,,the ,,little ,,review ,literature ,drama ,music ,art ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,,editor ,,october1 #aiae ,songs and ,sketches ,ben ,hecht ,the ,dionysian ,dreiser 8,the ,scavenger0 ,leather ,lane ,mitchell ,dawson ,etchings ,alexander ,s4 ,kaun ,the ,truth ,burt ,harris ,romain ,rolland ,ellen ,key ,poems-- ,witter ,bynner ,i ,shall ,come to ,you ,again ,sicilia ,christian ,marriage ,a ,glimpse at ,russia1 ,an ,editorial ,sophomoric ,epigrams ,a4 ,e4 ,d4 ,henri and ,manship ,c4 ,a4 ,z4 ,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 ,,october1 #aiae ,no4 #g ,copyright1 #aiae1 by ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson ,songs and ,sketches ,,ben ,,hecht ,i4 ,night ,who hath not sung to thee1 ,night8 ,so silent2 so deep4 ,but this night thou hast given thyself to me4 ,thy black wings brush silently against my soul4 ,thou hast come to me1 for ,i feel thee resting like a soft sorrow on my heart4 ,thou who art alive with the shadowed wounds of ages hast heard me crying out to embrace thee1 my soul beseeching thee to fold me against thy black bosom4 ,and in answer thou hast let the mysticism of thy wonder-gloom sink into me until my soul hath opened to receive its kiss4 ,tonight no one but ,i shall sing to thee4 ,for thou art my mistress4 ,thy blackness and mine have wedded4 ,and now thy dark kiss stingeth like a pain in me4 ,into thy long arms ,i give myself4 ,night1 ,night1 thou art so filled with longing4 ,i hear the soft lament of thy deep heart murmuring to me4 ,thy dim fingers trail across my face in a blind caress4 ,i feel thy yielding body that is spirit more than my spirit behind the somber veils thou wearest4 ,i possess thee and our sorrows swell into an ecstacy4 ,night1 thou art the beautiful shadow thrown upon the earth by my sorrow4 ,i have carried thee a buried miracle in my soul of souls until this hour--when thou hast taken wings and flown out of me to confront me4 ,night1 my ,night1 let me enter now into thy darkness until all life beats in vain outside the obscurity of my soul4 ,i would vanish from myself4 ,night1 my somber mistress1 upon thy face my tears shine as stars and make thee more beautiful4 ,night1 thou art infinity revealed4 ,i will stir thy ancient fires on thy cold lips until thou willst thunder to me with thy hidden voices out of thy vast silence4 ,night1 ,i open my heart to hear but ,i hear only my heart crying out4 ,speak4 ,beautiful one1 ,i sing to thee for bringing me the madness of silence4 ,i sing to thee1 for thou art mine2 for thou art fierce and pregnant with still wounds4 ,night4 ,behold6 ,i know thee4 ,i have seen the black flames of thy spirit that burn in the depths of thee4 ,i have heard the murmuring music of thy tears4 ,thou art glorious4 ,come4 ,come1 thou and ,i shall make of our sorrow rejoicing4 ,come1 place thy long1 cool fingers in mine and lead me beyond4 ,night6 ,night6 ,thy face is paling4 ,thou art stricken4 ,thou art treading silently away without me4 ,night--thou hast taken from me the pain of thy kisses4 ,there hath come into thy deep eyes a weariness4 ,thou art dying4 ,thou art dying from my arms4 ,the red glow of death burneth in thy face and is transforming thee4 ,night1 where shall ,i find thee again8 ,where shall ,i seek thee8 ,the dreadful day that is thy white shadow hath come4 ,and a part of me hath died4 ,sleep ,song ,i lay in a field of black flowers1 and there were purple veins and green that floated like thin worms about me4 ,there were soft thick shapes swaying liquidly1 moving unseen1 and ,i lay under them gripped by soft thick mists4 ,deep under them ,i lay hidden and they pulled me deeper into the field rolling softly around me4 ,a sorrow that had pursued me in my soul left me as ,i vanished1 left me and floated above the flowers4 ,and ,i saw a white face drifting away like a pale bubble over the top of my black garden4 ,a white face like a dim sorrow1 like a mute pain1 drifting far away2 the white face of a dead love searching in vain for me1 in vain4 ,the day was a white monster1 naked and bellowing2 grinning after me with its buildings that were jagged rows of dirty teeth4 ,there was no place to hide from my sorrow4 ,it lay in the sky that winked at me like a vast and blue and relentless eye4 ,and it lay in the sun that burned like a golden grotesque4 ,it lay in every laugh and in every beauty and in every little bird that lost itself over the water4 ,i felt the black flowers grow blacker and higher and ,i moved deeper into the blackness4 ,and then a sorrow that had pursued me in my soul left me as ,i vanished4 ,it floated away over the tops of the black flowers and ,i saw her white face moving from me like a pale bubble4 ,i saw the white face of a dead love moving beyond the soft shapes that swayed unseen2 drifting away like a mute pain and searching in vain for me1 in vain4 ,i ran1 but there was no place to run2 for the monster day ran after1 glaring like a white torment1 shouting and scampering after1 and there was no place to hide4 ,now the day was a white grave opened to me4 ,now it was a wide wave breaking over me4 ,and now it was a great bird1 white-breasted and grey-pinioned1 flying after me and after1 bearing my sorrow in its blue beak2 racing after me until its heart burst in the west and it sank1 bleeding gorgeously across the sky4 ,and still ,i ran2 but now the night came1 running after1 and there was no place to hide from my sorrow4 ,i fled in the streets before the darkness4 ,but the stars found me and the trees loomed after me and the houselights followed me and the darkness wept around me--and they were my sorrow4 ,but there on the distant verge1 where the night sinks exhausted into the blood-red arms of the white monster leaping over the world again1 ,i fell2 deep ,i fell4 ,far into a hidden land where ,i lay hidden2 hidden in a field of black flowers that were threaded with purple veins and green floating like thin worms about me4 ,autumn ,song ,my heart scatters tears over the dark day4 ,the dull silvered poplar leaves float in the air like dead butterflies4 ,it is the autumn come again1 speaking with its soft-tongued winds to the trees and to me4 ,it is cold4 ,i have lost my warmth4 ,i have lost thee4 ,and the autumn has come again to tell me of it4 ,listen to the sad-tongued winds4 ,see the storm faltering in the street4 ,it is cold4 ,it is the autumn come again1 the autumn in whose wild sad treasures we once laughed2 once when your hot hands reached out to me like a bright cry mocking the somber lisping of the twilight season4 ,where are the songs ,i sang1 the songs that leaped out of flame8 ,do they echo still in your listening ears8 ,do they fall like warm tears in your heart8 ,see the winds droop wearily into the trembling tree arms4 ,see the street grows pale4 ,a dying panoply drifts across the grey-girthed sky4 ,ho1 ,life1 ,i have still a song for you4 ,though you come whispering to me from the golden tombs of youth1 from the scarlet graves of love1 ,i will make of the lament you bring me--music4 ,i will make of the dull tears you bring me--lyrics4 ,i will clothe the grey ghosts of sorrow in rich trappings4 ,for it is only she who hath died4 ,it is only she whom ,i loved with all my soul4 ,though my heart scatter tears over the dark day they are the tears of plenty4 ,for her death hath enriched me4 ,for the autumn is come again speaking with its soft-tongued winds to the trees and to me things ,i have never heard before2 things that her white breasts never told me2 things that her burning lips never said to me2 wild1 sad things that the flame from whence my songs once leaped never held for me4 ,the dull silvered poplar leaves float in the air like dead butterflies1 and they are beautiful4 ,death ,song ,last night you came and sat by my bed in a little dark room and boasted to me like a child4 8,i have come to destroy the sun10 you said2 8,i will take the great1 yellow sun in my fingers and blow on it once and it will go out like a match40 ,and ,i wondered1 because the sun is so large and hot1 how such a little one as you could blow it out like a match4 ,but you said3 8,i will blow once into the night and the stars will sputter like little flames in a great wind and scatter away in ashes4 ,and the moon will spin around and around like a bright coin until it breaks into little black bits40 ,and ,i wondered because the night was so far1 how such a little breath as yours could reach into its soul4 ,but you said3 8,i will go out and touch the trees and the green leaves will shrivel and the brown trunks will vanish4 ,i will breathe just once on the houses1 the great big houses of iron and wood and stone1 and they will sway like long pieces of black cloth in the wind and they will melt into a dark mist40 ,and ,i wondered and wondered4 ,but you said3 8,in an instant ,i will walk up and down all the roads you have known2 ,i will wander in all the fields you have wandered and pass through all the highways you have been4 ,and each place that ,i move in will cease to be4 ,under my feet the earth will become a powder and vanish40 ,then you said1 for ,i had ceased to wonder and was listening sadly3 8,i will go to your beloved whose hair is like the silk on the corn and whose eyes are like the deeps of the sea and ,i will smile on her and she will become as nothing4 ,she will become as a speck of dust and she will never be again40 ,and ,i wondered again how such a little one as you could make my beloved into a speck of dust when she was so beautiful4 ,but you said3 8,i will touch all the faces you have seen with the point of my finger and they will change into little dark clouds and ,i will blow them away with the stars and the moon and the yellow sun40 ,and ,i thought of all the faces you boasted to destroy and wondered--because there were so many4 ,but you said3 8,do you remember the little bird you saw hopping on the stones in the park one day3 ,i will go find the little bird and lay my hand on her and she will never hop on the stones again40 ,i remembered the little bird4 ,and you said3 8,do you remember the wide1 green water that rolled itself into a great colored ball and bounced up and down under the sun8 ,listen--,i will go and blow on the water and it will disappear into a single drop4 ,and ,i will bring this drop back to you to wear in your eyes when they close40 ,and ,i wondered and wondered4 ,but you said3 8,listen3--there is an old woman who smiles when she thinks of you4 ,i will walk up behind her and touch her gently on the shoulder and she will vanish40 ,and ,i murmured1 8,do not touch the old woman40 ,but you said3 8,listen3--,i will lay my hand over all the wild notes and sweet notes you have heard and they will be hushed4 ,i will kill the songs that lie unborn in the earth and the sea and the cherry trees and in the white throats of birds and women and in the hearts of men40 ,and ,i wondered how such a little one as you could hush so great a chorus4 ,but you came closer to me and said3 8,i have come to destroy the world for you1 to pluck out every little blade of grass and every flower1 to brush away the stars and kick over the hills and tear up all the fields40 ,it was dark in the little room where we were and ,i sighed4 ,and you came closer to me and said3 8,i will gather up in a great1 black bag everyone and everything and every ,god you have known and ,i will drop them into a great1 black hole4 ,and listen3--and then you will be alone40 ,,ii4 ,the ,synagogue ,this street in the ghetto looks at night ,like a prison corridor1 ,and the houses facing it are dark cells4 ,and then you come to a block where the rickety1 thin tenements ,rise like gnawed1 patient pencils tracing crazy star lines ,in the sky4 ,and then you come to the ,synagogue of ,judas the ,servant1 ,a little church of the ,jews ,crouching on its knees ,and enveloped in the rags of cheap saloons and hovels4 ,it thrusts its iron star into the night ,like a strange voice whispering in a dark place4 ,and its stained walls impregnated with an ancient faith ,murmur stoically to the stars of burning prayers and hopeless sobs ,and other things they have never heard4 ,and if you stand before it for a time ,strange wild things will cry out of the shadows1 ,and you will see the torn1 bleeding image of a race ,whom ,christ crucified4 ,in the ,sun ,o what a day6 ,the buildings are bursting into bloom-- ,huge1 dazzling flowers sweeping against the heaven2 ,dizzy ferns waving like dreadful fans under the flying clouds4 ,the shining windows flutter down like a shower of golden petals4 ,o what a day6 ,the buildings are crashing into bloom2 ,gleaming stalks of purple sprawling with a graceful frenzy into space4 ,smoke monsters dance lazily over their heads4 ,the sky swims like a blue butterfly in and out among them4 ,the streets race away4 ,a golden wind sweeps with a roar through the world that has become a fierce gorgeous garden1 and it nods breathlessly4 ,out of its blazing depths color leaps and the growling music of a torn ,god singing in pain4 ,o what a day4 ,beauty bursting into madness4 ,on the ,beach ,the lake comes gliding in and in1 ,and gliding out it goes1 ,running up and back on the ribbon of the beach ,that plays with its silver toes4 ,and the lake reaches down to the hem of its gown ,with its cool curved wind of a hand1 ,and throws out its petticoat lacy and white ,with a swish-swish over the sand4 ,its blue dress fluttering1 tinted with the sun1 ,hangs from its girdle white-spaced1 ,and a far ship riding with its nose in hiding ,stands black like a buckle at its waist4 ,it begins to rain and the lake birds fly ,with a whir and an angry screech1 ,as the thin grey fingers reach down from the sky ,and tap1 tap faintly on the beach4 ,digging little holes for an elfin folk1 ,pointing up the water like a grate2 ,and the sky moves closer like a gust of smoke ,and behind it crouch and wait ,great half shapes and grey cloud apes1 ,and a grey1 old water crew1 ,and the lake birds fly with their wings awry1 ,searching in their faces for the blue4 ,now the long rain chants in the grasses on the hill1 ,and the lake runs in with a frightened sound1 ,and sullen and wet the sand sinks low1 ,like a heavy brown cloud on the ground4 ,on the hill top green the trees bend away ,and brood as they lower and bend1 ,and grey things walk beyond the grey ,where the sands and the waters end4 ,the rain has stopped and the earth like a bride ,has hung white petals in her hair1 ,and the sky draws back till the white clouds ride ,like soft white gardens in the air4 ,and a butterfly flutters like an endless note ,over the lake's thin brink1 ,and the sand takes off its heavy brown coat ,and the cloud apes vanish and sink4 ,the gay water dawns and the grasshopper pipes ,and the lake glides in anew1 ,dressed in greens and in awning stripes1 ,and little birds leap toward the blue4 ,the ,dionysian ,dreiser ,theodore ,dreiser is the greatest novelist in ,america4 ,it is not a distinction4 ,he has written poor novels4 ,his latest novel1 ,the 8,genius0 published by ,john ,lane ,company is loose in parts4 ,it limps4 ,it loses its breath4 ,it grows thin4 ,but it is a novel of sweep and magnitude1 of sledge hammer blows and fine chiseling4 ,in the caramel chorus of ,america's chirping fictionists ,dreiser raises the smooth1 virile voice of an artist4 ,and there is no voice like his in ,america4 ,i prefer to write of what ,dreiser has done in ,the 8,genius0 than to tell in detail of what it is about4 ,calmly1 aloofly with a consummate dispassion ,dreiser has thrust his magic pen home into the heart of ,american ,puritanism4 ,god forgive him4 ,god forgive the publishers4 ,god forgive everybody who reads the book and forgive me who write about it4 ,for ,american ,puritanism is a sacred thing1 as sacred as the gilt on the cathedral altar places1 as hallowed as the bathroom in a bawdy house4 ,and ,dreiser has peeled off the gilt and ruthlessly thrust open the door4 ,may he be cursed with the wrath of an avenging public conscience4 ,may he be made to wither under the distinction of being a maniacal sensualist1 a libidinous ruffian1 a lascivious distiller of corrupting langours4 ,amen4 ,against the gray-dirt background1 the shallow-hued smears of his many contemporaries1 ,dreiser's book stands forth like a red cry of truth4 ,it is not the book of a man enraged with the narrowness of a country1 sputtering against the insipidity of its composite ideals4 ,dreiser never descends to the punitive hectoring of a ,robert ,herrick4 ,nor does he join the plaintive assaults upon the pusillanimous conventions which characterize the 8advanced0 fiction of the country4 ,he does not make his men and women vehicles for the antiquated day dream of brotherhood bosh4 ,he does not prostitute his work in dramatizing the current quibbles1 marketing asinine public convulsions in the literary capsules so commonly compounded by our quack 8creators40 ,all these things he does not do and if the reading public of today will not reward him1 the ,god of ,dostoevsky1 ,flaubert1 ,huysmanns1 ,shakespeare and ,ambrose ,bierce will4 ,what ,dreiser does do is tell a straightforward story1 tell it with all the painstaking genius of the old ,flemish painters4 ,and he uses for his background not the isolated strata of any single calling1 but a country--your world and mine and our neighbor's4 ,life is greater than any of its truths1 sings ,theodore ,dreiser4 ,there are many kinds of good1 many kinds of standards and many kinds of virtue4 ,there is the virtue of farmer ,blue1 the solid1 masculine1 clear and open virtue rooted in the laws of the land and the rigmarole of society2 thriving on the long1 brown roads1 the ploughed fields and the homely beauties of existence4 ,and there is the virtue of ,eugene ,witla1 the aesthetic1 vibrating pursuit of beauty rooted in the soul of the artist1 thriving on the illusive lust of women1 the intangible urge of inspiration2 spitting in the face of laws unnatural to it and the fallacies that would be its fetters4 ,yes1 says ,dreiser1 7,i do not quote him71 life is a wide field bearing on its bosom beautiful flowers that do not resemble each other and that require widely different care and nourishment4 ,to think that such commonplaces should be distinctive notes in the art of a country6 ,but they are4 ,if you have read these things into novels before you have not read them into ,american novels4 ,i do not recall a single hero in ,american fiction1 who is not a ,puritan1 who does not suffer when he sins1 whom the indulgence of his desire for women does not inspire to repentance and 8reform0 and success as the blue literary laws of ,america demand4 ,for further particulars on this general subject see ,mr4 ,mencken's fulmination in last month's ,smart ,set4 ,on this broad canvas of thought it is that ,dreiser works4 ,in his new novel he begins in a little town in ,illinois4 ,out of the midst of a mediocre family living in the concentric provincialism of the middle west he launches his young hero ,witla--a lad suffering from dreams and stomach trouble and a vague distinguishing unrest4 ,his types are masterpieces4 ,his style1 shorn of pretentious reticence or rhetorical pomp1 is the painstaking and poetical diction he revealed in ,jennie ,gerhardt4 ,but he is not infallible4 ,there are sentences1 paragraphs which jar4 ,although his strokes in delineating character and situation are swift and certain1 his language often seems lame1 his words watery1 his phrases trite4 ,but these are as the flaws of a panoramic pen crowded at moments to a point of impatience and not the faults of a weak writer4 ,the effect is untouched4 ,his people breathe out of the pages4 ,they are personalities4 ,from beginning to end ,dreiser reveals a psychology of character amazing in its range and detachment4 ,witla as a boy lives in ,alexandria1 ,illinois4 ,dreiser traces the development of his soul and sex and struggle out of the blanketing bourgois of his birthplace4 ,the young ',gene answers the call of beauty1 without knowing what it is that calls him4 ,he comes to ,chicago4 ,he is a laundry wagon driver1 a collector for an installment furniture house1 a student of the old ,art ,institute1 a worker in the art department of a newspaper4 ,dreiser traces him out of the half way stratas of ,chicago to ,new ,york1 to success1 and then through a labyrinth of incidents all interesting and big4 ,he follows him through one development after another until ,witla1 the painter1 realizes himself4 ,i cannot begin to tell what the book is about4 ,it is partially a depiction of the struggle between an artist husband and a 8good woman0 who is his wife1 partly the struggle between the flesh and the spirit of the same husband and the tale of their final adjustment4 ,it is an ,odyssey of a type of man in whom the future of the arts rest as they always have rested4 ,in the #gcf pages there are persons of every type4 ,you will meet everyone you have known and many you have dreamed of knowing4 ,every shade of womanhood flashes between the covers4 ,it is as a novel should be--complete4 ,it tingles with the quick spasmodic life of the city1 of the country1 the factory1 the field1 the drawing room4 ,and above all1 it breathes the atmosphere of ,america's art life1 the lively1 struggling workers of the studio4 ,witla1 however1 remains ,dreiser's calm1 masterful argument against the one-sided perversions of the ,puritan4 ,witla is a genius4 ,what are you going to do with him1 you proselyting blue stocking8 ,such a detached study in perfidious polygamy is enough to damn the very printers who set the type for the book4 ,here is a man of strong ideals1 great productive talent1 an indispensable contributor to life1 who naively considers setting up an establishment for his pretty model just after he has proposed matrimony to the woman he loves at the time with all the finest desires of his nature2 a miserable fellow who ruins and ravishes without compunction every shapely creature who crosses his path4 ,he is without even unconscious morality1 innate morality4 ,woman is beauty when she is anything and to possess beauty is the motive force in his life4 ,his eye possesses the beauty of the city's filth and dirt1 the beauty of landscape1 his mind possesses the beauty of books and talk and other minds1 and his body the beauty of passion wherever he encounters it4 ,logical1 natural1 primitive and entirely artistic4 ,but immoral8 ,god1 yes4 ,no one woman can satisfy a man unless he deliberately stunts himself1 is the ,dreiserian ,gospel4 ,a man needs blonde women1 brunette women1 short ones and tall ones1 radical ladies and conservative creatures--that is1 a man like ,witla does4 ,and is ,witla a supreme type1 a distinctive ,sanine sort of fellow8 ,not a bit of it4 ,whether ,dreiser thought he is1 ,i don't know4 ,he doesn't say4 ,but he isn't4 ,he is man and not artist in his 8sins40 ,there is naturally more color to his escapades1 to his 8pursuit of beauty10 for he is the 8genius0 with an eye to shades and a soul for nuances not possessed by his more hum drum brothers4 ,to him matrimony is naturally a pit1 a degradation1 a series of cages1 for he is the eternal masculine4 ,but how many men are there who have always been faithful to their wives8 ,what8 ,i do not know of a single one4 ,in his high lighted type of ,witla1 ,dreiser tells of this rudely1 brutally and beautifully--with the indifference of a ,juggernaut and the cunning of a magician4 ,really1 you of the firm-fireside-faith1 what is there to be done8 ,here is the ,dionysian dastard who dares proclaim that life is a decent1 orderly routine and that life is also a wild1 warm passionate thing2 that it is also a flame in which there is only one color1 the red1 golden color of youth4 ,and the answer is--howl4 ,a howl will go up1 ,i swear it4 ,it will start from the critics4 ,i can almost read their forthcoming reviews as ,i close my eyes4 8,a sensually depraved and degenerate type40 8,striking at the bed rock of public solidarity1 of home happiness1 of everything decent and worth while40 ,and ,america's reading public--8,horrible1 filthy40 ,howl1 you who have stultified your artists and buried them under the gingerbread morality of your own monotonous lives4 ,dreiser is the one novelist being published in ,america today who doesn't listen to you1 who describes you at your various bests1 who wrings the pathos and joys out of your little worlds2 who paints in with the brush of a universal art what you and ,i are doing in ,alexandria and ,chicago and ,new ,york and all the milk-station stops between4 ,i am not a disciple of the ,dreiserian ,gospel4 ,i would like to argue with him the certain superiorities of monogamy for the artist4 ,but he has limned a hero who is not a sugar-coated moralizer4 ,he has ignored superbly the mob-begotten mandates of literary excellence4 ,whatever his faults of composition or construction1 and there are not so many as his friends endeavor to make out there are1 he has magnificently booted the reading public1 the morally subsidized critics and the very publishers in the coarsest regions of their bodies--their souls4 ,and for these things ,i hail him as the greatest novelist in the country4 ,i acclaim him as the only real1 uncontaminated genius of these ,states and pray to ,god that my friend ,sherwood ,anderson will hurry up and get published so that there will be two of them4 ,,the ,,scavenger4 ,leather ,lane ,three restless gas-jets ,in ,leather ,lane2 ,a thousand faces1 ,wandering in the night1 ,too dull for pain4 ,god saw2 ,god quenched the light4 ,but ,god had not choked ,the clamor of gaunt curses ,that stalk in ,leather ,lane1 ,uncloaked1 ,blatant with strength of dour years4 ,god heard2 ,god stopped ,his ears4 ,ho6 ,god had forgot ,his nose1 ,and in the stench that rose ,from ,leather ,lane1 ,god died4 --,mitchell ,dawson4 ,etchings ,,alexander ,s4 ,,kaun ,i4 ,gratitude ,on the play-grounds4 ,the pretty girl and ,i withdrew from the noisy festival to the desolate fountain4 ,it was too hot to think1 so ,i merely talked4 ,an old1 ragged1 grey-bearded1 gibbous ,jew1 with a basket over his arm1 was slowly approaching us4 ,the meaningless eyes of the pretty girl clouded4 8,peddlers are not allowed on the grounds4 ,he must have sneaked in40 ,the ,jew stood at our side4 ,he said nothing1 but his timid eyes appealed4 ,it was too hot to think1 but for a moment ,i thought that a waft of eternity breathed upon me from out the sad1 timid eyes1 and from out the folds of the soiled old coat1 and from out the clotty grey beard of the descendant of ,isaiah and the ,maccabees4 8,i shall buy some peaches1 yes80 ,the pretty girl twitched her little nose4 8,but they are dusty40 8,oh1 no4 ,see1 they are covered40 ,the sad1 timid eyes smiled at me4 ,i looked into the depth of those eyes-of-ages4 ,a half frivolous notion passed through my mind3 ,i raised the fruit1 and pronounced the ancient ,hebrew blessing3 8,barukh atah1 ,adonay1 elohenu melekh haolam1 bore pri haetz40 7,blessed art ,thou1 ,o ,lord1 our ,god1 creator of the fruit of the tree47 ,the sad eyes became faintly radiant and moist4 ,a suggestion of a smile appeared around the hairy mouth4 ,the lips mumbled something inaudible4 ,a lean brown hand rubbed the glossy side of the coat1 and tremblingly extended to me4 ,i grasped it1 embarrassed4 8,lange ,johren magt ,ihr hoben1 lange ,johren auf ,euch60 7,long years may you have1 long years unto you67 ,i turned to the pretty girl4 ,with her handkerchief she was diligently rubbing off a drop of juice from her white blouse4 ,it was too hot to think1 so ,i resumed our playful talk4 ,,ii4 ,nocturne ,it was night1 and soft and blue and starry4 ,a uniformed nurse emerged from the dark alley of the park1 and heavily dropped on the bench where ,i sat4 ,for some time she leaned backward1 her eyes closed1 her breast heaving1 her mouth half open4 ,then she looked widely1 straightened herself1 sighed deeply1 and casually glanced at me and at my box of paints4 8,are you an artist80 8,yes4 ,obviously1 you are a nurse80 ,she nodded1 and burst forth into a rapid talk1 as if she had long been waiting for an opportunity to unburden herself4 8,just got off duty4 ,see those lighted windows across the road8 ,that is our hospital4 ,ah1 ,i shan't stand it much longer4 ,moans and groans1 suffering1 tears1 madness--,god6 ,you know1 it starts at twilight4 ,as soon as the sun sets all the miseries get loose4 ,even the quiet patients become delirious and raise bedlam4 ,and so till midnight4 ,it will drive me insane4 ,give me a cigarette1 will you8 ,there is nobody around at this time40 ,her 8shop talk0 bored me4 ,silently ,i gave her a cigarette and a light1 and watched her inhaling the smoke eagerly and intently4 ,her grey striped dress with the tight white apron outlined a light1 slender body1 a supple breast1 and full strong arms4 ,her face was in the shadow1 but my professional eyes noticed its lovely oval contours4 ,the little white cap seemed toyishly small on the vast mass of disobedient hair4 ,she flung away the cigarette1 and turned to me3 8,thanks1 stranger4 ,why don't you say something8 ,ah1 what a night6 ,see the blue mist away there beneath the trees1 and see that big oak--it's like a tower4 ,gee1 ,i am getting romantic4 ,ah1 what a night60 ,i was amused with her half bookish1 half street-talk4 ,somehow she did not irritate me1 as the rest of the people did1 with her trivial remarks on things which ,i believed to belong exclusively to the realm of colors and music4 8,look60 ,she grasped my hand4 8,see the star falling8 ,there1 it dropped into the lagoon4 ,ah1 ,i smell hyacinths1 do you8 ,hey1 if you are not going to say something1 ,i'll smash you60 ,she snatched off my hat1 threw it high up in the air1 and1 laughing loudly1 ran away1 dropping her cap on the grass4 ,i picked it up1 and pursued her4 ,she was a swift runner1 and we raced a long while across the wide lawn before ,i caught her4 ,in the dim bluish light she stood at my side1 a savage figure with stormy cascades of hair over her face and shoulders1 with flashing eyes1 open mouth1 dilating nostrils4 ,in my professional delight 7,i never lose my self-consciousness7 ,i seized her by the waist and lifted her up above me4 ,she waved her good arms and shrieked in joy1 tossing her ,medusa-head1 arching her tense chest1 quivering in ecstacy4 8,hey1 there4 ,cut that out60 ,a husky policeman on a motorcycle approached us4 ,he dismounted1 looked at us 7,i was still holding her in the air71 and burst into a hoarse guffaw4 8,well1 ,i'll be4444 ,beat it now4 ,it's improper40 ,i handed her the mussed white cap4 ,she twisted it with her fingers1 and her lips muttered somnolently3 8,and at six thirty in the morning ,i must be on duty44440 ,,iii4 ,will to ,power ,at a crossing line on a ,saturday night about #b ,a4 ,m4 ,tired men1 women1 children1 families1 couples1 waiting for a street car4 ,some lean towards the wall1 some sit on the sidewalk1 on the garbage-box1 on the curb4 ,dull silence4 ,the ,june night rolls on indifferently4 ,suddenly the calm is disturbed by violent screams and oaths4 ,a woman is hurled out by invisible hands from the corner-hotel4 ,she crosses the street towards the waiting crowd1 staggers1 waves her big handbag1 and swears hideously4 ,no response4 ,the ennui on the faces remains unstirred4 ,the coarse solo of the prostitute1 who ejaculates fantastically ugly verbs1 nouns1 adjectives1 bespatters the velvet night4 ,a baggy figure in a battered derby rises from the sidewalk1 and hesitatingly accosts the woman4 8,you stop this noise44440 ,then threateningly3 8,want to take a ride80 ,her foul flux interrupted1 the woman thrusts her red face into the man's1 and hisses half coquettishly1 half contemptuously3 8,a ride8 ,with you1 sweetheart8 ,sure60 ,he grabs her by the shoulder4 ,his face grows pale4 8,come on1 now4 ,move on1 ,i tell you60 ,the woman shrieks and struggles4 8,let go6 ,look what he is doing to me6 ,who are you8 ,you are not a detective4444 ,let go60 ,the crowd does not stir4 ,some one yawns desperately4 ,a little boy whimpers1 and clings to his dozing mother4 ,the man drags his shrieking victim4 ,he pulls out a chain of keys1 and swings it triumphantly4 ,the woman screams and hits her assailant on the face with her heavy handbag4 ,new figures appear from the adjoining streets4 ,a voice is heard3 8,maybe he is not a detective4444 ,hey1 where's your star80 ,the man's pale face twitches convulsively4 ,the woman feels encouraged1 strikes him short1 rapid blows1 and shouts wildly3 8,he is not a detective6 ,look what he is doing to me60 ,a big fist plunges into the man's face4 ,he gasps1 and falls4 ,when he rises1 a shower of fists meets him4 ,many of the erstwhile indifferent figures are now up1 eager to lay a hand on the imposter4 ,like a toy1 he falls and rises1 looking astonished1 in a trance4 ,the long-awaited car suddenly plunges into the imbroglio4 ,men1 women1 children1 push and justle at the narrow entrance4 ,the man stands alone1 hatless1 wiping a bleeding face with his sleeve1 muttering faintly3 8,i am a detective4444 ,i am40 ,the night rolls on indifferently4 ,the soul of music is something more than the soul of humanity expressing itself in melody1 and the life of music something more than an audible dramatization of human life4--,arthur ,symons4 ,the ,truth ,,burt ,,harris ,the truth1 my friend8 ,there is no truth4 ,it is impossible for the human mind to attain the truth4 ,you can tell the truth with reservations1 with omissions4 ,perhaps you can speak the truth that is only part truth4 ,yes1 that is often done by virtuous people and by clever people4 ,but to speak the truth1 the whole truth and nothing but the truth1 to place your soul naked before either ,god or man1--that1 my friend1 is impossible4 ,i have listened to women lie4 ,sometimes it is only necessary to watch4 ,and it is the same with a man4 ,what8 ,a man will tell the truth before ,god8 ,you are quite wrong4 ,a man will lie to himself and he will lie to his ,god4 ,i know4 ,i listened to a man lie to ,god4 ,i will tell you the story4 ,the man's name was ,henry ,spencer4 ,you perhaps remember it4 ,he was a murderer4 ,one of his victims was a tango teacher named ,mrs4 ,allison ,rexroat4 ,when the body of ,mrs4 ,rexroat was found behind a clump of bushes in a lonely spot the police somehow blundered upon a clew4 ,in four days they traced the murder of the woman to ,henry ,spencer4 ,they wove a net of evidence about him4 ,oh they are clever1 sometimes1 my friend4 ,on the fifth day ,henry ,spencer sat in the police captain's office and they sweated him4 ,after five hours he confessed4 ,ordinarily this means nothing4 ,i have seen criminals confess to crimes of which they were innocent4 ,sweating is an unintelligent process1 but then criminals are unintelligent persons and for a stupid mind the whole affair becomes quite an ordeal4 ,the police captain says1 8,you did40 ,the criminal replies1 8,i didn't40 ,it is very simple1 my friend1 but very wearing2 particularly when there are five policemen to say 8,you did10 and none but yourself to say 8,i didn't40 ,but it happened this time that the policemen blundered upon a real confession4 ,after five hours ,henry ,spencer jumped to his feet and shouted1 8,yes1 ,i did4 ,i killed her40 ,he was led away4 ,two days later he repeated his confession and elaborated on it4 ,he sketched the murder1 described the events leading up to it4 ,the policemen1 highly elated1 rushed out and verified all he had said4 ,they found the hammer he told them he had used where he said he had thrown it4 ,they found the effects of the murdered woman where he said he had hidden them4 ,henry ,spencer went to trial4 ,a number of attorneys defending him pleaded insanity4 ,spencer upset their efforts by rising in the court room and informing the jury he was quite sane and that he had committed a number of murders in his life4 ,given permission by the court he informed them that his life had been an extremely illegal one4 ,he named five women he had killed4 ,the police1 highly elated1 rushed out and verified his statements4 ,in concluding1 the defendant again sought to impress them with the fact that he was quite sane and willing to pay the penalty for his crimes4 ,in fact several times he cried out from his seat1 8,hurry up and hang me40 ,you will argue1 my friend1 that there was an instance where in the very depravity of his nature a man attained the naked truth4 ,you are quite wrong4 ,henry ,spencer killed the women he said he killed1 but he failed of the truth4 ,for three months he had sat in his cell figuring the thing out4 ,he came to the conclusion that by telling truthfully of his crimes and pleading truthfully of his sanity he would create the impression that he was indeed a maniac4 ,you see1 it is quite simple4 ,lies are always simple4 ,it is only the truth which is impossible to understand4 ,henry ,spencer's logic proved accurate4 ,he convinced the jury that he was a maniac4 ,but he had placed too much faith on the technical interpretation of the law4 ,the jury sentenced him to hang1 anyway4 ,so did the judge4 ,the date was set and ,henry ,spencer waited in the jail of a little town in ,illinois4 ,it is the duty of a large number of people in the world to save souls from ,hell4 ,do not think ,i speak sarcastically1 my friend4 ,there is nothing wrong in this1 except1 of course1 its utter futility4 ,for two months the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,williams1 his wife1 and his son visited ,henry ,spencer daily in his cell4 ,they taught him religion4 ,the doomed man was an illiterate4 ,he had been brought up in the streets4 ,he spoke ,english vulgarly and he understood nothing4 ,his mind was unformed and his ideas of any particular life to be were as vague as his ideas of the life that was4 ,so he became religious4 ,this is quite a story in itself1 his acquiring 8faith40 ,they played hymns in his cell on an old melodeon4 ,each night the ,williams family knelt with him and prayed4 ,he found in the ,scriptures and their promise something that stilled the cold terror of death4 ,his nerves became quiet4 ,in fact he became buoyant4 ,you will say it is impossible for a man to acquire genuine faith under such circumstances4 ,you are quite wrong1 my friend4 ,i will prove it to you soon4 ,on the day preceding his execution ,henry ,spencer exhibited the only bit of nervousness during his watch for death4 ,he objected to the big clock that hung in the corridor outside his cell4 ,he didn't like the way it ticked4 ,you know why4 ,so they removed the clock4 ,how kind people are to those whom they are about to destroy4 ,they quite resemble the ,gods in the matter4 ,i am coming now to the point of the story1 so be patient1 my friend4 ,it was a sunny morning in early ,july4 ,inside a stockade they had erected a scaffold4 ,during the night ,henry ,spencer sang hymns4 ,the sheriff sat on the doorstep of his home adjoining the jail listening and looking at the moon and greasing a hempen rope with cold cream which he borrowed from his daughter4 ,he was a religious man and the hymns made him sad4 ,at ten o'clock the death march started from ,spencer's cell4 ,now there were thirty-eight steps leading to the top of the scaffold which rose high above the stockade top4 ,i know this because a young man named ,smith and ,i walked up the steps the midnight before and counted them4 ,after counting them ,i made a wager with the young man that ,spencer would never reach the top unsupported4 ,so ,i was exceedingly interested when the death march entered the stockade4 ,a number of persons were privileged to march in the line1 and the first to appear was ,spencer4 ,he was dressed as if he were hurrying to a tennis game--white trousers1 white shoes1 a soft white collar1 and a white shirt4 ,on the pocket of his shirt he had pinned a red carnation4 ,he walked with a light1 springy step4 ,behind him trailed the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,williams and the others4 ,henry ,spencer wore a good-natured smile on his face4 ,when he reached the bottom step of the scaffold ,i held my breath4 ,i watched him skip nimbly up the stairs1 never missing a step1 never tripping or hesitating4 ,under more virtuous circumstances the thing would have passed for heroism4 ,at any rate ,i lost the wager4 ,spencer stood on the scaffold1 the noose hanging over his shoulder4 ,the smile had not left his face4 ,several hundred necks were craned towards him4 ,i would have felt chilled to see so many necks at such a time had ,i been he4 ,the sheriff and his assistant began dressing him in a white robe that covered him from the neck down4 ,he commenced talking at once4 8,my friends10 he said1 extending his arm4 ,they strapped it to his side as he did so but he continued unflustered4 8,i am glad of the opportunity this gives me of telling you that for the first time in my life ,i am happy4 ,i have found a mother and a ,god and a friend while ,i have been in jail waiting for death4 ,although it is going to cost me my life ,i am glad ,i am here to tell you this4 ,i have repented for my sins4 ,i have made my peace with my ,god and my fellow men4 ,and ,i am happy1 my friends1 happy4 ,i have found a mother who has shown me the way to peace and salvation4 ,i am grateful to ,him for the gladness he has put in my heart4 ,oh1 my friends--0 ,he raised his head to the sky4 ,standing against the sun in his white robe1 his face transfigured with a wonderful smile1 he looked like some ,crusader giving himself into the arms of the ,virgin4 ,above him stretched the green leafy branch of a tree that rustled faintly in the breeze4 ,a little bird sat on a twig and chirped4 ,and still above stretched the pure blue sky with its white fleece clouds4 ,henry ,spencer looked at it all--life1 the little bird1 the sky1 the green leaves--and smiled2 smiled as ,i have never seen a man smile before4 ,they strapped his ankles and then the sheriff adjusted the rope around his neck with great care4 ,his political future was dependent on his task4 ,spencer resumed talking4 ,he recited two long psalms with never a wrong word1 and ,i who had listened to him five months ago sat astounded4 ,his voice1 his accent1 everything about him had changed4 ,a theologian could have rendered the psalms no more accurately4 ,then he looked at the sky again4 ,i felt that before his eyes the clouds rolled away and ,god revealed himself1 a gigantic figure seated on a golden throne4 ,i felt that he saw the cherubs and the angels he had read of in the scriptures1 perceived the jewelled streets and the harpists and ,christ waiting with outstretched arms and forgiveness4 8,yes1 my friends10 he went on1 8,i am not afraid1 for ,i have given myself to ,christ1 pure in spirit1 strong in faith40 ,he quoted from the ,bible4 8,see1 ,i smile at it all1 for believe me1 ,o ,lord1 ,i am happy40 ,the sheriff had lifted the white hood to the man's head and was beginning to adjust it4 ,the smile never left his face1 the light that blazed from his eyes never dimmed4 8,i am going to heaven10 he said as they settled the hood on his head1 8and ,i want to say only one more thing before ,i go4 ,my friends1 as ,i stand here1 ,i tell you ,i am innocent of the murder of ,mrs4 ,allison ,rexroat40 ,and they hanged him4 ,the truth8 ,the human ego is too weak for truth4 ,what do you say1 my friend8 ,we carry faithfully what we are given1 on hard shoulders1 over rough mountains6 ,and when perspiring1 we are told3 8,yea1 life is hard to bear60 ,but man himself only is hard to bear6 ,the reason is that he carrieth too many strange things on his shoulders4 ,like the camel he kneeleth down and alloweth the heavy load to be put on his back4--,nietzsche4 ,romain ,rolland ,,ellen ,,key 7,authorized translation from the ,swedish by ,mamah ,bouton ,borthwick4 ,copyright1 #aiad47 ,i4 ,in ,clamecy1 a quiet town in ,nivernais in ,central ,france1 ,romain ,rolland was born in #ahff4 ,his family had dwelt for centuries in the little place1 both as country folk and townspeople4 ,quite contrary to the inference one would draw from ,jean ,christophe1 neither ,german nor other foreign ancestry is discoverable in the family lineage2 ,rolland is descended from pure ,french ,catholic burgher stock4 ,his parents devoted themselves with loving zeal to his education2 his mother endowing him with a musical sense and love of music that made music1 from earliest childhood1 his passion and joy2 his father1 a notary in ,clamecy1 gave up his profession that he might accompany his young son to ,paris4 ,it is not the external events of his life1 but the spiritual atmosphere and environment of his native town1 that ,rolland depicted in the sixth part of ,jean ,christophe1 under the sub-title1 8,antoinette40 ,the landscape of ,nivernais is a mingling of rivers and canals1 great forests and ,mont de ,moran's peaks4 ,the region unites memorials of the ,keltic and ,gallic-,roman times and cathedrals of the ,gothic period1 stimulating the historical sense which1 next to the sense of music1 is most characteristic of ,romain ,rolland4 ,he entered the ,ecole ,normale superieure in ,paris1 when about fifteen or sixteen years of age1 and later went to the ,academia di ,francia in ,rome4 ,he considers the friendship formed there with ,malvida von ,meysenburg#a profoundly significant in his development4 ,as she was a faithful friend of ,mazzini and ,herzen1 of ,wagner and ,nietzsche1 in middle age1 so in her old age she was the friend of ,romain ,rolland4 8,her memory is sacred to me10 he recently wrote1 and he had continued in regular correspondence with her from #ahij until her death in #aijc4 #a ,see my article in ,verk och ,mnniskor1 in which ,i endeavored to show my countrymen the value to them of ,memoiren einer ,idealistin4 ,rome exercised a profound influence upon his entire spiritual life4 ,he spent there the years #ahhi and #ahij1 and has since made frequent visits for longer or shorter periods4 ,italy is the country which1 next to ,france1 he knows best and loves most4 ,germany1 on the other hand1 which he has described in ,jean ,christophe so vividly that one is convinced he must have passed a great part of his life there1 he knows only through some minor journeys4 ,in #ahie1 he received his doctor's degree at the ,university of ,paris1 and presented two theses4#b ,he was1 first1 instructor in the ,history of ,art at the school he had attended2 later he became professor of ,history of ,music at the ,sorbonne1 a position he will probably resign2 partly1 because an automobile accident injured his arm so that he can no longer illustrate his lectures on the ,history of ,music with the piano2 partly1 because he has found the combination of authorship and lectures too great a strain upon his delicate health4 #b ,histoire de l',opera en ,europe1 avant ,lully et ,scarlatti1 7,les origines du theatre lyrique modern71 and also ,les causes de la decadence de la peinture italienne4 ,concerning the literary impressions that were decisive in his development1 he says that his education1 like that of most young ,frenchmen1 was founded upon the classics of the seventeenth century4 ,he found his way1 himself1 to the writers who gave him spiritual sustenance3 ,shakespeare1 ,goethe1 and the ,encyclopedists1 especially ,diderot4 ,in #ahhf1 along with his school comrades1 he became acquainted with ,tolstoy4 ,in his book on ,tolstoy1 ,rolland says1 8,he was the purest light that illumined our youth1 the cheering star in the twilight of the end of the century--our only real friend in contemporary ,european art40 ,it was ,tolstoy's intoxicating adoration of life that enraptured the young ,frenchmen as well as the young ,northerners4 ,it was the realism in ,tolstoy's art that 8opened the portals to life02 it was the mysticism in ,tolstoy's nature that opened their ears to 8the music of the soul for which they longed0 444 8,tolstoy was to our generation what ,werther was to the youth of the eighteenth century40 8,but10 wrote ,rolland in a letter1 8the most potent influence in my life was and continues to be--music4 ,it has been an ever-flowing spring1 not only for my emotional life1 but also for the interpretation of life4 ,for1 to him who can rightly listen1 music is a language that can interpret the subtlest emotions of the soul1 and reveal manifold secrets which literature has never been able to express4 ,if in any degree ,i understand the ,german soul1 it is due to music40 ,romain ,rolland is familiar1 alike1 with the old ,german masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries1 and with those of most recent times4 ,jean ,christophe1 the world's greatest novel concerning a musician and music1 is therefore written by a thoroughly-trained connoisseur and practitioner of music2 a man who demonstrates that1 for his own and for his hero's individual culture1 music is the most profound determining influence4 ,even though ,romain ,rolland differs from ,tolstoy in questions pertaining to his conception of music1 still it is in ,tolstoy's spirit that he glorifies in this form of art its universal breadth1 its power--beyond national boundaries and personal limitations--to unite mankind in and through the joy of beauty1 which is one of the highest conditions of the soul4 ,one aspect of ,romain ,rolland's literary work is a direct expression of his profound belief in the ethical mission of art4 ,he participated ardently in the movement1 instituted at the close of the last century1 that purposed to educate the workingman by means of elevated amusements1 especially plays4 ,but ,rolland did not1 like ,tolstoy1 seek to awaken love of mankind2 he wanted to strengthen power of action and heroism4 ,rolland has recently published the second edition of a book in which he has collected his controversial articles1 written at the time when he and a group of friends hoped to create a new theatre for the awakening people1 and thus contribute to the encouragement of that energy of action necessary to the solution of the great problems the time presents4 ,pleasure1 enlightenment1 energy1 says ,rolland1 are what the theatre should furnish the people4 ,neither the classic drama1 which bores the workingman to death by presenting to him les parties mortes de l'ame1 nor the present drama1 which injures or lowers him by setting him in a fever of sordid passions1 is fit for a people's theatre4 ,it must furnish the best drama of the present time1 the spectacle in which the serious aspect of the time is reflected1 or scenes from those earlier phases in which the spirit of struggle and of devotion lived2 in other words1 it must furnish a virile and wholesome art4 ,the heroes of the ,french ,revolution were ,rolland's inspiration for the drama1 and he utilized the struggles of the time of the ,revolution for spectacles and folk festivals4 ,at that time he wrote and produced for the people's theatre3 ,le #ad ,juillet1 ,danton1 ,les ,loups1 ,le triomphe de la raison4 ,the last he has recently published1 together with two other early dramas1 ,st4 ,louis and ,art4 ,they are all1 as he himself says1 devoted to religious enthusiasm2 for ,god1 for country1 for reason4 ,he wished to set these pictures of struggling devotion against the cowardice of thought and cowardice of will that he saw everywhere around him4 ,he voiced his own sentiment and that of his young kindred spirits in the words of one of his heroes1 who was condemned to death3 8,life will be what ,i will4 ,i have anticipated victory1 but ,i shall be victorious40 ,and in the words of another3 8,you are always thinking of what you can keep or lose4 ,only think of what you can give4 ,live2 be like the water that flows4444 ,the world would not exist without that happiness of beings1 of flowers in the sun1 that joy of giving one's life to the point of exhaustion--which is also a joy of dying continually60 8,it is elder brother to ,jean ,christophe10 ,rolland says1 8less robust but not less faithful10 who uttered these words1 which comprise ,rolland's creed in its most succinct formula4 ,to revive the energy of action of the ,french ,revolution in order to continue thus the work interrupted in #agid2 to set in motion the great passions1 not for the purpose of arousing chauvinistic or revolutionary fanaticism1 but in order to kindle anew the universal feeling of solidarity--this was the hope of ,rolland and his friends for the future of ,france4 8,this hope10 he says1 8was one of the purest and holiest forces in our young lives40 ,rolland1 therefore1 calls his ,thtre du peuple a document of the time1 because it 8reflects the artistic ideas and hopes of a whole generation40 ,he gives voice now 7#aiac7 to that proud utterance3 8,let the future judge us even should it prove that it was our crime to have believed too much in the future40 ,that this little group has not yet been victorious1 we know4 ,romain ,rolland indicated the reason when he said3 8,in order to fashion a theatre for the people1 we must first have a people2 a people with a freedom of the soul able to enjoy art2 a people with leisure2 a people not oppressed by misery or incessant toil2 a people not brutalized by every superstition and fanaticism from right and left2 a people lord over itself and victor in the battle fought out from day to day40 ,to these utterances of #aijc can be added one of this year1 in which ,rolland expressed himself most fervently and with comprehension in regard to the working class of women--and in that connection in regard to the whole woman question4#c ,it was made evident1 then1 that the idealist ,rolland is no advocate of the chauvanistic-religious reaction4 ,his idealism is of the whirl of revolutionary times and the future4 #c ,in a preface to ,celles qui travaillent1 a work of the notable and sincere ,french authoress1 ,simone ,bodve4 ,his critique upon the classic ,french literature1 his 8,teutonism0 in ,jean ,christophe1 his political and religious radicalism1 have made him as obnoxious to nationalistic-,catholic ,france as ,mme4 de ,stael once was because of her ,de l',allemagne4 ,among other evidences of ,rolland's status in his own country is the circumstance that when the ,french ,academy recently awarded its new prize of #aj1jjj francs1 it was given1 through the influence of ,maurice ,barrs1 to a wholly new man in ,french literature3 ,andr ,lafon du ,blaye1 instructor in a ,catholic private school1 who had written a book about a school boy1 a book which was found to possess that 8elevated character0 the awarding of the prize demanded6 ,jean ,christophe had just been finished6 ,it is1 however1 not merely in academic circles that ,romain ,rolland is denied recognition4 ,he has succeeded in getting himself well hated in many another circle because of the cutting truths in ,jean ,christophe1 directed against all factions4 ,in ,ord och ,bild1 #aiab1 ,george ,brandes has given a brief but excellent characterization of ,rolland's spiritual and intellectual endowments and of his limitations4 ,without doubt ,rolland's spiritual tendency in youth was determined not only by ,tolstoy but also by ,guyau2 the more because ,tolstoy has ,guyau to thank for whatever of reason is found in his theories of art4 ,in regard to the influence of ,guyau upon ,tolstoy and ,nietzsche1 see1 for example1 ,professor ,albert ,nilson's excellent essay upon ,guyau's ,aesthetics4 ,in the mind of ,rolland as well as of ,guyau1 the ethical ideal is the highest intensive quality of life1 the most effective energy4 ,rolland is far from the ,christian asceticism that diluted the wine of ,tolstoy4 ,but along with ,tolstoy1 with ,guyau1 with ,nietzsche1 he demands an art that possesses life's consummate vigor2 that is itself the richest life1 the highest intensity of power4 ,in other words3 the ethical ideal and the aesthetic are at heart the same thing2 the fundamental principle of art and religion is solidarity2 the sense of beauty is at the same time the most intensive and the most expansive of feelings1 and so--like the love of humanity--the great fraternizing power4 8,they who love most create most richly10 and 8the work that reveals to us the life of greatest value is the noblest03 these propositions permeated ,rolland just as they did ,guyau and ,tolstoy1 although ,rolland establishes a basis of valuation quite different from that of the latter4 ,perhaps ,bergson1 too1 has in some respects confirmed ,rolland's personal view of life4 ,but as ,rolland's view was enunciated before ,bergson began to write1 the influence could have been only to strengthen1 not to determine it4 ,no idea harmonized better with ,rolland's own innermost being than that respecting the power of the spirit to make a way for creative1 unfathomable1 inexhaustible life4 ,jean ,christophe1 from the first chapter to the last1 is an illustration of this explosive power1 this lan vital4 ,schiller's words come to mind3 ,der ,dichter ist der einzige wahre ,mensch und der beste ,philosoph ist nur eine ,karikatur gegen ihn4#d ,the poet is the only real ,man and the best philosopher is only a caricature beside him4 #d ,in a letter to ,goethe1 #agie1 after reading ,wilhelm ,meister4 ,not only with his dramas of the ,revolution did ,romain ,rolland endeavor to make his countrymen hero-worshippers2 he also began a series of popular biographies aimed to present1 not the great man's work1 but the personal powers and experiences that found expression in his work4 ,he says in the preface3 8,europe is poisoned with materialism and egotism2 we must throw open the windows to get air3 ,respirons le souffle des heros4 ,let us breathe the breath of heroes40 ,he rejoices that he too has witnessed contemporary heroic deeds3 the defense of the ,boers and the vindication of ,dreyfus4 ,but he knows that it is 8easier to kindle enthusiasm by heroes of the past10 heroes 8who were great in heart40 ,his hero-worship did not lead him1 however1 to glorification at the expense of truth4 ,he utters the thought1 profoundly true and all too little understood1 that every lack of harmony between life and its laws depends--even in great spirits--not upon their greatness1 but upon their weaknesses4 8,but these weaknesses render them not less worthy of our love4444 ,the idealism that will not recognize the truth is cowardice2 there is only one heroism in the world3 to see the world as it is--and to love it40 ,so without hesitation1 ,rolland points out weaknesses in ,michael ,angelo's life1 and inconsistencies in ,tolstoy's4 ,he sees in both great specimens of the 8type that will pass away02 the ,christian--those who 8have had their refuge in ,god and the everlasting life when this life has gone against them2 those whose faith has often been expression for deficient belief in life1 in the future1 in themselves2 a lack of courage and a lack of gladness40 8,i know10 he continues1 8of how many defeats your grievous victories are made1 and therefore ,i pity you and admire you4 ,you make the world more doleful but more beautiful4 ,praised be pain and praised be joy6 ,both are holy2 they form the world and they broaden great souls3 joy and pain are powers1 are life1 are ,god40#e #e ,epitome of the introduction to ,michael ,angelo4 ,the three biographies that ,rolland has thus far published are of ,beethoven1 ,michael ,angelo1 and ,tolstoy4 ,in the first1 it is the love of life and the courage of life2 in the second1 creative power and strength of belief2 in the third1 the ecstacy of life and the love of mankind1 that he emphasizes4 ,such souls1 he says1 restore to us belief in life and in mankind1 for from them 8issues a current of social power and potent goodness40 ,,ii4 ,beethoven is ,rolland's own conception of life1 and is nearest his heart4 ,to that 8soul of music1 heroism1 and goodness0 ,rolland has reared the only memorial worthy of ,beethoven that art has created3 ,jean ,christophe4 ,this book was published during the course of nine years4 ,but long before it began to appear it had lived in and with its writer for the greater part of his life4 ,in it ,rolland has committed to writing his profound conception of the innermost being of a musical genius1 and has done it in such a manner that one is firmly convinced of the truth of the revelations that one follows from the cradle to the grave4 ,in other novels concerning geniuses the writers assert incessantly that they are geniuses2 here the genius evinces himself through his being4 ,one does not read a book1 one lives a life--and a life of the highest value1 the existence that great spirit creates3 that of the genius1 who out of the flaming chaos of his nature forms a cosmos4 ,an 8educational novel10 of which the world's literature thus far possesses only one such in ,wilhelm ,meister1 and1 in a measure1 in ,keller's ,der ,grne ,heinrich4444 ,i have lived more intensely with ,jean ,christophe than with most living people4#f #f ,lack of space forces me to omit ,miss ,key's interesting but very long analysis of ,jean ,christophe4--,the ,editor4 ,world fame is a curious thing4 ,sometimes it is attained quickly through glorifying friends3 a path to fame that often early avenges itself1--that is more dangerous even than the fame that the attacks of enemies furnish4 ,sometimes fame is won with one blow1 by an exceptional work2 again it is prepared for in silence and then suddenly rushes forth with the roar of a great torrent formed by many small streams4 ,the last is the case with ,romain ,rolland4 ,when ,i read him in #aiji1 in ,switzerland1 ,i went shortly afterwards to ,paris1 where1 at that time1 he was not mentioned among the celebrated writers and where even his friends thought he dare not reckon his circle of readers larger than the ten or fifteen thousand faithful he possessed in the world of ,french-speaking readers4 ,in ,germany his circle was still narrower2 in ,sweden1 he was unknown even by name4 ,for the new generation the book is a document of the spiritual history of the time4 ,for the serious-minded portion of the ,french youth1 ,rolland has possessed an influence comparable with his own description of ,tolstoy's influence upon himself and the young generation with him4 ,youth has learned from him that the fleeting fashionable attitude toward the great souls or ideas that ,paris shapes is sterile2 that it is only by devotion that a spiritual growth can be attained2 that skepticism in the face of all greatness is poverty1 but admiration and love 8is the way1 to the most potent1 the richest1 life40 ,youth has found in him contempt for mere fine phrases1 for declamation1 and received from him ,goethe's conception of creation3 8,in the beginning was action40 ,they have heard him proclaim that nationalism that is loyalty to the best in the essence of the ,french nation3 love of truth and justice1 desire for freedom and fraternity1 devotion to its ideal values and above all the dream of happiness for all mankind4 ,this dream that among us ,teutons is content to sleep1 is among ,frenchmen an ever restless disturbance of the blood4 ,and it is only by occasionally letting his blood flow for these dreams that he feels he is living up to his highest ideals4 ,this ,youth for whom each new part of ,jean ,christophe has been a great event1 despises with ,rolland the estheticism that turns from life4 ,this youth has learned to distinguish between great art and the work of those who think they are creating art but are only making arts4 ,but above all1 at a time of reaction toward the ,christian 8faith0--a reaction that has been justified by the fact that science has not been able to 8explain0 life nor 8vindicate0 it--they receive a new fountain of living water4 ,rolland has attempted neither to explain life nor defend it4 ,the leit-motiv of his great symphonic work is ,beethoven's thought3 8,durch ,leiden ,freude10--8,through suffering joy comes40 ,we can1 so he says1 neither understand life in all its plenitude of contradictions nor ennoble it in all its brutality in any way other than by living it one's self in the fullest and highest meaning of the word4 ,music1 the all-unifying art1 love1 the all-embracing condition of the soul1 are the two highest attitudes of devotion to ,god1 who is life4 ,more ,rolland knows not4 ,and more than he knows the veracious man does not say4 8,i cannot10 he writes1 8give any metaphysical credo4 ,for1 in the first place1 ,i will never deceive myself by saying ,i know that which ,i do not know--which1 at the most1 ,i can imagine or hope4 ,in the second place1 ,i will never confine myself within the limits of any belief4 ,for ,i hope to develop until my last day2 ,i wish to reserve for myself unlimited freedom of intellectual transformation and renewal4 ,i have many gods in my ,pantheon2 but my chief godhead is ,liberty4 ,at present ,i do not separate the essence of the human soul from that of the divine spirit1 of which the former is a part4 ,but ,i hardly believe that this divine spirit fills the universe4 ,it seeks1 certainly1 to fill the world and guide it2 but nothing indicates that it will succeed4 ,even in this regard ,i reserve space for liberty4 ,pure monism does not satisfy me4 ,i am more inclined to a dualism such as the ancient ,empedocles believed in4 ,i have an unbounded admiration for the pre-,socratic philosophers1 the sages of ,ionia and ,magna ,graecia4 ,indeed my first work1 written at ,rome1 twenty years ago1 was a drama with ,empedocles as hero4 ,the struggle between two principles is manifest to me in the whole history of the world1 material as well as moral history4 ,the question is whether there is not a third principle1 in which the other two are included or harmonized4 ,a trinity therefore--it is singular how this form forces itself upon the human mind--but a trinity very different from the ,christian conception of the trinity1 since it comprises a father and two striving brothers3 a triad that approaches the antique cosmogony of which we find a reflection in ,hesiod1 in ,chaos1 ,gaea1 and ,eros4 ,if ,i live ,i shall go deeper into ancient thought4 ,those ancient philosophers lived in more intimate contact with nature than any of their successors1 and1 moreover1 collected the thousand-year-old wisdom of the whole ,orient40 ,besides this personal utterance of ,rolland himself1 a ,french friend of his1 intimate with his thought1 has given me permission to communicate the following statement of the trend of ,rolland's thought3 ,the liberty of his mind1 his lucidity1 his keen penetration1 render him incapable of accepting the least dogma or the least constraint4 ,it is impossible to conceive of anything that could have upon such a mind1 not to say a direct hold1 but even an appreciable influence4 ,that mind is alone1 magnificently alone1 as independent as if the world were just born4 ,moreover1 he is quite as far from all revealed religions as from all systems4 ,he would in no wise admit that the ,christian or any other religion is more closely related to the past1 and ,darwinism or any scientism whatever more to the future4 ,he would see1 in these diverse ways of viewing life1 forms of the human mind which return at periodic intervals and of which one no more than the other is an absolute progress in which he does not believe4 ,only by his very nature1 he is antimaterialistic4 ,he believes in the duality of soul and body in an absolute1 organic manner4 ,he hopes sincerely to quit this body and go to live a larger and fuller life4 ,no personal immortality6 ,he cannot endure the thought4 ,that would be the continuation of this captivity in a limited personality1 which to him appears stifling4 ,he feels that he is also going to live in ,god1 not understanding by that word any anthropomorphic god1 but a fountain of universal life4 ,he loves to plunge1 through time and space1 into a meditation in which he totally forgets his personality1 and wherein he finds a sort of intoxication4 ,he has uttered this admirable and terrible sentence3 8,sometimes ,i feel no difference between my friends absent or present1 living or dead40 ,to ask such a being if he is of the past or of the future would have no significance2 he is beyond the compass of time4 ,i have met ,rolland only through letters4 ,but some words concerning his personality1 as it had affected another poet1 ,i can communicate here in conclusion3 8,the confident grasp replete with experience1 the modest ripeness 444 in his being2 the benignity1 the unprecedented purity in all his purpose 444 are beneficent4444 ,everything is genuine1 developed with will and consciousness3 a man who has improved steadily4444 ,from him emanates a gentle plenitude1 consummate in action1 like that of a star at twilight40 ,when world renown comes to such a man1 it has not much to say to him4 ,rolland meets it with an averted glance in his far-seeing luminous eyes1 eyes which quietly and steadily look towards new works and new horizons4 ,from all corners of the world he hears3 that he has given to the time the book most brimming with the whole seething life of the time2 that he has given men the book most permeated with the essence of music and ,orphean effects2 that he has created an entire human race1 a race in which all ages of life and degrees of development1 in which women as well as men are equally convincing in truth to life2 that he has given a work overflowing with ideas1 with philosophy of life1 with vital help1 by exhibiting a great human life in all its weakness and in all its strength4 ,and assuredly this will give him joy4 ,but he will feel proud only when the word comes that his ,french heart longs to hear3 ,the people that has given to the world such a work is not1 as its enemies say1 going to destruction4 ,that nation is ever potent with the energy of life4 ,rolland's great book is not merely a glorious revelation of the fact that all the greatest ideas that ,france has given the world live ever in the ,french people4 ,it demonstrates also that mankind needs the ,french spirit always in order to realize them4 ,poems ,,witter ,,bynner ,i ,shall ,come to ,you ,again ,if you have pity1 pity me a little1 ,for ,i had seen your pitiless lips and dared them ,and ,i deserve the pity given fools444 ,your mouth was passion but your eyes were love4 ,your mouth might soon consent to harshness1 but your eyes1 ,your eyes would see me and be kind to me4 ,i should not suffer1 loving you4 ,i should but carry the heroic pain of love4 ,wounds that might come from hardness of your heart1 ,if ,i received them1 ,i should heal1 watching the everlasting pity of your eyes444 ,if you have pity1 pity me a little4 ,i who had seen your cruelty and dared it ,am stricken with it now ,and have come through the streets in daylight ,as though the daylight were the sound of laughter ,surrounding and consuming me4 ,i have put up my hands to ward it off1 ,the heaviness of light that would not let me hide ,but held me and looked leering in my face444 ,for there has come a passer-by 4444 ,and you have come with him4 ,i have no hatred for the passer-by1 and none for you1 ,but hatred only of my own humiliation1 ,for ,i had challenged and been overthrown444 ,if you have pity1 pity me a little4 ,for ,i who love life ,have heard its mouth despise me ,and have seen its eyes1 that had been kind1 turn into stone4 ,wherefore ,i lack new strength1 new laughter4 ,and in the time before that strength is due1 ,if you have pity1 pity me a little4 ,but if you have none--soon ,i shall have no need4 ,for ,i who choose life1 ,shall receive my strength1 ,and ,i shall come to you again1 laughing with love444 ,for my humiliation shall have been a rain1 ,its arms about me and its lips alive4 ,and ,i shall walk in daylight ,and it shall be a singing waterfall ,surrounding me and pouring over me4 ,sicilia 7,in memory of ,salvatore ,garrito who was hanged at ,reading1 ,pennsylvania1 ,october #bi1 #aijh1 for the killing of a ,state ,trooper47 8,it shows you on that paper where she lives1 ,in ,sicily4 ,write her that ,i today ,am dead for having killed my second man40 8,your second80 8,yes1 sir1 two4 ,it's not so bad ,to kill a trooper4 ,but ,i killed1 before1 ,a friend who1 like my brother and like me1 ,loved her in ,sicily4 ,the jury thought ,my brother did it4 ,he's been all alone ,in jail eight years4 ,tell her ,i shall be glad ,if now she gets him out and marries him40 ,christian ,truth heard him ask employ ,and took him in1 ,a poor unfriended boy1 ,as her own kin1 ,and everything she made ,she taught the youth4 ,when he had learned her trade ,he went from ,truth4 ,and when his eyes were dim ,and he was rich1 ,then ,truth returned to him ,out of a ditch1 ,poorer than he had been1 ,pleading she came444 ,he would not let her in ,nor ask her name4 ,marriage ,shall marriage never be the glory ,that was wooed8 ,but ever enervate and vex1 ,obstruct1 intrude1 ,and make more wistful and complex ,the solitude1 ,trying to tell the human story ,to its brood8 ,no matter how the homes are humming ,in a mood ,of ecstasy or sentiment ,or love renewed1 ,what favored two can circumvent ,the ancient feud8-- ,till both in one shall die1 becoming ,multitude6 ,a ,glimpse at ,russia ,wars have been the landmarks in ,russian modern history4 ,the ,napoleonic war was followed by the insurrection of the ,decembrists1 the first attempt on the part of liberal ,russia to break the autocracy4 ,the iron reign of ,nicolas ,i culminated in the ,crimean campaign1 which revealed the utter rottenness of the old order and necessitated the general reconstruction of the estate1 from the liberation of the serfs to the establishment of jury-tribunals4 ,the reaction under ,alexander ,,iii and ,nicolas ,,ii came to a collapse with the ,japanese war1 more disastrous and richer in results than ,sebastopol4 ,it may be interesting to notice that each of the mentioned epochs followed the previous one at a space of about a quarter of a century1 and the fact that the present war broke out only ten years after the last one may be interpreted as an attempt for self-correction on the part of ,history4 ,both the war with ,japan and the revolution that came as its result were abortive and premature phenomena1 and were destined 8to be continued40 ,it is necessary to get an idea of what has occurred in ,russia during the last ten years in order to understand her present situation and perspectives4 ,the ,russian people were neither prepared nor desirous of fighting against ,japan for the ,yalou forests1 a problem that interested only a group of greedy capitalists4 ,nicolas was egged on by the ,kaiser1 who was more than anxious to involve his neighbor in a mess in the ,far ,east1 and thus to divert his attention from the ,near ,east where the interests of the ,triple ,alliance demanded the elimination1 or at least the weakening1 of the formidable ally of ,france4 ,the ,czar caught the bait1 and was rewarded with the ,treaty of ,portsmouth1 which put an end to ,russia's ambitions in ,manchuria and crippled her international prestige1 to the immediate advantage of ,germany and ,austria4 ,the defeated bear was forcibly driven to introspection4 ,her navy almost totally destroyed1 her army decimated and demoralized1 her population torn by revolutions and civil warfare1 ,russia faced a ,herculean task4 ,the government was confronted with a double problem1 to quench the internal conflagration1 and to get ready for 8retaliation40 ,the first aim was more or less achieved2 the revolutionists were hanged1 shot1 imprisoned1 exiled2 the moderate elements and the ,european financiers1 who demanded a guarantee for their enormous loans1 were hood-winked by a semblance of parliamentarism1 the butaforial ,duma1 an institution elected and managed practically by the ,czar's ministers4 ,with feverish energy the government set out to carry through its second purpose4 ,the ,dumas were forced to sanction gigantic war-budgets1 and the entire bureaucratic state was thrown into a crucible of radical1 sweeping reforms4 ,the reconstruction of the army has become the all-important issue4 ,without naming the potential enemy1 all parties1 except the ,socialists1 agreed that ,russia must concentrate her forces on the building up in the fastest possible time of an enormous1 efficient1 modern army4 ,the majority of the people differed with the government1 however1 on one point1 as to who should carry out the great task4 ,the people have had little confidence in the capability of the bureaucracy for self-reformation2 they have applied to them the ,russian saying1 8,only the grave can change the hunchback40 ,alexander ,guchkov1 while president of the ,duma and later as an influential private citizen1 has revealed the hopelessly rotten state of affairs in the military and civil organization of the country1 managed by unscrupulous thieves and grafters1 by useless sinecure-holders from among the nobility and the royal family4 ,the reorganization of the state1 pointed out ,mr4 ,guchkov and his followers1 must be taken from the hands of the effeminate and imbecile ,grand ,dukes1 and entrusted to representatives of the nation4 ,for such a heresy ,guchkov had to resign from his post as head of the 8parliament10 and the work of reconstruction continued to be handled by the old chinovnicks1 the puppets of the ,czar and of his uncles and cousins4 ,public opinion in ,russia has been crystallizing simultaneously with military preparation and diplomatic negotiations4 ,austria's annexation of ,bosnia and ,herzegovina gave ,russian diplomacy the gravest slap since the ,berlin ,congress2 ,wilhelm's threat to appear in 8shining armor0 to the assistance of his ally compelled foreign minister ,sasonov to withdraw his protest against ,austria's act4 ,the humiliation was felt deeply by all classes2 the ,russian people have come to regard ,germany as their bitterest foe1 responsible not only for their past and present military and diplomatic fiascoes1 but largely responsible also for the internal retrogressive policy of their government4 ,it has been widely known that during the last revolution the ,kaiser had counselled ,nicolas 8unrelenting firmness10 and had even offered to 8loan0 his army for the suppression of the uprising4 ,the popularity of the present war in ,russia is thus explained4 ,the conservatives see in it an opportunity to strengthen the power of the autocracy through drummed up patriotism and loyalty to the throne2 the liberals hope that with the defeat of ,germany there will come an end to the 8dark influence0 of the ,prussian retrogrades on ,russia's policy2 the masses are eager to fight against the 8,antichrists10 the enemies of the ,slavs and of the ,slavonic church4 ,whatever the outcome of this war may be1 it has done inestimable service for the awakening of ,russia4 ,the country has been elevated and purified morally and nationally4 ,the abolition of vodka1 the unification of differing parties and of hostile races1 the liberal concessions granted by the government1--these are the few tangible results of the war that can be checked off already4 ,but there is considerably more to come4 ,the ignominious failures of the army have pointed a burning finger of accusation against the real enemy of the people1 the bureaucracy4 ,the ,russian soldiers have fought like lions 444 led by asses4 ,the shameless lack of munition1 the use of antiquated guns1 the wretched equipment of the soldiers1 the inefficiency of field-hospitals1 the continuing graft in giving out contracts1 the presence in the army of such time-proved nonentities as ,general ,rennenkampf and other ,manchurian celebrities1 these facts have shown to the people that the ,czar and his clique have forgotten everything and have learned nothing4 ,the general dissatisfaction in army circles and among the civilians may bring about a storm that will sweep away the tottering throne of ,nicolas ,romanov4 ,this is not a mere theoretic conjecture4 ,since #aijd an intense revolutionary propaganda has been carried on within the army and navy4 ,the germ of rebellion has penetrated not only the common soldiers1 who are largely recruited from among the down-trodden peasants and workingmen1 but also the officers1 who have learned a good deal in the last ten years4 ,a military coup d'tat after the model of the ,young ,turks has become a popular idea with the intelligent officers who cannot fail to see that the autocratic rgime is a detrimental anachronism4 ,there have been persistent rumors about the high ambitions of the ex-,supreme ,commander4 ,grand ,duke ,nicolas is a happy exception among the degenerated ,romanovs4 ,he has been long considered as the 8strong man10 and therefore feared and opposed to by the ,court-camarilla4 ,necessity compelled the ,czar to appoint him commander2 his appointment was insistently recommended by ,joffre and ,kitchener4 ,unlike ,kuropatkin1 the ,grand ,duke refused to follow dictations from ,petrograd4 ,when in early spring he received an order from the ,czar to evacuate ,warsaw1 the commander telegraphed back that he was willing to obey1 but that he would move his army against the capital4 ,the order was recalled4 ,the fact that he was recently removed from his post and exiled to ,caucasia shows the growing fears of the ,czar1 who has lost his head and is hewing the branch on which he is still seated4 ,the ,grand ,duke had performed a difficult1 although not very spectacular task--that of saving the unarmed army from the iron grip of the ,germans4 ,petrograd demanded 8action10 as it did ten years ago from ,kuropatkin4 ,now that the ,czar has assumed the commandership of the army one may expect rapid 8actions10 ,sedans and ,tzusimas and an early peace treaty as honorable as that of ,portsmouth4 ,the sentiments of the population were characteristically voiced by the ,jewish member of the ,duma1 ,friedman4 ,in his speech he recounted the unbelievable atrocities of the ,russian authorities performed over the ,jews in the war-zone4 ,yet he said3 8,it is true we are without rights1 we are oppressed beyond endurance4 ,but we know the foundation of the evil4 ,it emanates from these benches 7pointing to the ,ministers74 ,we are persecuted by the ,russian government and not by the ,russian people4 ,it is not to be wondered at1 therefore1 that we are content to bind our fate loyally and faithfully with the fate of the ,russian people1 whatever may be done to us by the ,russian government40 ,the best of ,russia are unanimously determined that 8the foundation of the evil0 must go4 ,in the last few weeks various bodies of the ,russian commonwealth have issued grave resolutions condemning the government and demanding democratization of the state4 ,a revolution seems inevitable1 but1 to repeat1 a military revolution is most likely to take place4 ,the bulk of the virile population is within the fighting ranks1 and it is there1 in the army1 that the national nerve pulsates at present4 ,whether it be ,grand ,duke ,nicolas1 or another capable and popular leader1 it is to be expected that this time the army will pronounce the verdict over the imbecile ,czar and will cleanse the ,augean stables of the corrupted bureaucracy4 ,k4 ,sophomoric ,epigrams ,there is no wisdom but youth4 ,there is no vision but the unafraid impulse of unfettered nerves4 ,the follies of youth are the enduring expressions of art4 ,man loses his ,ego at thirty and becomes conceited4 ,he becomes conscious of others4 ,life becomes a quibble4 ,but youth6 ,youth1 the flower before it has decayed into the mellow moss of age4 ,youth that knows not itself or the world4 ,youth that laughs at tears and weeps at laughter4 ,youth that paints queer pictures at which the critics smile4 ,illogical youth2 arrogant youth2 forever annoying the world's stagnation4 ,youth capering like a fawn in the altar places of the holy4 ,ho6 you with the pedantic whiskers and the ossified serenity lurking like a fog in your eye--there is no wisdom but youth4 ,ho6 you with the murk of maturity thick upon your tongue--will you shape morals8 ,i will unshape them4 ,will you rear dogmas8 ,i will upset them4 ,will you burden the world with your heavy sagacity8 ,i will ignore it4 ,ho1 you didactic formulator1 debauched with facts1 man is born a butterfly and crawls to his grave a worm4 ,man is born young and dies old4 ,man is born wise and dies a fool4 ,the ideas of youth are his wings4 ,do you see the lightning maze of colors forever flashing over your head8 ,it is youth4 ,ah6 old ,ossifus1 your erudition is but the husk of my spirit4 ,and my spirit is the shop-boy whistling on his way to work1 joyous without reason for you have proved him an economic slave1 stunted and damned forever to rot in chains4 ,my spirit is the lover going to his ruin-woman1 and tumbling out of heaven with a laugh4 ,ho6 ho6 old ,petrifus1 you have proved her the root of evil1 the despoiler of greatness1 the velvet vandal of illusions1 and yet and yet4444 ,and he is the artist running wild in the china-closet of the past4 ,have you anything sacred1 old whiskers8 ,have you something labelled right and something labelled wrong8 ,show it to him4 ,he will do for it4 ,he is the eternal monster killing the dead4 ,there is no beauty but youth4 ,there is no beauty in age4 ,ho6 you doddering banality with the superior tolerance in your stutter1 you are decomposing on your feet4 ,age is soiled4 ,age is dirty4 ,age drips with the phlegm of life4 ,age is the unclean residue in the cup4 ,ho6--there is no tomorrow4 ,blessed are the young in heart for they shall be ,god4 8,a4 ,e4 ,d40 ,henri and ,manship ,one grows weary of the quibbling1 the petty running about in circles of critics1 would-be-critics1 and students with the eyes of their teachers disputing 8techniques10 values1 and standards in regard to paintings that somehow seem to live outside any limits pedants have placed4 ,out from the noise the voice of the artist arises with a strength and clearness in words similar to the quality of his paintings4 ,writing in the ,february ,craftsman of this year1 telling of his work1 his ideas1 and his 8people10 ,robert ,henri has this to say3 8,my love of mankind is individual4 ,i am patriotic only about what ,i admire1 and my devotion to humanity burns as brightly for ,europe as for ,america4 ,it flames up swiftly for ,mexico if ,i am painting the peon there2 it warms towards the bull fighter of ,spain if in spite of its cruelty there is that element in his art which ,i find beautiful2 it intensifies before the ,irish peasant whose love1 poetry1 simplicity1 and humor have enriched my existence just as completely as though these people were of my own country and my own hearthstone4 ,everywhere ,i see at times this beautiful expression of the dignity of life to which ,i respond with a wish to preserve this beauty of humanity for my friends to enjoy4444 ,the ,chinese ,american girl who has found coquetry in new freedom2 the peon1 a symbol of a destroyed civilization in ,mexico1 and the ,indian who works as one in slavery and dreams as a man in still places 444 all their lives are in their expression1 in their eyes1 their movements or they are not worth translating into art40 ,he very simply tells what he feels about technique1 which ought to quiet the objection to his or any individual's methods3 8,technique is merely a language1 and as ,i grow older and see more and more clearly ,i have but one intention and that is to make this language as clear and simple and sincere as is humanly possible4444 ,it is a language of no value for its own sake4444 ,it must be so translucent that it can be forgotten1 the value of the subject shining through it40 ,a woman who sat for ,henri last year for her portrait has this to say of him in a recent letter3 8,to me he is quite the most wonderful man among ,american artists2 so very big yet simple as a child2 so very human yet utterly unconscious of his humanity4 ,he is much like ,whitman only more tender1 more subtle4 ,to ,henri life is his art4 ,that's what makes him truly great4 ,that's what made him go to the ,ferrer ,school and awaken talent and even genius where no one else would have seen anything to awaken4 ,as a teacher ,henri is perhaps even greater than as a painter4 ,i heard him explain things to his class only twice1 but ,i have never heard anything more fascinating and vivid4 ,his greatest worth1 however1 is his sense of freedom1 his fervent belief that only freedom can bring out the best in the individual4 ,he is really an anarchist though he does not label himself one40 ,and thus the exhibit of twenty-five paintings at the ,art ,institute takes on a broader and more beautiful air4 ,it becomes human and alive even though the noise from the studios is confusing4 99 99 99 99 99 ,paul ,manship also has a room at the ,art ,institute3 ,greek1 ,assyrian1 ,japanese1 ,chinese1 ,egyptian1 ,italian1 ,roman1 ,gothic1 and what not2 but where1 oh where1 is ,paul ,manship--8foremost ,american sculptor08 ,the incongruous and nerve-racking thing about the collection is that besides merely exactly reproducing all the above mentioned periods and styles he goes so far as to use two or three in one piece of work4 ,the ,infant ,herakles3 fountain and bowl is a terror of complications1 with gothic gargoyles as the high points of one's discontent4 ,the ,american ,indian 7with the ,african animal skin and the ,egyptian hair and ,roman face7 and pronghorn antelope 7,egyptian bronze of ,alpine antelope7 is the property of the ,art ,institute1 having been purchased by the 8friends of ,american ,art04444 ,the conventionalized ,roman busts with the ,greek lettering were so top-heavy in appearance that ,i grew quite dizzy4444 ,i found relief in the sculptor of the ,ancient ,greeks1--peace in the simplicity of a strange inspired beauty that intricate handling which draws on past glories can never produce4 ,c4 ,a4 ,z4 ,fairy-,tale ,mysticism ,jerusalem1 a ,novel by ,selma ,lagerlf 7,doubleday1 ,page ,co41 ,new ,york74 ,those ,scandinavians6 ,i have often wondered at the combination of grim strength with childlike imaginativeness that we find in the artists of those pale cold lands4 ,in the winter1 at twilight1 ,i like to sit with closed eyes and to relive old and new ,norse sagas1 the unbelievable wonders told or sung or painted with the perfect earnestness of absorbed children2 ,i like to dream then to the accompaniment of the not-smiling music of the sad child1 ,edward ,grieg4 ,jerusalem is not a novel1 not according to the terminology accepted heretofore4 ,for--may ,i reveal a secret en passant8--we are on the eve of the publication of a novel by a ,chicagoan who will revolutionize the prevailing literary classifications4 ,another thing which is not6 ,selma ,lagerlf is not a mystic1 some of her friends want us to believe2 not in the ,maeterlinckian sense4 ,the book is a series of tapestries to be hung in an ideal children's-room2 a web of fairy-tales told in the ,scandinavian1 unsmiling1 earnest way4 ,mystic8 ,yes1 as much as all fairy-tales are mystic1 as much as all not 8clever0 and 8wonderful0 children are mystic4 ,a mysticism which instead of lifting us up to the clouds brings the clouds down to us2 instead of lending us wings and making us soar in imperceptible intangible regions1 anthropomorphosizes gods and spirits and drags them down to terra firma4 ,so convincing6 ,we actually see the dead ,ingmarssons gathered in a large farm house up in heaven2 we see their ruddy hard faces1 sandy hair1 white eyes2 we hear their slow1 heavy1 laconic talk4 ,we are not surprised at meeting ,christ among the pines in the glow of the autumnal sunset4 ,the opening of heaven on a winter night before the eyes of the two ,ingomars appears as ordinary reality4 ,we are in a world where everything is simple1 believable1 possible4 ,and you cannot smile2 you are in an earnest childlike atmosphere4 ,those ,scandinavians6 ,k4 ,the ,reader ,critic ,,unworthy6 ,rev4 ,w4 ,d4 ,j41 ,riverside1 ,ill43 ,i used to have great expectations for you4 ,but1 pardon the frankness of one who has watched the careers of many writers in the past fifty years1 you are headed now either for the lake or a padded cell4 ,god forbid you reach either4 ,let an old man say that the only way to find life is to lose it4 ,forget it and reach out a hand to the poor1 the sick1 the suffering1 and the sinning4 ,happiness comes only in forgetfulness of self and ministering to others4 ,it is never the result of a theory but of action4 ,i have seen so many wrecked on the reefs toward which you are drifting that ,i am fain to call out and entreat you to find happiness where alone it can be found1 not in fleeing from the world or cursing it but in thanking ,god you were born into a world where you can be of some use to your fellows4 ,those lines of yours in the ,september issue might have been written by a ,heine1 a ,byron1 or a ,walt ,whitman4 ,but they are unworthy of you4 ,you were born to bless your fellows4 ,be true to your vocation4 ,,an ,,example6 ,r4 ,c4 ,smith1 ,chicago3 ,inspiration will never take the place of intelligence1 nor enthusiasm that of cerebration4 ,your magazine will die1--as a steam engine would grow useless in which no direction toward any cylinder was given to the indubitable forces generated in the boiler4 ,for your pages are as a rule careless1 unconsidered1 and inept4 ,let me give you an example3-- ,mr4 ,huntley ,carter1 in your ,september number1 wrote on 8,poetry versus ,imagism40 ,i happen to consider his article an ill-digested congeries of vague views2 but other persons may feel differently about it4 ,what1 however1 can be the estimation in which every sane and intelligent and decently responsible man will hold your magazine and ,mr4 ,carter when he has the effrontery to present to us such an example of ineptitude and carelessness as this3-- 8,browning 444 gets to work in a businesslike manner3 ,the sun looked over the water's brim ,and straight there was a path of gold for him ,and a world of souls for me4 ,i ,,quote ,,from ,,memory1 ,,but ,i ,,believe ,i ,,quote ,,correctly40 7,the capitals are mine47 ,may ,i ask--must an enthusiasm for or against the new movements obliterate all sense of accuracy1 all love of clear and rational communication1 all fidelity to honest statement1 and all interest in truth8 ,your ,mr4 ,carter and his extraordinary indifference to the workaday obligations of literary criticism have considerably discouraged my interest in the new forces4 ,i can imagine ,mr4 ,carter writing--8,since1 as ,nansen says1 #8,the natives of the polar regions are coal-black1'--7,i quote from memory71 it must be hotter there than at the equator40 ,you have printed many encomiums of your magazine3 ,i shall watch with curiosity to see if you print this4 ,,the ,,weakness ,,of ,,revolt ,dr4 ,weil1 ,new ,york3 ,the spirit of revolt is compounded from many causes4 ,even in the average young girl of whom ,mr4 ,hecht writes in the ,august ,,little ,,review it arises as much from her digestion as from her incomplete physical functioning1 as much from her work as from her leisure1 as much from her friends as from her freshness4 ,mr4 ,hecht would be the first to admit that2 would he be equally willing to admit that it meets death variously8 ,he talks only of the family as the snuffer for the flame4 ,this does not mean that he excludes other causes1 but it does mean that he has overemphasized one4 ,it is true1 as ,mr4 ,hecht insists1 that the ,american family tends to quell revolt4 ,the battle of the generations is as old as the race2 the family has always struggled to bring the rebel into line for its own preservation4 ,but that struggle in all its various shades of acuteness has become a truism of modern thought1 thanks to a multiplex modern drama1 a scientific sociology1 and even the daily press4 ,why discuss the subject only to dwell again heavily on the obvious8 ,the problem is far more complicated4 ,the verdict of guilt against the family grows monotonous when returned at every inquest4 ,to place a single responsible cause for any tremor to revolt that dies abortive is to lack subtlety4 ,along with each verdict against the family there is also a verdict against the individual4 ,one is not to blame if she is not a genius1 but if even her greatest emotions are somewhat lacking in poignancy1 the fluctuating spirit of restlessness in her never reaches the heights which demand action4 ,along with each verdict against the family there is also a verdict against the quality of the revolutionary spirit4 ,not only are its causal factors weak and fluctuating1 but the very vagueness which to ,mr4 ,hecht constitutes its charm spells also its damnation4 ,a spirit of restlessness is1 in itself1 nothing about which one can go to the hilltops and shout1 and when it crystalizes in some particular issue1--a book1 a picture1 a small individual right1--the object often seems too trivial to struggle for4 ,to be sure the principle is not a small thing1 but a principle is abstract and when it confronts a concrete bit of suffering1 it fades by contrast4 ,the sordid bread and butter difficulties to be faced by one standing wholly alone1 the scathing force of public opinion1 the pain of others which1 when you love them1 is pain to you1--these are realities which only the truly big souls dare to face4 ,for most of us the spirit of revolt is too diffuse even to demand action1 and for most of the rest action is too divine a consummation to be compassed by our weak human spirit4 ,not to any external cause really1 but to an inherent lack in us1 is it due that we slowly grow complacent1 instead of crusading worthily in behalf of liberty4 ,alice ,groff1 ,philadelphia3 ,the most of you publishers are such unspeakable ,kaisers of ,kultur that you treat the geniuses who make you what you are as insignificant privates in a literary army1 which you deploy2 keeping them dangling upon your critical pleasure1 or blowing them to pieces because they do not happen to walk the line you mark out4 ,i suppose this is inevitable1 however1 in the present social order and that there will never be free literary expression until there is publishing organization on the part of the whole people for the benefit of the whole people4 ,may the universe speed the day of such organization4 ,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 ,gaudier-,brzeska's ,art1 by ,john ,caurnos4 ,the ,egoist1 ,september #a4 ,havelock ,ellis on ,birth ,control in ,physical ,culture for ,september1 ,october1 ,november4 ,the ,literature of a ,moral ,republic1 by ,h4 ,l4 ,mencken4 ,the ,smart ,set1 ,october4 ,the ,undergraduate4 ,the ,new ,republic1 ,september #be4 ,can ,you ,read--8 7,in this column will be given each month a resume of current cant which1 as an intelligent being1 you may wish to be diverted or angered or stimulated by47 ,international ,duty and ,hyphenated ,americans1 by ,theodore ,roosevelt4 ,the ,metropolitan1 ,october4 ,in ,memory of ,lieutenant ,rupert ,brooke1 by ,joyce ,kilmer4 ,the ,bookman1 ,september4 ,llewellyn ,jones on ,new ,tendencies in the ,arts1 in any issue of ,the ,chicago ,evening ,post ,friday ,review4 ,,the ,,egoist ,an ,individualist ,review ,subscribe to ,,the 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,a ,verse ,drama ,by ,,emile ,,verhaeren4 ,interflow ,by ,,geoffrey ,c4 ,,faber4 ,afternoons of ,april ,by ,,grace ,,hazard ,,conkling4 ,each1 boards1 #ge cents net #d ,park ,st4 ,boston #af ,e4 #djth ,st4 ,new ,york ,houghton ,mifflin ,co4 ,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 ,the original spelling was mostly preserved4 ,a few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected4 ,all other changes are shown here 7before_/after73 p4 #d3 444 me from the golden toombs of youth1 from the scarlet graves of love1 ,i will 444 444 me from the golden tombs of youth1 from the scarlet graves of love1 ,i will 444 p4 #aj3 444 under the distinction of being a maniacle sensualist1 a libidinous ruffian1 a 444 444 under the distinction of being a maniacal sensualist1 a libidinous ruffian1 a 444 p4 #ad3 444 8,peddlars are not allowed on the grounds4 ,he must have sneaked in40 444 444 8,peddlers are not allowed on the grounds4 ,he must have sneaked in40 444 p4 #bb3 444 my countrymen the value to them of ,memoiren einer ,idealisten4 444 444 my countrymen the value to them of ,memoiren einer ,idealistin4 444 p4 #bg3 444 ,grune ,heinrich4444 ,i have lived more intensely with ,jean ,christophe 444 444 ,grne ,heinrich4444 ,i have lived more intensely with ,jean ,christophe 444 p4 #cd3 444 faced a ,herculian task4 ,the government was confronted with a double 444 444 faced a ,herculean task4 ,the government was confronted with a double 444 p4 #cg3 444 the verdict over the imbecile ,czar and will cleanse the ,aagean 444 444 the verdict over the imbecile ,czar and will cleanse the ,augean 444