THE NEW AGE, THURSDAYJUNE 3, 1909 SOCIALISM FOR EMPLOYERS. THE NEW AGE

A WEEKLYREVIEW OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND ART.

No. 769] New Series Vol. V. No.6] THURSDAY,JUNE 3, 1909. ONEPENNY CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE NOTES OF THE WEEK ...... 109 WHITEDSEPULCHRES : Chap. VI. By BeatriceTina ... 119 WOLF! WOLF! WOLF! By ThomasBurke ...... II I BOOKSAND PERSONS. By Jacob Tonson ...... I20 THE GREATCABLE SCANDAL. By C. H. Norman 111 ...... BOOKOF THE WEEK: Verlaine ...... I21 LABOUREXCHANGES. By G. R. S. Taylor ...... II2 REVIEWS: The Measure of Our Youth ...... I22 SOCIALISMFOB EMPLOYERS.By R. M...... 113 THE Accomplished FIGHTER.By M. D. Eder ...... CanalPanama The ...... I22 “THIRTYBOB A WEEK.” By E. E. Hunter ...... 115 Unemployment ...... 124 The CHIMNEY. By Michael Williams ...... 115 DRAMA: WhatEvery Woman Knows. By N. C...... 125 BISHOPAND BAGMAN. By .HolbeinBagman ...... 116 CORRESPONDENCE: W. M. Blackledge, T. Shore, M. S. C., THE NOAH’SARK. By EdgarJepson ...... 114II7 FrederickEvans, H. D. Clark ,...... 126 ‘I The EDITORIAL ADDRESS is 4, Verulam Buildings, arrivalthat their conquest had been anticipated. Simi- Gray’s Inn, W.C. larly,we may say-that Mr.Jane’s suggestions have AU BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS should be ad- long ago been adopted by hisfriends. dressed to the Manager, 12-14 Red Lion Court, Fleet St., ** London. Of the recent German war scare nothing seems to be ADVERTISETMENTS : The latest time for receiving left now but a discussion which even the “Times ” calls advertisments is first post Monday for the same week’s issue. “academic,” of the precise meaning of the phrase “Two SUBSCRIPTlON RATES for England and Abroad :. PowerStandard.” Obviously the phrase has, and can Three months .....IS. 9d. have,no fixed meaningwhatever. With a bellicose Six months .....3s. 3d. Presslike ours, not two, but twenty, nations may be Twelve months ....6s. 6d. antagonised at once : and our Two Power Standard is All remittances should be made payable to THE NEW AGE useless.Again, are we to build against the world, or PRESS, LTD., and sent to 12- 14, Red Lion Court, Fleet onlyagainst immediately probable enemies? In the Street, London. lattercase, should America be, ornot be, included? Various speakers in the Commons were criminal enough NOTES OF THE WEEK. toregard America as a possibleenemy. If that be a tenable proposition, we may as well put up the shutters THEBudget resolutions have now been carried, and the of the Union Jack. After all, come the whole world in coast is clear for the introduction of the Budget proper. navies,and we shall be shocked without a doubt. If Afterall, the heavens do not seem to have fallen. We brains cannot save us, nothing will-or should. Orders are,in fact, surprised that on the whole so small an have not yet been given to lay down the keels of great agitation has been raised against what certainly are thin brains in our schools : which still manufacture elaborate wedge-ends. No doubtthe wretched tobacco-tax has idiots as if therest of theworld were peopled with tempered the wind to the shorn lambs somewhat. There nothing better than Veddahs. is less evidence, as Mr. Lloyd George continues to ex- *** plain himself, of his really understanding the principles Now that most of our publicists have come to their of hisown Budget. Weimagined him Machiavellian : senses (if theyare their senses) on the subject of he appears now to be simply a semi-inspiredpolitician Germany, it is unfortunate that the visit of the score of withonly tricks for his stock-in-trade. All thesame, Labour members to Germany should be marred by the hehas won some points for Socialism, and if hecan refusal of theGerman Social Democrats to join with raisethe money we shall know how to spend it. Why theLiberals in meetingthem. Unfortunate, but poli- shouldnot the edge of theopposition to our “confis- tically, so far as wecan see, strictly unavoidable. catory ” proposalsbe blunted on these Liberals? We Severalmembers of theGerman Reception Committee note that Mr. Balfour on Wednesday stated that “even are not only Liberals, which in Germany is bad enough, Socialists ” admitted that security and credit had been- but, what is worse, Liberals who voted with both hands. shakenby the Budget. What Socialists? And whose for the German Naval Programme, which, next to our security? So long as the few possess the golden geese, own,is the cause of allthe bother. We donot see, an egg ortwo taken from them will causethem if anyhonesty is tobe maintained, that our German little trouble. brethrencan unite with hypocrites to talkflapdoodle *** even to their own political kith and kin from England. Mr. Fred T. Janehaving once managed to stand in Nor do we see on the other hand that the visit of the Mr. Grayson’slimelight, and thereby acquired a little EnglishLabour members should be cancelled. They notoriety, now fancies himself as a politician. To “The must go and do their best: and trust to private meetings with the German Democrats to complete the purpose of- Motor ” of May 18 he contributes a ripe suggestion for renderingthe Budget unpopular. As a consistent all- theirvisit. On thewhole, the wisest thing to have British Labour advocate, a staunch philanthropist, and donewould be toconsult a specialmeeting of the anardent Tariff Reformer,his views of theproper InternationalCommittee. *** thingfor motorists to do are not to bewondered at. They are : The French postal strike is over for the time being, but there is no probability that it will not recur, like the 3. All motorworks, garages, etc., etc., to givenotice to wave in a flowingtide. TheFrench Government Bill as many employees as possible. 3. All subscriptions to charity in anyshape or form to which concedeseverything but the substance of the be countermanded. men’sdemands, is nomore than Mrs. Partington’s 4. Any motorist buying a new car to buy a foreign make, broom. We have; severaltimes indicated the ultimate in order to cause British labour to feel the pinch still more. solution of the whole difficulty, namely, the creation of In Mr. Pélissier’scensored parody of “The English- gilds of Governmentservants, with all theprivileges man’s Home,” the German invaders discovered on their All well as the responsibilities of the ancient gildsmen.. I IO THE NEW AGE JUNE 3, 1909

M. Barthou,the French Minister of PublicWorks, when they were deported, in anarchist plots ; and when specifically repudiates, and,- indeed, scouts, the sugges- this hypothesis was pricked he fell back upon another, tion, which it seems has been made to him by the postal namely,that they were connected with the Swadeshi servantsthemselves. That they should co-operate with movement. We understand that Lord Morley is heartily theGovernment in drawing up their own- promotion sickof. the whole business, as wellhe may be ; and lists is in his opinion something beyond expression save is not unprepared to take advantage of the first oppor- by horror-marks. Yet we are convinced that in France tunityto release the victims of bureaucraticpanic. as inEngland the free right of bodies of workersto They will thereforebe released for no better reasons selecttheir own superiors is indispensable to the best thanthey were imprisoned. service. Undersuch circumstances promotion at best *** would be for efficiency and at worst for demagogy only. Weare tired of abusingthe Censor on behalf of As it is, all public service promotions, when they are not an byseniority, are by nepotism,influence, back-stairs indifferentpublic. Mr. Redford’sprivate opinion of Mr.Shaw’s new play, “TheShowing Up Blanco jerrymadiddling, and the like. of **+ Posnet,” wouldbe of noconcern unless it represented The W. S. and P. U.have just concluded an ex- allthe stupidity of England. Eves the supporters of tremelysuccessful Exhibition, designed to raise funds the Suffragettes in their poll at Prince’s on the question €orthe coming election campaign. Unfortunately even ofthe abolition of the censorship approved of the re- money cannot win Votes for Women. We understand tentionof the absurd office : andthere is nothing to that at a recent meeting of the notorious Anti-Suffragist show that the function will not last as long as England. League, Lord Curzon confided to his audience that Mr. Mr.Shaw will probablywrite another play. The fol- Asquith’s famous promise of a Reform Bill was drafted lowing is Mr. Shaw’s account of the matter : afterconsultation with Mr. Balfour on behalf of the The decision whether a play is morally fit to be performed ConservativeParty ; andthat between them it was or not rests with the King absolutely; and I am not in the King’sconfidence. To write a play too vile forpublic agreed that nothing in the direction of women’sfran- performance even at the very indulgent standard applied to chise should be done by either party. This passage of our London theatres is as grave an offence as a mancan Lord Curzon’s speech was omitted from all the reports commit, short of downright felony; in fact, it is much worse by special request. We leave our readers to appreciate than most felonies. To announceit for production at a thepolitical code of honourwhich binds our leading theatre of high reputation is almost as bad. Parliamentarians. I presume the King would not hold up Mr. Tree and my- *** self before Europe and America, as guilty of this disgraceful conduct unless he had the most entire confidence in his own The printed copy of the Local Education Authorities judgmentor that of his advisers. The injury-not to men- (MedicalTreatment) Bill liesbefore us. Clause I runs tion the insult-to us is very considerable; but the disgrace as follows : will depend on theextent to which thepublic sharesthe Whereany LocalEducation Authority provides forthe King’s faith in this matter. It would be affectation for me to medical treatment of children attending any public elemen- pretend to share it. I shall allow the play to be performed tary school . . . . there shallbe charged to theparent of in America andthroughout Europe. I shall publish it. I everychild in respect of anytreatment provided forthat should not do that if I shared the King’s opinion of it. childsuch an amount not exceeding the costof the treat- I have far more at stake than anyone else concerned ; for ment asmay be determined by the Local Education Au- I should be ruined if I lost the confidence of the public in my thority, and in the event of payment not being made -by the honour and conscience as a playwright, as I have no follow- parent it shall be the duty of the Authority, unless they are ingamong vicious or thoughtless people. But I naturally satisfied that the parent is unable .by reason of circumstances regret that Mr. Tree,the first of our successful West-End other than his own default to pay the amount, to require the managersto step into the gap left by the retirement ‘of payment of thatamount fromthat parent, andany such Messrs. Vedrenne andBarker fromwhat may be called amount may be recovered summarily as a civil debt. National Theatre workwith his Afternoon Theatre, should The .Bill ispresented by Mr. Walter Guinness, and find that he has ,only exposedhimself to what is virtually backedby, amongst others, Lord Robert Cecil, Mr. a rebuke for misconduct from the very quarter in which he mighthave expected the most enlightened support. Maddison,Mr. Peel, Mr. Vivian-and’ Mr. Ramsay The effect on the future of the theatre will be seen later Macdonald,the Secretary of theLabour Party. Shall on. Young men areat this moment writingplays for the we be guilty of lèseMacdonald if we askwhat he is repertory theatres of Mr. Frohman and Mr. Herbert Trench. doing in this gallery? They cannot afford, as I accidentally can, to lose the price *** of months of arduous labour, and be blacklisted by managers Weare glad to inform our readers that the united as dangerous. This reminder to them that there is safety in “ ” protests of THENEW AGE and “Truth ” withregard The Merry Widow and the utmost danger in plays of the tothe maladministration of theGilbert and Ellice kind I write will inevitablyact as a lesson tothem. I repeat that I do not know why the play has been declared Islandshave led to the transfer of Mr.Telfer Camp- unfit toexist. It is a very simpleand even crude melo- ‘bell, theResident Commissioner, to another sphere of drama, with absolutely no sexual interest whatever. It re- activity.It is truethat Colonel. Seely, in answer to presents a little community of violent, cruel, sensual, igno- Mr.John M. Robertson, stated that Mr.Campbell had rant, blasphemous, blood-thirsty backwoodsmen, whose con- been “promoted ” to be Consul-General at Tonga ; but ception of manliness is merebrute pugnacity, and whose theimportant point is thathis influence has been re- favourable sport is lynching. Into this welter of crude news- movedfrom the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Further, paperised savagery there suddenly comes a force-not men- the attacks on the Company have stirred the conscience tioned in “ The Merry Widow ”-to which they give the name of God, the slightest regard for which they make it a point .of itsDirectors to such an extent that considerable ofhonour to despise as mereweakness of character. That allowances are beingmade tu the natives. However,, force, nevertheless, at the crisis which is the subject of the the taxation of theirfood, instead of the dividends on drama,.makes them do its will and nottheir own in a the profits of the guano phosphate concessions, is still manner very amazingto themselves, and, I should hope, not a seriousmatter, and we hope that Colonel Seely will altogether unedifying to the spectators. take this opportunity of directing an inquiry similar to I am given to understand that the introduction of this force that whichhas been ordered in the case of Mauritius. into my play as a substitutefor the simple cupidities and concupiscences of “ The Merry Widow ’’ is the feature that Inthe meantime weshall be interested to seewho renders the play unfit for performance. It was precisely the ,succeedsMr. Campbell. *** feature which made the play worth writing to me. What is called the struggle of a man with God is the most dramatic Questions continued to be asked up to the very end of all conflicts : in fact, the only one that makes really good of theSession on the deportation without trial of the drama. But our royal rule is that conflict withGod cannot nineBengalees last December. It is nowquite clear be permitted on the stage that not only was there no trial, but no specific charges Except when the name of God is taken altogether in vain, couldbe laid againstthese men. They were, in fact, by way of swearing, the Divine Antagonist must be spoken of, even by the most hardened and savage outlaws, with the no moreguilty of offence againstthe Indian Govern- decorum and devotional respect observed by our Bishops. ment than our own fishing fleet was guilty of attacking SO, England will have its “Merry Widow” ; and the other the Russian fleet in the North Sea under Rodjesvensky. countries will have their “Blanco Posnet.” It is not for ,me A fewdays ago Mr. Hobhouse darkly suggested that to say whichwill have the best of that bargain in the long they were concerned, or had been, or were about to be run. JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW AGE III

WOLF! WOLF ! WOLF! and are coming over to talk out any reduction in cable rates ; otherwise,the local up-countryAustralian and There’s a great grey beast I know, New Zealand papers would be able to compete on more Come from hell-oh, come from hell-oh ! equalterms with their wealthier rivals. The enormous Through the dark his wild eyes glow cost of cable news has practically prevented the starting Green and yellow, green and yellow ! of any new journals in Australia, or the growing up of Voices seem to hum at night, a well-served provincialPress. “Penny aword cable- “ ” Wolf’s a-coming, Wolf’s a-coming ! grams ” would enable every journal in Australia to get All my days are sweat and fright, London news freely and independently ; hence, the great Heart a-drumming, heart a-drumming ! Australian and NewZealand capitalistically owned Lest one night he comes at last, journalsare sending their managers, proprietors, and Window bangs in, window bangs in ! editors as a set of faggot voters to crush any reform Brings me down and breaks his fast, cableproposals. And thesepeople call themselves lm- Gets his fangs in, gets his fangs in ! perialists ! In realitythey are interestedparochialists. Then you see the crimson rain, Mr. Henniker Heaton has put the issue quite plainly in Bleedin’ horrors, bleedin’ horrors ! . . . hispenny pamphlet on “The World’s Cables andthe Ah, you’ll never know the pain Cable Rings,” when heremarks : “I wish to impress And the sorrows, and the sorrows ! upon the British people the fact that this will never be You whose lives are warmly lit, a really great Empire until we in London can speak to Sleek and sheltered, sleek and sheltered ! the people of New Zealand as cheaply as we can now Never know the’-roaringpit‘, speak to the people of Ireland.” Where I weltered, where I weltered ! It is a grave publicscandal thatthe Postmaster- You who smile at such as I- Generaldoes not control the cables starting from Gutter-ranker, gutter-ranker ! Englandand going tu all parts of the world. He is May your children rot and die, the head of the postal means of communication ; it is Bloody swanker, bloody swanker ! most serious that he is not the head of the cable com- This is Wolfie’s business name- munications. One of theprimary causes of theSouth Unemployment, unemployment ! African War was the dissemination of lyinginforma- But we call his little game tion in England and Africa, from forged letters emana- Hell’s enjoyment, Hell’s enjoyment ! tingfrom the “Times ” office to doctoreddespatches THOMASBURKE. sentacross the cables byLord Milner. The terrible cost of cablingwas the one obstacle to a rapidcor- rection of the many falsedocuments and statements The Great Cable Scandal. transmitted across the wires. How this disastrous state I. of things waspossible will be understood when one learns WE wonder how many readers of THENEW AGE know thatthe Directors of the African Trans-Continental that the means of communication between Great Britain TelegraphCompany are Sir Julius Wernher, Mr. andher Colonies are in thehands of a ring of cable RochefortMaguire, and Mr. S. Neumann,who were companies. Mr. J.Henniker Heaton, M. P., has ren- all engaged in the Jameson intrigues. deredenormous services to the cause of cheappostal Another most alarming feature of the tactics of the facilities ; but his fight against the wealthy- cable cor- CableCompanies isthis. At a time of a political porations will be a morevaluable service, in the end, scare,such as thenaval panic,misleading summar’es to the public interest than his previous postal successes. of Englishstatesmen’s speeches are wired acrossthe The“Times ” andother leading newspapers of this seas, andthe Colonies are misled intoacting on mis- country have recorded the progress of his campaign and representations of thetrue circumstances. In New thenumerous converts he is winning to the ideaof Zealand,Canada, and Australia there is a mostbitter nationalisation of the cables. Mr. HennikerHeaton controversyproceeding over the promised Colonial is “a red-hotSocialist ” onthis matter. Yet, though “Dreadnoughts,” as the home papers, which have now there are many conversions to record, the Cable Trust, reached the Colonies, haveconvinced the Colonials assisted by Messrs. Wernher, Beit and Co., whostill that the scare was simply a Tory party dodge, partially control a large part of the Press of South Africa, has helped on by Mr. Asquithin his anxiety to avoid a effectually prevented a substantial victory. nasty division onthe economistamendment tothe In a fewdays the Imperial Press Conference isto NavalEstimates. Hence, Imperialism is at a consider- meet. The most important topic for discussion by that ablediscount in the Colonieswhich have offered Conference should be the cheapening of the cable rates “Dreadnoughts.”These cries of “Wolf ! Wolf ! ” between England,India, and the Colonies. Unfortu- will producethe disaster which is recorded in the old nately, the Conference has been captured by a disgrace- fable, and when England is in dire need at some sudden ful series of manœuvres, in which corruption has played emergency, the Colonies will turn a deaf ear, lest they a prominentpart. The Conference will discussthe be fooled again. Army, theNavy, and the Empire ; but a tremendous We now turnto the CableCompanies themselves, effort will be made to divert any debate on penny a word An examination of their Boards of Directors points to cablegrams. the existence in our midst of a Trust in interchange of “One of themost magnificent dinners ever orga- thought. As Mr. HennikerHeaton has put it, “Elec- nised ” is a description of the banquet to be given to tricity has been appropriated by a long-headed ‘ trust,’. thedelegates of theImperial Press Conference at the just as whisky, beer, and other good things have been White Cityon June5th. In fact, the dinner is one appropriated.” He points out : “Some capitalists would move in a cleverlyengineered game of theEastern be gladto have the rate 20s. aword in orderto kill ExtensionTelegraph Company, and other cable com- thecompetition of poorer men.” On a laterpage in panies, toavert a threateningdanger by hospitality. hispamphlet he puts the position stiIl moreforcibly : The devicesby which independentjournalists and Notonly are low postal and cable ratesessential to pressmen have been kept away from the Conference are theexistence of theEmpire as a federation of shocking to honest men. LordBurnham and Lord 400,000,000 of men, butthey are as urgently needed Northcliffe were two menwho saw that no dangerous in theinterests of thecommerce which supports this elements were introduced amongst the delegates. Very vast section of humanity...... Ithas been stated few real pressmen from the Colonies, or anywhere else, on goodauthority that out of IOO messagessent to areattending this precious “ Press Conference.” Englandfrom the Colonies, 99 are commercial tele- Taking a section sf theAustralian delegates, out of grams, and only one relates to family or private affairs. a party of seven five are managing proprietors and two As a matter of fact, the cable that girdles the earth is of only are editors ; none are ordinary journalists. A party no more use to the masses of the King’s subjects than of fourfrom NewZealand consists of twomanaging it would be if they resided on another planet. directorsand two editors ; again no working journal- C. H, NORMAN, ists. These men representthe _wealthy newspapers, (To be concluded.) 112 THE new AGE JUNE 3, I909

The basis of the whole scheme of reform is to be a Labour Exchanges. system of labour registers covering the whole country. THEREis one broad distinction between the two parts Theexact duty of these offices issummed up tersely of the MinorityReport. Thepart which dealswith ‘in the Commissioners’ words : “The function of the NationalLabour Exchange should benot only (a) to thetreatment of the “ Non-Able-Bodied ” suggests reformswhich would, fact,in revolutionise the ascertain and report the surplus or shortage of labour social structure of thiscountry ; yet,nevertheless, of particularkinds, at particular places ; and (S) to the detailedproposals are notrevolutionary in the diminish the time and energy now spent in looking for sense of introducing newmachinery into our public work,and the consequent “leakage ” between jobs ; administration. The abolition of theGeneral Work- butalso (c) so to“dovetail ” casualand seasonal houseis a drasticmeasure, we agree. But, after all, employments as to arrange for practicalcontinuity of theproposed alternative is not to besome entirely work for those now -chronically under-employed,.” originalinstitution or institutions which will appear It will be seen that the first part of this duty is not forthe firsttime in oursystem of government..On in itself a very great step.Even the interchange of the contrary, the Minority Commissioners propose that applications which will be possiblebetween all the offices whenthey are linked togetherthroughout the theinmates of thepresent workhouses and the re- country, will notabsorb all the unemployed in a cipients of outdoor relief shallbe merely transferred, market whichis admitted, byall, to be too small for for the most part, to the care of public institutions and theapplicants. But this registration of the unem- publiccommittees which arealready inactive opera- ployed will havean indirectvalue, even though the tion. For example, totransfer a manfrom the Poor direct effect will not be the supply of work. When we Law Infirmary to the Municipal Hospital is not revolu- have an official register of all the work which is avail- tion in any scientific sense of that term-however much able in the country, then it will be possible at last to give a conclusive answer to that nervousperson who it mayseem like gory revoltin the eyes of thepre- thinks he, or she, byundeserved relief maybe upset- historic disciples of the Charity Organisation Society. ting the arrangements of the goddess that handles the It is this happy transfer of the Poor Law population scales of Justice. That everlastingquestion : “HOW fromthe workhouse tothe existing municipal or do we know that this man is not shirking work ; how countycare,. without the- trouble of buildingentirely canwe be certain that he could notget work if he CHOSE ; ” will be answerablewith all practical cer- newmachinery, which is one .of the great virtues of tainty when there is an official register which contains theMinority Repart. They do not suggest that we every applicant, whether employer or employed,which shouldmove from the known to the unknown ; they theextensive official machinerycan reach. Whenthe merely propose to go from Guardians who have proved Labour Exchange reports that “no work can be found that theycannot do theirwork satisfactorily, to forthis man over the whole of England,”then even Municipalitieswhich are alreadydoing similar work thesternest .of CharityOrganisers will admitthat Mercy is a virtuouslady as well as her .companion with comparative success. who holds the scales of Justice. But when the Minorityreach the problem of the Butbesides this indirect effect of theExchange .as unemployed able-bodied person,then they are com- a rea1 substitute for thesham workhousetest, the pelled to tell the bare truth that there is not in exist- enormous direct effect which will follow if it organises ence any public machinery which can help to solve the casuallabour, makes it, perhaps, the most important. difficulties Something on entirely new lines is wanted ; recommendation in theReport. The Minority say that that is, if it is possible to call any development entirely it is necessary to make it compulsory that in scheduled trades,where the contract of employment is forless new in -a world which has been indiscreetly founded on thanone month’s engagement, such contract shall be the principles of orderly growth. At least in any prac- mad.e throughthe Public Exchange alone. Inother ticalsense, the Minority proposals onthe subject of words,intrades where CASUAL labourprevails all th,e Unemployed are a recommendation for the creation labourcontracts must be so far underthe control of of administrative machinery which at present is not in the public authorities that they may be able to Sort the existence. work out in such a manner that the men employed get continuous work, and the surplus hands are taken out There is, certainly, the machinery which was set up of theovercharged market. It isalmost impossible to by the Unemployed Workmen’s Act of 1905 ; or, exaggeratethe beneficial effects thatmust follow the rather,there is the proposal contained in that Act, a elimination of casuallabour. Suffice it to point out proposalwhich a sluggishGovernment has instructed thatitisthe beginning of thatorganisation of its LocalGovernment Board officials not to enforcein industrywhich theis Socialist goal. Thecasual practice. As theCommissioners point out, the Unem- laboureris the stumbling block in the way of all organisationand reform. He is-evasive, an unknown ployed Committees of the County and Borough quantity, as it were. Councils have not been formed over the whole country, Beyond thesetwo immediate. results which will as the Act provided. Butthe MinorityCommissioners follow a properly-managedLabour Exchange, itis, makethe fundamental objection thatthe problem of further,the basis of allreform of the unemployed the unemployed cannotbe solved onthe municipal problembecause it will supply thestatistics by which scale ; itcan only bedealt with by thenation as a to decide further developments. For,be it remem- whole, acting by the machinery of a special central bered, the LabourExchange will findwork forvery few ; indeed, in process of rearrangingthe casual department of State.The organisation of labourhas labourmarket, it will even throw men out of work. longovergrown the boundaries of a county or a Its function will be to bring the varied aspects of the borough ; wehave outgrown, for good or evil, the problem withinmeasurable bounds. Whenhasit Iocal marketto the nationalone, not to mention the made all possible exchanges, when it has made casual international one to.which the Tariff Reformer is quite labourinto whole-time labour,then there will remain naturallycalling our attention. But keeping for the on its books a list of unemployed menand women. It presentwithin our national boundary, the Minority is with its treatment of these surplus persons that the Central Department for Labour will start its real work. Reportproposes that the burden of the unemployed The proposalsfor the sorting out of thissurplus ‘shall betaken off the localshoulders and the local and the effective treatment of each class, form the con- rates, and transferred entirely to a new central Labour structivepart of the Minority Reporton Unemploy- Ministry financed by Treasury money. ment, G. R. S. TAYLOR. JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW -AGE 113

Socialism for Employers. covered a remedy. And one of thesevery evils arises from the fact, which even Sir Christopher Furness will SIR CHRISTOPHERFURNESS has lately been complaining admit, that not one-half alone of oür employers are men that one; effect of the Socialist propaganda has been a without a generous measure of the qualities of imagina- decline .inthe status of theindustrial employer. tion, foresight, and administration, but that the majority Whereas, he says, until recent years capable and enter- of our employers are without any appreciable measure prisingemployers were regarded as prop,properer objectsof. at all of thesedesirable qualities. After all, a nation national pride, they are now treated, owing to Socialist containing a great manySir Christopher Furnesses propaganda,not merely assubjects of derision and would be a very great industrial nation. The fact that contumely,but as people for whom the world has no SirChristopher Furnesses are few and incapable em- longer any use. In consequence, a considerable section ployers are many is the very evil from which our country of small investors have become chary of investing their industrially suffers. capital in industrial-enterprises, and hence a partat There being,by common consent, a great many in- least of -the prevailing trade depression. competent,unimaginative, and stupid employers, the Now we are willing toadmit that there is a great problem arises : what is to be done both with them and deal of truth in Sir Christopher Furness’s observations. with the men whomthey necessarily misemploy? To the blame, .and. also to the credit, of the Socialist Plainlyit isnot good for a nation that its employers movementsuch a confusion of the employerwith the shouldbe worthless dolts,. incapable of organising capitalisthas undoubtedlybeen brought about by our labour and capital. Nor is it good for a nation that its propaganda.The credit lies in thefact that an im- labourers shouldbe allowed tobe employed bysuch pression has actually been made by all our preaching : men. It merely brutalises a fool to place him, by virtue the blame lies in the fact that our preaching has been. of having a little capital, in the position of misemploying misunderstood. For this we have, after all, nobody but a number of men ; andit is a stupidwaste of good ourselves tothank. At least, we shallblame nobody labouring men to compel them to work for incompetent for it. fools. For the actual intention of Socialists, whatever may Yet, as everybody will admit, there are notenough be theirpower of expression,is really to produce the first-rate, or even second-rate, employers to go round. very contrary opinion tothat which Sir Christopher A first-rateemployer, that is, a manpossessing in Furnesssays we have produced. The verylast thing generousmeasure the qualities of imagination, fore- sight, and administration, can always get enough men in our minds to do is to hold up to derision and con- to work for him- (if he has capital), and not -only will tumely the industrial organisers and capable employers, theywork for him, but they will work well and will- whoseservices we freely admit tobe indispensable ingly. We rightlysuspect a mistress of stupiditywho under ,anystate of Society. Everythingthat Sir isperpetually dismissing orquarrelling with her ser- ChristopherFurness says of suchmen as we .have in vants ; and we are right to charge with incompetence our minds we heartily endorse ; men, as he says, pos- the employerwho perpetually complains of his men. sessing in generousmeasure the qualities of imagina- Men generally’ (there are, of course,exceptions) work well and willingly for a good employer, and badly and tion, foresight,and administration, and the ability to unwillingly for a bademployer. Inshort, gooda employ and directcapital. We notonly donot deny employer is alwayssure of gettingan abundance of or underrate or despise the qualities of such men ; we good men, the pick .of the labour-market. not only do notwish to prevent theirhandling of as Plainly then, we are not, as Socialists,concerned much capitaland labour as withsuch great qualities directly with the good employer ; but we are concerned they canmasterfully and efficiently control ; but we withthe bad employer. And thebad employer is in a majority, both in this country and, as far aswe can see, positively claim for them praise in the highest possible in allthe European countries as well. Weare con- measure, andthe fullest possiblescope fortheir rare cernedwith him because, in the first.place, he isthe gifts of organisationand personal inspiration. Still enemy of his men, treating them in the worst possible further, we must emphatically admit that without such way,and extracting from them the minimum of good men our Socialist state, when itcomes, will be an work atthe maximum of socialcost in healthand happiness ; in the second place, because he is the enemy edifice no ’ moredurable than lath and plaster. We of the good employer, being always ready to adulterate would not give a year’s purchase for the State, what- his wares, to sell any old rubbish as sound goods, and ever nameit callitself, that did notrecognise the toscrew down instead of upthe general quality and supreme industrial importance of capable organisers of honesty of his products, thereby forcing often the good labour, andmake that recognition real by employing employer either to follow suit or to lose his trade ; and them. in the third place because it is to him, and him alone, Holdingsuch views of theimportance and value of that the wholemodern chaos of capitalism is actually the capable employer of labour, it is hard that Social- due. On his wretched head, falls the onus of the indus- trialdevilry that now prevails ; forthe failure of the ists by theirpropaganda should have succeeded in employer is the opportunity of the capitalist. conveyingthe veryopposite impression. Whatis the Weare notdealing, however, with the capitalists cause ? just now but with the employers as they exist in fact The first cause of confusion is the obvious fact that as well as in Sir Christopher Furness’s eloquent descrip- there are employers and employers. By nomeans all tion. Letit be understood that noSocialist worth a employers are“men possessingin generous measure moment’s attention has a word to say against the good employer. It may be, and we sadly confess it, that the the qualities of imagination, foresight, and administra- goodemployer will be involved in thefate, as he has tion.” Nappy, indeed, would Englandbe if only half toooften involved himself in thefortunes, of thebad heremployers were men ofthis type. Itis strictly employer. It maybe thatthe wheat will bealso conceivable that had even half the number of employers gathered in the time of the cutting down of the tares. been men possessing in generous measure the qualities The point isthat Socialists have no quarrelwith the of imagination(to go no further), the Socialist propa- goodemployers. Theirquarrel and, as we have said, ganda would neverhave arisen. Socialists are not the quarrel of the men, the quarrel of Society, and (if hebe wise) thequarrel of the good employer himself wickedly wilful revolutionaries, intent, on creating evils is solely and entirely with the incapable, the unimagina- that-do not exist ; they are merely people who point out tive., themaladministering, the bad employer. an existing evil for which they. believe they -have dis- R. M. 114 THE NEW AGE 3, 1909 JUNE ~~-

abstractions.Like Mr. Nevinson himself, they “can The Accomplished Fighter .* formno vivid conception of. Freedom.”These words, Mr. Nevinson, could stand as the creed of most, members THEPublic Health Act of 1875 enumerated as offensive of the Fabian Executive : “To me the word (Freedom) trades those of a blood-boiler, bone-boiler,tripe-boiler, conveysnothing as a NaturalRight, nothing asan soapboiier, tallow-melter, andfellmonger. Without abstract idea, and nothing as a symbolicwoman with thewritten consent of the LocalAuthority no one is wingsblowing a trumpet into the ears of marblecap- allowed toset up anew one of thesetrades. Whilst tives,decoratively asleep in chains. I havelearnt the the establishment of so many new blood-boilers within reality of thething onlyfrom the misery of its oppo- recent years in the heart of our city shows how corrupt site.” Inthe last number of the“Fabian News ” a these local bodies are,journalism is savedfrom being Minority Report is calleda typical Fabiandocument always regarded as an offensive trade within the mean- because “it containedscarcely a reference toany ab- ing of the Act, by journalistslike Mr. Nevinsonand stract principle of justice or humanity. It said nothing Mr. W Massingham, to whom this book is dedicated. of liberty orfraternity or equality.” Obviously Mr. Mr.Nevinson not only believes inFreedom’s cause Nevinson is a Fabian all the time without knowing it. .ez furaway as Paris is-and hisParis comprises But is the eighteenth century to stand for naught in Greece,Macedonia, Russia, Angola, India-but he has our human affairs ; are, the. Natural Rights that century not forgotten that our need of it is no less urgent. “ If we would keep our love of freedom we can never settle rediscovered for man to be putaside as meaningless down,” says Mr. Nevinson ; it is pleasant to think that verbiage? Shall we never be able to say in very -truth.: “All men are bornfree andequal ” ? Mr. Nevinson if any of us are in that mood Mr. Nevinson is now admits that he has seen men fighting for those abstrac- amidst us, goading us persistently on by voice and pen, ‘tions which to him seem so full of difficulty-abstrac- bidding us rememberthat “thebattle of freedomis never doen and the field neverquiet.” I like to think tions which formost men are as real, as appealing; that he is now chained here by the discovery that the as the food they lack, the houses they might dwell in. centre of that battlefield ishere in England,and not It may be very stupid of people to allow themselves to be hacked to pieces for an abstraction ; I have seen men in thestray corners of theearth where he has won and women and children butchered‘ in an attempt to get his spurs. Our need is indeed greater than theirs, pre- what they consideredJustice butthe positionis, cisely because we are becomesleek and comfortable- “People do these things.” Isaiah foundthe abyss had onlyventing an occasional growl when ,attentionis been reached in the city where “None calleth .for .justice, directed toour money-bags. Whilstas Mr.Nevinson nor. anypleadeth for truth.” Without these abstrac- tells us of Russia : “Here at allevents were Liberals tionsto guide us our daily way would be indeed a who contemplated no compromise, no understanding or tortuous and tortured path. agreement with the enemy of freedom. Herewere peoplewho, under stress of danger for the noblest of We have exchanged our beliefin justice and liberty human causes, had entered into the joy of community. for a belief in soap and candIes. For these, writes Mr.. With all their imprisonment, and exile, and murder, the Nevinson, “we inducethe kroo boys of Liberia to Government had not .put out the old fire of liberty.” migrate to and fro with the variegated boxes they love. I read Mr. Nevinson’stribute to the Russian revo- Forthis we send out a punitive expedition when the lutionistsjust after a stirring account of the Royal weather cools, and propagate true religion by smashing up a juju. . Soapand candles cost something beside Derby on the placards of London’s papers.. “ Unprece- dentedScenes.” “The NationalAnthem sung.” And the pence. Are theyworth the extra-dash?” I need my paper glows with the description of “the broiling, not tell readers what is Mr. Nevinson’s answer to this restlessmass of excitedpeople, cheeringKing and question in abstract economics. colt,” whilst “theKing stoodradiant withvictory in A goodly number of these, exhilarating essays trend the Royal Box.” Mr. Nevinson, as befits a democrat, does towards literature and the drama, althoughMr. Nevinson not omit a sketch of “ His First Derby”-his companion would have us believe that‘he is littleinterested in being Mr. Clarkson of the Education Office, “who finds literaturethat is notdirectly related toordinary life. on reaching the Downs that he rather likes it.” “I feel (This would exclude nearly the-whole newspaper world.) like Faust among the Easter crowd. Here I am man ; But is not thisrather the reflection of the traveller here we may be human. This is the true democracy.” bound tothe pavemented streets of the city? Here in Mr. Clarkson, I fear, must have been a verypleasant London,where books .and men abound, I seldom find companion.Asked by hiscabby if therace was a anurgent need forreading ; in lonely pilgrimages, goodone, he replied : “ I thinkit might be called a where. one rode on day after day for weeks together, goodrace. A lightbrown horse was very nearly, amid the ever-varying scenery of the Andes, I can recall overtaken by a dark brown. horse. In fact,I thought that a sniff of the British Museum Reading Room was it wouId be beaten.” oftentimesinmy nostrils. Anyway, Mr. Nevinson Thissomewhat contemptuous attitude towards our writeswith charm and clarity of books,both old and great nationalsport reminds me of theShah’s reply new, and of book-makers. Takethis of William : “ when urged to go to the Derby : “ It is already known Morris He was in his very essence a happy man, and to me that one horse can go faster than another horse.” he would have so much liked all‘men and women The excitement of horse-racing has made me gallop to be as happy as himself, but they evidently were not. awayinto the middle of Mr. Nevinson’sbook, whilst Joy in Labourwas for him thefirst necessity of life, I really wanted to say something about his chapter of and as he was always an artist and always rich, it came ‘dedication. “ I am filled,” hewrites, “with a wonder- to himself quitenaturally. . . . . Thedegradation and ing admiration for all Socialists and advocates of work- joylessness of the- working people haunted him ; they ing men. . . . But I find itimpossible to attach myself drove him to personalsacrifices in scenes that he ab- to Fabians ,or ‘Social Democrats, or any other of their horred ; they forced him to gospels of equality when all parties,because they move like fixed stars in planes his nature as artist cried aloud for variety of life. But of,abstract law far above my head, and I cannot keep perhaps more than by the misery of the world, he was up to their discourses upon the Proletariat and economic haunted by the common death.”In my recollection, environment,when my mind is entirely occupied with Morris certainly always looked an intensely happy man, visions of people I know in Shadwell getting up before andIthink hehad a vision ofequality in material daylight from crowded beds,. living on disgusting bits things with yet an infinitive varietyin life. of food. . . . .” HereMr, Nevinsonsurely falls into Mr. Nevinson’shumour has such a pleasingquality thatabstraction which heclaims he cannot conceive. that I maynot end without a short example. Itis This view of the Fabians is surely a pure concept with when Mr. Clarksontakes a wintertrip to an Alpine no relation to realities. To me it seems just one of the village for his first ski. demerits of theFabians that they do never get away “Corningin just for the end of the déjeuner, Mr. from the people in Shadwell,living on disgusting bits Clarkson found long rows of English people at one table of food. The Fabians will have nothing to do with the and long rows of foreigners at another. To Mr. Clark- * “Essays in Freedom.” By Henry W. Nevinson, (Duck- son they looked likeAnatole France’sPenguins soon worth and Co.). after their conversation. JUNE 3s 1909 THE NEW AGE 115

“ ‘ I think, after all, this is the most beautiful valley of undistinguishable pauperism that lives on the fringe in, the Alps,’ said Mr.Clarkson, to break the ice to the of Society. female Penguinnext him. That’s all ! Oh, I knowthe moralist will talk. He ‘“ Notsuch good ,toboganning as in theRhine will say men ought not to marry on thirty-bob-a-week. Valley,”, she said. That theyshould buy their furniture beforehand. That “ ‘ Don’t f,eed ,you so well, either,’ said a male from theyshould not buyclothes until they have ready the opposite side. ” money. That theyshould put by for a rainyday ; Male and female, both of this and the opposite side, forsooth,the days are always rainy ! But all these will all find much to delight them in these’ essays, and moralisations are prompted by the ‘same ignorance that I hopesome thingsto dislike I could occasionally I think is sometimesshared by some of yourbrillant quarrelwith Mr.Nevinson, but mostly I offer thanks writers.They cannot think inshillings and pennies ; that I havehim on my side. M. D. EDER. they only think in pounds. I know they will grunt, “Rot ! We’ve gone through it ! We’ve spent our last bob !” Yes, ye pen and ink *‘Thirty Bob a -Week.” swashbucklers, you have sometimes spent the last bit of familyplate at Mooney’s ; butyour penury and even MR. WILLIAMBROWN is a warehouseman, a labourer, occasional hunger isa very different thing from theever- or .a clerk. He is a very well paid one. He gets “his presentworry of Mr. and Mrs.Brown of 13, Mean thirty-bob-a-week.” “ ClaraJenkins that was ” is his Street, in makingthirty bob go as far as sixty. It is wife,now of course Mrs.Brown, Before she married a worryall of its own. A mean,sordid tragedy that has yet to be understood by many of those who well- himshe worked ina factory or office. She can no more meaningly spend their time in advanced circles. cook food or ‘keep house than pigs can fly. Amy, Jim, I don’t wish to point a moral. I justwrite the and Clara, .in the order named, are the .offspring, aged plain,blunt facts of how theBrowns, the Robinsons, 7, 5,. and 3 respectively. Let megive you the weekly andthe Whites try to live. ERNESTE. HUNTER. balance sheet of this household : Wages; £1 to O Rent ...... 6 O Fares ...... 3 O The Chimney. Hire of Furniture ... 3 O Tallymen: B O O t s, . THEtall chimney stands black against the sunset, the clothes,etc. ... 30 sunsetthat is a dim crimsondistance. At its base, to Insurance ...... I O Mn Brown’s Pocket which a spreading ivy clings, there is a splash of green. Money ...... 2 6 At itstop, from which thereescapes a thinbrown Food for Family of smoke,there is a gathering of blacksoot. Swallows Five ...... II 6 trace swift, graceful curves of flight in the golden air £1 IO O £1 10 O that bathes it, air that ‘is warm with sun. But that balance sheet is not quite correct. There are There is the thought of peace. severalitems which no self-respecting man could put Butwhy do I think of a graveyard,and of a tall down. Last time he was out-of-work there was a loan memorialcolumn unto the dead?-or of one of those‘ from a money-lender, which Mr. Brown must pay back shaftsthat mark where the anonymous and defeated at 5s per week to all eternity. Then the bread bill and slain soldiers of a desolating battle lie heaped together ? the milk bill ran up, andhe must pay something off And the sooty top of the chimney-it seems to me as that every Saturday ; and so really he has nothing left a frown upon the pale brow of the dying day. at allon Monday night, and very little after Monday The tall chimney stands black against the sunset. mid-day. The frown it wears is enigmatic. Mrs. Brownalways washes onMonday morning, SO On a daywhen they were building this chimney a thatshe can take the clean articlesto the nearest man was killed. He fell fromthe high scaffolding- pawnshop. Onemust have something to live on. The wasit sixty feet or seventy? He did notlook like a next Saturdayshe must redeemthese. It will be man whenthey picked him up-he was a ragpicker’s readily understood that in time it requires the ingenuity distortedbag. .... And thebag was stained. of the cleverest of financiers to buy anything on Satur- (Ah ! do nottremble so, dearfriend, they are red day at all. bricks, you see.) PresentlyMr. Brown loses his work. By thistime Around andabout the chimneycluster thefactory not only the linen articleshave beenpawned every buildings-like untothe crowd at the feet of a great week, but also Mr. Brown’s best suit and the children’s orator.The windowsglisten in red and gold ; the Sunday clothes The first Monday out-of-work all these driving machinery shakes the air ; curious odours float‘ things are pawned again, and they are never redeemed. toward you ; there is a smell of chemicals. This Mr. and Mrs. Brown are going down. factory belongs to one of the “dangerous industries.” The next week there is nothing to pawn. The land- There are placards posted by the thoughtful Board of lord wants-his rent. The furniture canvasser wants his Health ; and accompanyingthe machinery, and .the hire money. The tallymanwants hisdue. The family strange, deadly smells, and the corrosive chemicals are want food; Mr. Smith-Jones, the relieving officer, lives two. hundred men, women, and children ; two hundred round the corner.Mrs. Brown pays him a visit. The who are dying. Browns ,arelower down. As you say, friend, we are all dying daily--but some The relieving officer asks a thousandand one of us die faster than others. questions Is Mrs.Brown married? Has she got her The tallchimney stands black againstthe sunset. marriage lines 3 .Mrs., Brown wants to clawhis face, It is very black--or has the last daylight faded? butshe dare not. Shegets an order for ,one ,whole How strange the shadow that is .cast by it, and by shillingsworth of food,, and Mr. Smith-Jones says that the heavy smoke that bendsfrom its top at this the family .must go into the house. moment. .... The Browns show fight. Remorselessly their enemies Do you seethe semblance of a scythe? ....and çlose around them. Thelandlord distrains. The hire look; look,, it creeps, towards us ! firm arrives to divide the spoils. ,. . , . (Ah ! do nottremble so, dearfriend, it _is!but. Thedoors of theHouse open, and they close upon the Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Amy, Jim, andClara, and one shadow, and the night, that comes !) more family becomes merged for ever in that vast mass MICHAEL Williams 116 THE NEW AGE JUNE 3, 1909

kind. You are sublimedin being because each one of Bishop and Bagman. YOU has reckoned himself as.nothing incomparison with the will, the purpose, that this day over-arches us. ALTHOUGH,as I have said in’ a former frank communi- For that purpose hunger, fatigue, wounds, and lingering cation to THENEW AGE, I am a religious-minded man, death can be bornecheerfully ; lending yourselves to that andtherefore bound by thestrict point of honour, will you become unconsciously an example to every citi- never to enter a church or a chapel, yet it has been a zen. When all men shall haveattained to your clear- lifelong persuasion with me that nature cut me out and ness of vision, and all men shallhave resolved upon intended me for a parson. In my infancy and boyhood yourfirmness of action,I perceive the coming the Icarried every mark of predestination to a religious of Golden Age, I perceive theadvent of a glorified ministryamong the Nonconformists. But, alas ! the Humanity ! ” firsthopeful promise of priggeryand fervour which excited thehighest anticipations among my relatives Rapt inthese thoughts and emotions, as I gesticu- lated(not without damage to my portfolio) upon the passed away, and was beheld to be but a glamour when pavement before the church, I was aware of a ’curious it was realised that I could never acquire that perfection crowd that ha,d collected around me. Presence of mind ofself-importance and dissimulation which is the pre- was never yetwanting to me ‘inan emergency. requisite in-the present day of any solid success in the I opened my portfolio and whipped out certain patriotic sacredprofession. Nature,in fact, had omitted to en- and military engravings for which the sale has some- dow my unmistakabletalent for religious-mindedness what slackened since the raising of the income-tax, fol- with the supplementary gifts necessary to clear the path lowing upon thecessation of the Boer War. Upon forit, and when thisbecame no longer a matter of these engravings I expatiated in a manner I have often uncertainty, I rallied together crestfallen what inferior found effective. “TheCharge of the Black Guards,” aptitudes for self-conceit and seeming could still not be “Britain’sBrave Boys,’’ andother former favourites denied to me, and set to workwith my faceturned experienceda return of popularity,and if I managed towards my present means of livelihood. As a commer- there and then to work off a few trifles of flotsam and cial travellerj venturing with merchandise in the sacred jetsam which had begun to encumber my portfolio, that name of Art, I am a success, although I do not wish to is surely my business, andnone of the reader’s. boast ; butit irks me still that I am debarredfrom I was still thinking of thesermon when I entered following the vocation to which by everytoken I was- a railway carriage to geton to my next place of appoint- appointed. ment. Depositing my portfolio upon theseat beside It was necessary to enter into this amount of explana- me, I looked round to take stock of my fellow-travellers. tion, since I wanted the reader to be enabled to sympa- There, to my astonishment-unmistakably-it could be thiseintelligently with the feelings which took me by noneother-sat theSuffragan Bishop ! Irubbed my storm the other day, when in. the large manufacturing eyes to be sure that here was no hallucination. I went town of S-- (after conducting many favourable nego- overand over incareful order the manifestations of tiations with my portfolio) I stood outside a church door theincredible apparition before me--the heavyblack andread upon a posterthe announcement that the dress, the heavy black hat, the massive gold chain, the annual church parade of the S--shire Mounted Ter- massive gold ring clasping a ruby about a large and fat riers would take place upon the following Sunday, and finger, the heavy countenance seamed and yellowed, the that the annual sermon would be preached by the Right eyes that lackedlustre. . . . (Alas, poor Humanity ! If Revd. X. X--, D.D., Suffragan Bishop. (Wasit it were not that you take upon you offices and respon- Right Revd., or VeryRevd., orVery ‘Very Revd?I sibilities,I would notthus unsparingly peer intoyour must Iook this point up.) infirmities !) Here was thevery opportunity for which my heart The Bishop was accompanied by a brother clergyman, andtongue and imagination had beencraving. For who struck me at once as a better sort of fellow. years I hadbeen revolving in my thoughts a sermon “The Mounted Terriersare in training,”remarked to be preached before a congregation of soldiers setting theBishop to hiscompanion. “I have been up tothe out for the theatre of war. The magnificent heroism of camp,and I’ve got to go again. And there’sthe men in such a situation, their open adoption of the prin- annualsermon I’ve got to preach on Sunday.” ciple of self-sacrifice, the social and personal significance “Yes,” said the clergyman. of theiract-whether they were drunkor not in the “I wondered if you could give me a few suggestions moment of their parting-uplifted me, and caused every . . . . a fewtopics .- . . . illustrations? ” wheel in my -brainto go round. By theappropriation The clergyman thought for a while. “There’s some- of vicariousmerits myself. became a soldier-by thing about soldiers,’’he said at length, “in Ruskin’s entrance, shall I say, into the common mind?-and my “ Unto This Last ’.” tongue thrilled in transports of inspired articulation. The Bishopassumed an aspect of meditation,and “Men in arms,” I spoke in penetrating tones to the -atthe first wayside stopping place theclergyman left assembled ranks before me, “I find it a wonderful, an the carraige adorable thing, that you are here gathered with weapons I Iwas alone with theSuffragan Bishop! My heart in your hands, not for an idle show of force, but with was on fire. Should I afford the Bishop the help I could determinationto achieve the thing that .you desire, or give him? Should I preach to him my sermon? Should I offer to lend him thesuggested volume ? ShouldI to die in endeavouring for it. You thus assert the full inform him that if there was in truth a Bishop in our prerogative of yourmanhood. Proudin, your might, company, -it was not he, it was I, Holbein Bagman? My pou are confident that might is right, and you are going pulse beat tremulously, but I dared not open my mouth. firmly forwardto execute your faith upon the enemy. I fumbled with my portfolio; a sign of returning cour- No bosom among you but swells with the full-fraught age. . . . . The Bishopplunged his hand into the feelings of consecration. For what to you is life, if the voluminous recesses of. his coat-tails, drew out a penny domestic. magazine, Fireside Tittle-Tattle,” and began you have resolved that it shall be ? ‘‘ future.be not what toread complacently. I gazed upon him spell-bound And what to YOU is death, if you can die setting your anew in the silence of stupefaction as far as thetown seal upon thefuture? I count you morethan men : I of Y--, where we both alighted together. see in YOU the embodied spirit of your country--of man- HOLBEINBAGMAN, JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW AGE 117

journey. It seemed to put more vigour into his legs ; The Noah’s Ark. andhis shuffled quickened to a steadytwo and a half miles an hour.. He wentalong with his glowing By Edgar Jepson. imagination fixed onthe Christmas-eve festivities the CHRISTMASEVE was of thereal old-fashioned kind. sixpence would bring to his little Poplar home. The air was frosty and bracing ; there were little heaps Heturned but a careless eye on St. Paul’s as he went of snowin the gutters ; andthere was snow on the by. For though on occasion he could have been God’s roofs. Thesun was setting in a red sky, a grateful Englishman with the best of them, this was not anocca- promise of a real,old-fashioned ChristmasDay. But sion on which their national greatness was very promi- as John Bright came along Pall Mall, he felt dimly that nent in his mind ;and his heartdid not appreciably swell he couldhave done with weather of a less real old- at the sight of that admirable monument of it. He had fashioned Christmas kind ; indeed, he could have stood half a thought that it would help him home quicker to very well thegreen Christmas which makes a full go inside and get a little warmer ; but the quick reflec- churchyard-a muggyChristmas with a south-west tion that his fellow-Episcopalians in the Cathedral would wind. hardly bestow glances of warm welcome on him in his It must not be supposed, however, that John Bright ragged condition, checked him ;and he shuffled on. He was really cold. His blue handswere perhaps rather did not draw the comfort that might havebeen expected numb. Butthe glad tidings, that newspapers keep fromthe nourishing, greasy smell .of therestaurants you warm, have spread even to Poplar in East London ; andcookshops he passed. It seemed ratherto excite and thère was a warm layer of newspaper between his discontent in his stomach. raggedjacket and raggeder shirt. Moreover, though By the time he reached the end of theWhitechapel perhaps it may be hardlydelicate to mention the fact, his Roadthe invigorating glow fromthe silveryfeel wife had also lined his ragged trousers with newspaper. of the sixpencehad tosome degree faded ; andthe It is true that his boots were incomplete ; but it is an clamour of hisdiscontented stomach was testing irrefutable fact that walking keeps you warm, and he severely the resolvehe hadformed to reach his little Poplar home with the sixpence unbroken, and wait for was walking. He was not walking as briskly a’s’ it is his Christmas-Eve supper till he could enjoy it with his possible to walk,perhaps, for he had been on his feet a wifeand little boy. Heturned, deaf ears to his good many hours. A rumour of work to be had in cen- stomach’sclamour and shuffled on. He couldhave tral London had brought him from Poplar in the morn- wished that the east wind had been less Christmaslike ing. He hadbeen disappointed of thejob, and had andpiercing ; and hehunched hisshoulders together wandered Westward in a vague hope of finding some- in his protective newspaper to get as little of it as he could. Thestars wereshining now with a frosty, thing to do,. and earning a shilling. He had not found Christmas brilliance. He didnot look up at their in- anything to do ; and he had not earned any shilling. spiring radiance ; by no means because he lacked a soul Again, his desire for muggy,. warmer weather did not to soar to the Empyrean, but because he had acquired springfrom ‘the fact that he was starving. He had the habit of walking with his eyes fixed intently on the eaten nearly a pennyworth of bread that morning ; and pavement,in the hope of findingsomething. This prudent habit had often brought him things to eat, bits itwas only four o’clock in the afternoon.Moreover, of bread, the riper half of a banana, or the core of an though he had been one of the pampered unemployed apple-not veryappetising, perhaps, but staying. for eight weeks, he had during that time eaten at least Theywere quite easy to clean when the weather was twelve shillings’ worth of solid food, chiefly bread. No dry. He had a vague dream of finding a splendid half- one could honestly say that John Bright was starving penny. It would haverendered his resolve to reach -rather empty, if you like, but certainly not starving. his little Poplar home with the sixpence unbroken easier to keep. With another halfpenny he would have made It was in Cockspur Street that the gentleman in the shortwork of hisstomach’s clamour. Itwas a fond furcoat gave him the sixpence. JohnBright didnot and foolish dream; the wayfarers along the Whitechapel notice the portly, fur-coated figure. He was not taking and Mile End Roads do not lose a halfpenny. much notice of the scene through which he moved, not Passing Stepney Green, old memories banished for a even of the arresting, splendid motor-cars which rushed while thesense of emptinessand cold. He had lived there in the days of his .affluence, when for eight months gleaming by. He was intent on the business of getting on end he had earned eighteen shillings a week. Those back to hislittle Poplar home. Butthe gentleman in had been days ! Hisheart warmed to the thought of the fur coat was struck by the lack of cheerfulness in them. As hepassed the house in which hehad lived John Bright’s face ; and in a spasm of benevolence, he his great ideacame to him, the idea thatsomething said, “ Hey, my man, you look hungry, here’s sixpence must be done to make Christmas really Christmas for for you.” Henry.Henry was his little boy. A wave of enthu- JohnBright couldhardly believe hisears. He took siasm flooded his being at the thought, and quickened his shuffle to quitte three miles an hour for two hundred thesixpence, mumbling thanks. The gentleman in the and fifty yards. He- ponderedthë :idea in an excite- fur-coat passed on ; and presently the spasm of.. bene- ment. thatbrought him tothe end of the Mile ’ End volence passed too, and his conscience began to prick Road. ;him. He .wasan old-fashioned Whig, a firm believer It was with some relief that in Stratford High Street in the fine old economical doctrine that it is little short he turned off to the right through. a maze-of, streets of a crime togive sixpence to a hungryman in the down to Poplar. He no longerfaced the ‘seasonable street.It pauperises him. The memoryof his rash east wind ; andthe force of the realold-fashioned Christmaswas broken for him. Still,in spite. of .this and thoughtless act kept troubling him now and again advantage,he staggered now and then. He observed throughout the evening. He felt that the spasm of un- with no pleasure that Three Mills river and Channel Sea considering benevolence had made him false to his prin- river were frozen in the mast seasonable fashion. He ciples. He frowned uneasily at the thought of it. was staggering a good deal as he shuffled down Poplar JohnBright, however,little reckingof the qualms High Street. His heart was not so swollenwith glad- with which his thoughtless acceptance of the sixpence ness as itmight havebeen at having finished his journey ; andhis legs showedno little reluctance to was troubling a fellow-creature’s conscience, faced the carry him up the rickety stairs to the top of g, Marl- ’world in quiteanother spirit. The rich,silvery feel of boroughRents. But they did ; andhe came at last sixpencein his tightly-clenched hand, thrust into his intohis little Poplar home. Hehad donethe seven trouserpocket for greater safety,. braced him tohis miles in twenty minutes under the three hours. 118 THE NEW AGE JUNE 3, 1909

The stars, shining through as much of the glass of disappointmenthurried off. Shetook it that hè was the window .as had not been replaced by paper or rags, going to get his glass of beer and his tobacco at once. filled the roomwith a faint glimmer.John Bright Buthe did not go tothe pub.Munching the bread sat down on the floor-it was all there was to sit on- with a’ delicious sense of satisfaction and relief, he made and leant back against the wall. his way to the schoolroom where the vicar had estab- lished theannual toy fair,to which warm-hearted, ‘(Got anything, Jack? ” said a voice from the corner, a faint voice, tremulous with keen anxiety. charitable people send the damaged and broken toys of their children, from all the more comfortable quarters of “ Sixpence,”said John Bright. “Sixpence.” London. The room was full andstrongly scented. For’all his weariness there was a ring of triumph in Some people prefer the scent of pig-sties to the scent of his tone. the Britons of Poplar ; they maintain that it is an airier There was a faint rustling, a match .was struck, and scent : this is purelya matter of taste.John was not a candle-endlighted.. Its light revealed JohnBright’s affected by thescent ; thetoys filled his mind ; he littlePoplar home. Therewas not much to reveal, in- scannedthem with intent, searching eyes, resolved to deed ; the one-candlepower light did therevealing spendthe three halfpence,clutched so tightly in his admirably ; moreillumination would have been otiose. hand, so as to give Henry the greatest delight.Some Inthe corner there was a bed onthe floor ; at least of thetoys were marked as high as a shilling, large there was a small, thin mattress, covered with a blanket toys,and but little damaged. John Bright was not and two sacks. Between the blanket and the sacks was blind to their magnificence ;but he kept his keen atten- a layer of grateful, warming newspapers. Three cups, tion strictly to the toys within his means. He was still abasin, a jug, and two plates stood on the mantel- rather dazed by his long walk ; and he found the effort piece ; .a little saucepan stood ,in the grate, and beside it astrain. Presently his soul washarried by the diffi- a handle-less bedroom jug with water in it. cultyof choosing between a reinless wooden horse, a “’E’s asleep,”said Mrs. John Bright, nodding to- woolly lamb, woolly at least in places, and a Noah’s Ark. wards the bed. At last, after assuring himself that there were quite a Shespoke of HenryBright, their little boy. The number of animals inside it, he bought the Noah’s Ark. light showedher a brightbut white-facedEnglish- On his way home he trod the earth like a conqueror. woman; her eyes were sparkling. They sparkled at the Hefound his wife just awaking Henry, after having thought of thesixpence to spend. Hercontours were madeready his bread and milk-with sugar in it. She not rounded. Indeed,those who were less attached to had used only half the milk and sugar ; the rest were her than John Bright found her of an. unlovely scraggi- being kept for his breakfast. She had added water to ness. He did not ; thoughhe could have wishedher the milk that it might sop as much bread as possible. rounder. As sheput on her shawl, she told him of a John Bright displayed the Noah’s Ark with a trium- great piece of luck which had befallen her that day. phant air. She had followed a carelesslyloaded coal-cart and At thesight of ither face filled with unbelieving brought back in her shawl eleven lumps of coal which amazement, and the tears sprang to her eyes : “Why, if had fallen from it. She had not lighted the fire indeed; that ain’t a little bit of orl raight ! ” she cried. “What- shehad waited to see whether he brought home any ever will ’e sye to it? ” money. If he had not, they might have exchanged the coalwith a wealthierneighbour for some bread. She In her surprise she failed to consider that the three had, however, hopefully laid the fire with three pieces of halfpence must have been spent, and with it has gone coal on it. She lighted what was left of the match she all chance of her enjoying a taste of John’s beer. had used to light the candle, in its flame, and kindled “Arfa mo,” .said John. “Let’sarrynge them so’s the fire. ’e sees ’em all in a lump when ’e wykes.” JohnBright gave her the sixpence, andbade her H,e took theanimals out of the Ark and stood them bring back three halfpence of it. upin aline onthe hearthstone. He did notdo it quickly, because his fingers, still rather bluish, fumbled “ Raight oh,” she said cheerfully. them. The elephant had but three legs, and would not “An’ don’tferget it’s Crismus. The nippur oughter standat all. When hehad finished, they looked at ’ave somethin’ extry-sugar now,” he said. them withpride and admiration. Then Mrs.Bright She nodded brightly, took the jug, and Gent quickly. awoke Henry. She supposed that her husband meant to spend a penny Someparents might have been ashamedto have so on a ,Christmas-Eveglass of ale and a half-penny on small an,d thin a three-year-old child ; the Brights were tobacco. Shewas quite content ; theman, the bread- not. They couldnot have watched him withmore ex- winner, must have his luxuries : it was only fair, She cited,expectant eyes if hehad been of theaverage hoped that when Henry was asleep after supper Henry weight of his age. He disappointedthem. He did not ‘would takeher with him tothe pub., and give her a look atthe Noah’sArk. The smell of the bread and drink out of his glass. The thought of the taste of the milk was too much for him ; he held up both his puny cheery but perhaps rather thin liquor made hermouth handstowards the steaming basin, and whimpered water. for it. When she had gone, John took the c,andle, and going Mrs. Bright took the basin from the mantel-piece, and gingerlyto the side of the bed,stooped down, and sitting down on the floor with Henry in her lap, began looked at Henry. As he did so, his face filled with an to feed him. John Bright cut two slices of bread, filled abandonment of fondnessreally extravagant. Then he two cups with water, and sat down beside her. As they blew out the candle with careful gentleness.so as not to munchedtheir bread, theywatched Henry. Now and blow away any of the hot grease and shorten its life, again they looked up from him to one another with that andsat down before the fire. He wasquite greedy curious, twentieth-century, English look of people whom with it ; he tried to spread himself out, half encircling theworkhouse may anyday sever. Itis a clinging it so as to get the whole of its warmth. look. Presentlyhis wife came back. Her whiteface was Presently the edge was takenoff Henry’s hunger ; and faintly flushed with the joy of spending the fourpence he could givethought to things of the worldoutside halfpenny, and with the thought that Henry would have his stomach. His wandering eyes rested on the line of bread and milk, with sugar in it, for his Christmas-Eve animals, and they opened wider and wider. He pointed supper. Shehad bought three-pennyworth of bread- to them and said, “ Gee-gee.” stale bread, because she got more of it for her money Mr. andMrs. Bright laughed happily. Henrygazed -a pennyworth of milk, and a farthing’sworth of earnestly at the animals during the rest of his supper. sugar. After givingJohn the htree halfpence, she As his father and mother ate, they talked gravely of the would still have a farthingleft for emergencies. She pity of the elephant’s having only three legs. had been sorely tempted to spend it on tea ; but she had But with that appalling shiftlessness which makes it refrained from the extravagance. impossibleto do anythingfor the pampered English Johntook the three halfpence, broke off a crust of unemployed, they neglected to heat the water they were’ bread, said he would soon return, and to his wife’s drinking and make their supper more Christmaslike, JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW AGE 119

Mrs. Heck, however,was already wandering south, in Whited Sepulchres. her unsophisticated mind. She cameback to the ball- room corner with somethinglike a horrified shiver. Ray- By Beatrice Tina. mond Cattle was watching her. CHAPTER VI. “Wouldn’tit be lovely? ” he asked,daringly. But Mrs. MR. CATTLE was at the ball. Nan’s eyes found him almost Heck wasnow ready to be alarmed at anything. She as soon as she entered. He shined more distinguished than retorted, coldly: “Well, why don’t you marry some nice everin his dress-clothes. Nan began to wish she had not girl and go ? “ rouged. There was no need of it now, for the colour burned ((Never-never. You to advise mesuch a thing!. Do up in her cheeks so that she, had to pretend something had you think I am the man to marry where. I do not love ? ” gone wrong with thesetting of her chair. Her chaperone “ But why shouldn’t you love ? “ and Raymond were conversing when she turned round again. “Because my love is given where I hope it must rest, The gentleman bowed, and said: rewarded or unrewarded. Mrs. Heck, I may be a bitslack in religious matters, but I shall be true to my heart.” “Mrs. Wales, will you help me persuade. Mrs. Heck to He had the expressive eyes of all his type, and he showed dance? I’m sure it is her duty to crown the ball by honour- them to the. lady a pair of direct and candid pleaders. ing some of us. ” Mrs. Heck’s own china-blue orbs failed before the ardent “My n dear,” said the obliging dame, “can you resist such witnesses of Mr. Cattle’s loyalty ? “ an appeal “Oh, I am SO very sorry shemurmured. “ What a “ But I haven’t danced for months,” Nan declared. “Still pity ! You must tryand get Over it.You must, for my thefloor does look tempting. Perhaps--later on.” sake. “ “ will you give me one, then ? “ “I shalldo anything you bid me-except that ! “ he She looked at the little white card. “With pleasure. It replied. “ Come, now, let US return to the floor. There is had better be a square, had it not? “ a waltz beginning. “ “If you insist,” he agreed. He led her away with a masterfulclasp of herhand Whenshe looked atthe card he had .taken,.and now through his arm. She thrilled like a thousand velvet handed back to her, she saw that he had marked his initials strings, and for the rest of that evening resistance deserted againstthe firstsquare, but also against two waltzes. Nan Nan Heck. Fortunately for her reputation was it that Mr. said : Raymond Cattle was a man who knew the ineffable rules. “ Till presently, then” and engaged a passing friend in After the waltz he took her to the corner again, and brought conversation. a sip of champagne to brace her nerves against the return When he returned to claim his partner, she rose with her toher chaperone? and! talked commonplace allthe way heart beating as it never had beat before in the whole of its UP the room- existence. He ledher past several couples of waiting “My dear, YOU waltz perfectly. Mr. Cattle, you mustbe dancers, but nowhere attempted to form a set with any. At congratulated on having induced Mrs. Heck to dance.” the very end of the room was a divan under Some palms. “ The next waltz is just before supper. If I could per- He whispered, “ Don’t let us dance this absurd thing. Come suade Mrs. Heck to give methat, too,would you, Mrs. and talk to me over on that couch.” And she was only too Wales, accompany us into the buffet ? ” eager to do so. There were seriousquestions to be asked He waited politely, indifferently, for acceptanceor and answered. She began almost before they were seated : refusal. Mrs. Wales rejoined : “ Thank you ; I shall be “Where have you been ? “ delighted.” She looked at Nan, who nodded a smiling His eyes blinked inthe quaintest way for a Second, as acquiescence. She dared not trust her voice for the moment. hereplied: I was inParis I couldn’t let you know. I All the rest of the evening passed like a wild rose-red wrote to your husband on purpose from Paris, but I suppose dream. Raymond hadbidden her acceptother offers to he didn’t think the fact interesting enough to be mentioned.” dance, so she entered for theLancers with a baldchurch Nan didn’t see fit to disabuse him of this idea. dignitary, and was dashed through a polka and a two-step “I hurried back to be here to-night. Don’t be angry with by a couple of excessively nervous lads. Between whiles, me.” she “ sat-out ” a waltz with Mrs’. Joy’s husband, and, finally, The lady’s reply was strangely unlike that to be expected nearlyhysterical with the effort to obey her orders.and from a guardian angel. “ Oh, it doesn’t matter to me,of divert malicious gossip., she swam away oncemore in -the course. “ arms of Raymond. He guided her immediately towards “Cruelcreature ! “ he returned, smiling sadly. “ Have the cosy-corner angle of the room, and they passed un- you abandoned me as hopeless SO. soon Mrs. Heck? Why, obtrusively out of sight. nothing on earth could have detained me from this ball. In the shadow of the dense foliage he clasped her, as if Absolutelynothing. It, is a bit of a shock to find you so fiercely, in his arms,and bent her head back. She closed terribly indifferent-heigh-ho ! it’s always the same. When- her eyes, and a soft,clinging kiss completed her impulse ever some bright ray of hope gleams upon the black night towards self-abandocment. Herarm shot upto clasp his of life, ’tis sure to be suddenly blown out. I suppose I’m neck, and he only succeeded in disengaging himself just in to blame. I had, perhaps,better bid YOU a despairing time to avert a catastrophe. ” A young couple hurried past farewell. “ them, talkingand laughing a great deal, far too eager to “ Well, I will try to forgive you,’’ returned Nan, a little prove their own lack of intention in seeking that corner to hastily. notice anything untoward in the others. .The clever Mrs. Heckdropped infallibly into a bit of a “ You love me? ” asked Raymond. “You are mine? ” fool so soon as she lost the protection of criticism. Had She gazed her assent. He kissed her hairand brow and Mrs. Wales or Aunt Lizzie been always within hearing, ‘the throat, and finally her two hands as he held themclasped debonnairRaymond might have died guessing. As it was, together. he felt thathe would have very little more than half-way “Think of me,” hemurmured. “My angel. You shall to theingopursuit of his guardian angel.hear from me to-morrow. I will send flowers from m That is your true,kind self speaking, now,” he said, mother’s garden. Hername will beoutside the note which wearily. “ I say, this isbeastly public here. Let’s walk will accompany them. We must be verycareful about our rounda andbit explore the place.,” arrangements. Once again ! . . . . and now, farewell She trotted away on his arm, obediently as any demoiselle sweetheart. I will let you hear to-morrow.” in the room, towards the cosy corners, without which not the She disappeared with her chaperone a little later, and he most classical or pious ball would ever repeat itself, They went off to the buffet. By the timehe haddrunk about sat down out of sight of the dancers. half of a pretty stiff brandy and soda, Raymond Cattle had “ Oh, this is jolly,’ exclaimed Raymond. He sank down, begun to wonder why on earth hehad taken so much sighing as though it were the most mournful of social rites. trouble to win Mrs. Tom Heck. Fairand foolish, and a She gazed upon him, puzzled and half fearful. little faded, was his summary. He hated fair women, “‘Mrs. Heck, do you know-I must go away again,! “ really-of course he did. And thisone, with allher mon- (( Why? Why? )’ strous airs of puritanry, was easy as a lazy demi-mondaine; “ I must go for ever-and at once.” and far more stupid. He had hoped for a longer run than “ Whatever do you mean ? ” usual, and behold him adriftonce againupon the: “I mean I must tear myself away from you. I have met sea of adventure, and with onemore “mystery “ lying as a pure woman, and I .can’t bear it” good as solved behind him-and he was not the fool to go “ Oh, but-you are pure too. I feel you are.” solving a riddle which ‘promised him so little fun; and so “ Oh, that wetwo were maying in. Sunny Spain, or some- much.danger. That woman would -stop atnothing ! He where. That’s the life ! ” determined to keepa certain promise he hadmade to re- He might have expatiated even more graphically upon appearin Paris on Sunday evening. There was chic in this particular pleasaunce : not infrequently hadhe tested Pans, th,e real chic, and real gay love-and no scandal. its joys. But to do him justice, he had no idea of testing Meanwhile, Nan Heck had arrived home. She went them with Mrs. Heck, or anyother married woman of straightupstairs, and dismissing the maid to bed as soon as his own class. He had seen other men do that, and heher dress was put away and the fire poked up, she locked knw the end of the story. the door and slipped on a gown to think, a 120 THE NEW AGE JUNE 3, 1909

Raymond Cattle hadbeen mistaken when he had called her a woman whowould stick at nothing. Mrs. Heck was Books and Persons. already hesitating at thought of a good deal. The Reverend Wales had spoken to her just before she left the ball-room. (AN OCCASIONALCAUSERIE.) “My dear Mrs. Heck” he had said, “we hardly recognised PARIS. I foundthat Paris was only interested in one our demure little lady. . I hope you have had a very pleasant evening.” There was disapproval in the cold grey eyesof thing-and that not the postal strike, but the season of the pastor. It had stung Mrs.Heck likethe fang ofsome Russian ballets and operas at the Châtelet Theatre. If deadly insect. She‘ had repeated nervously several times an autocracy with the help of a bureaucracy can accom- during the solitary drive homeward : “I hope you have had plish nothing else, it can at any rate bring into existence a very pleasant evening.’’ and keep in existence the finest ballet in the world. It “ Impertinent-meddlesome old gossip,” she permitted is a wonderful thing that the Russian Government can herselfto say. But the seed had been dropped. Sitting spare time from its daily business of torturing typhoid before the .,fire her imagination began to build up the wall patients in chains to foster even the most sensual of the whichwould divide her from society after her flight with artsinto a surpassingstate of perfection.But the Raymond-she believed that no less was her devoted sinner’s thing is so Lastyear the Imperial .Russian opera intention ! She thought of her Thursdays-gone ! No circle of admiring, if slightly inferior, friends. No bazaar stalls. electrified Paris(and me) with“Boris Godounoff ” ; No stately consultations about the immoral and thriftless this year the Imperial Russian Ballet is performing the poor. No district ladyship would she everbe given again, same feat. In another ten years it will occur to Covent butonly a guiltyname to be struckoff visiting-listsand Garden that these sights and sounds must be seen and tossed round by spiteful tongues, from the pious drawing- heard at Covent Garden, at no matter what cost. They room of Mrs. Wales to the kitchen of her meanest and most would have been seen and heard at Covent Garden this despised acquaintance. She almost fell upon her knees as yearhad the famous “Syndicate ” beenprepared. to these future indignities arose and shocked her vanity. guaranteeenough money. Last autumn, when in But once again she seemedto feel Raymond’s kiss upon Paris, I had a conversationwith the young Russian her lips. And she knew and cried out in her heart that she could never forget it. Forhours she wrestledwith this impresario(I do not write his name because I have phantom embrace, now trying to escape it and in her very never learned to spell it) who is responsible for bringing effortto do so, half faintingin renewed desire to feelhis St.Petersburg and Moscow so triumphantlyto Paris. arms clasping her again. She slumhered once in her chair, He desired a bird’s eye view of the psychology of the and dreamed her husband had returned, and awokewith a . Londontheatrical mind, and I hadthe pleasure of terrified cry for Raymond. The fire was burning well, but givingit to him.Apparently my remarks were not she, felt chilled for all her thick gown, so she took a shawl encouraging. and threw it around her head and shoulders. She looked in *** the glass. Her face was frightfully haggardand quite un- beautiful. In terror she realised that hers also was the lot Notthat this has any connection with books. The of unhappy women-to look old veryearly. Her married most interesting item of bookish information that I en- life had determined fhat. Was she to lose her last chance of countered was that the morning daily, “ Les Nouvelles,” happiness of reallyliving and loving-and all to gainthe hasstarted a literarypage on the English model. approval of few Crone people ! a “Les Nouvelles ” isan eight page paper, run on Suddenly she sank upon the ground muttering a jumble spacious lines. I mentionedits inauguration in the of-prayer-phrases. “ Thou seestme ! O Lord, help mein earlypart of thisyear. It is a strangepaper. It time of trouble ! Father which art in heaven, ”-she repeated the whole of that. And then she found herselfwhispering, belongs to bankers who have a lot of money to spend ; “Love, honour and obey-Love, honour and obey-untll itis conducted without any sensational appeal ; and death usdo part-In the name of the Father, theSon, the .the general view seems to be that its reason for exist- Holy Ghost-Amen ! ” ence is ultimately to give journalistic aid to some vast She chanted this Amen a score of times before she arose, financialenterprise or enterprises not yet disclosed. seeing duty clear. Shemust respect hermarriage vow. Suchschemes are possible. Whatmakes its weekly Safety was therein. Safety and home and friends ! “Love, literary page interesting is the fact that there is abso- honour and obey,” she repeated, restlessly. In the next hour, lutely no connection whatever between its reviews and her thoughts of Raymond Cattle became tinged with the most advertisements.its ParisIn exceedinglythis is righteous, but steeliest of resolutions. She wouldcom- bizarre. It would be bizarre enough in London, where mendhim also to prayer and prayer only. She would refuse to see him again except in the presence of others. A therelationship, in dailies, between reviews and ad- foreboding of the delicious pain of these meetings drove her vertisements is becoming more and more marked. One to the floor again. may say broadly that nowadays it is impossible to get a The dawnbroke. The grey-silver light slanted in, book reviewed atadequate length in a Londondaily and its first rays fell upon a littlepicture of a Madonna unless it isadvertised. I could givesome curious and Child which hung upon the wallabove her bed. The statisticsas to this. I knowthat the conductors of a images gradually loomed out clearer and clearer. And sud- Londondaily not long since plainly informed the pro- denly she had a new inspiration. She, too, would become a prietor of a monthly review thathis review would be Madonna!! Instantly, she rejected the idea.But it per- favourablyand regularly “noticed ” in theirpaper as sisted. A child I A child would breakthe last lingering soon ashe began to advertise, and not before.How- spell of her fascination for poor Raymond, andits advent would wed her irretrievably to Tom Heck, herlawful husband. ever, the London press is less venal than that of Paris, Yes, it should be born--must be born, Therein lay strength a citypre-eminent for dishonest reviews. Neverthe- for her and protection. less, I havebeen entirely convinced that the literary Years ago, this miserable woman, not then completely har- criticism which appears in “ Les Nouvelles ” is indeed dened in the ineffable notions of her circle, had determined aspure as it pretends to be. Thedirector of the not to give any new man or woman such a father as coarse literary page of “Les Nouvelles” is Mr. H,. D. Davray, and brutal Tom Heck, The passing of these years. had con- the translator of H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde,, and many firmed herwisdom. Many a time during those unspeakable otherEnglish authors, and the monthly judge of private scenes she had borne herselfwithout screaming by Englishletters inthe “Mercure de France.” Mr. remembering there would result no child as witness of the Davrayknows more of literaryLondon than any abomination ! Englishman I ever met, and nearly as much as several Where were all these fine sentiments now?. All she could Englishwomen of my acquaintance. think of was.her own protection. *** Mrs. Heck awaited with eager terror her husband’s return. At thepresent moment Mr. Davray is revising a It was deplorable that he was to stay away the week-end. She did not feel that she could again face the Reverend Wales Frenchtranslation of FrankHarris’s “The Bomb,” a without the full knowledge that she wasredeemed ; hence- novelwhich has deeply impressed a fewpeople in forth tobe a pure woman, an honourable sanctifiedwife England, and which will not improbably be read when and a mother. the Claudius Clears of the millennial future are offering The maid knocked at the door. Mrs.Heck had prizes for correct answers to “teasers,” such as : Who slipped into bed. There were lettersfor Mr.Heck and a wasMrs. Humphry Ward? telegram from himselfto her. He had decidedto return *** that evening. She uttered a cry and flung the paper away. I inquiredfrom reliable sources whether- any really (To be continued.) goodFrench novels had been published recently,. and JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW AGE 121

“L’Immolé,’’ by Emile Baumann, was named to me as which would havesaved the poet from the fiend, and being serious work, and out of the common (published we are notprepared to affirm or deny that hisverse by BernardGrasset, 3 frs. 50 C.) I gotit and have would havesuffered. Verlaine achieved early renown readit, ‘and am ready to concurin its praise, and to as a poet, and settled down to a virtuous married life recommend itas worth perusal. The sceneis laid in under the control of an admiring wife, who was deter- andabout Lyons. The styleis a trifle tooself-con- mined herhusband should be apersonage, and a re- scious, too imagé ; and the author seems over-preoccu- spectable one. But we arerather disposed toagree pied with the consequences of heredity ; but unquestion- with M. Lepelletier that “No matter who his wife was, ably it is a book very sincere, very able, very original, marriage for him couldnot have been happy nor pos- and powerful. M.. Baumann has.written one or two sible.” We think, then, that M. Lepelletier might have other books, but he has not previously impressed him- sparedthe diatribes heapedupon theunfortunate self on the public. While I was in Paris, “ L’Immolé ” Mathilde Manté because she refused to continue life with received fromthe Académie Française one of the seven a man who, ((intoxicated with absinthe, curaçoa! gin, Montyonprizes of 1,000francs. This disconcertedme, or American grogs, became, even with his best friends, as mediocrityis almostessential to the winning of a disagreeable,aggressive, quarrelsome, in short, insup- Montyonprize. I learnt, however, that Maurice portable.” Verlaine wasthen onlytwenty-six. M. Barrès,who at worst is a goodjudge of letters,had Lepelletierinsists that the marriage was the dominant obstinately championed the book before the Academy. event in the poet’s life ; that he was ever in love with *** his wife, who seemed from the first to regard him with In the pursuit of knowledge I called on the publisher different eyes from those of the majority of the women of “L’Immolé.”He issues his books from the depths hehad met.” Verlaine was hideously ugly,timid, and of an ancient and extremely picturesque quadrangle in awkward in the presence of women. “In hisyouth he theRue Corneille,near the Odéon Theatre.Nothing never had a mistress to whom he clung either through lesslike HenriettaStreet, Albemarle Street,or Car- love or pure sensuality-i.e., a woman, married or un- melite House could beimagined. He bestowedon me married,recognised as his. He did noteven frequent avolume by M. EtienneRey, entitled “De L’Amour.’’ women easy of access regularly, intermittently, or in the Paris is apparently stillprofoundly engrossed in this character of a temporary lover. Hisamorous adven- agreeablesubject. It is notoften given to a publisher tureswere of. morethan ordinary simplicity ; he only to issuetwogood books together. Now, ‘(De addressed himself tothose unfortunates whosell love L’Amour ” ismore than a good book ; itis a distin- like a commodity.” Itwas during the winter that guishedbook. It is divided intotwo parts, the first Verlaine loved and felt himself beloved ; “it was love at consisting of detached “thoughts ” about love, and the first sight onboth sides.” Those were the happiest second of an essayon the (‘metaphysic of love.” The days in the poet’s life. “Love overcamehis desire for “thoughts ” are quiteremarkably polished in their thegreen liquid,” his favouriteabsinthe : “a miracle workmanship.Here is one : “Lafemme amoureuse not to be repeated.” est une esclave qui fait porter ses chaînes à son maître.” But we mustmaintain the respectable side of the Prettily done ! Here is another : “L’amour abaisse les poet’slife. Hewas of goodparentage, had a good grandesâmes et élève lespetites.’’ Howshocking to education,was seven years a Government official, us islanders,and how true ! Here is‘ another : “Les and enjoyed besides thissalary an incomeof 10,000 femmesse croient jolies, et ne sesavent pas belles.” And another : “ L’amournaît et meurt de l’oisiveté.” And another : “L’amour inspire de grandes ambitions et ôteles moyens de les réaliser.” How Latin ! Ihave no spacefor longer extracts. M. Rey,quoting from Stendhal,says that he writes for only a hundred ENGLISH readers.This is the chief untruth inhis book. JACOB TONSON. BOOK OF THE WEEK. REVIEW Verlaine.” CONTENTS FOR JUNE It has been said that M. Lepelletierseeks to white- I. La Paix et la Guerre wash Verlaine in this biography ; a quite absurd charge. CAMILLE PELLETAN Theauthor treats the whole of Verlaine’s life with 2. Modern Poetry absolutefrankness ; heomits nothing that may be Four Poems JOHN GALSWORTHY‘ regardedas disgraceful,shocking, or the rest. But he Three Poems GERALD GOULD finds excuses everywhere for his friend, and this every- Two Poems EDEN PHILLPOTTS one shouldbe prepared to acceptwith a goodgrace. The excuses are like those of a doting mother explain- One Poem EZRA POUND ing that it was true her dearlittle Johnny hadstolen 3. Some Innkeepers and Bestre the jam, but the poor darling had such a sweet tooth. WYNDHAM LEWIS ‘‘Itis true,” says M. Lepelletier, “that alcoholhad a 4. AgathaBlount ELLA D’ARC‘S! malign influence overVerlaine, and caused pernicious 5. A Man of Impulse ST. J. HANKIN suggestions to enter his head. He had always a weak- 6. Some Reminiscences-Part II III ness for drink, but during his travels, after his separa- JOSEPH CONRAD tion fromhis wife, he developed analmost chronic 7. TheFog H. M. TOMLINSON drunkenness.” His friend thinks that it was during his stay in England that he acquired “the habit of steady S.’A Certainty OLIVE ,GARNETT drinking.” Exiled from home and from those he loved, 9. The Holy Mountain-III ‘(what wonder.that he soughtforgetfulness in heady STEPHEN REYNOLDS liquids andtheir mental stimulation.” M. Lepelletier The Month will containarticles by considers it the fault of a Society that took insufficient Camille Mauclair, H. Belloc, M.P., Edward care of the gifted poet. Thomas,and others, while theEditorial It is fairly evident that Verlaine was born t0 drink ; will deal with theBudget and Current his college days ended at eighteen, he ((devoted himself Events. to the study of the drinking shops on the left bank of the Seine, and the examination of the ale houses in the Half a Crown Monthly ; Half-‘Yearly QuartierLatin.” Circumstances might have arisen Subscription, from July to December, 15/-; * “Paul Verlaine : His Lifeand Work.” By Edmond &CO., HENRIETTA ST., W.C. Lepelletier. (Werner Laurie. 2 I S. net.) DUCKWORTH 122 THE NEW AGE JUNE 3, 1909

francs a year at the time of his marriage. He went back to the land twice, and lived the “ simple life ” on JUNE NUMBERNOW READY. many occasions, and fled to England for calm whenever his spirit was most troubled. For three years he was farming at Coulommes ; for some time he was an English master in Strikney, and for two years he was professor of literature at an ecclesiastical college in Rethel. It was here that he wrote “Sagesse,” in which Verlaine hoped “nothing will be found contrary to the charity which the author, henceforward a Christian, owes to sinners in whose detestable ways he followed until recently.” Most readers will desire to know something more of Arthur Rimbaud, whom the biographer regards as Verlaine’s evil genius. Rimbaud, whom Hugo greeted as a child Shakespeare ; the poet who threw his book into the fire and proceeded to make a fortune in business in Abyssinia, ending his adventurous career in a Mar- seilles hospital at thirty-seven. The story of the quarrel between Verlaine and Rimbaud takes up an unnecessarily large part of this book. All it amounts to is that Verlaine shot Rimbaud in a quite understand- able fit of temper, and was sentenced to the long term of two years’ imprisonment. We shall not pursue Verlaine’s path. It was after he abandoned schoolmastering that he became the first poet in France and the traditional Verlaine of the cafè and the hospital. There is no moral. Our conclusion is that some poets drink and some don’t, and that French biographies are written with a frankness un- known in this land. A Monthly dealing with Business,Money, and REVIEWS. Politics from the Standpointof the New School’ of Finance. The Measure of Our Youth. By Alice Herbert. (Lane 6s.) MONTHLY, 6d. Net Young ladies who were ‘wont to write verses in Birthday Albums are now happy with nothing less Edited by ARTHUR KITSON. than writing a novel. There is not much change in the contents except that there is now more of it. In cer- The Contents of tain quarters, not to have written a novel like “The Measure of our Youth” makes a romance out of it The Open Review for June &together. It is as necessary as the latest thing in Are of great Political and Social Importance. frocks and hats. A certain amount of smart dialogue --a trick which is to be picked up at most dinner tables Among the principal articles are :- or over the tea-cups- suffices to sling together a few incidents in sex life which are told as suggestively and (I) HOW WE BRIBE THE RICH. as nastily as English manners permit. There is no By G. K. CHESTERTON. story in this book, no pretence at character presenta- (2) HOW TO BUDGET WITHOUT tion, whilst the spicy bits are done so poorly that what- KILLING TRADE. ever basis, of fact they may have, the effect is spoiled By A BUSINESS MAN. in the telling. Some of the incidents are wantonly nasty-Miss Marian Shepherd’s intrusion into the (3) A FRAUDULENT STANDARD. The youth’s bedroom at the inn where she was barmaid, So-called Standard of Value. and Colonel Bewley’s flagellation of his son with a hunting-crop. The introductory chapters throw no (4) THE TAXATION OF LAND VALUES light on the subsequent proceedings, but are apparently AND TARIFF REFORM. there for the purpose of indecent sneers at the Eura- (A CRITICISM.) By ARTHUR KITSON sian. Maclean the priest, Helena, the woman of cul- (5) UNEMPLOYMENT-SOME FACTS ture, Lizzie the shop girl and prostitute, are all cliches who might now be allowed a few years’ rest. We AND A REMEDY. By W. L. GEORGE, desire- to have presentations of every form of life, but they must be done by the artist, not by squinting (6) CONSULAR SERVICE REFORM, A photographers,. Crying Demand. The Panama Canal and its Makers. By Vaughan By PERCY F. MARTIN, F.R.G.S Garnish. (Unwin. 5s.) (7) THE IMPORTANCE OF CREDIT. 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Yellow feverhas been stamped out, and malaria is decreasing.Dr. Cornish By THOMAS SMITH, F.R.H.S. gives a useful description-of the building of the canal, (Superintendent of the Fels Small Holdings, Mayland, Essex.) which it is expected will be opened in 1915 ; he seems surprisedfewerthatcitizens of the United States (wedo wishthey would inventsome PRICEONE PENNY. convenientlydescriptive term for themselves--they are Usual Terms to Branches and the Trade. not American) visit these works than the show places of Europe, .but there are few persons who, like Dr. Cor- nish, can regard the canal as “epoch making,” or who To be obtainedof the TWENTIETHCENTURY PRESS, Ltd.,, think that “after the canal zone most places seem only 37, Clerkenwell Green, E.C., and of the Author. half alive.” Supposetrade with the West Coast and China shifts from Liverpool to New York, we English may curse Lord Salisbury and hisGovernment for his HAVE YOU READ THE want of foresight, but to the world there will be little MAY NUMBER OF THE difference. 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Mr. McCabe has the ‘merit of being an honest writer, PAINE CENTENARYCELEBRATION, thoughperhaps one not overburdened with imagina- Organised by the Executive of the NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY. tion. Hehas given Us avery valuable book of in- A MEETING formation,rightly based, on the argument that the In Commemoration of the problem of Richelieu’s life was supplanting Spain (37). But, alas ! as he himself tells us, his book does not aim Life .and Work of THOMAS PAINE, to touchthe larger issues of theCardinal’s life‘ ; and will be held at ST. JAMES’S HALL,GT. PORTLANDSTEET, .W so we are left without thatlarge, consistent, psycho- on Tuesday Evening, June Sth, at 8 p.m. logicalportrait of the many-sided prelate-politician Speeches will be delivered by which we haveawaited so long.Such a portrait Mrs. BRADLAUGHBONNER Mr. GEO.GREENWOOD M,P., Mr. HERBERT BURROWS,Mr. HARRYSNELL, Mr. G. W. FOOTEPresident National Secular would, of course,tend to convey theparticular need Society), Mr. C. COHEN,Mr. A. B. Moss, Mr. W. HEAFORD ’Mr. F.A. DAVIES of Richelieu to carry on the traditions of Louis XI and Sully in thedirection of theexalting of Franceand PICTUREFRAMING the establishing of a United States of Europe; indicate (WHOLESALe & Retail his equipment of ambition and patriotism for the task; show hislong religious and political preparation ; his Maximum ,of Taste pursuit of his ideal in a world-wide arena of intrigue of hisown making ; hisfailure to realise it,but his Minimum of Cost success in preparing the ground for Louis Soleil-who, Strongly Recommended by butfor Richelieu, would nothave tasted greatness Mr. Palmer of The New Age. except after a greatly diminished fashion of his own- and his triumph in this way of handing, on his own J EDGE 155, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C. 124 THE NEW AGE JUNE 3, 1909 political traditionafter death to Napoleonhimself. principle of the true Arts and Crafts movement at the What Mr. McCabe has doen is to show us this Prince basis of thecreed, then we are preparedto side with of the Church in the making, and thereafter has sought thecraftsmen. This matter is all-important ; andwe to outline his diplomatic career in a series of chit-chat have found:. Mr. Ashbee’s book of the greatest interest. biographical notes as a means of “shaping a judgment It attempts to solve the vast problem of how the work- onhis character and appraising hisgenius.” There inghours can be made the most pleasurable part of is, as we havesaid, a refreshing sincerity about Mr.. life, and not mere drudgery to be lived through for the McCabe’s work,and for this reason we heartily com- sake of a by-product called “leisure.” It is not written mend this handsome volume, with its finely reproduced “inthe air.” It, indeed, demonstratesthat the artist portraits, to lovers of historical romance. craftsman is as muchconcerned aboutthe practical, everydayproblems of wages,hours, sanitation as any William Blake. By Basil de Selincourt.(Duckworth. materialisticeconomist. It isidealism discussed as a 7s. 6d. net.) practical issue. ‘‘I must not forget the advantage I received from the Unemployment: A Problem of Industry. By presence of aBlake specialist in the Print Room ” (of W. H.Beveridge. (Longmans, Green. 7s. 6d. net.) the British Museum.) “The inception of the work was Mr. Beveridge’s book .on Unemployment .has arrived due to the enthusiasm of a friend, who will, I fear, view at the psychological moment ; for it attempts to outline only with regret my qualified devotion to my subject.” a scientific solution of a problem which politicians, ad- Theseare the onlyqualifications forwriting about ministrators, and charitable persons at large are all at Blake that Mr. deSelincourt may be said to possess. theirwits’ end to dealwith as a practical issue. He knew a Blake specialist in the Museum, and a friend Whether one believes thatthe author has carriedthe is a Blakeenthusiast. We canimagine that it was problem nearer a definiteconclusion will depend on perfectly indifferent about whom or what Mr. de Selin- whether one attaches the importance which he does to courtwrote ; thetime had come for him tomake a the effect of the organisation of the labour market by book.Blake hadn’t beendone by anyonepossessed of the use of Labour Exchanges. Mr. Beveridge seems to nice commonsense and university culture. For Mr. de hope thatmorea systematic rearrangement of the Selincourt is clever in the University sense ; he knows workers will sooner or lat>er relieve the stress of unem- of literature,he has plenty of theories,and can turn ployment. We agreethat the Labour Exchange will outneat if fripperysentences. Of life heknows be of measureless value in placing the facts before us as nothing save what his books have told him, and naught a clear issue ; it will even eradicate casual labour alto- of artsave what the artists havesaid to him. He gether if made compulsory on all employers of that class understands nothing of heaven or earth-passion or in- -of workers(though Mr.Beveridge seems too timid to spiration. say that this compulsionis necessary). But the author “If Blake’sconception of life is to become of any himself admits “when all has been done which‘ can be real value to us, we must discover what it is.” Where- done toorganise the labour market, many further upon Mr. de Selincourt proceeds to a scientific disserta- measures will still be needed. The problem of cyclical tion onthe Imagination. which is no doubt useful fluctuation will nothave been touched directly at all.” enough as a College essay, but has absolutely nothing . . . . The incalculable changesand irregularities of todo withBlake, who, Mr. deSelincourt discovers, economic conditions will still make nearly all men inse- “seemednot to have grasped the obvious factthat- cure, No amount of LabourExchanges can guarantee experience is aladder, tobe mounted onerung at a that every man falling out of one job shall at once find time, and that the nature of everynew step you take must be conditioned by thenature of those you have l taken already.” Inspired Mr. de Selincourt. He can also JUST OUT. be gracious on occasion. “ In nothing that I have said earlierhas it been my wish tothrow doubt upon the beauty or evenupon the sublimity of Blake’sreligious Cupid & Commonsense aspiration.” According to Mr. deSelincourt, one of Blake’s difficulties was his desire to embrace life as a A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS. whole. “It was not enough for him to be an artist and Witha Preface on the a mystic, he desiredalso to be a philosopher,” which was. very wrong of him, of course. “For the methods CRISIS IN THE THEATRE. of artand mysticism arenot philosophically recon- cilable.% We know not what Mr. de Selincourt under- BY stands by the methods of mysticism ; but quite certainly ARNOLD BENNETT. everymystic has used themethods of artfor inter- Crown 8v0, Canvas Gilt, pretation. It would serve no useful purpose to follow the author 2s. 6d. net. inhis inanities and platitudes subsequently. “ Lan- OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. guage, however, can only exist because one man’s mind is, on the whole, like another man’s. mind ” ; we should Everyone knows that the English theatrical world is in a have to pursue him page by page. Blake did not indite parlous condition. Everyone knows that, according to the point of view, the actor, or the author or the manager or the scientific treatises to be analysed, but he left works of public is to blame. Mr.Arnold Bennett, in an engaging art which mustbe seen and felt ; andmust be ap- preface to his play “ Cupidand Commonsense,’’ dissects proachednot with thedesire to criticise, but with the every issue of the question with great skill and insight. hope of learning. “There is a great deal of well-drawn character in Mr. .Bennett’s play. , . . , We should like to see the play performed often and well it has immense life and freshness; above all is not machIne-made~“-The Craftsmanship in CompetitiveIndustry. boards Morning Leade “Though neither SO interesting or so important as the play itself the C. R. Ashbee. (Essex HousePress, Chipping Camden. introductlon by which Mr. Bennett prefaces his work is a discourse full 5s. net.) of pointed remarks about the present state of the drama the bad business of which all theatrical managers complain the inexhaustible This bookis a very valuable account of the twenty- growth in the younger generations of new expectations from the theatre one years’ struggle by a GuiId of Handicraftsmen to set and the promise ofthe new spirit in play-writitE. Mr. Bennett hold; that the bxrds of the future will belong to those who follow in the wake an example of rationalexistence, and incidentally to of Mr Bernard Shaw. His piece, accordingIy, an ably constructed, well observed. interesting. and thoughtful play of tour acts in plain modern gain a livelihood, in an age of entirely irrational com- prose, without any sort of smart dialogue or other theatrical ornaments mercialism. Itis a book that dealswith deep-seated treats Its theme as that writer might be expected to treat it were he less witty and less ironical than at his best he is. . . . . The play reads well principleswhich trivial reformers usually apparently and reads as if it would prove still more effective and enjoyable when) acted. The stage would be healthier if such pieces were more commody overlook. Mr. Ashbee points out how Socialists fail to to be seen there than they are.”-The Scotsman. realise that a merereform of thefactory system, for example, will not carry them very far. Writing as con- THE NEW AGE PRESS, LIMITED, vinced Socialists, we can only say that the sooner our 12 RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET, brethren read Mr. Ashbee’sbook ,and become real SO- LONDON, E.C. cialists the better. If Socialism is not going to put the JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW AGE 125 anotherjob suited to his powers.’’ Aftersuch an shows is an inability to laugh at the jokes in the piece, admission as this,we cannot but feel that Mr. though he gives in at last. And what a joke it is that Beveridgehas got his .book somewhatout of propor- finally brings him into line. Maggiesays she thinks tion. Hehas notdealt with Unemployment as a what everywoman knows isthat “woman was not whole ; he has only suggested a plan whereby some of madefrom man’s rib, but from his funny-bone.”But the irregularities on the surface may be smoothed away. perhaps I am doing a wrong-it may be a more subtle As he will bethe first to admit, the cure of casual jest than I took it for. Does an indirect laugh lurk in labour itself meansthe immediate increase in the itmore fine thanthe obvious? Perhaps that extra- number of thetotally unemployed. We agreethat is ordinarily knowing young woman would have her John absolutelynecessary ; butthis shifting about of the laugh at any price. And there, you see,is another countersis not a curefor unemployment. It is,ap- grievance.Barrie always saves himself, alwaysleaves parently,this somewhat limitedconception of the a loophole-that joke or that expression of an ideal problem with which he deals that has led Mr. Beveridge mighthave heenmore complicated thanone thought, to offer so much shallow criticism as a reply to the more thereal word .of theauthor must lie behind.Bah ! fundamentaltheories of Mr. J. A. Hobson.However, Nothing of the sort-there is noreal word.Simply, wefully admit that Mr.Beveridge has written a sug- thecreature knows his public throughand through. gestiveand usefulbook, which will stimulateto more Onecan imagine him boastingthat he would always radical thought and steps than the author himself s,ems be able to gauge the public taste to a hair’s breadth- ta understand or desire. ~ pander to its desire for vulgarity, I would rather call it. Ishould apologise for harping on the personal pro- noun,but indeed I decline toassociate myself by one DRAMA. word even with an audience that could find satisfaction in this spectacle. “ What EveryWoman Knows.”-Duke of York’s To come to practicaldetails in the performance, I Theatre. implore that the telephone be replaced on its rest at the ALWAYSI have avoided Barrie plays, knowing that I end of the third act, unless it is a deliberate subtlety in should find inthem humiliation and,dreariness. One stagemanagement indicateto thedistraction of Maggie’s practical mind? Miss Hilda Trevelyan played day my friend asked, “Do you like Barrie? ’’ “ I hate charmingly, though her movements would be more suit- him,” I replied. “ Whichplays have you seen? ’’ ablefor a ballet dancerthan for a repressedScottish “None ! ” And becauseshe laughed Iwent to this play-to prove myself a fool. Therewas hope,hope temperament. The inspiration ,of theproduction was that in my lifetime this dramatic art of ours might take thecasting of MissLillah McCarthy as Lady’ Sybil. oneunfettered step. Neither musicalcomedies nor She played the dull, heavy young woman so admirably Adelphi drama could crushthat hope, butBarrie has that onewas equallyconvinced with John of the un- killed it utterly-those poortawdry things only take utterable boredom of continued existence with her. our worst souls and tastes to juggle and coin, but this Mr.Sydney Valentine was excellent. Heis always creature seizes the dearest thoughts we have, tortures a delightful actor, seeming to possess a sense of balance and squeezes them till they rise before us vulgar. And which saves him from a frequent actors’ pitfall-that of theaudience laughs and cries inpleasure. criedI invariablyregarding their own parts as the most im- myself. Thatis the horror of thething, it’s so subtle portant in the play. It is always,pleasing to see Mr. and knowing. Thank Heaven, no unwilling cackle was Gwenn, though one would have excused him for a less draggedfrom me. It’seasier to resist laughter than strenuous effort after the accent. tears in an English theatre. It is needless to tell the story, for noone will have been strong enough to resist all the Barrie plays, and “ A PersianPrincess.’*-Queen’s Theatre. having seen one you know the stuff to be found in the MissRuth Vincent has awonderful voice and a rest.One detail was surprising. I hadunderstood significant stage personality. Thereis something solid that in Barrie plays children were invariably undressed and reliable about these qualities, combined with charm and put to bed. This reassurance I can give-nothing as certain as either of them. of thesort occurs in “What Every Woman Knows.” Butthe author does not resist a reference to night- You knowand can always analyse her effects-her gowns. Lady Sybil tells us that she would feel towards clear,metallic voice, her fine figure,perhaps a little a great man as Mary Queen of Scots felt towards her heavy, but delightful to the eye by reason of the move- lover when she said-when did she say it, by the way? ments, which are as exquisitely and surely produced as -“I would follow my Bothwell to the end of the world her voice. Night after night she will give youexactly thesame well-placed notes-the same balancedwalks, in my nightie ! ’’ It’s a seductiveallusion, because astonishingand unexpected. Onehas always pictured andruns, and trips. There is something magnificent the lady in black velvet and pearls and much dignity. in the samely revolutions of a great wheel, and in the Women shouldresent this play of Mr. Barrie’s. It’s same way her repetitions are not monotonous. a humbug,seeming to exaltthe sex into something The machinery which hasswamped this age is a rare and high, really dragging its most precious posses- loathsome anddreary spectacle to artists-there is no sionin thedust. For instance,Maggie, the embodi- escape from it, and so, trying to find hope in its future, ment of feminine gritand true charm, is made to Icome upon Ruth Vincent. She is a perfect type of a degrade herself by fawning on an idiot block of a man. beautiful machine-it seems impossible thatshe will The fellow has no single distinction except a bully voice ever grow older.Probably Miss Vincent would not -it is Maggie who writes his speeches. He is not even be flattered if she read this, but it is much to give the faithful,though that would seem to be a chief virtue inspirationfor belief in a newpossibility of beauty. of Barrie’s Scotsmen. The only sign of intelligence he Think of thegramophones of to-day ! N. C.

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Dates open for Lectures on Public Speaking, Literature, and the Drama. endowments that have been plundered from the poor? Elocution andDramatic Classes. Pupils may join now. 10s. 6d. and A starthas beenmade herein South Wales, as within £1 1s. per Term. Write for Prospectus. thelast few daysMrs. Bridges Adams has addressed a Studios at the Gouin School of Languages, 185,Oxford Street, W.,and number of excellentmeetings on theabove subject in this Gloucester.. Crescent, Gloucester Gate, Regents Park, W. locality, and withoutdoubt the .South Walesminers will be prepared togive her an enthusiasticbackïng, now that theysee the true inwardness of things. I hopeRuskin Now Ready. April Issue College students especially will take the question up, as it is a matter of vitalimportance to the working class section the population.of the W. M. BLACKLEDGE. The Church Socialist Quarterly, * * *‘ Or OPTIMIST. MORALITY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 94 pp., 6d. net. By post 8d. TO THE EDITOROF ‘(THE NEW AGE.” PRINCIPALCONTENTS. What is the Church, and what are its Duties? The question of co-education will almost for a certainty comewithin therange of practicalwork ere long, and I By DEANOF WORCESTER. am ‘strongly of opinion that by a really rational scheme of Is Pity an Orthodox Virtue ? By ROBERTDELL. co-education a considerable amount of the present evilwill Modernism and Socialism. By F. A. N. PARKER. be eliminated,but not without a big infusion of common- Competition Purified by Socialism. sense progressive teaching in sex matters as between teachers By HEWLETTJOHNSON. andpupils, and a considerableaddition of ordinary The Marxian Position. By J. M. WENDON. humanityas between theteachers and their employers, be The Break up of the Poor Law. theyeducation committees or governors of colleges and public schools. By GEO.LANSBURY. .Youmay, perhaps, recallthat I havesent you various Of all Newsagents and Booksellers, or direct from the Publishers, reprints of articles in which I havebeen dealing with offi- TEE NEW AGE PRESS, Ltd., cially-enforcedcelibacy. I am confident thatthe general 12-14 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London. publichave not the slightest idea of the widespreadevil which is being done by the official bar on marriage, and I venture to say that a full recognition of the horrors existent l- ~~ in someschools would raise a storm. As yourcontributor, “H. L.” says, ‘(Expulsions are but a helpless confession of FITS FITS FITS impotence.” ~___- I I What, also, can be expected when in a scheme of govern- I ment .for a great public school, endorsed by a State depart- ALL PERSONS ‘SUFFERING from EPILEPSY or HYSTERIA ment, we itbaldly set forththat allthe 32 house should sendname and address to JAMES OSBORNE Medical find Pharmacy, Ashbourne Derbyshire, who will forward, free of charge, masters--with six possible exceptions-shalI ‘‘ be bachelors, particulars (with Testimonials and on receipt of 4d. for postage, full- or live such.” size FREE TRIAL BOTTLE),of the most successful remedy ever as discovered for these distressmg maladies. Sent to all partsof the world. In anaddress delivered as retiringchairman (1904) of I theIncorporated Association of AssistantMasters of Secondary Schools, Mr. G. F. Danielldrew attention to A BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY CENTRE. this, andsaid, “I feel that if thissubject were put before 600ft above sea level the parents, who have to trust such a large amount of the Magnificent scenery of Dean Forest, Severn and Wye Valleys, training of their boys at a critical age to assistant masters, 25,000 acresunenclosed glade and glen, and the loveliestriver theywould say as.I do, thatthe regulation which I have scenery in Britain. Charming House (25 bedrooms), 5 acres, pretty quotedis a seriousblot on the scheme, andought to be grounds. Billiard, bathrooms, tennis. Vegetarians accommodated. removed. I mustpoint out, however, that in many schools Board-Residence from 29/- to 3/- per week. Photos, particulars, marraige is practicallyinhibited by the exiguity of the Chas. HALLAM,Littledean House Newnham. Glos. JUNE 3, 1909 THE NEW AGE 127

salaries paid. There does not seem much to choose between NIETZSCHE V. SOCIALISM. the celibacyenforced by arbitrary regulations andthat TO.THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.” compelledby poverty. Yet to men whose lives arethus Mr. d’Auvergne writes ‘Now it is obvious that with restricted is entrusted a large share in the training of British every individual developed to his utmost possible extent, you youth.” increase the chances of the Superman ; and this is certainly By way of showing anotherside of this complex and what all Socialists wish to do” Agreed I I take it, how- seriousquestion, refer to Mr. Nassau Senior’s address to ever, thatunder Socialism individuality will be developed the National Association, for the Promotion of Social not only for the good of the individual, but for the good Science, Edinburgh, 1863, in which he dealt at some length of the community. But the individuality of the Nietzschean with Mr. Tufnell’s report on the Workhouse Schools of the Superman seems to be in proportion to the number of in- Windsor andEton Unions, taken from the report of the feriors he has; his rising goes hand in hand with the fall Committee of Council on Education, 1862-3, p. 338. of his fellows. No ! to my mind Nietzsche does not appeal Thisreport will befound of interest for severalspecial to modern. Socialists because thereis any real likeness reasons just now when the various claims of moral education, between theSuperman which each wishes tobring into seculareducation, or religiouseducation are allbeing being, but because he knew and preached, as we modem violently discussed. Socialists know and preach, that the majority of existing In Mr. Tufnell’s report will be found several striking side- customs, religions, laws, etc., must be demolished before lights, but this particular fact comes on top, that the schools any new system could really have its beginning. which scored the highest in the Diocesan Scripture Exams., H. D. CLARK. were in such a state of moral corruption that they practi- cally had to bebroken up, andone responsible officer or [“ NEW AGE ” PLEBISCITE. - So many readers master committed suicide. haveobjected to cutting their copy of the For a thousand reasons, it is demanded that this question “New Age,” that ham deeided to extend be dealt with fromthe root. There is no law of social we sanitaryand physiological life which is not being denied the voting period by another week, to enable andinfringed by the present evil and growing system of readers who havenot voted to send in their officially enforced celibacy. W. T. SHORE. opinion on a postcard.Address-: New Age *** Press, 12-14 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C..] TO THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.” “ H. L’s.” article in yourlast number smacked oflow pugilistic circles. Each point was a knock-out blow. The poor parents were brandedas obscurantistsbecause they CREMATION. did not initiate their darling .offspring into the mysteries of public school life. It seems a littleunreasonable to expect REDUCED CHARGES. a country parson or an early Victorian lady to explain that of which, presumably, they have no knowledge. His denun- CHEAPER THAN EARTH BURIAL. ciation of the pedagogue was even more unsportsmanlike. Whyhit a man.when he is down?Where is the use in PARTICULARS FREE, damningan individual already damnedpast redemption? “The extent of the evil is not recognised by schoolmasters JOHN R. WILDMAN themselves,” he says. And yet he immediately proceeds to hold up the unlucky pedagogue to opprobrium foi conceal- 40, MARCHMONT STREET, LONDON,W.C. ing the whole truth from the novice. Telephone HOLBORN5049. Telegrams: “ EARTHBORN,LONDON.” Then, assuming that parents of the future will speak out, .and that a new race of pedagogues will withhold nothing- though where they will obtainthe requisiteinformation remains a myster as by his own showing, secrecy is the MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS, morality of the schoolboy--he intends to combat vice by the Advertisements are inserted in this column at the following cheap Prepaid Rates introduction of “modest and self-assured girls.” Perhaps he ON 6 13 25 has been as much deceived by the angelic countenances of Insert Insert Insert Insert Ir words 1/- 1/- 17/- his lady friends as the poor pedagogue by the boys under 7/6 10/6 25/6 his care. We -doubt if the supply of modesty is sufficient ::: 1/6 lo/- lm21/- w- to meet the demand. M. S. 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If Mr. Hughes could hear RENCH RIVIERA,- Boarders received for winter, sunny the Largo of Op. 93, or the Largo of Op. 102, or the Aria F comfortable house Terms moderate,--les Charmettes-ErmigateAntibes. Adagissimo from Op. 103a, and not realise what inspired (Alp-Mar.). music means, he is blind and deaf to reallygreat music, .-Why not enter your own andshould resign his work ascritic. What does “What we Housing QUESTION solved DEPOSIT REQUIRED Repre- sentatIves may receive deeds without further payment, In case of death to-day recognise as inspiration ” mean? Is it something for particiulars,J. C., 177a Longley Road, Tooting, SW. different from what a contemporary of Beethoven would Railway CLERKSAND STATIONMASTERS should join have recognised as inspirationin thatmaster? I can look theirTrade Union, theRailway Clerks’ Associatlon. Established 1897. back on aconcert experience of some 30 years, andthat Affiliated to Engllsh, Irishand Scottish Trade8 Union Congresses. Good leads me to say that these Reger concerts impressed me Benefits. Send postcard for particularsto A. G. WALKDEN,General Secretary, 337 Gray’sInn Road, London, W.C. DO IT NOW. with thefeeling that we had a reallygreat man amongst ””-, - us, the greatest maker of great music, indeed, that we have THE HOME RESTAURANT, 31, Friday Street, off Queen Victoria Street, E.C., will OPEN May 11th. Pure Food Luncheons After had since Beethoven. I believe he will prove to be far noon Teas HomeMade Cakes, etc. Specialities-Fruitand Vegetable Salads -wider and greater than Brahms; he has fewer mannerisms; The HomeRestaurant is a new enterprise started by ladies ; its eat feature will be to provide properlybalanced meals, moderate in price, well-cooked, and and his “brainy ’’ aspect does not shout so inevitably and promptly served. leadless glaze ware will be used. continually as in Brahms. One thinks of and feels his only music as music, and great music, first. His melodic gift is HE SPIRITUALITY OF THE BIBLE PROVED BY THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. great, hisphilosophical power is greater; his “stuff ” is ZION’ST WORKS, with Catalogne, in Free Libraries. fuller of meaningand import thanany sinceBeethoven; his treatment of his instruments seemed to me perfectin O SUBLET or SUBLEASE, Furnished or Unfurnished, T convenientand well-placed Flat in Gray’s Inn, overlookingthe gardens sympathy and understanding. Three rooms, Kitchen, Bath,and Attics, Electric light, eta.-Apply, Box A1NEW He did what so few writers orplayers do: madeone AGE. realise thatthe piano is really a beautifulmusical instru- TYPEWRITING.-Expert typist wants work in order to raise fundsto enable him to carry on more vlgorous propaganda Terms to ment, not merely a metallic torturer of one’s nerves. Reger’s Socialists,8d. per 1,ooo.-F. H. MINETT,42, Shaftesbury Road hammersmith. 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