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,i ,,june1 #aiad ,no4 #d ,copyright1 #aiad1 by ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson4 ,incense and ,splendor ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,a young ,american novelist stated the other day that the ,american woman is oversexed2 that present-day modes of dress are all designed to emphasize sex2 and that it is high time for a reaction against sex discussions1 sex stories1 and sex plays4 ,but ,i think she's entirely mistaken4 ,the ,american woman1 speaking broadly1 is pathetically undersexed1 just as she is undersensitive and underintelligent4 ,the last adjective will be disputed or resented2 but it's interesting once in a while to hear the thoughtful foreigner's opinion of our intelligence4 ,tagore1 for instance1 said that he was agreeably surprised in regard to the ,american man and astonished at the stupidity of the ,american woman4 ,as for our fiction and drama--we've had much about sex in the last few years1 some of it intensely valuable1 much of it intensely foolish2 but it's quite too early to predict the reaction4 ,the really constructive work on the subject is yet to be done4 ,and the pity of the whole thing is that the critics who keep lecturing us on our oversexedness don't realize that what they're really trying to get at is our poverty of spirit1 our emotional incapacities1 our vanities1 our pettinesses--any number of qualities which spring from anything but too much sex4 ,nothing is safer than to say that the man or woman of strong sex equipment is rarely vain or petty or mean or unintelligent4 ,but as a result of all this vague bickering1 sex continues to shoulder the blame for all kinds of shortcomings1 and the real root of the trouble goes untreated--even undiagnosed4 ,one thing is certain3 until we become conscious that there's something very wrong with our attitude toward sex1 we'll never get rid of the hard1 tight1 anmic1 metallic woman who flourishes in ,america as nowhere else in the world4 ,this doesn't mean the old ,puritan type1 to whom sex was a rotten1 unmentionable thing2 nor does it mean the ,victorian1 who recognizes the sex impulse only as a means to an end4 ,they belong to the past too definitely to be harmful4 ,it means two newer types than these3 the woman who looks upon sex as something to be endured and forgiven1 and the woman who doesn't feel at all4 ,the first type has a great 7and by no means a secret7 pride in her spiritual superiority to the coarse creature she married1 and a never-dying hope that she can lead him up to her level4 ,she talks a lot about spirituality2 she has her standards1 and she knows how to classify what she calls sensuality2 she's convinced that she has married the best man in the world1 but--well1 all men have this failing in common1 and the only thing one can do is to rise above it magnificently1 with that air of spiritual isolation which is her most effective weapon4 ,shaw has hit her off on occasion1 but he ought to devote a whole three acts to her undoing2 or perhaps an ,ibsen would do it better1 because tragedy follows her path like some sinister shadow1 as inevitably as those other ghosts of his4 ,the second type has no more capacity for love or sex than she has for music or poetry--which is none at all4 ,like a polished glass vase1 empty and beautiful1 she lures the man who loves her to a kind of supreme nothingness4 ,she will always tell you that marriage is wonderful2 and she urges all her friends to marry as quickly as possible1 for that's the only way to be perfectly happy4 ,marriage is wonderful to her just as birth is wonderful in ,charlotte ,perkins ,gilman's satire3 ,birth comes4 ,birth-- ,the breathing re-creation of the earth6 ,all earth1 all sky1 all ,god1 life's sweet deep whole1 ,newborn again to each new soul6 ,oh1 are you8 ,what a shame6 ,too bad1 my dear6 ,how will you stand it1 too4 ,it's very queer ,the dreadful trials women have to carry2 ,but you can't always help it when you marry4 ,oh1 what a sweet layette6 ,what lovely socks6 ,what an exquisite puff and powder box6 ,who is your doctor8 ,yes1 his skill's immense-- ,but it's a dreadful danger and expense6 ,it's all a powder-puff matter3 marriage means new clothes1 gifts1 and a house to play with4 ,it gives her another chance to get something for nothing--which is immoral4 ,but the beauty of the situation is that the immorality 7thanks to our habits of not thinking straight7 is so perfectly concealed3 it even appears that she is the one who does the giving4 ,as for any bother about sex1 she'll soon put an end to that4 ,and so she goes on her pirate ways1 luring for the sake of the lure1 adding her voice to the already swelled chorus which proclaims that truth and beauty lodge in things as they are1 not in things as they might or should be4 ,but1 to return to the novelist's argument about clothes1 the present fashion for low necks and slit skirts has nothing to do with sex necessarily4 ,its origin is in vanity--which may or may not have a bearing upon sex4 ,and of course it usually hasn't2 for vanity is an attribute of small natures1 and sex is an attribute of great ones4 ,there has never been a time when women had such an opportunity to be beautiful physically4 ,and they are taking advantage of it4 ,watch any modern matine or concert or shopping crowd carefully4 ,there's something about the new style that points to a finer naturalness1 just as it is more natural for men to wear clothes that follow the lines of their bodies than to pad their shoulders and use twice too much cloth in their trouser legs4 ,the move of muscles through a close-fitting suit gives an effect of strength and efficiency and animal grace that is superbly healthy4 ,and it is so with women1 too4 ,with the exception of the foolish and unnecessary restrictions in walking women have such a splendid chance to look straight1 unhampered1 direct1 lithe4 ,i don't know just why1 but ,i want to use the word true about the new clothes4 ,they're so much less dishonest than the old padded ways--the strange1 perverted1 muffled methods4 ,the old plan was built on the theory that the suppression of nature is civilization2 the new plan seems to be that a recognition of nature is common sense4 ,we may become ,greek yet4 ,by all of which ,i'll probably be credited with supporting the silly indecencies we see every day on the street--ridiculous1 unintelligent manifestations of the new freedom--instead of merely seeing in its wise expression a bigger hope of truth4 ,i think the preachers who are filling the newspapers with hysterical protests about women's dress had better look a little more closely at the real issue and stop confusing a fine impulse with its inevitable abuses4 ,but after all there's only one important thing to be said about sex in its relation to a full life4 ,some day we're going to have a tremendous revaluation of the thing known as feeling4 ,we're going to realize that the only person who doesn't err in relation to values is the artist2 and since the bigger part of the artist's equipment is simply the capacity to feel1 we're going to begin training a race of men toward a new ideal4 ,it shall be this3 that nothing shall qualify as fundamentally immoral except denial--the failure of imagination1 of understanding1 of appreciation1 of quickening to beauty in every form1 of perceiving beauty where custom or convention has dwarfed its original stature2 the failure to put one's self in the other person's place2 the great1 ghastly failure of life which allows one to look but not to see1 to listen but not to hear--to touch but not to feel4 ,the other night ,i heard ,schumann's ,des ,abends--that summer-night elegy of a thousand1 thousand cadences--played near a place where trees were stirring softly and grass smelling warm and cool2 some one said afterward that it was pretty4444 ,the other day ,i heard a violin played so throbbingly that it was like what the sea has striven to say2 and through it all a group of people talked1 as though no miracle were happening4 ,not very long after these two ---- 7,i can't find a noun71 ,i talked with some one who tried to convince me that the biggest and most valiant person ,i know was--well1 not the sort one can afford to be friends with4 ,somehow all three episodes immediately linked themselves together in my mind4 ,each was a failure of the same type--a failure of imagination1 of feeling2 the last one1 at least1 was tragedy2 and it will become impossible for people to fail that way only when they stop failing in the first two ways4 ,not long ago ,i went into a music store and bought ,tschaikowsky's ,les ,larmes4 ,it cost twenty-eight cents4 ,i walked out so under the spell of the immense adventure of living that ,i realized later how imbecile ,i must have looked and why the clerk gazed at me so suspiciously4 ,but ,i had a song which had cost a man who knows what sorrow to write--a thing of such richness that it meant experience to any one who could own it4 ,one of the world's big things for twenty-eight cents6 ,and such things happen every day6 ,sex is simply the quintessence of this type of feeling1 plus a deeper thing for which no words have been made4 ,but we reach the wonder of the utmost realization in just one way3 by having felt greatly at every step4 ,american artists know everything1 said a young foreign sculptor lately2 they know that much 7throwing out his arms wide71 but they only feel that much6 7measuring an inch with his fingers74 ,how can we produce the great audiences that ,whitman knew we needed in order to have great poets1 if we don't train the new generations to feel8 ,how can we prevent these crimes against love and sex--how put a stop to human waste in all its hideous forms--if we don't recognize the new idealism which means not to deny8 ,a ,kaleidoscope ,,nicholas ,,vachel ,,lindsay ,blanche ,sweet--,moving-,picture ,actress ,after seeing the reel called ,oil and ,water4 ,beauty has a throne-room ,in our humorous town1 ,spoiling its hobgoblins1 ,laughing shadows down4 ,dour musicians torture ,rag-time ballads vile1 ,but we walk serenely ,down the odorous aisle4 ,we forgive the squalor1 ,and the boom and squeal1 ,for the ,great ,queen flashes ,from the moving reel4 ,just a prim blonde stranger ,in her early day1 ,hiding brilliant weapons1 ,too averse to play2 ,then she burst upon us ,dancing through the night1 ,oh1 her maiden radiance1 ,veils and roses white6 ,with new powers1 yet cautious1 ,not too smart or skilled1 ,that first flash of dancing ,wrought the thing she willed3-- ,mobs of us made noble ,by her strong desire1 ,by her white1 uplifting ,royal romance-fire4 ,though the tin piano ,snarls its tango rude1 ,though the chairs are shaky ,and the drama's crude1 ,solemn are her motions1 ,stately are her wiles1 ,filling oafs with wisdom1 ,saving souls with smiles2 ,mid the restless actors ,she is rich and slow1 ,she will stand like marble1 ,she will pause and glow1 ,though the film is twitching ,keep a peaceful reign1 ,ruler of her passion1 ,ruler of our pain6 ,girl1 ,you ,shall ,mock ,no ,longer ,you shall not hide forever1 ,i shall your path discern2 ,i have the key to ,heaven1 ,key to the pits that burn4 ,saved ones will help me1 lost ones ,spy on your secret way-- ,show me your flying footprints ,on past your death-bed day4 ,if by your pride you stumble ,down to the demon-land1 ,i shall be there beside you1 ,chained to your burning hand4 ,if1 by your choice and pleasure1 ,you shall ascend the sky1 ,i1 too1 will mount that stairway1 ,you shall not put me by4 ,there1 'mid the holy people1 ,healed of your blasting scorn1 ,clasped in these arms that hunger1 ,splendid with dreams reborn1 ,you shall be mastered1 lady1 ,knowing1 at last1 ,desire-- ,lifting your face for kisses-- ,kisses of bitter fire4 ,the ,amaranth ,ah1 in the night1 all music haunts me here 444 ,is it for naught high ,heaven cracks and yawns ,and the tremendous amaranth descends ,sweet with glory of ten thousand dawns8 ,does it not mean my ,god would have me say3-- ,whether you will or no1 oh city young ,heaven will bloom like one great flower for you1 ,flash and loom greatly1 all your marts among8 ,friends ,i will not cease hoping1 though you weep4 ,such things ,i see1 and some of them shall come ,though now our streets are harsh and ashen-grey1 ,though now our youths are strident1 or are dumb4 ,friends1 that sweet town1 that wonder-town shall rise4 ,naught can delay it4 ,though it may not be ,just as ,i dream1 it comes at last1 ,i know ,with streets like channels of an incense-sea6 ,an ,argument ,i4 ,the voice of the man who is impatient with visions and ,utopias4 ,we find your soft ,utopias as white ,as new-cut bread1 as dull as life in cells1 ,oh scribes that dare forget how wild we are1 ,how human breasts adore alarum bells4 ,you house us in a hive of prigs and saints ,communal1 frugal1 clean1 and chaste by law4 ,i'd rather brood in bloody ,elsinore ,or be ,lear's fool1 straw-crowned amid the straw4 ,promise us all our share in ,agincourt4 ,say that our clerks shall venture scorns and death4 ,that future ant-hills will not be too good ,for ,henry ,fifth1 or ,hotspur1 or ,macbeth4 ,promise that through tomorrow's spirit-war ,man's deathless soul will hack and hew its way1 ,each flaunting ,csar climbing to his fate ,scorning the utmost steps of yesterday4 ,and never a shallow jester any more4 ,let not ,jack ,falstaff spill the ale in vain4 ,let ,touchstone set the fashions for the wise1 ,and ,ariel wreak his fancies through the rain6 ,,ii4 ,the ,rhymer's reply4 ,incense and ,splendor4 ,incense and splendor haunt me as ,i go4 ,though my good works have been1 alas1 too few1 ,though ,i do naught1 ,high ,heaven comes down to me ,and future ages pass in tall review4 ,i see the years to come as armies vast1 ,stalking tremendous through the fields of time4 ,man is unborn4 ,tomorrow he is born ,flamelike to hover o'er the moil and grime2 ,striving1 aspiring till the shame is gone1 ,sowing a million flowers where now we mourn-- ,laying new precious pavements with a song1 ,founding new shrines1 the good streets to adorn4 ,i have seen lovers by those new-built walls ,clothed like the dawn1 in orange1 gold1 and red2 ,eyes flashing forth the glory-light of love ,under the wreaths that crowned each royal head4 ,life was made greater by their sweetheart prayers2 ,passion was turned to civic strength that day-- ,piling the marbles1 making fairer domes ,with zeal that else had burned bright youth away4 ,i have seen priestesses of life go by ,gliding in ,samite through the incense-sea3-- ,innocent children marching with them there1 ,singing in flowered robes--the ,earth is free6 ,while on the fair deep-carved1 unfinished towers ,sentinels watched in armor night and day-- ,guarding the brazier-fires of hope and dream-- ,wild was their peace1 and dawn-bright their array6 ,darling ,daughter of ,babylon ,too soon you wearied of our tears4 ,and then you danced with spangled feet1 ,leading ,belshazzar's chattering court ,a-tinkling through the shadowy street4 ,with mead they came1 with chants of shame1 ,desire's red flag before them flew4 ,and ,istar's music moved your mouth ,and ,baal's deep shames rewoke in you4 ,now you could drive the royal car3 ,forget our ,nation's breaking load3-- ,now you could sleep on silver beds-- 7,bitter and dark was our abode74 ,and so for many a night you laughed ,and knew not of my hopeless prayer1 ,till ,god's own spirit whipped you forth ,from ,istar's shrine1 from ,istar's stair4 ,darling daughter of ,babylon-- ,rose by the black ,euphrates flood-- ,again your beauty grew more dear ,than my slave's bread1 than my heart's blood4 ,we sang of ,zion1 good to know1 ,where righteousness and peace abide 444 ,what of your second sacrilege ,carousing at ,belshazzar's side8 ,once1 by a stream1 we clasped tired hands-- ,your paint and henna washed away4 ,your place 7you said7 was with the slaves ,who sewed the thick cloth1 night and day4 ,you were a pale and holy maid ,toil-bound with us4 ,one night you said3-- ,your ,god shall be my ,god until ,i slumber with the patriarch dead4 ,pardon1 daughter of ,babylon1 ,if1 on this night remembering ,our lover walks under the walls ,of hanging gardens in the spring-- ,a venom comes1 from broken hope-- ,from memories of your comrade-song1 ,until ,i curse your painted eyes ,and do your flower-mouth too much wrong4 ,i ,went ,down ,into the ,desert ,i went down into the desert ,to meet ,elijah-- ,or some one like1 arisen from the dead4 ,i thought to find him in an echoing cave1 ,for so my dream had said4 ,i went down into the desert ,to meet ,john the ,baptist4 ,i walked with feet that bled1 ,seeking that prophet1 lean and brown and bold4 ,i spied foul fiends instead4 ,i went down into the desert ,to meet my ,god1 ,by ,him be comforted4 ,i went down into the desert ,to meet my ,god ,and ,i met the ,devil in ,red4 ,i went down into the desert ,to meet my ,god4 ,oh ,lord1 my ,god1 awaken from the dead6 ,i see you there1 your thorn-crown on the ground-- ,i see you there1 half-buried in the sand-- ,i see you there1 your white bones glistening1 bare1 ,the carrion birds a-wheeling round your head6 ,encountered on the ,streets of the ,city ,,the ,,church ,,of ,,vision ,,and ,,dream ,is it for naught that where the tired crowds see ,only a place for trade1 a teeming square1 ,doors of high portent open unto me ,carved with great eagles1 and with ,hawthorns rare8 ,doors ,i proclaim1 for there are rooms forgot ,ripened through ons by the good and wise3 ,walls set with ,art's own pearl and amethyst ,angel-wrought hangings there1 and heaven-hued dyes3-- ,dazzling the eye of faith1 the hope-filled heart3-- ,rooms rich in records of old deeds sublime3 ,books that hold garnered harvests of far lands ,pictures that tableau ,man's triumphant climb3 ,statues so white1 so counterfeiting life1 ,bronze so ennobled1 so with glory fraught ,that the tired eyes must weep with joy to see1 ,and the tired mind in ,beauty's net be caught4 ,come1 enter there1 and meet ,tomorrow's ,man1 ,communing with him softly1 day by day4 ,ah1 the deep vistas he reveals1 the dream ,of ,angel-bands in infinite array-- ,bright angel-bands that dance in paths of earth ,when our despairs are gone1 long overpast-- ,when men and maidens give fair hearts to ,christ ,and white streets flame in righteous peace at last6 ,the ,stubborn ,mouse ,the mouse that gnawed the oak-tree down ,began his task in early life1 ,he kept so busy with his teeth ,he had no time to take a wife4 ,he gnawed and gnawed through sun and rain1 ,when the ambitious fit was on1 ,then rested in the sawdust till ,a month in idleness had gone4 ,he did not move about to hunt ,the coteries of mousie-men2 ,he was a snail-paced stupid thing ,until he cared to gnaw again4 ,the mouse that gnawed the oak-tree down ,when that tough foe was at his feet-- ,found in the stump no angel-cake ,nor buttered bread1 no cheese1 nor meat-- ,the forest-roof let in the sky4 ,this light is worth the work1 said he4 ,i'll make this ancient swamp more light-- ,and started on another tree6 ,the ,sword-,pen of the ,rhymer ,i'll haunt this town1 though gone the maids and men ,the darling few1 my friends and loves today4 ,my ghost returns1 bearing a great sword-pen ,when far off children of their children play4 ,that pen will drip with moonlight and with fire2 ,i'll write upon the church-doors and the walls2 ,and reading there1 young hearts shall leap the higher ,though drunk already with their own love-calls4 ,still led of love1 and arm in arm1 strange gold ,shall find in tracing the far-speeding track ,the dauntless war-cries that my sword-pen bold ,shall carve on terraces and tree-trunks black-- ,on tree-trunks black1 'mid orchard-blossoms white-- ,just as the phospherent merman1 struggling home1 ,jewels his fire-paths in the tides at night ,while hurrying sea-babes follow through the foam4 ,and1 in the winter1 when the leaves are dead ,and the first snow has carpeted the street1 ,while young cheeks flush a healthful ,christmas red1 ,and young eyes glisten with youth's fervor sweet-- ,my pen will cut in snow my hopes of yore1 ,cries that in channelled glory leap and shine-- ,my village gospel--living evermore ',mid those rejoicing loyal friends of mine4 ,futurism and ,pseudo-,futurism ,,alexander ,s4 ,,kaun ,that ,futurism is not a mere fad1 a capricious bubble1 is apparent from the fact that after five years of stormy existence the movement does not disappear or abate1 but1 on the contrary1 continually gains soil and spreads deep and wide over all fields of ,european art4 ,the critics of the new school no longer find it possible to dismiss it with a contemptuous smile as a silly joke of over-satiated modernists1 but they either attack the ,futurists with the vehemence and fury of a losing combatant1 or they discuss the doctrine earnestly and apprehensively4 ,to set art free of the atavistic fetters of the old culture and civilization1 to imbue it with the nervous sensitiveness of our age1 have been the negative and positive aims of ,futurism4 ,it is absurd to abide by the forms of ,phydias and schylus in the days of radium and aeroplanes4 ,the influence of the old masterpieces is accountable for the fact that of late humanity ceased to produce great works of art4 ,it is quite natural that the protest against the historical burden should have originated in ,italy1 a country which1 after having served for centuries as a pillar of light1 has so degenerated that in our times it can boast only of such names as the saccharine ,verdi and the pretentious ,d',annunzio4 ,it is natural1 ,i should like to add1 that in this country ,futurism is still a foreign plant2 for1 fortunately or unfortunately1 we have been free of a burdensome heritage1 and an iconoclastic movement would appear quixotic4 ,started in ,milan in the end of the year #aiji1 the movement has swept the continent and has revolutionized art4 ,even conservative ,england feebly echoes the battle-cry in the attempts of the ,imagists4 ,i do not intend to prognosticate the future of ,futurism2 it is still in its infantile stage1 growing and developing with surprising leaps1 continually taking on new forms2 but the present-day ,futurism is abundant with quaint1 grotesque features approaching caricature2 and some of them merit a few words4 ,the parent of ,futurism and the present leader of ,futurist poets1 ,marinetti1 is1 to say the least1 an unusual personality4 ,his ,boswell1 ,tullia ,pantea1 describes his master's life in its minutest nuances and chants dithyrambs to his wonderful achievements4 ,we learn that ,marinetti was born in ,egypt in voluptuous surroundings1 his father being a millionaire4 ,from his childhood on he disposed of unlimited sums of money4 ,at the age of eleven he knew a woman2 at fifteen he edited a literary magazine1 ,papyrus1 printed on vellum paper2 at seventeen he fought a duel4 ,we follow this enfant terrible to ,paris where he lavishly squanders his millions1 fights duels1 and faces the court for his pornographic poems4 ,he is sentenced to an eight weeks' imprisonment for an exotic work which ,i shall not venture to quote1 as it is too repulsive to the ,english reader4 ,pantea further describes his master's kingly palazzo in ,milan1 where 444 at night in the bed-chamber decorated with astonishing elegance and with mad extravagance meet the most beautiful women of ,italy and ,europe4 ,i quote these nauseatic details1 for they help to explain the erotic aroma of ,marinetti's poems4 ,their erotism is morbid1 aroused by artificial convulsions of sensuality1 imitation of madness1 a cancan of dancing ,death4 ,yet we cannot overlook the beauty of the verses1 their devilish rhythm1 and enchanting mysticism4 ,some of his early poems1 more natural than his latest ,words at ,liberty1 are intoxicating with their mad exoticism4 ,the following is one of his best-known poems1 ,the ,banjos of ,despair3 ,elles chantent1 les benjohs hystriques et sauvages1 comme des chattes nerves par l'odeur de l'orage4 ,ce sont des ngres qui les tiennent empoignes violemment1 comme on tient une amarre que secoue la bourrasque4 ,elles miaulent1 les benjohs1 sous leurs doigts frntiques1 et la mer1 en bombant son dos d'hippopotame1 acclame leurs chansons par des flic-flacs sonores et des renclements4 ,the hysteric and savage banjos that meow like cats maddened by the odor of the storm2 the sea which1 swelling its back of a hippopotamus1 applauds their songs with its sonorous twick-twacks and snorts--,i understand the poet1 ,i believe him4 ,but1 as ,i said1 this is ,marinetti's early poetry4 ,how far he has progressed you may judge from the following quotation from his latest ,words at ,liberty1 as it appears in ,the ,london ,times3 ,,indifferenza ,,di #b ,,rotondita ,,sospese ,,sole ,,pallone ,,frenati s p i r a c l f o i l l a o d m n i m n e e s c g d i i i n g t a f i n u l t m l i o e villaggi turchi incendiati grande ,t rrrrrzzzonzzzzzzante d'ue monoplano bulgaro neve di manifesti4 ,this poem is a description of a battle during the ,turco-,bulgarian war2 the style is supposed to be polychromatic1 polymorphous1 and polyphonic1 that may not only animalize1 vegetalize1 electrify1 and liquefy itself1 but penetrate and express the essence and the atomic life of matter4 ,this is the dernier cri of ,italian ,futurism which originated in a--draff-ditch4 ,here is ,marinetti's own electrified description of that memorable event3 ,as usual we spent the night in our favorite caf1 which is attended by the most elegant women4 ,some one suggested that we take an automobile ride in the suburbs4 ,we whirled over the sleepy streets4 ,out of town4 ,deep darkness4444 ,moment of falling4 ,we are hurled into an abyss4 ,ecstasy4444 ,then--we are on the bottom of a ditch filled with malodorous dregs4 ,we drown in the mud4 ,mud covers the face1 the body1 mud blinds the eyes1 fills the mouth4 ,finally we succeed in getting out of the filthy ditch and we go back to the city4 ,but4444 ,for a certain time there remained with us the taste of rottenness2 we could not get rid of the rotten odor that permeated all pores of our bodies4 ,in the moment of falling into that ditch the idea of ,futurism came into my head4 ,on the same night before dawn we wrote the entire first manifesto on ,futurism4 ,thus the new art was born under peculiar circumstances--under the sign of scandal--and scandal became the tactics of ,italian ,futurists who have professed their delight in being hissed and their contempt for applause4 ,a few points of that manifesto3 ,we shall sing of the love of danger1 the habit of energy and boldness4 ,literature has hitherto glorified thoughtful immobility1 ecstasy of sleep2 we shall extol aggressive movement1 feverish insomnia1 the double quick step1 the somersault1 the box on the ear1 the fisticuff4 ,there is no more beauty except in strife4 ,we wish to glorify war--the only purifier of the world--militarism1 patriotism1 the destructive gesture of the anarchist1 the beauty of ,ideas that kill1 the contempt for women4 ,we wish to destroy the museums1 the libraries1 to fight against moralism and feminism1 and all opportunistic and utilitarian meannesses4 ,this bombastic program has been heralded by the ,italian ,futurists ever since #aiji4 ,fortunately they went no further than threats1 but they strove to attract attention and in this they gloriously succeeded4 ,their attitude toward women was expressed in the motto3 ,mprisez la femme4 ,love for woman is an atavism and should be discarded into archives4 ,we chant hymns to the new beauty that has come into the world in our days1 a hymn to swiftness1 a doxology to motion4 ,woman is justified in her existence inasmuch as she is a prostitute4 ,sensuality for the sake of sensuality is extolled as the only stimulus in human life1--its only aim4 ,otherwise human beings are of no importance1 at best as important as inanimate objects4 ,the suffering of a man is of the same interest to us as the suffering of an electric lamp1 which1 with spasmodic starts1 shrieks out the most heart-rending expressions of color4 ,these aphorisms belong to the pen of ,marinetti or to those of his disciples1 who are but pigmies in comparison with their leader4 ,they greeted the war with ,turkey in ,tripolitania enthusiastically1 and ,marinetti joyously witnessed the splendor of bayonets piercing human bodies and similar features of the great health-giver--war4 ,at that time he began the cycle of his pictorial poems recently published in the ,words at ,liberty4 ,here is one of his early descriptions3 ,a stream4 ,a bridge4 ,plus artillery4 ,plus infantry4 ,plus trenches4 ,plus cadavers4 ,dzang-bah-bakh4 ,cannon4 ,kha-kh-kha4 ,mitrailleuse4 ,tr-r-r4 ,sh-sh-sh-sh4 ,s-s-s-s-s-s4 ,bullets4 ,chill4 ,blood4 ,smoke4 ,to complete the character of ,marinetti ,i shall quote his article in ,the ,london ,daily ,mail in which he states his profound disgust for the contemporary stage because it stupidly fluctuates between historic reconstruction 7pasticcio or plagiarism7 and a minute1 wearying1 photographic reproduction of actuality4 ,his ideal is the smoking concert1 circus1 cabaret1 and night-club as the only theatrical entertainment worthy of the true ,futurist spirit4 ,the variety theater is the only kind of theater where the public does not remain static and stupidly passive1 but participates noisily in action4 ,the variety show brutally strips woman of all her veils1 of the romantic phrases1 sighs1 and sobs which mark and deform her4 ,on the other hand1 it shows up all the most admirable animal qualities of woman1 her powers of attack and of seduction1 of treachery1 and of resistance4 ,the variety theater is1 of course1 antiacademical1 primitive1 and ingenuous1 and therefore all the more significant by reason of the unforeseen nature of all its fumbling efforts4444 ,the variety theater destroys all that is solemn1 sacred1 earnest1 and pure in ,art--with a big ,a4 ,it collaborates with ,futurism in the destruction of the immortal masterpieces by plagiarizing them1 parodying them1 and by retailing them without style1 apparatus1 or pity4 ,at this point ,i am ready to agree with the ,russian critic1 ,a4 ,lunacharsky1 who thus defines ,marinetti3 ,he combines in his personality the exoticism of an ,east-,african with the cynical blaguerie of a ,parisian and the clownishness of a ,neapolitan4 ,in connection with the foregoing it is curious to observe the pranks of ,marinetti's colleagues in the land of eternal contradictions--,russia4 ,the ,russian ,futurists1 ,ego-futurists1 and ,acmeists1 vie with the ,italians in noisiness and eccentricity1 and they have aroused an extensive pro and con polemic4 ,in the last issue of ,russkaja ,mysl there is an interesting criticism of the ,futurist poetry written by ,valery ,brusov4 ,this foremost poet1 known on the continent as the ,russian ,verhaeren1 began his literary career some fifteen years ago with the one-line poem3 ,oh1 conceal thy pallid legs4 ,this extremist is now ranked by the ,futurists among the reactionaries4 ,brusov is not hostile to ,futurism1 although he opposes the contemporary bearers of its banner4 ,in a dialogue supposedly carried on between a ,symbolist and a ,futurist ,brusov makes the latter say3 ,tell me1 what is poetry8 ,the art of words1 is it not8 ,in what else does it differ from music1 from painting8 ,the poet is the artist of words3 they are for him what colors are for the painter or marble for your sculptors4 ,we have determined to be artists of words1 and only of words1 which means to fulfill the true vocation of the poet4 ,you1 what have you done with the word8 ,you have transformed it into a slave1 into a hireling1 to serve your so-called ideas6 ,you have debased the word to a subservient rle4 ,all of you1 the realists as well as the symbolists1 have used words just as the ,academicians have used colors4 ,those understood not that the essence of painting is in the combination of colors and lines1 and they have strived to express through colors and lines some meager ideas absolutely useless for commonly known4 ,you likewise have not understood that the essence of poetry lies in the combination of words1 and you have mutilated them by forcing them to express your thoughts borrowed from the philosophers4 ,the futurists are the first to proclaim the true poetry1 the free1 the real freedom of words4 ,and so1 since words have become enslaved and carry1 unfortunately1 within them the ballast of established notions and conceptions1 the ,futurists experiment in liberating the words of their accepted meanings by creating new words1 weird combinations of syllables1 skilful arrangements of sounds which defy translation4 ,for the benefit of that part of mankind which does not understand ,russian the ,futurists invented a universal tongue which consists exclusively of single vowels4 ,here is a specimen under the title ,heights4 ,i give the original letters and their ,english transliteration4 ,cyrillic3 e u yu -- yeh oo you ,cyrillic3 i a o -- ee ah oh ,cyrillic3 o a -- oh ah ,cyrillic3 o a e e i e ya -- oh ah yeh yeh ee yeh yah ,cyrillic3 o a -- oh ah ,cyrillic3 e u i e u -- yeh oo ee yeh oo ,cyrillic3 i e e -- ee yeh yeh ,cyrillic3 i i y i e i i y -- ee ee eh ee yeh ee ee eh ,do you feel the heights8 ,the poet does1 however1 and he proclaims in his defense3 ,the more subjective is truth1 the more objective is the subjective objectivity4 99 99 99 99 99 ,brusov's point of view is expressed in the impassioned words of the historian of literature who appears at the end of the above-mentioned dialogue3 ,in the new poetry1 that is1 in the poetry of the last centuries1 one observes a definite shifting of two currents4 ,one school puts forward the primary importance of the content1 the other--that of form2 later the same tendencies are repeated in the two successive schools4 ,pseudo-,classicism1 as a school1 placed above all form not the what but the how4 ,the content they borrowed from the ancients and then performed the task most important in their eyes--the elaboration of that material4 ,the ,romanticists1 in contra-distinction to the ,pseudo-,classicists1 insisted first of all on the content4 ,they admired the middle ages1 their yearning for an ideal1 their religious aspirations4 ,of course1 the ,romanticists contributed their did this1 so to speak1 casually1 while actually they neglected the form of their verses2 recall1 if you will1 the frolics of ,musset or the carelessness of the poems of ,novalis4 ,the ,parnassians once more proclaimed the primariness of form4 ,reproachless verse became their motto4 ,it was they who declared that in poetry not the what was important1 but the how1 and it was none other than ,thophile ,gautier who invented the formula art for the sake of art4 ,the ,symbolistic school again revived the content4 ,all this was in reality not so simple1 schematic1 rectilineal1 as ,i expressed it4 ,to be sure1 all true poets have endeavored to bring into harmony both content and form1 but ,i have in view the prevailing tendency of the poetic school as a whole4 ,if my point of view is correct1 then it is natural to expect that there is to come a new school1 replacing the ,symbolists1 which will once more consider form of primary importance4 ,at the appearance of a new school the doctrine of the old corresponding school becomes more subtle1 more poignant1 more extreme4 ,the ,parnassians went further than their progenitors1 the ,pseudo-,classicists4 ,it is natural then to foresee that the new coming school will in its cult of form go further than the ,parnassians4 ,as such a school1 destined to take the place of ,symbolism1 ,i consider ,futurism4 ,its historic rle is to establish the absolute predominance of form in poetry1 and to repudiate any content in it4 ,the weak point of ,futurism appears to be1 as is the case with every revolutionary movement1 the fact that alongside with the true fighters for new horizons straggle parasitic marauders1 that on the heels of the sincere searchers of artistic truth tread nonchalantly buffoons and charlatans4 ,the number of the latter is so great that the true prophets drown in the vast slough1 and the public sees but the caricature side of the movement4 ,take for instance1 the ,post-,impressionist and the ,futurist painters4 ,any unbiased and open-minded observer will admit that many of them1 like ,odilon ,redon1 ,duchamp1 ,picasso1 ,chabaud1 even ,matisse1 have created works which1 whether you like them or not1 possess the sure criterion of art3 they stir you1 arouse your thoughts and emotions4 ,yet how easy it is to smuggle into their midst colossal nonsense and counterfeit can be judged from the following episode3 ,a group of young painters in ,paris decided to arouse public opinion against the unrestricted accessibility of the ,independent ,salon by proving that among the exponents of the exhibition such an independent artist as a donkey could find a place4 ,the editors of ,fantasio undertook to assist them in carrying out their plan4 ,a manifesto was issued of which ,i quote a few pearls3 ,to art-critics3 ,to painters3 ,to the public3 ,a manifesto of the school of the ,excessivists4 ,hurrah6 ,brother-,excessivists1 hurrah6 ,masters splendid and renascent1 we are on the eve of various exhibitions of banal and stereotypical paintings4 ,let us smash1 then1 the palettes of our forefathers2 let us set fire of ,joy to the pseudo-masterpieces1 and let us establish great canons destined to rule art henceforward4 ,the canon is contained in one word3 ,l'excessivisme4 ,excess in everything is a defect1 once said a certain ass4 ,we proclaim the reverse3 excess at all times1 in everything1 is the absolute power4 ,the sun can never be too ardent1 the sky too blue1 the sea-perspective too ruby1 darkness too black1 as there can never be heroes too valiant or flowers too fragrant4 ,down with contours1 down with half-tones1 down with craft6 ,instead--dazzling and resplendent colors6 ,and so on4 ,bombastic phrases borrowed from ,marinetti and his colleagues4 ,the manifesto is signed ,joachim ,raphael ,boronali4 ,boronali is the anagram of ,aliboron--the ,french word for donkey4 ,the jesters later explained that they intended by the euphony of an ,italian name to arouse with more certainty the admiration of the crowd4 ,the next step was to procure the services of ,lolo1 an old donkey well known to the artists on ,montmartre1 as its stable is at the cabaret ,lapin ,agile4 ,the following procedure is immortalized in an official protocol1 the most unique document in the annals of art3 ,protocol 7,procs-verbal de constat74 ,on the #hth of ,march1 before me1 ,paul ,henri ,brionne1 magistrate of the civil court of ,paris1 in my office on rue du ,faubourg ,montmartre1 #cc1 appeared ,m4 ----1#a of the periodical ,fantasio1 whose residence is in ,paris1 boulevard ,poissonire1 #ad1 and declared3 ,every year there takes place an exhibition of various works of drawing1 painting1 and sculpture under the name of the ,salon of the ,independent ,artists2 ,this exhibition is open for all painters1 and unfortunately1 alongside with productions of high value there figure ridiculous works that have no signs of art2 ,in order to show to what extent any work can be accepted in that exhibition1 to the detriment of the meritorious productions1 he intends to send there in the name of ,fantasio1 a picture the author of which would be a donkey4 ,the picture will be entered in the catalogue under the title ,et le soleil s'endormit sur l',adriatique1 and signed ,j4 ,r4 ,boronali2 ,for said reasons he asks me to be present at the painting of said picture in order to witness the process and draw an official report about it4 ,having consented to the request1 ,i went in the company of ,messrs4 ----1 the editors of ,fantasio1 to the cabaret du ,lapin ,agile1 where in front of said establishment ,messrs4 ---- set up a new canvas on a chair that took the place of an easel4 ,in my presence they arranged paints--blue1 green1 yellow1 and red2 to the tail-extremity of the donkey1 which belongs to the owner of the cabaret ,lapin ,agile1 was tied a paint-brush4 ,then the donkey was brought to the canvas1 and ,m4 ---- upholding the brush and the tail of the beast allowed her to daub in all directions taking care only of changing the paints on the brush4 ,i assured myself that the picture presented various tones passing from blue into green and from yellow into red without constituting anything definite and resembling nothing4 ,when the work had been finished1 in my presence the picture and author were photographed4 ,in testimony of the aforesaid ,i have written and issued this protocol for legal use4 ,p4 ,,brionne4 ,footnote #a3 ,the names were not revealed4 ,from the photograph it may be seen that the donkey had been teased with some appetizing food held before his mouth1 to which tantalization the so-called ,boronali responded with the wags of his tail-extremity1 according to the phraseology of the solemn document4 ,the picture then having been taken to the ,salon1 ,monsieur ,boronali was asked to pay his membership fee1 and thenceforward his name figured among those of ,matisse1 ,rousseau1 ,le ,fauconnier1 and other great4 ,to the astonishment of the ,fantasio group1 their prank remained unnoticed for some time2 the critics spoke of ,boronali's work along with the other pictures1 and the manifesto of the ,excessivists was but slightly commented upon4 ,in a series of sensational articles and piquant stories ,the ,fantasio finally succeeded in drawing general attention to their chef d'oeuvre4 ,the ,paris press1 as well as the foreign1 opened a hot discussion on the significance of ,boronali's work in a serious tone4 ,only the ,klnische ,zeitung in a review of the manifesto and the picture carefully remarked1 ,if it is not a carnival joke--referring to the manifesto but not doubting the authenticity of ,boronali's canvas4 ,true1 the title of the picture seemed mystifying3 why ,the ,sun ,asleep over the ,adriatic1 when there were neither sun nor sea8 ,the ,gazette de ,france ridiculed the title4 ,the ,new ,york ,herald1 endeavoring to justify the name of the picture1 suggested that the sun was asleep beneath the ,adriatic--an ingenious hypothesis4 ,the ,revue des ,beaux-,arts gave a detailed and scholarly account of the picture1 but found in it nothing extraordinary in comparison with the other ,independents4 ,the hardest blow to ,boronali's genius was dealt by ,de l',art ,ancien et ,moderne1 which accused him of being banal4 ,among the cosmopolite crowd1 along with ,messrs4 ,ghon1 ,klingsor1 ,jamet 444 struts the sheer banality of ,m4 ,boronali4 ,the scandal that took place after the mystificators had revealed their trick is of secondary importance4 ,what looms out of this incident is the dangerously vague line of demarcation between what is true art and what is mere daubery in ,futurism4 ,the ,gaulois summed up the affair in a few significant words3 ,the scholastics had maintained that ,it is much easier for the ass to disprove than it is for the philosopher to assert4 ,but here came an ass and proved something in spite of all the philosophers of the world4 ,he has proved--not a priori but a posteriori--that the most manifest daubery may pass as a picture in the eyes of those who accept the non-real1 the improbable1 and the absurd for new art4 ,thought uttered becomes an untruth4--,thaddeus ,tutchev4 ,a ,wonder-,child ,violinist ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,the wonder-child is not so much a wonder in ,europe as in this country4 ,at seven1 yes--even up to eleven1 perhaps1 a young ,german violinist who began to concertize at six once told me4 ,but after that--there are so many and they all play so beautiful6 ,so it is more common there and people think not so much of it4 ,and she went on to tell me1 with the most wistful seriousness1 how at twelve she had felt suddenly so oppressed with age and weariness that for two years she had wanted not to play at all4 ,she described it as a period when she wanted to stop feeling and run in the country all day and be only with animals4 ,but on the whole her theory seemed to be that it was the simplest thing in the world for a child to play well--better1 in some ways1 than he will ever play later on2 and very likely it's true4 ,the newer psychologists have given us enough reason to think so4 ,it still comes with something of a shock to us here1 however2 and when we started for ,the ,chicago ,little ,theatre one night two weeks ago to hear ,master ,ruby ,davis1 aged twelve1 give a violin recital1 it was with the most excited anticipations4 ,i had never heard a child play the violin4 ,surely disappointment was inevitable4444 ,a little boy walked quietly out on to the stage1 smiling4 7,i heard afterward that some one had asked him if it didn't frighten him to face all those people4 ,oh1 no1 he said1 ,i'm going to play my violin67 ,he had on a little soft white shirt and knickerbockers4 ,his hair was almost auburn and curled away from his forehead2 his eyes were blue and his skin the softest white4 ,his hands were the long1 slender1 artistic type rather than the blunt1 heavy type which is quite as common among first-rate violinists4 ,antoine--that was all ,i could think4 ,and then he lifted his bow and swung into the ,haendel ,sonata in ,a with all the assurance of a master4 ,it was only a matter of seconds until you knew that he could not disappoint--ever3 he knew how to feel6 ,a musician may commit all the crimes in the musical universe1 or he may play so flawlessly that you marvel2 but none of it matters particularly4 ,a phrase will tell you whether he is an artist--the way the notes rise or fall or seem to be gathered up into that subtle thing which is the difference between efficient ,playing and ,music by the grace of ,god4 ,ruby ,davis makes ,music4 ,and how he loved doing it6 ,he played a ,canzonetta by ,ambrosia1 and the ,jarnefelt ,berceuse1 and other difficult things like the ,pugnani ,praeludium1 and that ,motto ,perpetuo of ,ries1 beside the regulation ,cavatina and the ,dvork ,humoresque--every one of them1 in spite of small deficiencies that will be corrected1 with a quality that is genius4 ,as nearly as ,i can register it this is the picture of him ,i shall remember3 ,a little slender1 eager1 swaying body1 and a great violin above which his face seemed worshipping4 ,his eyes turned deep blue as flowers when he raised his head for some lovely soaring tone or dropped it on his instrument over some deep ,g string melody4 ,his mouth was the saddest little mouth ,i've ever seen1 and somehow you could watch the music coursing through his cheek bones4 ,his right foot kept moving gently inside his shoe1 always in perfect time4 ,the ,new ,paganism ,,dewitt ,c4 ,,wing ,one of the momentous achievements of applied science is the convincing demonstration that the earth is a living thing4 ,it is as truly a live organism as any of the animals of which it is the mother4 ,life could not have been evolved by or from it if there had not been life in it4 ,we do not require an inexplicable miracle to account for the evolution of man2 we can trace his pedigree back to an ancestry with fins and gills1 and of course it stretches far beyond that comparatively recent stage in his development4 ,from the beginning of the world conditions have steadily grown more favorable to the habitation of the earth by the higher animals4 ,since man is a part of the earth1 what he himself has done to bring about this auspicious change may be credited to the mind or life resident in the earth4 ,then there is essential goodness in the earth--which is not saying that there is no evil in it4 ,the world is a better place for a man to live in now than it was when his ancestors occupied dismal caves4 ,it is no illusion that1 design or no design1 the cosmic urge has been toward goodness1 by which ,i mean an increasingly hospitable dwelling-place for men4 ,there have been recessions1 and there will be others1 but1 apart from faith and hope1 established facts compel the man who understands them to declare his absolute and unalterable certainty that the inexorable law of life's becoming greater than it is cannot be nullified4 ,so that1 regardless of all poverty and misery1 of all that is unlovely1 of all the blind and passionate class hatreds and sex quibbles1 the man who really thinks must think hopefully4 ,there is indeed the most ample justification of optimism4 ,the world is ,god1 and the man who worships it the new pagan4 ,he comes off the same stock as the old pagans1 who were called heathens--because they were not ,christians4 ,they were1 in fact1 the classic earth-lovers1 and1 hence1 more truly the sons of ,god than the crusaders who1 directed by an anthropomorphic ,deity1 tortured and killed them4 ,the new pagan1 who not only feels1 smells1 hears1 and sees the earth1 but comprehends the established scientific facts about it1 finds a keener and larger delight and satisfaction in it than his forefathers could experience4 ,he loves it with his heart and his mind4 ,having this attitude toward it1 he wishes to serve it1 prompted by the same motive which actuates him when he serves his immediate father and mother4 ,ruskin was sure that his beautiful ,england was desecrated when steel rails were laid across its green fields and factory smoke contaminated the golden air2 he canonized the landscape1 and when it changed1 his heart ached4 ,he was an artist1 not a prophet4 ,the industrialism that he hated disseminated his written appreciations of beauty4 ,machinery is the extension of man's personality and power2 the instrument with which he is realizing the bounties and the ,fatherhood of ,god4 ,at present it is too much an end in itself instead of a means toward nobler results1 but tomorrow will see the needed adjustment4 ,wherefore the new pagan is not saddened but gladdened at the sight of factories and the development of commerce4 ,the awful carnage which commercialism entails is the price which we have been fated to pay for experience4 ,through commerce we are paving the way for the action of the world-mind--the collective thought of men4 ,collective thinking precludes socialism as well as individualism1 and brings in humanism4 ,the increasing complexity of civilizations symbolizes the enlarged intricacy of human life4 ,experience and consciousness are expanded by the maze of external detail through which a child in a modern state passes to maturity4 ,the extension of a more highly organized civilization into every habitable region of the earth1 and commercial and intellectual communication among all nations1 will synthesize the thought of the world4 ,toward this goal every vital movement is directed1 whether consciously or unwittingly4 ,the germ of life was the original leaven1 and it will leaven the whole lump4 ,that races and states should disappear does not matter2 if human life as a whole were to vanish the birth-labor that the world has begun would be retarded but not abandoned4 ,man would return in a few billion years4 ,if not1 a higher animal would2 man himself is on the long way to ever-new heights4 ,he has climbed up out of the sea1 and with the birth of reason in his brain he began to ascend into loftier realms4 ,the power of reason is a late acquisition1 but it has provided the wondrous banquet at which the modern pagan feasts4 ,it has enabled him literally to soar and revel in high1 thin air4 ,all the fine arts are subsidiary to and dependent upon material progress1 and the primal source of well-being is the soil4 ,man is a land animal1 and he must have access to the land with the same freedom that a babe enjoys at its mother's breast2 otherwise he will be stunted and dwarfed4 ,the earth is the ,old ,mother1 yielding an abundance of food for all her children4 ,more reason and more consciousness on their part will induce them to share it with one another1 not like unreasoning pigs but like reasoning men4 ,the new freedom means eventually the accessibility of the earth to every man4 ,in the meantime the biggest business at hand is to build soils as well as schools2 to keep the land full of sap2 to extend mechanism into the arts of agriculture2 to unify the thought and purpose of city and country4 ,all this will follow the world-mindedness that is being developed by industrialism and internationalism4 ,all constructive thought and action must deal not less with the city but more and more with the country--the land4 ,typical cities are sapping the wealth of life that grows up round them4 ,the obsessed man in the market place needs the poise and power of the shepherd on the hill4 ,the only true and durable magnificence of a state lies in the equitable use of its natural resources4 ,no man who has thought profoundly wants to own land1 but the majority of men do want to use it4 ,that ought to be every man's privilege1 for every man is in some fashion a lover of the verdant earth4 ,but even the millions of us who are landless1 because a few men legally own the earth1 have occasional esthetic accesses to it1 and if we passionately loved its beauty we should hasten the day of its release by an uneconomic monopoly4 ,an intelligent love of the earth as a living thing is at the bottom of the dynamic impulse of man to be forever becoming4 ,and as these lovely days of wanton greenness steal like fairies into the secret recesses of his child-heart1 man has a sense of eternal kinship with 444 that small untoward class which knows the divine call of the spirit through the brain1 and the secret whisper of the soul in the heart1 and for ever perceives the veils of mystery and the rainbows of hope upon our human horizons2 which hears and sees1 and yet turns wisely1 meanwhile1 to the life of the green earth1 of which we are part1 to the common kindred of living things1 with which we are at one--is content1 in a word1 to live1 because of the dream that makes living so mysteriously sweet and poignant2 and to dream1 because of the commanding immediacy of life4 ,gloria ,mundi ,,eunice ,,tietjens ,in what dim1 half imagined place ,does the ,titanic lie to-day1 ,too deep for tide1 too deep for spray1 ,in night and saltiness and space8 ,oh1 quiet must the sea-floor be6 ,and very still must be the gloom ,where in each well-appointed room ,the splendor rots unto the sea4 ,through crannies in the shattered decks ,the sea-weed thrusts pale finger-tips1 ,and in the bottom's jagged rips ,with ghostly hands it waves and becks4 ,the mirrors in the great saloons ,sleep darkly in their gilt and brass ,save when the silent fishes pass ,with eyes like phosphorescent moons4 ,on painted walls are slimy things1 ,and strange sea creatures1 lithe and cool1 ,spawn in the marble swimming pool ,and shall1 a thousand springs4 ,for as it is1 so it shall be1 ,untouched of time till ,doom appears1 ,too deep for days1 too deep for years ,in the salt quiet of the sea4 ,the ,will to ,live ,,george ,,burman ,,foster ,like the sense for the true1 the good1 the holy1 the esthetic sense is elementary4 ,man comes to himself as man in all alike4 ,without the effectuation of his peculiar artistic impulse1 man1 the born artist1 could not find the real consecration and dignity of the human4 ,indeed1 the worth of all human culture depends upon the sense for the beautiful4 ,as religion is not restricted to some fragment of our experience but informs the whole1 so culture requires that life shall be beautiful down to the commonplace and homely things of the daily round4 ,the new program1 to which this modern insight points1 means a rebirth of our entire moral and social life4 ,why is it1 then1 that those who vocationally and constantly worship in the sanctuary of art--the priests in this sanctuary--often so easily and singularly fail in the consecration which the worship of beauty is supposed to supply to the human personality8 ,the lives of those whose calling it is to exhibit and exemplify the beautiful1 why are they often so very ugly1 so bereft of lovable emotions8 ,the shortcomings of the artist1 why do we count among these the pettiest and the basest known to man8 ,to be specific1 why do we speak almost proverbially of an artistic vanity1 an artistic sensitiveness1 an artistic envy or jealousy8 ,if we answered1 ,because the shadows of the 'human all too human' seem so dark in the golden light of the artistic calling1 that would be true1 but it would not be the whole truth4 ,does not the professional occupation of oneself with art involve a danger to character8 ,to live constantly in the world of the emotions1 to fable and fantasy and dream1 in all this there is so easily something weak1 not to say effeminate and sickly1 and hence enervating4 ,of great spirits this is true often enough--how much more of the lesser who sophistically find warrant in the weakness of the great for the greatness of their weakness6 ,for instance1 they have heard of inspiration--something not under the control of the artist1 something that must come upon him1 but only when the divine hour strikes1 as it struck at the pentecostal outpouring of the spirit upon the early ,christians4 ,hence no care for a thousand things--in both cases--for which other men must care6 ,hence a standard of life different from that by which other men live6 ,to be outwardly different from others1 to set oneself above others1 that is to be artistic4 ,because some great artists are different from other people in moods and manners and morals1 it is navely concluded that to emulate the latter is to be the former1 and right merrily does the emulation go on4 ,it must be a grief to a real artist1 this culture of the eccentric head and the more eccentric heart4 ,therefore we need a man to free us from these eccentricities1 a man to lift us above these caricatures because he has himself put them beneath his feet4 ,this man is ,friedrich ,nietzsche4 ,the sickness and the soundness of life1 both these were in ,nietzsche4 ,in his demand for an artistic culture he put his finger upon the wound of present humanity4 ,this demand was accepted1 the meaning of the demand was lost sight of4 ,this was the fatality--as if ,nietzsche required a new artistic culture only1 and not at the same time a new life culture6 ,beauty the form of life indeed1 but strength1 will1 deed1 the content--that was the brave burden of the prophet's message4 ,nietzsche was born into a time that marked the climax of a more than millennial cultus of ,death4 ,the old songs of death as bridge of sunset into the eternal day of ,bliss1 songs of earthly lamentation and heavenly yearning and anticipation1 these no longer came from the heart1 to be sure2 though still sung1 the voices of the faithful grew ever thinner and thinner2 and the songs were a monument of past piety rather than a witness to a present4 ,like vice1 this earth which was once a monster of so frightful mien was first endured1 then pitied1 then embraced--and even wedded by man2 its sufferings were healed and its delights enjoyed4 ,the pain1 the pleasure of earth1 what does it mean8 man's heart again asked as it asked in happy ,greece long ago4 ,but as time went by1 the human mind was bruised and broken over this question1 until it concluded that all we call life is a great illusion4 ,and back and behind this life1 with its tumult and fitful fever1 there is the vasty deep of the infinite nothing4 ,life is a cheat4 ,and now there is ,weltschmerz1 ,lebenschmerz--simply a naturalistic form of the old ecclesiastical longing for death4 ,it said the same ,no6 to life that the old church song said--it1 too1 valued the day of death higher than the day of birth2 it1 too1 urged that1 since life is intrinsically evil1 the cure of the evil is to live as little as possible4 ,into such a world ,friedrich ,nietzsche was born1 breathed its atmosphere1 was himself once drunk upon its drugged drinks4 ,the preacher of this modern yearning for ,nirvana1--i4e41 not metaphysical non-existence but psychological desirelessness1--was ,schopenhauer as well as his disciple von ,hartmann4 ,this is the worst possible world1 croaked ,schopenhauer2 ,no1 moaned von ,hartmann1 it is not the worst possible world1 it is the best possible world1 but it is worse than none6 ,and once ,nietzsche called ,schopenhauer his teacher--went forth as an enthusiastic apostle of the message of passive resignation to the inevitable sorry scheme of things1 nay1 of the message that the world is the work of an anguished god seeking redemption from the infinite misery of existence by the infinite negation of life4 ,and surely the anguish of ,nietzsche fitted him1 as no other1 to be partner in distress of this anguished god4 ,surely he1 if anyone1 could say1 ,to this end was ,i born and for this purpose came ,i into the world1 to bear witness--to the body of this death4 ,from his mother's womb was he set apart to suffer4 ,endowed with a transcendent and super-abundant fulness of spirit1 every fresh and forceful impulse of his personality he felt as an indictment of the inexorable pitiless limitations within which his best innermost life was imprisoned4 ,he was a voice crying in the wilderness1 not only to men1 but to himself4 ,each new flash of light which illumined his inner eye let him see the graves upon which he was treading1 and revealed those who claimed to be alive in the mask of the death to which they had succumbed4 ,in the abounding wealth of youth he felt a mortal sickness getting its grip upon him4 ,as life dragged on1 he felt more and more the hell tortures of pain from which he had to wring his work every hour of his existence4 ,who would have the effrontery to cast a stone at this man had he flung down his arms into one of those graves1 and cried with an old philosopher3 ,this may all be very well for the gods1 but not for me6 ,but he did not lay down his arms6 ,freed from all encumbrances of conscience and debilitating sense of sin which had paralyzed the ,christian1 and from the ,schopenhauer ,welt- und ,lebenanschauung1 he welcomed all that life had to offer and went unhesitatingly toward the universal goal of annihilation with a blithe and unregretting spirit4 ,entertaining no illusions about indeterminism or free-will or immortality1 he rejoiced in his strength1 seized with avidity the passing moment1 and fell fighting to the last4 ,he spoke his courageous ,yes6 to life1 while ,schopenhauer1 with his money and his mistress1 and all the world beside1 were crying to him to say ,no6 ,for this we must thank him4 ,in this we find an antidote to present-day tendencies to sink the individual in the multitude1 to subordinate men to institutions1 and to apotheosize mediocrity4 ,nietzsche met pain with a power which transformed even death into life1 and turned the day of his death even into a festival of the soul4 ,he taught himself and he taught others to believe in that power1 which alone is great1--to believe in the ,power of the ,will6 ,nietzsche1 like ,jesus1 proclaimed the inestimable worth of the individual man1 saw for him vast and glorious possibilities1 sought the regeneration of society through the regeneration of the individual4 ,both committed the fortunes of the cause to which they devoted their lives to individuals and not to masses of men4 ,both believed that the best was yet to be4 ,both believed in the inwardness1 the self-dependence1 and the autonomy of personality4 ,neither ever side-stepped or flinched4 ,today we are suffering from impuissant personality1 from cowardice1 from weakness of the will4 ,taming the great wild strong instincts1 making them small and weak1 choking them1 so that man can will nothing or do nothing great and original and special--this is what we call civilization4 ,a comfortable existence1 this is the final end of life1 according to this civilization4 ,no conflict1 no danger1 for these menace comfort6 ,not to know the comfort of a calm1 safe existence from which you can look down upon the struggles in a neck-breaking life far below--that is barbarism indeed6 ,and is not this comfort a virtue1 buttressed by moral principles at that8 ,so buttressed1 one's slumbers are not disturbed4 ,and may not one add to this virtue of comfort that other cardinal virtue of hatred of all that keeps matters stirred up1 all that causes unrest1 that causes sleepless nights and stormy days8 ,what the man of civilization hates he calls bad1 what he loves he calls good4 ,accordingly1 as ,nietzsche saw and said1 the weak are the good people1 the brave and the strong are the bad4 ,accordingly1 also1 it is comfortable to be moral4 ,all one needs is to attune one's life to the common run1 to quarantine against every profound disturbance1 to steal by every dangerous abyss of life4 ,and if powers stir in man which do not amiably submit to taming1 why1 morality may be used as a whip to lash these insubordinate stirrings into subjection4 ,and if the living heart crouches into submission under the lash1 why1 such crouching is called virtue1 and the daring to resist and escape the lash1 this of course is vice4 ,in a word1 the most will-less is the most virtuous4 ,thus--such was ,nietzsche's uncanny insight--moral laws are devices for disciplining the will into weakness6 ,morality is a poison with which man is inoculated1 so that his strength may be palsied4 ,morality is itself death to a man1 a will to weakness1 a destruction of the will1 while life is a will to power1 a will to self-affirmation4 ,every virtue has its double1 easily confounded with it1 in reality the exact opposite of it4 ,take meekness1 peaceableness4 ,it is a virtue which the cowardly1 the over-cautious1 arrogate to themselves--those who duck and bow and bend so as to give no offense1 and to conjure up no violent conflict4 ,yet to be peaceable and meek is in truth supreme strength1 having one's own stormy heart under control1 and being absolutely sure of power over the militant spirits of men4 ,humility is a sign at once of smallness and of greatness4 ,patience is at once a lazy lassitude and an active steadfast strength4 ,chastity may be reduced vitality1 fear of disease1 fear of being found out1 lack of opportunity1 slavery to respectability1 poverty1 or it may be temperance and self-control in satisfying sex-needs4 ,and so on4 ,every virtue may arise because a man is too weak for the opposite4 ,and this virtue which walks the path of virtue because it lacks the courage and the strength not to do so1 this complacent1 harmless1 untempted virtue1 men make the universal criterion of all virtue1 the codex of their morality4 ,today still the pharisee1 not the publican1 the son who stupidly ate his fill in his father's house1 not the prodigal who hungered in the far country1 heads the scroll of the virtuous4 ,to fear and flee vice1 or to pass a law1 this is the current solution of morality1 dinged into us from youth up1 not to confront vice1 battle with it1 conquer and coerce it6 ,so misunderstood ,nietzsche thought4 ,he thought that the morality of virtuous people was1 in fact1 a foe of life1 that the virtue of the weak was a grave for the virtue of the strong1 and that1 consequently the consciences of men must be aroused so that they could see the whole abomination of this1 their virtue1 of which they were so proud4 ,to bridle and tame men is not to ennoble them2 to make men too weak and cowardly for vice is not to make them strong and brave for the good4 ,this anxious and painful slipping and winding and twisting between virtue and vice1 this cannot be the fate of the future1 the eternal destiny of man2 this is to make man the eternal slave of man2 to damn him in his innermost and idiomatic life to the lot of the eternal slave4 ,virtue and vice are values which men mint1 stamps which men imprint upon their ever-changing conduct1 not eternal values1 born of life itself1 sanctioned by the law of life itself4 ,as time goes on tables of old values become sins4 ,to obey them1 to have the law outside and not inside us1 is to fall from grace indeed4 ,a law of life cannot be on paper1 for paper is not living4 ,life must be the law of life4 ,life must interpret and reveal life4 ,and life must be the criterion of life4 ,what makes us alive1 and strong1 and mighty of will1 is on that account good2 what brings death and weakness1 foulness and feebleness of will is bad4 ,the courage which in the most desperate situation of life1 in the most labyrinthan aberration of thought1 dares to wring a new strength to live1 is good2 all pusillanimity1 all over-mastery by pain1 all collapse under the burden of life1 all disappointing desert of the censure1 ,o ye of little faith1 why are ye fearful8--all this is bad4 ,it will be a new day for man when he feels it wrong and immoral to lament his lot1 to whine1 but right and moral to earn strength from pain1 a will to labor from temptation to die4 ,not the fear of the moral man to sin1 but the fear to be weak1 so that one cannot do one's work in the world--that is to be the fear in the future4 ,the powerful will1 nay1 the will become power itself1 the fixed heart1 the keyed and concentrated personality2 this means freedom from every slave yoke4 ,and it means that life is no longer at the mercy of capricious and contingent gain and loss1 but a ,king's ,crown conquered in conflict with itself1 with man1 and with ,god4 ,also sprach ,nietzsche-,zarathustra6 ,keats and ,fanny ,brawne ,,by ,,charlotte ,,wilson ,he tried to pour the torrents of his love ,into a tiny vase2 a trinket--smooth1 ,pretty enough--but fit to hold a rose ,upon some shrewd collector's cabinet4 ,toward that small moon the wild tides of his love ,reared up1 and fell back1 moaning2 and he died ,asking his heart why love was agony4 ,and she8 ,she loved the best she could1 ,i think1 ,and wondered sometimes--but not overmuch-- ,at poor ,john's queer1 unseemly violence4 ,a ,new ,woman from ,denmark ,marguerite ,swawite ,karen ,borneman1 by ,hjalmar ,bergstrm4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,from the north1 whence ,ibsen's ,nora challenged the world as far back as #ahgi1 comes a fresh message of rebellion in the more radical figure of ,karen ,borneman4 ,in judging this play of ,bergstrm's1 which has but now appeared in ,edwin ,bjrkman's translation1 we must remember that it was written in #aijg--;before we had grown so sophisticated concerning the rebel woman in her infinite manifestations4 ,and yet1 because this vanguard of a new morality is still a slender company1 the addition of a new member cannot fail to arouse a ripple of excitement in the watchful rank and file4 ,for that reason1 as well as for some novel characteristics of her own1 ,karen ,borneman merits a word for herself4 ,bergstrm chose the most obvious method of contrast in projecting his heroine upon a background of stringent restraint4 ,her father is ,kristen ,borneman1 a professor of theology whose chief interest in life is the propagation of the principles contained in his magnum opus1 ,marriage and ,christian ,morality4 ,her mother is an apparently submissive woman who sometimes questions the edicts of her husband4 ,her brother1 ,peter1 is an adolescent youth1 already awake to the conflict between the natural man and the unnatural economic system1 and seemingly bound for destruction4 ,thora1 her young sister1 is already seeking out the clandestine outlet for an excessive and dangerous sentimentality4 ,another sister1 ,gertrude1 has suffered a mental collapse and is confined in an insane asylum4 ,these children1 the author seems to say1 are the results of a chafing restrictive discipline1 and natural instincts gone wrong--a conclusion weakened1 not strengthened by over-illustration4 ,when four of a family of eight show signs of a similar abnormal development one suspects not only the disciplinary system but the purity of their inheritance4 ,be that as it may1 the chief protagonist1 ,karen1 is quite a normal person--except in the matter of courage1 of which she possesses an inordinate amount4 ,but then all new women are courageous to a fault4 ,she is a woman of twenty-eight1 mature1 cultivated1 and a successful professional writer4 ,her most salient claim to consideration in the early scenes of the play is her quiet assurance in the right of her position4 ,she voluntarily opens up her past to the professedly liberal physician who seeks her hand4 ,some years ago ,i--lived with a man4444 ,you are a widower yourself4 ,you may regard me as a widow or--a divorced wife4 ,and when he spurns her action as squalor1 she indignantly replies1 ,doctor1 how dare you4 ,a phase of my life that at least to me is sacred1 and you cast reflections on it1 that-- ,there is a brevity1 a terseness1 about her words that create greater sense of her power than would any amount of emotional pyrotechnics4 ,in the later scene with her father she is equally as simple3 ,the sum and substance of it is this3 ,i have been married twice4444 ,i mean that twice during my life--with years between--,i have given myself1 body and soul1 to the man ,i loved1 firmly determined to remain faithful to him unto death4 ,then follows the recital of the two love affairs--the first with a brilliant but very poor journalist who died prematurely1 and the other with a sculptor1 ,strandgaard1 whom she left on the discovery of his faithlessness4 ,her vision is of a time of greater freedom for self-expression3 444 the day will come when we1 too1 will demand it as our right--demand the chance to live our own lives as we choose and as we can1 without being held the worse on that account4 ,of course1 ,i know that this is not an ideal1 but merely a makeshift meant to serve until at last a time comes which recognizes the right of every human being to continue its life through the race4 ,her justification is the characteristic one3 ,i have1 after all1 lived for a time during those few years of youth that are granted us human beings only once in our lifetime1 and that will never1 never come back again4 ,what have these other ones got out of their enforced duty and virtue except bitterness--bitterness and emptiness8 ,i have1 after all1 felt the fullness of life within me while there was still time1 and ,i don't regret it6 ,the clash with her father whom she loves tenderly she accepts as inevitable in spite of the pain it must bring them both4 ,the ecstasy of a great vision softens to the note of personal loss as she leaves him3 ,yes--,i do pity you1 father6 ,don't think my heart is made of stone4 ,the sorrow ,i have done you cannot be greater than the one ,i feel within myself at this moment1 when perhaps ,i see you for the last time6 ,but how can ,i help that ,i am the child of a time that you don't understand8 ,we have never wanted to hurt each other1 of course--but ,i suppose it is the law of life1 that nothing new can come into the world without pain-- ,because ,karen advocates a course generally denoted by the term 7of wretched connotation7 free love1 she is not to be confused with those of lesser fineness who are fighting at her side4 ,for instance1 with ,stanley ,houghton's heroine in ,hindle ,wakes4 ,anyone who sees in ,karen another ,fanny ,hawthorne1 has failed to understand ,karen's position4 ,she is a woman of culture and of ideals in all matters of life1 and especially in that of the sex relationship4 ,i have given myself1 444 she says1 to the man ,i loved1 firmly determined to remain faithful to him unto death4 ,this is a far cry from ,fanny's reply to ,alan3 ,love you8 ,good heavens1 of course not6 ,why on earth should ,i love you8 ,you were just someone to have a bit of fun with4 ,you were an amusement--a lark4 ,to ,karen the relationship is justified only by depth of passion1 and she entered it with as great a solemnity and glow of consecration as did ever a serious woman a church-made marriage4 ,to the many camp-followers of established feminism1 those who don or doff their principles with the transient fashion1--to them ,karen must seem a humorous1 if not a pitiable figure4 ,for she dares to have beliefs and gallantly cleaves to them4 ,karen1 then1 is a new woman in the sense that in the moment of crisis she did not accept as inevitable the reply of convention1 but weighed her need against the law1 and1 finding the latter wanting1 fulfilled her need at the sacrifice of the law4 ,on the other hand1 she is not of those who break laws for the intrinsic pleasure of destruction4 ,of course1 she admits1 it would have been ever so much more easy for me if1 while ,i was still young1 some presentable man1 with all his papers in perfect order and a financially secure future1 had come and asked for me-- ,and she welcomes marriage with the good ,doctor ,schou in an attitude unpleasantly reactionary3 444 ,i believe every woman who has reached a certain age--and you know ,i am twenty-eight--will1 without hesitation1 prefer a limited but secure existence by the side of an honest man to the most unlimited personal freedom4 ,and worst of all1 she1 who throughout the play declares herself unconvinced of guilt or stain1 at the close of the first act becomes quite mawkishly sentimental over ,heine's pretty line1 ,may ,god forever keep you so fair1 and sweet1 and pure4 ,because ,karen exhibits these painful inconsistencies1 she is no less possible or real or worthwhile4 ,we who know many women emerging in diverse odd shapes from the travail of awakening have discovered just as inconsistent a combination of precipitation and reaction2 and thus will it ever be until we have at length worked out our way to the most serviceable harmony4 ,it is for this very reason that ,karen is interesting3 she is no superwoman1 but our own imperfect sister4 ,of the other characters there is but one deserving special comment--,karen's mother1 who to me is the most remarkable person ,bergstrm has here created4 ,she confesses to her husband that she has known for three years that ,karen had been living in ,paris with ,strandgaard1 but had kept the knowledge to herself because it had been too late to interfere1 and because she did not regard the calamity as others would have in her place4 ,from a terrible and bitter experience with another daughter1 ,gertrude1 who had gone insane through the abrupt breaking off of a long engagement which had aroused primitive passion and left it unfulfilled1 ,mrs4 ,borneman had reached a revolutionary conclusion3 444 from that day ,i have--after a careful consideration--done what ,i could to let our children live the life of youth1 sexually and otherwise1 in as much freedom as possible4 ,the result of your educational method1 my dear ,kristen1 is our poor ,gertrude1 who is now confined in an insane asylum1 as incurable4 ,the result of my method is ,karen1 ,i suppose4 ,i don't know if it is very sinful to say so1 but ,i feel much less burdened by guilt than ,i should if conditions were reversed4 ,when ,karen1 however1 defends her course as an abstract ideal of every human being to continue its life through the race1 and appeals to her mother to understand1 ,mrs4 ,borneman retreats with1 ,i wash my hands of it1 ,karen4 ,i don't dare to think that far4444 ,it was her motherhood that had forced upon her the courage to overlook the law1 and not any desire to throw over the old to set up a new law4 ,the glory of the new vision means nothing to her in comparison with her husband's suffering to which she herself has added4 ,she is the promise of a new type--the awakened mother4 ,as for the play as a whole1 it appears to me that ,mr4 ,bergstrm has tried to say too much in the slight space of one short play1 for he has two distinct themes--the right of woman to love and life1 and the relationship between marriage and children4 ,the first is the chief theme1 which is worked out in the story of ,karen2 the second is too important to be employed as a subsidiary thread1 and instead of adding richness to the first it rather clutters and confuses it with unnecessary baggage4 ,mrs4 ,borneman pities one of her sons because he cannot afford to have children on his slender salary1 and feels that her other son is not justified in blindly bringing child after child into the world1 depending upon the rest of the family for their maintenance4 ,she asks her husband3 ,so it is not enough for two people to live together in mutual love8 ,no1 ,cecilia1 that has nothing to do with marriage4 ,what is so inconceivably glorious about marriage is that1 through it1 ,god has delegated ,his own creative power to us simple human beings--that ,he has made us share ,his own divine omnipotence4 ,the poor professor is made consistent to the point of absurdity1 and the main issue befogged1 when he cries out to ,karen3 ,and yet ,i could have forgiven you everything--your wantonness and your defiance--if you had taken the consequences and had a child6 ,if you had had ten illegitimate children--better that than none at all6 ,but you have arrogantly defied the very commandments of nature1 which are nothing but the commandments of ,god6 ,perhaps this matter was included for the sake of ,karen's reply3 ,do you think ,i am a perfect monster of a woman1 who has never felt the longing for a baby8 ,not me does your anger hit1 but that society which will not regard it as an inevitable duty to recognize the right of every human being to have children--as a right1 mark you1 and not as a privilege reserved for the richest and the poorest4 ,there are thousands of us to whom the right is denied--thousands of men as well as women4 ,but we1 too1 are human beings1 with love longings and love instincts1 and we will not let us be cheated out of the best thing that life holds6 ,technically the play is not so perfect a thing as ,mr4 ,bjrkman's unbounded encomiums would make us believe4 ,it opens1 for instance1 in the good old fashion scorned by ,ibsen--with the gossip of servants1 who are here engaged in laying the table instead of in the time-honored task of dusting4 ,the whole action is cast within some eight hours1 thus causing a use of coincidence to the straining point4 ,the most commendable feature of technique is the admirably sustained suspense3 the story of ,gertrude overshadows the entire piece from the opening scene to ,mrs4 ,borneman's avowal in the last act4 ,the powerful use of the story as contrast to ,karen's career is also unusual4 ,and yet in spite of its faults--perhaps because of them--we have found ,karen ,borneman the most stimulating play of the year4 ,we hope one of our two organizations dedicated to the drama will put it on in the near future4 ,when the ape lost his wits he became man4--,viacheslav ,ivanov4 ,galsworthy's ,little ,human ,comedy ,no magazine that comes to this office is looked for more excitedly than ,harper's ,weekly4 ,poetry and ,drama is a quarterly event that keeps us in a dignified intensity of expectation2 and there are others4 ,but ,harper's is a weekly adventure in the interest of which we haunt the postman4 ,at present it is featuring a series of sketches by ,galsworthy--satirical characterizations of those human beings who pride themselves on being different4 ,here is a man who knows himself for a philosopher2 here is an artist2 here is one of those rare individualities so enlightened1 so superior1 so removed1 that there is only one label for him3 ,the ,superlative4 ,but it is in ,the ,philosopher that ,galsworthy excels himself4 ,it is probably the most consummate satire that has appeared in the last decade3 ,he had a philosophy as yet untouched4 ,his stars were the old stars1 his faith the old faith2 nor would he recognize that there was any other1 for not to recognize any point of view except his own was no doubt the very essence of his faith4 ,wisdom6 ,there was surely none save the flinging of the door to1 standing with your back against that door1 and telling people what was behind it4 ,for though he did not know what was behind1 he thought it low to say so4 ,an atheist1 as he termed certain persons1 was to him beneath contempt2 an agnostic1 as he termed certain others1 a poor and foolish creature4 ,as for a rationalist1 positivist1 pragmatist1 or any other ist--well1 that was just what they were4 ,he made no secret of the fact that he simply could not understand people like that4 ,it was true4 ,what can they do save deny8 he would say4 ,what do they contribute to the morals and the elevation of the world8 ,what do they put in place of what they take away8 ,what have they got1 to make up for what is behind that door8 ,where are their symbols8 ,how shall they move and leave the people8 ,no1 he said2 a little child shall lead them1 and ,i am the little child4 ,for ,i can spin them a tale1 such as children love1 of what is behind the door4 ,such was the temper of his mind that he never flinched from believing true what he thought would benefit himself and others4 ,amongst other things he held a crown of ultimate advantage to be necessary to pure and stable living4 ,if one could not say3 ,listen1 children1 there it is1 behind the door4 ,look at it1 shining1 golden--yours6 ,not now1 but when you die1 if you are good4444 ,if one could not say that1 what could one say8 ,what inducement hold out8444 ,this is merely the first paragraph4 ,the rest is even better4 ,such an analysis ought to extinguish the ,puritan forever--except that he won't understand it4 ,he'll think it was aimed at his neighbor4 ,he knows any number of men like that4444 ,knowledge or ,prejudice ,a critic writes us that he finds no fault with freedom of speech1 and that ,emma ,goldman's disregard of ordinary moral laws and blasphemy of religion do not destroy the fact that she exists4 ,but such an article about her as appeared in our last issue is well calculated to make us appear absurd1 he thinks2 it sounds like the oration of some one who is just beginning to discover the things that the world has known always2 and he closes with this deliciously nave question3 ,do you believe in listening respectfully to advocates of free love1 and1 because of their daring1 applauding them8 ,yes1 we believe in listening respectfully to any sincere programme2 we believe that is the only way people get to understand things4 ,we even believe in listening seriously to insincere programmes1 because the insincere person usually thinks he is sincere and helps one to understand even more4 ,by doing all these things one is likely to reach that altitude where to understand all is to forgive all4 ,as for advocates of free love--we recall the impatient comment of a well-known woman novelist3 ,when will people stop using that silly1 superfluous phrase 'free love'8 ,we don't talk about 'cold ice' or 'black coal'6 ,and1 though our applause was not confined to ,emma ,goldman's daring1 as our critic would probably concede1 is not daring a thing worthy of applause8 ,just as conflict is better than mediation1 or suffering than security1 daring is so much more legitimate an attitude than complacency4 ,but it is that remark about things the world has known always which exasperates us the most4 ,the world has not known them always2 it doesn't know them now4 ,it has heard of them vaguely--just to the point of becoming prejudiced about them4 ,and prejudice is the first element that sneaks away when knowledge begins to develop4 ,if the world represented by our critic knew these things it might be roused to daring1 too4 ,rupert ,brooke's ,visit ,rupert ,brooke was in ,chicago for a few days last month4 ,one of the most interesting things to us about his visit was that he so quickly justified all the theories we have had about him since we first read his poetry4 ,first1 that only the most pristine freshness could have produced those poems that some people have been calling decadent2 second1 that while he probably is the most beautiful young man in ,england it was rather silly of ,mr4 ,yeats to add that he is also the wearer of the most gorgeous shirts4 ,because ,rupert ,brooke doesn't wear gorgeous shirts2 he appears to have very little interest in shirts1 as we expected4 ,he is too concerned with the big business of life and poetry4 ,he is1 as a very astute young member of our staff suggested1 somehow like the sea4 ,books and the ,quiet ,life ,george ,gissing has always had a peculiarly poignant place in our galaxy of literary favorites1 and nowhere have we loved him more than in that little autobiography which he called ,the ,private ,papers of ,henry ,ryecroft4 ,the portions of that book which have to do specifically with books and reading have been brought together by ,mr4 ,waldo ,r4 ,browne and published with ,mr4 ,mosher's usual incomparable taste4 ,a good many people have loved books as well as ,george ,gissing did1 perhaps1 but very few of them have been able to express that love like this3 ,the exquisite quiet of this room6 ,i have been sitting in utter idleness1 watching the sky1 viewing the shape of golden sunlight upon the carpet1 which changes as the minutes pass1 letting my eye wander from one framed print to another1 and along the ranks of my beloved books4444 ,i have my home at last4 ,when ,i place a new volume on my shelves1 ,i say3 ,stand there whilst ,i have eyes to see you2 and a joyous tremor thrills me4444 ,for one thing1 ,i know every book of mine by its scent1 and ,i have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things4444 ,i regard the book with that peculiar affection which results from sacrifice 444 in no drawing-room sense of the word4 ,dozens of my books were purchased with money which ought to have been spent upon what are called the necessities of life4 ,many a time ,i have stood before a stall1 or a bookseller's window1 torn by conflict of intellectual desire and bodily need4 ,at the very hour of dinner1 when my stomach clamored for food1 ,i have been stopped by sight of a volume so long coveted1 and marked at so advantageous a price1 that ,i could not let it go2 yet to buy it meant pangs of famine4 ,my ,heyne's ,tibullus was grasped at such a moment4 ,it lay on the stall of the old book-shop in ,goodge ,street--a stall where now and then one found an excellent thing among quantities of rubbish4 ,sixpence was the price--sixpence6 ,at that time ,i used to eat my mid-day meal 7of course1 my dinner7 at a coffee-shop in ,oxford ,street1 one of the real old coffee-shops1 such as now1 ,i suppose1 can hardly be found4 ,sixpence was all ,i had--yes1 all ,i had in the world2 it would purchase a plate of meat and vegetables4 ,but ,i did not dare to hope that the ,tibullus would wait until the morrow1 when a certain small sum fell due me4 ,i paced the pavement1 fingering the coppers in my pocket1 eyeing the stall1 two appetites at combat within me4 ,the book was bought and ,i went home with it1 and as ,i made a dinner of bread and butter ,i gloated over the pages4 ,new ,york ,letter ,,george ,,soule ,hilaire ,belloc is coming to ,america next fall for a lecturing tour4 ,it is well to take stock of him1 so that we shall know what to expect4 ,he is clever1 and a ,catholic--that tells the whole story4 ,we don't know exactly how he will say it1 but we know what he will say4 ,through various smiling subtleties and paradoxes he will attack democracy1 feminism1 socialism1 individualistic rebellion of any kind4 ,it is quite possible that he will aim a few careless shots at ,montessori1 the discussion of sex questions in public1 ,galsworthy1 and ,bernard ,shaw4 ,he is a masculine1 ,english1 ,agnes ,repplier4 ,he will entertain his cultivated audiences1 and give them the impression that he is very modern and daring4 ,it is curious how the thinking mind immediately discounts the testimony of one who is known to have given his allegiance to an embracing authority of any kind4 ,whether the authority in question is the ,vatican1 ,karl ,marx1 ,business1 ,nietzsche1 or ,theodore ,roosevelt1 we know the man's whole mind is likely to be colored with it1 and that the evidence is probably of less importance to him than his case4 ,yet there is always a moral suspicion against the man who refuses to enroll himself under any banner4 ,he seems dead1 inhuman1 academic4 ,march to the drums1 salute the colors1 or admit there is no blood in you6 ,it is good that most of mankind does so4 ,the strongest army 7not necessarily the largest7 will win1 and the battle must come for the sake of the victory4 ,therefore1 let the radicals welcome ,mr4 ,belloc as a good enemy4 ,he stands for a sincere1 highly organized1 and powerful propaganda which cannot be ignored on the modern battlefield4 ,on account of their worship of authority the ,catholics have a solidarity which no other movement can boast4 ,for the same reason they are doomed to an eternal enmity with adventurous souls1 those who fight for change of any kind4 ,they seem often to be in accord with advancing thinkers because they condemn present conditions4 ,but closer investigation will always show that instead of pointing to the future they cling to the past4 ,mgr4 ,benson1 during his recent visit to ,new ,york1 stated in private conversation that present social conditions are intolerable4 ,he went on to say that an ideal society can be attained only under feudalism1 with the church in control4 ,there will be no more danger from the ,catholics than from any other army as long as we know what they are fighting for1 and are able to recognize their irregular troops4 ,but let there be no complacency among the enemies of the church on the ground that it may not be really in the field1 or has not artillery when it gets there4 ,without investigation of any kind1 ,i have heard of two books attacking the church which were suppressed by their publishers at the demand of ,catholic authorities4 ,in each case the weapon was a threat to withdraw an extensive text book business from the house in question4 ,naturally1 the parties to the matter have not been anxious to give it publicity4 ,a magazine which published an article displeasing to ,catholics received a letter threatening it with black-listing4 ,there appears to be a well organized and efficient church publicity bureau to attend to these and other matters4 ,a proposal was recently made by a ,catholic journal that priests in confessional impose as penance the subscription to ,catholic papers and the purchase of ,catholic books1 at the same time warning the people against secular publications4 ,this was discussed with some approval by ,america1 the ,new ,york ,jesuit weekly1 which regretfully admitted1 however1 that in the end ,catholic publications must depend mainly on their merit4 ,we are likely to ignore such medival methods until we find them obstructing some actual movement of importance4 ,they do obstruct such movements1 however1 sometimes very annoyingly4 ,all these methods are but the natural and blameless working of the doctrine of intolerance4 ,and perhaps their greatest danger is that their temporary success will induce the opposing armies to use the same weapon and so shackle themselves4 ,the intolerance of the ,puritan was a natural result of his bitter struggle1 yet it produced a century of aesthetic darkness4 ,the advanced opponents of the ,puritan era are now uttering pronunciamentos and personalities that are ,archiepiscopal in their intolerance4 ,but1 you say1 intolerance is necessary in the soldier4 ,he must hate his enemy and seek not only to dislodge but to silence his opponent4 ,well1 ,i will admit that when the soldier is in battle he must shoot to kill4 ,but there is a new kind of soldier developing who is more valuable to man than the old4 ,he joins the army not so much because of the magic of the colors as because of the necessity of the cause and its temporary usefulness in serving the truth behind it4 ,just as he will not march to war without reason1 so he will stop fighting his immediate enemy when his cause is won1 and will not go on to bickering and pillage4 ,he is ready to enlist under a new banner at any moment when a new banner represents a more glorious cause than the old4 ,his ,general is not a god1 but a leader4 ,his freedom of choice is always the biggest asset of his strength4 ,therefore he cannot be intolerant4 ,he is strong1 hard1 efficient1 relentless1 but never pompous or slavish4 ,how much time the world has lost eliminating armies of strong men whose fatal fault was excessive1 unreasoning loyalty6 ,that1 after all1 solves the riddle of my second paragraph4 ,and if the soldier must subordinate his cause to his truth1 how much more so the ,general and the ,king6 ,the ,general has very little time to hate his enemy4 ,he must know their strength1 study their methods1 adopt the best of their ideas1 spy out the country1 plan a campaign4 ,he orders slaughter not for revenge or hatred1 but for success4 ,therefore it is of supreme importance that his success be worth while4 ,and the ,king1 the man who selects the cause and fires men to battle4 ,the nearer he comes to an assertion of infallibility the surer is the final defeat of his cause4 ,if he will allow no room for change and growth1 change and growth will sweep him aside4 ,we need big men who will not enlist under colors1 but are always pushing back the horizon of truth4 ,distrust the leader who has found the final answer to the riddle4 ,some day shall we not have a ,messiah who shall begin by saying3 ,do not found in my name any church1 cult1 or school4 ,if a man question my message1 listen to him closely and learn what truth he has4 ,always seek the new1 the more perfect4 ,always grow out from the fixed4 ,so shall you begin a race of ,kings greater than ,i4 ,correspondence ,miss ,columbia3 ,an ,old-,fashioned ,girl ,that the ,united ,states of ,america is young is a truism which needs no stating1 and unfortunately its youth is hopelessly fettered in the strings of tradition4 ,ferrero says that aesthetic taste in ,america shows itself in bathrooms2 and certainly in plumbing we do seem to have a taste above that of the rest of the world4 ,in other things ,america fears originality and change far more even than ,england does4 ,miss ,columbia is a bright girl1 sitting in a schoolroom1 with well-worn editions of the ,english classics on the book-shelves4 ,miss ,columbia writes verses and stories following the most approved models2 she succeeds rather well1 but1 after all1 they are only school essays4 ,it seems impossible for ,americans to have the courage to admit that ,life is as they see it4 ,hence the shallow and frivolous optimism which hangs like an obscuring fog over practically all our writing4 ,it would be a convention were it not that we think we believe it2 it would be a conviction only that we never look at it close enough to test it4 ,the vogue1 a year or two ago1 of ,mr4 ,robert ,haven ,schauffler's ,scum o' the ,earth is a case in point4 ,it deals with the problem of immigration1 not as it is1 but as it might be if it were4 ,the poem is imitative as art1 and false as life1 but it flatters an existing condition1 and paints a sore to represent healthy flesh2 wherefore ,america hails it with content4 ,americans are afraid of ,life1 in the ,victorian manner4 ,a ,catholic said to me1 some time ago3 ,sex is dirty4 ,this sacrilege is a thoroughly ,victorian sentiment1 but sex alone does not come under the ban2 pain1 squalor1 and1 above all1 the fact that virtue and effort frequently go unrewarded1 are facts to which1 in ,america1 one must shut one's eyes4 ,miss ,columbia is very young1 and her gold must be minted before she recognizes it2 in the matrix it looks insignificant to her inexperienced eyes4 ,style is not manner1 but personality4 ,and the fact that our poets and story writers keep to the old forms and expressions proves 7does it not87 that they have no inward urging which makes them find old molds too cramping4 ,in a play of ,george ,cohan's1 ,broadway ,jones1 you have the best of middle-class ,america--its good points and its limitations4 ,perhaps this is even better brought out in his other play1 ,get-,rich-,quick ,wallingford4 ,crude1 you say2 childish6 ,quite true1 but entirely and absolutely ,america4 ,for the ,united ,states is governed by the ,great ,god3 ,mediocrity6 ,the middle-class1 or1 as we call him1 the man in the street1 rules4 ,neither the gaunt simplicities of the lower class 7although we talk a great deal about the lower class71 nor the simplicities of the educated and intellectually alert1 can leaven the lump of self-satisfied commonplaceness4 ,not only don't we know1 but we don't want to know4 ,an ,american writer1 who had lived in ,europe long enough to forget the peculiar ,american temper1 was sufficiently ingenuous as to propose to the editor of one of our best-known magazines a series of three articles on six contemporary ,french poets4 ,they were refused1 because his clientle did not care to read of things of which they knew nothing4 ,they will know less than ,i1 said the editor1 and ,i have only heard of two of these names4 ,we are a little better off as regards our musical taste1 because music is a universal language1 and we can hear music in the original1 so to say4 ,in music1 again1 our output is more in accordance with the spirit of the whole world4 ,this does not mean that there are not good writers in ,america4 ,there are4 ,but most of them write dans le got d'avant-hier4 ,i am only telling you that ,miss ,columbia is in her artistic 'teens1 and is as unimaginatively conventional as is the human animal at the same age4 ,and1 again like the human animal1 she was not so childish when she was a baby4 ,paul ,revere1 riding across the ,middlesex ,fells to rouse the minute men1 was like any adult man on a job which he shrewdly suspects will change the fate of nations4 ,poe and ,whitman were not exactly childish4 ,but were ,poe writing today1 he would be told that his subjects were unimportant and that he lacked social consciousness4 ,for we in ,america are suffering from a pathological outlook on the world4 ,our activities function along the line of preventive medicine for communities4 ,the richness and variety of personality is lost sight of in the lump4 ,we forget that admirable truth set forth in the poem beginning ,little drops of water4 ,and then1 too1 poor ,america is so many different kinds of persons and places4 ,what we are going to be lies on the lap of the ,gods4 ,but it seems quite clear that1 whatever it is1 it will not be ,anglo-,saxon4 ,go to any vaudeville theatre and you will see ,americans turkey-trotting to an intricately syncopated music we have dubbed rag-time4 ,no ,european can dance it with just that zip and swing4 ,it is a purely ,american thing4 ,stop a minute6 ,do you realize that this is ,america's first original contribution to the arts6 ,low or high1 that is not the point2 it is ,america's own product1 and for that reason ,i regret to see the tango superseding it1 although the tango is a better dance4 ,i am told by those who know1 that dancing is the first art practised by primitive peoples4 ,i believe that in our turkey-trotting and rag-time we have the earliest artistic gropings of a new race4 ,our musicians scorn rag-time1 and it takes the clear eye of a ,frenchman to see its interest4 ,debussy has seen it in his ,minstrels4 ,,amy ,,lowell4 ,poetry to the ,uttermost ,we are afraid4 ,we are all horribly afraid4 ,the seal of poetic propriety is laid upon our lips1 the burden of tradition bows us down4 ,crouched and abject beneath the dominance of the slave-driver1 gap-toothed ,custom1 we set our shoulders to the toil--the useless toil--of dragging through the mile-years of simoom-whipped sand the impassive statue of ,mediocrity4 ,what1 if the vulture scream above us1 can we dare to tell the meaning of its cry8 ,sharp will descend the whip of circumstance to warn that otherwhere the nightingales are singing under a full-orbed moon and we must sing of them4 ,does an all-reckless slave defy his ,maker with a thunderbolt of blasphemy1 forged in the furnace of his agony8 ,straight comes the penalty decreeing silence and neglect unless we chant apocalyptic anodynes4 ,if the challenge of the blood outbeats the clanging of the bonds and in the glowing dusk man and woman cling to each other until the uttermost is won1 shall this be told in paean and in song8 ,not unless social usage has been satisfied and it be ascertained that desire has given place to design1 that love has been exchanged for lucre1 and that marriage has been substituted for mating2 then are we bidden cull from the common-casket of permitted phrases the veil1 the orange-flower wreath1 and all the weary paraphernalia of convention1 and write an epithalamium to the plaudits of the admiring throng4 ,rituals began in poetry4 ,and since all rituals today have lost most of their ancient power1 serving to soothe and charm instead of to stir and challenge1 we look to the poetry of today to lay the web whereon the rituals of the future shall be spun4 ,let not that web possess one strand of mediocrity4 ,platitudinizing is no pattern for the future4 ,if we are fain to cry aloud1 let our throats crack thereat2 if we would hurl defiance1 let us not fear to charge after our javelins and find our freedom in the breach ourselves have made4 ,every true poet has the uttermost within1 if he or she will but give it voice4 ,oh1 poets of every craft1 give of the uttermost6 ,better a single cry like ,the ,ballad of ,reading ,gaol1 like ,bianca1 like ,when ,i am dead and sister to the dust--to touch on a few moderns only--than a lumber-loft of pretty and tuneful voicings of the themes that please but do not satisfy4 ,there are those of us who read whose blood runs hot and red as well as yours4 ,dare1 ,o you poets of every craft6 ,rise to the cry6 ,your hearts are high and full of gallantry1 the world is waiting to be led by you to heights before unscaled4 ,shake cowardice away and dare6 ,,francis ,,rolt-,,wheeler4 ,reflections of a ,dilettante ,all art is symbolical4 ,a mere presentation of things as they are seen by our physical eye is photography1 not art4 ,yet there exists a ,symbolistic school in contradistinction to other currents such as ,realism1 ,impressionism1 ,neo-,romanticism1 etc4 ,is not this a misnomer8 ,can we say1 for instance1 that ,beaudlaire's ,fleurs du ,mal were symbols1 while ,goethe gave us but realistic reproductions of actual life8 ,should we exclude ,whitman from the ,symbolists for the reason that his poems are less fantastic1 nearer to life than those of ,poe8 ,what about ,vereshchagin3 was not his brush symbolistic because he adhered to realistic methods8 ,obviously1 an artist presents not objects but ideas1 and the symbolisticity of a certain work of art is rather a question of method and degree4 ,perhaps we should differentiate artists according to their relationship with and attitude towards the public4 ,the realist--and under this elastic term we may understand likewise the romanticist and the impressionist--is definite in his interpretation of life1 is outspoken and clear in conveying his conceptions2 he drags us unto his point of view1 makes us see through his eyes and take for granted his impressions4 ,he says to us3 ,thus ,i see the world4 ,thus life and nature are reflected in my mind4 ,this is precisely what ,i mean2 please do not misinterpret me4 ,we are bound to obey2 the artist--provided he is a real artist--forces upon us his eyeglasses1 and we follow his directions4 ,the purely ,symbolistic artist1 on the other hand1 grants freedom to the public4 ,vague tones1 dim outlines1 abstract figures1 imperceptible moods1 misty reflections1 make his art unyielding to a definite interpretation4 ,all he imposes upon us is an atmosphere1 into which we are invited to come and co-create4 ,here is a canvas1 here are colors1 here are moods2 go ahead and make out of them what you like4 ,we are thus left to our own guidance2 we are enabled to put our ego into the artist's work1 we are free to find in it whatever reflections we choose and to form our own conceptions4 ,if we succeed in solving the problem1 if we make the symbol live in our imagination1 we experience the bliss of creation2 should we fail in our task1 should the symbol remain meaningless to us1 we conclude that the given atmosphere is alien to our mind4 ,music of all arts is the most symbolical4 ,true1 ,wagner and ,strauss have endeavored to impose upon the listener leit-motifs1 to dictate the public an interpretation of specific tones1 but they have failed in their attempts to introduce a sort of a key to music2 we remain autonomous in explaining ,siegfried and ,don ,quixote4 ,which of the methods is preferable8 ,i should resent any narrow decision on this point4 ,a crystalline ,september day or a purple-crimson sunset1 how can we choose8 ,we delight in both1 but in one case we admire the visible beauty1 while in the other we make one step forward and complement the seen splendor with strokes of our creative imagination4 ,perhaps my non-partisanship is due to my dilettantism2 as it is1 ,i approach a book or a picture with one scale3 is it a work of art8 ,if it is1 then any method is justifiable1 no matter how differently it may appeal to the individual taste4 ,yet--and there is no inconsistency in my statement--,i do discriminate in art productions in so far as my personal affections are concerned4 ,great as my delight is in the arts of ,tolstoi and ,zola1 of ,rubens and ,corot1 of ,brahms and ,massenet1 of ,pavlova and ,karsavina1 my mind is more akin to the mystic utterances of ,maeterlinck and ,brusov1 to the hazy landscapes of ,whistler and to the unreal women of ,bakst1 to the narcotic music of ,debussy and ,rachmaninov1 to the wavy rhythm of ,duncan and ,st4 ,denis4 ,it is with them1 with the latter1 that ,i erect fantastic castles of my own designs and find expression of my moods and whims4 ,i may not understand all of the ,cubists and ,futurists1 but ,i owe them many new thoughts and emotions which ,i had not realized before having seen the new art4 ,schoenberg's pieces still irritate my conventional ear1 but ,i allow him credit for discovering new possibilities in the region of sound interpretation4 ,we1 plain mortals1 who are doomed to contemplate art without having the gift to contribute to it1 we are envious of genius and crave for freedom in co-creating with the artist4 ,hence my love for ,bergson who appeals to the creative instinct of man2 for him ,i abandoned ,nietzsche1 my former idol3 it is so much more pleasant and feasible to be a creative being than to strive to become a perfect super-being4 ,,alexander ,s4 ,,kaun4 ,the ,immortality of the ,soul ,bergson argues that there is a spiritual entity behind all science and that it is impossible for scientists to go beyond a certain point in developing a knowledge of whence we came4 ,clara ,e4 ,laughlin1 in writing a review of ,the ,truth about ,woman1 by ,mrs4 ,walter ,m4 ,gallichan1 accuses the writer of possessing a short-sighted1 astigmatic vision of whereuntoness4 ,she winds up her discussion with the sob of an ultra religionist by accusing ,mrs4 ,gallichan of having left out a most important point in her discussion--that of the immortality of the soul4 ,to quote ,miss ,laughlin exactly3 ,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 perpetration 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 ,very fortunately for the future of her book1 ,mrs4 ,gallichan ignores the religionist except to say of religion1 ,i am certain that in us the religious impulse and the sex impulse are one4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan's book is a scientific discussion of woman yesterday and today1 without any attempt at sentimentalism4 ,her analysis is perfect and decidedly constructive4 ,she goes back to prehistoric times and discusses in scientific phraseology how woman has progressed through the ages1 and describes the part she has taken in establishing civilizations4 ,nowhere does she forget that she is writing for posterity and indulge in the petty foibles that are sometimes so noticeable in the work of women who write on feminism4 ,,lee ,a4 ,,stone4 ,the question of whether whatever it is that is meant by the word soul is immortal--immortal in the sense that it will live forever in a realm of the spirit or the blessed--is answered affirmatively by those who hold to the orthodox faith1 is not worth discussing by a rational man who is informed1 and is discussed by avowed or implied atheists with a fanatical seriousness that destroys whatever force their main contention may have4 ,the legitimate domain of argument is limited2 truth that is verifiable by men here and now is its only content4 ,as regards what uncritical people call immortality serious argumentation is absolutely impossible4 ,faith1 quotations1 and personal desires are not arguments4 ,mrs4 ,gallichan's book is in parts scientific1 and is therefore of importance to thousands of people whose religion is an achievement of courageous thinking and living4 ,to many excellent persons their professed belief in what they term immortality is a kind of merciful necessity4 ,they crave and even invent assurances of it4 ,to such persons there is no argument against it4 ,to persons who produce the negative arguments there is no argument for it4 ,and there you are6--,w4 ,c4 ,d4 ,book ,discussion ,dostoevsky--,pessimist8 ,the ,possessed1 by ,fyodor ,dostoevsky4 ,the ,macmillan ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,shatov was an incorrigible idealist1 with a keen satirical ability to destroy his own ideals4 ,he had made a god out of ,verhovensky1 the leading figure in ,dostoevsky's ,the ,possessed4 ,verhovensky was1 he imagined1 a god of selfish courage and supreme unconcern1 the sort of man whom everybody followed involuntarily4 ,shatov knew that his hero had irreparably injured three women1 one of them half-witted and defenseless4 ,that did not bother the idealist at all2 it was in character4 ,but when ,verhovensky lied about it to avoid condemnation1 ,shatov hit him a savage blow on the cheek and brooded for weeks over the disappointment4 ,the disappointment was deepened by the fact that ,verhovensky did not kill him for the blow4 ,there is something characteristically ,russian about that4 ,it goes far to explain ,russian pessimism1 and give the key to this very book4 ,your ,russian wants above all things to be logical4 ,he will fasten upon an idea and enshrine it in his holy of holies4 ,he will relentlessly follow the dictates of his idea though it lead him to insanity4 ,there is greatness in his attitude1 also absurdity4 ,witness ,tolstoy4 ,and when he recognizes his own absurdity he becomes gloomy and savage2 there is no escape from the vanity of the world1 the spirit1 and himself4 ,i can imagine the mood of ,dostoevsky when this book germinated in his mind4 ,he saw this trait in the people about him1 he felt it in himself4 ,the intellectuals1 each with his little theory1 were steadily working towards--nothing at all4 ,the government with its elaborate systems for economic improvement and individual repression1 the revolutionary with his scheming insincerity and chaotic program1 were equally futile4 ,the women with their pathetic loves1 the frivolous with their mad pursuit of amusement1 the great and the small1 the sycophant and the rebel1 were all bitter failures4 ,suddenly it occurred to him--they are all mad in an insane world1 each in his way1 one no more than another4 ,i will vent my disgust with these vermin in a book2 ,i will show what they really are4 ,like the madman who carefully traces out his meaningless labyrinth1 ,i will with the most painstaking psychology unravel their minds1 and in so doing ,i will find my release and my fiendish joy4 ,the only thing lacking in this madhouse is complete self-consciousness4 ,that ,i will furnish4--,and so ,dostoevsky logically and nobly followed his idea to its insane conclusion4 ,the fascinating result cannot be described in a paragraph4 ,it is done1 of course1 with consummate ability4 ,beginning the book is like walking into a village of unknown people4 ,they are real enough outwardly2 you don't know their nature or direction4 ,little by little you learn about them1 and begin to take sides4 ,long habit makes you pick favorites4 ,this man will be noble and successful2 perhaps he is the hero4 ,suddenly you begin to suspect that something is wrong4 ,all things are not working together for one end1 as in well-regulated novels4 ,your favorites become jumbled up with the others4 ,the author doesn't give you a chance1 because he never shows you a cross-section of a mind4 ,he merely tells what the people do and say4 ,you must draw your own conclusions as in ordinary life4 ,when you get used to this1 you see an occasional subtlety1 a flash of sardonic laughter4 ,some of the people are not quite right in their minds4 ,and at length the truth dawns2 the sane people are even crazier than the others6 ,this impression comes by sheer force of magic2 how the author creates it is inexplicable4 ,but once you have it1 the fascination of following an idea obsesses you4 ,and at the end it is impossible to find any meaning or direction in the world4 ,of course1 no such obsession can find a firm footing in the ,american temperament4 ,after a while it seems ,russian and incredible4 ,if you can't answer ,dostoevsky logically1 you will abandon logic4 ,but he has stirred you up1 and certain important conclusions rise to the surface4 ,one is that it would be impossible to be such a pessimist unless one looked for a good deal in the world1 and looked for it rather sharply4 ,idealism and courage began this course of thought4 ,isn't a big share of our optimism shallow8 ,shouldn't we go a little deeper into things before being so sure they are right8 ,another is that no living individual is worth very much1 after all4 ,our only salvation is in creating a nobler race4 ,and for that any sacrifice of present individuals is supremely worth while4 ,it is as if some inspired member of a negro tribe in central ,africa had suddenly awakened to the fact that his voodoo-worshipping friends were not acting rationally4 ,from their status the burden of his chant might be horrible for its devilish revelations4 ,but in our eyes he would be a seer and a prophet4 ,why should he have considered the feelings of the miserable savages8 ,there is something more important than that6 ,,george ,,soule4 ,the ,salvation of the ,world la ,wells ,social ,forces in ,england and ,america1 by ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 ,harper and ,brothers1 ,new ,york4 ,like many philosophers1 ,mr4 ,wells is concerned mainly with the need of a new human race4 ,all profound reformers want that4 ,the method of achieving this desirable result is1 however1 the rock of turning4 ,it probably isn't necessary to say that our present reformer is not one of those blind apostles of effortless immediacy4 ,such transmution was respectable when ,botany ,bay was a popular seaside resort for radical poets and philosophers4 ,they of today realize something of the immensity of the developmental process4 ,their hopes are often so remote that they seem almost despair1 but still time is trusted with a reliance on science for the urge toward human perfectibility4 ,of such the leader is ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 ,clearly the conviction that civilization needs a new race is well founded4 ,all ideals1 all ideas1 civilization1 culture are and have always been the products of a pitiful minority4 ,the tendency at present is toward making the desire of the majority supreme4 ,the majority do not cleave toward ideals--not even toward establishing their own glory4 ,rousseau imagined that millions loved righteousness2 ,jefferson made such beliefs the basis of the country's documents of incorporation4 ,the idealists were manifestly mistaken4 ,men have never been drawn toward the ideals they have professed4 ,truth1 justice1 equality have never been valued when sex1 property1 or power were opposed4 ,the virtues came in the early days from ,thus saith the ,lord1 and they come today1 if they come at all1 from ,thus saith a ,strong ,man4 ,mr4 ,wells guesses that there are fifty thousand reading and thinking persons in ,england--keepers of the citadel4 ,the fifty thousand are practically ,england4 ,perhaps his estimate is too low4 ,john ,brisben ,walker says that in the ,united ,states the number of persons able to think independently about political and social matters has increased from a few score to about two hundred and fifty thousand within thirty years4 ,the fact is1 albeit1 that the world has been fashioned always by this very small minority4 ,furthermore the present creation is not one in which there is reason for great pride4 ,the essay on the ,great ,state is especially fine in this connection4 ,wells's idea of the ,normal ,social ,life and of the constant divergence of a minority is altogether clarifying for the watcher from any vantage1 but it is in his discussion of the labor unrest that the reader in ,colorado discovers the prophecies he most needs4 ,for illustration this3 ,the worker in a former generation took himself for granted2 it is a new phase when the toilers begin to ask1 not one man here and there1 but in masses1 in battalions1 in trades3 ,why1 then1 are we toilers1 and for what is it that we toil8 ,the ruling minority in ,colorado has been confronted with this question during the coal strike4 ,so far no response has been given save the impromptu utterances of a hideous rage and fright at the thought of awakening workers4 ,wells answers his own questions4 ,he replies as ,colorado will sometime if ,colorado is to persist4 ,it is in this tone3 ,the supply of good-tempered1 cheap labor--upon which the fabric of our contemporary ease and comfort is erected--is giving out4 ,the spread of information and the means of presentation in every class and the increase of luxury and self-indulgence in the prosperous classes are the chief cause of that4 ,in the place of the old convenient labor comes a new sort of labor1 reluctant1 resentful1 critical1 and suspicious4 ,the replacement has already gone so far that ,i am certain that attempts to baffle and coerce the workers back to their old conditions must inevitably lead to a series of increasingly destructive outbreaks1 to stresses and disorder culminating in revolution4 ,it is useless to dream of going on now for much longer upon the old lines2 our civilization1 if it is not to enter upon a phase of conflict and decay1 must begin to adapt itself to the new conditions1 of which the first and foremost is that the wage earning laboring class1 consenting to a distinctive treatment and accepting life at a disadvantage1 is going to disappear4 ,that is the truth which men hate most to hear4 ,it is the doctrine which ,mother ,jones preaches and for which she has been imprisoned regardless of laws and constitutions4 ,but this reasonableness of ,wells appeals as little to the left wing of the socialists as it does to conservatives4 ,the ,i4 ,w4 ,w4's have no patience with the detailed delays suggested and ,wells is as irritated with the losses in civilization to which a violent revolution is likely to lead4 ,he sets forth his feeling in a discussion of the ,american population1 a curious phrase1 necessary on account of his distaste for the word people4 ,in speaking of the possibility of a national revolutionary movement as an arrest for the aristocratic tendency now so pronounced he says3 ,the area of the country is too great and the means of communication between the workers in different parts inadequate for a concerted rising or even for effective political action in mass4 ,in the worst event--and it is only in the worst event that a great insurrectionary movement becomes probable--the newspapers1 magazines1 telephones1 and telegraphs1 all the apparatus of discussion and popular appeal1 the railways1 arsenals1 guns1 flying machines1 and all the materials of warfare1 will be in the hands of the property owners1 and the average of betrayal among the leaders of a class1 not racially homogeneous1 embittered1 suspicious1 united only by their discomforts and not by any constructive intentions1 will necessarily be high4 ,it is true almost4 ,there are always enough of the ,gracchi family present to supply the minimum number of weapons essential4 ,to the truth of this the revolutionary movement in ,mexico is a witness and ,colorado itself could tell tales4 ,social ,forces1 a too collegiate title1 sums up satisfactorily ,wells's important opinions4 ,the book isn't really a whole3 some of the essays are journalistic and some are old4 ,it lacks nearly everywhere the fierceness of ,the ,passionate ,friends4 ,in this book ,wells is in his dinner coat1 comfortable and well fed4 ,he is respectable--horrible admission--but he is still prophetic4 ,in a sense1 too1 ,social ,forces is a warehouse4 ,there one may find stored the rough materials which on occasion are hammered into the poignancies of ,marriage or ,tono-,bungay4 ,as a vista into a masterhand's workshop the book has its intense psychological interest1 but most of all it is text for salvation of the world4 ,,william ,l4 ,,chenery4 ,a ,novelist's ,review of a ,novel ,vandover and the ,brute1 by ,frank ,norris4 ,doubleday1 ,page and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,i told them the truth4 ,they liked it or they didn't like it4 ,what had that to do with me8 ,i told them the truth2 ,i knew it for the truth then1 and ,i know it for the truth now4--,,frank ,,norris4 ,it would seem inevitable that had ,frank ,norris lived he would have rewritten ,vandover and the ,brute4 ,in the book1 as it was rescued from the packing box that had been through the ,san ,francisco fire and sent to the publisher1 there is much that would have been discarded by the later ,norris4 ,perhaps he would have thrown it all away and written a new story with the same theme4 ,he was a big man and he had the courage of bigness4 ,he could throw fairly good work into the waste-paper basket4 ,the decay of man in modern society1 the slow growth in him of the brute that goes upon all fours--what a big1 terrible theme6 ,what a book the later ,norris would have made of it6 ,in the introduction by ,charles ,g4 ,norris quotation is made from the ,frank ,norris essay1 ,the ,true ,reward of the ,novelist1 in which this sentence stands out3 ,to make money is not the province of the novelist4 ,also it is suggested that the book was written under the influence of ,zola1 and there is more than a hint of ,zola's formula that everything in life is material for literature in the way the job is done4 ,as it stands1 ,vandover wants cutting--cutting and something else4 ,with that said and understood1 we are glad that the book has been rescued and that it can stand upon our book shelves4 ,american letters cannot know and understand too much of the spirit of ,frank ,norris1 and just at this time when there is much talk of the new note and some little sincere effort toward a return to truth and honesty in the craft of writing1 it is good to have this visit from the boy ,norris4 ,he was a brave lad1 an ,american writing man who lived1 worked1 and died without once putting his foot upon the pasteboard road that leads to easy money4 ,the easy money is not for us1 he said and had the manhood to write and live with that warning in his mind4 ,he had craft-love4 ,with a few more writers working in his spirit we should hear less of the new note4 ,norris was the new note4 ,he was of the undying brotherhood4 ,when ,frank ,norris wrote ,vandover he was not the great artist he became1 but he was the great man2 and that's why this book of his is worth publishing and reading4 ,the greater writer would have possessed a faculty the boy who wrote this book had not acquired--the faculty of selection4 ,he would have been less intent upon telling truly unimportant details and by elimination would have gained dramatic strength4 ,read ,vandover therefore not as an example of the work of ,norris the artist but as the work of a true man4 ,it will inspire you4 ,its very rawness will show you the artist in the making4 ,it will make you understand why ,frank ,norris with ,mark ,twain will perhaps1 among all ,american writers1 reach the goal of immortality4 ,the ,immigrant's ,pursuit of ,happiness ,they ,who ,knock at ,our ,gates1 by ,mary ,antin4 ,houghton ,mifflin ,company1 ,boston4 ,shaking the ,declaration of ,independence in the face of all those opposed to immigration in any form ,mary ,antin makes an impassioned appeal for practically unrestricted immigration4 ,her motive is no doubt praiseworthy1 her enthusiasm and eloquence are admirable4 ,she contrasts the nature of our present-day immigrants with those who landed in the ,mayflower4 ,the self-satisfied middle class attitude peeps through the question3 ,is immigration good for us8 ,and of course it is good4 ,the immigrants do more than three-quarters of our bituminous coal mining4 ,they make seven-tenths of our steel4 ,they do four-fifths of our woolen1 nine-tenths of our cotton-mill work1 nearly all our clothing1 nearly all our sugar1 eighty-five per cent of all labor in the stock-yards4 ,you cannot but come to the same conclusions as ,mary ,antin3 ,open wide our gates and set him on his way to happiness4 ,on his way to happiness8 ,one thinks of ,lawrence1 ,massachusetts1 where immigrants are not exactly happy2 or ,paterson1 ,new ,jersey2 or an incident of this kind from ,marysville1 ,california1 related by ,inez ,haynes ,gillmore in ,harper's ,weekly for ,april #d3 ,an ,english lad1 the possessor of a beautiful tenor voice1 song leader of the hop pickers1 was walking along carrying a bucket of water4 ,a deputy sheriff shot him down4 ,one thinks of the ,michigan copper mines4 ,alexander ,irvine told us something about peonage in the ,south in his ,magyar4 ,the ,new ,york ,east ,side with its #cfd1cfgb dark rooms and its lung block with nearly four thousand people1 some four hundred of whom are babies4 ,in the past nine years alone this block has reported two hundred and sixty-five cases of tuberculosis4#c ,in ,pittsburgh alone1 according to ,the ,literary ,digest of ,january #af1 #aiji1 five hundred laborers are killed and an unknown number injured every year in the steel industry4 ,according to ,dr4 ,peter ,roberts about eighty per cent of those suffering from rickets in ,chicago are ,italians1 ,greeks1 and ,syrians4 ,this disease is almost unknown in the southern countries4 ,the following is taken from an article by ,henry ,a4 ,atkinson in ,harper's ,weekly3 ,the policy of the companies has been to exclude the more intelligent1 capable ,english-speaking laborers by importing large numbers from southern ,europe3 ,greeks1 ,slavonians1 ,bulgarians1 ,magyars1 ,montenegrins1 ,albanians1 ,turks as well as representatives from all of the ,balkan states4 ,the ,labor ,bureau charges the large corporations of the state with hiring these men--because they can be handled and abused with impunity4444 ,louis ,tikas is dead4 ,his body riddled with fifty-one shots from rapid fire guns1 lay uncared for twenty-four hours at ,ludlow where he had been for seven months the respected chief of his ,greek countrymen4 ,he was shot while attempting to lead the women and children to a place of safety4 ,at least six women and fifteen little children died with him4 ,open wide our gates and set him on his way to happiness says ,mary ,antin4 ,sixty thousand illiterate women were admitted in #aiaa to this country4 ,the president of ,the ,woman's ,national ,industrial ,league says in this connection to the ,house ,committee3 ,syndicates exist in ,new ,york and ,boston for the purpose of supplying fresh young girls from immigrants arriving in this country for houses of ill fame4 ,immigrants arriving in ,new ,york furnish twenty thousand victims annually4 ,mr4 ,jacob ,riis said very recently3 ,scarce a ,greek comes here1 man or boy1 who is not under contract4 ,a hundred dollars a year is the price1 so it is said by those who know1 though the padrone's cunning has put the legal proof beyond their reach4 ,but these are statistics1 and ,mary ,antin is horrified by statistics except when she can prove that the average immigrant family of the new period is represented by an ascending curve4 ,the descending curves are furnished by degenerate families of what was once prime ,american stock4 ,the happiness that those who knock at our gates run into once they land in our mines1 factories1 sweatshops1 department stores1 etc41 might be traced further4 ,the real question is this3 ,is immigration good for the immigrant8 ,in view of the above facts there is but one answer so far as the illiterate and physically weak are concerned4 ,twisting of facts out of a desire to reach certain conclusions will only harm the immigrant and the inhabitants of this country4 ,mary ,antin would have been ,mary ,antin in ,russia1 ,turkey1 or ,aphganistan4 ,the weak and the illiterate are the ones who keep this question in the foreground4 ,probably the only exception is the ,russian ,jew4 ,he has no country of his own and the ,new ,york ,east ,side is a comparative improvement over the ,czar's empire4 ,,william ,,saphier4 ,footnote #b3 ,fifth ,report of ,tenement ,house ,department1 #aiji4 ,page #ajb4 ,footnote #c3 ,ernest ,poole3--,a ,handbook on the ,prevention of ,tuberculosis4 ,the ,unique ,james ,family ,notes of a ,son and ,brother1 by ,henry ,james4 ,charles ,scribner's ,sons1 ,new ,york4 ,whatever the deprecators of ,henry ,james's later manner may have to say about the difficulties of his involved style there are some situations1 some plots1 for which it is most happily suited4 ,was so haunting a ghost story ever written as that truly horrible one which involved two children--the name of which has unfortunately escaped me1 for ,i should like to recommend it for nocturnal perusal4 ,and in ,the ,golden ,bowl the gradual way you are led to perceive the wrong relationship between two of the characters1 which1 had it been offered bluntly1 with no five degrees of approach and insinuation1 would have lost half its mystery of guilt4 ,as he himself says1 in the ,notes of a ,son and ,brother1 ,i like ambiguities1 and detest great glares4 ,unfortunately1 the style that is fitting to a slow unfolding of a psychological situation does not lend itself well to biography4 ,the direct way is the only possible way there1 if the reader is to keep an unflagging interest1 and the direct way is simply not possible for ,henry ,james4 ,and one asks nothing more than to be told simply of the student days at ,switzerland and ,germany1 and the life afterward at ,newport1 just as the ,civil ,war was beginning or best of all throughout the story of a united family--the four boys1 little sister1 father1 mother1 and aunt1 quite unlike1 ,i imagine1 any other family in the world4 ,the quality of the genius of the brothers seems to have sprung from the association with a father as unlike as possible to the ,american father of today4 ,he did not influence them1 we are told1 by any power of verbal persuasion to his own ideas4 ,it was quite simply himself1 his personality and character1 the way he lived life1 that took hold upon his sons' imagination4 ,of course that is the only way anyone ever is influenced1 but ,i think most parents do try the verbal persuasion as well4 ,henry ,james says of his father3 ,i am not sure1 indeed1 that the kind of personal history most appealing to my father would not have been some kind that should fairly proceed by mistakes1 mistakes more human1 more associational1 less angular1 less hard for others1 that is less exemplary for them 7since righteousness1 as mostly understood1 was in our parents' view1 ,i think1 the cruellest thing in the world7 than straight and smug and declared felicities4 ,the qualification here1 ,i allow1 would be his scant measure of the difference1 after all1 for the life of the soul1 between the marked achievement and the marked shortcoming4 ,he had a manner of his own of appreciating failure or of not1 at least1 piously rejoicing in displayed moral1 intellectual1 or even material economies1 which1 had it not been that his humanity1 his generosity1 and1 for the most part1 his gaiety were always1 at the worst1 consistent1 might sometimes have left us with our small saving1 our little exhibitions and complacencies1 rather on our hands4 ,speaking of the detached feeling they had after returning from ,europe to settle in ,newport1 he says3 ,i remember well how1 when we were all young together1 we had1 under pressure of the ,american ideal in that matter1 then so rigid1 felt it tasteless and even humiliating that the head of our little family was not in business4444 ,such had never been the case with the father of any boy of our acquaintance2 the business in which the boy's father gloriously was stood forth inveterately as the very first note of our comrade's impressiveness4 ,we had no note of that sort to produce1 and ,i perfectly recover the effect of my own repeated appeal to our parent for some presentable account of him that would prove us respectable4 ,business alone was respectable--if one meant by it1 that is1 the calling of a lawyer1 a doctor1 or a minister 7we never spoke of clergymen7 as well2 ,i think if we had had the ,pope among us we should have supposed the ,pope in business1 just as ,i remember my friend ,simpson's telling me crushingly1 at one of our ,new ,york schools1 on my hanging back with the fatal truth about our credentials1 that the author of his being was in the business of stevedore4 ,that struck me as a great card to play--the word was fine and mysterious2 so that ,what shall we tell them you are1 don't you see8 could but become on our lips at home a more constant appeal4 ,very interesting are the occasional letters telling of ,emerson and ,carlyle4 ,especially so to me are the side lights on ,carlyle1 as chiming in somehow with the series of impressions ,i seem gradually to have accumulated about him as time goes on4 ,perhaps it really isn't fair1 as a large amount of those impressions ,i feel sure ,i owe to ,froude1 but ,i can't help wondering what our times1 with modern surgery and therapeutics1 would have accomplished with ,carlyle's indigestion1 and what resultant difference there would assuredly have been in his philosophy4 ,to quote from a letter of the elder ,henry ,james3 ,i took our friend ,m---- to see him ,carlyle1 and he came away greatly distressed and dsillusionn1 ,carlyle having taken the utmost pains to deny and descry and deride the idea of his having done the least good to anybody1 and to profess1 indeed1 the utmost contempt for everybody who thought he had1 and poor ,m---- being intent on giving him a plenary assurance of this fact in his own case4 ,and again in a letter to ,emerson3 ,carlyle nowadays is a palpable nuisance4 ,if he holds to his present mouthing ways to the end he will find no showman l-bas to match him4444 ,carlyle's intellectual pride is so stupid that one can hardly imagine anything able to cope with it4 ,an earlier letter has this delicious bit about ,hawthorne3 ,hawthorne isn't to me a prepossessing figure1 nor apparently at all an enjoying person4444 ,but in spite of his rusticity ,i felt a sympathy for him fairly amounting to anguish1 and couldn't take my eyes off him all dinner1 nor my rapt attention4444 ,it was heavenly to see him persist in ignoring the spectral smiles--in eating his dinner and doing nothing but that1 and then go home to his ,concord den to fall upon his knees and ask his heavenly ,father why it was that an owl couldn't remain an owl and not be forced into the diversions of a canary6 ,and in the postscript of the same3 ,what a world1 what a world6 ,but once we get rid of ,slavery the new heavens and the new earth will swim into reality4 ,which shows how much in earnest the ,abolitionists really were--it was a tenet of faith with them4 ,sad and strange and illuminating to us of a later generation1 who are now struggling for other abolitions of slavery1 and still hoping for a new world4 ,i wish ,i could quote from the delightful letters of ,william ,james1 but they must be read entire1 with the author's comments1 to place them correctly4 ,pending a biography of the man1 these letters will be to many readers the most interesting feature of the book4 ,one of the most magnificent things about the book1 however1--if ,i may use a large word for a large concept--is the spirit running through it of filial and fraternal love1 never expressed in so many words1 but apparent throughout1 which makes1 as ,i said before1 the ,james family unique in the history of ,american letters4 ,de ,morgan's ,latest ,when ,ghost ,meets ,ghost1 by ,william ,de ,morgan4 ,henry ,holt and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,whatever else ,i may say about ,de ,morgan's new book1 ,i absolutely refuse to tell the number of its pages4 ,every other criticism begins or ends with this uninteresting fact1 and usually adds that it makes no difference how long it is1 since the writer's charm pervades it all4 ,but it does make a difference1 and it is too trite to say we are so hurried and nervous and given over to frivolity nowadays that we are unable to read ,dickens and ,thackeray and ,scott and ,de ,morgan4 ,there is a great deal more to read1 and a great deal more to do and to think about1 than ever there was in ,thackeray's day4 ,and if we are going to spend our time reading countless pages 7,i very nearly told how many1 after all67 we want to be sure it is more worth while than anything else we can be doing1 or thinking1 or reading4 ,however1 one can't say very well that he greatly admires a stork1 or would if he had a short beak and short legs4 ,de ,morgan's style is his own1 and he will tell the story his own way1 though we all have a quarrel with him for leaving the most interesting bits to a short ,pendrift at the end4 ,did ,given's lover contemplate taking his ,east ,indian poison when the newspapers announced that she was to marry an ,austrian noble8 ,think of cutting that episode off in a few words1 while an entire chapter is devoted to a shortage of mud for little ,dave and ,dolly1 who were making a dyke in the street6 ,but then1 ,de ,morgan doesn't know how to stop when he begins to talk of children4 ,how he loves them1 and all other helpless creatures6 ,he can't speak even of kittens without a touch of tenderness3 ,mrs4 ,lapping explained that she was using it 7the basket7 to convey a kitten1 born in her establishment1 to ,miss ,druitt at thirty-four opposite1 who had expressed anxiety to possess it4 ,it was this kitten's expression of impatience with its position that had excited ,mrs4 ,riley's curiosity4 ,why don't ye carry the little sowl across in your hands1 me dyurr8 she said1 not unreasonably1 for it was only a stone's throw4 ,mrs4 ,topping added that this was no common kitten1 but one of preternatural activities and possessed of diabolical1 tentacular powers of entanglement4 ,i would not undertake1 said she1 to get it across the road1 ma'am1 only catching hold4 ,nor if ,i got it safe across1 to onhook it1 without tearing4 ,mrs4 ,riley was obliged to admit the wisdom of the ,janus basket4 ,she knew how difficult it is to be even with a kitten4 ,it is bits like this that make ,mr4 ,de ,morgan's story so long1 and it is bits like this that reconcile us to its length4 ,i believe most readers won't care greatly whether the two poor old sisters who have been separated so many years ever do meet again4 ,there is no feeling of climax when they do--merely relief that the thing has finally been put across4 ,it was beginning to look as if it never would happen2 and though the reader himself1 as ,i say1 doesn't greatly care1 he can see that ,de ,morgan does2 he has apparently been doing his best to bring it about1 but the cantankerous ones just wouldn't let him4 ,on the other hand1 who can help loving ,given o' the ,towers--all sweetness1 beauty1 and light8 ,only--isn't she really more of a twentieth-century heroine than a ,victorian young lady1 with her crisp decisiveness and air of being most ably able to look out for herself8 ,truly ,victorian1 however1 are our slow couple--,miss ,dickenson and ,mr4 ,pellew4 ,miss ,dickenson is thirty-six1 and1 by all ,victorian standards1 quite out of the running4 ,de ,morgan is extremely apologetic for allowing her to have a romance at this belated hour--her charms faded and gone4 ,but we are betting quite heavily on ,miss ,dickenson's chances for happiness with the ,hon4 ,mr4 ,pellew4 ,the two were good gossips1 and would always have topics of interest in common4 ,the ,pendrift at the end--quite the most fascinating part of the book--tells us of the daughter of this union ,cicely1 by this time sixteen years old4 ,you know1 says the girl1 ,cis1--who is new and naturally knows things1 and can tell her parents1--you know there is never the slightest reason for apprehension as long as there is no delusion4 ,even then we have to discriminate carefully between fixed and permanent delusions and---- ,shut up1 ,mouse6 says her father4 ,what's that striking8444 ,the young lady says1 ,well1 ,i got it all out of a book4 ,one good reason for reading ,de ,morgan is the fact that he is older than the majority of his readers4 ,we read so much1 we hear so much acclaimed that is written by children of twenty1 whose experience of life must necessarily be got1 like ,cicely's1 out of a book4 ,the saying of ,de ,maupassant surely applies here--that the writer must sit down before an object until he has seen it in the way that he alone can see it4 ,de ,morgan has had the opportunity of seeing life1 surely1 and knowing what most of it amounts to4 ,the result is a large tolerance and tenderness toward his fellow men4 ,m4 ,h4 ,p4 ,the ,economics of ,social ,insurance ,social ,insurance3 ,with ,special ,reference to ,american ,conditions1 by ,i4 ,m4 ,rubinow4 ,henry ,holt and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,the logic of events is rapidly forcing nation after nation into what has hitherto been damned with the epithet paternalism4 ,america1 perhaps1 is the last important country in the world to face the problems raised by the march of events in this direction4 ,social insurance1 a thing accomplished and a commonplace of government functioning in so many countries1 recently adopted in ,england1 is1 in this country1 still a novelty outside the university class room and the lecture halls of fanatical demagogues who wish to upset the foundations of our civil government and civilization--as the elder politicians express it when their attention is drawn to these sinister activities of thought4 ,the author of this book in fact was the first academic lecturer on the subject to give a university course in the various forms which social insurance has taken4 ,these lectures he delivered before the ,new ,york ,school of ,philanthropy1 and they are reprinted here in an extended form4 ,after giving the philosophy of the matter1 the underlying social necessity for insurance1 the author takes up the various forms of the activity4 ,accident1 disease1 old age1 and unemployment must all be provided against1 and the state1 the employer1 and the laborer may share the burden among them1 or the two latter may be relieved--as in various types of non-contributory insurance4 ,of course the old school economist will ask why the latter two are not relieved1 and why the employe or private citizen is not just encouraged to insure with a private corporation4 ,the author's answer is that1 even if he were educated to the point of desiring to do that1 he could not4 ,a man insures his house because the feeling of security is worth the small premium he pays1 even if that premium is larger than the actual risk involved would warrant--larger by a sum equal to the cost and profits of the business of the insurance company4 ,but the poor man's chances of loss of employment1 accident1 or sickness are so much greater in proportion to the capitalized value of his job that he could never afford to pay the premium necessary for a private company to take care of him2 while his old age could not be insured without taking all of his earnings--and even then he might die before he reached it4 ,the situation then is that an admitted necessity cannot be obtained unless the state as a whole takes steps to attain it for all the members of the state4 ,how other states have done this1 how type after type of insurance has been evolved1 and how these types may be adapted to ,american practice is the burden of the present work4 ,the author writes in a clear and non-technical manner1 and makes no extravagant claims for what some people may regard as a social panacea2 but he is confident that the full development of the idea of social insurance will relieve the worst aspects of poverty--the aspects in which poverty is not only a hardship1 but a haunting spirit1 sapping the vitality of its victims until they are rendered socially useless4 ,,llewellyn ,,jones4 ,prose ,poems of ,ireland ,red ,hanrahan1 by ,william ,butler ,yeats4 ,new edition4 ,the ,macmillan ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,if you believe1 with ,chesterton1 that should the snap dragon open its little pollened mouth and sing 'twould be no more wonderful a thing than that a solemn little blue egg should turn into a big happy red-breasted bird2 if you are of the young men that dream dreams or of the old men who have visions the songs and the tales and the wanderings and the mysteries of ,red ,owen ,hanrahan will thrill you with a sense of your real nearness to something lovelier than ,heaven4 ,such a group of tales of the people and by the people as ,mr4 ,yeats has gathered together in ,red ,hanrahan can be nothing if not a personal matter4 ,frankly1 ,i never saw a fairy1 or a gnome1 or a hobgoblin4 ,i have never even had a vision worth writing a book about2 but ,i am young yet1 and if the gods continue to be kind4444 ,in the meanwhile ,i shall grasp the first opportunity to read ,red ,hanrahan in a deep woods1 at dusk--regardless of the optician's orders4 ,h4 ,b4 ,s4 ,to ,william ,butler ,yeats ,,marguerite ,o4 ,b4 ,,wilkinson ,as one1 who1 wandering down a squalid street1 ,where dingy buildings crowd each other high1 ,where all who pass have need to hurry by1 ,saddened and parched and fighting through the heat1 ,comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet1 ,and sees a stretch of fair1 unsullied sky1 ,covering a field of clover bloom1 so ,i1 ,with heart prepared to find the contrast sweet ,in seeking through a world of sordid prose1 ,where use-stained words with huddled shoulders stand ,in sullen1 monumental1 loveless rows1 ,have found a sudden green and sunny land ,where you1 ,o ,poet1 give us back lost wonder1 ,leisure1 sweet fields1 clean skies to travel under6 ,sentence ,reviews ,inclusion in this category does not preclude a more extended notice4 ,the ,titan1 by ,theodore ,dreiser ,john ,lane ,company1 ,new ,york1 will be reviewed at length in the ,july issue4 ,clay and ,fire1 by ,layton ,crippen4 ,henry ,holt and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,a provocative philosophical discussion of the basal problem of religion by an author who treats pessimism according to the homeopathic principle4 ,reasonable hopes are made to seem hopeless4 ,a morbid retrospectiveness may1 however1 force thought into light1 and the book leaves one in a strange illumination effected by spiritual fire4 ,at the ,sign of the ,van1 by ,michael ,monahan4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,these essays include ,the ,log of the ,papyrus with ,other ,escapades in ,life and ,letters4 ,whether he is praising ,percival ,pollard1 explaining ,whitman's cosmic consciousness--which he did to a ,whitman ,fellowship gathering--or wistfully telling us how he would like to have had a look in on the doings in ,babylon1 the amorous dallyings which ,jeremiah muckraked in the name of his ,comstockean ,jehovah1 ,michael ,monahan is always interesting even if he is not always as stormy as his designation the stormy petrel of literature would indicate4 ,in truth it would take a number of birds of different species--but all pleasant ones--to make up the tale of the qualities which this versatile essayist exhibits in these pages4 ,aphrodite and ,other ,poems1 by ,john ,helston4 ,the ,macmillan ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,mr4 ,helston does not write great poetry1--though he comes close to very good poetry at times1--but he writes greatly about love4 ,his attitude is a refusal to divorce the spiritual from the earthly with which we have a hearty sympathy4 ,no franker love poetry has been written1 probably2 but somehow we failed to find in it the sensuality that its critics have discovered4 ,it is richly pagan4 ,love of ,one's ,neighbor1 by ,leonid ,andreyev4 ,albert and ,charles ,boni1 ,new ,york4 ,a very excellent translation of a one-act play which will probably sell well1 though coming from the author of ,the ,seven ,who ,were ,hanged it seems a mere trifle4 ,the translator1 ,thomas ,seltzer1 should be urged to undertake the more worthy task of introducing ,andreyev's really great work to ,english-speaking readers4 ,new ,men for ,old1 by ,howard ,vincent ,o',brien4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,the first novel of a new young writer1 especially when he is as sincere as ,mr4 ,o',brien and as deeply interested in the joy of ,work1 is a matter of importance4 ,the book has its obvious faults technically1 even psychologically1 but it preaches socialism from an interesting standpoint and makes good reading4 ,challenge1 by ,louise ,untermeyer4 ,the ,century ,co41 ,new ,york4 ,virile and ambitious songs of the present4 ,caliban in the ,coal ,mines1 ,any ,city1 ,strikers1 ,in the ,subway1 ,the ,heretic1 show that the poet is not a shrinker from modern life4 ,the title poem sounds the keynote3 ,the quiet and courageous night1 ,the keen vibration of the stars ,call me1 from morbid peace1 to fight ,the world's forlorn and desperate wars4 ,john ,ward1 ,m4,d41 by ,charles ,vale4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,seneschal sentimentality with a modern plot woven about the questionable science of eugenics4 ,one of those irritating books in which one reads page after page after page in the vain endeavor to find out why ,mitchell ,kennerly spent his money on it4 ,forum ,stories1 selected by ,charles ,vale4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,all these stories have appeared in ,the ,forum since it came under ,mr4 ,kennerley's management1 and they are all by ,american writers4 ,they represent the work not only of such well known writers as ,reginald ,wright ,kauffman1 ,james ,hopper1 ,margaret ,widdemer1 and ,john ,s4 ,reed--who has a tense little narrative of the struggle toward land of two swimmers wrecked in the ,pacific ,ocean--but the work of several lesser known but promising authors4 ,among them is ,miss ,florence ,kiper1 of ,chicago1 who writes under the title ,i ,have ,borne ,my ,lord a ,son a most penetrating study of the psychology of motherhood4 ,papa1 by ,zo ,akins4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,a little play which shows so much determination to be clever and very1 very naughty that it's almost a pity it doesn't succeed4 ,saint ,louis3 a ,civic ,masque1 by ,percy ,mac,kaye4 ,doubleday1 ,page and ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,a valuable contribution to the dramatic spirit of awakening civic intelligence4 ,great ,days1 by ,frank ,harris4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,audacious1 vivid1 gripping sex experiences of the son of an immoral ,english innkeeper4 ,the big rough brother of ,three ,weeks4 ,poems1 by ,walter ,conrad ,amberg4 ,houghton ,mifflin ,company1 ,boston4 ,poems written with a sure and gentle delicacy that seems forgotten by this generation of rude iconoclasts4 ,the ,true ,adventures of a ,play1 by ,louis ,evan ,shipman4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,the play is ,d',arcy of the ,guards and its author tells in full the trials and tribulations--and the eventual triumph--which met him from the moment when he offered to submit the manuscript to ,e4 ,h4 ,sothern1 and that star told him to send it along4 ,not only are the details of acceptances of plays1 the incidental negotiations and red tape described1 but the making of costume plates1 the designing of the whole presentation1 and the collaboration between author1 producer1 and actors are told with such humor and documentary fidelity to the actual transactions that the book will not only be interesting to the general reader but indispensable to the tyro playwright4 ,nova ,hibernia1 by ,michael ,monahan4 ,mitchell ,kennerley1 ,new ,york4 ,competent1 incisive studies1 sketches1 and lectures dealing with ,irish poets and dramatists of today and yesterday--,yeats1 ,synge1 ,thomas ,moore1 ,mangan1 ,gerald ,griffin1 ,callahan1 ,doctor ,maginn1 ,father ,prout1 ,sheridan1 and others4 ,the ,pipes of ,clovis1 by ,grace ,duffie ,boylan4 ,little1 ,brown1 and ,company1 ,boston4 ,a forester's son proficient on a magic pipe2 a blue and silver-gowned princess2 the invasion of ,swabia by the ,huns away back in the twelfth century1 all woven into a romance for children and grown-ups who still love the fairies4 ,the ,post ,office1 by ,rabindranath ,tagore4 ,the ,macmillan ,company1 ,new ,york4 ,a touching little idyll of a sick child who longs for a letter from the king through the post office which he can see across the road4 ,and his dream comes true4 ,written in rhythmic prose4 ,sanctuary1 by ,percy ,mac,kaye4 ,frederick ,a4 ,stokes1 ,new ,york4 ,a bird masque performed in ,september1 #aiac1 for the dedication of the bird sanctuary of the ,meriden ,bird ,club at ,meriden1 ,n4 ,h4 ,a defense of birds and a defense of poetry4 ,the theme is the conversion of a bird slaughterer4 ,the verse is full of birdblithesomeness4 ,old ,world ,memories1 by ,edward ,lowe ,temple4 ,the ,page ,company1 ,boston4 ,the story of a summer vacation in ,europe as nave1 as full of human interest1 disjoined history1 and worthy indefinite advice as the after dinner post card tour of a just-returned ,cook's traveler4 ,where the ,little ,review ,is on ,sale ,new ,york3 ,brentano's4 ,vaughn ,gomme4 ,e4 ,p4 ,dutton ,co4 ,g4 ,p4 ,putnam's ,sons4 ,wanamaker's4 ,max ,n4 ,maisel4 ,chicago3 ,the ,little ,theatre4 ,mc,clurg's4 ,morris's ,book ,shop4 ,university of ,chicago ,press4 ,carson1 ,pirie1 ,scott ,co4 ,a4 ,kroch ,co4 ,radical ,book ,shop4 ,chandler's ,bookstore1 ,evanston4 ,w4 ,s4 ,lord1 ,evanston4 ,pittsburg3 ,davis's ,bookshop4 ,cleveland3 ,burrows ,brothers4 ,korner ,wood4 ,detroit3 ,macauley ,bros4 ,sheehan ,co4 ,minneapolis3 ,nathaniel ,mc,carthy's4 ,san ,francisco1 ,cal43 ,paul ,elder ,co4 ,a4 ,m4 ,robertson's ,bookstore4 ,emporium ,book ,dept4 ,los ,angeles3 ,c4 ,c4 ,parker's4 ,omaha3 ,henry ,f4 ,keiser4 ,columbus1 ,o43 ,a4 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accompanied with a faunal map4 ,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 beauty and value4 ,ten ,thousand ,miles with a ,dog ,sled ,by ,,hudson ,,stuck1 ,d4,d41 author of ,the ,ascent of ,denali4 ,with #dh illustrations1 #d in color4 #a4ej net2 postage extra4 ,if you wish to see the vast snow-fields1 frozen rivers1 and rugged1 barren mountains of the ,yukon country but cannot visit them1 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 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the title4 ,the author has had a life of intimacy with both nations1 and is trusted and consulted by the governments of each4 ,charles ,scribner's ,sons ,fifth ,avenue1 ,new ,york ,de ,morgan ,again and at ,his ,best ,,when ,,ghost ,,meets ,,ghost ,third ,large ,printing #hfj pages4 #a4fj net4 ,he has returned to the style with which he surprised and captivated the public4 ,another book like ',,joseph ,,vance' and ',,alice4'--,new ,york ,sun4 ,thoroughly enjoyable4444 ,the companionship of ,mr4 ,de ,morgan1 as he speaks from every page of his novel1 is a joy in itself4--,boston ,transcript4 ,all the essentials that make up an admirable and typical ,de ,morgan novel are here4--,the ,outlook4 ,a big1 sane1 eminently human story such as ,mr4 ,de ,morgan has not equalled since ',joseph ,vance4'--,the ,bookman4 ,non-,fiction ,just ,ready ,,coningsby ,,dawson',s ,,florence ,,on ,a ,,certain ,,night ,,and ,,other ,,poems ,a notable edition to later-day verse by the author of ,the ,garden ,without ,walls4 #a4be net4 ,,barrett ,h4 ,,clark',s ,,the ,,continental ,,drama ,,of ,,today ,outline suggestions of half-a-dozen pages or less for each play1 for the study of the greatest plays of the ,european dramatists today4 #a4ce net4 ,,william ,,boyd',s ,,from ,,locke ,,to ,,montessori ,a critical and historical study of ,dr4 ,montessori's method by an educational authority4 #a4be net4 ,,sister ,,nivedita',s and ,,dr4 ,,coomaraswamy',s ,,myths ,,of ,,the ,,buddhists and ,,hindus ,with #cb illustrations in ,four ,colors by ,nanda ,lal ,bose1 ,a4 ,n4 ,tagore1 ,k4 ,venkatappa1 and other ,indian artists under the direction of ,abanindro ,nath ,tagore4 #d4ej net4 ,no better volume exists for anyone who wishes an introduction to the study of ,oriental literature4 ,in stately and excellent ,english we find summaries of practically all the important religious documents of both ,hinduism and ,buddhism4 ,the pictures are equal to the very best examples of ancient ,indian art4--,the ,english ,review4 ,l4 ,,marsh-,,phillips ,,art ,,and ,,environment ,new1 thoroughly revised and profusely illustrated edition4 #b4be net4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,ridger',s ,,six ,,years ,a ,,wanderer ,illustrated with photographs4 #c4jj net4 ,the author1 a young man1 tells what he saw of the world from #aijg-'ab traveling on his own hook over most of the civilized world outside of ,europe4 ,n4 ,,jarintzoff',s ,,russia3 ,,the ,,country ,,of ,,extremes ,with #af full-page illustrations4 #d4jj net4 ,adopting a critical attitude towards several recent works on ,russia by ,english travellers1 ,madame ,jarintzoff1 a ,russian who has resided for some years in ,england1 supplies from first-hand knowledge accounts of various political and social crises1 and gives a picture of life in ,russia today4 ,,henry ,,holt ,,and ,,company #cd ,west #cc;d ,st41 ,,new ,,york ,,new ,,books ,,of ,,importance ,,letters ,,from ,a ,,living ,,dead ,,man4 ,written down by ,elsa ,barker4 #a4be net4 ,if you are at all interested in the problem of a ,future ,life1 you cannot afford to overlook this book4 ,these letters1 dictated to ,mrs4 ,barker by the spirit of a departed friend1 are undoubtedly the most remarkable contribution to psychic literature of recent years4 ,the volume1 with its tone of optimism1 its minute1 intimate account of life beyond the grave1 is certain to be widely discussed1 and those who do not read it place themselves at a certain disadvantage4 ,elsa ,barker has given her absolute assurance that the book is in no way faked4 ,,songs ,,of ,,the ,,dead ,,end4 ,by ,patrick ,mac,gill1 author of ,songs of a ,navvy1 etc4 #a4be net4 ,the majority of these songs deal with the lives of the working man1 the day laborer who builds our houses and our railroads1 works in the mine and the ditch4 ,the author has lived this life and writes of it with power and feeling4 ,he has grasped the wider meaning of it all1 made plain the essential nobility of labor1 the heroism and idealism of many of these men4 ,in short1 he has done in verse for the working man what ,constant ,meunier did in bronze4 ,,john ,,addington ,,symonds4 ,by ,van ,wick ,brooks1 author of ,the ,wine of the ,puritans4 ,frontispiece4 #a4ej net4 ,one of the more important biographies of the year1 and yet it is more than a mere biography1 for ,mr4 ,brooks attempts to place ,symonds in relation to the literary world of his own day and of the present4 ,he builds up a clear picture of ,symonds' life1 from early days to the end4 ,his book is uncrowded but not deficient1 clear and unsluggish but not too rapid4 ,in short1 it is itself literature4 ,,the ,,mystery ,,of ,,pain4 ,by ,james ,hinton1 author of ,life in ,nature1 ,the ,place of the ,physician1 etc41 etc4 #a4jj net4 ,this little book is a classic4 ,it deals with pain in its necessary1 beneficial aspect4 ,hinton addressed it to the sorrowful1 to whom it assuredly brings comfort1 but it will prove interesting and helpful to all thinking men and women4 ,it shows how pain1 if it could be recognized as development1 and in a sense as joy1 would be as much welcomed as pleasure is now4 ,we are afraid of both1 instead of recognizing them as two parts of the development of the soul2 neither is good alone1 but as a completion the one of the other4 ,,the ,,true ,,adventures ,,of ,a ,,play4 ,by ,louis ,shipman4 ,illustrated in colors and in black and white4 #a4ej net4 ,perhaps you remember ,henry ,miller in ,d',arcy of the ,guards4 ,its author1 ,louis ,shipman1 has written this unique book about ,d',arcy1 in which he tells exactly what happened to the play from the very first moment the manuscript left his hands4 ,letters1 contracts1 telegrams1 etc41 are all given in full1 and there are many interesting illustrations1 both in color and in black and white4 ,the ,true ,adventures of a ,play will prove of almost inestimable value to all those who practise or hope to practise the art of playwriting2 and it abounds1 furthermore1 in bits of fine criticism of the contemporary theatre4 ,,nova ,,hibernia4 ,by ,michael ,monahan1 author of ,adventures in ,life and ,letters4 #a4ej net4 ,a book of delightful and informing essays about ,irishmen and letters by an ,irishman4 ,some of the chapters are ,yeats and ,synge1 ,thomas ,moore1 ,sheridan1 ,irish ,balladry1 etc41 etc4 ,,at ,,the ,,sign ,,of ,,the ,,van4 ,by ,michael ,monahan1 author of ,adventures in ,life and ,letters1 etc4 #b4jj net4 ,michael ,monohan1 founder of that fascinating little magazine1 ,the ,papyrus1 is one of the most brilliant of present-day ,american critics4 ,he has abundant sympathy1 insight1 critical acumen1 and1 above all1 real flavor4 ,his essays are all his own4 ,and into this ,volume he has put much of his own life story4 ,then there is a remarkable chapter on ,sex in the ,playhouse1 besides papers on ,roosevelt1 ,o4 ,henry1 ,carlyle1 ,renan1 ,tolstoy1 and ,arthur ,brisbane1 to mention but a few4 ,at the ,sign of the ,van is really a second1 larger1 and even finer book than ,adventures in ,life and ,letters4 ,for ,sale at all ,book ,shops or from the ,publisher ,,mitchell ,,kennerley1 ,publisher #cb ,west ,fifty-,eighth ,street1 ,new ,york ,,for ,,summer ,,reading ,,new ,,men ,,for ,,old4 ,by ,howard ,vincent ,o',brien4 #a4be net4 ,one of the finest first novels of many seasons4 ,a book too that for verity1 passion and sincerity can bear comparison with the best that ,america has produced4 ,but make no mistake--this is a good story as well4 ,a young fellow1 son of a wealthy ,chicagoan1 passes his time in ,paris in luxurious idleness4 ,he is called home at his father's death4 ,instead of receiving a fortune he finds himself penniless4 ,that's the situation that faces ,harlan ,chandos at the opening of ,new ,men for ,old1 the book tells the rest of the story4 ,,great ,,days4 ,by ,frank ,harris1 author of ,the ,man ,shakespeare1 ,the ,bomb1 etc4 #a4ce net4 ,there is nothing of the problem-novel about this newest book by ,frank ,harris4 ,it is just a red-blooded gripping yarn4 ,and when it comes to holding your interest in the tale he tells1 it is doubtful if any living writer has ,mr4 ,harris' mastery4 ,great ,days is set in the time of ,napoleon--there are smugglers and privateers and fighting and--by no means least--love4 ,bonaparte is etched strikingly and vividly1 and so is ,charles ,fox4 ,emphatically a book for the ,spring and ,summer months4 ,,when ,,love ,,flies ,,out ,o' ,,the ,,window4 ,by ,leonard ,merrick4 #a4bj net4 ,this1 the latest of ,leonard ,merrick's novels to be published in ,america1 is a brilliant story of theatrical life4 ,the scene shifts rapidly from ,london to ,paris1 back again to ,london and finally to ,new ,york4 ,it's a very human tale and ,meenie ,weston and ,ralph ,lingham with their ups and downs1 their miseries and their joys 7but chiefly joys7 will give every reader many hours of pleasant entertainment4 ,,nothing ,,else ,,matters4 ,by ,william ,samuel ,johnson1 author of ,glamourie4 #abmo4 #a4be net4 ,the scene of this novel is laid in ,paris1 and the characters are for the most part students living the care-free life of the ,quartier ,latin4 ,there is an unusual but very lovable heroine in ,pruina1 a dainty creature who will win friends wherever she goes4 ,nothing ,else ,matters is in itself an interesting story1 but it may furthermore serve as a pleasant introduction to some of the most delightful aspects of life in the ,french capital4 ,,john ,,pulitzer3 ,reminiscences of a ,secretary4 ,by ,alleyne ,ireland4 ,with eight illustrations4 #a4be net4 ,this will prove a peculiarly attractive book to the average man and woman4 ,mr4 ,ireland1 who is a well-known member of the staff of ,the ,new ,york ,world1 was one of the half dozen private secretaries who were constantly with ,pulitzer1 or ,j4 ,p41 as they called him4 ,in this book you see the very man1 you learn how he lived1 what he read1 and you get an idea of the vigor and power that made ,the ,world the great paper it is4 ,no ordinary biography this--but a tale that for sheer interest in its telling leaves most fiction far behind4 ,it is dedicated 7by permission7 to ,joseph ,pulitzer's widow4 ,,forum ,,stories4 ,selected by ,charles ,vale1 author of ,john ,ward1 ,m4 ,d4 #a4ej net4 ,sixteen of the best stories that ,america can produce today4 ,each by a different author4 ,among those represented are ,john ,reed1 ,james ,hopper1 ,reginald ,wright ,kauffman and ,edwin ,bjrkman4 ,at all ,book ,stores or from the ,publisher ,,mitchell ,,kennerley1 ,publisher #cb ,west ,fifty-,eighth ,street1 ,new ,york ,the ,mosher ,books ,,latest ,,announcements ,i ,billy3 ,the ,true ,story of a ,canary ,bird ,by ,,maud ,,thornhill ,,porter #iej copies1 ,fcap #hvo4 #a4jj net ,this pathetic little story was first issued by ,mr4 ,mosher in a privately printed edition of #ejj copies and was practically sold out before ,january #a1 #aiac4 ,the late ,dr4 ,weir ,mitchell in a letter to the owner of the copyright said among other things3 ,certainly no more beautiful piece of ,english has been printed of late years4 ,and again3 ,may ,i ask if this lady did not leave other literary products8 ,the one you print is so unusual in style and quality and imagination that after ,i read it ,i felt convinced there must be other matter of like character4 ,,ii ,billy and ,hans3 ,my ,squirrel ,friends4 ,a ,true ,history ,by ,w4 ,j4 ,,stillman #iej copies1 ,fcap #hvo4 #ge cents net ,reprinted from the revised ,london edition of #aijg by kind permission of ,mrs4 ,w4 ,j4 ,stillman4 ,,iii ,books and the ,quiet ,life3 ,being ,some ,pages from ,the ,private ,papers of ,henry ,ryecroft ,by ,,george ,,gissing #iej copies1 ,fcap #hvo1 #ge cents net ,to the lover of what may be called spiritual autobiography1 perhaps no other book in recent ,english literature appeals with so potent a charm as ,the ,private ,papers of ,henry ,ryecroft4 ,it is the highest expression of ,gissing's genius--a book that deserves a place on the same shelf with the ,journals of ,de ,gurin and ,amiel4 ,for the present publication1 the numerous passages of the ,papers relating to books and reading have been brought together and given an external setting appropriate to their exquisite literary flavor4 ,mr4 ,mosher also begs to state that the following new editions are now ready3 ,i ,under a ,fool's ,cap3 ,songs ,by ,,daniel ,,henry ,,holmes #ijj copies1 ,fcap #hvo1 old-rose boards4 #a4be net ,for an ,appreciation of this book read ,mr4 ,larned's article in the ,february ,century4 ,,ii ,amphora3 ,a ,collection of ,prose and ,verse chosen by the ,editor of ,the ,bibelot #ibe copies1 ,fcap #hvo1 old-style ribbed boards4 #a4ge net ,the ,forum for ,january1 in an ,appreciation by ,mr4 ,richard ,le ,gallienne1 pays tribute to this book in a most convincing manner4 ,all books sent postpaid on receipt of price net4 ,,thomas ,b4 ,,mosher ,portland1 ,maine ,,the ,,drama #gcf ,marquette ,building ,,chicago ,a ,,quarterly ,,devoted ,,to ,,the ,,development ,,of ,a ,,wide ,,and ,,intelligent ,,interest ,,in ,,drama ,each issue of ,the ,drama contains a translation of a complete play4 ,these plays1 which are not otherwise accessible in ,english1 represent especially the leading dramatists of the continent4 ,chosen as they are from various countries and from many schools1 they give one an introduction to the most significant features of modern dramatic art4 ,plays by ,giacosa1 ,donnay1 ,gillette1 ,tagore and ,andreyev have appeared recently4 ,forthcoming numbers will bring out the work of ,goldoni and ,curel4 ,in addition to the play and a discussion of the work of its author1 articles on all phases of drama keep the reader well informed4 ,modern stagecraft1 new types of theater building1 organizations for drama reform1 little theater movements1 pageantry1 the history of the drama1 and all pertinent subjects receive attention4 ,significant books on dramaturgy and other drama publications of especial value are regularly and 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