,,the ,,little ,,review ,literature ,drama ,music ,art ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,,editor ,,june-,,july1 #aiae ,literary ,journalism in ,chicago ,lucien ,cary ,epigrams ,richard ,aldington ,education by ,children ,will ,levington ,comfort ,notes of a ,cosmopolite ,alexander ,s4 ,kaun 8,the ,artist in ,life0 ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson ,poems ,clara ,shanafelt ,slobberdom1 ,sneerdom1 and ,boredom ,ben ,hecht ,the ,death of ,anton ,tarasovitch ,florence ,kiper ,frank ,rupert ,brooke 7,a ,memory7 ,arthur ,davison ,ficke ,a ,photograph of ,rupert ,brooke by ,eugene ,hutchinson ,to a ,west ,indian ,alligator ,eunice ,tietjens ,epitaphs ,witter ,bynner ,editorials and ,announcements ,the ,submarine 7from the ,italian of ,luciano ,folgore by ,anne ,simon7 ,blaa-,blaa-,blaa 8,the ,scavenger0 ,the ,nine6--,exhibit6 ,book ,discussion ,the ,reader ,critic ,published ,monthly #ae cents a copy ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson1 ,publisher ,fine ,arts ,building ,,chicago #a4ej a year ,entered as second-class matter at ,postoffice1 ,chicago ,,the ,,little ,,review ,vol4 ,,ii ,,june-,,july1 #aiae ,no4 #d ,literary ,journalism in ,chicago ,,lucian ,,cary ,nothing succeeds like an indiscretion4 ,i was indiscreet enough last winter to speak my mind 7a little of it7 about ,,the ,,little ,,review1 ,the ,dial1 ,poetry1 ,the ,drama1 and the audience to which these papers appeal4 ,the result is that ,i have been flattered or intimidated into speaking it ever since4 ,in the present instance both methods have been used most charmingly--and shamelessly4 ,you see1 ,miss ,anderson and ,i live in the same village4 ,and yet ,i said nothing1 and have nothing to say about any paper except what everybody knows4 ,everybody knows that ,the ,friday ,literary ,review of ,the ,chicago ,evening ,post under ,mr4 ,francis ,hackett and1 later1 under ,mr4 ,floyd ,dell gave us the most alert1 the most eager1 the most intelligent1 and the best-written discussion of literature in the ,united ,states4 ,that eight-page supplement did what had hardly been done west of ,england before3 it made book reviews worth reading4 ,there was almost as much difference between the ,friday ,review and ,the ,dial as there is between ,mr4 ,george ,bernard ,shaw and ,mr4 ,nicholas ,murray ,butler1 almost as much difference between the ,friday ,review and ,the ,new ,york ,times ,literary ,supplement as there is between ,m4 ,anatole ,france and ,mr4 ,henry ,van ,dyke4 ,there was good writing in the ,friday ,review and good thinking behind it4 ,it was almost never dull2 and if it was young it was not wholly unsophisticated2 and if it was sometimes dead wrong it was not stupid4 ,if there were half as many persons interested in the discussion of ideas as most of us like to believe the ,friday ,review would inevitably have continued4 ,it would1 that's all4 ,but as things are it was fated4 ,neither the mechanics nor the economics of daily journalism permitted it4 ,the ,post could not continue to give us--it quite literally gave us--eight pages of what so few of us wanted so much4 ,everybody knows that if a weekly paper dealing not only with literature but with all the other arts in the spirit and with the journalistic competence of the ,friday ,review were established in ,chicago everybody would have to read it4 ,that is the point ,i wished to make4 ,it is perfectly obvious that ,,the ,,little ,,review is not the kind of newspaper of the arts ,i have in mind4 ,,the ,,little ,,review is published only once a month4 ,it is therefore not a newspaper1 but a magazine4 ,it is three times as good as ,the ,drama1 which is published only once a quarter4 ,but my point is that we ought to have something four times as good as ,,the ,,little ,,review3 in short1 a weekly4 ,it may be that ,,the ,,little ,,review has other failings than its infrequency4 ,but why consider these lesser matters8 ,,the ,,little ,,review has one virtue in addition to its eagerness4 ,it is informal4 ,informality is the breath of life to journalism4 ,nobody can write anything the way people want him to unless he feels perfectly free to write the way he wants to4 ,it is far more a matter of manners than a matter of truth4 ,a journal which insists on formality almost never has any good writing in it4 ,good writing is nothing but the artistic expression of a personality4 ,scientifically speaking1 it can be nothing else4 ,not that one must be thinking about expressing his personality in order to write well4 ,the very point is that he must not be thinking about it4 ,he has got to be thinking about what he has to say and nothing else4 ,take the use of 8,i0 as an apparently trivial but actually significant example4 ,if the paper for which he is writing regards the use of 8,i0 as a breach of good form a man will find that one finger of his left hand is mysteriously drawn to the shift key and one finger of his right hand to the key between the 8u0 and the 8o0 in order to make an 8,i0 all the time he is punching his typewriter4 ,the least excusable riot of 8,i's0 ,i ever saw in print was in a journal of literary discussion which believes in the reality of that invention of the old-fashioned logician1 8objective criticism10 and which regards the use of 8,i0 by any but elderly gentlemen of the walnuts and wine school as impossible4 ,i did it myself in the absence of the editor4 ,in a paper which does not in the least object to the use of 8,i0 writers soon forget all about it1 and when they do that they begin to use it only when it is effective4 ,it is the virtue of ,,the ,,little ,,review that it permits its contributors to use 8,i0 as often as they please2 that it permits them to make fools of themselves occasionally4 ,this means that it is not impossible to write well for ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,i do not say that it is not possible to write badly for ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,perfect freedom to be idiotic does not inevitably eliminate idiocy4 ,but ,i have no more compliments for ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,poetry is another matter4 ,miss ,monroe's magazine has printed some bad verse4 ,but this is not1 as its most envious critics imagine1 its distinction4 ,every magazine prints bad verse4 ,poetry has printed poetry that nobody else dared to print4 ,poetry has boldly discussed the poetic controversy when everybody else hid behind language4 ,poetry introduced us to ,rabindranath ,tagore1 to ,vachel ,lindsay1 in a way1 to ,edgar ,lee ,masters4 ,poetry printed ,ford ,hueffer's poem ,on ,heaven4 ,poetry has heard of ,remy de ,gourmont and the ,mercure de ,france--an incredible achievement for a ,chicago literary journal4 ,poetry has done more than any other paper to furnish a meeting ground for writers in ,chicago4 ,if ,poetry were concerned about novels it would not decide two or three years after intelligent people had discovered ,jean ,christophe that ,m4 ,romain ,rolland is a successor to ,tolstoi and1 for the first time1 print a few paragraphs about him4 ,if ,poetry were interested in psychology it would not ignore ,sigmund ,freud and ,carl ,jung4 ,but ,poetry is not interested in these things4 ,its great wealth is devoted only to poetry and it comes out only once a month4 ,it is a pity4 ,for the spirit of ,poetry is nearer to the spirit of the old ,friday ,literary ,review than anything else in ,chicago4 ,that is the spirit ,i like1 that seems suited to the place and the occasion4 ,but it needs a weekly paper of wide scope to express itself4 ,a man is an artist to the extent to which he regards everything that inartistic people call 8form0 as the actual substance1 as the 8principal0 thing4--,nietzsche4 ,epigrams ,,richard ,,aldington ,blue 7,a ,conceit7 ,the noon sky1 a distended vast blue sail2 ,the sea1 a parquet of coloured wood2 ,the rock-flowers1 sinister indigo sponges2 ,lavender leaping up1 scented sulphur flames2 ,little butterflies1 resting shut-winged1 fluttering1 ,eyelids winking over watchet eyes4 ,the ,retort ,discourteous ,they say we like ,london--,o ,hell6-- ,they tell ,us we shall never sell ,our works 7as if we cared74 ,we're 8high brow0 and long-haired ,because we don't ,cheat and cant4 ,we can't rhythm2 we can't rhyme1 ,just because their rag-time ,bores us4 ,these twangling lyrists are too pure for sense2 ,so they chime1 ,rhyme ,and time1 ,and ,slime1 ,all praise their virtuous impotence4 ,christine ,i know a woman who is natural ,as any simple cannibal2 ,this is a great misfortune1 for her lot ,is to reside with people who are not4 ,education by ,children ,,will ,,levington ,,comfort ,a little girl of eleven was working here in the study through the long forenoon4 ,in the midst of it1 we each looked up and out through the barred window to the nearest elm1 where a song-sparrow had just finished a perfect expression of the thing as he felt it4 ,the song was more elaborate1 perhaps1 because the morning was lofty and glorious4 ,old ,mother ,nature smelled like a tea-rose that morning2 one would know from that without the sense of direction that the wind was from the south4 ,the song from the sunlight among the new elm leaves was so joyous that it choked us4 ,it stood out from all the songs of the morning1 because it was so near1 and we had each been called by it from the pleasant mystery of our tasks4 ,the little girl leaned toward the window4 ,we heard the other bird answer from the distance1 and then ours sang again--and again4 ,we sipped the ecstacy in the hushes4 ,like a flicker the little bird was gone--a leaning forward on the branch1 and then a blur 444 and presently the words in the room3 8444 sang four songs and flew away40 ,it was a word-portrait1 and told me much that ,i wanted4 ,the number1 of course1 was not mental1 clearly a part of the inner impression4 ,however1 no explanation will help if the art of the saying is not apparent4 ,i told the thing as it is here1 to a class later in the day1 and a woman said3 8,why1 those six words make a ,japanese poem40 ,i wonder if it is oriental8 ,rather ,i think it belongs especially to our new generation1 the elect of which seems to know innately that an expression of truth in itself is a master-stroke4 ,somehow the prison-house has not closed altogether upon the elect of the new generation4 ,there are lines in the new poetry that could come forth1 and have their being1 only from the inner giant that heretofore has been asleep except in the hearts of the rarest few whose mothers mated with ,gods1 merely using men for a symbol and the gift of matter4444 ,as ,i believe that the literary generation which has the floor in ,america today is the weakest and the bleakest that ever made semi-darkness of good sunlight1 so ,i believe that the elect of the new generation contains individuals who are true heaven-borns2 that they bring their own light with them and do not stand about stretched for reflection2 that they refuse to allow the world-lie to shut the passages of power within them1 between the zone of dreams and the more temperate zones of matter4 ,they have refused to accept us--that is the splendid truth4 ,the new generation does not argue with us4 ,they are not a race of talkers4 ,they do not accept what they find and begin to build upon that1 as all but the masters have done heretofore4 ,they are making even their own footings and abutments4 ,and to such clean and sure beginnings magic strength has come4 ,the fashions and the mannerisms which we knew and thought of as the heart of things2 the artfulness of speech and written word1 the age of advertising which twisted its lie into the very physical structure of our brains2 the countless reserves and covers to hide our want of inspiration 7for light cannot pass through a twisted passage7--all these1 the new age has put away4 ,it meets life face to face--and a more subtle and formidable devil is required for its workers than that which seduced us4 ,the few great workmen heretofore have come up in the lie1 and in midlife1 the sutures closing--they were warned because they had labored like men4 ,for their work's sake and for their religion1 which is the same to great men1 they perceived that they must tear the lie out of their hearts1 even if they bled to death4 ,we call it their illumination1 but it was a very deep and dark passage for them4 ,except that ye become as little children--that was all they knew1 perhaps1 but quite enough4444 ,and the old masters invariably put their story down for us to read3 ,rodin1 ,puvis de ,chavannes1 ,whitman1 ,balzac1 ,tolstoi--only to mention a little group of the nearer names--all have told the story4 ,in their later years they told no other story4 ,in the beginning they served men1 as they fancied men wanted to be served1 but after they confronted the lie of it1 they dared to listen to reality from their own nature4 ,they fought the fight for that cosmic simplicity which is the natural flowering of the child mind1 and which modern education patronizingly dresses down at every appearance4 ,the masters wrenched open with all their remaining strength the doors of the prison-house1 and become more and more like children unto the end4 99 99 99 99 99 444 ,i do not ask a finer fate than to write about the ,new ,age and ,children and ,education by ,children for ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,i think of you as one of its throbbing centers4 ,i can say it better than that--,i think of you as a brown ,arabian tent in which the world's desire is just rousing from sleep4 ,i would like to be one of the larks of the morning1 whose song makes it impossible for you to doze again4 ,i would not come too near--lest you find me old1 the brandings of past upon me4 ,yet because of the years1 ,i think ,i know what will be that 8more formidable and subtle devil0 waiting to make you forget your way4 ,he is not a stranger4 ,he is always near when people dare to be simple4 ,there are many who call him a ,god still1 but they do not use their eyes4 ,you who see so directly must never forget that bad curve of him below the shoulders4 ,forever1 the artists lying to themselves have tried to cover that bad curve of ,pan as it sweeps down into the haunches of a goat4 ,pan is the first devil you meet when you reach that rectitude of heart which dares to be naked and unashamed4 ,whole races of artists have lied about ,pan because they listened to the haunting music of his pipes4 ,it calls sweetly1 but does not satisfy4 ,how many ,pan has called--and left them sitting among the rocks with mindless eyes and hands that fiddle with emptiness6444 ,pan is so sad and level-eyed4 ,he does not explain4 ,he does not promise--too wise for that4 ,he lures and enchants4 ,he makes you pity him with a pity that is red as the lusts of flesh4 ,you know that red in the breast6 ,it is the red that drives away the dream of peace1 yet the pity of him deludes you4 ,you look again and again1 and the curve of his back does not break the dream1 as before4 ,you think that because you pity him1 you cannot fall2 and all the pull of the ground tells you that your very thought of falling is a breath from the old shames--your dead1 but as yet unburied heritage1 from generations that learned the lie to itself4 ,you touch the hair of the goat1 and say it is ,nature4 ,but ,pan is not ,nature--a hybrid1 half of man's making1 rather4 ,your eyes fall to the cloven hoof1 but return to the level steady eye1 smiling with such soft sadness that your heart quickens for him1 and you listen1 as he says3 8,all ,gods have animal bodies and cloven hoofs1 but ,i alone have dared to reveal mine40 444 8,how brave you are60 ,your heart answers1 and the throb of him bewilders you with passion4444 ,you who are so high must fall far1 when you let go4 444 ,and many of you will want to fall4 ,pan has come to you because you dare4444 ,you have murdered the old shames1 you have torn down the ancient and mouldering churches4 ,you do not require the blood1 the thorn1 the spikes1 but ,i wonder if even you of a glorious generation1 do not still require the ,cross8444 ,it is because you see so surely and are level-eyed that ,pan is back in the world for you2 and it is very strange but true that you must first meet ,pan and pass him by1 before you can enter into the woodlands with that valid ,god of ,nature1 whose back is a challenge to aspiration1 and whose feet are of the purity of the saints4 ,to ,m4 ,beautiful slave1 ,i kiss your lips abloom-- ,do you not hear the surging voices ,beyond the tomb ,wherein you guard the candles of the dead8 ,do you not hear the winds that crown ,the towers with clouds ,dancing up and down1 ,fluttering your shrouds8 ,do you not hear the music of the dawn1 ,the strong exultant voices swelling1 ,welling like the sweep of eager birds ,beyond your somber dwelling ,where each somber wall enclosing flings ,back in your ear ,the moaning passion of dead things8 ,beautiful slave1 ,i kiss your parted lips abloom4 ,o the splendor of the voids beyond ,the stifling tomb ,wherein you keep your vigil by the dead4 ,you are too weary-spirited ,to look at dawn1 too tired-eyed to look upon the sun1 ,too weak to stand against the winds4 ,what then8 ,farewell8 ,no1 let me-- ,i will find the face of ,god ,with you among the worms4 ,,anon4 ,notes of a ,cosmopolite ,,alexander ,s4 ,,kaun ,mit dem ,nationalha ist es ein eigenes ,ding4 ,auf den untersten ,stufen der ,kultur wird man ihn immer am strksten und heftigsten finden4 ,es giebt aber eine ,stufe1 wo er ganz verschwindet1 wo man gewissermaen ber den ,nationen steht und man ein ,glck oder ,weh seines ,nachbarvolkes fhlt1 als wrs dem eigenen ,volk begegnet4--,goethe4 ,uncle ,sam vs4 ,onkel ,michel ,you remember the story of the king parading every morning before his meek subjects who expressed their great admiration for the sovereign's gorgeous raiment1 until a certain simpleton shouted3 8,why1 the king is nude60 ,i do not recall the end of the story1 nor how the impudent sceptic was punished2 but the part ,i do remember recurs to me every time some elemental power comes along and sweeps away the ephemeral figments from the body of mankind4 ,mars has more than once played the part of the rude simpleton2 this god has neither tact nor manners2 with his heavy boot he dots the i's and compels us to name pigs pigs4 ,his first victim falls the frail web of diplomatic niceties4 ,talleyrand's cynicism about the function of the diplomat's tongue to conceal truth has become bankrupt3 who takes seriously nowadays the casuistry of the manicolored ,books issued by the belligerents8 ,even ,tartuffian ,england has had to doff the robe of idealism and to admit through the ,times that it would have fought regardless of whether the neutrality of ,belgium had been infringed upon or not4 ,good4 ,one of the salutary results of the war 7let us hope there will be more than one good result7 has already been realized in the wholesale unmasquing of international politics2 it will do immense good for mankind-,caliban to see his real image4 ,the ,united ,states holds fast to its tradition of lagging behind the rest of the world4 ,messrs4 ,wilson and ,bryan still employ the rusty weapon of 8putting one over0 through transparent bluff4 8,too proud to fight0 has become a classic mot the world over1 to the sheer delight of ,european humorists and cartoonists after their wits had been exhausted over the memorable 8,watchful ,waiting40 ,the admirable ,english of the ,president has demonstrated its effectiveness time and again3 nearly each eloquent ,note has been responded to by a ,german torpedo4 8,america asks nothing for herself but what she has a right to ask for humanity itself0--what obsolete verbosity6 ,who is this ,mme4 ,humanity in whose name we demand the right to send shells to ,europe unhampered by the intended victims of those shells8 ,an ,american weekly1 outspokenly pro-,british1 has cynically summed up the situation3 8,the ,british government will not allow a ,german woman to obtain food from the ,united ,states with which to feed her children1 in spite of the fact that it is buying rifles in the ,united ,states with which to kill her husband40 ,we can neither blame ,england for her practical purposes1 nor reproach the ,united ,states for her desire to accommodate a good customer3 business is business2 but why these appeals in the name of humanity8 ,why the indignant outcries against ,germany's successful attempts to check the supply of ammunition for her enemies8 ,the brutal ,lusitania affair has merely proved the consistent and consequential policy of ,germany2 had she not carried out her threats she would have found herself in the ridiculous position of our government which seldom goes beyond threats4 ,talk about the murder of women and children in time of war6 ,i heard of a polite ,frenchman who hurled himself from the top story of the ,masonic ,temple and removed his hat to apologize before a lady on one of the balconies whose hat he happened to brush on his downward flight4 ,well1 the ,germans are not polite4 ,what is the significance of ,mr4 ,bryan's resignation8 ,let us hope it is of no import2 let us hope it may cause a change in tone1 but not in action4 ,for this country to be dragged into the whirlpool of the world war would be a more unpardonable folly than the puerile ,vera ,cruz affair4 ,our entrance into the war would change the actual situation of the fighting powers as much as the solemn declaration of war by the ,liliputian ,san ,marino has changed it2 in the absence of an army deserving mention we could depend solely upon our navy which would be able to accomplish nothing more than joining in some calm bay the invincible fleet of the ,ruler of the ,waves and indulge in philosophical watchful waiting4 ,on the other hand official war against ,germany will doubtless produce internal friction of the gravest importance4 ,i say official1 for unofficially we have been on the side of the ,allies for many months despite our theoretical neutrality4 ,think of the sentiments of the ,german soldiers when they are showered upon with shells bearing the labels of ,american manufacturers4 ,had we not supplied ,england and ,france with ammunition1 who knows but that they would have found themselves in the same predicament as ,russia1 that is1 in the position of an orchestra without instruments8 ,when we shall have declared war against ,germany we shall hardly be in power to harm her more than we have done heretofore2 the ,allies will do the killing1 and we1 the manufacturing4 ,but the cat's-paw-game is ungentlemanly1 especially when it is done officially4 ,to be sure1 ,mr4 ,wilson is a gentleman2 hence our firm hope that he will do nothing more grave than enriching ,english literature with exemplary ,notography4 ,vincisti1 ,teutonia6 ,in his ,frankfurt letters ,heine wrote3 ,i have never felt inclined to repose confidence in ,prussia4 ,i have rather been filled with anxiety as ,i gazed upon this ,prussian eagle1 and while others boasted of the bold way in which he glared at the sun my attention was drawn more and more to his claws4 ,i never trusted this ,prussian1 this tall canting hero in gaiters1 with his big paunch and his large jaws1 and his corporal's stick1 which he dips in holy water before he lays it about your back4 ,i am not overfond of this philosophical ,christian militarism1 this hodge-podge of thin beer1 lies1 and sand4 ,i utterly loathe this ,prussia1 this stiff1 hypocritical1 sanctimonious ,prussia1 this ,tartuffe among the nations4 ,can you blame ,wilhelm for opposing the erection of a ,heine monument in ,dsseldorf8 ,those lines were written nearly four scores of years ago1 a time sufficient for turning epithets obsolete4 ,no longer is ,prussia labeled hypocritical and sanctimonious2 it is rather accused of rude frankness and insulting tactlessness4 ,yet the hatred for ,prussia has not abated1 but has been greatly enhanced4 ,heine died before the planting of the atrocious ,sieges-,allee1 that symbol of the triumphant pig2 it is in the last forty years that the world has witnessed the development of ,prussian forbearance1 narrowness1 machine-like preciseness1 and soullessness4 ,we have always preferred to distinguish ,germany from ,prussia2 we have found delight in the thought that there is a ,munich as well as a ,berlin1 a ,nietzsche as well as a ,haeckel1 a ,rheinhard as well as a ,bernhardi4444 ,today we witness the hegemony of ,prussia1 a hegemony political as well as spiritual1 for the great war has crowned with triumph not only the ,krupp guns but also the ,prussian idea of efficiency and preciseness4 ,our amazement at the achievements of the lightning-like army that has been almost invariably victorious during the eleven months of fighting and has held in its iron grip two hostile fronts1 and our astonishment at the diabolical accomplishment of the submarines which have driven the ,english fleet to rest in ,north ,scotland and have become the ,flying ,dutchmen of the seas1 pale before our admiration for the wonderful spirit displayed by the ,german people within their country4 ,read their press2 you find nothing bombastic or boasting1 but calm reserve1 set teeth1 clenched fists1 and deadly determination to fight for life1 even if it be a fight against the whole world4 8,weder ,schlafpulver noch ,tonics60 admonishes ,maximilian ,harden against drumming up illusionary hopes4 8,stirb und werde10 he closes up one of his terse articles in the most virile publication ,i know of1 the ,zukunft4 ,bernhardi's alternative--a ,world ,power or ,downfall--is not any longer a mere jingo-rocket but an imperative axiom uniting all ,germans in a desperate decision to preserve their national existence in face of a universal hatred and complete isolation4 ,they are not geniuses1 those perseverant ,teutons2 rather are they the reverse of geniuses4 ,they do not rise above reality2 they adapt themselves to facts4 ,they refuse to be ,quixotic knights2 they prefer to emulate ,mahomet who went to the mountain when the mountain declined to go unto him2 not to ride on the back of conditions and circumstances1 but to hold tight their tail and be dragged after them4 ,herein lies the ,teutonic victory1 the victory of ,blond ,beast over ,superman1 the triumph of mediocrity over uniqueness1 of fact over idea1 of efficiency over idealism1 of state over individual4 ,the ,prophecy of ,rimbaud ,arthur ,rimbaud1 the close friend of ,verlaine1 the 8ruffian10 according to ,mr4 ,powys 7this ,i shall never forgive him71 was capable not only of perceiving the color of vowels but also of foreseeing the political situation forty-five years ahead4 ,l',eclaireur de ,nice prints an interesting statement made by ,rimbaud in #ahga1 a few lines of which ,i shall reluctantly attempt to translate3 ,the ,germans are by far our inferiors1 for the vainer a people is the closer it approaches decadence--history proves it4444 ,they are our inferiors because victory has besotted them4 ,our chauvinism has received a blow from which it will not recover4 ,the defeat has freed us from stupid prejudice1 has transformed and saved us4 ,yes1 they will pay dearly for their victory6 ,in fifty years envious and restless ,europe will prepare for them a bold unexpected stroke1 and will whip them4 ,i can foresee the administration of iron and folly that will stifle ,german society and ,german thought1 in the end to be crushed by some coalition6 ,george ,brandes' ,neutrality ,there has been a good deal of misapprehension concerning ,brandes' attitude towards the war4 ,his refusal to answer the interpellation of his friend ,clemenceau1 his condemnation of the ,russian policy in ,finland and of the cowardly and treacherous treatment of the ,jews by the ,poles1 have given cause for suspecting him of pro-,german sentiments4 ,in a recent interview with the correspondent of the ,paris ,journal the ,danish critic avows his full sympathy for ,france4 ,although his statement is reserved and plausibly neutral1 one easily discerns his dislike for ,germany1 in whose ,deutschland ber ,alles motto he sees a ,jesuitic excuse for all means that may lead to her end4 8,german brutality is not instinctive2 it is a scientific one1 a theory40 ,the cause of the war he epitomizes in the mot of ,pascal3 8,pourquoi voulez vous tuer cette homme80--8,il est mon ennemi3 il habite de l'autre ct du fleuve40 ,brandes expresses himself more frankly in the ,danish ,tilskueren1 where he interprets the war as the struggle between liberalism and personal government1 between civil spirit and militarism1 between a people 7,england7 which accords others commercial freedom and self-government and a country overridden with economic protectionism1 junkers1 and bureaucracy4 8,england has an independent press and a government which voices the parliament and public opinion2 in ,germany the press is semi-official1 the government is responsible solely before the ,kaiser1 and the ,kaiser only before ,god40 ,germanophobia ad ,absurdum ,the ,french ,immortals1 too old for actual participation in the war1 have found an outlet for their patriotism in shedding red ink of ridiculous chauvinism4 ,it has become a matter of course to meet a name of some 8,membre de l',academie0 signed under such outbursts as this3 8,nothing of the ,barbarians1 nothing of their literature1 of their music1 of their art1 of their science1 nothing of their culture1 of anything ,made in ,germany60 ,another ,academic gives vent to his ire against those ,frenchmen who still find certain ,german things worth admiring1 and he vehemently advocates the prohibition of the ,barbarian music and art 8by law1 by persuasion1 by force1 by violence if necessary60 ,the octogenarian ,saint-,saens has written a series of articles venomously attacking ,wagnerian music1 labeling traitor any ,frenchman who favors the art of the arch-foe of his country4 ,even the semi-official ,le ,temps was shocked by the violent tone of the old composer2 it quoted ,saint-,saens's articles of the year #ahgf1 in which the author appeared to be an ardent ,wagnerite and appealed to his compatriots for broad-mindedness and toleration for 8the greatest genius of our times40 ,as a substitute for the atrocious ,wagner ,saint-,saens recommends the return to ,haydn and ,mozart1 even to ,meyerbeer2 ,schumann's ,lieder he would ban for ,gounod and ,massenet2 he favors even ,dussek1 for he is 8only a ,bohemian40 ,patriotic as he is1 he refuses to sanction the modern ,french composers1 since ,debussy1 ,faur1 ,d',indy1 and the rest are ,wagnerians in his estimation4 ,it is a case of 8senile reactionarism10 as the ,mercure de ,france rightly observes4 ,comparative ,morale ,it is very interesting to compare the barometer of public morale in the ,european capitals1 judging from their amusements4 ,here is one day's bill taken from the ,london ,daily ,news1 the ,petrograd ,ryech1 the ,berliner ,tageblatt1 the ,vienna ,neue ,freie ,presse1 and the ,paris ,figaro2 ,i have omitted the movies1 which bear for the most part ultra-patriotic titles1 and the vaudevilles4 ,the ,london bill is quite poor3 ,veronique1 a comic opera2 ,mme4 ,sans-,gene2 ,gaby ,deslys in ,rosy ,rapture1 presented by ,charles ,frohman2 ,the ,girl in the ,taxi2 ,frondai's ,the ,right to ,kill2 ,for ,england1 ,home1 and ,beauty2 and our old friends1 the ,irish ,players1 in the ,little ,theatre4 ,still more meager is the ,paris bill3 outside of ,cavalleria ,rusticana 7the chairman of the ,walt ,whitman dinner pronounces it ,keyveleeria ,rohstikeyna71 it abounds with such tit-bits as ,la ,petite ,fonctionaire1 ,mam'zelle ,boy ,scout1 ,mariage de ,pepeta1 and so forth4 ,berlin has on that day three operas--,don ,juan1 ,elektra1 ,lohengrin2 three dramas--,faust1 ,peer ,gynt1 ,schluck und ,jau 7the last one in ,rheinhard's ,deutsches ,theater71 not counting the minor affairs4 ,vienna's bill took away my breath3 a ,schnberg-,mahler ,abend1 a ,schubert-,strauss ,abend1 a ,beethoven-,brahms ,abend1 a ,brahms ,kammermusik ,abend1 a concert under ,sevcik2 ,carmen2 a play by ,fulda after ,molire2 ,ibsen's ,master ,builder and ,ghosts2 ,kleist's ,ktchen von ,heilbronn4 ,as for the ,petrograd bill1 ,i had better not say what emotions it has aroused in me4 ,judge for yourselves3 five operas--,traviata1 ,faust1 ,pagliacci1 ,ruslan and ,ludmilla1 ,eugene ,onegin2 a ballet by ,mlle4 ,krzesinsky2 two ballets by ,fokin's company2 plays by ,ibsen1 ,mirbo1 ,andreyev1 beside ,potash and ,perlmutter and other importations2 an exhibition of paintings by ,lancer and ,dobuzhinsky2 a ,poeso-,evening by ,futurist poets with ,igor ,severyanin as leader2 an ,evening of ,poetry under ,k4 ,r4 7,grand ,duke ,konstantine1 whose play ,king of the ,jews recently appeared in an ,english translation72 public lectures on ,the ,blue ,bird in ,our ,days1 on ,dostoevsky and ,nietzsche4444 ,allow me to stop4 ,are you inclined to draw conclusions and comparisons between the stage of war-ridden ,europe and that of peacefully complacent ,america8 ,i beg to be excused4 ,edmond ,rostand on the ,lusitania ,rostand is a member of the ,academy2 perhaps this affliction is responsible for his growing hoarseness as a ,chantecler4 ,yet as of all recent war poems his is the best1 ,i feel justified in citing it3 ,les ,condolances ,bernstorff1 pour aller la ,maison ,blanche1 ,s'est mis tout en noir4 7,l'onde a pris1 l-bas1 la dernire planche ,dans son entonnoir47 ,il entre1 affig1 refuse une chaise ,d'un geste contrit4 7,des femmes1 l-bas1 heurtent la falaise ,de leur sein meurtri47 ,il tousse une toux de condolance4 ,il s'essuie un oeil4 7,les enfants noys tournent en silence ,autour d'un cueil47 ,il se mouche4 ,il dit--son mouchoir embaume3-- 8,je viens de la part ,de ,sa ,majest l',empereur ,guillaume ,vous dire la part44440 ,derrire ,wilson1 dont on aime croire ,que tout le sang bout1 ,lincoln1 la ,vertu1--,washington1 la ,gloire1 ,se tiennent dbout4 ,le comte ,bernstorff ne peut les connatre4 ,il ne les voit pas4 ,s'il pouvait les voir1 il aurait peut-tre ,recul d'un pas4 8444 ,vous dire la part44440--,o mornes allures6 ,touchant trmolo6 7,les pcheurs1 l-bas1 voient des chevelures ,ouvertes sur l'eau47 8444 ,vous dire la part que nous daignons prendre ,a votre malheur40 7,les flots verts ont-ils d'autres morts rendre8 ,demandez-le-leur67 ,bernstorff pleure et dit3 8,j'ai su ce naufrage ,et je suis venu4 ,ils n'ont pas souffert4 ,ayez du courage4 ,ils en ont bien eu4 8,je n'insiste pas4 ,je suis venu vite1 ,et puis je m'en vais4 ,mais vous sentez bien que1 cette visite1 ,je vous la devais4 8,nous plaignons le sort des enfants1 des femmes1 ,cela va de soi4444 ,ah si vous voyiez tous les tlgrammes ,que ,tirpitz reoit6 8,c'est un grand succs pour notre marine4 ,je suis dsol4 ,veuillez constater que sur ma marine ,ce pleur a coul4 8,un pleur magnifique1 en cristal de roche4 ,voyez1 c'est exact4 ,je ne comprends pas que l'on nous reproche ,de manquer de tact4 8,berlin se pavoise4--,hlas6--,on dcore ,le moindre faubourg4 ,ah je le disais tout l'heure encore ,a ,monsieur ,dernburg4 8,si notre avenir--souffrez que je cache ,quelques pleurs amers-- ,n'est plus sur les mers1 il faut que l'on sache ,qu'il est sous les mers4 8,ceux qui malgr nous voyagent sur l'onde ,sont les agresseurs40 7,l-bas1 l'eau rapporte une vierge blonde ,avec ses trois soeurs47 8,les ,tipperary que chez vous on siffle ,nous ont agacs1 ,et quand ,roosevelt joue avec son rifle ,nous disons3 ,assez4 8,qu'allaient donc chercher en cette aventure ,vos ,princes de l',or80 7,l-bas1 pour avoir donn sa ceinture1 ,vanderbilt est mort47 8,il ne faudra pas que a recommence4 ,ils sont bien punis4 ,veuillez exprimer ma douleur immense ,aux ,etats-,unis40 7,il se fait1 l-bas1 d'horribles trouvailles ,qu'on met sous un drap47 ,et ,bernstorff reprend3 8,pour les funrailles1 ,on me prviendra4 8,ce dsastre a fait1 en ,bourse allemande1 ,monteur les valeurs4 ,on me prviendra pour que je commande ,les plus belles fleurs40 ,et comme ,wilson dit1 d'une voix sombre3 8,nous verrons demain10 ,et sent ,washington et ,lincoln1 dans l'ombre1 ,lui prendre la main1 ,bernstorff1 en pleurant1 regagne la porte 444 7,il y a1 l-bas1 ,deux petits enfants qu'une femme morte ,serre entre ses bras47 ,the ,downfall of the ,international ,another result of the war1 already sufficiently crystallized1 is the bankruptcy of the illusionary spirit of internationalism4 ,in his remarkable book#a ,mr4 ,walling has taken the trouble of quoting resolutions of national sections of the ,socialist party the world over1 before and during the war4 ,with a few significant exceptions the ,socialists of the warring nations have had to exchange their erstwhile slogan 8,workers of the world1 be united60 for the less noble motto 8,defend your country60 ,even when the ,european armies had already been mobilized the ,socialists held protest meetings at which they threatened to call a general strike if war should be declared4 ,but with the first cannon boom the theoretic brotherhood evaporated and gave way to patriotic sentiments4 ,the workers declared that they were ,germans1 ,russians1 etc41 first1 then ,socialists4 ,true1 in the beginning the ,german ,socialists claimed that they were fighting against the reactionary ,czardom1 while the ,socialists of the ,allies tried to justify the international carnage as the struggle against ,prussian militarism2 but ultimately such clear-headed thinkers as ,kautsky and some of the ,english ,socialists came to see the futility of endeavoring to discover idealistic causes for the mutual slaughter4 ,the country is in danger1 consequently we must defend it1 regardless of the rightness or wrongness of its policy--this is the prevailing sentiment among the workers4 ,the grandiose structure of the ,international has fallen in ruins2 the 8scientific0 theories and calculations of the ,marxians have received a blow by the underestimated imponderabilia1 that of primitive patriotism4 ,on the other hand1 8applied0 ,socialism has won a considerable victory with the development of the war4 ,nearly all the belligerent countries have adopted ,state-,socialism in such measures as the nationalization of railways and means of production4 ,the capitalists are evidently shrewd enough to utilize the doctrines of their opponents in time of need and thus to neutralize the sting of that very opposition4 ,what will become of ,socialism when at least its minimum-program is accepted and put into practice by the capitalistic order without the aid of a social revolution1 the inevitability of which has been scientifically proven by ,marx and his disciples8 #a ,the ,socialists and the ,war1 by ,william ,english ,walling4 ,new ,york3 ,henry ,holt and ,company4 ,artists should not see things as they are2 they should see them fuller1 simpler1 stronger3 to this end1 however1 a kind of youthfulness1 of vernality1 a sort of perpetual elation1 must be peculiar to their lives4--,nietzsche4 8,the ,artist in ,life0 ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson 8,people0 has become to me a word that--crawls4 ,if you have ever heard ,mr4 ,bryan pronounce it you will know what ,i mean4 ,he says it 8peo-pul04444 ,and that is the way they act4 ,sometimes ,i see peo-pul in this kind of picture3 a cosmic squirming mass of black caterpillars moving first one way and then the other1 slowly and vaguely1 not like measuring worms who cover the ground or like ants who have their definite business1 but heavily1 blindly1 in the stunned manner peculiar to caterpillar organisms4 ,they peer and poke and nod and ponder and creep and crawl and scramble and grow dizzy and turn around and around1 wondering whether they shall go on the way they started or go back the way they came or refuse to go at all4 ,once in a hundred years one of the caterpillars breaks his skin and flies away--a butterfly through the unfriendly air4 ,then the black mass writhes in protest and arranges that the next butterfly shall have his wings well clipped4 ,i know my metaphor is not scientifically intact1 but what does it matter8 ,it satisfies my impulse--which is simply to call names4 ,so ,i might as well say 8,people are caterpillars0 and be done with it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i have a painter artist friend who says that to talk about the artist in life is simply to repeat one of those silly phrases that mean nothing4 ,but it means entirely too much1 ,i think--which is the reason there are so many of the species in evidence3 about two in a million perhaps--and ,i know that is far too optimistic4 ,that would mean some four or five thousand people in the living world who have nothing in common with caterpillars4 ,the count is too high6 ,for really there are no artists among us4 ,living picturesquely1 artistically1 has nothing to do with being an artist in life2 and even living with the poise that marks a good piece of art hasn't necessarily anything to do with it4 ,if you ask me to choose a type of the real artist in life ,i shall say ,nietzsche rather than ,goethe4 ,for the artist in life has inevitably to do with prophecy rather than with holding up the mirror2 and that means chiefly--to have strength6 ,now where are the strong people8 ,of course 8strength0 is an indefinite term4 ,sometimes it seems a matter of dominating the superfluous2 sometimes it seems the power 8to meet fate with an equal gaze02 and sometimes the resource or the daring to push one's fate to a farther goal4 ,but these are beginnings6 ,if you pick up what is known as your soul from a wreckage and make it march on you think you are very strong4 ,if you manage to make it march with pride and joy you think you are a ,superman4 ,but this is easily within the effort of ,everyman4 ,i am talking of artists now and of the radiant possibility that such beings may develop in this uninspired land2 and1 in these terms1 to be strong is to help create the farther goal6 ,it's disgusting to realize that the people we know are not this sort4 ,take any twenty of your friends and classify them briefly as types4 ,perhaps there are five who have 8personality03 but one of them has no energy1 one no will1 one no brains1 one no imagination1 and the other no 8spirit20 there are five who have 8intellect03 one of them has no 8character10 one no strength1 one can't see or hear or feel1 one sees so inclusively that he has no goal1 and one sees so 8straight0 that he misses the road on both sides2 there are five who have a capacity for art3 one is lazy1 one is ignorant1 one is afraid1 one is vain1 one has a lie in him2 and there are five who have a capacity for living3 one can't think1 one can't work1 one can't persevere1 one can't stand alone1 one wastes his gift on others and never realizes himself4 ,you can work out such combinations ad infinitum and you can excuse them to the same distance by calling it all a matter of having the defects of your qualities4 ,why not call it a matter of having the complacency of your defects8 ,if you've not got imagination you can't help it2 if you've not got strength you can get it4 ,it won't make you an artist but it will make it impossible for you to be confused with the caterpillars4 ,if you've got a vision--an ,idea--and can find the strength to fly toward it you'll be an artist in life4 ,this is not to confuse the artist with the prophet4 ,you can't very well do that because the terms are so interdependent4 ,there has never been an artist without the prophet in him1 and there has never been a prophet who was not an artist4 ,it's a different thing if you're talking about priests or about inferior artists4 ,and then of course you have to remember that there are no such things as inferior artists4 ,priest and demagogue are the names for those who fail as prophets or as artists4 ,and what is the use of such a harangue8 ,there is very little use4 ,people won't be artists4 ,peo-pul don't change4 ,but the individual changes1 and that is the hope4 ,individuals are persons who can stand alone4 ,there ought to be ,individuals coming out of a generation brought up on ,nietzsche4 ,such an upbringing has taught us at least two things3 first that he who goes forward goes alone1 and second that it is weakness rather than nobility to succumb to the caterpillars4 ,yes1 and something else3 that it is from superabundance rather than from hunger that creation comes4 ,we start out fortified with all this4 ,we don't need to wrestle with our gods every time the old laws threaten to submerge us2 our universe doesn't totter when the caterpillars groan that we will be lonely if we go alone or hurt if we are misunderstood or tragic if we don't compromise4 ,we don't mind these things4 ,it really all comes to one end3 ,life for ,art's sake4 ,we believe in that because it is the only way to get more ,life--a finer quality1 a higher vibration4 ,this bigger concept doesn't mean merely more ,beauty4 ,it means more ,intensity4 ,in short1 it means the ,new ,hellenism4 ,and that is a step beyond the old ,greek ideal of proportion and moderation4 ,it pushes forward to the superabundance that dares abandonment4 ,art and nothing else6 ,art is the great means of making life possible1 the great seducer to life1 the great stimulus of life4--,nietzsche4 ,the tree that grows to a great height wins to solitude even in a forest2 its highest outshoots find no companions save the winds and the stars4--,frank ,harris4 ,poems ,,clara ,,shanafelt ,fantastic ,i have no thoughts1 no more desires-- ,it is green and gray like a garden ,stirred by apple-scented wind1 ,quick with the sense of cool and silver joys ,that come in a rainy dance ,when soft hands of clouds have pushed away ,the round red stupid face of the sun4 ,in one day1 ,i think1 the wind ,will not have had his will of the gleaming rain-- ,they run about with tossed hair1 ,the garden is silvered with their pleasure1 ,cool and sweet1 shining ,as with arch laughter a beloved face4 ,the musing pool ,shattered in glancing flight by a sudden wing-- ,this1 which no words can name1 ,this is my heart's delight1 ,winging ,i know not whither2 ,it has no measure4 ,interlude ,to sink deeper yet ,in the green flood of twilight-- ,i grope for the rich chord of the full darkness ,that drowns the piping cries of light1 ,for silence fretted by cadent rain ,and the monotonous cries of insects ,that lull the tortured sense in drowsy veils4 ,i am weary of lights dancing ,in limpid streets1 ,lemon and gold and amethyst1 ,the jewelled laughter and the scent1 ,weaving of uneasy colors4 ,i would rest now in green and gray ,of an abandoned garden ,where no more flowers are1 ,only grass and crabbed trees1 ,night-- ,and the bitter aroma of herbs ,trod out by myriad1 whispering feet of the rain-- ,night and no stars4 ,slobberdom1 ,sneerdom1 and ,boredom ,,ben ,,hecht ,it is the custom of inspired opinion to pay little attention to mediocrities1 to dismiss them with a shudder4 ,i understand ,,the ,,little ,,review to be an embodiment of inspired opinion1 an abandonment of mental emotion--,youth4 ,like some of the people who read it and even some of them who write for it1 it flies at the throats of contemporary ,chimeras and leaps upon the ,pegasi of the moment4 ,it slashes and roars1 hates and loves4 ,it never considers the right and never considers the wrong4 ,it does not endeavor to be just and fair4 ,this is at once a great crime and a great virtue4 ,it is criminal to be unjust and it is virtuous to be truthful4 ,to me ,,the ,,little ,,review is always both4 ,i sympathize with its spirit and share it4 ,leave justice to the greybeards4 ,why should a soul which has the capacity for inspiration quibble in prejudices8 ,i think1 however1 that shuddering at mediocrities is a grave error4 ,evil is the monopoly of the few as well as genius4 ,hating and loving them are luxuries4 ,therefore it is that this writing is not composed in the luxurious spirit of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,my opinion is not an inspired one1 my emotion is not an abandonment4 ,i write with a photographic dispassion of the three great divisions of mediocrity--,slobberdom1 ,sneerdom1 and ,boredom4 ,slobbering is not an art and it is not an evil4 ,it is not even important except as an object of analysis4 ,true1 if encountered in print or in the flesh it is likely to have a nauseous effect upon sensitive souls2 but then one can easily avoid encountering it4 ,one does not1 for instance1 have to attend a ,walt ,whitman dinner4 ,when one hears that a ,walt ,whitman dinner is to be given on a certain night in the ,grand ,pacific ,hotel all one has to do to remain happy and free from suffering is to stay at home4 ,my friend ,k---- and ,i went to a ,walt ,whitman dinner because we were young and curious and hungry1 and because ,walt1 after all1 is a great artist4 ,the dinner proved to be like most dinners of its kind--a glorious opportunity for saccharine drool at the expense of a great name4 ,appreciation and love of an artist--a poet--are highly commendable qualities if practiced in private1 if put into proper print4 ,it is the same as with love of a woman4 ,but to stand up in a public place1 to shed tears of ecstasy1 wave one's arms1 pull at one's hair and strike at one's bosom--these are1 as they always have been1 the slobbering methods of egotistical mediocrity4 ,it is simply a prostituting of the emotions4 ,mediocrity is not insensible to art4 ,it is very probable that the ,rev4 ,preston ,bradley1 who insists he is a reformed clergyman1 really likes ,walt ,whitman1 feels thrilled with the reading of him4 ,but the joy the ,rev4 ,bradley derives from reading ,walt in his library is not enough for him4 ,in fact1 it is not a joy at all4 ,it is an irritation4 ,give the ,rev4 ,bradley an opportunity to show what he thinks of ,walt ,whitman1 to stand up on his feet before three hundred and fifty sympathetic souls and prove what a keen sense of taste and an advanced instinct of culture he 7,rev4 ,bradley7 possesses by yawping3 8,i love ,whitman1 ,i adore ,whitman4 ,he is this to me4 ,he is that to me--0 --then and not till then does the ,rev4 ,bradley feel the real joy of appreciation for 8good old1 dear old1 wonderful old ,walt40 ,give the ,rev4 ,bradley a decent chance to platitudinize1 attitudinize1 and blatitudinize1 and the love he bears old ,walt oozes from him in dewy sighs and briny words4 ,do not imagine that ,i am violently indignant with the ,rev4 ,bradley1 or wish the reader to be1 for his insincerity4 ,it is indeed one of his best qualities4 ,by being insincere1 by having no actual ground for his ecstacy1 the ,rev4 ,bradley must1 perforce1 pay a great deal of attention to what he says4 ,he is free to pick out the best words1 the best pose1 the most arresting and perhaps enlightening point of view4 ,i say he is free to do this1 but of course he doesn't4 ,it is not the fault of his insincerity1 however4 ,if the ,rev4 ,bradley were an artist he would profit by it and be great4 ,but why all this talk about such a person as the ,rev4 ,bradley8 ,surely not because he is deserving of careful censure4 ,the reason is that there were at least three hundred male and female ,rev4 ,bradleys listening to him1 slobbering in silence4 ,and now the next division of mediocrity4 ,mr4 ,clarence ,darrow was another of the talkers4 ,mr4 ,darrow sneered4 ,mr4 ,darrow sneered at ,homer1 ,euripides1 ,shakespeare1 ,dante1 ,landor1 ,whittier1 ,tennyson1 ,milton1 ,kipling1 and ,heine because they didn't write as good old ,walt wrote4 ,because they wore fetters in their art and insisted on making the last word in the first line rhyme with the last word in the third line4 ,they were weak1 ignoble creatures1 these copybook writers1 said ,mr4 ,darrow2 they insisted on using a singular subject with a singular predicate and believed that a violation of such procedure was a sin4 ,one of the things you learn in your school text books on physics is that a gentleman by imposing a pencil-point before his eye can obscure his vision of the ,colossus4 ,the idea seems apropos in the case of ,mr4 ,darrow4 ,mr4 ,darrow by imposing his soul upon the figures of the world's big men can obscure them entirely for himself and evidently his sympathizers4 ,after he had concluded three hundred and fifty persons1 every one present so far as ,i could see except my friend ,k---- and myself1 stood up and sneered with ,mr4 ,darrow4 ,they passed him a rising resolution of love and cheered him three times1 omitting1 however1 the customary tiger4 ,the greatest trouble with ,mr4 ,darrow was his sincerity4 ,he didn't slobber any more than a public speaker has to in order to have a public to speak to4 ,but his sneers were deep and earnest4 ,they were entirely intellectual1 the intellectual essence of mediocrity4 ,all of us sneer1 of course4 ,the sneer is the one great ,american characteristic4 ,when ,i told a man in the office in which ,i work that ,i had attended a ,walt ,whitman dinner he sneered at me4 8,fourflushers10 he said4 8,i can't see how you put that highbrow stuff over4 ,a lot of long-haired1 flea-ridden radicals1 ain't ,i right8 ,i wouldn't let my wife associate with a bunch like that40 7,this is my office friend's highest conception of manly virtue1--a thoroughly ,american one1--being careful of whom his wife associates with47 ,then my office friend went on to assert that ,whitman was undoubtedly an immoral1 not to say degenerate1 party1 that he 8got by with his stuff because it was raw10 and that everybody who professed any admiration for him was a suspicious character and one he 8would think twice about before inviting to his home0 7where his wife is74 ,it is rather a complicated matter1 this sneering business2 and after attending a ,walt ,whitman dinner ,i don't know whose sneers disgust me more1 ,mr4 ,darrow's or my friend's4 ,they are both1 however1 identical in spirit1 the spirit of mediocrity and sincerity when sincerity becomes1 as it most always does1 the cloak for ignorant convictions and bigoted fanaticism4 ,and now we come to the third and last condition--boredom4 ,among the speakers at this memorable dinner was ,mr4 ,llewellyn ,jones4 ,mr4 ,jones is a critic of literature by profession if not qualification--although ,i do not say it1 really4 ,of all the orators at good old ,walt's memorial gabfest ,mr4 ,jones was the least offensive4 ,he said nothing that shocked the taste or violated one's innerself or harrowed one's soul4 ,i don't1 of course1 remember what ,mr4 ,jones did say4 ,one never does1 not only in the case of ,mr4 ,jones but in the thousands like him4 ,they occupy time and space and leave them empty4 ,not for them the sneer or the slobber4 ,mr4 ,jones wouldn't sneer for the world4 ,and as for slobbering ,mr4 ,jones has too much good taste and discretion for that4 ,not that he is above them4 ,his fear of them1 his apparent uncertainty in distinguishing between these two characteristics and the characteristics of inspired opinion1 indicate this plainly enough4 ,so to be safe ,mr4 ,jones resorts to the time-honored entrenchment of mediocrity4 ,he barricades himself behind the bulwarks of boredom4 ,he discharges no cannon1 he commits no sins1 he makes no false steps or takes no false flights4 ,he is boredom incarnate1 the eternal convention in the arts whether he deals with ,nihilism1 radicalism1 or stands pat on the isms of the past4 ,mr4 ,jones never gets anywhere1 ,i repeat4 ,i speak of all the ,joneses4 ,nobody derives anything from him--from them--except ennui4 ,he1 they1 never offend1 never elate4 ,he1 they1 are always ,mr4 ,jones4 ,listening to the ,joneses is as elevating an experience as watching the water blop-blop out of the kitchen hydrant4 ,and this idea leads me back to where ,i started--,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,can you imagine what a thorough contempt a kitchen hydrant would have for a fountain rising from the rocks1 for a brook gurgling down the hillside1 or a strong river capering to sea8 ,it wouldn't exactly sneer at them4 ,mr4 ,jones doesn't4 ,but it would feel moved to spirited reproof4 ,how juvenile it is to gurgle1 the hydrant would say1 how vain and foolish it is to rise from the rocks1 how upsetting it is to be continually capering to sea4 ,i do not claim any super-intelligence in the matter of hydrants4 ,but ,mr4 ,jones and all the ,joneses do say1 and ,i have enough intelligence to understand them if not to sympathize with them1 that ,,the ,,little ,,review is young and idiotic and given to unnecessary emotions and so forth4 ,all of which is true1 looked at from the elevation of a kitchen sink4 8,why don't you10 remonstrates the hydrant to the brook1 8blop blop with me80 ,an afterthought3 at this ,whitman dinner there was one among the speakers who sustained a dying faith in ,walt1 humanity1 and vers libre in general4 ,he was ,carl ,sandburg who read a free verse poem of his own on ,billy ,sunday4 ,it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success1 no matter what1 shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary4--,whitman4 ,the ,death of ,anton ,tarasovitch ,a ,short ,story of the ,present ,war ,,florence ,,kiper ,,frank ,anton ,tarasovitch lay dying4 ,he lay in a pleasant cornfield whither he had dragged himself in the heat of the afternoon1 for a shelter against the merciless sun4 ,but now it was evening and the stars were out1 and dying was not now so bad an affair as it had been in the dust and the blinding sunlight4 ,true1 the pain was at times terrible1 but at other times it made one only light-headed1 so that oneself or the part that was ,anton ,tarasovitch seemed to be a different thing altogether from the body of ,anton ,tarasovitch which lay beneath ,it shot to pieces1 while ,it fluttered and hovered above4 ,he had not been lying for many hours in the ,austrian cornfield4 ,he knew that by the progress of the sun downward--downward until it made the long summer shadows that he loved in the fields at home2 downward until it brought a breath of coolness and a gray light that had brushed out the clear distinction of shadows and sunlight2 downward until it was gone forever and a few stars burned quietly in the sky overhead4 ,it was the last sunset that ,anton ,tarasovitch was to see in this world4 ,but time had no longer any meaning for ,anton ,tarasovitch4 ,lying on one's back1 so1 and waiting to die1 a minute can seem all there is of the world1 and then an hour can be burned up like a minute1 while one faints into unconsciousness1 before one is slowly dragged back again to the thought1 8,i am ,i0--the thought that makes the world for each man1 that creates for him the stars and the shadows and the sun sinking downward4 ,yes1 ,anton ,tarasovitch knew that now--that it was this thought that made the world4 ,and when he stopped thinking it1 the world would again be nothing4 ,down6 down6 down6 one would plunge1 and then the world would be nothing4 ,but it would exist still for other men4 ,yet how could that be8 ,tomorrow the sun would come up again into the sky just as every day it had come up in the fields at home1 making the long shadows that he had so loved in the mornings and in the evenings4 ,tomorrow other men would see the sun--many other men would see it4 ,but if ,anton ,tarasovitch did not see it----6 ,in vain he struggled to create for himself a universe in which there would be no ,anton ,tarasovitch4 ,well1 he was not clever enough to understand such matters4 ,men in universities and men who wrote books had figured them out and knew all about them4 ,but how was he1 who had never been to a ,university1 who had not been to school even1 to understand6 ,yet this much he understood--that he was dying for his country4 ,this the general had told them1 and he had known always1 since a boy1 that it was a brave and fine thing to fight for one's country and to die if need be4 ,anton ,tarasovitch was dying that his country might be saved4 ,yet it was strange that the big ,russia had need of him1 just one common peasant4 ,the great ,russia had so many men that were strong and powerful1 men with uniforms that glittered--men that were much cleverer and braver than ,anton4 ,why should the country have need of him8 ,sasha needed him1 and the children4 ,sasha needed him in the fields and she needed him in her heart too4 ,she had often called him the light of her heart1 in the strange words--so different from the words of other women--that ,sasha often used4 ,and he knew by her face that she needed him4 ,she didn't have to tell him so4 ,he knew by the kindling of her face1 as of a curtain behind which suddenly a candle appears4 ,so her face would light up when she saw him4 ,sasha would mind greatly if she never saw him again4 ,he was dying because it was a glorious thing to die for one's country--for the ,white ,tsar1 the little ,father4 ,you died to protect your country1 so that your great country might live forever4 ,but if you weren't there to know that it lived forever6--now why couldn't he think of the world without ,anton ,tarasovitch in it8 ,why did he land against a black wall every time he tried to think of tomorrow without ,anton ,tarasovitch8 ,it was needful that he die to save his country4 ,what if1 to the general1 he were only one of thousands and to ,sasha and the children all of life--nevertheless1 if every man should think that1 then there would be no one at all to save the country4 ,it was rather clever of him to figure it out so1 especially with the fire in his side that made his head so light and his thoughts fly off from it and refuse to anchor down for more than a minute4 ,it was clever of him to reason it out--,anton ,tarasovitch who had never been to a ,university--that if every man should say to himself1 8,o1 ,i don't count4 ,just one more or less60--then there would be no army at all to fight the ,tsar's battles4 ,yet he was not fighting or dying now to save ,sasha4 ,nor was he dying to save his children even in the years to come4 ,that wouldn't be bad--to die so that years afterwards1 even though it might be many years afterwards1 one's children would prosper and would live more happily4 ,that would be a sort of living when one was dead1 because one's children were in a way oneself in different bodies4 ,but he couldn't see how ,maxim and ,ignat and ,sofya and ,tatya would at any time be better off because he was dying right now4 ,he couldn't see but that the land would be poorer and that they would have to work harder because he and the other peasants were dying for the ,little ,father and for their country4 ,but if he couldn't figure out just what people he was saving1 at least he knew against what men he was fighting4 ,he was fighting against the ,austrians4 ,the ,austrians were a horrible people who spoke a language one couldn't understand at all4 ,when you tried to understand them1 you couldn't understand a word they were saying4 ,he had known an ,austrian once--a big blonde fellow who had stayed a few days at their little village4 ,one day ,anton had been walking with the tiny ,tatya on the road that led to the market and they had met the ,austrian1 who had stopped and had given ,tatya a flower out of his button-hole4 ,anton remembered ,tatya's crows of delight4 ,the ,austrian had smiled at her1 a nice1 friendly smile1 and ,tatya had grabbed for his hand as children will1 even when the people they grab at are ,austrians4 ,tatya had seemed to like the ,austrian4 ,and ,anton had had to confess to himself that he wasn't a bad fellow4 ,but he must have been pleasant only because of ,tatya4 ,no one could help being pleasant to ,tatya4 ,the ,austrian had been for a moment friendly because of her4 ,at heart he was a hateful fellow4 ,all ,austrians were hateful4 ,they all hated the ,tsar and the ,fatherland and they all hated him1 ,anton1 because he was a ,russian4 ,there must be some ,austrians lying in this cornfield now1 wounded as he was wounded4 ,but he could see no one4 ,flat on his back1 he could see only the stars which were thick now against the sky4 ,and he began to think that this was a cruel thing--that a man should be alone when he was dying4 ,even when a chap was just ill1 he wanted someone to take care of him4 ,once when ,anton had been ill of a fever he had been just like a baby1 so weak and helpless4 ,he had cried then because the milk that ,sasha had brought him had been too hot for his tongue and had burned him4 ,it was silly for a big man to cry1 but that was the way you became when you were sick--weak and silly4 ,he had never in his life cried when he was well4 ,when men were well they were never silly4 ,women--women were different6 ,five times had ,sasha been so ill that it was terrible--four times for the children that were living and once for the little one that had died4 ,sasha had almost died too that time4 ,she had been so white and so hopeless looking for weeks after6 ,but in all the times she was ill she had not complained as much as he had1 that one month that he was sick with the fever4 ,that must be because women were used to pain4 ,the good ,god had so ordained it4 ,for every life that they brought into the world they had to suffer1 not only at the time1 but for months before and then for years afterward4 ,they were strange creatures1 were women4 ,if a child became ill or died1 its mother suffered again1 just as the day she had borne him4 ,at least so ,sasha had suffered when the baby had died--and other women that he had seen in the village4 ,birth was a strange thing now6 ,he had never really thought of it before1 but wasn't it a strange thing that each time a person was born into the world1 there should be pain and the long months of waiting4 ,then in one second an ,austrian shell could blow away the body that some woman had waited for and had carried in her own body4 ,in one second--why1 so he had been waited for--he1 ,anton ,tarasovitch4 ,now wasn't that wonderful6--and he had never until this minute really thought of it4 ,he1 ,anton ,tarasovitch1 had been carried in the body of his mother and had been born in pain and in rejoicing4 ,why1 it was like a miracle6 ,and he had thought so lightly of it1 had just taken it for granted that he should be born and that she should love him4 ,he would like to make it up to her in some way now4 ,but it was too late4 ,she had been dead for very many years now and he also was dying4 ,well1 he could tell her about it when he saw her with the saints in ,heaven4 ,heaven6 ,he would go there1 of course1 because he had always1 since a boy1 been obedient and had done just what the priests had told him4 ,he ought to think now about ,heaven4 ,but somehow he did not care to think about it1 and the strange part was that it did not trouble him that he did not care4 ,even if he woke tomorrow in ,heaven1 he would not be the same ,anton4 ,he might live forever1 but that wouldn't be the same thing as waking up in the morning with ,sasha at his side4 ,he tried to think what 8forever0 meant1 and he fetched up against the same black wall that he had when he had tried to think of a world without ,anton ,tarasovitch to know himself in it4 ,forever6 ever6 ever6 ,no stopping6 ,on and on6 ,but that would be horrible4 ,no6 no6 he couldn't bear that4 ,one could do nothing1 nothing1 to get out of it4 ,even if one could be blown to pieces with a gun1 say a thousand years from now1 in ,heaven1 one's soul would gather itself together again and go on and on1 forever and forever4 ,no1 he mustn't think about it4 ,if he thought about it any more1 he would lift his hands and strangle himself1 so as to be able to stop thinking about it4 ,now he would think about ,sasha4 ,when he thought about her1 he could feel her right next to him4 ,he couldn't see her face exactly1 nor could he see her standing there4 ,and yet it was as if she really were there1 and he could see her4 ,that was the way it was when you loved a person4 ,she was1 as it were1 in you1 or at least right next to you1 and yet she was separate from you1 too4 ,he had liked life with ,sasha4 ,he didn't know until now how much he had liked it4 ,true1 it was a hard life they had lived together4 ,one was on the go every minute--in bad weather when the frost stung and to walk even a mile became an agony2 and in good weather one was constantly on the go1 when it might perhaps have been pleasant to sit under the trees and play with the children4 ,but life was good1 for all that4 ,of course1 if they could have saved money--only a little money--it would have been better4 ,but the little money they could save had had to go for the taxes4 ,the taxes were for the ,fatherland1 the priest had told him4 ,the taxes were paid so that when the need came1 ,anton would be able to die for his country4 ,but there was something confusing about that4 ,life would be better if it were not for the taxes1 and the taxes were paid so that he might--no1 that was bewildering4 ,with the fire in one's side and in one's brain1 how could one think clearly about so difficult a matter8 ,besides1 there were many matters of that sort that he1 ,anton ,tarasovitch1 was not clever enough to think about4 ,one left such things to the priests1 who were good men1 and to the clever men at the universities4 ,the stars were sometimes a long way off now and sometimes very near to him4 ,but neither near nor far away did they seem to care about him4 ,they were the only things he could see in the world and they did not seem to care about him4 ,undoubtedly they had seen many men dying4 ,he knew about the stars6 ,a young teacher who had come to the village when he was a boy had talked about them and ,anton had never forgotten4 ,the young teacher had not stayed long in the village4 ,he was 8dangerous10 they said1 and ,anton heard afterwards that he had gone to ,america4 ,it gave one many thoughts to listen to the teacher4 ,he had said that the stars were worlds1 just like our own earth--the earth that ,anton knew the good ,christ had come down to save4 ,anton1 who was just a boy1 had wanted to ask him if ,christ had had to save all these worlds that were stars4 ,but that was only one of the many confusing thoughts one had in listening to the young teacher4 ,one felt strange in listening to him1 as if the world weren't solid at all1 but were flowing like a river4 99 99 99 ,anton felt very sorry for himself1 lying there under the stars that did not care for him4 ,he began to cry--silly1 weak tears that tasted of salt as they touched his mouth4 ,it was only at times that he knew that he was crying4 ,at other times the soul of him entirely left his body and went shooting up and up1 to be recaptured only with a struggle4 ,the two of them--the burning body and the light soul--would have held together better1 he knew1 if someone could grip his hand tightly4 ,at least that was the way they had done in the fever4 ,when ,sasha had gripped his hand1 as if by a miracle he had been restored for a moment to a complete man1 and was no longer two pieces--a body below and a soul that went fluttering above it4 ,if only he could touch someone's hand now--anyone's hand--the hand of a human being6 ,to be all alone with the cruel1 flickering stars up above1 that was no way to die--snuffed out into the darkness4 ,that was no way for any man to go1 even though he were just a peasant4 ,but ,anton knew himself important now1 almost as important as a general4 ,he knew himself important1 with a strange1 tremendous importance4 ,he was as important as almost anyone in the world1 and he was dying alone in the darkness4 ,then he remembered that there must be other men in the cornfield4 ,he had thought of that before1 and afterwards he had forgotten4 ,if there were other men here--even one other man1 an enemy--he would find that comrade and they would die together4 ,slowly1 painfully1 inch by inch he dragged himself4 ,the stalks were like an impenetrable thicket4 ,they entangled him as snares or a forest of swords set about him4 ,he dragged himself on his palms1 inch by inch1 butting away the cornstalks4 ,an ,austrian was lying on his back1 gazing upward4 ,he was dead now1 but ,anton did not know it4 ,there was a wound in his neck1 and the flies had begun to gather4 ,anton gave a sob as he saw the ,austrian4 ,one more effort and he would be near enough to touch him4 ,perhaps the ,austrian would grip his hand--hard--as ,sasha had gripped it4 ,the hand of the ,austrian did not grip hard when ,anton touched it4 ,it fluttered a little1 however--,anton was sure of that4 ,so ,anton covered the hand with his own1 and with his own hand gripped hard1 as ,sasha had gripped the hand of ,anton4 ,and so died ,anton ,tarasovitch1 looking up at the stars4 ,art as it appears without the artist1 i4 e41 as a body1 an organization 7the ,prussian ,officers' ,corps1 the ,order of the ,jesuits74 ,to what extent is the artist merely a preliminary stage8 ,the world regarded as a self-generating work of art4--,nietzsche4 ,rupert ,brooke 7,a ,memory7 ,,arthur ,,davison ,,ficke ,one night--the last we were to have of you-- ,high up above the city's giant roar ,we sat around you on the generous floor-- ,since chairs were lame or stony or too few-- ,and as you read1 and the low music grew ,in exquisite tendrils twining the heart's core1 ,all the conjecture we had felt before ,flashed into torch-flame1 and at last we knew4 ,and ,maurice1 who in silence long has hidden ,a voice like yours1 became a wreck of joy ,to inarticulate ecstasies beguiled4 ,and you1 as from some secret world now bidden ,to make return1 stared up1 and like a boy ,blushed suddenly1 and looked at us1 and smiled4 ,illustration3 ,,rupert ,,brooke1 ,,mcmxiv ,to a ,west ,indian ,alligator 7,estimated age1 #aieg years7#b ,,eunice ,,tietjens ,greetings1 my brother1 strange and uncouth beast1 ,flat-bellied1 wrinkled1 broad of nose6 ,you are not beautiful--and yet at least ,contentment spreads your scaley toes4 ,the keeper thwacks you and you grunt at me1 ,two hundred pounds of sleepy spleen4 ,he tells me that your cranial cavity ,will just contain a lima bean4 ,how seems it1 brother1 you who are so old1 ,to lie and squint with curtained eye ,at these ephemera1 born in the cold1 ,these human things so soon to die8 ,you were scarce grown1 a paltry eighty years1 ,too young to think of breeding yet1 ,when ,christ the ,nazarene loosed the salt tears ,which on man's cheeks today are wet4 ,mohammed rose and died--you churned the mud ,and watched your female laying eggs4 ,columbus passed you--with an oozy thud ,you scrambled sunward on your legs4 ,so now you doze at ease for all to view ,and bat a sleepy lid at me1 ,you eat a little every year or two ,and count time in eternity4 ,so1 brother1 which is wiser of us twain ,when words are said and meals are past8 ,i think1 and pass--you sleep1 yet you remain1 ,and where shall be the end at last8 #b ,i cannot vouch for the science of this4 ,it is 8,alligator ,joe's0 estimate4 ,villon's ,epitaph#c ,,witter ,,bynner ,i who have lived and have not thought ,but gone with nature as ,i ought1 ,letting good things occur1 ,and now amazed and cannot see ,why death should care so much for me4 ,i never cared for her4 ,scarron's ,epitaph#c ,,witter ,,bynner ,he who now lies here asleep ,none would envy1 few would weep3 ,a man whom death had mortified ,a thousand times before he died4 ,peaceful be the step you take1 ,you who pass him--lest he wake4 ,for his first good night is due4 ,let poor ,scarron sleep it through4 #c ,from the ,french of ,franois ,villon4 ,editorials and ,announcements ,our ,credo ,i have lost patience3 people are still asking 8,what does ,,the ,,little ,,review stand for80 ,since we have been so obscure--or is it that people have been so dull8--,i shall try to answer all these plaintive queries in a sentence4 ,may it be sufficient3 ,i cannot 8explain0 every day why the sunrise seems worth while or1 as ,mr4 ,hecht would say1 why the brook rises from the rocks4 ,,the ,,little ,,review is a magazine that believes in ,life for ,art's sake1 in the ,individual rather than in ,incomplete people1 in an age of ,imagination rather than of ,reasonableness2 a magazine that believes in ,ideas even if they are not ,ultimate ,conclusions1 and values its ,ideals so greatly as to live them2 a magazine interested in ,past1 ,present1 and ,future1 but particularly in the ,new ,hellenism2 a magazine written for ,intelligent people who can ,feel2 whose philosophy is ,applied ,anarchism1 whose policy is a ,will to ,splendor of ,life1 and whose function is--to express itself4 ,mr4 ,comstock's ,dismissal ,this great blessing comes sooner than we could have expected1 and yet1 as ,the ,chicago ,tribune remarks1 it is belated by about forty years4 ,mr4 ,comstock has been ,post ,office ,inspector all that time4 ,i remember a few years ago in ,new ,york hearing an interesting woman send a group of people into paroxysms by the passionate childish seriousness with which she said1 8,i wish ,anthony ,comstock would die60 ,now that the government has accomplished this desideratum1 it is almost time for it to be congratulated4 ,i wonder how long it will be before this same government can 8see its way clear0 to suppressing the agent provocateur and letting his victims go free1 or--well1 never mind3 it is beyond hoping4 8,succession0 ,when one of my friends fails to like ,ethel ,sidgwick's ,succession ,i am left in a predicament3 on what basis are we henceforth to understand each other8 ,succession goes so deep into music1 into personality1 into life that has its foundations in art4444 ,you can explain all the subtleties of your most difficult emotions by referring to how ,antoine felt on page so and so4 ,how does one live without ,antoine8 ,the ,strike ,and ,god said3 8,let there be60 ,and there was4 ,and when the modern god1 the omnipotent ,proletariat1 says3 8,let there not be60 444 ,you say the strike of the ,chicago car men is of purely local significance4 ,you crack jokes about the pleasure of walking and about the adventure of jitney-rides4 ,you are calm and complacent1 you blind and deaf men and women dancing on a dormant volcano4 ,you are right4 ,your complacency is justified4 ,why fear the million-headed mule who has borne his yoke for centuries8 ,he grumbles8--,oh1 it's a trifle3 just fill his flesh-pot1 and he will take up anew with bestial delight his eternal task of enriching the few at the expense of his blood and marrow4 ,but fear the eruption of the volcano6 ,for it will not remain dormant forever4 ,have we not witnessed the spasmodic awakenings of the giant8 ,recall the achievement of the ,russian proletariat in #aije4 ,did it not wrest concessions from the obstinate ,czar by means of a passive revolution8 ,recall the general strike in ,belgium4 ,did it not cripple its commerce and industry for months8 ,the strike of the ,chicago car men is pregnant with potentialities4 ,it is a symptom of a refreshing storm4 ,those who produce everything and possess nothing have slept long in ignorance of their power4 ,but they are slowly awakening4 ,and when they become aware of the magic wand in their hand1 whose passive motion can stop the wheels of the universe4444 ,take heed1 ,o merrymakers at ,belshazzar's feast4 ,behold the ,,mene1 ,,tekel1 ,,peres on the wall4 ,k4 8,the ,country ,walk0 ,a young ,englishman by the name of ,edward ,storer--,i am assuming that he is young and that he is ,english--has protested effectively against the condition which decrees that a piece of writing1 a painting1 a sculpture has to be judged as a commodity before it can be judged as a work of art by issuing little four-page leaflets containing portions of his work denied publication by the commercialism of the times4 ,the first1 which is called ,the ,country ,walk1 has some quite uninspired though rather charming prose poems in it4 ,the ,lark1 for instance3 ,out of the young grass and silence you arise1 frail bird1 spinning upwards to the sky4 ,faster beat the wings1 and shriller is the voice1 and soon you are lost in the high blue1 so that scarcely can ,i hear your voice or see the maddened flutterings of your wings4 ,then suddenly all is silent1 and softly you drop to earth again to rest your aching body against the good brown earth4 ,the ,june-,july ,issue ,on account of being so late with our ,may number we have decided to combine the ,june and ,july and thus come out promptly again on the first of the month4 ,subscriptions will be extended accordingly4 ,edgar ,lee ,masters ,in the ,august issue there will be a new poem by ,edgar ,lee ,masters1 author of ,the ,spoon ,river ,anthology1 and also a photogravure portrait of the poet which has just been taken by ,eugene ,hutchinson4 ,the ,submarine 7,translated from the ,italian of ,luciano ,folgore by ,anne ,simon7 ,it sinks4 ,in the twilight of the water the conquered submarine falls straight to the bottom and seems like a black corpse thrown to the coral below1 thrown to the tomb that devours with liquid joy the refuse and remains of the old world4 ,the propellers1 devourers of motion1 buzz no more1 the rudder has ceased turning1 the prow no longer points its sharp beak1 but the submarine extends itself on the viscid bed1 and a multitude of unknown fish1 coral and sea-nettles try to enter the closed apertures4 ,and yet once you leaped in the sun like a sentinel of burnished steel shining in the distance1 and then rapidly returned to the green gorge where the sun never reaches1 but where you find the tremendous task that is always with you and that whispers courage in the void of your soul4 ,and once with your agile metallic prow you agitated the green water all around your shining body1 and you did not feel the torments of the winds nor the black clouds of the hurricane that remained like spiteful women in a corner of the horizon1 with hair dishevelled and the eye eager to spy below1 from the firmament1 the lost1 the shipwrecked1 the unknown that have no pilot4 ,once from your sonorous sides1 quietly1 but vigilant and mad1 the torpedo shot out1 making its track in silence1 and carrying within its thin body death1 and the infinite power of dynamite4 ,as you passed the sharks fled1 as you passed the corals suspended their tenacious and clumsy work1 and the fish with rapid movement swam away4 ,you seemed like an enormous monster of a fantastic destiny and yet you are only a light submarine1 a slender ship that the blow of a beam could sink1 that a whirlpool could submerge in the abyss4 ,i do not know your story1 but ,i will sing your glory that is part of the desire of audacious men4 ,submarine1 ,destiny may have willed you to sink silently1 and remain lost forever in the viscid bed of the sea-weed1 7,o submarine1 able to challenge the unconsciousness of the seas and the impotence of the lighthouses17 but you are alive and strong2 there is no death1 but only an appearance of death that remains4 ,destiny newly moulds you in a long phantom and you are run1 submarine1 by the courage of men who1 in the unfathomable silence of the water1 are piloted by the will of the strong4 ,new brothers will arise and pursue you because your shining back carries a banner1 not tri-colored1 nor ,french1 but the only color that dazzles2 the banner of the battle that amidst disasters combats with this ferocious mystery that is foolishly determined to shut us out from the doors of ,nature4 ,blaa-,blaa-,blaa ,i am sick of words--spoken words--verbal refuse thrown off by the mental hypochondriacs who imagine themselves suffering from thought and afflicted with ideas4 ,i am sick of the artificial inanities of the drawingroom--the polite poppycock1 the meaningless1 emotionless enthusiasms4 ,i often have entered a room where male and female husks sat1 their faces wreathed in empty grimaces--animated masks discharging automatic phrases--and wished to ,god ,i was dumb and could be forgiven for silence4 ,listening is not so bad because one doesn't have to listen4 ,i am sick of the salon-like groups who gather for the purpose of thinking aloud and then forget to think and make up for it in noises4 ,monotonous varieties1 dropping pop-bottle gems from their lips1 each individual amusing and delighting himself beyond all understanding with his sterile loquaciousness4 ,here in the salon groups1 the discursive congregations which come together in all manner of odd places and all manner of regular places1 garrulity approaches torture4 ,here the professional discourser flops and waddles about in his own ,utopia4 ,he doesn't crave understanding but attention4 ,as for truth1 as for taking the pains to express his innermost reactions to a subject1 this is impossible4 ,the discourser doesn't know what he thinks1 doesn't know what the truth is until he starts discoursing4 ,and then he discourses himself into a state of mind4 ,i have heard him discourse himself into the most startling convictions2 into matrimony and out of it into religion and out of it1 into and out of every variety of damn-foolishness imaginable4 ,persons who use written words instead of spoken words as the parents of their thought suffer from the same hypnosis4 ,but in writing this is commendable4 ,it is commendable for a writer to be insincere if he can be more logical and enlightening as a result4 ,the result may be ,de ,profundis or ,alice in ,wonderland4 ,it is my notion that men are sincere only in their appetites4 ,a man craves food and woman and other stimulants with unquestionable sincerity4 ,but in the realm of thought ,i have arrived at the conclusion that sincerity is an inspired and not inspiring condition of the mind4 ,i am sick of the blaa-blaaing hordes1 from the smirking 8supes0 of the let's-adjourn-to-the-other-room species to the simpering cacophonists of the ,schngeist nobility4 ,i am sick of the open mouths1 the trailing sentences dying from weakness1 the painstaking use of wrong words and the painstaking use of correct words2 of the stagnated humor of deodorous sallies4 ,i am sick of the ,argumentatives1 people with an irritating command of phrases1 who balance paradoxes on their noses and talk backwards or upside down with equal lucidity2 who must be contradicted or they suffer2 who rumble bizarrely from the depths of every philosophical sub-cellar they can ferret out in order to be startling2 who shriek and howl and wail and protest and--the ,devil take them--tell the truth and make it impossible to believe4 ,their only reason for talking is to impress4 ,they are as noisy as cannon and as effective as firecrackers4 ,i am sick of the delicate1 searching souls who prick themselves with their own words1 who operate on fly specks1 who grope and search and struggle for fine and truthful things1 who deal in verbal shadings intelligible only to themselves--and then not for what they said but for what they meant to say or desired to say or wouldn't say for the world4 ,i am sick of their kinsmen1 of the surgical tongues who dissect1 who vivisect and auto-sect4 ,i am sick most of all of my own talk4 ,but ,i continue to talk4 ,i talk out of boredom and manage only to increase it4 ,i talk out of vanity and spread disillusionment4 ,i talk out of love and have to apologize4 ,a victim of habit1 ,i continue speaking1 although ,i know the spoken word is the true medium of misunderstanding4 ,words1 words1 they keep tumbling out of my mouth and blowing away like dust before the wind4 ,a pock on them4 ,there have been revolutions in literature1 authors have changed the size and construction of the novel1 publishers have changed the color of their bindings1 poets have changed the form of their poetry and the essence of its style1 thinkers even have altered slightly the trend of their thought4 ,music1 painting1 decorating1 carving--everything changes with time except talk1 which only increases4 ,what a staggering illustration of the theory that it is only the weak things which survive4 ,for talk is the commonest of weaknesses4 ,blaa1 blaa1 blaa--why not a revolution8 ,what ails the radicals8 ,do they not realize that the time is ripe8 ,they have changed the moral forms1 the literary forms1 why not the spoken forms8 ,why not a substitution of expressive grunts and whoops and growls and chuckles and groans and gurgles and whees and wows8 ,or is this matter one not for the radical but for 8,the ,scavenger40 ,the ,nine6--,exhibit6 ,sometime in the winter a rumor got about that nine artists of ,chicago were to form themselves into a group and hold an independent exhibition4 ,at once the other artists were divided into two factions1 those who jeered and those who applauded1 those who said unpleasant things and those who had the enduring hope that at last something better was to be done in our exhibitions4 ,the ,great ,nine1 as the group began to be called--whether by themselves or by others1 it matters not3 the phrase is a handicap--consists of ,frederic ,c4 ,bartlett1 ,william ,penhallow ,henderson1 ,lawton ,parker1 ,karl ,albert ,buehr1 ,louis ,betts1 ,charles ,francis ,browne1 ,ralph ,clarkson1 ,wilson ,irvine1 and ,oliver ,dennett ,grover4 ,they were too generous in their number4 ,five1 and there would have been no comment2 nine1 and there was aroused indignation1 criticism1 and a 8show us0 spirit which should have put the ,nine on their mettle and made them give a stunning and silencing show4 ,on ,may thirteenth1 after one postponement when expectation was tense1 the exhibition opened4 ,what had we8 ,a new setting and old stuff6 ,one of the ,east ,galleries had been chosen4 ,william ,p4 ,henderson designed and executed the room4 ,he made a piece of work having faults but being the best thing about the exhibition1 a contribution in itself4 ,the walls with their subtle color1 divided into spaces by pilasters of deep wistaria1 red1 and gold1 rising on slender stems and blossoming out above2 the screen of red at one end with the ,zettler torso against it--they complimented themselves upon using this2 the beautiful vases2 and the green of the trees made a room too obtrusive for pictures1 or one in which pictures are intrusive4 ,were the setting less self-sufficient1 still there are many things to be said4 ,the sophisticated1 almost exotic1 color of the walls1 emphasizing in the work of some all that is crude and materialistic in execution or interpretation1 makes their work appear to less advantage than would the usual bleak gallery4 ,and why so many pictures8 ,why not one picture in each space and that the best each artist could offer8 ,how much more satisfactory the room would then be4 ,anyone who follows exhibitions will agree that each exhibitor has shown better work at other times4 ,frederic ,bartlett's group is in many ways the best1 and holds its own in the room4 ,surpassingly beautiful in color are ,mr4 ,henderson's things4 ,the little nude is exquisite1 but he should not easily be forgiven his portrait of ,florence ,bradley1 even if it is not meant as a character study4 ,however1 he is one of the artists who can do more than put paint on canvas4 ,he can make ,art in many ways1 as men did in the 8high white days0 of art4 ,the artists themselves have seen from this first effort wherein they have failed4 ,this grouping must have been a very arbitrary one4 ,let us hope that a group founded on mutual endeavor and on equal ability will continue the effort to make our exhibitions comparable in some degree with the best ,european efforts4 ,chicago has now so many artists that it is impossible for them all to be gathered into the old ,chicago ,society4 ,there should be many societies4 ,competition and co-operation among them would make the art life here less anemic and super-sensitive and bigoted4 ,r4 ,book ,discussion ,,the ,,apotheosis ,,of ,,pettiness ,one ,man1 by ,robert ,steele4 ,new ,york3 ,mitchell ,kennerley4 8,there is nothing which reflects the smugness of a people so much as the manner and temperament of its vice4 ,and the temperament of ,american vice is more distinctly and monotonously bourgeois than any of its virtues0--from ,ben ,hecht's 8,phosphorescent ,gleams0 in the ,may ,,little ,,review4 ,i have pondered over this maxim while reading ,mr4 ,steele's novel which is hailed by the critics as 8the essence of ,america40 ,the hero is essentially ,american1 horribly so4 ,if the 8average0 type of any nation is repulsive1 the ,american 8,average0 is a thousandfold more so4 ,for he is more petty than vicious4 ,the 8one man0 gives a confession of his life1 full of puny deeds1 from committing petty larceny to 8picking up0 a girl in the street and taking her to a 8swell0 hotel4 ,the nauseating details have the flavor of the adventure stories which you may hear at a gathering of travelling salesmen in a provincial hotel lobby4 ,what makes the boring ,odyssey intolerably loathsome is its note of syrupy ,christian penitence which the hero expresses after each penny-crime by falling on his knees and praying to his convenient god for forgiveness4 ,the book has been hailed as a masterpiece4 ,it is as far from a masterpiece as a lewd 8photo0 is from art4 ,the facts may be true1 even autobiographical1 as some critics presume2 the confessions will furnish good material for ,billy ,sunday and his lesser brethren4 ,but photography1 even if it be pornography1 is not art4 ,let me quote the ever-new ,edgar ,poe3 8,art is the reproduction of what the ,senses perceive in ,nature through the veil of the soul4 ,the mere imitation1 however accurate1 of what is in ,nature1 entitles no man to the sacred name of #8,artist4' 444 ,we can1 at any time1 double the true beauty of an actual landscape by half closing our eyes as we look at it4 ,the naked ,senses sometimes see too little--but then always they see too much40 ,i blush at the necessity of digging up ancient truths1 but1 my dear friends1 read the reviews of ,mr4 ,steele's novel and you will admit with me the crying need of teaching the ,american critics the ,a-,b-,c of art4 ,,icy ,,olympus ,,and ,,the ,,burning ,,bush ,the ,need for ,art in ,life1 by ,i4 ,b4 ,stoughton ,holborn4 ,new ,york3 ,g4 ,albert ,shaw4 ,the ,spirit of ,japanese ,art1 by ,yone ,noguchi4 ,new ,york3 ,e4 ,p4 ,dutton and ,company4 ,the complete man must consist of three essential fundamentals--the ,artistic1 the ,intellectual1 the ,moral 7mark the initials3 aim672 man's aim should be the full expression of his tripartite nature2 he must not leave out any of the three sides1 nor develop any one at the expense of the rest4 ,unfortunately our age has achieved only two-thirds of the diagram1 the ,i and the ,m1 remaining wretchedly poor in the ,a part4 ,when we look back we find that in the ,renaissance period the ,a and ,i were overdeveloped1 with the total lack of the ,m side4 ,the ,middle ,ages present the presence of ,a and ,m and the absence of ,i4 ,it is the ,greek ideal we must look for in our endeavor for the complete expression of man4 ,the ,greek gentleman1 the 1 the reserved1 the moderately good1 the not excessively just1 the harmonious1 the symmetrical--he shall be our standard1 our criterion for the completeness of being4 ,is not ,mr4 ,holborn clever and ,olympian and icy-cold8 ,now listen3 ,the evening had already passed when ,i returned home with that hanging of ,koyetsu's chirography under my arm4 8,put all the gaslights out6 ,do you hear me8 ,all the gaslights out6 ,and light all the candles you have60 ,i cried4 ,the little hanging was properly hanged at the 8togonoma0 when the candles were lighted1 whose world-old soft flame 7wasn't it singing the old song of world-wearied heart87 allured my mind back1 perhaps1 to ,koyetsu's age of four hundred years ago--to imagine myself to be a waif of greyness like a famous tea-master1 ,rikiu or ,enshu or1 again1 ,koyetsu1 burying me in a little ,abode of ,fancy with a boiling tea-kettle2 through that smoke of candles hurrying like our ephemeral lives1 the characters of ,koyetsu's writing loomed with the haunting charm of a ghost4 ,it is painful for me to stop quoting the religious ravings of dear ,noguchi4 ,and all this pathos is about a bit of old ,japanese writing6 ,i can see the indignant ,mr4 ,holborn's moderate condemnation of the ,oriental's unreserved passion1 canting the cold-beautiful 7nothing in excess74 ,but1 ,o forgive me1 ,olympian gods1 ,i must come back to the ,burning ,bush where ,yone ,noguchi worships ,hashimoro1 ,hiroshige1 ,kyosai1 ,tsukioka1 ,utamaro1 and other such rhythmical names2 ,i am aware of the abyss of excess that yawns before me1 but the exotic wine is so luring1 so intoxicating1 the call of the ,orient is so irresistible--,i plunge3 ,i will lay me down whenever ,i want to beautifully admire ,utamaro and spend half an hour with his lady 78,today ,i am with her in silence of twilight eve1 and am afraid she may vanish into the mist071 in the room darkened by the candle-light 7it is the candle-light that darkens rather than lights72 every book or picture of ,western origin 7perhaps except a few reprints from ,rossetti or ,whistler1 which would not break the atmosphere altogether7 should be put aside4 ,how can you place together in the same room ,utamaro's women1 for instance1 with ,millet's pictures or ,carpenter's ,towards ,democracy8 ,the atmosphere ,i want to create should be most impersonal1 not touched or scarred by the sharpness of modern individualism or personality1 but eternally soft and grey2 under the soft grey atmosphere you would expect to see the sudden swift emotion of love1 pain or joy of life1 that may come any moment or may not come at all4 ,i recall an evening at 8,the ,vagabonds10 where some ultra-modern paintings were exhibited and bravely discussed4 ,an idiotic friend of mine suggested that the ,vagabonds pass an evening in contemplating the canvasses in absolute silence4 ,the obliging chairman1 who is a fair parliamentarian1 had the suggestion voted upon with the result of one vote in favor of it4 ,i recall that evening in connection with ,noguchi's lines about ,koyetsu3 ,what need there be but prayer and silence8 ,there is nothing more petty1 even vulgar1 in the grey world of art and poetry1 than to have a too-close attachment to life and physical surroundings2 if our ,orientalism may not tell you anything much1 ,i think it will teach you at least to soar out of your trivialism4 ,i refuse to say any more about the book1 for ,i am tempted to quote him all the way through4 ,if you wish to forget yourself and your environment1 to melt away in the unreal atmosphere of ,japanese prints--read ,yone ,noguchi's little book4 ,k4 ,,the ,,slav ,,in ,,conrad ,victory1 by ,joseph ,conrad4 ,new ,york3 ,doubleday1 ,page and ,company4 ,the ,slavs are not adventurous people in the ,western sense of the word2 for the most part an inland race spread over the great monotonous ,plain1 they are inclined for melancholy introspective searchings and spiritual struggles rather than for actual physical adventures4 ,their writers need not create for their heroes an atmosphere of dizzying stunts and elemental cataclysms2 they find sufficient dramatic 8plot0 in the soul experiences of the restless yearning men and women who dwell not on a ,south ,sea island but in ordinary cities and villages1 fighting their human fights1 wrestling with ,god and man1 gaining their ephemeral victories1 but more often suffering defeats4 ,yet1 despite their lack of adventurousness1 the stories of the ,russian and ,polish writers1 from ,dostoevsky to ,kuprin and from ,orzezsko to ,zeromsky1 have seldom caused a yawn in their reader4 ,the checkered life of ,conrad has placed a distinct stamp upon his works1 distinct from both the writers of his race and from the ,western writers4 ,we observe a dualism in his art1 an eternal collision between fact and fiction1 between realism and symbolism4 ,his inborn ,slavic mysticism is weighed down by the ballast of his rich experiences1 and he continually wavers between the ,scylla of lyric melancholy and the ,charybdis of picturesque plot1 preserving the equilibrium at times more and at times less skilfully4 ,the reader thus finds in ,conrad that which he is after4 ,for my part1 ,i am rather distracted by the over-complex plot of ,victory2 ,i should much prefer to meet ,heyst and ,lena in less dizzy surroundings1 for then the interesting psychology of the quaint lovers would appear accentuated1 like the flame of a candle1 and would not be blurred by a pyrotechnic mass of startling coincidences and marvellous adventures4 ,the atmosphere of ,doom that breathes throughout the story is reduced in the end to a sensational ,eugne ,sue-like climax--a heap of dead bodies4 ,k4 ,,sick ,,idealism ,erdgeist 7,earth-,spirit73 ,a ,tragedy in ,four ,acts2 ,pandora's ,box1 by ,frank ,wedekind4 ,new ,york3 ,albert and ,charles ,boni4 ,poor1 foolish ,frank ,wedekind4 ,hapless ,idealist4 ,luckless dreamer4 ,have you read ,der ,erdgeist and ,pandora's ,box8 ,he wrote them--this enfevered fancier4 ,in two kindred flashes of madness he illuminated several hundred sheets of paper and out of them--out of their blood-shot words and illegitimate truths--a new figure is born for the bookshelf4 ,not an old figure in new binding and fresh rouge4 ,not a ,lescaut or a ,thas or a ,nana4 ,this mocking idealist of virtue removes indeed the eighth veil from ,salome4 ,he hurls into the midst of the twittering parlor thinkers and sex chatterers a most disturbing answer to the eternal question1 8,what is woman80 ,it didn't disturb me because ,i don't believe it4 ,and anyway1 ,i don't mean that kind of disturbance4 ,i mean1 virtuous reader1 it is impossible to consume ,wedekind without blushing4 ,if you were disappointed in ,shakespeare and ,balzac and ,casanova and ,jacques ,tournebrouche and could find nothing to blush at in them1 do not despair4 ,here is a fellow1 this ,wedekind1 who will daub a real blush out of a rouge pot1 a miserable fellow whom you can condemn and ostracize and1 having relegated him to his proper place1 enjoy thoroughly or secretly or not at all4 ,it was ,wedekind who first made people blush by a tasteless dissertation on the ignorant smugness recognized by society as the proper state for a young woman's mind4 ,he called it ,spring's ,awakening4 ,it was chiefly instrumental in awakening theatrical writers and managers4 ,they spread the blush at #b a head and waxed fat4 ,but how did they spread the blush8 ,did they talk like ,wedekind did8 ,did the mawkish plagiarist ,cosmo ,hamilton talk like ,wedekind--tastelessly1 vilely1 brutally1 and--horrors6--indelicately8 ,not he4 ,mr4 ,hamilton and the other get-rich-quick propagandists wouldn't talk that way for the world4 ,they are nice gentlemen4 ,not for them the idealist's leer4 ,rather the bathroom wink4 ,they will reveal a delicious girl in her delicious boudoir wearing a delicious nightie4 ,they will make her out a virtuous girl1 charmingly endowed but utterly stainless4 ,having established this fact they roguishly introduce into her boudoir an estimable young man and permit him to caress her dramatically4 ,but the whole proceeding is stainless4 ,it is drolly suggestive of unspeakable things--see box office receipts4 ,but suggestiveness is necessary to bring home to people the blindness of virtue and the dangers that beset the underpaid young women who ignorantly make it its own reward--7if that means anything74 ,anyway1 when the audience leaves it has been enlightened4 ,its taste has not been offended4 ,virtue has been shown to be a dangerous thing--that is1 uneducated virtue has4 ,everyone agrees4 ,and if not they disagree4 ,in either case the discussion properly conducted 7under the auspices of the 8,amalgamated ,virgins of the #bast and #bbnd ,wards07 is pleasing and improving4 ,the press argues delicately and in good taste about sex hygiene4 ,a new physiology is placed in the public schools containing information on the most effective way of brushing the teeth of the young and preserving the hair of the old4 ,and last week ,coroner ,hoffman told me that it was impossible to estimate how many girls were killed annually in ,chicago by abortive operations4 ,he put the number in the hundreds4 ,hooray6 ,death is the wages of sin4 ,but all quibbling aside1 what does this low fellow ,wedekind whom ,i started out by calling an idealist 7,i will prove it shortly7 do8 ,to begin with1 he talks about sex4 ,not about stockings and undergarments and perfumed kisses1 ankles1 asterisks and anomalies4 ,everyone knows that this kind of talk1 particularly when produced in drama form1 is in the first place inexcusable1 and in the second place unnecessary1 and in the third place vulgar4 ,and in the fourth place1 instead of making the best of a bad job--that is1 making his contributions a mental stimulus for snickering rous and ladies sensitive of their status--he insists upon being nasty without being covert4 ,is there anything more unpardonable8 ,nobody can enjoy nastiness4 ,the argument is an endless one4 ,it leads to nothing except blows or blushes4 ,as for the plays--,i almost forgot ,i was reviewing them--,wedekind explodes volcanically on the subject he treats1 and blows the question mark out of woman4 ,he takes all the crimes a policeman ever heard of1 rolls them up in a package of soft warm flesh and labels it 8,woman40 ,he cracks his showman's whip and calls attention to the texture of her skin and the white meat of her body4 ,and then he sends her forth to ruin1 to sweep like a polluted and wreck-strewn wave through life1 breaking at last in a dirty crest on a foreign shore and leaving a scum behind her4 ,are these the worst things ,wedekind could find to label woman--incest1 butchery1 lecherous animalism1 bloody business and abandonment8 ,who but a sick idealist would pick a careless and care-free prostitute as a flaming example of woman at her worst8 ,and is the power to destroy the most terrible power woman possesses8 ,wedekind imagines that people idealize sex and hold it a beautiful force4 ,poor ,wedekind1 where did he get such an idea8 ,and then he imagines that in reality sex passion is a smashing force that knocks people into each other's arms1 tumbles their heavens1 smears their lives4 ,he imagines that men and women love without thought1 mate with the irresponsibility of hyenas4 ,and imagining all this ,wedekind creates a sort of droll fiend to prove it4 ,behold her--a creature to confound saints and sinners1 to tear the beauty out of men's souls and dance with muddied feet upon the finery of life4 ,he dangles her before our eyes1 naked and glorious--the diseased siren of the ages4 ,and he calls her ,lulu1 the earth spirit4 ,he introduces her fresh and joyous and vibrating with tabooed emotions4 ,she is in love with her own beauty4 ,her body thrills her with its whiteness and its movement4 ,she already has felt its power4 ,were ,i in these plays ,i would as soon think of kissing ,lulu as biting a stick of dynamite4 ,but ,i am not an ideal conception4 ,there are other men--,wedekind digs them up from every corner of life--who fall at her feet and who shoot each other and themselves for the sake of being contaminated by her caresses4 ,queer men1 idealists4 ,they tumble about her1 whining1 cursing1 chanting1 forswearing their ,gods1 their souls and their vanities4 ,and she tumbles with them1 from one precipice down to another1 faithful only to her nervous system4 ,her only virtue is a complete absence of the quality4 ,if only ,wedekind had invested her with a single human moral conviction--merely for the sake of completing her diabolically4 ,if only he had made it possible for her to sin against something4 ,but she hasn't anything to sin against--not a conviction1 not a moral4 ,in this country she would be tried for her murders and treasons and sent to an asylum for incomplete people4 ,what she does she does simply4 ,when this hussy kills the father who owned her in order to save herself from his threats and then throws herself laughingly into the arms of the son1 she does it all without malice4 ,it is all natural1 spontaneous4 ,when she rebukes her own father for making love to her 7she tells him he's getting too old for such tricks71 when she murders1 deceives and pollutes she hasn't any feeling of doing wrong1 any reaction except one of satisfaction4 ,if this isn't an ideal ,i'd like to know what is4 ,if everybody was like she is there would be no sorrow or suffering in the world4 ,we would all be simple animals dashing around1 biting each other1 drinking from each other's throats1 feeling pain only when our nerves were touched and joy only when our nerves were touched4 ,wedekind imagines that this state is the true reflection of today4 ,he exaggerates what according to his experience may be a logical prejudice and hurls it brutally behind the footlights and into the bookcase4 ,lulu1 bedraggled1 walking the streets of ,london in the rain1 looking for prey1 ,lulu wheedling quarters out of ragged sensualists1 hiding her father and her lover and the woman who desires her while she 8entertains0 her victims1 ,lulu spreading disease1 and then ,lulu running wildly around the dirty garret in her chemise pursued and killed by a red-eyed1 nail-bitten ,jack the ,ripper--that is the end of woman4 ,poor ,wedekind4 ,what an exaggerated opinion of virtue he must have1--an idealist's4 ,there is but one more thing4 ,it is ,wedekind's master stroke4 ,he introduces a note of unselfishness and poetry as a climax4 ,lulu lies stabbed by the delighted and enthusiastic ,ripper4 ,and kneeling before the picture of her in her hey-dey is the 8,countess10 the woman who loved her--a homo-sexualist--an irritating creature4 8,i love you1 you are the star in my heavens10 she cries purely4 ,i don't remember whether the ,ripper kills her or not4 ,what a mess6 ,b4 ,h4 ,rabindranath ,tagore3 ,a ,biographical ,study1 by ,ernest ,rhys4 ,new ,york3 ,the ,macmillan ,company4 ,shrill ,chicago and thousands of similar examples of ,western civilization have more to learn from a book of this sort than can be readily explained4 ,taking ,chicago as fairly representative of the swiftest modernity1 one must blush for the city of 8,i ,will0 whenever he picks up ,ernest ,rhys's keen and quiet study of the talked-about ,hindu4 ,the blushes are for the vast herds whose only ventures upon new paths are to trample and set back1 whose only ideals center in or near the stomach4 ,in the white light of this book--reflected radiance from a first-magnitude luminary--,chicago and her kind appear as blundering heedless egotists who never listen4 ,their ears have not developed1 their eyes are turned to the ground4 8,i ,will0--what8 ,to grow strong1 high-minded1 clean of heart1 and wise of soul8 ,anything but this4 ,tagore1 by his very tolerance and avoidance of condemnation1 seems vehemently to remind the thinker of all this--by force of the law of contrast4 ,the clear-eyed ,easterner even points out a scant virtue or two in ,western civilization1 such as the value of mastering materials1 which the ,westerner himself overlooks when in self-defense2 and no blame is placed on the feverish civilizees4 ,tagore moves in a state of peace which is the very essence of activity1 and has no part in the fanatics' plan which begins with lassitude and ends in stagnation4 ,he is a man of action1 forceful1 definite1 wasting no energy nor sparing the use of it4 ,modern methods of doing things and 8getting there0 become mere feeble noises by comparison4 ,this is not the tragedy1 that ,westerners blunder and fail1--the ,east has its failures1--but it lies in the fact that ,america arrogantly chooses not to listen1 not to see and learn4 ,a few scattered listeners must catch the harmonies intended for a whole nation1 the majority having been sophisticated to extinction4 ,the herds in ,chicago and elsewhere will go on indefinitely in their own swaggering way1 blind and deaf1 sure beyond correction that the chief desirability lies in digestion1 decoration1 and diversion 444 while ,rabindranath ,tagore and the beautiful element he personifies are ever-present1 waiting within reach of all1 working out the biggest things in the world1 and living the last word of true joy4 ,ernest ,rhys is very gentle and sparing in making comparisons4 ,he leaves this to his reader1 and is mainly occupied with the re-creation of the steady magnetic atmosphere which is a natural attribute of ,tagore4 ,the paragraphs devoted to the boys' school at ,bolpur give one a feeling of something lost1 at least to those who thirsted through the schools of the ,u4 ,s4 ,rhys is successful in giving out an excellent idea of the great man and his works4 ,,herman ,,schuchert4 ,militarism is the ,german spirit4 ,militarism is the self-revelation of ,german heroism4 ,militarism is the heroic spirit raised to the spirit of war4 ,it is ,potsdam and ,weimar in their highest combination4 ,it is ,faust and ,zarathustra and ,beethoven's score in the trenches4 ,for even the ,eroica and the ,egmont ,overture are nothing but the truest militarism4 ,and just because all virtues which lend such a high value to militarism are revealed to the fullest extent in war1 we are filled with militarism1 regarding it as something holy--as the holiest thing on earth--,werner ,zombart4 ,have ,you ,read----8 7,in this column will be given each month a list of current magazine articles which1 as an intelligent being1 you will not want to miss47 ,the ,imagist ,number of ,the ,egoist1 ,may #a4 ,h4 ,d4 and ,imagism1 by ,may ,sinclair4 ,the ,egoist1 ,june #a4 ,redemption and ,dostoevsky1 by ,rebecca ,west4 ,the ,new ,republic1 ,june #e4 ,back of ,billy ,sunday1 by ,john ,reed4 ,the ,metropolitan1 ,may4 ,the ,old ,woman's ,money1 by ,james ,stephens4 ,the ,century1 ,may4 ,quack ,novels and ,democracy1 by ,owen ,wister4 ,the ,atlantic1 ,june4 ,can ,you ,read----8 7,in this column will be given each month a resum of current cant which1 as an intelligent being1 you will go far to avoid47 ,fiction reviews by ,llewellyn ,jones in ,the ,chicago ,evening ,post4 ,a typical literary judgment from ,the ,dial3 8,but1 in the main1 his wholesomely harsh utterances ought to be1 and must be1 in some degree1 tonic and bracing and curative40 ,an editorial from ,the ,new ,republic1 a journal of opinion whose function1 we believe1 is to circulate ideas3 ,during the past ten months the ,german ,ambassador at ,washington has done nothing to promote a better understanding between his own government and nation and the ,american government and nation4 ,he is consequently all the more to be congratulated upon his behavior at a moment of acute and dangerous contention between the ,united ,states and ,germany4 ,he has on his own initiative and perhaps at his own risk intervened on behalf of a possibly peaceful solution of the differences between the two governments4 ,he has sought by means of a frank talk with ,president ,wilson to break through the barrier of misunderstanding which the exchange of notes was building up between the two governments and to re-establish a genuine vehicle of communication4 ,the conversation may not lead to agreement1 but at the top of a peculiarly forbidding crisis it has at least made an agreement seem not impossible4 ,everybody who detests war1 everybody who hopes that the friendship between the ,united ,states and ,germany will not be involved in the wreckage of the hideous conflict1 will be grateful to ,count von ,bernstorff for his enterprise4 ,the ,reader ,critic ,mrs4 ,jean ,cowdrey ,norton1 ,hempstead1 ,long ,island3 ,since coming in contact with ,,the ,,little ,,review last ,december1 ,i have more than enjoyed each issue with your own impulsive1 warm-hearted1 dauntless personality coming through its pages2 and it is for that reason ,i do not hesitate to ask you for an explanation of a sentence that you wrote in the ,april number1 which led me to subscribe for that horrible output1 viz41 ,the ,masses4 ,you pronounced it indispensable to intelligent living4 ,on that ,i sent in a subscription1 and whereas ,i am not so awfully stupid ,i cannot understand how you1 who are evidently an artist with high ideals1 could possibly have such a magazine on your desk4 ,the cartoons are so untrue1 so damnably vulgar1--which good art never is1--the insistent harping on the shadows of life1 the exaggerated outlook which tinges the whole paper--quite as one-sided on its side as other papers are on theirs2 all of which ,i know must be in complete contradiction to your self4 ,it fills me with astonishment4 ,we acknowledge with our ever-increasing complex civilization that we must more than ever perhaps help each other2 but ,i don't just understand which class this perfectly rotten sheet is intended to reach4 ,if it's the so-called down trodden1 they are apt to have so much unhappiness any way ,i should say a good brace up does more good than harping on injustice in general2 as for the class that 8does not think10 its inartistic drawings alone would be enough to queer it4 ,when ,i am down and out--,i happen to be a working woman too--,i most decidedly do not want to be made more down and out by more woes1 that often spring from lack of intelligence1 that both rich and poor suffer alike from4 ,you will see ,i believe in the responsibility of the individual1 that you ,socialists rather avoid4 ,i do not expect you to answer this letter1 but ,i shall look in ,,the ,,little ,,review for a stray line that will give me some idea of your outlook4 ,i have so much to say in answer to this letter1 and so little time to say it that ,i have asked someone who shares my view to do it for me4 ,mr4 ,davis says it much better than ,i could1 anyhow4 ,and ,i must add that ,i am not a ,socialist4 ,i am an ,anarchist--which means1 an ,individualist2 which means everything that people think it doesn't mean4--,the ,editor4 ,f4 ,guy ,davis1 ,chicago3 ,i will try to indicate very briefly why ,i think so much of ,the ,masses4 ,the group that is getting it out are real students who know the crowd with all its hope and despair1 much better than the crowd knows itself4 ,they are interpreting the crowd4 ,the mass would never like ,the ,masses4 ,it is too true4 ,it is not got up for them4 ,the ,cosmopolitan is the ideal of the mass4 ,the ,masses is for the few brave spirits who want to know life as it is1 the shadows as well as the flights up into the sunshine4 ,the ,masses to my mind has as broad a range of feeling reflected in its pages as any magazine ,i know of4 ,humor1 tragedy1 light1 shade1 drama1 color1 yes1 and mud too1 as you say4 ,but isn't mud a part of life8 ,in some respects mud is the condition of life4 ,the great need of the sensitive mind of today is contact with the vital life-giving things and ideas which come from the earth4 ,the life of such a mind is like the life of a plant4 ,its roots must go down beneath the surface or it will die4 ,the ,masses to my mind is the spirit of the earth put into magazine form1 and to read it understandingly is to put the roots of the soul down into the earth where they should be if a healthy growth is desired4 ,one could get too much of that contact of course1 but that is another matter4 ,,free ,,poets v4 ,,free ,,verse4 ,as ,mr4 ,carter suggests in the following letter1 reprinted from ,the ,egoist1 ,i hope ,,the ,,little ,,review agree with ,mr4 ,aldington's point of view4 ,i hope the latter may be induced to answer ,mr4 ,carter at length in the same issue4--,the ,editor4 ,to the ,editor1 ,the ,egoist ,madam1--,i notice that in his contribution to the ,imagist number of ,the ,egoist ,mr4 ,harold ,monro1 writing on the history of the ,imagist movement1 states that the movement owes its origin to the large discovery of 8,poetry as an art0 my italics4 ,he then proceeds to point out that the ,imagist verse fails as poetry not because the writers love poetry less1 but because they love expression more4 ,being what it is it would be no better if ,tennyson had written it1 and no worse if it proved to be by1 say1 ,mr4 ,rudyard ,kipling4 ,indeed1 it is not poetry any more than little ,congreve's tiresome stream of depreciation is comedy1 despite what certain hopeless apprentice play critics assert to the contrary4 ,poetry1 ,i suppose ,mr4 ,monro would say1 is not expression but the thing expressed4 ,all this is good and true4 ,but ,mr4 ,monro fails to make one thing quite clear4 ,the ,imagists have been mistaken in their very conception of poetry which lives alone by the power to see it as ,art and not as 8an art40 ,i am convinced that some at least of the ,imagists are not without the secret of this power1 and if they will be guided by the vision they gain thereby1 to the extent of forgetting their literary erudition1 it will transform their conception of poetry4 ,the strict literature at which they aim is not proper poetry4 ,in fact1 literary technicians do not1 as a rule1 write poetry for the simple reason that even if they dream the poet's dream of reality they at once proceed to smother it under literary form4 ,we must look to those rich in poetical experience1 and free to express it1 for the true expression of poetry4 ,in plain words1 8,poetry as an art0 7that is1 as expression or form7 is not the same as ,poetry as ,art 7that is1 the thing expressed74 ,the distinction is so big and vital and so necessary to be maintained at this moment1 that ,i propose to consider it in an article in ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,i hope to prove that what poetry needs nowadays is free poets1 not free verse4 ,,huntly ,,carter4 ,as the nearest available ,imagist1 perhaps ,i may be permitted to comment 7without prejudice to the other ,imagists7 on ,mr4 ,carter's letter4 ,i am not quite sure that ,i know what ,mr4 ,carter means1 but ,i think he means that it is useless for a man to study classic quantity and mediaeval rhyme and modern free verse1 if he has no particular impulse or mood to make those studies valuable as a means of expression4 ,if that is what ,mr4 ,carter means ,i agree with him4 ,i will also agree that it is useless to try and teach a dumb man to lecture or a lame man to break the hundred yards record4 ,if a man is to lecture1 if he is to be an athlete1 we take for granted that in the first case he has ideas and a certain eloquence1 and in the second a good physique and an aptitude for sprinting4 ,mr4 ,carter would be a rotten trainer if he didn't make his man diet1 take cold baths and long walks and an occasional sprint2 he ought even to make him do a little boxing4 ,i feel1 somehow1 that ,mr4 ,carter never went in for violent exercise or that he relied upon his 8,soul-,flow0 or 8,art-,ebb0 to get him through4 ,now poetry is not so very unlike athletics4 ,you may have no aptitude for it1 and then all the training in the world won't get you in first2 you may shape very well1 but if you don't train you will be an 8also ran40 ,i believe in having an aptitude and in training it2 ,mr4 ,carter believes in having an aptitude and not training it4 ,i object to ,mr4 ,carter informing us of the existence of our 8of courses40 ,we take for granted that a man is sincere1 that he has lots of impulses and that he is 8free40 ,all that is the stuff out of which poetry is made4 ,the making of it1 the 8training0 is what we are immediately interested in4 ,we take for granted that we have the essentials of poetry in us or we should not attempt to write it4 ,we are now after clarity of form1 precision of expression4 ,mr4 ,carter1 like the majority of our fellow citizens1 does not value these things2 we find them present in every work of art which is beautiful and permanently interesting2 hence our anxiety to attain by practice that clarity and that precision which practice alone can give4 ,,richard ,,aldington4 ,if only every ,celt will refuse to fight for anything but the freedom of his own country1 the ,english will soon destroy themselves altogether1 and we shall inherit their language1 the only worthy thing they have1 and which their newspapers have not yet succeeded in debauching and degrading beyond repair4 ,there are still universities in ,england4 ,however1 they have made it a crime in ,england to write good ,english--for style itself is a form of truth1 being beauty2 and truth and beauty are as welcome in ,england as detectives in a thieves' kitchen4--,aleister ,crowley in ,the ,international4 ,,the ,,drama for ,may ,contained ,this ,interesting ,material ,,the ,,classical ,,stage ,,of ,,japan ,ernest ,fenollosa's ,work on the ,japanese 8,noh40 ,edited by ,ezra ,pound4 8,noh0 ,dramas 7from the ,fenollosa ,manuscript74 ,sotoba ,komachi4 ,kayoi ,komachi4 ,suma ,genji4 ,kumasaka4 ,shojo4 ,tamura4 ,tsunemasa4 ,kunasaka4 ,,the ,,theory ,,and ,,practice ,,of ,,the ,,censorship1 by ,thomas ,h4 ,dickinson ,,maurice ,,maeterlinck by ,remy de ,gourmont ,authorized translation by ,richard ,aldington4 ,,the 8,,book ,,of ,,the ,,pageant10 ,,and ,,its ,,development by ,frank ,chouteau ,brown ,,on ,,the ,,reading ,,of ,,plays by ,elizabeth ,r4 ,hunt ,a ,,pyramus-,,and-,,thisbe ,,play ,,of ,,shakespeare',s ,,time1 with notes by ,eleanor ,prescott ,hammond ,,the ,,published ,,play by ,archibald ,henderson ,,the ,,theatre ,,today--,,and ,,tomorrow1 a review1 by ,alice ,corbin ,henderson ,,the ,,german ,,stage ,,and ,,its ,,organization--,part ,,iii1 ,private ,theatres by ,frank ,e4 ,washburn ,freund ,,aspects ,,of ,,modern ,,drama1 a review1 by ,lander ,mac,clintock ,,the ,,japanese ,,play ,,of ,,the ,,centuries by ,gertrude ,emerson ,a ,,selective ,,list ,,of ,,essays ,,and ,,books ,,about ,,the ,,theatre ,,and ,,of ,,plays1 published during the first quarter of #aiae compiled by ,frank ,chouteau ,brown ,,the ,,drama for ,august will contain ,augier's ,mariage d',olympe1 with a foreword by ,eugene ,brieux2 an amusing account of his experiences with ,parsee drama1 by ,george ,cecil2 a paper on the ,evolution of the ,actor1 by ,arthur ,pollock2 a discussion of ,frank ,wedekind1 by ,frances ,fay2 a review of the work of the recent ,drama ,league ,convention2 a plan for an autumn community festival2 an outline of the nation-wide celebration of the ,shakespeare tercentenary1 and an article entitled ,depersonalizing the ,instruments of the ,drama1 by ,huntly ,carter4 ,the ,drama1 a ,quarterly #c4jj per year #gcf ,marquette ,building ,chicago ,the most difficult business in life is to get advertisements for an 8artistic0 magazine--particularly for one that has the added stigma of being a free lance4 ,we will give a commission of #e4jj to every one who secures a full-page 8ad0 for ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,write for particulars4 ,on the following pages you will find the 8ads0 we might have had in this issue1 but haven't4 ,mandel ,brothers might have taken this page to feature their library furnishings1 desk sets1 and accessories--of which they are supposed to have the most interesting assortment in town4 ,i learned that on the authority of some one who referred to ,mandel's as 8the most original and artistic store in ,chicago40 ,if they should advertise those things here ,i have no doubt the #a1jjj ,chicago subscribers to ,,the ,,little ,,review would overflow their store4 ,marshall ,field and ,company might have used this page--but they wouldn't4 ,i have been to see them at least six times4 ,they have a book department where you can actually find ,nietzsche when you want him without having the clerk say1 8,we'll be glad to order it40 ,such a phenomenon ought to be heralded4 ,carson1 ,pirie1 ,scott and ,company ought to advertise something1 though ,i don't know just what4 ,the man ,i interviewed made such a face when ,i told him we were 8radical0 that ,i haven't had the courage to go back and pester him for the desired full-page4 ,the ,carson-,pirie attitude toward change of any sort is well-known--,i think they resent even having to keep pace with the change in fashions4 ,a4 ,c4 ,mc,clurg and ,company could have used this page to advantage4 ,they have lots of books to advertise and they ought to want to advertise them in a ,chicago magazine4 ,i am willing to wager that they will3 ,i plan to interview them once a week until they succumb4 ,there is least excuse of all for the ,cable ,piano ,company4 ,they know what we think of the ,mason and ,hamlin ,piano and they know1 whether they advertise or not1 that we will keep on talking about it whenever we feel like appreciating a beautiful thing--which is rather often4 ,this page might have been used very profitably by ,mr4 ,mitchell ,kennerley to announce the publication of a book of poems by ,florence ,kiper ,frank4 ,i think it is to be out this summer--though of course ,i can't pretend to give the details accurately1 not having been provided with the 8ad40 ,but ,,the ,,little ,,review readers will want the book nevertheless4 ,poetry ,a ,magazine of ,verse #edc ,cass ,street ,chicago ,,padraic ,,colum1 the distinguished ,irish poet and lecturer1 says3 8,,poetry is the best magazine1 by far1 in the ,english language4 ,we have nothing in ,england or ,ireland to compare with it40 ,william ,marion ,reedy1 ,editor of the ,st4 ,louis ,mirror1 says3 8,,poetry has been responsible for the ,renaissance in that art4 ,you have done a great service to the children of light in this country40 ,,can ,,you ,,afford ,,to ,,do ,,without ,,so ,,important ,a ,,magazine8 ,,poetry publishes the best verse now being written in ,english1 and its prose section contains brief articles on subjects connected with the art1 also reviews of the new verse4 ,,poetry has introduced more new poets of importance than all the other ,american magazines combined1 besides publishing the work of poets already distinguished4 ,,the ,,only ,,magazine ,,devoted ,,exclusively ,,to ,,this ,,art4 ,,subscribe ,,at ,,once4 ,a subscription to ,,poetry is the best way of paying interest on your huge debt to the great poets of the past4 ,it encourages living poets to do for the future what dead poets have done for modern civilization1 for you4 ,one year--#ab numbers--,u4 ,s4 ,a41 #a4ej2 ,canada1 #a4fe2 foreign1 #a4ge 7#g shillings74 ,,poetry #edc ,cass ,street1 ,chicago4 ,send ,,poetry for one year 7#a4ej enclosed7 beginning 444444444 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 444444444444444444 to ,name 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444444444444 ,address 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444444444 ,,radical ,,book ,,shop ,headquarters for the sale of radical literature representing all phases of libertarian thought in religion1 economics1 philosophy1 also revolutionary fiction1 poetry and drama4 ,all current radical newspapers and magazines4 ,mail orders promptly filled4 ,send for catalogue4 #hag ,north 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a copy #a4jj a year ,mother ,earth ,magazine ,anarchist ,monthly ,,for ,,sale ,,by ,mother ,earth ,publishing ,association #bj ,east #abeth ,street1 ,new ,york1 ,new ,york ,,radical ,,book ,,shop ,headquarters for the sale of radical literature representing all phases of libertarian thought in religion1 economics1 philosophy1 also revolutionary fiction1 poetry and drama4 ,all current radical newspapers and magazines4 ,mail orders promptly filled4 ,send for catalogue4 #hag ,north ,clark ,street ,chicago1 ,illinois ,transcriber's ,notes ,advertisements were collected at the end of the text4 ,the table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,in the poem ,les ,condolances1 the line ,qu'il est sous les mers was moved from the end of the stanza beginning with 8,je n'insiste pas4 ,je suis venu vite1 to the end of the stanza beginning with 8,si notre avenir--souffrez que je cache where it most likely belongs4 ,the original spelling was mostly preserved4 ,a few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected4 ,all other changes are shown here 7before_/after73 p4 #i3 444 seines ,nachbarvolkes fhlt1 als wrs dem eigenen ,volk 444 444 seines ,nachbarvolkes fhlt1 als wrs dem eigenen ,volk 444 p4 #aa3 444 for life1 even if it be a fight against the whole world4 8,veder ,schlafpulver 444 444 for life1 even if it be a fight against the whole world4 8,weder ,schlafpulver 444 p4 #cd3 444 ,and where shall be the end at last4 444 444 ,and where shall be the end at last8 444 p4 #da3 444 ,i am such of the artificial inanities of the drawingroom--the polite 444 444 ,i am sick of the artificial inanities of the drawingroom--the polite 444 p4 #db3 444 ,schoengist nobility4 444 444 ,schngeist nobility4 444 p4 #db3 444 rumble bizarrely from the depths of every philosophical sub-celler they can 444 444 rumble bizarrely from the depths of every philosophical sub-cellar they can 444 p4 #db3 444 ,i am sick of their kinsmen1 of the surgical tongues who dissect1 who who 444 444 ,i am sick of their kinsmen1 of the surgical tongues who dissect1 who 444 p4 #ed3 444 ,huntley ,carter4 444 444 ,huntly ,carter4 444