who had to rub up against the rough edges of our money-making machinery and to stand squarely on their feet facing this world and its problems1--willing to lend a hand1 yes1 even to give their lives for the betterment of social and economic conditions--these persons are worthy of the name4 ,now ,i don't want to say anything against the early training of children4 ,the kindergarten and all the methods of early training in schools have come into existence because there is a real need for them4 ,parents1 for many reasons1 no longer have the time to train their own children2 but we expect results from education in general that cannot be accomplished4 ,what good are all the learning and scientific facts that we have accumulated up to now1 if we don't use them to make our life richer and more beautiful8 ,knowledge and ability are worthless if there is no moral and intellectual courage to back them up4 ,pastor ,witte thought the education of his son finished when he reached the age of sixteen4 ,we today do things in the same spirit4 ,we get things done4 ,nothing slow about us4 ,the result1 of course1 is very poor2 nobody is satisfied4 ,our experts1 always ready with advice on any and everything1 tell us that what we need is technical training to provide industry with efficient help4 ,these educators do not see that the difficulty is not with the child but with industrial conditions4 ,they are going to fit the child to this misery called modern industry4 ,but remove the possibility of the unscrupulous taking advantage of the inexperienced and simple-minded1 and many of the so-called educational problems will disappear4 ,some ,book ,reviews ,a ,new-,old ,tagore ,play ,chitra3 ,a ,play in ,one ,act1 by ,rabindranath ,tagore4 ,the ,macmillan ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,nothing is more irritating to a really modern critic than to have to join in a chorus of universal praise4 ,it is particularly irritating when the person acclaimed is a ,nobel prize winner1 for surely those of us who sit in private judgment in secluded places ought to be able to discern values subtler than the ones open to the eyes of some mysterious frock-coated and silk-hatted jury of professors in ,stockholm1 or wherever it may be4 ,the very marrow in the bones of criticism curdles at the thought of agreeing with a popular award4 ,but a certain native honesty and a distinct desire to spread good news obliges one1 in the case of ,chitra1 to withhold the amiable dissecting knife4 ,the play is far too beautiful to serve as a cadaver for the illustration of either the anatomist's skill or the facts of anatomy4 ,let it be confessed that this reviewer1 who was about to send the book back with a refusal to review any work of ,tagore1 found1 after reading a few lines1 that he was forced to go on2 and that having once gone on1 he preferred to write the review rather than to give up the book4 ,this play was written twenty-five years ago1 and belongs1 therefore1 to that earlier strata of ,tagore's life which is to the normal mind so much more alluring than the latter detritus that seems to have accumulated over him4 ,his later work appears to be old with the old age of ,asia and with the old age of himself4 ,its fundamental feeling is the only too familiar impulse to recline on the bosom of a remote ,god4 ,we who regard this attitude as a perversion of manhood will turn from it with relief to the earlier writing1 in which the very life-blood of our own hearts seems quivering with the intimations of a better-than-godlike beauty4 ,as ,i have suggested1 there is very little that can rationally be said about this play ,chitra4 ,to indicate something of the nature of so perfect a work is the sole office that ,i can profitably perform4 ,chitra1 daughter of a ,king who had no sons1 was brought up to live the life and perform the activities of a man1 with a man's hardness of frame and a man's directness of will4 ,one day while hunting in the forest1 she found sleeping in her path ,arjuna1 the great warrior of the ,kuru ,clan4 ,then for the first time in my life ,i felt myself a woman1 and knew that a man was before me4444 ,going to the gods of love1 ,chitra obtained from them the gift of a perfect and world-vanquishing beauty to last for one year only2 and returning to ,arjuna she overcame by this invincible weapon the monastic vows which he had taken upon himself1 and swept him away into the wild and glorious current of her year of beauty4 ,thus the year begins3 ,chitra ,at evening ,i lay down on a grassy bed strewn with the petals of spring flowers1 and recollected the wonderful praise of my beauty ,i had heard from ,arjuna2--drinking drop by drop the honey that ,i had stored during the long day4 ,the history of my past life1 like that of my former existences1 was forgotten4 ,i felt like a flower1 which has but a few fleeting hours to listen to all the humming of the woodlands and then must lower its eyes from the sky1 bend its head1 and at a breath give itself up to the dust without a cry1 thus ending the short story of a perfect moment that has neither past nor future4 ,vasanta 7,the ,god of ,love7 ,a limitless life of glory can bloom and spend itself in a morning4 ,madana 7,the ,god of the ,seasons7 ,like an endless meaning in the narrow span of a song4 ,chitra ,the southern breeze caressed me to sleep4 ,from the flowering malati bower overhead silent kisses dropped over my body4 ,on my hair1 my breast1 my feet1 each flower chose a bed to die on4 ,i slept4 ,and suddenly1 in the depth of my sleep1 ,i felt as if some intense eager look1 like tapering fingers of flame1 touched my slumbering body4 ,i started up and saw the ,hermit standing before me4 ,the moon had moved to the west1 peering through the leaves to espy this wonder of divine art wrought in a fragile human frame4 ,the air was heavy with perfume2 the silence of the night was vocal with the chirping of crickets2 the reflections of the trees hung motionless in the lake2 and with his staff in his hand he stood1 tall and straight and still1 like a forest tree4 ,it seemed to me that ,i had1 on opening my eyes1 died to all realities of life and undergone a dream birth into a shadow land4 ,shame slipped to my feet like loosened clothes4 ,i heard his call--,beloved1 my most beloved6 ,and all my forgotten lives united as one and responded to it4 ,i said1 ,take me1 take all ,i am6 ,and ,i stretched out my arms to him4 ,the moon set behind the trees4 ,heaven and earth1 time and space1 pleasure and pain1 death and life merged together in an unbearable ecstasy4444 ,with the first gleam of light1 the first twitter of birds1 ,i rose up and sat leaning on my left arm4 ,he lay asleep with a vague smile about his lips like the crescent moon in the morning4 ,the rosy-red glow of the dawn fell upon his noble forehead4 ,i sighed and stood up4 ,i drew together the leafy lianas to screen the streaming sun from his face4 ,i looked about me and saw the same old earth4 ,i remembered what ,i used to be1 and ran and ran like a deer afraid of her own shadow1 through the forest path strewn with shephali flowers4 ,i found a lonely nook1 and sitting down covered my face with both hands1 and tried to weep and cry4 ,but no tears came to my eyes4 ,madana ,alas1 thou daughter of mortals6 ,i stole from the divine storehouse the fragrant wine of heaven1 filled with it one earthly night to the brim1 and placed it in thy hand to drink--yet still ,i hear this cry of anguish6444 ,a few words1 a half dozen pages of prose modulated to perform an office as subtle as that of blank verse1 give us the exquisite essence of the year that follows2 and toward the end there steal into it notes of the inadequacy which the great warrior feels in this perfection1 and his desire for the old and harsher round of human life4 ,thus the year ends3 ,madana ,tonight is thy last night4 ,vasanta ,the loveliness of your body will return tomorrow to the inexhaustible stores of the spring4 ,the ruddy tint of thy lips1 freed from the memory of ,arjuna's kisses1 will bud anew as a pair of fresh asoka leaves1 and the soft1 white glow of thy skin will be born again in a hundred fragrant jasmine flowers4 ,chitra ,o gods1 grant me this my prayer6 ,tonight1 in its last hour1 let my beauty flash its brightest1 like the final flicker of a dying flame4 ,madana ,thou shalt have thy wish4 ,and as it ends1 and as ,chitra realizes that there is to fall from her that radiance which has been1 for a year1 the sole bond between her and her lover1 and also the sole barrier between the real her and him1 she finds that his profounder longing has changed into a desire for the companionship of that strong and eager boy-woman that she was before her transformation4 ,chitra 7cloaked7 ,my lord1 has the cup been drained to the last drop8 ,is this indeed the end8 ,no2 when all is done something still remains1 and that is my last sacrifice at your feet4 ,i brought from the garden of heaven flowers of incomparable beauty with which to worship you1 god of my heart4 ,if the rites are over1 if the flowers have faded1 let me throw them out of the temple 7unveiling in her original male attire74 ,now1 look at your worshipper with gracious eyes4 ,i am not beautifully perfect as the flowers with which ,i worshipped4 ,i have many flaws and blemishes4 ,i am a traveller in the great world-path1 my garments are dirty1 and my feet are bleeding with thorns4 ,where should ,i achieve flower-beauty1 the unsullied loveliness of a moment's life8 ,the gift that ,i proudly bring you is the heart of a woman4 ,here have all pains and joys gathered1 the hopes and fears and shames of a daughter of the dust2 here love springs up struggling toward immortal life4 ,herein lies an imperfection which yet is noble and grand4 ,if the flower-service is finished1 my master1 accept this as your servant for the days to come6 ,i am ,chitra1 the king's daughter4 ,perhaps you will remember the day when a woman came to you in the temple of ,shiva1 her body loaded with ornaments and finery4 ,that shameless woman came to court you as though she were a man4 ,you rejected her2 you did well4 ,my lord1 ,i am that woman4 ,she was my disguise4 ,then by the boon of gods ,i obtained for a year the most radiant form that a mortal ever wore1 and wearied my hero's heart with the burden of that deceit4 ,most surely ,i am not that woman4 ,i am ,chitra4 ,no goddess to be worshipped1 nor yet the object of common pity to be brushed aside like a moth with indifference4 ,if you deign to keep me by your side in the path of danger and daring1 if you allow me to share the great duties of your life1 then you will know my true self4 ,if your babe1 whom ,i am nourishing in my womb1 be born a son1 ,i shall myself teach him to be a second ,arjuna1 and send him to you when the time comes1 and then at last you will truly know me4 ,today ,i can only offer you ,chitra1 the daughter of a king4 ,arjuna ,beloved1 my life is full4 ,,arthur ,,davison ,,ficke4 ,an ,unorthodox ,view of ,burroughs ,our ,friend ,john ,burroughs1 by ,clara ,barrus4 ,houghton ,mifflin ,company1 ,boston4 ,that title engenders a resentment in me1 a sense of unfitness4 ,it is an epitome of a popular approval which has cheapened the word friendship4 ,if ,walt ,whitman1 ,john ,muir1 and ,francis ,f4 ,browne had jointly written of ,burroughs1 the words our friend in the title of their collaboration would have been inevitable and nice4 ,the common disregard of so unimportant a matter as this seems to be in the author's opinion exhibits the crass liberties which the public is wont to take with personalities4 ,the result is that a great man may become popular and useful before he is understood4 ,burroughs happily is both read and understood4 ,his popularity therefore is wholesome4 ,but the mild and consistent protest which his life has been and is against the necessary artificialities in which most of his friends live has never drawn them into a comprehending1 practicing sympathy with it4 ,he is read1 applauded1 and envied--but not followed4 ,his softness and gentle unconcern with affairs are the antitheses of those dynamic qualities which confer leadership and vitalize men's impulses and deeds4 ,his urban admirers go to the country to rusticate and picnic but not to live a life like his4 ,he does too much speculative thinking to give his attitude toward the world an opportunity to go home to his readers4 ,whitman1 with a similar indifference to a following1 drives men into the open road2 ,thoreau lures them to ,walden ,ponds to repeat his experiment2 ,ik ,marvel persuades them to farm2 ,david ,grayson charms city folk back to the land1 to anchor and live4 ,burroughs attracts visitors to ,slabsides4 ,he is on the verge of becoming an institution1 a curiosity4 ,his life has been a personal success4 ,he is young in spirit and surprisingly robust at nearly eighty years of age--he is seventy-seven this month--and ,i daresay that his obvious failure to lead his readers towards country homes of their own or seriously to interest them in the art of simple living has never given him the slightest pain4 ,he has assumed no responsibility for the ways of the world4 ,nature is capable of working out her own salvation during a future eternity4 ,a leaf on a tree does not quarrel with or attempt to reform its personal kin4 ,it functions alone2 the life of which it is a part must take care of horticultural sociology4 ,burroughs to me acknowledges himself to be a leaf on the great tree4 ,that is exceedingly interesting2 but endow leaves with reason1 give them an expanding consciousness1 and their functions must change4 ,burroughs would require to be more than a predestinated leaf if his fellows were leaves4 ,by virtue of society's struggle and industry1 in which ,burroughs is not interested1 he has made of the world1 so far as he is concerned1 a quiet1 beautiful outdoor cathedral1 domed by the sky1 its chief priest being fed and clothed by the slaves of productive industry in your world and mine4 ,with great respect and admiration ,i pronounce him a sagacious man1 a clever leaf that has employed its reason with remarkable personal advantage4 ,in ,burroughs' world the tragedies1 strife1 and noise that we experience do not exist2 his cathedral is a by-product and he is a modest beneficiary of humanity's work4 ,in relation to the masses of people it is as unreal as it is unproductive of racial fitness to persist in the world as most men know it4 ,he loves to dream1 think1 and write in his cathedral2 what is going on outside does not disturb him4 ,he revels in the leisure1 order1 and security which the outsiders have provided4 ,he assures us that it is pleasant and satisfying1 and we honor and reward him for the information1 but ,i should like to ask him whether the largest freedom and selfhood that are achievable apart from working1 conflicting1 warring men are not themselves fundamentally artificial4 ,burroughs does not seem to be sufficiently alive to suspect that he has missed something greater than personal contentment4 ,a reader of everything that he has published1 ,i never1 until ,i read the autobiographical sketches in this work1 felt the pity and unsocial contempt--not for the man but for the type--which ,i have here tried to express4 ,d4 ,c4 ,w4 ,another ,masefield ,tragedy ,the ,tragedy of ,pompey the ,great1 by ,john ,masefield4 ,the ,macmillan ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,creative artist that he is1 ,masefield moves forward into amazing clearness1 heightened by flashes of poetic light1 the scenes of nearly two thousand years ago in ,rome4 ,the fidelity of this tragedy to the facts of history1 and the remarkable extent to which it reproduces the overwhelming glory of a great struggle1 are new proofs of the author's special affinity with the sanguinary deeds of heroic men4 ,masefield's plays and narrative poems give the element of tragedy something of its old vividness and nobility in art4 ,some of his phrases sound like the fall of a guillotine4 ,he is a master of the magic of objectifying tremendous unrealities4 ,he hates feeble passions2 wanton courage and oaken physical power in action are the big things that he likes to ennoble with poetic treatment4 ,and his success is incomparable1 so far as his contemporaries are concerned4 ,masefield's great characters1 true to the glossed facts of life1 in crises exhibit indwelling cave-men4 ,his frankness and honesty are themselves tragical4 ,life is full of and inseparable from tragedy4 ,pompey saw a madman in ,egypt4 ,he was eyeless with staring at the sun4 ,he said that ideas come out of the ,east1 like locusts4 ,they settle on the nations and give them life2 and then pass on1 dying1 to the wilds1 to end in some scratch on a bone1 by a cave-man's fire4 ,the old warrior lies awake1 thinking4 ,what are we8 he asks ,lucceius1 and that actor in a great play replies1 ,who knows8 ,dust with a tragic purpose4 ,then an end4 ,masefield surveys the recorded history of the past1 sees into the heart of the present and exclaims1 ,tragedy6 ,and of course that is in his own life2 otherwise he could not see it apart from himself4 ,in sheer desperation he endues dust with a tragic purpose1 but he does not believe so much as he hopes that a purpose inheres in that resultant of life1 for in the big poem with which he summarizes the record of ,pompey he says3 ,and all their passionate hearts are dust1 ,and dust the great idea that burned ,in various flames of love and lust ,till the world's brain was turned4 ,god1 moving darkly in men's brains1 ,using their passions as his tool1 ,brings freedom with a tyrant's chains ,and wisdom with the fool4 ,blindly and bloodily we drift1 ,our interests clog our hearts with dreams1 ,god make my brooding soul a rift ,through which a meaning gleams4 ,the ,tragedy of ,pompey the ,great1 unlike any ,shaw play or even ,the ,tragedy of ,nan1 is not good reading2 its short sentences1 tragic with import1 are mere outlines4 ,but they drive incarnate reality into one's soul4 ,what was the tragedy of ,pompey8 ,well1 it began hundreds of years before he was born2 he was the accidental embodiment of it4 ,he had earned security and peace4 ,he had aided ,caesar in conquering ,gaul4 ,caesar would never have been anybody if ,pompey hadn't backed him4 ,but that tyrant's lust for power provoked a civil war1 and the end was a blind1 turbulent heaving towards freedom4 ,pompey's dream of freedom--his conviction that power was in too few hands--cost him his life4 ,to him ,rome was inwardly a great democratic power struggling with obsolete laws4 ,he declared that ,rome must be settled4 ,the crowd must have more power4 ,but ,pompey's dream was shallow and human1 even if great1 for1 regarding the thought of the world as of transcendent importance1 he asks1 ,for what else are we fighting but to control the thought of the world8 ,what else matters8 ,history seems to try to repeat itself4 ,lentulus1 fearing that they were losing ,rome1 said to ,pompey1 ,you have done nothing4 ,the reply--,wait--has a modern sound4 ,pompey was preparing to fight ,caesar1 but public opinion1 voiced by ,metellus1 excitedly demanded1 but at once4 ,give him no time to win recruits by success4 ,give them no time here4 ,the rabble don't hesitate4 ,they don't understand a man who hesitates4 ,that too might have been said by a modern ,american newspaper1 affecting to speak for the crowd4 ,philip1 beloved of the maiden ,antistia1 is fanatically true to his master1 whom he would follow ,to the desert4 ,to the night without stars4 ,to the wastes of the seas4 ,to the two-forked flame4 ,to him this blind devotion meant more than ,antistia's love4 ,we shall have to put off our marriage1 he said to her1 and she1 speaking from the deep heart of the mother1 unachieved1 answered3 ,why1 thus it is4 ,we put off and put off till youth's gone1 and strength's gone1 and beauty's gone4 ,till we two dry sticks mumble by the fire together1 wondering what there was in life1 when the sap ran4444 ,when you kiss the dry old hag1 ,philip1 you'll remember these arms that lay wide on the bed1 waiting1 empty4 ,years4 ,you'll remember this beauty4 ,all this beauty4 ,that would have borne you sons but for your master4 ,whatever the fate of ,pompey1 ,antistia's was the supreme tragedy4 ,,dewitt ,c4 ,,wing4 ,a ,net to ,snare the ,sun ,the ,world ,set ,free1 by ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 ,e4 ,p4 ,dutton and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,do you remember the little verse of ,kipling's in the ,just ,so ,stories about the small person who kept so many serving men ,one million ,hows1 two million ,wheres1 ,and seven million ,whys8 ,there's something very much like that small person in a decidedly larger person called ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 ,for all the great sweep and astonishing convincingness of his later novels he still keeps the child-like quality of asking startling questions about everything in the universe4 ,he still wants to know3 ,why can't ,i catch the sun1 and what would happen if ,i did8 ,in his last half dozen novels he has been asking about various phases of our modern society1 politics1 and the sex question4 ,but in this latest book1 ,the ,world ,set ,free1 he goes back to a type of question that interested him some years ago1 the type half fanciful and half sociological that produced ,in the ,days of the ,comet1 ,the ,time ,machine1 and ,when the ,sleeper ,wakes4 ,but this book is not entirely like the earlier ones4 ,for one thing the science is for the first time so nearly possible that it is almost probable1 and for another this book is the work of an older1 quieter soul with less regard for externals and with more faith in the ultimate high hope for mankind4 ,what ,wells has asked himself this time is3 ,what would happen if man were suddenly given command over an unlimited amount of physical power8 ,he brings this about by modern chemistry4 ,a scientist discovers a new theory of matter which enables him to break down metals by radio-activity and so generate practically limitless power4 ,the first use the world makes of this power is to go to war4 ,we can hardly quarrel with ,wells for the improbability of this because it sweeps the board so clear for his reconstruction period1 which is the heart of the story4 ,a strange story it is2 one whose hero is mankind--mankind in the bulk1 groping1 struggling1 trying half blindly to adapt himself to the new conditions1 and at last1 after a desperate period of reconstruction1 coming out into the sunlight1 triumphant1 clean1 and at peace4 ,now and then an individual is caught up for an instant into the story1 transfigured for the moment by circumstances into a mouthpiece for the mass of mankind1--a scientist1 a middle-class ,englishman who wrote his memoirs1 the ,slavic ,fox1 a dying prophet of the later age1--but for the most part it is just mankind who speaks4 ,wells1 by the great sweep and vision of his ideas and the almost super-human handling of the technical difficulties of such an impersonal story1 succeeds in raising us for a moment out of our personal selves so that we are completely identified with the race1 and view its later successes with a serene and personal pride4 ,each of us becomes a link in the great chain of humanity that reaches from the cave man through the chuckle-headed youth to the dying professor1 the men who dreamed of snaring the sun in a net and taming it to their hand4 ,ye auld red thing 444 we say with the chuckle-headed youth1 ,we'll have you yet6 ,and the dying prophet cries for each of us to the setting orb3 ,old ,sun1 ,i gather myself together out of the pools of the individual that have held me dispersed so long4 ,i gather my billion thoughts into science and my million wills into a common purpose4 ,well may you slink down behind the mountain from me1 well may you cower4444 ,,eunice ,,tietjens4 ,a #aj1jjj ,novel ,diane of the ,green ,van1 by ,leona ,dalrymple4 ,the ,reilly and ,britton ,company1 ,chicago4 ,about the middle of last ,december ,mr4 ,f4 ,k4 ,reilly sent a telegram to a ,miss ,leona ,dalrymple of ,passaic1 ,new ,jersey1 in which he asked3 ,may ,i call upon you ,thursday afternoon8 ,the telegram was the result of the #aj1jjj prize contest which the ,reilly and ,britton ,company had planned early in the year2 and ,miss ,dalrymple had just been announced as the winner by the three judges--,s4 ,s4 ,mc,clure1 ,ida ,tarbell1 and ,george ,n4 ,madison4 ,she knew nothing of this1 however1 though she thought ,mr4 ,reilly's telegram must mean an interest in her work2 so she replied calmly that she would be pleased to see him on ,thursday4 ,then ,mr4 ,reilly's eyes begin to twinkle1 as he tells the story1 for it is rather a joke to set out on a journey with a #aj1jjj check in your pocket for an unsuspecting young woman4 ,even when he explained to her and presented the check she remained calm--though she is only twenty-eight years old and this was her first taste of real fame4 ,she told ,mr4 ,reilly that she had another novel which she hoped might interest him--but he took the words out of her mouth by saying that he had come prepared to make a contract for it6 ,so much for the latest of modern fairy tales4 ,diane of the ,green ,van is the prize-winning novel1 and1 despite our first suspicion of it because of that very fact1 it proves to be a good one4 ,miss ,dalrymple loves the outdoors1 and her present story of an ,american girl who goes jaunting in a van in the ,florida ,everglades was suggested by a newspaper clipping about an adventurous young ,englishwoman who managed to break away from conventions once a year and roam the country in a gipsy wagon4 ,not all best sellers have as much real charm as this one4 ,perhaps its freshness and spontaneity are due to the fact that it had to be written in six weeks for the contest4 ,miss ,dalrymple has stated that her purpose in writing novels is to entertain wholesomely through optimism and romance4 ,usually that type of purpose is linked up with a sentimentality which means being sweet at the expense of truth4 ,but this author is not that sort3 in expressing her dislike of sex stories1 for instance1 she attributes their shortcomings to treatment1 not to material--since there is absolutely no subject under the sun which may not be treated with perfect good taste in a novel4 ,she has also stated that in her opinion the modern woman is over-sexed--a popular though altogether wrong-headed view which we mean some time to argue with her in these columns4 ,slime and the ,breath of ,life ,the ,russian ,novel1 translated from the ,french of ,le ,vicomte ,e4 ,m4 de ,voge by ,colonel ,h4 ,a4 ,sawyer4 ,george ,h4 ,doran ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,although this book was written in #ahhf1 its treatments of ,pushkin1 ,gogol1 ,turgeneff1 ,dostoevsky1 and ,tolstoy are now first made accessible to the ,english reader1 and will still be worth his attention4 ,in fact one reads them with a growing regret that the author1 who died in #aiaj1 did not continue his interpretation of the ,russian spirit as the religious and mystic tone of its nihilism gradually faded and left us the bleaker outlook of such men as ,gorky4 ,with ,tolstoy1 however--probably the greatest demonstrator of life which has arisen since ,goethe--the book closes4 ,the author treats his subject from the standpoint of a certain formula which he finds to hold throughout the range of that realism which succeeded the romanticism of ,pushkin--a romanticism which disappeared in #ahdj4 ,thereafter there grew up the great realistic school which gives ,russia the leadership of the world in the field of realistic fiction--a leadership due partly to the temperamental standpoint of the ,russian1 adapted for just the kind of work which the great realistic novel involves1 and partly to the importance of the novel as the vehicle of those ideas which the censor barred from every other channel of expression4 ,in the bible we are told that ,god made man out of the slime of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life4 ,in those words is the secret of the ,russian realistic novel4 ,for the realism of his own country the author of this work has little praise4 ,because1 he says1 it lacked that human sympathy which saw in man not only the slime of the earth but the breath of life1 it is barren4 ,dickens1 on the other hand1 and ,george ,eliot gave to ,english realism a standpoint which was moulded1 nay1 impregnated through and through1 with the religion of that book to which ,mary ,evans had renounced formal allegiance--the ,protestant bible4 ,in fact1 ,de ,voge goes so far as to say that some of her writing1 for instance the meeting between ,dinah and ,lisbeth1 is biblical in the quality of its appeal1 and might have been written by the hand that gave us ,ruth4 ,this spirit1 but without the ,anglo-,saxon hardness1 is the spirit of ,russian realism4 ,it has all the photographic accuracy1 the preocupation with all types of life that distinguishes ,french realism2 but the preoccupation with the divine1 the mystical turning away from the things of this world1 is also present4 ,the sympathy of ,gogol is intensified to painfulness in ,dostoevsky and is apotheosized into a new religion of renunciation in ,tolstoy4 ,and because 7in contrast to the ,french7 the ,russians disentangled themselves from these excesses1 and like the ,english gave realism a superior beauty moved by the same moral spirit of a compassion cleansed of all impurities and glorified by the spirit of the gospels--because of this ,de ,voge regards ,russian realistic literature as the one force that can rejuvenate the literary art of the ,european nations4 ,the author writes with the authority of long study and gives us a sufficient basis for what we must now do ourselves--namely1 read comtemporary ,russian literature and ask ourselves what it tells us2 whether or not it tells us that ,christian realism is a contradiction in terms4 ,,llewellyn ,,jones4 ,a ,drama of the ,two ,generations ,nowadays3 ,a ,contemporaneous ,comedy in ,three ,acts1 by ,george ,middleton4 ,henry ,holt and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,some little theatre company ought to send eight of its members on tour through all the smaller cities of the country in ,nowadays4 ,it would be the most effective way in the world to awaken the people of those slumbering places to the really amazing revolutions in contemporary life--and incidentally in the contemporary theatre4 ,for one thing1 it shows how parents and children are gradually bridging the foolish gulf between the generations--the gulf that ,shaw has called the degrading objection of youth to age2 for another1 it reflects the extraordinary renaissance that has come to our theatre since the first visit of the ,irish ,players4 ,mr4 ,middleton takes a typical small-town family--a father1 mother1 son1 and daughter--and leads them through a domestic crisis that has probably been the sad lot of most modern families4 ,the daughter1 like all proper young women1 has an ambition3 she wants to be a sculptor4 ,the mother understands1 having had similar longings before she married a man who made it his business to suppress them4 ,the father refuses to listen to the daughter's idea1 and tells her that if she goes to ,new ,york it will be without his help4 ,but she goes2 and the play opens with her first visit home4 ,the son1 a weakling without ability of any sort except to spend money and sow wild oats1 has also left home2 but he has managed to live very comfortably because of a monthly allowance from his father4 ,the justice of the situation harks back to the antique theory that even a weak boy has more right to the splendors of the world than a girl of any type4 ,diana's father refuses to think about woman suffrage4 ,i don't have to think about something ,i feel4 ,i tell you1 if we had woman suffrage1 women would all vote like their husbands4 ,they say it would double the ignorant vote1 answers ,diana's friend1 ,peter1 the journalist1 who has encouraged her in rebelling4 ,he's a good-natured old fossil1 ,peter says later to ,diana4 ,and when the girl insists that she loves her father anyhow1 ,peter says1 ,i love radishes1 but they don't agree with me4 ,if he had a new idea he'd die of dropsy4 ,the result of ,diana's visit is to produce certain rebellions in her mother1 who goes back to ,new ,york with her to help make a home of that lonely little flat1 and to revive her own early ambitions as a painter4 ,later the father succumbs to the new order4 ,it is all good comedy2 also it's tremendously good thinking4 ,if only it could be read by all the people who misunderstand the surging modern spirit that is riding so bravely through traditions and inheritances4 ,but ,nowadays has another value besides that of its story4 ,it is made of the stuff of the new drama2 it fulfills our demand that the theatre shall give us the truth about life in a simple way4 ,however1 we shall talk more about this in another issue4 ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn and ,us ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn1 by ,sinclair ,lewis4 ,harper and ,brothers1 ,new ,york4 ,the poverty of ,american workaday criticism has rarely shown more threadbare than in the fact that of all the reviews of ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn1 a first novel by ,sinclair ,lewis1 a new author1 not one has mentioned the idea under the book4 ,they have been good reviews1 too1 as reviews go4 ,many have praised the book1 have talked around it1 described its characters1 attempted to classify it--under names so various as ,locke1 ,wells1 and ,dickens4 ,yet so expected is the novel that means nothing1 and so dead is critical vision1 that no one has thought to say ,here is a new ,american writer4 ,what is in his soul8 ,let me prove the point4 ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn is a mouse-like little clerk in the office of a ,new ,york novelty company4 ,he is called ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn in business correspondence by the manager of the firm4 ,he is overshadowed by the job4 ,he lives uncomfortably in ,mrs4 ,zapp's downtown boarding house4 ,because the author can see1 various figures from the drab stream one meets in the street are made human4 ,because the author has whimsicality and scorn and sympathy1 the book has humor and satire and pathos4 ,all these things have been noted by the critics4 ,mr4 ,wrenn is not always ,our4 ,he becomes his own in the gorgeously illustrated travel leaflets sent out by steamship companies4 ,eventually he does go to ,england on a cattle steamer4 ,he is ,bill ,wrenn and licks a tough4 ,he meets adventures--,istra1 an over-fine artist girl who likes him because he's real4 ,in the end he pathetically sees her soar above him and sails back to ,america1 where he goes into the office again1 falls in love with a sweet little lingerie-counter clerk1 marries1 and settles down4 ,all these things the critics have told us4 ,but ,mr4 ,wrenn is at once glorious and pathetic1 not only because he says ,gee6 when he has the emotions of a poet4 ,it isn't only the little things of the book that twist our smiles4 ,there is an epic conflict between ,mr4 ,wrenn of the job and ,bill ,wrenn of the sunsets and the sea4 ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn1 oppressed and bullied1 scuttling out of the way1 not quite daring to think his own thoughts or dream his own dreams1 not knowing quite enough to understand the great things of the world--this man is everywhere in ,new ,york1 in ,america2 he is in our own souls4 ,and when he musters courage to become ,bill ,wrenn1 when he sets out on dangerous quests and loves strange beauty1 he becomes a conqueror who rallies with him the great of history1 and stands on the high places of our own spirits4 ,pitifully inadequate ,bill ,wrenn is1 of course4 ,the lonely tragedy of that conventionally happy ending has escaped the critics4 ,the drab1 the commonplace1 creep over ,bill again without his knowing it4 ,that's the frightful part of it4 ,it's very like what appears to happen to everybody4 ,our ,mr4 ,wrenn he is at the end1 sunk in comfort and forgetting his flags in sunsets4 ,it is a poignant1 bitterly human novel4 ,after reading it in sympathy one cannot lean back in satisfaction and write commonplaces4 ,it leads to understandings and resolutions4 ,when we learn to demand such things of ,american writers1 their primary purpose will then cease to be either to entertain or to teach a lesson4 ,,gilbert ,,alden4 ,lantern ,gleams ,little ,essays in ,literature and ,life1 by ,richard ,burton4 ,the ,century ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,readers of ,the ,bellman will welcome in this permanent form many little lantern gleams of thought that have been shed athwart their path by this unacademically-minded incumbent of a ,minnesota chair4 ,mr4 ,burton flashes his lamp fitfully over a large area1 and shows us loitering spots as well as boggy ground it were well to avoid4 ,opening his book at random1 we find here a hint on reading and here a warning gleam over some political or social morass4 ,when the morass is a deep one1 however1 we must not expect to sound its depths with a lantern gleam1 and so sometimes ,mr4 ,burton disappoints us4 ,thus in discussing the individual and society he merely tells us what we all know3 that we pay for the advantage of sociality1 of mutual comfort1 and support by the loss of individuality1 by the growth of a fear to do the thing that commends itself to our best judgment4 ,but what must we do8 ,must we fill in this particular morass by throwing in all the individuals8 ,or will the individuals be able to jump it8 ,mr4 ,burton is discreet on such points4 ,more satisfactory than that essay and others like it are those on literature4 ,under ,books and ,men the author deplores the tendency which characterized ,chaucer 7,farewell my books and my devotion7 of drawing an antithesis between men and books1 between literature and life4 ,literature has its origin in life and its apparent separation from it is an accidental result of the printed book method of spreading what used to be spread by the human voice alone or in chorus4 ,,illiam ,,dhone4 ,about ,nietzsche ,nietzsche and ,other ,exponents of ,individualism1 by ,paul ,carus4 ,the ,open ,court ,publishing ,company1 ,chicago4 ,expositions of ,nietzsche are usually written by uncritical disciples with little knowledge of formal philosophy4 ,in so far as ,nietzsche was a poet1 some of these productions may be of value in spots1 but in so far as ,nietzsche was an intellectual critic of life they are worthless4 ,dr4 ,carus writes from the standpoint of a philosopher in the most formal sense of that word4 ,to him ,nietzsche the thundering voice of protest named ,zarathustra is of less importance than ,nietzsche the extreme nominalist4 ,the chief value of his work therefore is purely informative4 ,he will certainly not send the philosophic debutante further into the matter4 ,even from the purely informative side1 however1 ,dr4 ,carus's work is delimited by his own attitude1 which is that of the old time believer in the validity of universals4 ,recurrence1 uniformity1 eternal norms of things behind the changing phenomena are the foundations of ,dr4 ,carus's stated or implied world view4 ,he therefore treats ,nietzsche as simply a forerunner of such1 to him1 mischievous people as ,william ,james and ,henri ,bergson4 ,he takes great pains1 indeed1 to show that there are many ,nietzsches1 and among them he classes ,george ,moore1 on the strength of extracts from his ,confessions of a ,young ,man4 ,of more value than that is his consideration of the philosophy of ,stirner--mainly because ,stirner is not so well known as ,nietzsche1 nor so well as he deserves to be on his merits4 ,one undoubted merit the book has1 and that is the industrious collection of personal recollections of ,nietzsche and of ,nietzsche portraits which ,dr4 ,carus has brought together in its pages4 ,these will give the book a positive value to the ,nietzsche enthusiast1 while the sight of ,dr4 ,carus's cool1 scholastic temperament trying to drench the burning bush of ,nietzsche will at least interest him4 ,,illiam ,,dhone4 ,feminism and ,new ,music ,anthony the ,absolute1 by ,samuel ,merwin4 ,the ,century ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,it is interesting to watch the struggles of an essentially chivalrous masculine soul caught in the whirlpool of modern feminism4 ,samuel ,merwin1 ever since the old days of ,a ,short ,line ,war and ,calumet ,k41 written in collaboration with ,henry ,kitchell ,webster1 has held towards women the attitude of the knight errant4 ,recently1 as shown in ,the ,citadel1 ,the ,charmed ,life of ,miss ,austin1 and even more strongly in this latest book1 ,anthony the ,absolute1 he has become a determined feminist4 ,but the attitude has not changed4 ,formerly his hero laid at the feet of the lady of his choice as much wealth1 fame1 and position as he could acquire2 this latest hero gives her in the same spirit a career and the chance to develop her own personality4 ,mr4 ,merwin says3 ,the man who deliberately stops a woman's growth--no matter what his traditions2 no matter what his fears for her--is doing a monstrous thing1 a thing for which he must some day answer to the ,god of all life4 ,he is still the knight errant4 ,it is still man who permits woman to develop4 ,none the less it is a very readable tale4 ,the male characters are all clearly and convincingly drawn1 not without humor4 ,the lady is a little nebulous1 but very charming4 ,illustrating the absoluteness of ,anthony and serving as an introduction to the charming ,heloise is an interesting musical theme4 ,the scene is laid in ,china1 where ,anthony is studying primitive music1 and ,heloise is able to sing for him a perfect close-interval scale1 in eighth tones instead of the barbarous half and whole tones of the piano scale4 ,unfortunately ,mr4 ,merwin has permitted himself to be led by the exigencies of a popular magazine1 in which the story appeared in serial form1 into giving the tale a certain meretricious air of sex allurement which it fundamentally does not possess4 ,on the whole1 except in a certain technical facility in handling the situations and sustaining the tension of the plot1 ,anthony the ,absolute is a decided falling below the really splendid standard of excellence which ,mr4 ,merwin set for himself in ,the ,citadel4 ,,eunice ,,tietjens4 ,of all our funny little ,pantheon the absurd little god who gets the least of my service is the one labeled ,personal ,dignity4--,some ,letters of ,william ,vaughn ,moody4 ,new ,york ,letter ,,george ,,soule ,is it true that a ,chicago woman's club recently declared any book to be immoral which contains a character whom you wouldn't invite into your home to meet your daughter8 ,if so1 the world is to be congratulated1 because all novels except the ,,rollo ,,books are labeled immoral1 and we needn't worry any more about the word4 ,provided1 of course1 that the daughters of this particular woman's club are sheltered as carefully as they should be1 having been brought up by such mothers4 ,i'm afraid only authors and publishers know just how threatening this fear of immoral books is getting to be4 ,the most significant ,american novelist has just written a masterful book which has been declined by two at least of the oldest and best publishing houses because it is too frank4 ,the men in charge want to publish it2 they think the world ought to have a chance at it4 ,but they are afraid4 ,and the author1 unlike most authors under similar circumstances1 won't modify the book4 ,he says he'll wait twenty-five years1 if necessary1 but he won't change a word4 ,and yet1 if the book were published1 some people would accuse him of pandering to commercialism4 ,don't blame the publisher4 ,mitchell ,kennerley came near being fined hundreds of dollars and sent to jail recently for issuing ,hagar ,revelly--a serious though by no means a great novel4 ,anthony ,comstock1 who earns his living by attempting to suppress anything which he happens to consider immoral1 is likely at any time to pick out a good piece of work for his thunderbolts--and he is a government official in the post office department4 ,you can't tell what he is going to do next4 ,everybody remembers his ill-advised censorship of ,paul ,chabas's delicate and inoffensive little ,september ,morn2 yet in every cheap picture-store window in ,new ,york there is now displayed without protest a photograph of a nude woman which makes no pretense to art or beauty4 ,not many people know that six men decide what ,boston may or may not read4 ,the ,watch and ,ward ,society1 a group of puritans backed up by the blue laws of the state1 have long been active in this pharisaical undertaking and from time to time have arrested booksellers4 ,the booksellers in self-defense have recently formed a committee of three to act with three members of this society4 ,when a new book comes along which anybody suspects1 it is put before the joint committee1 and if that decides against it1 ,boston cannot buy it except by mail4 ,the ,devil's ,garden only barely escaped1 because somebody had read to the end of the book and labeled it religious4 ,in other words1 it teaches a lesson4 ,but the same argument did not save ,witter ,bynner's ,tiger4 ,magazine editors will tell you similar facts by the hour4 ,the ,metropolitan was recently held up by the post office because it contained photographs of nude statuary--from the winter exhibition of the ,national ,academy6 ,we shall not rid ourselves of this vicious situation by simply getting enraged at the censors4 ,the truth is1 they are too well entrenched in public opinion4 ,the people who enforce the law are ignorant postal clerks1 clergymen of archaic convictions1 and lower court judges of the tobacco-chewing1 corner-saloon type to whom any thought of sex is necessarily nasty4 ,but behind them is the man who is always saying that such and such a book or play oughtn't to be allowed4 ,he is always wanting to protect the young1 or somebody else1 although he rarely reads books himself1 and probably would resent interference with his own often vicious pleasures4 ,his mind is essentially rotten4 ,he is incapable of understanding the pure beauty of the human body1 because he has seen so many musical comedies4 ,he would be shocked by the statement that passion is a beautiful element of nature toward which we should be reverent4 ,he has a sense of propriety1 not so much about what should be done as about what should be said4 ,and then there is the vast ,florence ,barclay contingent1 largely women1 who1 because they don't know what the world is like1 don't want to know1 and don't think anybody should be allowed to know4 ,the trouble with censorship is that we always want it to apply to other people1 never to ourselves4 ,it is our national weakness that we try to prescribe conduct by law1 instead of seeing that the individual is strong and truth-seeing1 and leaving conduct to take care of itself1 allowing ideas to fight their own battles4 ,if we must have a censorship1 let it be in the hands of the strong and intelligent4 ,let us forbid all books which are not true4 ,mental and moral fibre is really vitiated by the ,florence ,barclay sort of thing4 ,people brought up on that are enemies of light and progress4 ,their world is an exercise-place for impossible ethics4 ,their emotion is washed-out sentiment4 ,courage and vigor are unknown to them4 ,and the worst of it is that their soft and clinging hands are wrapped about the rest of us1 as they try to drag us down from the rain-washed skies of the morning to their stuffy hair-cloth religion and pink-candy pleasures4 ,the fight between the writers and the censors is sure to grow bitter in the next few years2 both sides are getting more determined every day4 ,but such crises are welcomed by the adventurous4 ,we shall end not only by riding over our small opponents1 but by carrying with us an army awakened to the true issues of art and life4 ,william ,butler ,yeats to ,american ,poets ,the current number of ,poetry prints a speech that ,william ,butler ,yeats made during his recent visit to ,chicago1 in which he took occasion to warn his confreres in ,america against a number of besetting sins4 ,he said1 in part3 ,twenty-five years ago a celebrated writer from ,south ,africa said she lived in the ,east ,end of ,london because only there could she see the faces of people without a mask4 ,to this ,oscar ,wilde replied that he lived in the ,west ,end because nothing interested him but the mask4 ,after a week of lecturing ,i am too tired to assume a mask1 so ,i will address my remarks especially to a fellow craftsman4 ,for since coming to ,chicago ,i have read several times a poem by ,mr4 ,lindsay1 one which will be in the anthologies1 ,general ,booth ,enters ,into ,heaven4 ,this poem is stripped bare of ornament2 it has an earnest simplicity1 a strange beauty1 and you know ,bacon said1 ,there is no excellent beauty without strangeness4 444 ,i have lived a good many years and have read many writers4 ,when ,i was younger than ,mr4 ,lindsay1 and was beginning to write in ,ireland1 there was all around me the rhetorical poetry of the ,irish politicians4 ,we young writers rebelled against that rhetoric2 there was too much of it and to a great extent it was meaningless4 ,when ,i went to ,london ,i found a group of young lyric writers who were also against rhetoric4 ,we formed the ,rhymers' ,club2 we used to meet and read our poems to one another1 and we tried to rid them of rhetoric4 ,but now1 when ,i open the ordinary ,american magazine1 ,i find that all we rebelled against in those early days--the sentimentality1 the rhetoric1 the moral uplift--still exists here4 ,not because you are too far from ,england1 but because you are too far from ,paris4 ,it is from ,paris that nearly all the great influences in art and literature have come1 from the time of ,chaucer until now4 ,today the metrical experiments of ,french poets are overwhelming in their variety and delicacy4 ,the best ,english writing is dominated by ,french criticism2 in ,france is the great critical mind4 ,the ,victorians forgot this2 also1 they forgot the austerity of art and began to preach4 ,when ,i saw ,paul ,verlaine in ,paris1 he told me that he could not translate ,tennyson because he was too ,anglais1 too noble--when he should be broken-hearted he has too many reminiscences4 ,we in ,england1 our little group of rhymers1 were weary of all this4 ,we wanted to get rid not only of rhetoric but of poetic diction4 ,we tried to strip away everything that was artificial1 to get a style like speech1 as simple as the simplest prose1 like a cry of the heart4444 ,real enjoyment of a beautiful thing is not achieved when a poet tries to teach4 ,it is not the business of a poet to instruct his age4 ,he should be too humble to instruct his age4 ,his business is merely to express himself1 whatever that self may be4 ,i would have all ,american poets keep in mind the example of ,franois ,villon4 ,so you who are readers should encourage ,american poets to strive to become very simple1 very humble4 ,your poet must put the fervor of his life into his work1 giving you his emotions before the world1 the evil with the good1 not thinking whether he is a good man or a bad man1 or whether he is teaching you4 ,a poet does not know whether he is a good man4 ,if he is a good man1 he probably thinks he is a bad man4 ,poetry that is naturally simple1 that might exist as the simplest prose1 should have instantaneousness of effect1 provided it finds the right audience4 ,you may have to wait years for that audience1 but when it is found that instantaneousness of effect is produced4444 ,we rebelled against rhetoric1 and now there is a group of younger poets who dare to call us rhetorical4 ,when ,i returned to ,london from ,ireland1 ,i had a young man go over all my work with me to eliminate the abstract4 ,this was an ,american poet1 ,ezra ,pound4 ,much of his work is experimental2 his work will come slowly1 he will make many an experiment before he comes into his own4 ,i should like to read to you two poems of permanent value1 ,the ,ballad of the ,goodly ,fere and ,the ,return4 ,this last is1 ,i think1 the most beautiful poem that has been written in the free form1 one of the few in which ,i find real organic rhythm4 ,a great many poets use vers libre because they think it is easier to write than rhymed verse1 but it is much more difficult4 ,the whole movement of poetry is toward pictures1 sensuous images1 away from rhetoric1 from the abstract1 toward humility4 ,but ,i fear ,i am now becoming rhetorical4 ,i have been driven into ,irish public life--how can ,i avoid rhetoric8 ,letters to ,the ,little ,review ,what an insouciant little pagan paper you flourish before our bewildered eyes6 ,please accept the congratulations of a stranger4 ,but you must not scoff at age1 little bright eyes1 for some day you1 too1 will know age2 and you should not jeer at robustness of form1 slim one1 for the time may come when you1 too1 will find the burdens of flesh upon you4 ,above all1 do not proclaim too loudly the substitution of ,nietzsche for ,jesus of the ,little ,town in the niche of your invisible temple1 for when you are broken and forgotten there is no comfort in the ,overman4 ,one thing more3 ,restraint is sometimes better than expression4 ,one who has learned this lesson cannot refrain from saying this apropos of the first paragraphs in the criticism of ,the ,dark ,flower4 ,do not give folk a chance to misunderstand you4 ,being a woman1 you have to pay too high a price for moments of high intellectual orgy4 ,forgive all this and go on valiantly4 ,,sade ,,iverson4 ,chicago4 ,i am greatly indebted for a copy of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,i take this opportunity of stating that the publication is one of the cleverest and best things ,i have seen4 ,it deserves success1 for it contains stuff which will compare very favorably with the best that is being written4 ,g4 ,,frank ,,lydston4 ,chicago4 ,will you allow me to congratulate you on your magnificent effort in bringing out ,,the ,,little ,,review8 ,i have found it very refreshing after having suffered for so long by reading the so-called book review magazines that have no right to more than passing notice4 ,you have accomplished wonders1 and if your efforts of the future come up to those put into the first number of ,,the ,,little ,,review1 your success is assured4 ,the best wish ,i can offer is that its path may be covered with roses and bordered with the trees of prosperity4 ,again congratulating you1 ,i am1 with every good wish1 very truly yours1 ,,lee ,a4 ,,stone1 ,m4 ,d4 ,chicago4 ,,the ,,little ,,review came this morning6 ,and ,i have read it all6 ,and ,i love it6 ,much more than ,i expected1 to be perfectly honest6 ,i feared something too radical--too modern--if that is possible4 ,if it had been like ,the ,masses--well1 ,i can never express my contempt for that sheet4 ,but you're perfectly sane1 intelligent1 readable1 and enthusiastic--gloriously so6 ,your description of ,kreisler is worth much to me4 ,it is precisely what ,i have always felt about him4 ,paderewski1 too4 ,but ,i think the ,mason and ,hamlin reference a little too commercial4 ,i realize you want ,,the ,,little ,,review to be straightforward1 honest1 intimate1 etc41 but ,i fear that kind of thing will be taken as advertisement and not as a personal belief and enthusiasm4 ,if ,i should never know anything more of ,mr4 ,george ,soule than his sonnet and ,new ,york letter ,i should have to like him4 ,the man who could feel and write that last paragraph is a splendid type4 ,but the whole thing is beautiful1 and worth while1 whether you agree with it all or not4 ,a thousand congratulations6 ,,agnes ,,darrow4 ,dayton1 ,ohio4 ,of course our remarks about the ,mason and ,hamlin violated all journalistic traditions4 ,but traditions are so likely to need violation1 and diplomacy and caution are such uninteresting qualities6 ,what we feel and tried to say about that piano is that it's as definitely a work of art as good poetry or good music4 ,why not say so1 quite naturally8 ,we know something of the man who is responsible for its quality of tone2 he's as authentic an artist as those musicians who create on his foundations4 ,is there any reason why such an achievement is not to be mentioned in a journal that means to devote itself to beauty8 ,is anything vital ever gained by a cautious regard for on dit8 ,above all1 if one can discover no importance in journalistic tradition of that type1 why defer to it8--,,the ,,editor4 ,i haven't got over your beautiful magazine yet4 ,don't let anybody keep you from making it a truthful expression of yourself--but you won't4 ,first of all1 it's beautifully made4 ,you couldn't have done better typographically4 ,it's the most inviting magazine published4 ,i like the color and the paper label4 ,second1 its spirit blows keen and with a pure fragrance4 ,if you can continue to show such freshness you will have gone far toward achieving the goal ,mr4 ,galsworthy urges--that sleeping out under the stars which cleans our hearts of all things artificial4 ,with sincerest congratulations1 ,,henry ,s4 ,new ,york4 ,i am very much pleased with the first issue of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,i am very glad to know that such a thing should be started1 and it should be both a cause and an effect of better times in literature4 ,i shall do everything ,i can to make it better known4 ,,william ,,lyon ,,phelps4 ,yale ,university4 ,when ,i found that the local bookstores had sold out their first orders of ,,the ,,little ,,review ,i was delighted2 for it meant folks were interested in the fledgeling4 ,the first number deserves the praise and congratulations of everybody interested in literature2 everything in it is fine1 even unto the composition of the ad pages4 ,with its fresh1 cheerful note ,,the ,,little ,,review very fittingly comes forth on the first day of ,spring4 ,long may it spread sweetness and light4 ,w4 ,w4 ,g4 ,chicago4 ,there are so many things that ,i admire in the first issue of ,,the ,,little ,,review that ,i find it difficult to decide just where to begin4 ,it was like taking up a copy of the ,preludes of ,debussy for the first time2 after playing them over and over again ,i found it difficult to know whether it was what he said or the way he said it which held the greater charm for me4 ,i congratulate you most sincerely on the distinct personal quality which is so evident in your magazine and you may count upon me to rejoice with you if it meets with anything like the great success which it so distinctly merits4 ,f4 ,l4 ,r4 ,chicago4 ,your new publication has just fallen into my hands4 ,the vital thing6 ,i cannot begin to tell you what its pulsating1 teeming import means to me4 ,i know nothing today in magazine form that will mean so much to busy1 thinking people4 ,,nannie ,c4 ,,love4 ,indianapolis4 ,please let me offer my sincerest congratulations and my warmest wishes for the continued success of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,there are numerous points in the first issue that ,i should like to discuss with you2 ,i must warn you that you are tempting your readers and must not be surprised if you are overwhelmed with letters1 questioning1 approving1 and criticising4 ,the foreword strikes such a splendid note6 ,i hope no criticism will influence you to change it4 ,you agree1 evidently1 with the point that ,the ,dark ,flower suggests a ,greek classic2 so do ,i4 ,but1 conceding that1 how could you have been surprised that countless people care nothing for it8 ,don't you know that the majority of people in the world do not really possess the ,greek classics8 ,without the background of the world's thought1 ages ago1 and its progress--unless we agree with ,alfred ,russell ,wallace that we have made no progress--can't you see that ,the ,dark ,flower could genuinely startle many people8 ,so ,i beg for less sharpness toward those who do not feel the wonder of it4 ,the tragedy is in their lives4 ,for just the same reason ,jean ,christophe belongs to a few1 comparatively4 ,if you had never before felt the power of a great epic1 could you really grasp this one8 ,modern as we claim to be--and independent--must there not be some foundation8 ,oh dear6--,i do want to tell you why ,i think ,vanity ,fair is greater than ,succession and why ,ysaye's music is inspired--when ,i listen1 at least4 ,but one can't go on forever4 ,since the ,critics' ,critic expressed a doubt about that quotation from ,euripides and since you insisted that it sounded like a ,gilbert ,murray translation1 you may be glad to know that it is both4 ,but you quoted it wrong4 ,it is from ,aeolus1 a lost play1 and this is the correct version3 ,this ,cyprian1 ,she is a thousand1 thousand changing things2 ,she brings more pain than any god2 she brings ,more joy4 ,i cannot judge her4 ,may it be ,an hour of mercy when she looks on me4 ,i do agree that a million1 million changing things is somehow more perfect2 ,i even agree now1 though not at first1 with the order of attributes3 ,she brings more joy than any god1 she brings more pain4 ,on a re-reading of ,aeolus ,i am taken with the way you misquoted it4 ,joy was surely first in the ,greek's life4 ,and of course the human beauty of the thing made me think immediately of the way ,mrs4 ,browning struck off ,euripides3 ,our ,euripides1 the human1 ,with his droppings of warm tears ,and his touches of things common ,till they rose to touch the spheres6 ,,katherine ,,tappert4 ,davenport1 ,iowa4 444 ,i don't know when ,i've read anything so inspiring as that letter from ,galsworthy4 ,can't all of you who are helping to make the magazine arrange to march up to it mentally and present your copy for approval before you decide to print it8 ,i like the article on ,paderewski and the one about ,the ,dark ,flower4 ,but do be careful of beauty and passion4 ,it's easy to make them commonplace4 ,also spare your adjectives a bit2 you don't need an adjective for everything4 ,i realize that your abbreviations are made in the interest of readableness1 but however informal you want to make it you only succeed in sounding hideously colloquial4 ,it doesn't read well1 and it makes me feel that you're trying to achieve through the style what ought to be achieved quite simply through the material itself4 ,not that ,i approve of anything stilted1 but you can easily overdo the other side of it4 ,and wouldn't it be better to leave some of the things unsigned8 ,people who don't know that the various ,anderson contributors are unrelated will think it's rather a family monopoly4 ,the ,ficke poems are exquisite2 and how ,i love ,nicholas ,vachel ,lindsay's6 ,also ,i like the ,new ,york letter very much1 but ,george ,soule's ,major ,symphony could just as well be unwritten4 ,poetry has to be so much better than that to be real poetry4 ,another thing3 ,i think your quotations from ,succession weren't as efficient as you hoped4 ,it's a book that can't well be quoted except to one who knows it4 ,you wanted frankness1 so here it is4 ,otherwise1 ,i have nothing but praise for the whole glorious undertaking6 ,,lois ,,allen ,,peters4 ,philadelphia4 ,being a sister of the editor1 ,mrs4 ,peters speaks her mind with a freedom that enchants us4 ,it also helps us--though we want to shake her for one or two of those remarks4 ,however--may her letter serve as a model to timid but opinionated readers6--,,the ,,editor4 ,if you will allow me to be perfectly frank about your first issue1 ,i should like to tell you that ,,the ,,little ,,review seems rather too esthetic in tone and spirit to avoid being restrictive--a wish you expressed in your editorial4 ,there is not enough variety in it1 for one thing4 ,for another1 some of its critical judgments are too personal--are too largely temperamental judgments--to be of any permanent value4 ,you seem to have set out to exploit personalities2 and there's a juvenility in many of the articles that ,i'm afraid you'll all blush for in ten years4 ,a ,,well-,,meaning ,,critic4 ,the first number of ,,the ,,little ,,review came as a delightful surprise and ,i have enjoyed reading it4 ,i particularly appreciate the spirit of appreciation running through the pages1 which ,i believe will be of inestimable service to young writers1 if you are able to keep it up4 ,m4 ,k4 ,new ,york4 ,the ,little ,review looks very interesting4 ,i hope to have the pleasure of reading it through very soon1 but at the moment my small sister is devouring it and refuses absolutely to give it up4 ,if you are as successful in pleasing women generally as you have been in pleasing her you need have no fear for the success of the magazine4 ,j4 ,c4 ,p4 ,new ,york4 ,professor ,foster's essay on ,the ,prophet of a ,new ,culture is magnificent--a soul-searching1 heart-breaking bit of writing1 fiery and tragic4 ,nicholas ,vachel ,lindsay's ,how a ,little ,girl ,danced is a delightful thing--airy1 high-minded1 and full of his burning spirit4 ,in fact1 ,,the ,,little ,,review is full of things that one reads with a keen zest4 ,w4 ,l4 ,c4 ,denver4 ,,the ,,little ,,review came to hand promptly1 but ,i was unable to read it until last night4 ,that is where ,i made my first mistake1 as ,i had been denying myself a very pleasant two hours4 ,my second mistake was in having read it at all1 as it has now become one of those eight or ten journals which are always welcome and more or less necessary4 ,ten journals each month 7and some weeklies71 quietly yet insistently urging me to take them up1 are like those good friends who tempt me with an outing in ,spring when work is crowding4 ,so with ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,it has with one reading become a distinctly individual friend4 ,w4 ,m4 ,l4 ,philadelphia4 ,your ,,little ,,review has just reached me4 ,i took it home for leisurely examination on ,sunday4 ,i congratulate you upon launching and hope that you'll meet no adverse trade winds in your voyage4 ,its atmosphere is certainly anything but editorial1 and you've put plenty of your own personality into it4 ,and what a delightfully charming letter is that from ,galsworthy6 ,i should take sharp issue with you on one or two slight points could ,i face you across a lunch table1 but as it is1 ,i tuck my differences away1 with a sigh of envy at your enthusiasm1 and the sincere wish that you may always keep it4 ,with best wishes for your good luck4 ,,beatrice ,l4 ,,miller4 ,boston4 ,i think your first number very interesting indeed1 and congratulate you on your fine start4 ,i am always delighted with every new manifestation of the life and enthusiasm in ,chicago6 ,with best wishes for your future4 ,,alice ,c4 ,,henderson4 ,chicago4 444 ,i've fallen in love with ,m4 ,h4 ,p41 ,the ,critics' ,critic4 ,she's just the sort of person ,i'd like to go and talk with this afternoon4 ,please ask her to write a letter properly sitting on ,agnes ,repplier for her ,atlantic essays4 ,a very delicate1 cultured1 polite little woman sitting behind a tea-table in her aloof apartment1 and given over to well-bred sneering at things she doesn't know anything about--that's how ,i picture ,miss ,repplier4 ,a ,,contributor4 ,,the ,,little ,,review is here1 and ,i have so enjoyed going over it4 ,it is a great first number and sets a pace that would have made most of us breathless before we started2 but anyone can know it isn't so with you1 from that last paragraph of your announcement4 ,it was lovely6 ,i loved the ,paderewski1 too4 ,was there anything more wonderful than the glory of the ,funeral ,march as he played it the afternoon of his first recital here this winter8 ,i know you heard it from the way you write of it4 ,an emotion that brings the tears and makes the sobs struggle in the back of your throat is always worth living through1 and ,i wouldn't have missed it for worlds4 ,with the best of good wishes4 ,,mabel ,,reber4 ,chicago4 ,i want to tell you how very good the first issue of ,,the ,,little ,,review is4 ,i don't know what the succeeding numbers will be like1 but you have set a pace in this one that will demand some vigorous effort to keep up4 ,after that gripping announcement no one will doubt the real purpose of the ,,review and the fine optimism that is behind it4 ,i don't have to believe everything you are going to print1 but if those who write it do1 by all means keep them together4 ,and don't let ,george ,soule get away4 ,it's too early to make suggestions1 but ,i should say that ,number ,one is well balanced and very readable1 and ,i like the trick of throwing the light on from different angles--like the ,galsworthy and ,nietzsche discussions4 ,the tone is high1 and ,i am quite sure ,i never read more intelligent reviews anywhere4 ,good luck to ,,the ,,little ,,review6 ,j4 ,d4 ,,marney4 ,springfield1 ,ill4 ,will you let me thank you for giving me a very pleasant experience in reading the first copy of ,,the ,,little ,,review8 ,there are many things in the first number which arouse one's interest1 though ,i am not sure that ,i would at all agree in all the critical judgments which are there pronounced4 ,anyway1 you will let me wish you all success1 and wave you my hand with the hope that ,,the ,,little ,,review shall be the biggest review in the country4 ,d4 ,w4 ,,wylie4 ,iowa ,city1 ,iowa4 ,congratulations must be pouring in on you from all sides1 but ,i want1 just the same1 to add my voice to the chorus of ,bravos that surrounds you4 ,,the ,,little ,,review is a triumph4 ,it even outdoes my picture of it2 and that is saying much1 for ,i have known it was to be something exceptionally nice4 ,it is a delight to look at1 showing somebody's good personal taste2 and the contents--well1 ,i like them lots more than ,i could say adequately or put in this space4 ,blessings on you and the heartiest congratulations to all concerned in the making of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,,margaret ,t4 ,,corwin4 ,new ,haven1 ,conn4 ,i am pleased with its general appearance1 and the contents are inspiring--full of the spirit of youth4 ,i wish ,,the ,,little ,,review every success4 ,,georgia ,m4 ,,weston4 ,geneva1 ,ill4 ,the initial number of ,,the ,,little ,,review has impressed me so favorably that ,i want some of my friends also to share in its appreciation4 ,you surely have made a fine beginning and1 in my judgment1 cannot do better than to adopt as the creed of ,,the ,,little ,,review the sound and encouraging advice given in ,mr4 ,galsworthy's inspiring letter4 ,,albert ,h4 ,,loeb4 ,chicago4 ,from the first page to the last book announcement ,i have read ,,the ,,little ,,review with pride and delight4 ,its sincerity attracts me even more than its obvious literary merit1 and its comprehensiveness and quality will appeal to all who read at all--especially to those who go below the surface4 ,,alethea ,f4 ,,grimsley4 ,springfield1 ,ill4 ,thank you so much for ,,the ,,little ,,review6 ,i liked it from the moment ,i saw it1 both outside and in4 ,i like particularly the personal note you put into your writing4 ,it's as though you were really talking to me and telling me how you feel about ,the ,dark ,flower and ,paderewski and dear ,little ,antoine with his bad room that was pretty but stupid for the sound4 ,with best wishes to you in your beautiful1 big undertaking4 ,,zetta ,,gay ,,whitson4 ,chicago4 ,the ,best ,sellers ,the following books1 arranged in order of popularity1 have been bestsellers in ,chicago during ,march3 ,the ,inside of the ,cup ,winston ,churchill ,macmillan ,diane of the ,green ,van ,leona ,dalrymple ,reilly and ,britton ,pollyanna ,eleanor ,porter ,l4 ,c4 ,page ,laddie ,gene ,stratton-,porter ,doubleday1 ,page ,t4 ,tembarom ,frances ,hodgson ,burnett ,century ,sunshine ,jane ,anne ,warner ,little1 ,brown ,the ,woman ,thou ,gavest ,me ,hall ,caine ,lippincott ,cap'n ,dan's ,daughter ,joseph ,c4 ,lincoln ,appleton ,passionate ,friends ,h4 ,g4 ,wells ,harper ,old ,valentines ,s4 ,h4 ,havens ,houghton ,mifflin ,the ,devil's ,garden ,w4 ,b4 ,maxwell ,bobbs-,merrill ,the ,white ,linen ,nurse ,eleanor ,abbott ,century ,when ,ghost ,meets ,ghost ,william ,de,morgan ,henry ,holt ,the ,after ,house ,mary ,roberts ,rinehart ,houghton ,mifflin ,the ,iron ,trail ,rex ,beach ,harper ,the ,dark ,hollow ,anne ,katherine ,green ,dodd1 ,mead ,the ,rocks of ,valpre ,e4 ,h4 ,dell ,putnam ,the ,light of ,western ,zane ,gray ,harper ,stars ,peg o' ,my ,heart ,hartley ,manners ,dodd1 ,mead ,the ,dark ,flower ,john ,galsworthy ,scribner ,daddy ,long ,legs ,jean ,webster ,century ,it ,happened in ,egypt ,c4 ,n4 and ,a4 ,m4 ,doubleday1 ,page ,williamson ,darkness and ,dawn ,george ,allan ,england ,small1 ,maynard ,the ,forester's ,daughter ,hamlin ,garland ,harper ,westways ,s4 ,weir ,mitchell ,century ,my ,wife's ,hidden ,life ,anonymous ,rand1 ,mc,nally ,home ,anonymous ,century ,the ,valley of the ,moon ,jack ,london ,macmillan ,the ,harvester ,gene ,stratton-,porter ,doubleday1 ,page ,gold ,stewart ,edward ,white ,doubleday1 ,page ,a ,people's ,man ,e4 ,phillips ,oppenheim ,little1 ,brown ,the ,way ,home ,basil ,king ,harper ,martha by the ,day ,julie ,m4 ,lippman ,holt ,the ,rosary ,florence ,barclay ,putnam ,making ,over ,martha ,julie ,m4 ,lippman ,holt ,,non-,,fiction ,crowds ,gerald ,stanley ,lee ,doubleday1 ,page ,alone in the ,wilderness ,joseph ,knowles ,small1 ,maynard ,autobiography ,theodore ,roosevelt ,macmillan ,what ,men ,live ,by ,richard ,c4 ,cabot ,houghton ,mifflin ,the ,gardener ,rabindranath ,tagore ,macmillan ,the ,modern ,dances ,ellen ,walker ,saul ,,the ,,little ,,review is now on sale in the following bookstores3 ,new ,york3 ,brentano's4 ,vaughn and ,gamme4 ,m4 ,j4 ,whaley4 ,chicago3 ,the ,little ,theatre4 ,mc,clurg's4 ,morris's ,book ,shop4 ,carson1 ,pirie1 ,scott and ,company4 ,a4 ,kroch and ,company4 ,chandler's ,bookstore1 ,evanston4 ,w4 ,s4 ,lord1 ,evanston4 ,pittsburg3 ,davis's ,bookshop4 ,springfield1 ,mass43 ,johnson's ,bookstore4 ,cleveland3 ,burrows ,brothers ,company4 ,detroit3 ,macauley ,brothers4 ,minneapolis3 ,nathaniel ,mc,carthy's4 ,los ,angeles3 ,c4 ,c4 ,parker's4 ,omaha3 ,henry ,f4 ,keiser4 ,columbus1 ,o4 ,a4 ,h4 ,smythe's4 ,by ,john ,galsworthy ,the ,dark ,flower #a4ce net2 postage extra4 ,this splendid story of love which has drawn more attention than anything else ,mr4 ,galsworthy ever wrote1 is now in its fourth large edition4 ,the editor of the new ,little ,review says of it3 ,everything ,john ,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 simplicity of ',the ,dark ,flower4' ,john ,galsworthy's ,plays ,the ,fugitive #fj cents net2 postage extra4 ,mr4 ,galsworthy deals with the problem of woman's economic independence1 her opportunity and preparation for self-support outside the refuge of marriage4444 ',the ,fugitive' is an admirable piece of dramatic writing4 ,the undeviating exposition of the situation in the first act is certainly the best thing ,mr4 ,galsworthy has yet done in the dramatic field4 --,new ,york ,tribune4 ,the ,pigeon ,a ,fantasy in ,three ,acts #fj cents net4 ,the ,eldest ,son ,a ,domestic ,drama in ,three ,acts4 #fj cents net4 ,justice ,a ,tragedy in ,four ,acts4 #fj cents net4 ,the ,little ,dream ,an ,allegory in ,six ,scenes #ej cents net4 ,three of these plays--,justice1 ,the ,little ,dream1 and ,the ,eldest ,son--have been published in the more convenient form of one volume1 entitled ,plays by ,john ,galsworthy1 ,second ,series4 #a4ej net4 ,my ,first ,years as a ,frenchwoman #ahgf-ahgi ,,by ,,mary ,,king ,,waddington1 author of ,letters of a ,diplomat's ,wife1 ,italian ,letters of a ,diplomat's ,wife1 etc4 #b4ej net2 postage extra4 ,the years this volume embraces were three of the most critical in the life of the ,french ,republic4 ,their principal events and conspicuous characters are vividly described by an expert writer who was within the inmost circles of society and diplomacy--she was the daughter of ,president ,king of ,columbia1 and had just married ,m4 ,william ,waddington1 one of the leading ,french diplomats and statesmen of the time4 ,notes of a ,son and ,brother ,,by ,,henry ,,james4 ,illustrated4 ,with drawings by ,,william ,,james4 #b4ej net2 postage extra4 ,harvard1 as it was in the days when1 first ,william1 and then ,henry1 ,james were undergraduates1 is pictured and commented upon by these two famous brothers--by ,william ,james through a series of letters written at the time4 ,the book carries forward the early lives of ,william and ,henry1 which was begun in ,a ,small ,boy and ,others1 published a year ago4 ,among the distinguished men pictured in its pages are ,john ,la,farge1 ,hunt1 ,professor ,norton1 ,professor ,childs1 and ,ralph ,waldo ,emerson1 who was a close friend of ,henry ,james1 ,senior4 ,north ,africa and the ,desert ,,by ,,george ,e4 ,,woodberry4 #b4jj net2 postage extra4 ,this is one of that very small group of books in which a man of genuine poetic vision has permanently registered the color and spirit of a region and a race4 ,it is as full of atmosphere and sympathetic interpretation as any that have been written4 ,chapters like that on ,figuig1 ,tougourt1 ,tripoli1 and ,on the ,mat--a thoughtful study of ,islam--have a rare value and beauty4 ,by ,,hudson ,,stuck1 ,d4,d4 ,archdeacon of the ,yukon4 ,the ,ascent of ,denali 7,mt4 ,mc,kinley7 ,with illustrations and maps #a4ge net2 postage extra4 ,the fact that this narrative describes the only successful attempt to climb this continent's highest mountain peak1 and that the writer led the successful expedition1 is enough to give it an intense interest4 ,but when the writer happens to be as sensitive as an artist to all the sights and sounds and incidents of his great adventure1 and to be so skilful a writer to convey everything to the reader1 the value and interest of the book are irresistible4 ,ten ,thousand ,miles with a ,dog ,sled ,with #dh illustrations1 #d in color4 #c4ej net2 postage extra4 ,if you would see the vast snow-fields1 frozen rivers1 and rugged1 barren mountains of the ,yukon country but cannot visit them you will do the next best thing by reading this often beautiful account of a missionary's ten thousand miles of travel in following his hard and dangerous work4 ,it is the story of a brave life amid harsh1 grand1 and sometimes awful surroundings4 ,charles ,scribner's ,sons ,fifth ,avenue1 ,new ,york ,,spring ,,publications ,,houghton ,,mifflin ,,company #d ,park ,street1 ,boston #aiad #af ,e4 #djth ,st41 ,new ,york ,george ,borrow and ,his ,circle ,by ,,clement ,k4 ,,shorter ,a treasure and a delight to admirers of ,borrow4--,london ,athenum4 ,a sane book about a sane and magnificently wholesome man4--,london ,daily ,express4 ,with frontispiece4 #c4jj net4 ,postage extra4 ,what ,men ,live ,by ,by ,,richard ,c4 ,,cabot1 ,m4,d4 ,a physician's contribution to the conduct of life4 ,his application of work1 play1 love1 and worship to daily life and his experience of their healing powers are set forth in this volume in an inspiring and readable way4 #a4ej net4 ,postage extra4 ,our ,friend ,john ,burroughs ,by ,dr4 ,,clara ,,barrus ,the increasing thousands of lovers of ,john ,burroughs and his writings will welcome this intimate book about the man1 his life1 and his personality4 ,a picturesque and vivid account of his youth1 written by ,mr4 ,burroughs himself1 is a prominent and important feature4 ,illustrated4 #b4jj net4 ,postage extra4 ,annals and ,memoirs of the ,court of ,peking ,by ,j4 ,o4 ,p4 ,,bland and ,,edmund ,,backhouse ,an extraordinarily vivid picture of life at the ,court of ,peking from the middle of the sixteenth century down to our day4--,london ,truth4 ,of the importance to us today of understanding or endeavoring to understand the ,chinese1 no one will entertain a doubt1 and therefore we heartily welcome a book like this in which the attempt is made1 and made1 we believe1 successfully1 to trace cause and effect back to the buried foundations of ,chinese philosophy and civilization and to look at things from the ,chinese point of view4--,london ,globe4 ,lavishly illustrated4 #d4ej net4 ,postage extra4 ,in the ,old ,paths ,by ,,arthur ,,grant ,a series of delightful essays1 by a popular ,english writer1 which recreate with charm and delicacy some of the great scenes of literature4 ,using as a starting-point some poet1 ,mr4 ,grant writes of the country in which he lived1 or which lives in his work1 and allows a sensitive fancy to draw pictures of the past4 ,illustrated4 #a4ej net4 ,postage extra4 ,thomas ,wentworth ,higginson3 ,the ,story of ,his ,life ,by ,,mary ,,thacher ,,higginson ,this intimate biography tells for the first time the full story of the life of one of the most interesting of ,american soldiers and writers4 ,fully illustrated from portraits1 views of ,colonel ,higginson's homes1 friends1 etc41 and with facsimiles of interesting manuscripts4 ,illustrated4 #c4jj net4 ,postage extra4 ,the ,ministry of ,art ,by ,,ralph ,,adams ,,cram ,among the subjects discussed are3 ,art as an ,expression of ,religion1 the ,place of ,fine ,arts in ,public ,education1 the ,significance of the ,gothic ,revival in ,american ,architecture1 ,american ,university ,architecture4 ,these papers all embody and eloquently exploit that view of the relation of medival ideals to modern life which has made the author the most brilliant exponent of ,gothic architecture in ,america4 #a4ej net4 ,postage extra4 ,elia ,w4 ,peattie's ,,the ,,precipice ,one of the most significant novels that have appeared this season 444 so absolutely true to life that it is hard to consider it fiction4--,boston ,post4 ,a book which men and women alike will be better for reading1 of which any true hearted author might be proud4444 ,the author knows life and human nature thoroughly1 and she has written out of ripened perceptions and a full heart4--,chicago ,record ,herald4 ,an intimate and sympathetic study of new-century womanhood 444 presents a profoundly interesting survey of the new social order of things4--,philadelphia ,north ,american4 ,with frontispiece4 #a4ce net4 ,postage extra4 ,the #aj1jjj ,prize ,novel ,diane of the ,green ,van ,the ,season's ,great ,success ,by ,leona ,dalrymple ,viewed even in the critical light of the high standard set for the winner of a ten-thousand-dollar prize1 ,diane of the ,green ,van fully measures up to the expectations of the novel-reading public4 ,this is why it heads the list of best sellers in ,new ,york1 ,chicago1 ,philadelphia4 ,the advertising value of a big prize offer may account in some degree for the heavy advance sale--although the wholesale buyers ordered after reading4 ,nothing but sheer merit can account for the extremely large retail sale4 ,friend-to-friend commendation is steadily increasing over-the-counter demand4 ,the judges--the readers--all gave ,diane first place among five hundred manuscripts1 many of them by first-class authors4 ,the trade has applauded the choice4 ,reviewers have called ,diane of the ,green ,van well worth the big prize4 ,we should like to be able to publish the list of twenty or more successful writers who entered stories4 ,on reputation alone1 their work would have gone far2 but we feel that the story of ,diane will go farther4 ,here are expectation and enthusiasm justified alike4 ,it is a clear1 clean1 clever romance4444 ,it combines the love and intrigue of the ',zenda' tale with the freedom of a ,locke or ,farnol story of broad highways4--,new ,york ,world4 ,just what countless pleased readers will devour with avidity4444 ,gracefully written1 vivid in style and suggestion4444 ,bright and breezy and exciting4--,chicago ,record ,herald4 ,the tale has unusual dramatic grip1 much brilliancy of dialogue4444 ,it is the sort of narrative that no one willingly lays down until the last page has been turned4--,philadelphia ,north ,american4 ,the novel throbs with the youthful joy of living and the enchantments of summer hover over its pages4 ,everywhere is there originality in the invention of the incidents and subtlety in the delineation of characters4--,chicago ,tribune4 ,a heroine whose fascination richly merits study4 ,a hero who will capture the heart of the reader from the moment of his first appearance4--,boston ,globe4 ,so good a thing1 a thing so romantic and thrilling1 we have not seen in--lo1 these many moons of story telling4--,louisville ,post4 ,diane is a tale with the freshness and spontaneity of youth1 with the rich personality of the author shining through its diverting pages4 ,in its imagination and clever dialogue and plot it strikes the keynote of popular appeal4 ,at the same time1 ,diane has all the essentials of lasting popularity4 ,the publishers feel justified in predicting a long journey for the ,green ,van and its charming young mistress4 7#a4ce net7 99,publishers ,the ,reilly ,britton ,co4 ,chicago99 ,a ,new ,frank ,danby and ,other ,spring ,leaders ,,frank ,,danby',s ,finest and ,most ,powerful ,work ,,full ,,swing ,ready ,april #cjth ,a book in whose rushing current glow two love stories of heart-gripping interest1 passion and tears are mingled in ,frank ,danby's masterly work1 ,full ,swing4 ,vivid1 forceful1 rich in character-drawing that challenges comparison with the best in ,english fiction--the author has added a supreme touch to her book--a new type of heroine1 incredible as that may appear4 ,a new type that nevertheless is as credible as your oldest friend--who wins and holds your heart through startling incidents that would wreck a less powerful book with the doubt of their possibility4 ,with dramatic scenes in abundance throughout the book1 the interest increases steadily to the very end4 ,no jaded reader1 seeking a new sensation in literature1 will be able to lay down the volume until the tale is finished4 #a4ce net4 ,postage1 extra4 ,the ,full of the ,moon ,by 99,,caroline ,,lockhart991 ,illustrated in color1 #a4be net4 ,postage extra4 ,,jeannette ,l4 ,,gilder1 in the ,chicago ,tribune3 ,it would not surprise me if ',the ,full of the ,moon' proves to be the most popular of ,miss ,lockhart's novels1 and if it does not 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an attempt to supply the need for a popular account of the life and labors of the simple ,franciscan monk1 whose memory is reverenced and honored by ,california4 ,illustrated4 99,net #a4ej99 ,cubists and ,post-,impressionism ,by ,,arthur ,,jerome ,,eddy ,author of ,delight2 the ,soul of ,art1 and ,the ,new ,competition ,this remarkable work is far more than an exposition of certain styles of painting1 but while broadly historical and descriptive of many men and schools1 presents a plea for the public to react to new impressions1 and a defence of freedom for the artist to express himself untrammeled by the past4 ,illustrated by twenty-four color plates and over forty half-tones of the pictures under discussion4 ,boxed4 99,net #c4jj99 ,the ,art of ,story-,telling ,by ,,julia ,,darrow ,,cowles ,out of her broad experience and love for the work1 ,miss ,cowles tells how the art can be made to minister the highest service4 ,she describes story-telling in the home and in the school1 and treats at length of different kinds of stories--fables1 myths1 hero tales1 ,bible1 and many other kinds which may delight and help the children4 ,parents1 teachers1 and others who would use this art most profitably and happily1 will find here just what they want4 99,net #a4jj99 ,gerhart ,hauptmann3 ,his ,life and ,work ,by ,,karl ,,holl ,gerhart ,hauptmann is as yet only known to ,english readers by some of his works1 although since he obtained the ,nobel ,prize for literature1 ,english and ,american interest in his work has increased4 ,dr4 ,holl describes his personal life and character1 and his works from the first epic1 afterward suppressed1 to the present time4 ,this is a most important piece of critical literature1 both on account of its intrinsic merits and because it is alone in its field4 99,net #a4jj99 ,earmarks of ,literature ,by ,,arthur ,e4 ,,bostwick ,author of ,the ,different ,west4 ,the things which make good books good are here made clear and interesting for popular 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of six or more volumes4 ,the editor1 ,professor ,ludwig ,lewisohn1 supplies an introduction to each4 ,,volume ,i ,,before ,,dawn ,,the ,,weavers ,,the ,,beaver ,,coat ,,the ,,conflagration ,,volume ,,ii ,,drayman ,,henschel ,,rose ,,bernd ,,the ,,rats ,,volume ,,iii ,,the ,,reconciliation ,,lonely ,,lives ,,colleague ,,crampton ,,michael ,,kramer ,,volume ,,iv ,,hannele ,,the ,,sunken ,,bell ,,henry ,,of ,,aue ,at all bookstores4 ,each1 #abmo41 cloth1 #a4ej net2 each weighs about #bd ounces4 ,b4 ,w4 ,,huebsch1 ,publisher1 #bbe ,fifth avenue1 ,new ,york ,,subscription ,,blank ,,the ,,little ,,review1 ,fine ,arts ,building1 ,chicago4 ,i enclose #b4ej for which please send me ,,the ,,little ,,review for one year1 beginning with the 4444444444444 issue4 ,i also send the names and addresses of persons who would like to receive specimen copies4 ,transcriber's ,notes ,advertisements were collected at the end of the text4 ,the original spelling was mostly preserved4 ,a few obvious 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