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NEW AGE A WEEKLY REVIEW OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND ART.

Vol. VI. No. 12. THURSDAY,JAN. 20, 1910. THREEPENCE,

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CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE A CARTOON: INDIGESTION. By John P. Campbell ...... 265 LITERARYA SUPPLEMENT. NOTESOF THE WEEK ...... 266 OLDCURRENTS AND NEWEDDIES. By John Hamilton POEMS.Alfred By E. Randall ...... 268 Churchill ...... 277 FOREIGNAFFAIRS. By Stanhope of Chester ...... 269 THENEW ZION: A Poem. By Judah P. Benjamin ... 278 GOVERNMENTBY POSTER. By O. W. Dyce ...... 270 THESTRIKE AT VOUSIGNY.By W. L. George ...... 279 ON GERMANSPIES. By M. D. Eder ...... 271 ALEXANDREDUMAS. By Francis Grierson...... 280 IMAGINARYSPEECHES.--VI. Mr. Ure. By J. C. Squire ... 272 MAGAZINES..THE ...... 281 THEFAILURE OF MILITANCY.By D. Triformis ...... 273 DRAMA.By Ashley Dukes ...... 282 PROPHETICPARAGRAPHS. St. Guido de Vaux. By Alcofrida 274 ART. By Huntly Carter ...... 283 T HE NATIVITY.THE By Lucifer ...... 275 INSURANCE NOTESAND CORRESPONDENCE...... 284 BOOKSAND PERSONS.JacobBy Tonson ...... 276 MODERN BIBLIOGRAPHIES.III. Jerome K. Jerome ... 285

Subscriptions to the NE W A GE are at the following whom a single appeal was to be made has received so rates :- many appeals that in its distraction it has answered Yes Great Britain. A broad. and No toanything and everything. In short, the One Year ...... 15 0 17 4 election, as wemaintained from the outset, cannot be Six Months.. 76 88 decisive on any issue whatever, and should never have . ... been held. Whatevermandate may be supposed to Three Months ... 93 44 crystalliseout of the ballot-boxes was as clearon All orders and remittances should be sent to the NewAge November 30 as it will beon Jan. 30. Nothingis Press, 38, Cursitor Street, E.C. illuminated by the election, and only a modicum of good MSS., drawings and editorial communicationsshould be will havebeen done for a mountain of troubleand addressed to the Editor, 38, Cursitor Street, E.C. expense. *** Advertisements are inserted in the NEW AGE at the It istoo soon yet, however, to raisethe delicate following rates: £6 per page ; £3 per half page; £1 10s. questionwhether Mr. Asquith will get from the King per quarter page ; 6s. perinch. All communications re- theguarantees without whichhe will refuseto take garding the sameshould be addressed to the Advertisement office. Mr. Balfour did venture at Glasgow on Tuesday Manager, 38, Cursitor Street, E.C. tocompare the respective functions of theKing and the House of Lords, and to hint that the Lords, veto and all,were necessary to the Monarchy whichin its turnwas necessary tothe Empire. The conclusion to NOTES OF THE WEEK. bedrawn was that the King might hesitate to give JUDGING from the results of the firstday’s poll, which guaranteesenabling Mr. Asquith to clip the wings of are all we have at the time of writing to go upon, the the circumambient House, lest the Monarchy should be LiberalGovernment will bereturned with a majority imperilled. Mr.Asquith replied onThursday on lines sufficient to enableit to pass advanced measures, but withwhich ourreaders have been long familiar. The not sufficient to enable it to pass reactionary measures. strength of Monarchy in England lies in its weakness, So far so good. Thatthe Irish and Labour Parties not in its power ; and its veto was effective because it between them may hold the balance of power is not in was never used. The parallel,in short,broke down ; itself or in relation to an ideal constitution a good thing ; but we imagine that the state of affairs is still in flux but under the circumstances we do not regard the pros- andthat Mr.Asquith is still withouthis guarantees. pect with any particular horror. If Mr. Asquith accepts This means, of course, that affairs are still critical and office on theseterms Home Rule is certain, and pro- serious ; for there is no mistaking one thing, namely, bably the Labour Party will secure the reversal of the that Mr. Asquith is bound to refuse office without the recentdecision regardingTrade Union funds This King’sassurance. So, after all,we may haveOld latter will be a pity, since Payment of Members will be Moore’s prophecy fulfilled that Mr. Balfour will be the therebypostponed ; butthe former is an unmitigated next Prime Minister. advantage. *** *** That would bean odd, not to say a revolutionary, Of theparticular results of theopening day of the conclusion of a state of suspended chaos. And not the election not much notice will be taken by the time these least embarrassed by it would be Mr. Balfour himself. pagesare being read. We refrain,therefore, from It is rumoured that Mr. Balfour, despite the drums of needlesscomment. The “ splits ” in theProgressive hisragged regiments, has no desirefor office under forces have been responsible in two cases for the return anyconditions at present. And no wonder. For he of a Unionist Tariff Reformer ; but it appears that they is far from being master in his own house.Moreover, could not be helped. We are genuinely sorry that the the number of hostages he has given to fortune in the veteran Mr. Hyndman has again been defeated at Burn- shape of promisesand half promiseswould prove ley. There will need to be some serious reconsideration ruinous. What has driven Mr. Balfour to such straits of the policy of anorganisation that has during a thathe shouldsolemnly pledgehis word that food quarter of a century failed toreturn the soundest would not be increased in price if the price of it were Socialist in England. His defeat is, however, mitigated raised by a tariff? No defence of philosophic doubt as inour opinionby thedefeat of hisLiberal opponent, to such a propositioncan be offered. His speech at Mr. Maddison, whose outbreak of anti-Socialism on Mr. Hanleymade a warwith Germany, if the Unionists Grayson’sfirst election for Colne Valley will notbe shouldbe returned, almost a pledge. Yet Mr. Balfour forgottenin the list of hisoffences. London has done certainlydoes not mean tomake war on Germany. betterthan we shouldhave expected. Birmingham is Thenhis letter and the letter of LordLansdowne on likeMoab, a Highburywashpot. The Labour Party the question of Old Age Pensions are pledges of a kind, has nothing to fear if it maintain the position it holds pledges that the Old Age Pensions Act may, after all, on the first day’s poll. be“modified,” as Mr. Uresaid it would be. More *** extraordinarytactics were neverdevised to secure a Apart from the measures already named we may say defeat while pretending to aim at victory. We can at once thatthe prospect of drastictreatment of the only conclude, as wesay, that Mr.Balfour does not Lordsbegins to fadelike the Cheshire cat. There is, desire office at this juncture. we think, no doubt that Mr. Asquith, at any rate, was *** inearnest about it; but the same cannot be saidfor Wouldit be unkind to suggest that Mr. Balfouris the other members of his: Cabinet ; nor, unfortunately, waiting until Mr. Chamberlain ceases nominally as well can it be said of the country as a whole. Liberal Cabi- as actually torule the Unionist Party? Two rams net Ministers have been as various in their speculations cannotdrink out of thesame calabash. Besides, the regardingthe future of theHouse of Lords as any use to which Mr. Chamberlain’s name has been put in casual group of diurnal politicians ; and the country to this election, theextent of hisinvisible influence, the JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 267

miraculous number of hiscommunications and the acutelydangerous Prussian Imperialism. We donot embarrassing particularity of his presumed instructions, suggest that Prussian Imperialismhas ceased to be a would infallibly entitle him and not Mr. Balfour to the danger to Europe, but the critical stage is practically actualpremiership of theparty. Nothing ismore over. The GermanNaval Programme will ceaseto anomalous in this anomalous election, in fact, than the operate in 1917, by which time it is probable that Ger-. position of Mr. Chamberlain. We hesitateto suggest many will feel herself strong enough, not to make war flatly that Mr.Chamberlain is no more Mr.Chamber- on England-an intention that only exists’ inpanic- lain thanMrs. Harris was Mrs. Harris. But what are strickenBritish minds-but tonegotiate on tolerably we to think of a personage active enough to conduct a equalterms with England and America andJapan. generalelection like anorchestra, yet not able to be Thatwas certainlythe intention from the very first ; permitted tohear the firstresult of itlest the shock and in the absence of an international fleet and army to should provetoo much? Curiouser and curiouser, enforceits findings, a reasonableintention. Mean- higher criticism can easily prove that Mr. Chamberlain’s while, it is unEnglish of Englishmen to cry out while innumerable letters,messages, manifestoes, and tele- their ships outnumber, and will always outnumber, Ger- grams are either colourless or consist of colours taken man ships by two to one. What, we ask, would Eliza- from his old speeches meditated on the illimitable veldt. beth have said to Drake had he demanded two ships for The final manifesto for certain is a thing of shreds and every Spanish one? In ourown schooldays a ladwho patches. It was not written with a pen but by a pair of suggested that Englishmen would not positively prefer scissors. We confess,however, thatthe problemis itthe other way would have been sentto Coventry. beyond us. Yetquite half ourPress, and especially of the pro- *** fessedlybull-dog breed, whine like beaten curs at the prospect of atwo to one conflict. Possiblyone of the It is usually expected that miracles of nonsense will most salutary effects of the present Liberal victory will happen duringgeneral elections, but nothing can well be the silencing of these cowardly bullies. be more absurd than promises made by politicians re- *** gardingthings over whichthey obviously have no control. We havereferred to Mr. Balfour’spromise Ourcontributor, O. W. Dyce, writes : Whenthe “ Observer ” audaciouslydescribes itsopponents as that food should not go up in price in consequence of viewing the Unionist gains with “ something approach- a tariff, a promise exactly as worth consideration as a ingconsternation,” one is tempted to ask what the guarantee that we should not get wet if it rained. This “ Observer’s ” realfeelings were on discovering that desperate bait was preceded by Lord Rothschild’s feudal all hope of a Tariff ReformMinistry had disappeared offer to pay the old age pensions of Buckinghamshire within a couple of hours from the time of receiving the shoulda Unionist Government fail tomaintain them; figures of the first of thecontested elections. Readers andit was followed by an offer onthe part of some cf THENEW AGEwho found their own estimates har- manufacturer,whose name we forget, to pay £5,000 monisewith theforecast in lastweek’s issue will not to something or other if he did not employ a thousand havefelt anything approaching consternation, for the additionalhands as a result of TariffReform. What turnoverbased on the figures of the by-elections was irritates us most in all this pothouse boasting and bet- thereestimated to be large enough to reduce Mr. ting is not so much its irrelevance to the real issues- Asquith’s majority to 200, whilst it was suggested that for who wants to win such bets?-as the presumptuous thevast expenditure of the Tariff Reformerson the stupidityinvolved in it. Thatany man, nomatter electioneering,together with the lavish promises of whathis calling, should be in a position to guarantee work for the workless, might win them a further sixty old age pensions in perpetuity to a county of the aged seats,leaving the Radical coalitionwith a majority of is a monstrosity in itself; that he should brag about it between 80 and 100 The verdict of theearly pollings is a barbarous offence. LordRothschild, we know, is is : “ As THENEW AGE prophesied-only better.” With avery wealthy man, and our manufacturer £5,000 reference to the chances of the Labour Party, THENEW could likewise,no doubt, easily paythe money if he AGE wrote : “ Most of theLabour M.P.’s will retain lost his bet; but what a commentary on the distribution theirseats without difficulty. In afew cases the fight of wealth in England and on its Mallockian distribution will be tough,notably inone of theWolverhampton accordingto ability ! Nodoubt, as statistics prove, divisions,where Mr. T. F. Richards,with a majority the whole of the rest of England is less wealthy than a of only 168 last time, is trying to ward off the attack of single small class of whom Lord Rothschild is the chief; awealthy capitalist.” This opinion has beenborne butthat is our shame, and should not be Lord Roth- out by the figures. The Labour seat at Halifax has been schild’sboast. Richesse oblige. *** held by 4,339votes asagainst a Labourmajority of 3,896 last time. The Labour seat at Bolton isretained Butmore sinister even thanthese foolishpromises by a is the pledge, secretly understood, that a Unionist vic- majority of 4,385 asagainst 3,723in 1906. Mr. toryshall mean increasedhostility against Germany. Clynes wins by 1,478, Mr. John Ward by nearly 2,000, There is, indeed, no other construction to be put upon etc. Onthe other hand, the fight at West Wolver- the speech made by Mr. Balfour and repeated by mob hamptonhas, as we feared,proved too tough for Mr. orators on hundreds of perambulating platforms. That Richards.After remarking that it was very probable Germany intends and is able to reduce England to the that the Liberal majority of 324 at Burnley would dis- status of a fourth-rate Power, that the immediate rais- appear, we askedwhether the Tory or Mr. Hyndman ing of a loan of 50 millions for the Navy is imperative, would getthose 324 votes. Itturns out the Tory has that only LordLansdowne, Lord Milner, and Mr. won, but Mr. Hyndrnan can claim to have improved his Balfour,who bungled us intothe South African war, poll at a timewhen most of theadvanced candidates are to betrusted to save us fromGermany, and that have atleast lostsome ground. Finally, we said : finally a votefor a Liberalis a votefor Germany,- ‘‘ Hitherto the Labour men and Irishmen have not been these are the popular propositions deduced in fact from masters of the situation; the House of Lords has seen theunwary utterances of Mr.Balfour at Hanley.Sir to it that theyshall be in thefuture.” That was the Edward Grey replied at Edinburgh on Monday, but his outcome we expected ; it was what we wanted; it was words,we fear, will carryno popular weight. He what we shallget. Itis withsomething approaching assured us that ‘‘ at no timehad the British Govern- enthusiasm that we canrecognise two forthcoming mentfound a greater dispositionon the part of the results of the great struggle-a majority small enough GermanGovernment to handlequestions which arose to compel the Government to bid for the Labour Party’s between them in a friendly spirit than during the last support by theimmediate introduction of Labour year. ” *** measures,and a majoritylarge enough to make the That, no doubt, is true and arises, as we think, from arrogance of theHouse of Lords ridiculous. The the change in German policy which was notified when Labourand Irish Parties are in thesaddle; they hold von Bulow wasasked to retire. As M. Tardieuhas thebalance of power. At thesame time, the lords ably demonstrated,the change from vonBulow to andlackeys have had their answer-England’s yea Bethmann-Hollweg marksthe end of the period of against their nay. 268 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

Build me a marble carven fane Poems. And there my glory will remain By ALFRED E. RANDALL. Enthroned, and ages yet to be Will see what all have sought to see : UNWORTHINESS. The Light made Love, the beauty moulded fine Love turned upon the secret ways and fled, As truth, and breathing life thro’ every flowing line.” Pursued by phantoms to his guarded keep, Where lay he safe and desolate to weep. PREMONITION. Forlorn as Hope, his heart renewedand bled And the lone anguish smote him with a dread Now is her face like Fate inscrutable. And barrensorrow. Still he heard the deep Perhaps her heart still beats, but that cold brow And threatening cry that drove him from the steep And carven cheek and rigid lips allow Remoter height where he had dared to tread. No changing flush to bide there, mutable His eyes uplifted to the mountain sought As morn with cryptic presage suitable That evermore lost form and face that shone And strange. Those eyes I loved, that even now Like the fair promise of an unknown land. I watch for hope, are doom to me and show He knew himself for evermore alone, Dull as a dead desire, immutable. For where he had not stood and had not fought I know she will not change, but O, how hard There stood the angel with the flaming brand. It is to die like this and turn to stone ! Better to burn with anguish unconsoled, PROMETHEUS RE-BOUND. To be the prey of pain upon a lone, Wild peak beyond the world, than to be rolled [”One thing is proved by these books-and that is that the In this sad shroud and laid beneath the sward. old devices of regular metrical beat and regular rhyming are worn out.”-F. S. Flint, in a review of the Personae ” and “Exultations of Ezra Pound,” in THE NEW AGE, ELEGIAC VERSES. January 6th, 1910.] How many Flints weigh a Pound? (In Memoriam “ E. E.,” who died Jan. 3, 1910.) Sacre nom de Dieu ! So she is dead, and somewhere in the sky Judge ye ! A star is shrouded till her soul has passed Have I weighed them correctly? The second sphere of woe. Iheard the last Perpend ! Vague ghostly trailing of her robes go by, And heardthe burdened brooding threnody Along this path the treader of the sun Sob out its sombre sorrow in the waste Speeds on his volant way with winged heels, And barren place of tombs where she doth lie, And the long wave of pinions thro’ the dun And let Earth take her own without a cry. And looming chaos that no form reveals. Upon the height Apollo sits Noreven now the anguish overflows Immortal in the form that fits In easy floods of tributary tears. The spirit with a self extern ; I only feel aburden as of years And we the beauty may discern Laid on a weary heart that seems to close Held captive but unconquered thro’ the veil Againstthe frozen blood. Thedarting throes That shimmers with the glory that would fain prevail. Of pain, the storming throng of thrillingfears, Havewrung no nerve to feeling. A repose Who called you out of Egypt, Flint, my child? That mimics death o’er all my being grows What God impotent laid on you the curse Of desert wanderings with Ishmael styled I know thatDeath was kind. Hemust havesmiled, TheOutcast? What poor Hagarwas yournurse And turned the mask of doom to promise fair To teach your infant lips the taste And twined the myrtle leaves within his hair Of alien milk?The burning waste And called himself young Love, ere he beguiled That knows no touch of tillage wants Her lively soul to follow to the wild, The husbandman, and ever pants And brighten with her presence his dull lair. For the sweet dew of culture and the skill He knew the lure to lead her like a child To make the amaranth abound on dune and hill. To stranger ways by mortals undefiled.

What are you but a breath, a crying voice I cannotthink she sighed, or sufferedpain, Without an echo in the hearts of men, So gently did the spirit cut the cord, If, when you bid the springing hills rejoice, The goldenband that weddedLife the Lord And the blithe brook trill merrily your strain, To flesh so humblybeautiful. A strain Only the swart Sirocco swathes Of hiddenmusic touched her with a fain Your music, and the firefly bathes And fervent strength, and as she heard the chord A glowing wing within your fire A smile lay lightly on her lips again, To learn that Life is Death, expire And Death forbade it not there to remain. In a mute agony that leaves no trace, A victim of the light he loved and would embrace ! So passed she fearless thro’ the portal dim, Butnot alone. Athousand Thoughts were there Art has this message that hersons must hear, In phalanx, led by armoured Love, to bear “ I am the voice of immortality, Her safelythro’ the underworld. A hymn Crying in chaos, nor can I appear Of joy thrilled onwards to the confines grim, To novice eyes in nakedness, or fly And to the second portal sprang a fair The wooing wind with beauty bare. And shining throng of sister Seraphim, Lend me yourspirit’s dailywear Like sudden dawn above a mountain brim. And I will walk the ways of men In modesty, nor be the bane There earthly Love and his twin-brother Hate Of the deep heart that loves for evermore : And clear-eyed Sorrowand unburdened Hope Not yielded quite to his dear clasp that wouId be sure Turnedback with lagging steps adown the slope And slowly took the daily road, to bate That I am Love requited, Hope reborn Their loss with labour, or to expiate As Truth apparent in a thing of earth, The rueful past with hands that feebly grope But still his most who would be mine, nor scorn For hersweet solace and perfected state, His image instinct with eternal worth. Norhopeless of reunionawait. JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 269

when theCanadian Parliament was not sitting, since Foreign Affairs. Canadawas neither represented in theBritish Parlia- ment nor in British diplomacy. The folly of the British FOREIGNand Colonial interest in the General Elections Imperialists who have provoked this naval scheme can- has reached a high pitch. In Europe and the Colonies not be too strongly condemned. Canada is drifting to- the electoral struggleis being followedwith grave wards complete independence and separation. anxiety by nearlyall classes. The use to which the *** Anglo-German naval rivalry has been put by Mr. Bal- Thestruggle between theJesuits and the Jews has four hasshown European diplomacy thatthe Tory assumednewa phase in Austria.The Archduke Partymeans to work upon the inflammableBritish Francis Ferdinand is well known to favour the Jesuits chauvinism, so as to draw the attention of the working againstthe Jews. TheJews had the advantags classes off theurgent need for socialreform. This hithertothat the Austrian Government was dependent dangerhas beenrepeatedly dwelt upon in these upon theViennese house of Rothschildfor its loan columns. It is one which shouldweigh strongly with flotation. By an adroit move, the Rothschilds have been all sections of the electorate in inducing them to record deprived of their financial influence. At the instance of theirvotes againstthose candidates who are support- theJesuits, Dr. DeBilinski, theAustrian Finance Minister,has decided to place a loanof 140,000,000 ing the House of Lords. A vote for Toryism is a vote FourPer Cent. KroneRentes with the Austrian Post for a warparty. In the meantime, a letter has been Office SavingsBank, which will offer it tothe public addressedto Mr. Balfour by THENEW AGE inviting The Austrian nation will be saved all the heavy under- him togive the names of theGermans who will not writing commission. It is possible that the Rothschilds “allowEngland to adopt Tariff Reform.” Upto the may organise a boycott among the financiers, in which time of writing,no reply has been received fromthe case the Society of Jesus has undertaken to guarantee right honourable gentleman. anyportion of the loan which theAustrian Savings Bankcannot get its customers to take up. It is a *** notable piece of State Socialism.Until theSocialists The German Government has been forced into bring- can destroy the power of the great financial houses, the capitalistshave a tremendousweapon against Social- ingforward a Reform Bill. ThePrussian franchise, ism,as panicafter panic couldbe engineered by the beingbased on a propertysystem of voting,and not Rothschilds, Speyers, and Morgans to injure any Social- on a counting of individuals,has enabled the anti- ist Government. Socialists to limit the electoral power of the Socialists. *** The GermanSocialists have been holding mass meet- Several articles have appeared in THENEW AGE con- ings in support of ademocratic Reform Bill. Inthe cerningthe administration of the Gilbert and Ellice event of theGovernment refusing to accede tothe Islands. The ResidentCommissioner, whose methods Socialists’ claim for more equitable treatment, the latter of government were severely criticised, has been trans- arethreatening to resort to force. Theinternal situa- ferred elsewhere. Mr. Arthur Mahaffy wassent on a tion in Germanyis rather critical. It ispossible that voyage of inspection, no doubt as a partial consequence theGerman Government may try the same tactics as of the criticisms made upon the lack of supervisionin Mr. Balfour has been adopting in England-namely, to theseremote spots. His Report (C.D. 4992, Id.)has raise an Anglo-Germanwar scare. The GermanSocial just been published. The followingcontradictory para- graph, with which Mr. Mahaffy concluded his review of Democrats will thenbe met with copious quotations theconditions in the Gilbert Islands, is a justification fromMr. Blatchford’s pamphlet. Mr. Blatchfordand of THENEW AGE position, and a proof that the attacks Mr. Hyndman will be cited as twoleading English on Mr. TelferCampbell came just in time : “ A rela- Socialistswho are as hostile to Germany as the most tively high level has been reached under Mr. Campbell’s rabid writer in “The NationalReview.” Such is the administration in so far as thematerial condition of evil men da in theirhaste. Mr.Blatchford has, suc- the natives is concerned, but in the face of the impend- ceeded in wreckingany chance Mr. Hyndman had at ing decadence of therace sustained effort will be needed and a careful, just, and sympathetic treatment Burnley, .and hisreckless support of theImperialists must be accorded to the natives if they are to be pre- will tell heavily against everySocialist candidate in served in theirmost curious and most interesting England ; but should his articles be quoted against the islands.” All NEWAGE readers shouldprocure a copy German Socialists,, that would crownhis self-imposed of thisReport upon theselittle known outposts of task of hindering the international advance of Socialism. Empire. *** *** The Canadian Navy Bill has at last been introduced. The CatholicChurch is taking an active part in the comingFrench Elections. The Bishop of Quimperhas Imperialistsshould earnestly consider whether this issued anaddress typical of theCatholic ecclesiastic naval agitation maynot shatterthe Empire. Canada mind. is apowerful and wealthy Colony. At theinstigation The role of thepriest is not to take part directly in the of so-called Imperialists,aCanadian Navy is to be struggle,but to advise the faithful, and to remind them created. How long will Canadaremain a Colony once that they are called upon to come to an understanding with the Canadianflag is flyingover a CanadianNavy? other Catholics and to vote as Catholics. SirWilfrid Laurier, in introducingthe Navy Bill, Thisanisamusing instance of non-intervention, coupledwith judicious activity. The FrenchRepub- stated thatthe cost to Canada would be £2,338,000 lican,Radical, and Socialist Parties shouldwatch the but if the vesselswere constructed in the Dominion Catholicecclesiastical agitation very closely otherwise thecost would beincreased 22 percent. [Yet Mr. they may find themselves losing a lot of provincial seats. Balfour haspledged hisword that prices will notrise A propos of recent comments on the “ Times ” South under Protection !] A significant fact is that this navy Americannumber, thisextract from the valuable would not engage in war unless theCanadian Parlia- “ SpecialCorrespondence ” of “ The SouthAmerican ment agreed. If thisdoes notindicate a new view of Journal ’’ is a confirmation of my statementthat the electoral system was a sham : the relations between Canada and England it is difficult The peopletake no interest in theArgentine elections, to understand Canada’smotive for incorporating this knowing that, except in the Federal capital, the results are .stipulation. Inthe debate several membersprotested arrangedbeforehand by thePresident of theRepublic and against the idea that the Canadian Government should the Governors of the Provinces. join England,assuming an Europeanwar broke out “ STANHOPE OF CHESTER.” 270 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

of thetaxes on alcohol and tobacco, but what is the Government by Poster. use of twitting a Governmentwith a risein the cost By O. W. Dyce. of something which it has refused to tax? Much more convincingisan illustrated Free Trade bill which SOMEChancellor of the Exchequer, casting about for a reads : “ Never forget that Tariff Reform means taxed tax that will directly hit neither the angry peer nor the food andtaxed goods, a taxed loaf andtaxed butter exasperatedproletarian, may one day ask the House tospread on it, taxed meat and a taxed knife to cut of Commons to imitate our friends across the Channel itwith. If youdo not want to pay more forevery- and enact that every placard on the hoarding shall bear thing,stick to Free Trade.’’ Effective, again,is a a half-penny stamp. If he be a Tory, he will be attacked picturerepresenting a cupboardwith the door open on the ground that he is raising the price of the people’s and a gigantic hand extended to seize the food on the posters, restoring the odious taxes on knowledge, and shelves. Thefact that our Continental neighbours adding to the percentageof unemployment amongst bill- resort to an equine diet as one way of dodging the high posters. If hebe a Liberal Chancellor, it will be price of taxed beef has not been neglected by the car- pointed out that the foreigner escapes the tax, that the toonist,and the whole country has been laughing at money raised by it is sure to be used for some nefarious the picture of a little girl who carries a piece of horse- purpose,and, somewhat irrelevantly, that the Chan- flesh on a skewer and says to an expectant cat : “No, cellor himselfis a predatorySocialist who objects to pussie, this is father’s dinner !” being lynched by a mob of hooligans. The Society paper known as the “World ” and other I am not myself an advocate of a poster tax. Leav- Tory organs have been protesting against the vulgarity ing otherobjections out of account,I should be sorry of theposters issued by their own side.One example tosee the wealthy politicians gain a further “ pull “ to which they have referred is the large poster labelled over those whose expenditure on poster propaganda is “ A Victim of FreeTrade.” The disreputable appear-, limited by lack of funds.Enormous sums have been ance of thefellow depicted on the poster has caused spent in this electioneering period on appeals from the one of theseTory critics to declare that the British hoardings, and, as far as my observation has gone, the workingman ought not to be painted as a good-for- Labour candidates have been ‘at a great disadvantage. nothingloafer, and that the poster might well be They have had none of those subsidies necessary for the entitled “A victim of freedrink.” Says the victim in purchse of large quantities of gigantic cartoons ; they question, “ It’s work I want,” and the “ Daily News ” havehad to be contentwith smaller bills andsmall has brought out a counter-poster representing a hand- quantities of them,and, in some constituencies, they some youngpeasant whose appeal is (‘It’sland I havehad to make use of picturesissued from the want.”Quite oblivious of thefact that pictures of Liberal storehouses. misery serve the Socialist cause more usefully than any There is justification for the theory that the country is othercause, the Tariffites have issued some expensive now, to a great extent, governed by the political poster. oleographswhich show a workmanseated in a de- A hundred years ago, orations on the hustings were lis- jectedattitude surrounded by weepingrelatives. tened to with wild enthusiasm by theindependent but This, again, is supposed to reveal the iniquitous results not verynumerous electors. Nowadays a third of the of FreeTrade, but it might just as well standfor a electorsare too busy to go to publicmeetings ; they portrait of a tenement-dweller driven to an overcrowded get home too latefrom the hard work of theday. city by theland monopoly. All this “ rubbing-in ” of Anotherthird of theelectors are too indifferent; they the desperate straits of the unemployed cuts both ways ; take no interest in political meetings and can only bestir inthe long run it is true Socialist propaganda, and themselvesfor such purposes as lookingon at other those who succeed in becomingpossessed of these people playing football.The poster however, catches oleographsshould save them up for use, with a theirattention by itsglaring aggressiveness. Fifty different label,when the Right to Work Bill isagain years ago,the personal bribe played its part, but this introduced by theLabour Party. Incidentally, it may has become a dangerous game, andthe money saved he mentionedthat one of theseanti-Free Trade oleo- by the man who wants to bribe and dare not is now laid graphshas been stuck up on therailings outside a out in posters. Twenty years ago, the chief electioneer- block of flatscalled the Manor House, in theMarylebone ing method was the canvassing from door to door, but boneRoad. This seems an extraordinary procedure. the results were out of all proportion to the time and Are we toassume that every occupier in this large trouble involved.Such a method suitsthe country vil- block is a Protectionist? lage still ; itis a wearisomewaste of effortin the Aclever drawing by BernardPartridge in a recent centres of industry, where half the voters are out when number of “Punch ” represented a burlytramp you call and most of the others resent being catechised, (labelled “ Socialist “ accostingan elderly gentleman except possibly by the candidate himself. (labelled “ Liberal “ onthe high road. The tramp Thus it has come :O pass that the election literature offershis company tothe alarmed old gentleman ; he on the walls can claim to be the factor fixing the votes is goinghis way-and further.Although this cartoon of the undecided anddetermining the results in the hit off withsplendid irony the difficulties of theold- close fights. I am prepared to maintainthat it is the fashionedLiberals confronted with a programmethat placarded interpretation sf the action of the Lords and carried them off their feet, I have seen no reproduction the imminence of a food-taxed future that have placed of it on the hoardings. Probably it was too subtle, too the Radicals oncemore in control of theEmpire’s refined in treatment, too inoffensive ; the enemy would destinies Mr. Asquithre-enters by the ‘(postern ” take the ingenious jest in good part. What the Tories gate prefer is themalicious gibe, the scurrilous insinuation. I takeit for granted that the pro-Budget posters Theylike toshow Mr. Lloyd George escaping from a have proved more effective thantheir rivals. Can any crowd of “mafficking ” ruffians, so thatthey can one doubtit? Let us make x few comparisons.I stigmatise him as a coward for his inability to vanquish noticethat a house in PortlandPlace displays a bill a hundredopponents with his strong right hand. Mr. which asks “ Where is thatRadical cheap loaf? ” It Halkett,the “ PallMall Gazette ’’ cartoonist,has tells thepasser-by that the loaf was 41/2d. underthe designed a posterrepresenting Mr. Lloyd George Unionist Governmentand is 6d. under the Radical lashing a number of the’unemployed with a whip. GovernmentOne can understand the attempt of the How cansuch a poster influence electorswho have Tariff Reformer to persuade us that a wheatduty observed that the Chancellor has spent the greater part would be so small that the price of bread would remain of lastyear planning schemes for giving work to the unaffected,in spite of whatthe bakers prophesy, but unemployed at road-making,afforestation, etc. ? I howcan the Tariffite expect the voter to believethat think I amright in sayingthat neither the Labour an increase of 11/2d. inthe price of theloaf is dueto Partynor the Radicals have imported personal insults causes over which the Radicals have had any control? intotheir pictorial appeals. They have relied on prin- THe marketreports of theirown newspapers explain ciplesand reasoned arguments. That is whythey will it differently.Again, theresident thein lordly poll a majority of the votes cast by British electors this. thoroughfare of Portland Place might make capital out month. 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of theGerman language as spoken.I seescores of On German Spies. Germansevery month ; I seemany of the young ONCEupon a time I waswandering with a friend German waiters who come over to this country, ready, according to Mr. Arnold Whiteand his friends, to around the head waters of the Amazon, in the Caqueta, mobilise at Sheerness,or Chatham, or Buckingham. that unexploredprovince of Colombia.Acting up to The majority of these spies areyoung menin their thebest boyhood traditions,we were accompanied by teens,who have not yet served in thearmy, and somefriendly Indians. On descendingthe river anotherlarge contingent is, as Mr. CharlesLowe Caquan,our friends became timid andanxious ; we pointsout in thecurrent “Contemporary,” constitu- were approachingthe Huitote tribe, who,we were tionallyincapable of serving in thearmy. If you are given tounderstand, practised cannibalism.I tried to at all as intimate with these young men as I am, you will be able to follow their wanderings all over Europe make it clear to our Indians that this was quite impos- -France,Germany, Austria, and Italy. You will sible ; since diet reformers had proved that meat-eating know that their sojourn here is but an incident in their was entirely a product of civilisation, that savage man careers. ate nothing but nuts and berries and the fruits of the To be told that the German Army Staff is going to earth(after washing). They remainedunconvinced, place the fate of her army in England in the hands of and at night-timestole away through the forest. My the young Germans who come over hereas waiters, as clerks,or as hairdressers-well,even Mr. Blatchford friend,Alexander, thenbecame no little alarmed ; not will‘ have to admit that the Germans are a fairly intelli- even my statement that the Huitotes were still in the gent people. precibiculturalperiod of developmentcould reassure Could anyonein his senses believe that Germany him. He betrayed a revoltingscepticism on vegetarian would employ as spiesthe class of young menwhom history, and commenced a series of yarns about canni- you will find here as waiters in the hotels and the like? bals at home and cannibals he hadknown that would Really, if the English were one half as stupid as these spy maniacs try to make us out, we should not deserve havemade my flesh creephad I not been so firm a anynational existence. Haigite.Ifelt a littleuncomfortable, of course,but It will be worth, on some other occasion, giving the dozed off. I awoke myself by shrieking loudly : reasonswhy there are so many foreign as compared “Alexander, Alexander,they’ve eaten my rightleg ! with English waiters ; certainly the trade is not one of Oh,Lord, what shall I do?’’ Itwas perfectly true, I thesweated industries. Mr. Lowe, in thearticle to couldn’t feel my right leg at all. Alexander turnedto which I havealluded, gives the following estimates my help, kicked me on the right shin, and I rubbed my from various sources of- leg till the sensation returned in the limb that had gone GERMANSIN ENGLAND. asleep.After all, we decided thatas the scenery Major Reed’s spies ...... 6,500 SirJohn Barlow’s trained soldiers ...... 66,000 looked more attractive in the district we had traversed Lord Roberts’ trained soldiers (“ almost all a fewdays earlier we would retraceour steps. Of of them ”) ...... 80,000 course, we went astray, and, coming to the habitations Colonel Driscoll’s trained soldiers...... 350,000 of some Indians, dwelt with them for some days, when It will not matter to any of these “authorities ” that we discovered they were the dreaded Huitotes. thelast census returns gave 49,133 Germans in this They did not eat me, so thevegetarians must be country. Mr. Lowe thinksthere may be 55,000 now, right.But that wasn’t what I set out to show. My which numberbears about the same proportion to .Colonel Driscoll’sestimate asdo Mr.Blatchford’s friendAlexander’s talk about cannibal terrors threw 28,000 newly engaged men at Essen to the truth. me into a panic-I’ll admit it after these many years- Soonwe shall be taking the skin off everyGerman and sent my leg to sleep. sausagethat comesinto thecountry lest it enwrap a Blatchford andBalfour’s talk about Germany and rifle. Isuspect all thoseWestphalian hams are gun German spies is being used to throw the British people stocksand that the barrels of sauerkrautcontain the into a panic and send their brains to sleep. mostdeadly of explosives-they certainlysmell as if But I shall not yet believe that the British are quite they did. so lacking in courage and good sense as I was. Indeed,I remember that oneday I was talking to What are Mr.Blatchford’s qualifications for acting theproprietor of adeath-dealing establishment, when as guideto the British peopleon theintentions of young a German entered andasked for Zwei Germany ? Frankfurters-two Frankfurters-or, as we might say, He has written some excellent propaganda works on two Londoners. No doubt Mr. Blatchford or Colonel Socialism. Driscoll would have rushed forth to tell the world that He has spent a few weeks in Germany. there are hundreds of Frankfort youths secreted in the He doesn’tknow any German. Germanprovision stores,whereas Frankfort is only He has, I hope, drunk some lager beer. celebrated for its sausages. Of course, Mr. Blatchford is the superior person who But all thisscare-mongering, which looks so ridi-. is high above all party politics. culous is really very serious. There can be little doubt It isgenerally these high and mighty persons who that it is part of aplot to make the German a bogey will befound to do the kind of work that yourmere in thiscountry, just asthe Boer was made. When politician would turn from in disgust. that isaccomplished, theTory Party will declarewar Mr. Blatchfordis a journalistichack found con- against Germany. venient by the Tory Party. I do not think that the English people will be caught Shouldthe Tory Party be returned to power Mr. napping quite so easily a second time. Blatchford will beengaged to work up a warwith It is said that the German Government is preparing Germany. forwar with us, andthat it will comevia a German This is thebarrier the Tory Party means to set up attack on France.I know no more about the German againstthe growth of Socialism and of the Labour Government’s intentions than Mr. Blatchford, and that Party in this country. is just nothing at all. But there are a few simplecon- Mr. Blatchfordknows nothing of Germany ; he siderations which all of us can make. knows less than I do about the intentions of the German TheGerman Emperor was creditedwith a restless Government and the views of the German people. and warlike spirit when he ascended the throne. I say less than I do, because I can at least read the He has been on the throne for some years. German papersand speak ‘to the people in theirown Duringthese years he has had Francemore than tongue. once at his mercy-for instance,during the Dreyfus It happens that a sufficient number of my early years crisis,when there was no more question of England werespent in Germany togive meafair mastery going to the aid of France than during the 1870 war. 272 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

Hehas not made war upon France inhis younger the life of old folk. That would bebad enough ; but days. Is he more likely to do so now,when one may he had worse to tell them. He had received that morn- expect that hisyouthful restlessness somewhatis ing a letterfrom Lord Lansdowne. Itwas marked tamed ? “privateand confidential,” but hefelt that it was so There is only one danger that I can see ; that is, the importantthat it was his higher duty to reveal the Germanwar party-such a warparty exists in every contents. He would read it to them : countrythat is civilised enoughto have an army and LansdowneHouse, Berkeley Square, a navy-may getthe upper hand and provoke a war Tooting, E.C. to dish the Social Democrats of Germany. My DearUre,--Between you and me, Balfour and It is an unlikelycontingency, I believe, because the me havedecided that if we win thenext election we Social Democrats are strong and growing, because the shall have to lay down 54 Dreadnoughts. That means, Social Democrats are intensely patriotic, and are hence of course, that we shall have to stop the old age pen- war-hatersto a man,and because theGerman Social sions. Butthat will haveto be betweenyou and me Democrats do not count a Blatchford among them. just now. So don’tmention it.-Yours ever, The British people are also, I believe, strong enough LANSDOWNE. to resist its war party and strong enough to come out Now, went on Mr. Ure, that can only mean one thing. of this sorry business resolved to create no more leaders (Hear, hear.) Itmeans that if you help tosend the -leaders who ever turn round and revile thosewho Tories back to poweryour old age pensions are gone havecreated them. beyond recovery. No moresilver five shillings from Who are the leaders of this War Party? the post office, no more loaves, no more coals, no more nice warmblankets, you will all of you have toturn Mr.Blatchford, an ex-Socialist ; Mr.Garvin, an out--(sensation)--ofyour almshouses. They are going ex-Parnellite ; Mr. Blumenberg, an ex-American Jew ; to beturned into, barracks for the “ Dreadnoughts,” and Mr. Eltzbacheran ex-German.A motley crew. and you will all of you have to go to the workhouse--if Let the people make no more idols. it is not shut up--or sell matches in the street if these M. D. EDER. villainous conspirators don’t introduce a Bill, as I have good reason forbelieving they will do, to forbid that. That isbad enough. Yes, my friends,that is bad Imaginary Speeches. enough. But there is one last thing that it is, yes it is, my dutyto mention a thing so horrible that I can No. VI.-By Mr. Alexander Ure, K. C. scarcely bring my tongueto utter it. Ladies and [As seen through Unionist spectacles.] gentlemen, you have not yet heard of it. It has not yet got intothe papers. But youhave heard of Colonial Style : The Candid.” Preference? (” Yes. ”) It all soundsvery well, but I ONSaturday the Lord Advocate redeemed a promise of can tell you beyond fear of contradiction that the Colo- longstanding by paying a visit to Pongleborough. nieshave agreed to give us preferenceupon the corn Theright honourablegentleman, whoarrived over- we sendthem only upon onecondition. That condi- night, and slept at the Crown Hotel, lunched with the tion is that we should allow them to send us the surplus Mayor (Mr. John King, J.P., C.C.) and Mayoress, and populationfrom their great teeming cities. And how subsequentlypaid a visit tothe De Wryggle Alms- can we find room for them? Only in one way; only by houses, the oldest charity in the town. The old people, killing off our old people. (Loudcries of horror.) At men and women,who live in thealmshouses, were this moment Mr. Balfour has upon his mantelpiece the already assembled in the little Elizabethan hall attached complete Bill-the ExistenceLength of (Abbreviation) to the quaint old buildings and when Mr. Ure stepped Bill--which embodies the demands made by Sir Wilfrid upon theplatform toaddress themthey displayed Laurierand the other Australian sovereigns. You are numerousperceptible signs of animation.Mr. Ure, to be given three months in which you are to make your who lookedvery well after hisrecent holiday, said wills andkiss your grandchildren good-bye. Then, in that hewished he could have given old people in the batches of ten, you areto be taken to the municipal evening of their days somewhat warmer comfort than slaughter-house and poleaxed. This is what is in front he found himself ableto give.But he did feel that of you. I shalldo all Ican to preventit. If you vote the public man’s first duty onevery occasion was not for my friend Mr. Jones I will preventit. I do all to blink thetruth. (Cheers.) Hewas afraid, although foryour sakes. I have no personalinterest in it. I he did not like to sayit, that there was still some chance haveno old relations.I never had a grandmother. I that the Unionists would return to power at the latest never had a mother. withinthe next two or three years. Did they quite When the right honourable gentleman left the room realise whatthat would mean?Well, it would mean the benches were strewn with the unconscious forms of firstand foremost that Tariff Reform would beintro- theaged pensioners. One old manalone was on his duced. There seemed to besome doubt about as to feet blindly shakinghis fist at Heavenand crying : what Tariff Reform really meant, but he could tell them. “Them -- Tories, God rot ’em.” Mr. Balfour was vague. enough in public, but in private J. C. SQUIRE. he was frank to the point of indiscretion, and the last timehe (Mr. Ure) had dinedwith Mr. Balfour that AT AN L. C. C. BREAKFAST. eminentstatesman had told him that hewas irrevo- “ John *’ -- a Picture. cably resolved toput a tax of 20s. perquarter upon Duke wheat. He need not tell themwhat the result of that ELBOWSserenely resting on the board, would be. It would mean that the loaf which now cost Sipping the half-grudged philanthropic cup ; them a penny-(A Voice : “Fivepencehalfpenny, Content, at ease . . . . and wearing some odd grace ; mister ”)--yes, fivepence halfpenny-would costthem Half-kingly, and sublimely dignified ; one shilling and sixpence farthing. Where would their The dark eyes very keen to give response, old age pensionsbe then? Amidst sobsand piteous The thin, pale lips half-curving in a smile ; moans -the tears were running in rivers down the face Restfullyindolent . . . . but fierce reserve of one old lady who was sitting next the “Daily Post ” Of passion lies beneath the glance and pose. representative-Mr. Ure went on to say that the weekly The kind of hair Ilove, . . . . so pale and straight, pension that a kindand thoughtful Liberal Govern- Close-cropped, yet fringed and long about the brow ; ment had bestowed upon each old man-yes, and each A lean neck muffled in a loose-tied knot : old woman-in that room would purchase three loaves Tatters and shreds for garments. I cansee a week under Tariff Reform, leaving fivepence farthing A hundred visions as I watch you there, a week for tobacco, drink, meat, firing, light, clothes, I hear the sighing of a bondaged race ; and all the other little luxuries which added sunlight to And at a flash I see . . more terrible, The passionate force that seems to bide its time, * N.B.-We do not necessarily commit ourselves to any The cold disdain . . . the smouldering flame beneath, sf the statements in this speech.-Editor, NEW AGE. C. W.H. JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 273

There is nothing truly militant in urging persons to con- The Failure of Militancy. duct involving spiritual degradation and physical agony and then, by way of avenging the loyal sufferers, merely By D. Triformis. paying out money for an action at common law against THE leaders proceed alongtheir narrow bureaucratic thosewho inflicted thesuffering. We are driven to path,urging more violence. MissChristabel Pank- wonderwhether, when Mrs. Pankhurst leads the next deputation to Westminster, she will consider a slap on hurst, in an articleentitled bravely, “Powder some policeman’s face sufficient protest against the in- andShot for the Campaign,” in thelast issue juries her devoted followers have endured. of “Votes for Women,” compares theprotest of men If by militanttactics the leaders of the W.S.P. U. against women’s violence with their own conduct when mean just slaps and an occasional slate or stone thrown appealing against injustice. She writes : “The militant ‘‘ without intention of hurting anyone,” as Mr. Gordon methods of the W.S.P. U. are sometimes severely con- Hewart stated in his defence of Miss Davison ; if these demned by men who express strong disapproval of un- pin-pricks are all the deeds the militant leaders are pre- pared for-we can fee! no great andoverwhelming lawfulor violentaction. It isedifying, therefore, to assurancethat the methods will win thevote. The noticehow quick arethese same men criticswhen women are employingslaps as weaponsagainst men temptationcomes to them to adopt militant methods who donot hesitate to replywith a hose-pipe. There themselves.”Either that paragraph is an apology for can be small doubt as to which side will win in such an or a justification of women’s violence. Apology never unequalcombat. Thegreater forcemust prevail in a having been part of the W.S.P. U. attitude, we accept battle waged by force. thealternative, and consider the remark as meant to This question of the suffrage will never be settled by force, for the reason that the women are less certain of justifywomen’s violence. We must first translatethe the utility of force than the evil and backward men who sarcasm of the term “edifying ” ; it is surely intended have control of the prisons. Three years of urging the assatire : weshould read it as“unedifying.” For members of the W.S. P. U. to militant methods has only there can be nothing really edifying, that is, spiritually produced amongst the most doughty an impulse to fling strengthening,comforting, improving, in thespectacle a stone or a ginger-beerbottle, “ withoutintent to of men,who in their calmer mood deprecate violence, injureanyone.” Clearly, the women do not want to being carried in a moment of temptation beyond sanity useforce. Even afterthey have suffered appalling in- dignitiesand risked permanent injury to themselves andthe ways of peace. As ajustification of women’s under the hands of jailers and prison doctors, they do violence, the passionate deeds of men done under temp- notbecome the prey of theirpassions. They are then tation take an aspect the reverse of justifying, and con- even more disposed to refrain from a violence similar to stitute a strong condemnation. that which, when exhibited by low and coarse officials, Inthe same number of theW.S.P.U. organ there fills the women with spiritual concern, though not with occursan expression of censure upon themethods of bodily fear.It is impossible forsuch womennot to the Women’s Freedom League for the action of some understand thatthe standard of woman’ssuffrage, seized by violence, would bea standard seized in the of the members of that League in destroying the ballot- dark,and poisoned,perchance, by blood whose bane papers. With a rectitudewhich very nearly cries might transform the triumph into consuming bitterness. for a pat on theshoulder, the Pot calls the Kettle black. Theleaders of theW.S.P.U. have clamoured for Butwhere is the precise spot of difference between militancy. The W.S. P. U. has not responded. Civilisa- slapping the face of a police inspector and pouring hair- tionholds firm its place in theminds of women. An oil upon ballot-papers? Both actionswere done in the attempt to defend themselves from the degenerate lads way of protestagainst disenfranchisement. Both were employed as stewards-an attempt which might, un- violent and unlawful. Both might be thus justified and blamed,have resorted toextreme measures : afew stonesand empty bottles-that isabout allone may thus condemned. We mention the instances to point a produce as progeny of the historic slap. Petty riot and conclusion thatthe W.S.P.U. leaders seem tothink petty damage committed by a handful of persons ; by that violence should stop somewhere. We ask : Where the majority of those belonging to the Union-no riot, should it stop? The Freedom League stop at slapping no damage, but a steady appeal to the reason of their faces ; theW.S.P.U. at injuring ballot-papers.Both friends among the electorate. ballot-papersand police inspectors are in the service Who would argue, in the face of the negative inaction of the male electorate Presumablythe W.S.P.U., of even those calling themselves militants, that women trulyand earnestly accept the theory that militant whichas “Votes forWomen ” says, “ is appealing tactics will win the vote, let alone that which the vote from the misdeeds of the Government to the good sense stands for-woman’s freedom, of which the vote is the of the electors themselves,” believes that the electors’ symbol? If the bloody spirit of barbarianages were, good sense may be quicker aroused and their prejudice by some hellish means, tobe revived amongthe against woman’s franchise deeper allayed, by slaps and W. S.P. U. no one would say that the women might not brickbatsthan by puttingthem to the expense and conquer. trouble of a fresh ballot. We do not presume to decide. We do not believe-there is no evidence to induce us Our object,in the despair of inducingthe W.S.P.U. to believe-that thatdark spirit may be revived in leaders to discourage violence altogether and to apply English women. We donot believe thatthere is any once more to reason, is to discover exactly to what ex- excuse for any suggestion of reviving it. The men who tremities of violencethey areprepared to go. Ifthe understand woman’s right to the suffrage have not been voteis tobe wonby violence, itmust be won by a led so tounderstand by violence ; thosewho remain Violence exceeding that which the opponents of women’s hostile will never be taught the reason of woman’s right suffrage are prepared to employ. What indication have except by reasoning ; and what humanity needs beyond we that the leaders of woman’s violence will exceed the all things is an understanding between men and women, violence of men and finally conquerbymilitant a mutual tolerance of each other’s particular desires. methods? True, none of the leaders have been forcibly Militanttactics have proved a failure.They were a fed, or frog-marched, or even played upon with a hose- resort to an obsolete roughness which has been trained pipe. They have, perhaps, not the personal impulse for smooth for centuries nowin the class of women from aterrific retaliation which may justly besupposed to whence the W.S. P. U. members are mostly drawn. The burn in the hearts of the minor members of the Union leadersthemselves have done nothing more militant who havebeen so outraged.But we cannot thus than minor assault.They have not been “ tempted ” separatefrom the interests of theoutraged members even by the spectacle of their “ outraged and inhumanly theleaders who urged these members to pursue the tortured ” foIlowers. It is time they ceased egging the tactics which resulted in imprisonmentand torture. others on ! 274 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

venerationand esteem of thewhole Catholic world. Prophetic Paragraphs. VI. His merits had impressed even the Protestant imagina- St. Guido Vaux : Canonisation in tion.There had been a time, which menstill living de Rome. wouldrecall, when the Feast of themartyr was kept upinhis native land by the juvenile population. From " The New Age" in 1960. Effigies, rudelydesigned, it might be, yet showing an AT last a long-delayed act of justiceis approaching unmistakeabledesire perpetuateto thehonoured completion. By thetime these lines meet the reader's features of a great and goodman, were annually pre- eyethere is every reason to hope that the name of paredand carried through the streets. A hymn,the Guido deVaux, confessor and martyr, will have been work of someunknown poet, but yet breathing a inscribed on the roll of saints. genuineinspiration, declared- Proceedingsto this end were instituted, it will be "We see no reason remembered,by the Roman and Anglican Sodality of Why Gunpowder Treason St. Mary Tudor, immediately after the successful beati- Should ever be forgot ! " fication of St.James II. All theother great heroes And hisclient's immortal exploit had been com- andheroines of the Catholic Faith having had their memorated by theignition of artificialpreparations of merits recognised, it was felt that the greatest of them combustiblechemicals, and by bonfireswhichin all could not any longer be left unhonoured. The Arch- learned,but mistaken, anthropologists had pretended bishops of Westminsterand Canterbury gave their to see a survival of solar worship. supportto the movement, and the collection taken in His friend, acting no doubt, on his instructions, had St. Paul'sCathedral to defray the legal expenses of notventured to impeach the character of hi5 (Sir the canonization realised no less than £3 9s. rd., made Samuelo's)client. He hadchallengednot the up to £1,000 by the generosity of Marquis Rothschild. splendour of hisconception, to which there was no The usualProtestant howl was raisedbythe parallelamong the boldest schemes of modernAnar- ignorantcranks who have not yet entirely died out chistsand Nihilists. Had that great design been from among us, butthe press very properly ignored carriedout, England might have been spared three thisfanatical outburst ; andthe meeting of protest centuries of Protestantism.They were still labouring caIIed in Smithfieldwas wisely suppressed by the to complete the work which Guido de Vaux had sought LabourGovernment. The bad taste of attempting to to accomplish by a single stroke. hold such a demonstrationon a spothallowed by the The defence set up by the Other Side was, he must images of S.S. Gardiner and Bonner should have struck sayplainly, a pettifoggingdefence. He would not even theProtestant mind. call it an unmanly one, because that phrase would have On reviewingthe great national petition, signed by nomeaning for such a Beingas the Defendant. He theKing, the Royal Family, the Permanent Heads of wouldcall it aninfernal quibble. (Loud applause Departments,and all theleading representatives of CARDINAL BORGIA: If that demonstration is repeated aviation,golf, football, racing, literature and science I shall order the Court to be cleared. We are not in a His HolinessAlexander VII. graciouslyordered the theatre. causeto be taken in hand forthwith, and on Sunday last it came before the Congregation presided over by SirSamuelo, continuing, said that he did not know His EminenceCardinal Caesar Borgia,nephew of His towhat lengths his friend, acting, of course,on his Holiness. instructions,was prepared to go. Whatwas meant by theplea of contributorynegligence? He had been Counselfor the candidate were Monsignor Hugo informed,but he did notbelieve, that the Other Side Cecilio, of theDominican Order, and Sir Samuelo intended to lay stress on the purely accidental circum- Evanese, Attorney-General of England.The Defen- stancethat his (Sir Samuelo's) client was arrested in dantwas represented by a maskedadvocate whose a vault-it wouldbe suggested, a wine-vaults. Were name didnot transpire. On account of thedefective theirEminences, were a shrewdand level-headed set ventilation of the Court, it seems that a sulphur pastille of men like those whom he had the honour of address- was burnt during the proceedings, with the result that ing, to be asked to credit that such a man as Guido de severalcardinals on the jury were observed to turn Vaux had fallen a victim to intemperance ; that he had rather pale. allowed himself topartake too freely of spiritous Monsignor Cecilio openedthe pleadings briefly. The refreshment at amoment when the fortunes of the plaintiff, he informed their Eminences, was a gentleman Papacy hung- upon hissobriety? Such a plea, if put of the highest character, carrying on the business of a forward,which he still declined to believeit would be conspirator in the city of Westminster, in the reign of by anyadvocate practising in that Court, could only James I. of England.In his statement of claim he recoil on the head of the Defendant. allegedthat he had organised, and nearly carried He would point out to them that his learned friend’s through,an important plot to blow up the Houses of Clientdid not occupy a disinterestedposition in the Parliament,containing king, lords and commons, all matter.He had something to lose.The verdict of of themProtestants. For this great service 'to the theirEminences-and what their verdict would be it Churchhe had been falsely and maliciously arrested, was impossible for him, Sir Samuelo, to doubt-would torturedand executed by a Protestantgovernment destroy at onceand for ever any reversionary interest He nowclaimed a declarationby that Court that he the Defendant might have imagined himself to possess was a saint,and a mandamus to the Celestial Autho- inthat noble, thatfaithful, that heroic and Catholic ritiesrequiring Them to remove him from his present spirit which now stood on trial at their Eminences' bar. uncomfortable quarters, and admit him to the glorious He would sayno more. He would not seek to pre- company of S.S. MaryQueen of Scots, Mary Tudor, judice their judgment by reminding them of the raucous GardinerBonner, James II. and all the other victims howl of exultationwhich was certain to be raised by of Protestantmalignity and cruelty. thedegraded Protestant factions now happily verging The defence filed by hislearned friend on behalf of fast upon extinction, should their verdict be favourable the OtherParty to the cause alleged that the piaintiff tothe Personage represented by hislearned friend, a had failed tocarry out the plot aforesaid by his own Personagewho had been truly styled the Father of fault ; andthat he had been guilty of contributory Protestantism.He would leave the cause of hisclient negligenceThose were theissues which their theirin hands, with the fullconfidence that so Eminences hadto try. enlightened, so uprightand so sagacious a body of SirSamuelo Evanese in a speechpunctuated by cardinals as he saw in that box would return only one frequent applausewhich had to be suppressed, said verdictin such a case. Heasked them to dismiss the that he would notdetain the Court by a laboured blessed spirit of Guido de Vaux from that Court with- panegyricon his client. An intelligentbody of car- out a stain upon its character, and to declare it entitled dinals,such ashe saw before him, were not io be to the worship of the entire Catholic world. influenced or led astray by thearts of sophistry.The At this stage the Court adjourned for lunch. name of Guidode Vaux hadlong stood high in the ALCOFRIDA JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 275

andconfusing genealogies of St.Joseph, but gives us The Nativity. insteadthe genealogy of the Blessed Mother of God, According to St. Judas Iscariot. provingthat She was descended in a directline from Eve.Still more significantly, he traces Her descent THEinterest taken in the discovery of the new Gospel, throughout by the maternal line, thereby affording strong alreadydescribed in these columns, seems likely to as support to the Roman dogma of the Immaculate Con- have thebest possible results. As a result of the ception of MaryHerself. Indeed there seems to be warninggiven in THENEW AGE, that the work was nogood reason why Rome should not now take in danger of beingtranslated literally by minds cot courageto define theImmaculate Conception and actuated by the proper spirit of reverence and caution, Virgin Birth of the whole of the Divine Ancestresses. it would appear that the Archbishop of Canterbury has Onthe other hand, while carefully limiting the role now issued a commission tothe Revs. Canon Driver, of St. Joseph to that of honorary Stepfather of Christ, ProfessorCheyne, and the famous master of religious St.Judas gives us a farhigher idea of his personal romance,“Guy Thorne ” (generally believed to be the respectability,and worthiness for this lofty part, than literarypseudonym of theBishop of London),to pre- thatwhich has hitherto prevailed. He was, tobegin pare a renderingsuitable for perusal by readers who with,not a mereworking carpenter, but the leading do not like to have their minds unsettled by disturbing timber merchant and upholsterer of Nazareth, if not of suggestions. thewhole of Galilee. We knowalready, from me of Itis a gratifyingsign of thetendency of the the apocryphal Gospels, that the firm of St. Joseph and Churchesto unite in the presence of thecommon Sons held theappointment of throne-makers by royal danger, that the President of the Wesleyan Conference warrantto King Herod. The sons, so frequently re- should have accepted an invitation to nominate a com- ferred to in the other Gospels as “brethren ” of Christ, mittee of Greek and Aramaic scholars from among the were, as reverentminds have long surmised, and St. members of his communion, for the purpose of reading Judasis careful to record, the children of St. Joseph the work of the Anglican divines in proof, and making byanother wife, deceased before the sacred narrative suggestions. begins. The authorised version, when completed, will appear St.Joseph, we are further informed, was a great as a serial in the “Guardian ” and “ British Weekly ” captain of industry.He was, it appears, the founder concurrently.The proceeds will formthe nucleus of andfirst president of a CedarTrust, for dealing with a BuildingFund for the sorely-needed Stepney Cathe- theproduce of theLebanon forests. In that capacity dral. Itwas at first intended to allot one-half to the thesaint was much tried by the evil conduct of the diocese of Kensington ; butin view of the fact that Lebanon woodcutters, who entered into an illegal com- morethan one of theresidents in that diocese has an binationto resist the economies effected by St. Joseph annualincome exceeding the entire estimated cost of inthe wages bill of theTrust. On one occasion he theCathedral, while the poverty of the East End found himself obligedto call in theRoman authorities dioceseis so extremethat probably one-half of the to deal with these refractory employees, with the result populationis always suffering from hunger, it has been that a dozenor more were seized and crucified. The centurion in command of the troops was named Jairus decided thatthe Stepney Building Fund shall receive Inaddition to his great services to industry, St. thewhole amount. If thisbe Socialism, we cannot Josephwas a liberaldonor to philanthropic objects OF help thinkingthat it is the sort of Socialism which allkinds. During his tenure of office as Mayor of would havebeen approved of by St.Judas Iscariot Nazarethhe presented his native city with a Free himself. Library ; andon the jubilee of King Herod, the saint Inthe meanwhile, as several readers of THENEW gave a million shekels to the Society for the Conversion ofthe Samaritans. For this munificence he was re- AGE haveexpressed a wish to learnmore of the wardedwith the Grand Pentagram of the Herodian -characterand contents of theGospel which has so Order. remarkablycome tolight -- and of courseit is not Itis sad to have to admit the existence of one intendedby those expressions to cast any doubt on blemishin so noble a character.But St. Judas, while the bona fides of the discovery, or to suggest that the evidently anxious to put him before us in the best light of antagonists of the“New Theology ” havehad any hasbeen unable to relieve him from the charge hand in its concoction-in the meanwhile it may be of scepticism,hinted at in St. Matthew’s narrative. Much as we might wish to think that St. Joseph had accepted interest to indicatesome of thepoints on which St. thestory of Maryin simple faith, we are obliged JO Judasdiffers from his brother evangelists, or rather recognise that, like St. Thomas on a later occasion, he appears,to a superficialview, to differ fromthem ; required stronger evidence than that which satisfies us ; forthere can be no doubt that these apparent dis- andthat he was actually on the point of renouncing crepancies will speedilybe made to vanish under the the guardianship of the future Messiah, when an angel skilled treatment of experts in Christian apologetics. was sent to him to confirm the explanation which had At this season of the year a special interest attaches been so readilyaccepted byMary’s own family Althoughthis lapse of so good a manhas doubtless to theevangelist’s treatment of the familiar story of been recorded for a warning, we confess to a hope that theNativity. Here St. Judasis seen at his best ex- the episode will be omitted from the authorised version plaining andharmonising the apparent contradictions of the new Gospel. between theaccounts of SS. Matthewand Luke, and St.Judas Iscariot agrees with the other evangelists completely exonerating his Master from the imputation inmaking Mary a resident of Nazareth.St. Luke has of a humble origin. informed us that She was related to a clerical family ; St. Judas goes on to state that She was of royal blood As we should expect, St. Judas Iscariot is too pure- being, in fact, the Legitimist claimant to the throne of .minded a writerto contribute anything to the discus- Judaea. Thiscircumstance affords reasonablea ex- sion regrettably raised by certain contemporary divines planation of the attitude unfortunately taken up by His as to the physiological character of the Incarnation of MajestyKing Herod the Great at the moment of the the Second Person of theTrinity. But that he field Nativity. theorthodox view, inopposition tothe canonical Thejourney toBethlehem, itappears from this Gospel, was undertaken by St.Joseph for prudential writers, ismade plain by thefact that he does not reasons.The Roman tax-gatherers were a suspicious encumber his pages, as they have done, with irrelevant and grasping set of men ; and the legate Quirinius had 276 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910 imposedgraduateda income tax of a Socialistic Miss Hogarth deserves the sincere thanks of all serious character.To baffle thispredatory attack, the saint artists for the singular and courageous independence of decided tomake hisreturn at Bethlehem,where the heraction. She has done a verybrave thing. And assessorswere not so well acquaintedas those of the dignity and force of her letter to the “Observer “ Nazareth with his means of support. are quite admirable. Itis probable that similar considerations influenced *** himin hischoice of hotelaccommodation, though St. The “restricting ” dodge of the Circulating Libraries. Judasdoes not explicitly say so. Onthe contrary, the isnow in full swing.It is applied to all bookswhich evangelistrather labours to prove that the accounts are in muchdemand or expensive. Theresult is that of theother inspired writers are exaggerated in order a subscriber has to apply ten or twelve times fora book to impress the gallery. The actual scene of the Divine which he ought to get at the first or second application. Birth, he assures us, was not a stable, but a room over Correspondence in the “Times ” has lately shown that thecoachhouse, usually occupied by theinn servants, one library wrote to a subscriber and stated that Mr. butfrequently taken for the use of visitorswhen the HenryJames’s volume of essays,“Italian Hours,” necessityarose. illustrated byMr. JosephPennell, was an improper Thestory of themanger is similarly discredited in book. I wonderwhy Mr. Henry James does not bring thepresent narrative. The Aramaic word which has anaction for libel. The only crime of Mr. James’s beentranslated “crib,” is reallyequivalent to bookis that it is too expensive to suit the financial “ bassinette.” conditions prevailing in certain places where books are- On one other point which has long vexed the ortho- hired out. The result of the exposure in the “Times ”’ dox apologist,the Gospel of St. Judas affords a wel- was that there arose at all thelibraries an immediate come relief. It will beremembered that St. Matthew demandfor “a ratherimproper book by Mr. Henry quotes a prophecy to the effect that the Messiah should James-asex-novel of Italian life.” Ha, ha! What be called Immanuel.St. Judas informs us thatthis silentand sardonic mirth in theReform Club ! When prophecywas fulfilled, Immanuel beingthe name the demanding subscribers were told that the bookcom- actuallygiven to the Divine Child. Thevulgar error prisedmerely essays, not even improper, their desire that itreceived that of Jesusarose, it seems, through failed, and the golden bowl was broken. confusionbetween theFounder of Christianity and an *** obscure adventurer, of low origin, named Yeshua, who preachedSocialism, and was ultimately condemned to Incontradistinction to Miss Hogarth, three ladies death by thebest minds of theJewish Church, for write to the “Times ” from the Church House, signing blasphemy. themselves Sumner, Erskine, and Wilberforce (no doubt LUCIFER. the wives of prelatical mandarins), expressing gratitude tothe libraries for their “public-spirited action,’’ on behalf of the“Mothers’ Union, anassociation which includes 300,000 wivesand mothers from all parts of Books and Persons. the BritishEmpire.” I frankly admit that the notion of making my novels appeal to the Mothers’ Union had OCCASIONAL CAUSERIE.) (AN neveroccurred tome personally. And I should doubt MISS JANET E. HOGARTH,Chief Librarian of the if ithad occurred either to H. G. Wellsor Maurice- Hewlett.shallI probably send my next novel for “ Times Book Club,”has resigned on the Censorship question.This piece of news would of itself be im- approvalto the Councilof theNational Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles portantenough to justify me in continuingto discuss of the Established Church. it in anycase, for after all it is part of thegreater *** question of theliberty of thesubject, and I have as The remedyfor the censorship lies in thehands of strong an objection to being automatically governed by thesubscribers to the Circulating Libraries. And itis theCirculating Libraries as tobeing autocratically simple. All theyhave to do is to demand the books governed by the House of Lords.Miss Hogarth, who they want, and to withdraw their subscriptions if they is a woman of letters and on the editorial staff of the do notget them at once. Such a course willspeedily allay the high moral fever of the Libraries. “ FortnightlyReview,” has written a remarkable and JACOBTONSON. telling letter to the “ Observer, ” in which occurs the following caustic passage concerning the libraries :- We arecredibly informed thatthey do notread books THE TABLES TURNED. beforebuying them. The “Spectator “ has said pityingly (A free translation of Goethe’sVorgericht.) that they “ unwittingly and unwillingly “ have often circu- lated works which they afterwards found to be objectionable. Howhas it happened? Think you now All the more reason, one would think, for not entrusting I come here to tell you, thefuture of literature to these “unwitting ” institutions, even though they now promise amendment. For whilst they Who dare insult me-call me that, are learning the A B C of their profession, are the authors And I a woman,too! going to meet with justice, and is the reading public going to get what itwants If not why not? The public has You ask his name, and never will paidits money, and is entitled to have what it pays for, Get it from me, that’s pat- the opportunity of sampling for itself the current literature I like the suit he wears, and like of the day. With very few exceptions,which any well- His gold chain and straw hat. managed library candeal with without forming a “ring ” for the purpose, that literature can safely be suppliedany- where but in a school library. It may be silly-it often is- If jeers and sneers are to be borne, it may be more outspoken than in the squeamish mid-Vic- Thenvent your spleen on me. torian days, it may think it is preaching a new gospel when I know him well, he knows me well, it is merely uttering ill-digested crudities, but it is not inde- AndGod knows it must be. cent. To say that it is is merely to usewords with no true appreciation of their meaning. I’ve seen your ugly face before ; *** ’The Bench, I could upset it ! At the end of her letter Miss Hogarth gives a list of You saw a pretty bird, and thought last year’s novels of which the libraries would probably How nice ’twould be to net it !

have “ restricted ” the supply, had the Censorship then beenin being. Miss Hogarth’slist includes, inter alia, You wanted me, youfoul old beast, To have you, and regret it. thenames of H. G. Wells,John Galsworthy, W. J. I said to my true love, “I want Locke, Maurice Hewlett, Robert Hichens, Marie Belloc “To kiss you, and forget it.” Lowndesand Evelyn Underhill. Comment is needless. ERNESTRADFORD. JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 277

Mrs. Eddy a direct attack on all the old religions with- Old Currents and New Eddies. out an exception. Spiritism attacked the churches, but John Hamilton did not seek to destroy them. Christian Science assails- By Churchill. the old systemsat their centre. It has played havoc AT noperiod in theworld’s history has society been withthem by making them appear old-fogey, ineffica- so moved and influenced by “isms ” as at present. cious, and helpless. Mrs. Eddy hastaken the charm And at noperiod havethe isms been so entertaining out of the pill-box and left the doctors scratching their. heads to know what to do next. Dowie with his wings- and so alarming. beautifully simulated the appearance of a human flying “ Paganisme, Christianisme, Muflisme, voila les trois machinewhich needed but a whiffof air,an extra- grandes evolutions del’humanité,” said Flaubert. We paddle, a gossamer sail to have made him rise and float have now something more formidable than muflisme to through the hall. think about. Theleast a heavy-weightcan do is to imaginehis- Protestantism was for a long time a tragic business, body as light as his mind and his wings as real as his and so was Puritanism. The old isms taught men little wishes. It iseasy to imagine a thing when you are that wasnew, the popular isms of to-day reveal a in someway assisted in theimaginary process. The world of psychological truth underthe mask of reli- people who imagine a thing and straightway do it are giousor socialcomedy. Inthe modern ismsthere is theones who succeedwhile othersdream. Then what always something to make one laughas well as wonder. a difference thereis between anoriginator of a new’ The isms of the present may be classed as the ortho- ismand thestunted wit of a millionairelike Rocke- dox,the liberal, and the eccentric. MartinLuther feller, who finds it impossible to conceive anything more presentedthe worldwith thefirst modern ism, outof originalthan founding a university wherethe pro-. which aroseCalvinism, Puritanism, and Wesleyanism. fessors mustpledge themselves not totread on his Thesewere followedby the liberalreligions, such as illiterateprejudices. And Rockefeller has rivals in Unitarianismand Universalism. Thencame the eccen- menlike Carnegie. Thesethings show no wit. They- tric isms, such as Mormonism, and those that make use show imitation of the most primitive and simian kind. of lecturersinstead of preachers.One ism develops It is characteristic of people without culture to regard outof another, and Nature never skipsanything. a universitywith awe, justas thosewho have never- There was no jump from Catholicism to Wesleyanism. mingled with Royalty and the nobility think there is no Puritanism had to prepare the way for Methodism, and societyequal to that of titled people. Ignorance is the it took two or three eccentric isms to prepare the way mother of illusion. for Eddyism. Naturebrimmingis with political What causes interest in modernisms is the manner philosophical, andsanctimonious irony. Joseph Smith in whichthey are introducedand kept going. It is pretended to havediscovered a new Bible, andsuc- said that manners make the man. I believe it ; andit ceeded in foundinga sect called the Mormons. Some makesthe woman, too.Mrs. Eddy began by giving yearslater itwas announced that Mormonism was the lie to everybody andeverything. This was her practicallydead. But the thing had no idea of dying, manner,and it pleasedexceedingly. Sheknows the andis now more alive than ever. Withthis ism value of a littledivertissement now andthen. That Nature slappedthe face of Western civilisation to let stroke of the “veiled prophetess ” was the last genial people see that the followers of the old sects could not touch of amaster mind. Justat the psychological have it all their own way. Then Spiritism loomed into moment,when her enemies, the jealous ones, were view. Mormonismmade converts and brought them havingtheir innings, she put on the veil ! Withone to Utah ; Spiritism made converts in the churches, and gestureshe became invisible. Now, Dowie hadto use let them sit there. hiseyes when he spoke. Withouthis eagle eyes he Thencame modern Buddhism. But just as could havedone nothing. But Mrs. Eddy can well Theosophy began to show signs of weakness Mrs. Eddy afford to be invisible. And theentertainment consists appearedon the scene withChristian Science. Nature, not so much in the antics of people like Mrs. Eddy, as in this new- mood, attacked the two chief factors in our in theattitude of people who tryto stop them. It is educationalsystem-orthodox religion andorthodox the combination of fearand buffoonery that makes us medicine. ChristianScience was to sweepthe field of laugh.It is thefailure to stop them that creates all the debris of doubt, the remnants left over from all the thefun and keeps the world in roars.Nothing is so freeand eccentric isms, take the bull by thehorns in mirth-provoking as official powerbucking like Y goat the arena of isms,twist the tail of the scientific lions at a stone wall. We knowthe old goat is being intheir dens, and prod theallopathic ox in the loins punished for his vanity, and we keenly enjoy the scene with the three-pronged fork of the mental cure. Nature It was said of Boston that half the people were money- shookwith ironical laughter.She stood before the makers and the other half spiritistsand reformers. At universalmenagerie like the small boy whowith one the present moment the city might be divided between handgives the old Adam-ape peanutsand with the ChristianScientists and Spiritists. People who stay otherpokes him under theribs with a sharpstick. at home imagine a thing is new because they hear of it And now the whole menagerieis in anuproar ; and forthe firsttime. Before Mrs. Eddy wasknown amidstthe grins and grimaces of theAdam-apes of thousands of “ magnetichealers ” practised healing the old dispensationa screaming and biting goes on withoutgiving any medicine. Itwas this practice the like of whichhas not occurred in the world since that enabledMrs. Eddy tomake such progress with Nero fiddled and danced tothe burning of decadent hermental science. Thousands of peoplewere ready Rome.Mormonism has its hundreds, Spiritism has its for her book when it appeared ; the soil had been culti- thousands,but Christian Science hasits millions In vated and the seed sown. herironies Nature is more interestingthan she is in Mrs.Eddy has displayedher knowledge of human anyother mood. And justas people made up their nature by doingthe right thing at the right moment. minds that Mrs. Eddy and her followers had received a Thedominant characteristic of the typicalYankee is death-blow,the Earl of Dunmoreand his daughter that when he gives you adollar he expects some day arrive in Boston. And, presto ! the thermometer of to receive one dollar and a halfin return. No business Christian Science rises at least twenty degrees ! Before or religion is everconducted on any other basis. Mrs. Mrs. Eddy’strial the temperature was normal.After Eddy,being a Yankeeborn, understood the nature of that affairit rose to blood-heat.Previous to hertrial theanimal and how to use him. She knew that she- herfollowers weresomewhat scattered and isolated ; would havemore difficulty in makingpatients pay nowthey are becoming a concretebody, with laws of treatmentsfor than in making thempay for theirown, funds of theirown, and a regular religion hooks. She wrote a book and sold it at sixty per cent. of theirown. Nature is pitilessin her contradictions. profit. It took some genius to see the opportunity and The very systems whichseem fixed on rocka of dothe proper thing. Mrs.Eddy accomplished the adamantare the ones she takes particular delight in miracle of remaining among the Yankees and becoming tearing down. For my part,I see in theteaching of a millionaire ! 278 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

We are living in an age when revolutions occur with- hear much about a universal Church founded on scien- out bloodshed. Thingsare going at expressspeed, tific truth ! andthe worldnow resembles a fashionable bathing If therewere noisms in the world at thepresent resort, where three sorts of people are to be seen-the time, a scoreor two wouldhave to be speedily in- expert swimmers, those who puddle and splash about, vented.Particularly in England. Only throughthem andthe ones who sit on the beach and look on. The independenceis of thoughtsecured. Give an old people on the beach are of two kinds-those who are systembut half a chance,and it becomestyrannical. horrified at the sights and those who simply gossip and Give a man the power to frame a law of his own and giggle.But the most amusing peopleon the whole carry it into execution in his own Church or State, and coastare the people whoare shocked. It is in them you haveparted with your liberty. As itis in the the comedy centres, and not in the bathers. The people making of money, so it is in the making of religions ; in theswim enjoythemselves. As Iam no swimmer alittle power leads tothe seeking for more,and one and do not care to splash about, I fear I belong to the man power in religion is no more a sign of virtue than peoplewho are amused.But it is not at thebathers one-manpower in the money market. We deceive Ilaugh, but at the effect theyproduce on provincial ourselves when we conclude that one ism is superior to people. Herein lies all thehumour of thepresent all others.Every ism contains a truth of its own, and situation.There is nothing so amusingat a play as so long as progressgoes onnew sectsare bound to the attitude of certain people in the audience. I watch developfrom the old. A new fashionappears mare or them withcloser attention thanIdo the actors. Is lesseccentric atthe first sight. No matter how ugly thereanything in the worldmore delightful than the looks,it custom renders familiarit and universal. sight of a monkeylooking at himselfin a looking- Nothing hadever appeared so eccentric as theSalva- glass? Wonder,mystery, and indignation combine to tionArmy, and itstriumph was in proportion to its give an inimitableexpression to the monkey’s face. It eccentricity. Therewas a void to fill, andnature is nature mocking nature. The peoplewho fight every promptly filled it in thismanner. On the other hand, newism arethe monkeys, who atlast grow tiredof Mrs.Eddy’s movement was one of thesilent move- holdingup the looking-glass. Wonder and indignation ments. The silentforces last the longest. at last wear them out, and they conclude it is better to Of ancientisms Stoicism is the onlyone which has throw away the glass and behave like proper monkeys. notbeen revived in someform. The secret of its The people whofight some specialism which is failure is to be found in the fact that its roots were in sweepingthe country like a tidalwave admit their thereason, and not in the soil of activehuman emo- weaknessand advertise their fear. Such isms are not tions. The ismsbuilt up onreason soon die out. The like the isms of politics,which come and go with the laws of life are basedon action and reaction. Inthe party inpower. The real thingis not to be put aside countriesparched by thesun famines are frequent. In by sneersand abuse and the calling of names naturetoo muchsunshine means a parchedsoil, We For example, themore Ritualism abusedis the speak of foibles andweaknesses of man,but the real strongergrows. itPersecution makes wealthy weaknessshould be looked for in theassumption of ritualistscome forward with more money ; it perfection. Natureworks out her laws by contrasts. spursthem on freshto efforts and compels No sect can prosper whichdoes not contain a balance themtosharpen their wits against their enemies. of reasonand sentiment, aspiration and emotion, Ritualismcontains enthusiasm, but Unitarianism is worldlywisdom and mystical symbolism. Stoicism religionwith thesap gone. Still it exists,and if it was ethicalrealism. It died of emotionalatrophy. doesnot increase, it holds its own. I cannot call to The decay of Protestantismhas been caused by too mindone modern ism thathas ceased to exist.But much intellect and too little soul, too much reason and everything has its comedy ; and the comical people are a lack of poeticsymbols and the powerful currents of theones who rise in thecrowd and excite themselves emotionalfeeling. about some person over whom they can never hope to havethe slightest control. When mana enters a church to make a scene it is not the bishop who appears THE NEW ZION. ridiculous, butthe brawler himself. Theangry man puts himself into comical attitudes. -Arise, O Jerusalem, and come up ! The satisfaction people like Mrs. Eddy get out of the Awaken, oh ye remnant, and come forth ! public is far greater than anything experienced by their Out of Gibeon a messenger comes, enemies. The publichave no power over them,but With words of flame and garments of fire ; they have power over the public ; this, I am satisfied, Return from Tyre and Tarshish rejoicing, isthe waysuch leaders regard the situation. While Ye that have drunk of the fountains of life, certain good people were spoiling their breakfast over For a whirlwind has scattered the vineyards thenews that Mrs.Eddy won theaction brought Of Rehoboam and Manasseh’s seed; againsther, she was taking life easy,receiving con- Before the fierce blast the vintage has rolled gratulationsfrom all parts of the worldand enjoying As chaff, and the pools have vanished as dew the pleasures of a glory far more hearty than that of From Sharon and Kedar ; a noise is heard any king on his throne. Like the rushing of waters from Rimmon, A rustling of dragons’ wings is heard Goethe said : “ Evil and good have the same origin.” Through the valley of visions and anguish. We are just beginning to realisethe full force of the Behold ! the shadows lengthen on Horeb, maxim. Thegreat isms contain a sort of magic, They spread out as the bittern going forth springingfrom something emotional, poetic,and sym- From the waters of Mirom in the dusk ; bolical, which it is not easy to define. Like ravens’ wings o’er Ramah they stretch, Auniversal religion is not possible without a uni- As clouds that darken the Pool of Siloam versal tyranny. A religion founded on science is not pos- In the evening of a year of promise; sible, because it would lack the psychology of sentiment As whirlwinds they rise out of desert shores, and emotion. The sciencein it would render it hateful They sweep through the land like a bitter wind, to sentiment and impossible for the emotions. All who They come from habitations of silence, are familiar with the religions of the English-speaking Where the walls are strewn as dust in the gates world know what failures the isms of the intellect have That move no more at the call of Babylon. been. When a religionappeals tothe intellect,expect Awaken, O Jerusalem, and arise ! a systemwithout sap, with a dryand leafless trunk. Come up to the summit of the refuge ; Boston Unitarianism, as Emerson called it, with a Bring forth the shining raiment from Judah, gesture of contempt,was the only way out of New Sing and rejoice with the timbrel and harp ; England Puritanism ; but itsoon did itswork, and Out of the furnace and the crucible ceased toprogress. If dancing is thepoetry of Arise and reign, O daughter of Zion ! motion,emotion is the poetry of religion. And yetwe JUDAH P. BENJAMIN. JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 279

madeup of insultsand gibes. I could see every The Strike at Vousigny. detail, the men in rough blue and white sweaters or in coloured shirts and coarse velvet trousers, mostly hat- By W. L. George. less,shod with cord espadrilles, the womenin dirty (Ex of the 132e de Ligne, Reims.) blousesor in the camisoles thatFrench women wear THErumours which had been spreadingall day were in theearly morning. One or two men held outtheir fists at us ; a womanlaunched at our captain a word confirmed aboutfour o’clock A fatigueparty brought that raised hoarse laughs about her. in withthe rations the news that the trouble atthe We stood atattention with fixed bayonets. Then, Vousigny glassworks was increasing, and that we were from the lanes on the right of the market-place, a few likely to beordered out. Some minutes later it was dragoonscame at atrot. They wereno more than a announced that the regiment was confined to barracks dozen, yet, as soon as they had formed a line and put forthe night, and in the midst of suchexcitement as their horses to a canter, a cry arose from the crowd : only arises among French troops, we began to prepare “Lesdragons ! Lesdragons !” Men andwomen turned.Before the dragoons had crossed thesquare for a move. In a couple of hoursthe canteen stores the strikers had dispersed and were flying through the were cleared out, for any man who could add anything back streets. to the pay he had just received (twopence-halfpenny for We sawno more of the glassworkers for some four days) laid in a stock of chocolate, needles, writing hours. All we knew was that the masters had refused paper or what not. to receive a deputationfrom the union ; all remained By nine o’clock marching orders were issued. Dawn apparentlyquiet. The midday sun was lighting up the square whichlay before us, its cobbles almostdead was anticipated by the bugle, and in an hour and a half white, relieved only by the cafés painted blue or brown. mobilisation was completed,every mancarrying two Suddenlyonce more I heardthe sound. A dragoon days’emergency rations of beef andbiscuits and came galloping out of a lane. Hot after him the mob. twentyrounds of blankcartridge. Ball cartridgewas Then, before we hadtime todo morethan line up, entrained in large linen parcelsonthe company from everyside street a tide of humanity flowed into waggons. We crushedinto cattle trucks, every truck the market-place. Itwas nolonger the sardonic crowdI had seen in themorning. The sun and a sup carryingforty men.After twohours’ journey in the of wine had maddenedit ; thesnub inflicted on the stifling atmosphere we disembarked at Vousigny. union wasthe last straw. This time the market-place Vousignyis a small town, thestaple industry of was half filled withthe seething mass of men and which, theglassworks, employs three-quartem of the women,from which arose a mighty roar. population. As we lined upoutside the station I At once the moblooked round for weapons. In noticed that, beyond a fewchildren and a patrol of momentssuch as thesethe brother or son who is serving his time in another garrison town : dragoons, none of theinhabitants were to be seen. is forgotten the trooper is merely the tool of capital, the symbol of Strangerstill, everywindow in thestation and those oppression. Thetown being in a state of siege,the of all the houses in the neighbouring streetswere dustbins that every householder places before his door broken. As thetrooper is always left in thedark, it hadnot beencleared. In atrice the strikers haddis- wassome time beforeIheard thatthe strikers had covered them,and, filling theirhands, pelted us with begunoperations by smashing every pane of glass in the refuse. Our officers borethe brunt of it,but we thesouthern part of thetown. A Parisjournalist werenot spared. I was struck in theface by amass of some rotting vegetable. All the while the chorus of madethe joke of the week by suggestingthat they jeers and raucous cries rose about us as westood im- merely wanted to increase the demand for glass so as movable. Thetroops maynot actwithout orders. toput pressure on themasters. My company was Evenwith orders they maydo nothingfor fear of immediately takento the market-place, the rest being Parliament. told off toother parts of Vousigny. As wemarched The dustbins were empty. A young workman seized through the streets, though it was about eight o’clock, one, and,staggering alittle, threw it with all his I saw that every shop was shut and that the town was strengthtowards our front rank. It fell short. At thatmoment, as some of therioters knelt down and deserted by all savesmall groups of men and tried totear up the cobbles, the welcome rattle of women in thelanes, who sulkilywatched us march horses’hoofs made itself heard.Some seconds later past.Here and there a startled face appeared atthe thedragoons were riding into the crowd.Slowly they windows. cut it up, striking here and there with the flat of their We piled arms on themarket-place. Sentries were swords. With howls of execration,horribly blended stationedat the mouth of thelanes that ran into it, with the cries of women and children, who were thrown after which we began to prepare the soupe upon which downand trodden under foot, thecrowd broke up. A theFrench soldierlargely lives. Threespoonfuls of whirlpool formed round a fallen dragoon, whose horse, lard, a spoonful of flour, somesalt, a piece of garlic, furiouslykicking, cleared a circle round itsrider. The and a pint or so of water make a wonderful dish when crowd squashed itself against the sidesof the square and a man is young. We hadbarely tastedit, however, gave way towards the side streets. There the struggle before two of our sentries signalled from the left of the between the dragoons and thestrikers continued, for square.I heard a peculiarshout. The buglesounded thehorses could notpenetrate the wedged mass. For toarms and recalledour pickets, who came running almostan hour watchedI the scene. Theair was throughthe white market-place, accoutred intheir filled withcries. At times a man fell underthe hoofs heavy field kit, like red and blue marionettes. of thehorses and remained to betrodden to a shape- The noiseincreased, and yet I could hear my heart lessmass. Faraway, in aside street, I could hear beat.Suddenly, from two lanes on the left side of the the chorus of a song. Now and then, with a dull thud, market-place,a crowd of men andwomen, some two the side of a horse struck the crowd. or three hundred, rushed in; rumbling over the stones Then once more the sound of the torrent came upon like an avalanche., Or rather, emergingand spreading me. Thedragoons, hard pressed on the left of the from themouth of thetwo lanes, they resembled the square, did not move. Fromthe streets on theright black puffs of smokethat burst from thebarrel of a againcame the crowd. But this time itsfront ranks fowling piece. ’-Therewas a moment of silence. From weremade up of womenand children, every one theupper floors of some of the housessmall crowds screaming, some waving a coloured rag. Behind watched the‘scene. On the opposite side of the themwere the men, confident thatthe troops would market-place a black dog ran howling into a doorway. not dareto charge. They had weapons now. Showers ‘Shrill as apipe came a woman’s voice : “A basla of sharpstones, collected from a road in the making, troupe !” Her cry was drowned in a savage howl fell upon ourranks ; Isaw blood run off thefaces of 280 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

half a dozen of our men ; the sub-lieutenant fell to the them. Orpheus descendednightly intoHades and groundwith his hands to hishead. At lastthe word dancedthe cancan with Pluto’s court. Thesethings of command wasgiven ; thedrums and the bugles symbolised the end,but no one understood.At the sounded the charge : Opéra “ Faust”-anothersymbol of disillusion-was Y a la goutte à boire là haut theall-absorbing production, with Madame Carvalho, Y a la goutte à boire thelast of the. greatdramatic singers of France, as Y a la goutte à boire là haut Marguerite.One thing was inharmony with another. Y a la goutte là haut. People were passing out of the world of romance, and Fasterand faster we ran across the market-place. hadnot yet arrived at that of realism. The majority I could seenothing but the cobbles racing under my of theParisians filled thegap betweenthe two with downcast eyes ; my haversack crashed into the back of carelessmerry-making, laughter that was half farce, my neck. Inanother instant we were drivingthrough half satire,and amusements that contained neither thefront ranks. The angry face of a woman,with meritnor instruction. People danced and dined, won- herhair falling over hershoulders, flashed past my dered at nothing, asked no questions about the future. eyes.Behind me I couldfaintly hear thedrums and All werefloating down stream in thepirate’s craft the bugles. We droveinto the mass, the butt ends manned by Napoleon. In twelve shortmonths they and barrels of our rifles entering into the crowd as if would reach the open, and then, of a sudden, Charybdis it werebutter. Half blinded anddazed, we struggled and Scylla would loom bold in front of masterand through the dust, forcing back the mob inch by inch, crew. until it had vanished into the side streets. Meanwhile, thegreat writers were reposing after a The buglesounded. I stopped and wiped thesweat lifetime of adventureand agitation. Hugo was in out ofmy eyes. Then I saw a glow ahead of me, and exile, Lamartinehad just passed away, Flaubert and a cry arme : “ The glassworks ! The glassworks are GeorgesSand had retired tothe country. Dumas on fire !” alonewas left in thecapital. The lions of romance wereleaving the field tothe jackals of realism.Zola had already begun to gnaw the bones left by Balzac- Alexandre Dumas. for destinyhad preordained a realist to depictthe By Francis Grierson. coming débâcle Action for action, fact for fact, every- thinghas its time and place. Sedan fired thelast I. volley overthe grave of romanticism. Thiswas the MY wanderingshad landed me in Paris in thespring état d’âme of the Parisians on my arrival amongst them of 1869,in the centre of the rush and roar of an Empire in 1869. aboutto crumbleaway. I hadarrived at theborders One evening in the beginning of June I was taken to of a social maelstrom without knowing the meaning of the residence of Dumas, on the Boulevard Malesherbes, its movementand mystery.Unconsciously Francewas by anintimate friend of thegreat novelist.As one preparingfor war and revolution.Destiny went with thinks of a lion,with hisshaggy mane full of the a whirl,and no one was idle. I wasignorant because jungle-burs of adventure, so I cansee the author of of my youth;the Parisians were ignorant because of MonteCristo ” as heappeared on that memorable their blindness.As delirium increaseswith fever so evening.Standing about were women friends- pleasureincreases with prosperity, and the Parisians, actresses,writers, poets, attracted by a world of like so manyspiders in a garden of roses,were busy romancesymbolised in the figure seated in the middle weaving a web that would hold themprisoners when of the salon. I wasinstantly impressed with two the flies were dead and the roses withered. things : thefrescoes on the walls andthe attitude of From noon till late at nightevery one was busy. thehost. He sat likea silent oracle, surrounded by a Napoleon and hiscourt were busy ; political intrigue crowd of female admirers, the whole company set off by wasindulged in simply asan interludebetween the panelsrepresenting life-sized figuresfrom Goethe’s fashions and amusements of the hour. Every one, from greatdrama : Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite. theEmperor down to the modest bourgeois, lived by Therewere no other pictures in the room. The in- the day. The peoplewere like mechanics who prefer fluence of these figures, the attitude of Dumas and his piece-work, for all had grown indifferent and indepen- worshippers, concentrated the mind on the quintessen- dent;no one thought of the morrow. All prospered tialelement of romance.Half indifferent hesat, as whocared to work. Beggarsand drunkards were somehandsome young womanwould stroke his head, seldom seen; moneypoured into Paris from the pro- while another would place her hand on his shoulder, as vinces. Forthe French vineyards, in thosedays, they might have done with an old lion long tamed and supplied the wholeworld with wine, writerswith wit, without teeth. There was nothing to distract the mind and the populace with good humour. The opéra-bouffes from the harmony of idea and personality : the company of Hervé and Offenbach kept Paris in roars of baccha- of women mighthave been part of thefrescoes, and nalianlaughter. During the last years of theEmpire Dumasthe creator of “ Faust ” instead of “ Monte Paris went mad over “ Orphée aux Enfers,” “ La Belle Cristo.”There was anenchanted element about the Hélène and “ LaGrande Duchessede Gèrolstein.” people and the room. Princes, millionaires, and potentates from abroad were There are two kinds of romance-the silent and the regaled by the nonchalant beauty and piquant person- active. Thisscene was quiet and contemplative. A ality of HortenseSchneider, who, by herinsouciant silent influence seemed at work ; the picture was likethe grace and artless abandon, seemed to typify the spirit apotheosis of some Greek divinity; but there was some- of thedying age. Offenbach embodied thespirit of thing mediaeval in its simplicity andsomething the timein music, but Hortense Schneider gave it a Falstaffian in the huge figure surrounded by handsome living ‘form. Auber-the wonderfuloctogenarian-had and pleasant-faced women. What now was the current just composed “ Le Premier Jour de Bonheur,” which of his thought?What the state of mind of theman wasdrawing all Paristo the Opéra Comique, and who had charmed the readers of two worlds and made women of all classes raved over the singing of Capoul, romance a reality forthousands who never knew ad- the boy-tenor. “ TheFirst Day of Happiness ! ”-an venture ? innocent work, full of humdrum melody, composed by a The whole companyconversed among themselves, typical optimist who never in his long life had known standing as if theywere atcourt, while thehost sat care or sorrow, who lived by the day, composed by the stilland mused. I was held by themystery, the fasci- yard, and thought by the minute.But it waswonder- nation of theromantic atmosphere, the peculiarsmell ful-this old man who could conceive passionate tunes of the huge mass that filled the fauteuil like an idol of like a young man just fallen in love ! This opera repre- adamant.For there was something of the idol about sented the ideal of the bourgeoisie of the period. They the man. I thought of aBuddhist statue in a sitting oscillatedbetween Auber and Offenbach-sentimental posture,corpulent atthe base,crisp at the top.The inanity and satirical farce. lower part of the face was of porcine,dimensions, the Destiny unfurled her symbols, but no one could read skin swarthy, the hair curly, the expression of the eyes JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 281

calm andsphinx-like. Hewas a manwho not only invented life, but had seen it. MAGAZINES. Every matured mind has a cycle of personal experi- “SCHOOLHYGIENE,” the new monthly review, of which Dr. ence.Genius begins life with notions and ends with Eder is the generaleditor, claims that “ The existence of pro- ideas. Whatwere Dumas’ ideas now? A romantic ïems affecting alike the medical profession, the public health service, the teaching profession, and eventually the parents Bacchus, who had written ‘‘ Monte Cristo ” andcom- themselves, is a sufficient excuse forthe appearance of a piled adictionary of culinaryart, what, at last, were journaldevoted to their consideration and solution.” It hisviews of menand things? The form of a face saysthat the overcoming of disease in children ‘‘is a field correspondsto the spirit beneath, and had I beenold where internationalrivalry is welcome,” andsuggests that enough to judge I might have guessed that this wonder- Germany .and Britain might “lay down. a grand dental pro- ful manwas, above all things, a lover of sumptuous gramme, andlet each carry out a warfareagainst dental livingrare wines and rich dinners, romantic suppers disease. Hereis a battle to befought where both sides afterdramatic triumphs, the table decorated with stand to win.” Dr.Kerr, in a most interesting .article on “ Elementary Schools and Tuberculosis,”quoting some humanflowers from theatre, circus, and opera. I recentstatistics, claims that “the highnumbers (40 per might have guessed that this immense frame was never cent.) of those reacting in whom neitherheredity nor con- madefor fasts and vigils, and that, like Handel, he tact could be determined, show how frequent are the oppor- might have ordered dinner for three and cleared it off tunities of infection.’’ Forremedy, “there ismore wanted himself.And whatmust have beenhis powers of than food ; there is room to live. That is the crying need of digestion ! Think of the barrels of dynamicforce con- many a child in London,” whilst “the child who istuber- sumed by sucha human generator within a periodof culous, or is likely to become so, requires treatment in open- air schools, many more than are in existence being wanted, fifty years-the rows of Bordeaux and Veuve Clicquot, andprobably the best form will be where children are brought forth from cellars where spiders put the finish- residentfor months.” Modern ideaspenetrate more than ingtouch on the crusty bottle before it is sentup to is usually believed. We find the Headmaster of Eton, in an weavenew illusions in the brain of theweaver of article on “Interestin Schools,” maintaining:“The best romance; the rare fruits, in and out of season; the suc- remedy of a broad common-sense kind that has been thought culentdishes concocted by scores of famous chefs for of at presentis the combination of disciplined progressive hisspecial delectation; the quantity and the quality of hand work, with language work, history, and geography, andmathematics Butthe proportion of handicraftshould theviands, that went to produce books like “ Monte be a greatdeal larger than isgenerally admitted, as in Cristo ” and “ LesTrois Mousquetaires ” ! For a public schools at any rate it is still only a tolerated extra-” man who could dictatefor two or three novels within Miss McMillan, who writes on the new work for the doctor, the hour, and carry the plots along without confusion, is always interesting; Dr.Guhik’s article on “Athletics for musthave had a marvellousmemory and aperfect Gir!s ” requires more consideration than we can here devote digestion.Voltaire sharpened his wits by forty cups to it. Thereare other articles and featuresin this new of coffeea day, tea inspired Mozart, but Dumas lived reviewwhich show thatit fills, and willfill, a gap in our on the pick of the viands and vineyards of France, the periodical literature. It is published at thepopular price of 6d. garden of the world. In the “ Contemporary Review ” Mr.G. K. Chesterton Not till years after my meeting with the great novelist asksfor a nice fat Christmas-boxfor himself--something did I realise the full meaning of what he told me on that that shalltaste good or smell jolly. In the ‘‘ Theology of evening.At last he rose from his easy chair and in- ChristmasPresents” he finds it odd that “ ourEuropean vitedme into his study adjoining the salon. I had sceptics are perpetually sneering at the one Oriental element heard a good deal about his experiences in the world of whichChristianity eagerlyincorporated, thatone Oriental occultism,and I wascurious to find out if possible elementwhich is really simple and delightful I mean that whathe really believed.After he had addressed me Oriental love of gay colours andan infantile excitement about luxury.” “ Christmaspresents are a standing pro- aboutmy own career, the conversation turned on the test on behalf of giving, as distinct from that mere sharing mystical in art; but as I was anxious to know his ideas that modern moralitiesoffer as equivalent or superior.” about a future life I putthe question direct. He Modern moralities do not offer it as a substitute, but as an looked at me with the calm expression of one who had addition. Giving must be without the offence of patronage- longsince made up his mind. The answer was : “ I A gift is something personal, and modern moralities do not believeinmagnetism.” Hesat impassive, without ruleout a “pungenttinge of taste ” bythe making of movingan eyebrow or raising a finger. I wastalking Christmascarols and the making of Christmas pies. Mr. Chesterton is followed by an article on “Rudolph to the man who wrote “ Le Collier de la Reine ” and Eucken and .St. Paul,” which opens outthe dis- “ LaComtesse de Charny.” Magnetism-the keynote mal prospect “that, if Euckenhas come tostay (as I of theseand other of hisbooks-was the keynote of believe he certainly has), one of the results will be a substan- Dumas.’ experience. Thisthen was his secret.Here tial reaffirmation of some of the main Pauline positions.” was his meaning of life. I putother questions-his And so we get back to justification by faith, to redemption, mind was fixed;he refused to go beyondthe wonders to dependence upon God, and union with Him, to the salva- tion of thesoul, and to all thedebased materialistic indi- andmysteries of personalmagnetism. This, he said, vidualismwrapped up in terms of spiritualidealism Mr. wasthe cause of themanifestations which had per- E. T. Cook deals with The Issue and the Record, and con- plexed the world since the beginning. victs the Lords, out of the mouths of their best friends, of There was no denying the fact, I was in the presence wreckingthe Constitution. Mr.Cook deplores the neces- of a sort of mystical sceptic. He believed in the reality sity for having to restrain formally the action of the Lords. of all occult phenomena, but not in their spiritual origin. This will destroy the elasticity of theConstitution. Lord He believed in second sight, palmistry, somnambulism, Welby has a Free Trade article in “ The Budget and British Capital,” in reply toLord Revelstoke’s criticism. It is sur- trances,magnetic attraction, magic, and mesmerism. prising how seriouslythese people takeone another. Why And, in truth, his novels are based on the mystery of a Baring shouldbe accepted as an authority on finance action, as Scott’sare based on the poetry of action. from the standpoint of national well being is incomprehen- A little more and the man sitting before me might have sible MabelHolmes describes “A Night with Vika of given a personalaccount of Mesmerhimself, for the Vavon,”Vika being married to anEnglishman and very famous German only died in 1815. I shall never forget jealous of hisfriendship with the white woman. The inci- the tone of Dumas’ voice,his look, when he said, “Je dentis exciting, and shouldhave led to an interestingin- sight into a foreign mind but the writer did not get there croisau magnétisme ”; as muchas to say, “ I have and has no gift of description. Dr. Dillon’s story of Greece gotthat far, about the rest I knownothing.” It was andCrete does notredound to thecredit of Greece; Dr. the nonchalance of a mind that had passed beyond dis- Dillon writes from the anti-Turk point of view, and, as our puteand discussion. I couldsee in his face the result readers know, Dr. Dillon’s statements are never to be relied of a lifetime of thought given to onesubject. For the upon. He is quite unscrupulous in his manipulation of facts author of “The Queen’s Necklace ” was now near the and opinions. We are badly off for trustworthy reports of end of hisdays. I wassitting in thepresence of one news in other lands. who would soonpass away. Here I hadproof, in his It is refreshing to find the editor in “ The Open Review “ ownwords, that the celebrated romanticist wasnot a disposing of Free Trade and Protection in a single sentence “ The Bank England is the real enemy that English trade manufacturer of sensational scenes in which he did not of and commerce has to fear -- far greater than either the believe United States or Germany ! “ For proof read “The Secret (To be concluded.) of Free-NoteIssuing,” by Mr. Egmont Hake. In an article 282 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910

by thelate Major Phipson the correctreply to allFree Privy Council did not place upon it a single certified mid- Trade and Protection arguments will be found: ‘‘ To facili- wife, while inonly seventeen. English counties and seven tate themultiplication of home cultivatorsthen, and en- countyboroughs have women beenappointed to a Mid- courage the increased production of food surpluses by them, wives’ Committee.” Dr. Johnstonregards asunfit for is the direct and most advantageousway of ensuringcon- parenthood “ the deaf and dumb, the feeble-minded or men- tinuousemployment for wage-earners, while to facilitate tally defective, the epileptic, the chronic inebriate the con- the access of home wage-earners to foreign cultivators is the sumptive, and the insane.”Surely here is eugenics gone indirect and least advantageous way of ensuring continuous mad; excellent judges would consider that proposals to lock employment to home wage-earners, since this method bene- all these kinds of people up can only emanate from lunatics, fitsonly those at home and not the country.” This would and that the whole body of eugenists should, by their own leadupto Kropotkin’scommunist-anarchism, butthe showing, besegregated. Weare with these excellent writer wanders away into currency questions. judges. MissMaude Meredithconcludes her articles on In summingIn theupgeneral electionsymposium “ Children and the Nation ” ; she has nothing fresh to sug- gest. Mr. Gustave Le Bon concludes hisarticle on “Birth inthe “ Socialist Review,”Mr. KeirHardie believes thattheI.L.P. policy of the 1900 general election and Evanescence of Matter,’’ having much fresh to say. is thatis which will begenerally followed. Onthat occasion it was decided thatin thoseconstituencies where the party had no candidate of its own, the weight of its influenceshould be cast on the side of candidates who Drama. were opposed to the war. He points out very truly: “When MR.CHAS. FROHMANwill openhis repertory manage- it is asserted that Liberalism and Toryism are the same to- mentat the Duke of York’sTheatre within the next dayas they were twenty yearsago, a serious reflection is fewweeks, and it may be interesting to consider its therebycast upon theirwork.” Thisis the point of view THE NEW AGE has alwaysinsisted upon. Mr. John chances of success.New plays by Bernard Shaw, Edwards criticises theReport of theInter-Departmental GranvilleBarker, and John Galsworthy are to be Committeeon Partial Exemption. He objectsto the post- amongthe first productions. This means that Mr. ponement of the proposed abolition till 1911, andthe pos- Frohmanmay count upon the Court Theatre audience sibleexemption at 13. Heremarks that: “ There was, of 1904-7 as a reliable nucleus of support. It is no more strangely enought not one woman uponthe Committee. thana nucleus, however, for a crowded house at the The presence of a few workers would, perhaps, have made Court Theatre would only half fill the Duke of York’s, the recommendations more favourable to the children, and lessconsiderate of the requirements of employers of cheap and probably even Mr. Frohman is not above consider- labour.”Upton Sinclair has a comedy, “ TheIndignant ingthe difference of rent.Where is theremainder of Subscriber,” and Mr. Henry Tompkins an interesting review theaudience to comefrom? Clearly from the rather of ‘‘ Our Debt to William Morris : his passion for democracy problematicbody of playgoerswho have become and essential equality.” He retells from Mr. Leetham’s interested in the modern school during the interregnum “ Study” this never too oftento be repeated story: (‘After of thepast three years, together with those lazy per- Morris had given a lecture on Art, a man in the audience sons who will go to a theatre near Charing Cross, but askedhim tosuggest a suitable decorabion for a kitchen. ‘Well,’ said Morris, ‘ to begin with, I think a flitch of bacon dislike a pilgrimage to the backwoods of Sloane Square. suspended from the ceiling is a very good decoration for a There are also the curious people who are wont to say kitchen.’ ’’ Thisdecoration should reconcile even Mr. tothemselves, “Here’s a theatre.Let’s go .in !”-a Chesterton to Morns art furniture. class not to be despised by the management, whatever The most notable article in the “ Indian Review ’’ is one the author may think of them.Possibly the tubes and by His Highness the Gaekwar of Baroda on “ The Depressed the improved means of transit generally may count for Classes,” whowrites : “ The system which divides us into something.Hampstead, for instance, ishalf anhour- innumerable castles claiming to rise by minutely graduated nearer to the West End than it was three years ago, steps from the Pariah to the Brahman is a whole tissue of injustice,splitting men, equal by nature, into divisions, and that means a good deal to busy people with, let us high and low, based not on the natural standard of personal say, a choice between an evening’s reading and a per- qualities button the accident of birth. The eternal struggle formance of “The SilverBox ” or“The Voysey In- between casteand caste for socialsuperiority has become heritance.”This applies particularly to a repertory a source of constantill-feeling inthese days. The human audience, which consists chiefly of playgoers who know desireto help the members of one’s caste also leadsto definitelywhat they want and reflect upon how to get nepotism--heart-burningsand consequentmutual distrust. Inother words, thereis disunion whereunion is so emi- it conveniently. Everybody finds the shop at the corner- nently needed to enable us to take rank as a nation. Let us useful. And if there is a shop for the sale of ideas it is. do away with theseartificial hindrances tounion. To re- well to have it close at hand. move thedisabilities of the depressed classes andto unlte As to the new audience of the last three years I think the sub-castes arethe firststeps inthat direction.” The itis probably quite a large one. “Don,” for instance, main remedy, he declares, is “ to limitthe tyrannical and one of thesuccesses of the present season, is just the despoticsway of religion,” and especially of “ the authority kind of playthat would have been produced in of thepriestly class.” Mr. Gandhi’smessage to the Con- 1905 gress and &-. Hormusji A.Wadya’s plea for a Congress in fewfora performances theatVedrenne-Barker London deservecareful reading. Thereal motive forour matinées,andnever heard of again.Then the stayin India becomes clearin Dr. J. N. Bahadurjee’s Vedrenne-Barkertouring companies have visited most criticism of the Indian Medical Servlce. of the larger provincial towns, and as the audience of The (‘Englishwoman ” shows us how evil companionship theLondon theatres (at least, in the reserved seats) is corrupting good manners. Miss Clementina Black, review- consists largely of hotel-dwellers and provincial visitors, ingthe “Year’s Progress in the Movement,” regards the someadditional’ support should come from them. It is “ People’s Suffrage Federation ” as the most damaging item. well to remember, too, that a repertory theatre can suc- Her reasons come to this: that shebelieves that the propertied women are more capable of judging political questions cor- ceed with a much more limited clientele than any of the rectly than working-class mothers. Of course, Miss Black does existinglong-run theatres. Fifteen or twenty perform- notput it thus baldly. “AWoman Worker” takes up the ances of aplay, spread over six weeks, may be quite cudgels on behalf of Mrs. Gilman in “Live and Let Live.’’ profitable. Thesame audience returns every few days She admits that The communistic kitchen is not always a tosee a new work. Many of theFrench and German success, as some of us know from bitter experience ; but, at repertory theatres live comfortably on a total audience any rate, it provides a meal which is infinitely preferable +O of some twenty thousand playgoers, or even less, while therepast of tinned fish andtea, which is often, the only kind of mealthat a fagged-out woman feels energetic a Pineroplay at theSt. James’, for instance, must enough toprepare. Those who areable to afford domestic attract a hundredthousand within its three months’ servantscan scarcely appreciate thesepoints of difficulty run. A smallbody of peoplewho make theatre-going At present,life for a workingwoman, by whichphrase I a habit can exercise more influence than a multitude of mean a wage-earning woman-for, as Mrs. Gilman poins the casual. out, women havein all ages d’one much of theroughest Mr.Frohman’s prospects, then, should be hopeful. work of the world, and have worked as hard, or harder, In Butthe task of histheatre cannot conceivably be an theirhomes than men havedone in workshop or office- seems a choice of evils.” With all the talk about the proper easyone. The gigantic monopoly bywhich the sphere of women, itis amusing to find theyare scarcely governingclass, not content with its control over the allowed to have a mice at the birthof children. The editors nation’s industry and daily life, seeks also to dominate remindus that “When a DepartmentalCommittee was the nation’s mind and to foist bad ethics, cheap codes appointed to consider the working of the Midwives’ Act, the of honour,snobbery, sentimentality, stupid generalisa- JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 283

tions aboutwomen, rubbishy thought and debased art by a student tyrannised by Titian’s types. Then there’s upon the theatre, cannot be broken down in a day. Of a third (57), ascribed toTitian. I could paint a better course, the imposition is nota consciousone. The Titian myself. And thereare studio “ throw-outs,” governing class has not enough coherence to think out pictures that, like the Tintoretto? (57), have been begun these littleplots. But its influence isthere none the by some painter, then allowed to lie about his studio for less. The whole tendency, the whole atmosphere of the pupils to walk over and finish. In time these “ master- commercial theatreis reactionary. Literature, music, pieces ” have found their way to the dealer’s and, in painting, all theother arts havepassed it by and due course, with unerring instinct, to the walls of the developed in their ownway, leaving the theatre as a R. A. Onthe other hand, canvases by Turner, resort for idlers, a place of amusement for tired people. Hogarth, Raeburn, Reynolds,and so on, that in many ’There are a fewhonourable exceptions in theWest instances may only be described either as spoilt, empty, End of London. There are some managers who “try.” unfinished, or vastlyinferior; in fact,the failures and But if the new ventureis to succeed, itmust go far experiments of eighteenth-century masters who occa- beyond anyattempts that have yet beenmade. It sionally got in a good result and never destroyed a bad must be a theatre for workers. one.There is the “ George III.” of Reynolds asan This is theheart of the wholeproblem. Take, for example of thehash this painter sometimesmade in instance,theCourt Theatre audience under the his endeavour to obtain the rich, warm effect of the old Vedrenne-Barkermanagement. wasIt clearlya masters.Reynolds hasgone rubbing the work down specialised audience-an audienceverymuch in and experimenting on it with glazes and varnishes, but earnest,attentive, and willing to think.This was just has only succeeded in rubbing the dirt into the crevices because it wasan audience of workers.Necessarily of thepaint and spoiling it. The R. A. knowsthat forthe most part brain-workers, since it was drawn even themost deludedpersons mightrefuse to paya fromthe WestEnd and the suburbs of London,but shilling to see such an exhibition as this, and sixpence when the Court Theatre plays were sent on tour it was extrafor its amateurish, slovenly,and defective cata- found that theymade a universalappeal. logue, even though they had never heard of the National The Vedrenne-Barkerperformances, although an Gallery or read the letter of the Master of the Charter- isolatedexperiment carried out under peculiar difficul- house urging the R. A. to admit that it has beenper- ties,have prepared the way. Mr. Frohman’s new manently vanquished by the Grafton Street Exhibition. managementhas everything in itsfavour. If it suc- I believe the latter--which will remain open during this ceeds, asit must withthe support it deserves, within month-has taughtit a lesson in organisationand thenest few yearsthe English theatre may well courtesy which it dare not neglect. become the first theatre in Europe. ThePress has *** beenexercised a good deal of lateover the fact that How different was the treatment accorded me at the some of ouractor-managers are taking to the music- Burlington Fine Arts Club,where the same day I was halls. Perhaps soonthey will all bethere. received and entertained by amember. How different, ASHLEYDUKES. too,the exceptionally fine pictures of theUmbrian Schoolnow being exhibited in the gallery of the club. This exhibitionremains open till the end of February, ART. andfor those who arefortunate enough to obtain a A FEW daysago I appliedfor admission to Burlington ticket of admissionfrom a member of the club,and ton House as the representative of this journal, and was wish to escapeclose examination of eachcanvas, and refusedon theabsurd ground that the “free list ” is yet gain a favourable impression of the representative closed tothe Press after Press day. I was, moreover, things, there is a Piero della Francesco and a Raphael informed that only a certain number of Press invitations that ought not to escapethem. Theformer began an aresent out prior to that date. This rule of the experimental stage whichculminated with the latter. “ R.A.,”framed, no doubt,to ignore and keep out a And in another part Perugino’s beautiful poem, a com- certain section of the Press from its shows, is part of position of four nude figures. Yes, and a group of Luca that unbounded silliness for whichit is noted. Itad- Signorellis,remarkable for composition, colour, move- mits of but one interpretation.The R. A. is giving ment,and expression, and a gorgeousAnnuciation itself unjustifiable andunpardonable airs. This egre- (16),and a rich Pinturicchio, and among the majolica, gious body apparently has forgotten that it isa char- a superb Gubbiodish by MaestroGeorgio, a dazzling tered company ; that it holds certain privileges from the mass of blue,brown, green, ruby, and gold lustre; Crown, and thus indirectly from the public ; that it is, which shouldnot be too, hastily passed by. Though therefore, a public concern, and has no right to pose as these Umbrians give me the impression of being over- a privateone, and that its attempt to select its own loadedwith their science, andapt to sink the painter criticsand ignore those who are likely to exposeits in the topographer and anatomist, their works are a joy. utter incompetencein the public interestis a direct *** insult to all honest persons. It would be possible tosay many appreciative and *** depreciativethings about the Arts and Crafts Exhibi- Of course,fear is at the bottom of this censorship. tion atthe NewGallery, butspace forbids. In most The R. A. hasalways been frightened of freeexpres- instances the exhibits are good, but in others they are sion. It is terror-stricken when itthinks what might defectiveand verge on thefantastic Amongthe be said of itswretched plunges. It does notwant the former may particularly be mentioned the work of Allan public warned that it is not getting its money’s worth; F. Vigers, Lucien Pissarro, F. V. Poole, and Miss nor attention drawn to the fact that there are exhibited Mabel Chadburnand Miss Mary Sargant Florence, as on its walls pictures that would disgrace a marine-store well as acase of printedbooks by T. J. Cobden- dealer’s. Whatit really desires to haveis criticisms Sanderson.The manyexhibits in the three cases of that serve to gloss over its defects rather than to ex- silverwork, 284, 292, and 579, are all fine. As to de- posethem. It knowsthat if thetruth came out the fects, I maintain it is a mistake to introduce screws into public would refuse to visitsuch an exhibition as the the costly satinwood wardrobe (334); they do not belong present,where in some rooms are scattered ascribed, to this class of work. And if Messrs. Heal will remove doubtful,and defective old masters,and in others in- thedangerous shelf fromthe semicircular washstand, different,amateurish, and spoilt modernones. Onthe included among their interesting exhibits, it will effect one hand, pictures that have either served a strenuous an improvement. round as clothes presses till the stretchers have begun *** to piercethe canvases; or have been baked,faked, There is a small but arresting exhibition by the Sene- cleaned,rubbed down andscraped till thecanvases felderClub of artisticlithography at the Goupil Gal- have begun to showthrough the paint. There’s one leries, which should be seen by those who are interested (39), forexample, whichsome second-hand dealer has in apowerful medium of expression that appealed to been rubbing browns and yellows, and other varnishes Whistler Goya,Daumier, Menzel, Fantin-Latour,and allover tomake it looklike something. There’s others attracted to phases of strong and delicate illumi- another (SI), labelled Titian, which is more like a copy nation. The bestresults are by C. H. Shannon, who 284 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 19IO

continueshis application of the medium to startling effects of shimmering light; the velvety blacks obtained CORRESPONDENCE. by Messrs.Steinlein, E. A. Hope,and C. Cottet;the SPECIAL NOTICE.--Correspondents we requested to be brief coloureffects of WillySchwartz and Helene Lange; Many letters weekly arc omitted on account of their length and a number of exceptionally clever drawings by THEHUNGRY. FORTIES AND RICHARD COBDEN Renoir, Harry Becker,Miss MaryCreighton, Miss ONWOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. EthelGabain, Jean Veber, and Forain. Here, too, I TO THE EDITOR OF “THENEW AGE.” notice are some of thedrawings that appeared in the We are all aware of the part which Free Trade has played artistic “ Neolith. ” For instance, “ The Rats on the in the public life of England during the past century and Wall,” by A. G. Hartrick. of the association with it of the name of Richard Cobden; *** but few are aware that at this early period hisconvictions on The fifth annual exhibition of flower paintings at the the subject of Women’s Suffrage were very definite. In 1845, in Covent Garden Theatre, he addressed one of the largest Baillie Gallery is abovethe average. All theworks audiencesduring the anti-Corn Law agitation in these attain a fair level of excellence. Special mention, how- words : “ There are many ladies, I am happy to say, present. ever, may be made of an interesting little note on “ The Now, it is a very anomalous and singular fact that they can- Apple Tree Bough,” by Miss Muriel J. Baker, the un- not vote themselves, and yet-they have a power of conferring catalogued study of a vine, by Mrs. Hartwick, and the votes on other people. I wish they had thefranchise, for clever work of W. A. Wildman. His “ Roses ” has a high they would oftenmake a muchbetter use of itthan their experimental value, and is the work of a young artist husbands.”Again, in a speech in theHouse of Commons onthe 6th July, 1848, he narrated a conversation ‘‘ with a who is turning his attention to modelling for light. In gentleman who was engagedin drawing up the Charter.” another unopened room, conspicuous among a number ‘This was no doubtFrancis Place, who askedCobden to of uncatalogued, talented works I noticed two brilliant supportUniversal Suffrage on the ground of principle. He studies of the colour of Tangier by Henry Bishop. If replied : “ If it is a principle that a man shall have a vote I remember rightly, the subject in each case is walled-in becausehe pays taxes, why should not also a widow who sunlight,with spots of dazzlingcolour cleverly intro- pays taxes, and is liable to serve as churchwarden and over- seer, have a vote for member of Parliament? )’ duced to give the desired effect of space and height In 1860 Mr. Cobden still adhering to his convictions, in a HUNTLYCARTER. letter to hisfriend Mr. JosephParkes, the father of Bessie RaynorParkes, now Madame Belloc, who is still living, says : “ My doctrine is that in proportion as physical force Insurance Notes. declines in the world, and moral power acquires the ascen- dant, women will gainin the scale. Christianityand its A few weeks ago we drew attention to a remarkable judg- doctrines, though not yet coming up to its own standard in mentby Justice Joyce in the Chancery Divisionwhen practice,did more than anything since the world began to hegranted an injunctionagainst the RoyalCo-operative elevate women TheQuakers have acted Christianity,and Society, which soughtconversion into a company. He con- their women haveapproached nearer to an equality with sideredthe powers underthe memorandum of association theother sex thanany of thedescendants of Eve. I am were toowide andforeign to the origin of the society. always labouring to put down physical force, and substitute Further, he was against outside shareholders, who were not something better ; and, therefore, I consider myself a fellow- members of the society, cominginto the company. The labourer with yourdaughter in thecause of Women’s news thatthe Court of Appealhas dismissed the appeal Rights.” againstthe decision of JusticeJoyce will createastonish- You FreeTraders are doubtless also followers of Mr. mentin many quarters, and unless the case is carried Cobdenin all the good ideals which heupheld. Amongst tothe House of Lords andreversed there several proposed thosestands pre-eminent the great principle that taxation conversions will be nipped*** in the bud. without representation is tyranny. At thelast election representatives of the housewife’s The reasonfor the transfer of. theInternational to the industry-one, if not the greatest of all industries-worked LiverpoolVictoria Corporation 1s notuncommon. The hardto return a FreeTrade Government to power. With- paid-upcapital of theInternational was £14,266 against out doubt it was the women of England who, mindful of the which therewere paper assets, formationexpenses, and days of the Hungry Forties, knew that for them Protection establishmentaccount, £8,610 in the balance-sheet. The meantless spending power inthe family and home. Now premiumincome in 1908 was £49,000 andobviously the isyour opportunity to second women intheir righteous business had outgrownthe capital backing. Amalgamation endeavour to obtain citizenship, andthus secure their sup- wasthe best way out of the difficulty, as was theexpe- port in the present struggle for the constitutional rights of rience of theGeneral Collecting Society last year, when Englishthe people. JANE COBDENUNWIN it also grewout of all proportion to itscapital. There is *** no necessity, however, forsuch rapid growth. *** CONSCRIPTIONINENGLAND. A contemporarydraws attention to the fact that many TO THE EDITOR OF “ THE NEW AGE.” industrialinsurance officials aregracing platforms during Inyour “ Foreign. Affairs ” onthe 6th inst. you say: theelection, and especially when front-rankspeakers visit (‘What goodcould thebravest army, even one of three constituencies. Insuranceworkers and officials arerecog- millionstrong, do when faced with a relentlessclosing of nisedas men of influenceand power inelection contests. ports?When the Conscription Party deign to answer this Some,it is said,have had the offer of paymentfor their questionthey might be listened to.” Sir,the answer is services if only they allowed themselves to be used in some “ Nothing.”Having had your answer, will youadopt your way or other. own suggestion and listen to us ? *** I. We do not contemplate the annihilation of theBritish According to thelast Blue Book, the people of these Navy. But we doregard as possible such a degree of Ger- islands were assuredto the tune of £967,493,778the pre- man success atsea as would enablethem to dowhat they miumsthey paid being £36,952,296 while theclaims they liked in the North Sea for two or three weeks. This might receivedamounted to £21,936,300 forthe year 1907. In ariseeither from an unexpected attack like that of the theirassurance war-chests were balancesamounting to Japanese atPort Arthur, or, more probably, from our £341,115,150 having to send a large part of the Navy and most of- the *** RegularArmy to a ,distantpart of the world. Insuch cir- Itis generally admitted that should the LiberalGovern- cumstancesit would be easier andmore useful to invade ment return to power, they will in time proceed with great thiscountry than to blockade it ; hence our demand for a schemes of insurance.It is rumoured thatthey recently land force, outside the small professional Army, which shall madeadvances to a verylarge company with a view to be a reality and not a sham. If the demand means starving placingindustrial business under State control. That the Navy, as you say it does, why is it supported by 20 per appearstobe the inevitabledestination of industrial cent.of our living Admirals? (They number, including assurance. boththe Active andRetired List, about 350; over 70 are *** members of theNational Service League; only one-Sir George Barnes is of opinion that Labour Exchanges will Cyprian Bridge-has activelyopposed us.) do littlein the direction of givingemployment. They are 2. Personally, I can find nothing in the letter of the Army of valueonly as indicatingsomething further which may Act to justifyyour attack on military law; while, in prac- follow. They will be of servicein sifting the unemployed ticethe object of themilitary authorities to-day isnot to when the community begins to deal with the problem in real “ crushthe spirit and independence of the soldier,” but to earnest.They will alsobe used in connection with State teach him to use his brain so that he may carry out his orders insurancein the building, shipbuilding, and engineering intelligently.Still, “terrible machinery of oppression” tradesthis year. They are institutions in the right direc- sounds well. But when you say that “conscription is wanted tion and forerunners of a larger policy of reform. in England to keep down theworking classes,” you might JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 285 BIBLIOGRAPHIES IF I WERE CARNEGIE. OF MODERN AUTHORS, I By the Home Turkish Bath Man. 3.JEROME JEROME. If wereI Carnegie, rather than spend thousands of pounds K. instocking libraries wouldI engage lecturers who should go (CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR.) throughout the length and breadth of the land teaching the value of hygienein the home and hygiene in the human body. I would 1886 BARBARA.Play. Unpublished havethem demonstrate thevalue of cleanliness of the skin,teach people how and when to bathe to obtain health; 1888 FENNEL. Play. Unpublished showhow disease is at thebottom of allunhappiness ; andhow it might be prevented,or, if contracted, how it might be relieved 1888 SUNSET. Play. Unpublished. by dueattention to feeding, breathing, and cleanliness. Above all things,I would erect Turkish Bath establishments in every town 1888 ON THE STAGE ANDOFF. Experiences as and village, so that the poorest might enjoy free and at any time an Actor. (Leadenhall Press. I/-). the advantages of thermal bathing. It wouldbe a missionworthy of thebest intellect and of thebiggest fortune, and it would 1889 IDLETHOUGHTS OF AN IDLEFELLOW. arouseintense enthusiasm, and give a richreward in the happi- nessresulting from the disappearance of disease. I am, however, (Leadenhall Press. 2/6). only a hard-workingbusiness man of limitedmeans, but it is a source of greatpleasure to me that in earning a living I am 1889 THREEMEN INA BOAT. (Arrowsmith. spreadingthe cause of hygieneand winning the gratitude of 3/6 many, as my unsolicitedtestimonials show. If you have not read my previous “ talks,” let me explain that 1890 STAGELAND. (Chattoand Windus. 3/6). I have a HomeTurkish Bath Cabinet, costing 30s. a simple contrivance by means of whichyou can obtain in the privacy of yourown home perfect Hot-Air, Steam, Medicated, or Per- 1890 NEW LAMPS FOR OLD. Play. Unpublished. fumedBaths. It ismade of waterproofmaterial on a folding galvanised frame, which can be erected in a few seconds, forming 1890 RUTH. Play. 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You will have the Cabinet ready at hand for any emergency, 1906 SUSAN IN SEARCH OF AHUSBAND. Play. and there isn’t a man, woman, or child who may not bo suddenly strickenwith some trouble which, taken atits birth, may be as 1907 PASSING OF THETHIRD FLOOR BACK: quickly relieved by this wonderful thermal treatment. and Other Stories. (Hutchinson. 2/6). If you are well you want one of my 30s. Cabinetsto keep you so ; if you are illyou need itstill more. A Cabinetwould be the bestinvestment you evermade. If you cannotmake up your 1908 PASSING OF THETHIRD FLOOR BACK. mind at once to buya Cabinet, don’tshelve the matter ; it is of Play. Unpublished. vitalimportance to you andyour family. At least,drop me a post-card with your name and address, mentioning THENEW AGE, 1909 FANNYAND THE SERVANT PROBLEM. and let me send you a 100-page book giving very valuable informa- tion about thermal bathing. (Hutchinson. 6/-). Postal orders and cheques should be made payable to my Com- pany,The Gem Supplies Company, Ltd. (Desk 24), 22, Pear Tree 1909 THEY AND I. Novel. (Hutchinson. 6/-). Street, Goswell Road(near Gas Company’s office), London, E.C. 286 THE NEW AGE JANUARY 20, 1910 give your opponents credit for ordinary sanity. Who but a whatevidence he has formed the opinion of Christ which lunatic would propose to give arms, and instruction in their heputs forward. use, to a class he wanted to oppress? I amsure that THE NEW AGE hasthe best interests of W. G. CARLTONHALL. democracy at heart, and it must surely realise that some of *** themost ardent advocates of thisdemocracy are devoted TO THE EDITOR OF “THENEW AGE.” followers of Christianity,in its purest and bestsense. Yourideals are so lofty, so differentfrom those of the Why,then, does it admit into its pagessuch open insult ordinaryTory or Liberal editor, that I amencouraged to to the most cherishedideals of these said fellow-workers? write without flattery. We are, I know, all at liberty to hold our ownviews, and May I make an observation on your position with regard toexpound them, but for goodness sake let us do so with toan efficient HomeArmy. You saythis is not required, somedegree of courtesyand regard for the feelings of becauseour ships defend us. Do you know-but perhaps others. I sincerelyhope that THE NEW AGEis notgoing youhave been too busy-that theHome Army is required to follow in the steps of its contemporary, “ The Clarion,” in order to set the ships free to do their work? Without an as, if it does, I feel certain that it will narrow its influence, army they must remain tied to our shores. No Government andalienate many from the causes it has so manifestly dare permit the admiral to takethem off in search of the atheart. One of themost pleasing features of yourpaper enemy. hasbeen the good taste withwhich it was conducted. Whyare you afraid of thisHome Army? It always MACKAYMACLEOD. puzzlesme. Thatthey will beemployed in quelling dis- THE COCOATRADE. order?Are not our policesufficient, with theaid of the To THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.” Regulars ? Cadbury-baitingis poor sport if “.Scrutator’s ” letterin And, finally, do you desire an effective Second Chamber- a recentissue IS a speclmen of it.To pick from the not necessarilypresentthe one? J. V. M. report of a trialsome passages which “Scrutator”thinks *** reflect uponthe conduct of Messrs. Cadburyin trying cir- cumstances, is a trickworthy of the “Daily Express ” or .SCORNNOT THE SONNET. LordNorthcliffe. If thisanonymous gentleman-or lady- TO THE EDITOR OF “THE NEW AGE.’’ had had any experience of King’s Counsel, he would recog- I don’t think we need let the question be obscured by Miss nisethat what a witness “admits ” under a bittercross- Tina’s wit, and I shallnot presume to advise her; if she examinationhas generally no relation whatever to the. has anything to say worth hearing she will command atten- motives of the witness’s conductin dispute. tion,whatever form she chooses orcreates. JAMESCHAPPELL. I note two facts :- *** I. That a more spontaneous and unalloyed poetry is got “PROPHETIC PARAGRAPHS.” when the rhythm is free ; just as in architectural sculpture TO THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.” the vine is more beautiful (tome) when free than when in service (The writing of regularstanzas, in itself, is hardly Usually, after reading THENEW AGE- I feel very cheerful more than a clever trick, and, well done, is as admirable as but after my perusal of last week’s issue I felt extraordinarily acrobatics. I donot deny that genius has used regular sad and depressed; in fact, I am not sure that moisture did stanzas, and has made great poetry in them. The achieve- not dim my vision for a while. ments in a form may be imperishable, while the form itself The cause of mylacrymose condition was “Alcofrida’s” “PropheticParagraph” on, page208--I felt so sorryfor is an absurdity.) Z. O. B. 899 and M.A. P. 5, whowere sentto Broadmoor 2. That all the poets I know who have used a free form of because they wanted to be united to each other contrary to versehave written sonnets and three-quatrain poems, the prescription of the Matrimonial Bureau. because, I suppose, they all have certain stereotyped moods I knowthat some followers of Nietzsche want the future whichcall up those forms. The finer mood demandsthe Socialist State to help them in their search for the Superman, freerform. but I think the great majority of Socialists will agree with If a poet write a poem as good as the “ Skylark ” or the “GrecianUrn,” I hope I shallbe able to recogniseits me when I say that these lovers of the Superman must not expect to have the whole State to play with. poetry, however presented.“Lycidas ” is infree verse. By all meanslet them experiment amongst themselves, *** F. S. FLINT. but they must not force their ideal upon their fellow citizens who do not share their enthusiasm for it. TO THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.” E. SCOTTONHUELIN. As an old reader of THE NEW AGE, and author of “Songs *** of London,” which were not unkindly noticed by THE NEW EUGENICS. AGE critic, may I suggest to Beatrice Tina that her difficul- THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.” tiesshould not exist-if sheis a poet(or poetess, as one TO I hope I am a sane man. My reply to the question which should not say) ? Mr. EdenPhillpotts says the Eugenics Education Society The poet’s difficulties, I submit,are the difficulties of is putting would entirelydepend upon the nature of the life, not of verse. The poet’s utterance is governed by that measures recommended. which he has to say. If theseinclude compulsory detention, labour colonies If his thought is a sonnet, his poem will become a sonnet; and the like where the policeman is to rule (under whatso- if his thought is an ode, his work will become an ode. The ever name he may be disguised), I should certainly not reply poetdoes not begin by wishing to write a sonnet, a ron- in the affirmative. deau : hebegins with a thought,and is only concerned What is meant, may I ask, by “feeble-minded and other with the clearest and, in his judgment, best utterance of this degenerates ” ? My friendDr. Johnston now includes the thought.The poet is as little concerned with what will chronicdrunkard, I find. Adisciple of Dr.Haig would “probably live ’’ as he iswith what will certainly pay. The probably damn the tea drinker; a vegetarian regads a meat- poet requiresno guide: his contemporaries, or rather pos- eater as a degenerate type. terity, will see to it that he finds his way safely and securely, The Socialist would lock up the Capitalist, the Capitalist to limbo or Elysium, according to his deserts. theSocialist; and Mrs. Webbwould, perhaps shut us all HERBERTE. A. FURST. up until we conformed to her standard of efficiency. *** Thereisno finality when you commence with these “SERMONIN WORMWOOD SCRUBBS.” measures of force. TO THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.” The reviewer was quite right to regard eugenics as an ex- Afterhaving read, in your otherwise excellent issue of plodedsuperstition. Wehave come to learnthat the 30thDecember, the mock sermon written by one who uses libertiesmankind has gained must not be sacrificed at the the pseudonym of “Lucifer,” I am inclined to think the early bidding of any new dogma that likes to call itself science. ChurchFathers’ application of thatname a veryexcellent There was something to be said for Sir F. Galton’s posi- one. tive eugenics,and for his manner of advocatingit. Both Havingbeen a moreor less constant reader of THE havebeen dropped; the Nonconformist conscience has ob- NEW AGE for the last two years, I have, of course, gathered tained the upper hand and we have a series of don’ts and thatyour opinions are antagonistic towards the organised suppressives,based on evidence manufactured for the pur- Christianity of to-day, and I mayadd that I imagineit poseat the eugenics laboratory. It is a superstitionto wouldbe difficult to find manythinking men who canbe believethat “man’s future welfare ” canbe founded upon entirelysatisfied with conditions prevailing inside the suchshallow "science," andcan be independent of a Church. philosophy M. D. EDER. What I objectto in the article in question is, however, MR. WELLS’SBIBLIOGRAPHY. theattack on the figurehead of Christianity-theChrist-- TO THE EDITOROF “ THE NEW AGE.’’ anattack which canonly be characterised as scurrilous. From your list of the works of H. G. Wells was omitted The implicationsmade against the character and teaching “TheTime Machine ” (1895). Thecorrespondent who of Christ in the article show either a most lamentable ignor- madeseveral additions to thelist in the last number of anceon the part of thewriter, or, possibly, a deliberate THENEW AGE also missed this book. intention to misrepresent. I challenge ‘(Lucifer” to state on F. A. SWINNERTON. JANUARY 20, 1910 THE NEW AGE 2 87,

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