THE NEW AGE, THURSDAYJune IO, 1909. BUFFALO HARDIE & BABY WELLS. THE NEW AGE

A WEEKLY REVIEW OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND ART.

No. 770] [New Series] Vol. V. No. 7] THURSDAY,JUNE IO, 1909. ONE PENNY CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE NOTESOF THE WEEK ...... 129 BOOKOF THE WEEK : Tom Paine. By Huntly Carter ... 140 THE GREATCABLE SCANDAL.--II. By ”N.” ...... 132 REVIEWS: Confessions of a Beachcomber ...... 141 MR. BUFFALOHARDIE, M.P...... 133 Ten PersonalStudies ...... 142 Ma. WELLS’SPOLITY OF BABIES. By C. H. Norman ... 135 Junius Unveiled ...... 143 America AND THE CHINESE PROBLEM.By Francis Grierson 137 DRAMA : Some PlayS. By N. C...... 144 BEFORETHE STRIKE. By George Raffalovich ...... 138 CORRESPONDENCE: JOS. Reeves, Wm. Temple and others, WHITEDSEPULCHRES. By Beatrice Tina ...... I39 Frederick Rhodes, Expert, C., F. H. Burlingham ... 145

The EDITORIALADDRESS is 4, Verulam Buildings, thegreat civilisingchannels of the world ; and were Gray’s Inn, W.C. theynot, as theyunfortunately are, confined in use AU BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS should be ad- practically to trading purposes, their influence for good dressed to the Manager, 12-14Red Lion Court,Fleet St., London might be enormous. At no time during the Conference, ADVERTISEMENTS: The latest time for receiving however, wasthe obvious suggestion seriously made advertisements is first post Monday for the same week’s issue. that the cables should belong to the Empire whose well- SUBSCRIPTION RATES for England and Abroad : beingdepends upon them. Suchan idea appearsto, Three months .....IS. 9d. Six months .....3s. 3d. haveentered no head orto havebeen scouted on Twelve months ....6s. 6d. appearance.Yet plainly an Imperialcable service, is All remittances should be made payable to THE NEW AGE as necessary as an ImperialNavy. PRESS,LTD., and sent to 12-14,Red Lion Court, Fleet *** Street. London Ortake another bond, the bond of ships. We have seenwhat the railways have done for England : every NOTES OF THE WEEK. line of privatelyowned railway in England is the ten- THE news thatthe GermanEmperor and the Tsar, tacle of a blood-suckerwhose legalised voracity has eachwith a retinue of Ministers, areto meetfor a at length succeeded in converting a rural into an urban threedays’ conference some time thismonth must be population. A similarprocess is going on in the Em- disquietingto the alarmists. Believing as we dothat pire at large ; the great shipping lines while ostensibly there will beno more greatEuropean wars our own theyexist to facilitate international trade, in reality withersare unwrung : andthis in spite of the melo- existto exploit it. By means of “conferences,”better dramatic attempts of Lord Roberts, caricatured by Lord named “rings,” competitionis rendered generally in- Esher, to persuade us that England probably has not a operative among the big lines : and by means of “de- Navy,and certainly has not an Army. At therisk of ferredrebates ” theshipping merchants are bound by being called Little Englanders, we refuse to believe it : cashnexus to their first choice. Thetotal effect of and in any event we put our money on the forces that boththese systems is to procure the minimum service makefor peace ratherthan theforces that make for tothe Empire at themaximum expense : a formula war. which holds good of every capitalist undertaking in the *** world. Amongthe former we areafraid, however, we can *** no longer count greatly upon the English Labour Party. TheReport of the RoyalCommission on Shipping Obviously its strength in international affairs is just as Rings, which has been sittingfor two years, has just strong as its international bonds : and it must be con- been published.Nothing, perhaps, in recentCommis- -fessed that thesehave been strained by the impolitic sionwork is so feeble as theReport of theMajority, conduct of theLabour delegates in their choice of a unlessit be the Report of the Minority.Both Reports Berlin ReceptionCommittee. Among that Committee havepractically nothingto recommend, the difference was, to namethe most glaring instance, Herr Karl being that the Minority Reporters have the courage to. Goldschmidt,the president of whatcorresponds in admittheir intellectualdestitution. To what is such: Englandto a Workman’s Anti-Socialist League. Is awretched result due?We can onlysuppose either thereany wonder thatthe German Socialists-who that the terms of reference were badly drafted or that are indeed Socialists--should object to receiving in such theywere fearfully interpreted. A bolderCommission company : even thoughtheir visitors were, by decree would haveworried somehow to the root of the prob- of theInternational Bureau, Socialists sans phrase? lem ; which in thiscase, as in thecase of cables, is We can only regret that our political compatriots have nationalisation.Until the Empire owns its means of’ been so unfortunate intheir blunders. inter-communication theEmpire will notown its own: *** Soul. The ImperialPress (Limited) Conference, at which **** LordRosebery made on Saturday an eloquent speech, A useful Review of Fifty Years of Social “ Progress “ amounting as usual to nothing, has drawn attention to has been prepared under the direction of Mr Burns and another kind of bond of Empire : the prosaic bond that issued by the Local Government Board as a Blue-book, reallybinds. Undoubtedly the cables areor might be under the title : “Public HeaLh and Social Conditions.’* 130 THE NEW AGE JUNE IO, 1909

Notthe most optimistic of the Midas-mindedcitizens We cannotwork upany enthusiasm over the of to-daywill beable to find init much material for “saving ” bythe nation of the Duke of Norfolk’s congratulation.Itis true that slight improvements Holbein. No pictureinthe world was ever worth have taken place in various respects during the last half £71,000 ; and only collector maniacs would ever- think century : but they are both so small in themselves and , so. An anonymous donor has contributed 40 out of the so small in comparison with the progress of mechanical 71 thousand pounds required to supplement the Duke of inventionthat we are entitled to repeat the dread for- Norfolk’sSheffield andStrand rent-rolls. If the sale mula : wagesalways tend to subsistence level. For were any proof of genuine interest in art we could find example, the Report informs us that since 1860 wages some satisfaction in the sordid transaction ; but art does haverisen absolutely some 40 percent., ,while prices notflourish on fancy prices. The fact is that England generallyhave decreased by 24 percent. But these isaesthetically at a lowebb ; herplutocrats, old and figures,miserable enough in themselves considering new,are impervious to beauty as toideas ; andthe the condition of the wage-earners 40 years ago, need to drain of art works from the country merely follows in be compared with the increase in wealth over the same thewake of ourdeparting intelligence. Nothing short period due to mechanical invention and social organisa- of a bonfire of the National Gallery will now save Art. tion. Thus compared,we find that while wageshave ** risen some fifty or sixty per cent., profits, interest and As an example of the folly of conjoining high prices rent bave risen some three or four hundred per cent. : withgenuine appreciation we print the following withthe final result that, as wehave always main- circular,issued in despair by a youngEnglish painter tained,the rich are growing richer about five times whosework was recently exhibited at the Goupiland faster than the poor are growing less poor. The plain, praised without exaggeration in THENEW AGE by Mr. staring fact is that the poor have now to be fed at the G. R. S. Taylor. publicexpense when young, and maintained atthe 132, CheyneWalk, Chelsea, SW. Withthe purpose of facilitating my return toMorocco public expense when old ; and that after fifty years of and continuing mywork I propose tohold a lottery or strenuous. progress ! sweepstake of my unsold pictures, andbeing anxious to *** secure theirimmediate disposal, I am willing tosacrifice Someother facts are stated by a frankCanadian them at far lower prices than I shouldotherwise accept. There are 18 pictures, and provided that I can obtain 18 writingto the “Times ” ofSaturday last his impres- people, I propose to fix thestakes at 8 guineas a ticket. sions of England. “A Canadianvisiting your indus- In this wayevery holder wouldbe certain of securing a trial centres,” he says, “does not need any statistics at picture, and would havethe chance of gaining the most important. all, for he sees only too much evidence of physical de- Of course, the pictures vary in value, but as will’ be seen cline in the majority of themen whom he sees on the from the catalogue, 8 guineas is far lower than the nominal streets.”’Nevertheless, he gives some figures which prices of even thesmaller pictures thus offered. My sole object, as before stated, is to realise a round sum to enable me reproduce :- me to return tomy work in Morocco. Half ,a century ago the minimum standard of height for I am desirous of holdingthe lottery at a date not later your ’infantry was 5ft 6in. During theensuing quarter of than June 16th, provided, of course, that I obtain the neces- a century that standard was reduced to 5ft 3in. During sary number of subscribers. the Boer war it was further reduced to 5ft 2in ; and before The sweepstake will be conducted in the following manner : theend of that war it was reducedto 5ft. More than 50 Eighteennumbers willbe placed in a box and the person per cent. of the soldiers in South Africa werebelow the drawing No. I willbe entitled to the first choice fromthe minimum standard required of the recruits for the Crimean whole 18 pictures ; No. 2, the second ; and so on, in warhalf a century previously.About go per cent. of the numerical order. HENRYBISHOP. recruits in the Boer war failed to reach the former minimum *** standard of chest girth, which had been34in. ; andabout of one-third of the troops in the Boer war fell below the former Mr.Leonard Hall, a member theNational Ad- minimum standard of weight, whichhad been 136lb. Dur- ministrativeCouncil of theI.L.P., criticised in the ing the Boerwar theaverage British soldier was2in. “ Labour Leader ” of May 28 Mr. Keir Hardie’s extra- shorter,1in. less in chest girth,and 15lb. lighterthan the ordinarypamphlet : “My Confession of Faith in,the average British soldier in the Crimean war. Labour Alliance.” We publish anarticle this week on At present 2,500 persons (I in 18,000of the total popu- the same subject ; but meanwhile we draw attention to lation) own a little more than half of all the land of the Mr.Hall’s spirited protest against Mr. Hardie’s hystericalappeals for “less toleration ” in theI.L.P. UnitedKingdom. “These wealthy few who own so Goodheavens, the toleration exhibited by the officials much of the land of England are presumably the most of the I.L.P. could scarcely be less if they were Indian loyalsubjects of theEmpire, and yet their ownership bureaucratsor Tsarist BlackHundreds. THE NEW of the land is the cause of the decline of physical man- AGE hasalready suffered so muchfrom the boycott hood in the slums.’’ declared on it that we are in despairof ever reaching the *** intelligence of therank and file. Nothingknown to Andthis decline,, if Leedscan secure it, shall con- tyrantshas been neglected to damage our reputation tinue.Clause 44 of the,Government’s Housing and orour circulation. We warnthe I.L.P. that in en- TownPlanning Bill forbidsthe erection in future of deavouringto injure THENEW AGE theyare cutting theirown throats. The movement can ill afford to whatare known as backto back houses : a type’ of ostracise its brains at this moment. humankennel for whichLeeds is infamous. At the *** annual conference of the Building Societies’ Association, Weare glad that Mr. Hyndman has at last begun held last week, various Leeds delegates rose to protest hisreminiscences. To “Justice ” of May .29 he con- againstthe clause. One egregious person remarked tributes. an admirablearticle on Meredith, whom, it thatback to back houses maintained family life in appears, Mr. Hyndman has known intimately for many Yorkshire ; another affirmed that such houses in Leeds years. We shouldbe happy to reproducethe article had separate bath rooms, and that tenants could bake here,but two extracts must suffice ,: their own bread. We care nothing for family life main- I remember sitting with him and two or three more in the early days (about 1860) on the beach at Seaford, then a very tainedunder indecent conditions ; the Soonerone or little place. We were throwing stones into thesea and otherof them isabolished the better. The protest lazily enjoying ourselves, whilst discussing nearly everything .against the clause was carried, however, with only three that couldbe discussed. Meredith was perfectly delightful At last one of the four,Burnand I think, blurtedout: dissentients ; another proof that.the jerry-builders of “ Damn you, George, whywon’t youwrite as you talk? “ Englandare united intheir campaign on behalf of We all felt that then. I feel it now that my old ,friend has ugliness and disease. gone. JUNE IO, 1909 THE NEW AGE 131

I have always believed that a long review of “Beauchamp’s Career,’’ by H. D Traill, in the “Pall Mall Gazette,” then of the way in which every attempt made by the Lord Cham- edited by Frederick Greenwood, was the first thing that berlain to exercise the functions of Censor recoils on the brought him a wider audience. Meredith, atany rate, King‘s Household in a cloud of discredit and suspicion. At thought so himself, and asked me who wrote it. As a the moment the play which is attracting most attentionin result, I invited Traill and Meredith to dine with me at the London as an essay inserious drama is “The Earth by New University Club. We Cad a most pleasant evening, Mr. Bernard Fagan,at Miss Lena Ashwell’s Kingsway and Meredithbegged Traill to come down to Box Hill. Theatre. Last night I was one of an eager crowd of people Traill went, and Meredith read to him after dinner, among who witnessed this play. I found that its subject is the otherthings, the Introduction to the“Egoist.” Traill, so subject of Mr. Granville Barker’s prohibited play, “Waste.”’ he told me, listened with all his ears. A look of puzzlement It is thestory of a Cabinet Minister who, on the eve of spread over hisface, which deepened in intensity as the crowning his Parliamentary career by the introduction of a reading went on. When Meredith had finished, these signs great Bill, is discovered to have been engaged in an in- of non-comprehension were still manifest. “You don’t trigue with a married woman. So’ farthe resemblance to understand that,” said theauthor. “No, I’ll be d--dif Mr. Granville Barker’s forbidden theme is complete ; it even I do,” answered Traill. Meredith burst outinto a hearty goes SO farin detail thatthe injured husband is anIrish countrygentleman. As faras the morality or immorality fit of laughing,and said, “Well, I suppose it is rather hard.” Afterwards, he smoothed the creases out a little, of the situation goes, the two playsare identical.But but very little. there are differences. In Mr. Barker’s play theguilty lady *** is presented as a person of lightand unworthy character, and theretribution that overtakes the Cabinet Minister is Chiefly for the sake of our foreign readers, of whom his utter political ruin, followed by suicide. In Mr. Fagan’s thereare many, we reproduce Mr. Shaw’s letter play the lady is successfully thrown on thesympathy and on admiration of th, audience as a noble-hearted and devoted theDramatic Censorship which appeared in the woman;the adulterous Minister recovers his position and “Times ” of May 29. bringsin his Bill triumphantly without staina on his Mr. Harcourt’s question in the House of Commons, and character;and the man who has effected the exposure is the Premier’s very gratifying answer thereto, will, I hope, forced to deny his own words (which are perfectlytrue), help toclear up a much misunderstood constitutional and is held up to contempt and execration as a scotched position. I have justhad occasion to make a publicstate- viper who has attempted to poison with his venom an ex- ment concerningthe prohibition of one ofmy own plays. quisite and poetic human relationship. This highly un- It was necessary for me to be scrupulously correct in defin- conventional version has been licensed without a word of ingthe authority with which I was in conflict. As that demur, whilst Mr. Granville Barker’s sternly conventional authority happened to be the King, several journalists pro- one has been suppressed; and as the suppression is widely ceeded to Iectureme severely, evidently believing that I advertised and the play remains buried, the public is left to had committed a gross solecism bymentioning theKing infer that Mr. Granville Barker has committed the disgrace- instead of mentioning the Minister representing the Govern- ful act of writing an improper play. ment, and responsible to the House of Commons. They But this is not all. If the case were merelyone of a also expressed a sense of wounded chivalry at the spectacle severely ethical play being suppressed whilst a romantic one of a defenceless monarchattacked by an all-powerful and was licensed, it would not be worth mentioning, as these merciless playwright. A certainimportance was given to occurrences are so common as to have become almost a matter of course. But in thiscase the anomaly is so all this nonsense by thefact thatthe “Times,” though its traditionsplace it beyond all suspicion of being a glaring that it is impossible not to seek for some explana- respecter of persons in. public questions, showed some doubt tion ; and, unfortunately, that explanation is only too easily as to theconstitutional position by omitting all references found. Mr. BernardFagan’s play is something more than to it from my statement. a love story with a very unconventional moral. It is a furiousattack on thehalfpenny daily newspaper, made I therefore wish to pointout that when we‘ speak of strongly personal by presenting, as the villain of the piece, Mr. Redfordas the Censor, andthe Lord Chamberlain’s the owner of several such newspapers. Now, if aplay with function as a Censorship, we are taking a liberty with these a moral so conventional that the Archbishop of Canterbury gentlemen which can onlybe excused by its convenience might father it without discredit is prohibited, and pre- for purposes of discussion. To hold them responsible for cisely the same story with the moral turned in the opposite the control of the theatres is really as great a solecism as direction, andadultery left triumphant at the fall of the it would be to hold the King responsible for the Budget. curtain,is licensed by the same official, is it possible to They actsimply as officers of the King’s Household. It avoid the suspicion that these permissions and prohibitions, happensthat in the days of Shakespeareand hisprede- avowedly based on the conventions of religion and morality, cessors, playerscould escape being classed as rogues and arereally based on privateprejudices and political par- vagabonds onlyby procuring permission to attach them- tialities which shouldhave no place whatever inthe Cen- selves to the household of some nobleman or of the reign- sorship of the stage? Here, at all events, is a straight case. ing monarch. Thus a tradition grew upthat this was the Whoever prohibited “ Waste ’’ and licensed “ The Earth “ natural English way to keep actors and theatres and authors was evidently some one who may have loved morality much, inorder; and the only effect of legislation has been to but who certainly hatedthe halfpenny Press more. And attach all the theatres and all the actors and all the authors we are all forcedby the existingridiculous state of affairs to the King’s Household, to becontrolled by him abso- to assume technically that this prejudiced person is no other lutely,like the rest of his houses and servants. The offi- thanthe King. If that is not enough to convince all the cials appointed to carry out this control are not responsible authorities concerned, Royal, Ministerial,journaIistic, and to Parliament. No really direct question as to their pro- common, that the situation is altogether intolerable, nothing ceedings canbe asked in Parliament : Mr. Harcourt was is. -Yours truly, G. BERNARDSHAW. muzzled until he hit on the expedient of asking a question aboutforeign censorships. A vote to reducetheir salaries * * * could only takethe form of a proposal tocut down the King‘s retinue. An attempt on thepart of anyplaywright Of the thousand and more voting papers received by to treat a dispute over the licensing of a play as a matter us onthe question whether THE NEW AGE should be between himself andthe Lord Chamberlain wouldbe as raised in price to twopence, 97 per cent. were in favour incorrect asan attempt to treat a dinner invitation as a of the increase. Despite this gratifying result, we have matter between the guest and the butler. decided on mature consideration that it will be more in The position is, of course, obsolete and unworkable; accordwith the spirit -and purpose of THENEW AGE but it is not unreal, as I know to my heavy cost. If a tomaintain its present price. A pennyreview of the cotton manufacturer or an ironmasterhad been injured in present character has never succeeded in England (more his business, both asto money and reputation,as I have shameto England), and may never succeed ; butthe been by it,legislation would have been promised within experiment is well worth continuing to make long as twenty-four hours to remedy the matter. They tell me that so the King cannot defend himself. I do not know that he has it is possible. Without an organisation at its back, and any cause to; what I do know is that I cannot defend my- in theteeth of thestupidest hostility, it is hard for self. When a soap manufacturer is accused of giving short THE NEW AGE tocommand success ; butwe can do measure he is able to bring his accuser before a jury and more,we can deserve it.With an excellent pro- recover damages that are not only adequate, but exemplary. gramme of work before us, such as would justify any When a precisely analogous injury is done to me, I have no Socialistmillionaire in instantly endowing THE NEW remedy except to state my grievance; and because this AGE handsomely, we appeal to our readers to do their grievance happens to lie technically against the King I am told thatit would be in bettertaste for me to suffer in best to procurenew subscribers. A circulation of fifty silence. I can only reply that suffering in silence does not thousandwould enable us to produce the best penny agree with my temperament. review the world has ever seen ; and the population of Inow wish to call attention to a very remarkable example England is forty millions-mostly non-readers, 132 THE NEW AGE JUNE IO, 1909

adoptedone excellentSocialistic principle when he The Great Cable Scandal. argues : “As Ihave often contended, where exclusive II. possession of a right by an individualmeans a depri- vation of essential or valuableprivileges to the entire THEREare a number of cable companies, but they are community, the State should assume the ownership in governed by about six men. The principal magnate in trust for the citizens. A huge profit in cablegrams is as this Trust is Sir John Denison Pender, K.C.M.G., who noxious and indefensible as one on conversations with isManaging Director of theEastern Telegraph Co., friendsand customers.” If a labourer in England wishes tolearn whether his son in SouthAfrica had the Eastern and South African Telegraph Co., and the perishedin some terrible mining disaster, heand his West African Telegraph Co. Heis DeputyChairman familycould only purchase the sad information by of theWestern Telegraph Co., andChairman of the sacrificing his wages for a fortnight or three weeks. As WestCoast of America Telegraph Co. He.is a an argument for nationalisation of the cables this state- Trustee of theSubmarine Cables Trust.He is a ment is unanswerable, and we leave the mere argument Director of the followingcompanies : The Spanish there. Telegraph Co., EasternExtension Australasia and This is a reformwhich only requires a Postmaster- China Telegraph Co., the Europe and Azores Telegraph General of strengthand initiative tocarry through to atriumphant conclusion. Will Mr.Sydney Buxton Co., Ltd., Globe Telegraph and Trust Co., Ltd., Pacific seize this opportunity of marking his tenure of office by andEuropean Telegraph Co., Ltd., River Plate Tele- conferringon the English speaking world the inesti- graph Co., Ltd.,and the Direct United States Cable mableboon of penny a wordcables? Mr. Sydney Co. Yetwe are told thereare nosuch things as Buxton has the chance of redeeming his office from the monopoliesin England ! Who murmured“free com- taunt that the Postmaster-General is a mere figurehead to routine. The Postmaster-General,unlike other petition “ ? SirJohn Denison Pender has an affec- tionate regard for family ties, because we observe that Ministerswho have tried to nationalise monopolies, holds all the trumps. The Cable companies are at his he has the support of Mr. John C. Denison Pender, who mercy ; he could starve them into abject surrender, or isa Director of theEastern Telegraph Ca. andthe complete them out of existenceby constructing new South African Telegraph Co. ; while Sir James Pender, cables. It would be right to give the Cable Companies Bart., is fortunate enough to hold directorships in the a chance of being bought out on the average price of following corporations : DirectUnited States Cable threeyears’ quotations of theirshares. This would be Co., Ltd., Globe Telegraphand Trust Co., andthe too generous compensation ; but a great Empire cannot ,TelegraphConstruction and Maintenance Co. Mr. afford tobe ungenerous. If theseCable Companies prefer to fight for so manyyears’ purchase, then the A. G. Brodrick(now Viscount Midleton) is a Director Government could easilydefeat them, because, as Mr. of these companies : Eastern Extension Australasia and Henniker Heaton urges, ‘‘ Yet the Postmaster-General China Telegraph Co., Eastern and South African. Tele- hasabsolute control over the cables in his hands, graph Co., Pacific and European Telegraph Co., River becausehe holds (and will always hold) thelanding PlateTelegraph Co., West Africa Telegraph Co., rights and inland transmission for, Great Britain, with- Western Telegraph Co., and Managing Director of the out which not a single cable message could be sent by African DirectTelegraph Co. Sir A. J. L. Cappel, the monopolist companies.” Onthe other hand, the difficulties of gettingthe K.C. I.E.,is a Director of theEastern Extension Postmaster-General tostir onthis vital question are, Australasia and China Telegraph Co. ; he is Chairman judgingfrom past experience,very formidable. We of the Pacific andEuropean Telegraph Co. ; he is suspect thatpast inaction has been dueto backstairs Director of theRiver Plate Telegraph Co., Ltd., the influence exercised by the directors and shareholders in Easternand South Africa Telegraph Co., West thesemonopolist companies. Whathas happened in Coast of America Telegraph Co., andthe Western thecase of theImperial “Press ” Conference is an Telegraph Co. TheMarquis of Tweeddale, K.T., instance of whathas happened before,and what may happenagain, until thismonstrous octopus,whose with the modesty of a marquis, is contented with being tentaclesstrangle the sources of information,has its a Director of theEastern Extension, etc., Telegraph life crushedout by the insistence of the people of Co. and the West African Telegraph Co. Lord Balfour England on their right to talk freely and cheaply with of Burleigh, who was the Chairman of the Committee their cousins in the Antipodes. which reported that“all proposals for a very large Mr. Henniker.Heaton has struck a note of sadness reduction in existing rates were quite impracticable,” is when he writes : ‘‘ For forty years I have seen a quarter a Director of the River Plate Telegraph Co., and of the of a million of our sons and daughters leave their native WesternTelegraph Co. SirJohn Wolfe Barry is land every year, never to return ; but no effort has been made to cheapen and so encourage communication Chairman of theEastern Extension., etc., Telegraph betweenthem and the ‘ old folks at home.’ For a Co., of theRiver Plate Telegraph Co., and of the quarter of a century I have watched the growth of an WesternTelegraph Co. Mr. B. J.Wolfe Barry is a immense cable monopoly with enormously high charges Director of the Pacific andEuropean Telegraph Co. to our Colonies and dependencies, yet not one word has LordR. H. Browneis a Director of theRiver Plate been spoken by a British Postmaster-General in favour Telegraph Co. and of the Western Telegraph Co. Mr. of reducingthe high cable rates. I have sat atgreat F. A. Johnston is a Director of theEastern and State CableConferences side by sidewith representa- South African Telegraph Co., of the Eastern Telegraph tives of the Government of Great Britain, and not ‘one Co, Ltd., the Europe and Azores Telegraph Co., Ltd., attempt was made by them to lessen the cost of theRiver Plate Telegraph Co., theWest Coast of cabling.)’ America Telegraph Co., and the Western TelegraphCo. Mr. SydneyBuxton hashis chance. This is not .a The above-named companies include every important party question, but the advantage of the whole people English cable company, and their government is in the balanced against the huge profits of discredited mono- hands of a few men who constitute a happy ’family of polists.Let him take his courageinto his hands and unscrupulousmonopolists. Well mayMr. Henniker addthe destruction of this unsocial monopoly tothe Heaton say : “There is a clearcase for State good record of the present Cabinet. In so doing, what- purchase.” It is a positive dangerto humanity that ever the dummy uproar of widows and orphans who, we suchpower should be vested in six oreight irrespon- shall be told, hold all the Cable Companies’ shares, he sible men. These men candictate what information will be conferring an incalculable benefit on 400,000,000 should be disseminated through the Empire ; they have citizens of the King-Emperor and on humanity at large. anabsolute right of rejecting or holding up any Will he rise to this grand occasion? message. The Conservative Mr. Henniker Heaton has “N.” JUNE IO, I909 THE NEW AGE ,133

of Mr.Hardie, not because they are silly or amusing, Mr. Buffalo Hardie, M.P. butbecause they reveal the real man. When we in- dited our open letter to him, many of the brethren were “The same instinct which lends a herd of buffaloes or a pack startledand pained. “Can these thingsbe? ” they of wolves to follow the older and stronger members of the herd or askedin pained surprise. This tractproves beyond Pack operates in like fashion in a great detmocratic movement. cavilthat we thencorrectly diagnosed Mr. Hardie’s It is the truest and purest of demrcvncy.” form truecharacter. To drivethe point home, we will cite Mr. KEIR HARDIE’S“ CONFESSION OF FAITH.” another instance of ‘really unscrupulous misrepresenta- Mr. Keir Hardie has issued a rejoinder to his critics, tion.Referring to Mr. Grayson’s dramatic action in amongst whomwe modestly count ourselves. It is the House of Commons, Mr. Hardie says :- grandiloquentlyentitled Nobody seeks to justify Mr. Grayson having acted without “MY CONFESSION OF FAITH any consultation whatever with any of his colleagues. IS THE LABOUR ALLIANCE.” Colleagues ! Will our readers actually believe that the There is a warning in holy writ against writing books ; LabourParty had by formalresolution previously de- we wonder with what shivering amazement the prophet clined to accept Mr. Grayson as a colleague? Yet such of oldwould regard this tract. Mr. Hardie tells us isthe fact. Nobody knows this better than Mr. that one of his reasons for resigning from the govern- Hardie ; nevertheless, hedoes not scruple to penthis ing body of the I.L.P. was that :- suggestiofalsi. Of Mr.Keir Hardie’s spiritual death, I might be free to write a polemic like this pamphlet. therecan now be no doubt ; likeMax Nordau he is dead anddoesn’t know it. The spirit inwhich it’is writtenis best illustrated in Now THENEW AGE hasconsistently advocated the his own words :- organisation of consciousSocialism. We have neces- I wanted to aid, as one of the rank and file, in combatting the spirit of petty meanness, of unworthysuspicion, of im- sarily been forced into sharpcriticism of certain aspects puting unworthymotives, of puttinga sinister interpre- of the Labour Alliance. We havebeen candid, but tation upon everything of which you don'tapprove, or don’t we .havenever hit below the belt. It would be a understand, which has been spreadinglike a dry rot in pleasure to to meet some consistent and clear argu- certain districts. us mentfor the Alliance inits present form. Buthow Oneor two other choice extractsenlighten us asto arewe to deal with such a preposterous effusion as Mr.Hardie’s unhappy frame of mind :- this from Mr. Keir Hardie? In a sense his position is There are yet others, and riot a few, not confined to any class,who are not selected as candidates becausethey are impregnable. He believes thatevery Socialist who toowell known. I could name, say, a baker’sdozen of men does not agree with his policy is politically damned. who act as though theirprincipal reason-for being in the That policyis also mine, and I want the arty to grasp I.L.P. is that they may get returned to Parliament. it more fully, realise it more in practice, be less tolerant of Clearlya most discreditable ambition-not to be ascribed those who are opposed to it. . . . to Mr. Hardie or his fidus Achates, Mr. Frank Smith. Aswe donot agree with that policy, it is clearthat Butthese unworthy rebels apparently have some fol- we have no right to utter another word. Mr. Hardie’s lowing. This is how Mr. Hardie regards them :- proclamationconvicts us of lèse majesté “Iam Sir Their supporters in the I.L.P. are, to a larger extent, men Oracle ; when I speak,let no dog bark ! ” Does it just one degree removed from the artisan, who scorn mem- notoccur to thousands of therank and fileof the bershipin a trade union, and resent being mixed up with I.L.P. that this dogmatic and malicious leadership must a LabourParty. They haveyet to learnthat Socialism inevitablyland the party on the rocks? Mr. Hardie means fellowship, andthat the I.L.P. has no room for a set of superior persons. himself knows it : This is very hard on the Fabian Society-ungenerous, The secret of our success has been ourability to unite men of diverse gifts, giving each an outlet for hisspecial too,corning so soonafter that “set of superiorper- talents. sons ” had financed Mr.Frank Smith’s escapade at Thatwas true of theI.L.P. ten years ago. To-day it Taunton.Then there are other evildisposed persons isthe simple fact that Socialists of diversegifts and who are doing their best to foment strife in the I.L.P., and special talents are giving the party a wide berth. Again these can in almost every case, be traced either to men who have taken little, if any, share in the drudgery of the move- we quote : ment, and who consequently know nothing about it,or to A broad tolerant catholicity has always been a leading disappointed office seekers. characteristic of the I.L.P. . . . It has alwaysrecognised that only by encouraging freedom of thoughtand activity Mr.Hardie has his critics on the horns of a nasty could growth and expansion be expected. dilemma : if theyhave taken part in thework of the It weresurely significant that it is only since Mr. party,then they are “disappointed office-seekers ” ; if Hardie and his entourage adopted the frankly intolerant theyhave had other things to do, then they “know attitudetowards those Socialists who believein a So- nothingabout it.” There is nothing like Labour poli- cialist Partythat the I.L.P. has ceased to grow and ticsfor sharpening one’s wits ! Of course,we do not expand.The tragedy of thesituation isthat we escape :- cannot effectually appeal to dead souls. The handful of irresponsibles who control the political We will, however, endeavour once more to. state the policy of THENEW AGE, most of them disciples of Nietzsche, --the neurotic apostle of modern Anarchism-who assail the caseas it appears to us. Mr. Hardiethinks that we LabourParty, they arethereby violating the canons of cravefor excitement and fail to realise the need for classical Socialist doctrine. . . . detailed constructive work. As usual, he is wide of the It is a mere trifle thatnot a singlemember of our mark. We heartilysupported Mr. Grayson when he staff is a disciple of Nietzsche ; itis even a less trifle flouted theHouse of Commons. We thinkhis inter- that Nietzsche is not an apostle of modern Anarchism ; ventionwas timely andsalutary. Weare certain it it is a pretty little effort. of imagination to assert that heartenedthe rank and file. Butto live onthat kind we “assailthe Labour Party.’’ We havealways sus- of emotionalexcitement would be to live onsponge- pected Mr. Hardie of being a man of imagination. With cakeand champagne. It is good and delightful in its him, truth him, i rightdegree. We- want, however, intelligent legisla- “ Starts andtrembles under his feet, tion. Take the Minority Report of the Poor Law Com- And blossoms in purple and red.” mission. It is clearly anhistoric document of first We havethought it necessary to quote these words importance.It hm captivatedboth Mr, Winston 134 THE NEW AGE JUNE .IO, 1909

Churchill and Mr. Lloyd George. THENEW AGE has And this is why Mr. Hardie doesnot favour payment positively devoted at least twenty times more space and of members :- fiftytimes. more consideration toitthan has the I? personally, would regret to see this important and desirable measure forced to the front by the Labour Party. “Labour Leader.’’ Judging by hispublic utterances, He seeks,not the discipline of principle, butthe dis- it would seem doubtfulwhether Mr. Hardiehas ever cipline of money. Heis apolitical capitalist. read or understoodit. He is certainly the last man Nothing -is more distressing in this “polemic ” than in the Socialistmovement to complain’ that his critics itsmanifest indications- of intellectualbankruptcy. disregard.constructive details. Hehas been in Par- There is not to be found in it a glimmer of inspiration liament for twelve years ; and his legislative output is or a spark of clearthinking. From beginning to end, nil. We donot complain of this,for Mr. Hardiehas it is. an inconsequent flowof vindictiveness,misstate- ment and false suggestion. The old Hardie was a man neverbeen in power. But he hasno kind of rightto ‘of insight, generosity and something of a prophet. His assumebecause we wantanaggressive. Socialist virtue has gone out from him, and so he has descended Party in Parliamentthat therefore we only cravefor ’to thesedepths. We sincerely hope that for the credit unhealthyexcitement. Itis an insult to the intelli- of theBritish movement as a whole, ourcomrades in gence of his readers. Our contention is that aggressive other countries will not see thismost unhappy tract. politics is practical,politics ; that the more unrelenting ‘‘ If ,this is writtenby a British Socialist leader, what must be thecondition of the movement in Great Britain? ” our pressure on the Government, the more fruitful the they will ask. And whoshall answer save sadly? legislation. We furthercontend that it is impossible Unfortunately, Mr. Hardiegives us the key tohis tomaintain that pressure unless the party is actuated creed, Buffaloes and wolves follow the olderand by a body of doctrine that clearly distinguishes it from strongermembers ; andthis is-so hetells us-the Liberalism or Toryism.Nobody who has closely essence of Democracy. Analogies between Man and the watched the Labour Party in Parliament can truthfully brute creation are never perfect, and always dangerous. affirm that it is moved by any kind of political or social In thisinstance, the statement is onlypartially true of wolves, andnot at alltrue of buffaloes. Butlet doctrine : it lives from hand to mouth ; it is opportunist Mr. Hardiepursue the subject. He will discover that to the core.Again, we do notcomplain, forthe wolves habitually kill theirworn-out members. So, Labour Party is not. and has never pretended to be a too,do buffaloes, though morerarely. Does Mr. SocialistParty. All we ask is‘ thatthere shall be a Hardie,remember goring to death an old buffalo named Socialist Party alive toits own body of doctrineand Benjamin Pickard?Does Mr. Hardie remember an mindful of its great traditions. old member of the herdnamed Broadhurst?Does he Mr. Hardiereiterates the absurd contention that remember his relentless feud with him? Was that also “thetruest and purest form of Democracy ” ? Absit the Labour Party is the only expression of orthodox Marxian omen ! We haveno wish to see Mr. Hardie con- Socialism in Great Britain. signed to the Arcana of the Pickards and Broadhursts. If itwere so, why is Mr. Hardie in thatgalley? He But he is asking for it. However, is it true democracy has been a bitter opponent of Marxian Socialism ever “ to follow the older andstronger members ” ? We haverepeatedly heard thisargument advanced for an since we can remember him. Wedo not ‘think he aristocracy or aplutocracy : in itspresent guise it is couldsuccessfully undergoan examination in “ Das novelty.a Whereverin practice ‘the principleis Kapital.” That is,however, an unessentialdetail. It adopted it leads to ancestor worship. Now we see the is the. vogue in this country to criticise Marx without reasonfor so manyheart-breaking appeals for those reading him. Butit cannot be too clearlyemphasised “who have grown grey in the movement,” or for “the thatMarx’s attitude towards the working-class move- old warrior.” We do not yield to Mr. Hardie in our acceptance ment was conditioned by his belief in the necessity of a of loyalty to the democratic principle ; but our conception consciousclass-struggle. This is precisely what Mr. of Democracy is widely different. We believe that Hardieand his colleagues emphaticallyrepudiate. But Democracy can discover and faithfully follow the truth, even ‘if Marx were alive to-day and were to be found whatever may be the opinions or interests of “the older supportingthe Labour Party, our position would be andstronger members of theherd or pack.” We be- unaffected. Much waterhas run under the bridge lieve that Democracy is ever ready to fight and suffer sincethe days of theInternational. The real condem- for great ideas, and that it will never for long submIt to the dictates of the political machine. The history of nation of this ridiculousclaim isfound in the simple Democracy is the putting down of the mighty from their factthat the LabourParty, so far fromhelping. So- seats, and the exalting of them of low degree. Demo- cialist candidatures actually. discourages them-indeed, cracyforgives mistakes ; itspunishment of thearro- renders them almost impossible. We again quote from gant is swift and condign. this “Confession ” :- Why, then, it may be asked, is it that nomiddle class man has yet been returned to Parliament? My reply is that that is a matter for the constituencies which select and A Delicious and nourishing milk return the candidates. and cereal food for general use This is disingenuous. Mr. Hardie knows perfectly well that in at least twentyconstituencies definite Socialist Neave’s candidatures would have been preferred were it not for financialconsiderations. “ We wantedSo-and-so, but had to take So-and-so, because his Union could find the HEALTH DIET money,”has beenthe crythroughout Yorkshire and (Manufactured by the Proprietors of Lancashire. We go further : we know at least half-a- NEAVE’S FOOD FOR INFANTS) Especially valuable for Dyspeptics, dozen Labour candidates who would infinitely prefer to Convalescents, Invalids and the hoist the red flag, but they have had to toe the Labour Aged, etc.,on account of its digesti- bility and strengthening proporties. lineexclusively for monetary reasons. Inthe Labour Delicate and growing children should movement, “money talks ”-and Mr. Hardie knows it. have this nourishing and health- giving diet daily for breakfast. Incidentally,this disposes of hisignoble jibe that the Quickly & easilytins b Grocers new Socialist movement is being advocated by men who made. Sold in 1/3 .& 3/6 and Chemists want tobe adopted as Parliamentary candidates. With A sample will be sent on receipt of two an elastic conscience nothing is easier than to kow-tow penny stamps-mentioning this Publication. to the present Labour leaders and obtain a nomination. JOSlAH R. NEAVE & CO., Openlyto advocate the formation of a Socialist Party Fordingbridge, Hants. is a sure way to a prolonged sojourn in the wilderness. JUNE IO, 1909 THE NEW AGE 135

create ?- Itwould be.. as reasonableto ask the shades Mr. Wells’s Polity of Babies. of Diogenes and Romulus to blessPomponius Laetus as to ‘expect the enlightenmentof this age-to greet’with A Retrospect. rapture, or .with anything but ‘revulsion -and contempt, the’ideal, -of a socialpolity saturatedwith- and en- By C. H.N orman. wrapped in the multiplication table-and possibly a (All Rights Reserved.) promiscuous.multiplication table ! Behold ! the. red Mr. H. G. WELLS haschosen. “The Christian Com- rose of love, the lily of the .valley, emblem of happiness, monwealth ” as the organ for his latest outburst on the “distilledfrom liquid-music of thegrove bynightin- iniquities of his fellow-Socialists. It is a fitting vehicle gales,” the glorious rhododendron, the gay buttercup, for a heaven-sent critic to ride in ; it is like hitching a and the elegant bluebell of constancy--do they exist to waggon to a star. procreate or to enchant the eye and inspire the mind? It is astonishing to think that Mr. Wells should have Let him who dares analyse the garden of Nature on the written “ Mankind in theMaking ” so ’recently as principles of procreation ! 1902-1903. In a sense,Mr. Wells has a strong claim Mr.. Wellsand Ignorance have, in thispassage, tobe regarded as the Eighth Wonder of theancient marched arm-in-arm to herald the pronouncement that world, for in “ Mankind in the Making ” he has reverted -Lifeis more wonderful than Death. The audacity of to Sparta for his scheme of life. the modern pseudo-scientific writer is really marvellous. My reflections on this book are not based upon any In all humility, we inquirefrom Mr. Wells why he, belief in “the sentimentalised affinities of young people knowing.nothing of thè spiritual mystery of Death, in thespring,” nor upon anyregret at seeing poor should invite us toabase ourselves at the altar of a Cupid dethroned from his regal position in the scheme vulgarprocreative Life? The magnificence and the ofcreation in favour of a stallion andstud eugenics. intangibility of Death, though they may not attract Mr. It is founded upon the carefully formed judgment of the Wells like the wonders of Life, are more splendid than writerthat Mr. Wells, in thisbook and inhis later’ ,the solidarity and objectivity of Life-progression. works,is seeking to entice us on a vainchase after .Death,is the apparent victor in the combat of the thebeckoning phantom of PhysicalRegeneration. We world. The spear of Hela pricks the tree of Ygdrasill, are invited by Mr.Wells to transform the world into claiming a victim witheach stab ; but,then, fresh a huge baby manufactory ; in fact, Mr. Wells demands, shootsspring. forth in fair array to replace the dead in a squeakybut clamant voice, thatthe produc- twigs ; so thebattle is renewed. As thelate Prince tionand perfection of babiesshould be the Alpha and Hohenlohe remarked sadly in one of his letters : Omega of thefuture Anglo-Saxonpolity. Whathas Human life is a strange thing. A manlives 51 years happened tothe romances of Mr. Wells?Listen to happilyand contentedly, and thencomes the wreckwhich these words : destroyseverything. And for this was mancreated ;‘yet it Any collective human enterprise, institution, movement, were better for himnever to have been born. Sophocles party, or state, is to be judged as a whole and completely, as said this centuries ago, and everyoneknows it, and forgets it conducesmore or less to wholesome and hopeful births, it every day, while life draws to its close, while man receives and accordingto the qualitative and quantitative advance stars and orders, and is then forgotten. due to its influencemade by each generation of citizens This philosophy of Procreation is a denial of Religion, born under its influence,towards a higherand ampler of Virtue, and of Constancy ; it is a satire on Love. It standard of life. is giving practical effect to Schopenhauer on Women, ; Againhe exclaims, “Life is a texture of births !” Mr. Wells is marching in the rear. which sums up the point of view guiding the argument Inawarding the laurels of progressto Life,in the of the book. If thistheory of a procreativeState had sense of Birth, Mr. Wellshas assumed unto himself been advanced by the dullest rioter in sexuality, its de- the office of umpire orjudge of the universe.’Nowa- lightfulinsolence would have justified a full hearing. days he,has left the universe to arbitratein the Socialist Butwhen one of themost original and ingenious movement as to who is right or wrong ; of course, he Englishthinkers fathers upon an astonishedthough isan arbitrator whose award is final. Thereis no somewhat wearied world a new suckling polity of babies appeal from a decision of Mr. Wells. -a morning of babies,an afternoon of babies,an But‘Life and Death are in eternal conflict. Though evening of babies, a howling wilderness of babies !-it Deathmay gain the day, the triumph is a temporary is time to collect one’s scattered wits and examine the one,for the legions of Life are innumerable.Still, in proposal with some care. deciding this world-contest (which is fought, in reality, From the seed contained in this sentence Mr. Wells’s in the pre-natal and post-mortem periods) in favour of wonderfultheory of the over-allsupremacy of pro- Life orBirth, Mr. Wellshas promulgated a decree creation has taken its growth : without hearing the merits of the contending parties ; Take away this fact of birth, and what is there remaining? for what can we poor humans appreciate of these ter- A world without flowers, without the singing of birds, with- ribleissues? A humanbeing is the shuttlecock tossed out thefreshness of youth, with a springthat brings no seedlings, and a year that bears noharvest, and without betweenthe battledores of Lifeand Death. Mr. Wells defeats, a .vast stagnation, a universe of inconsequent matter has approached the problem of Life in the spirit in which --Death.Not only does the substance of life vanish ifwe a village schoolmaster corrects a paper on geography. eliminate births, etc., etc. “The Map of Life ” is nothing to him but a squeaking Dearme ! “A world withoutthe freshness of multitude of babies ; just as geography is nothing to the youth ” would be sad indeed ; but a world without the rural schoolmaster but a collection of towns,counties, peevish arrogance of middle age and the self-importance capes, rivers, and mountains. of converted Big men, judging from Mr. Wells’s taste- In presuming “birth ” to be the chiefest (‘fact ” of ful displays in the field of Socialistpolitics, would be the universe, we assert that Mr. Wells has fallen into quite a tolerable place. anerror which vitiateshis whole thesis.Birth is only Unhappily, a fewdoubts occur to a humbleand in- incidental to the scheme of the universe ; it is not, and quiringmind. True, it may be that on takingaway cannotbe, the scheme of theuniverse. Science has “the fact of birth ” there only remains “a universe of vaguely chattered for decades of the Darwinian theory, inconsequent matter-Death ” ; yet, if there be no Life,, as Religion has lampoonedGod, in theImmaculate therecan be no Death. SO the gloomy picturefades. Conception,through many centuries ; but,when we What appears at first sight to be an unanswerable pro- have implicitlyaccepted all thesevarious theories and position reveals itself, when followed by criticism to its beliefs,how much nearer are we to understanding the logicalconclusion, as one of theoldest fallacies: flight of a daddy. longlegs, the psychology of a magpie, How worn and threadbare is the gown of procreation orthe utilityof a blackbeetle? The objectivity of will be seen by the application of the gentlest strain to Birth illumines the subjectivity of Death and Time-the its texture. Are we to assume that the country lawns, riddle of creation-in the same degree as the grasping highways,and bye-ways are peopledby thaterratic minginess of a Harpagon or the vindictive savagery of wanderer of thenight, a “daddylonglegs,” as this a Barère interprets the generous prodigality of a Gold- strange insect, a seeker after light, by whimsical fancy smithor the noble chivalry of a Chevalierde Maison of the countrysideis titled, in orderthat it maypro- Rouge. 136 THE NEW AGE JUNE IO, I909 ~-

Inanother chapter Mr. Wells drives home his con- would enslave women more than that house from which tention : Nora fled. Westand fast against this ghastly figure Any collective human enterprise . . . . is to be judged as clad in the garments of Progress under which the vile a whole andcompletely, as it conduces more or less to corruption of Procreation in perpetuumis concealed. wholesome and hopeful births. The number of children each woman should bear is the Headmits that the science of heredityis a dim light concern of each individual woman ; certainly not of the to guide one on these serious questions, and he agrees mannor of theman-governed State. One wouldhope that the mating of two noble beings will not necessarily that Mr. Wellshas lost his baby-obsession bynow, produce a perfectchild. Theoffspring of the philo- otherwise he must find the Reform Club somewhat un- sophic Marcus Aurelius and the beautiful Faustina was comfortable. thewretched, maleficent weakling,Commodus. Any Mr. Wells has this ignoble comment on the attitude eugenist wouldbe hardpressed to explain why the of the Liberals who criticised the South African concen- austere virtues of MarcusAurelius and the gallantries tration camps :- of Faustina,when combined, failed so miserably. The The same men, who spouted infinite mischiefbecause a truthis, however rigorously and selectively thefirst totally unforeseen and unavoidable epidemic of measles generation be mated, we cannot know what the second killed some thousands of children in South Africa, who, for generation will be. Yet Mr. Wells calls upon the world some idiotic or wicked vote-catching purpose, .attempted to to adopthis baby-manufactory polity, at once, in the turn that epidemic to the permanent embitterment of Dutch present order. of society. To do so would be to sow the and English, these same men allow thousands and thou- wind. Thebetterment of thestock must automatically sands of avoidable deaths of English children close at hand to pass absolutely unnoticed. follow on the beneficial change in the economic basis of This is strange writing from the hand which drafted a societyfor which Socialistsare agitating. Away with manifestoin favour of Mr. Winston Churchill. It is a these myths of “wholesome and hopeful births,” and on charge that the Liberals who opposed the concentration with the economic revolution ! campshave deliberately winked their eyes at “avoid- Mr. Wells appeals to us able deaths ” ; it borders on chargeof constructive To reject . . . . all such ideas as Right, Liberty,Happi- a ness, Duty,and Beauty, and to hold fastto the assertion murder ! As amatter of fact,this is an absolutely of the fundamental nature of life as a tissue and succession falsestatement. The alleged motive is acruel and of births. wicked libel on many honourable men and women. The Mr. Wells may reject all these “ideas ” if he likes ; but critics of thesecamps “spouted,” to use Mr. Wells’s we decline to swallow such tommy rot. Per contra, we elegant word, the excellent common sense that if a lot saythat procreation is secondary.The legacy of hap- of children were herded together in a place where sani- piness is what we shouldleave to theworld, not a tary arrangements were very primitive or non-existent, multitude of unhappybabes. When the New Repub- an epidemicwas bound to ensue. Anyone outside a lican has improved on his contemporary standard of art, lunaticasylum, except “thepantaloons in putties,” happiness,and joyous gaiety, then he may regard knew some calamity would occur, an,d these dismal fore- himself as having played an heroic part in the advance- bodings proved to be correct. ment of the newRepublic towards the perfection of We refrainfrom commenting at lengthon the slip- Individualism ; not merely by fulfilling the natural duty shod way in which this book is written ; but “all con- of fathering children. scious human will and act is but the imperfect expres- There are other passages in this volume which cannot sion and realisation ” jars onone astoo much of a be passedover. For instance : verbal singularity.Again : “Thepoint of viewwhich I would even go so far as to suggest that it is only within will bedisplayed in relation to a number of wide the lasthundred years that any considerable number of questions in thesepages isprimarily that of the thoughtful peoplehave come to look at life steadily and writer’s.”The possessive here is too objective. Then : consistently as being shaped to this form; to the form of a series of births, growths and births. “One forgets that ,this present German efficiency was paralleled in the eighteenth century by Prussia, whose Also, “it is onlywithin the last hundred years ” that theregulation and limitation of familieshave become aristocratic system first winded Republicans at Valmy.” important social factors.Putting aside the Malthusian The “wind” has blown up “ the spout ” on this occasion, theory of population,the leisured and middle class to adopt Mr.Wells’s brilliant choice of wordsfor the women of the civilisedpeoples arebearing fewer and moment, because we seem to remember that Kellermann fewerchildren. But these arethe classes to which routedthe Prussians at the cannonade of Valmy, so Mr. Wells must look for his improvement in the stock, checkingthe allied- Powers’ invasion of France.Mr. since the working classes are unable now, for economic Wells’shistory is as novel as histheories. Both have. reasons, to amendthe conditions under which their the common factor of having no relation to the realities childrenareborn. Moreover, among the skilled of history. artisans, as educationspreads, there is the same ten- His intolerance of thought is confirmed by this shock- dencytowards limiting the family. Mr. Wells has ing slander on Atheists : failed to connectthe limit-ation of familieswith the That is the downright atheist, the man whobelieves sen- sual pleasure, is all that there is of pleasure, and virtue no emancipation of women. . Heroams at large in the more than a hood to check the impetuosity of youth until realm of motherhood,spinning pretty phrases about discretion is acquired, the man who believes there is nothing “the duty ” of women to be mothers, concluding with else inthe world buthard material fact, and who has as this -inimitable futility : “It is only the young fool and much respect for truthand religion ashe has for stable the brooding mattoid who believe in a special, separate manure. science of ‘ women.’ ” Such is Mr. Wells’s swan-song Thevulgarity of thisrant is beyondcondemnation. onthe vanishing and misused supremacy of menover The brazen impudence of a writer whose essential thesis women. Hismusic is somewhatscreechy. Obviously, invites us “to reject . . . . allsuch ideas asRight, women, as they obtain economic and personal freedom, Liberty,Happiness, Duty or Beauty ”-for what? the will limit their’ families,because they will decline to procreation of babies-isonly equalled by his colossal submittoo frequently to the pain and suffering which impudenceand self-satisfied vanity. Bah ! let us get theyundergo in theagonies of child-birth. Mr. Wells intothe fresh air and breathe the purity of summer shouldread M. Brieux’splay, “ Maternité.” As it is, breezesuntroubled by anythoughts of thisrancorous hisutterances on the Woman question remindone of andmisguided man. One may accept the material- the speeches of a certain politician, in which there is a isticconception of history ; butnot the materialistic, Brockdisplay of epigramsand witticisms, which the conception of babies. C. H. NORMAN. industry of asecretary has garnered from Swift, La Rochefoucau!d, ComtesseDiane, Oscar Wilde, John OliverHobbes, or the Duke ofBelle Isle-they ring DELICIOUS COFFEE false.They pretend to a nobilityof ideal, but ifwe adoptthem, smirking and grinning, we shallfind our women condemned to a worse fate than the Circassian RED WHITE & BLUE- slave, the signora-of the night, or the Japanese geisha. For Breakfast & after Dinner. Mr. Wells has constructed a new Doll’s House which JUNE IO, 1909 THE NEW AGE 137

with a wave ofThe hand : “There is something worth America and the Chinese fightingfor,” meaning the ChineseEmpire. Then I began to realise whatthe Eastern question meant for Problem. the people of Russia. But when we entered the throne room of Catherine the Great, with its maze of mellow By Francis Grierson. light, its wonderful calm, and its fascinating simplicity, all this, unitedto something singularly Oriental, made PERHAPSthe curse of our time is ‘detachment--detached me realise how unnaturalRussian dominion is in politics anddetached patriotism keep pace with. the Western Europe, and how much in harmony it is with penchant for detached villas, and principals and parties Easternthought and religion. There will beno hangtogether much as astring of mottledbeads, Russian question in Western Europe, but the time will without harmony or design. Take twelve educated men come when Germany will possess the whole of North- coming together by chance, take any subject, political, easternRussia, and Constantinople will belong to Austro-Germania. And here, wehave the question of social, or religious, and seehow much unity of judg- the yellow racespressing homecloser and closer. In ment you willfind among the twelve. On one question Russiathere isa FarEastern question,which means there will beabsolute agreement-the firm conviction China and Japan ; in Australia and New Zealand there thatthe company,taken separately, are composedof is thesame question, but more imperative ; while on detachedunits, eachman determined to takecare of the Pacific Coast of America, from Mexico toBritish himself,secretly detached from. the opinions of the Columbia, the question has even now shaped itself into others. It requiresno subtle reasoning to see that in one of imminent peril. The whole thingseems so time of grave disorder and trouble the nations destined remote from the England we are living in that to fear to win are the nations with the greatest attachment to troublefrom that source seemslike an id!e dream. unity. Where are those nations?The people of China And yetthat is where our futuretroubles will be arethe most unified people in the world to-day. The found. Our very .existence is bound up in this question Japanese come next. In Europe the Germans are with- of China andJapan because of Australiadirectly and out doubt the people with the most political and intel- the United States indirectly. Incase England went to lectualconcentration. France and England seem to be warwith some greatEuropean nation, the Japanese at thishour vieing with each other in how best the could landin .Australia unless America tookthe part individual can become detachedfrom patriotism, from of England. religion, andfrom commonsense. Intime of trouble One neversees anOriental question clearlyunless conflicting sentiments and interests must lead direct to one has some knowledge of the people under discussion. disaster. Itwas in SanFrancisco in 1875 that Ifirst had an Inthe progress of a people thereare two elements opportunity of studyingthe Chinese character.There which constitutewhat maybe called their destiny- was at the timea population of 30,000 Chinese,with materialforce and spiritual power.Experienced poli- two large theatres of their own ; but not till I crossed ticiansfrequently foresee commercial events with the Pacific on the“City of Sydney ” in 1877 from strikingaccuracy, because theyreason from a visible California toAustralia did I get areal vision of a causeto a direct and logicalresult ; butthe material Chinese horde on the move from one part of the world eye,no matter how keen,fails topenetrate the world toanother. The steamer was the largest plying of spiritualwin, where the elements at work are in- between the ports of San Francisco and Sydney, carry- visible and silent, and out of which grave events often ing hundreds of Chinese en route for Honolulu. A huge occurwithout any warning whatever. It isthis that hole in the middle o’f thesteamer permitted one to lends a sort of blind meaning to the word Fate. contemplatethe wonderful scene. The weatherwas Physicalneeds precede intellectual necessity, and very warm, and down below, so far that it looked like fromthe physical arisethe humane, the philosophic, anotherworld, hundreds of limp and listlessChinese and the intuitive ; and just as soon as a nation ceases fannedtheir feverish faces with great coloured fans, to display a sustainedand sober energy itbegins to and fromthe bunks, which rosetier upon tier,hung lose on the side of the spiritual aspirations of Will and the legs and arms of the half-stifled horde as in a picture Intellect.India attained intellectualpower aftershe out of Dante’s Inferno.Most of themwere reclining, hadrisen to a certainplane of materialdevelopment. whilesome sat cross-legged onthe floor. As I stood She rose to philosophic heights,but in theascent she there, faint waves of weird Chinese music were wafted forgotthe needs of thematerial. India was caught up with whiffs of sandalwood, odours that became lost in a metaphysicalslumber, and was conquered ; and in the stronger scent of tobacco smoke on deck. Then, China,after producing her philosophersand law- with thesetting sun, came a scene of transcendent makers, lapsedinto a long and peaceful lethargy. The magic.A voice rosefrom somewhere below, it may Chinese are now awake. have been a chant of jubilant prophecy or it may have “Place your ear to the bosom of earth and you will been a song of encouragement and hope, accompanied feel the liviing throb of theuniverse,” says the Celtic by Chinese fiddles, therasping tones subdued and seer, Lamennais. And similarly, if you sit perfectly still modified to a sort of uncanny wail by thepartitions in aroom in someisolated palace, you will feel the separating the invisible musicians from the deck ; and presentgradually fading into oblivion, andout of the as the song continued thecolours in the sky slowly- strange silence visions of corning events will mingle in spread out into thousands of small cloudlets, filling the a sort of whispering- gallery of portentsand impres- westernheavens withblaze ,a of molten gold, sions,until it seems possible to sensethe destiny of the sun sanak below thewaters, the moon rose empires. I havenot forgotten the impressionscreated in the east, the shipglided on, the voice came by a sojourn at Gatschina, when the old Marshal of the andwent, as if in keepingwith the long, mono- Palace,Prince B- one of the heroes of Sevas- tonous roll of theocean, and itseemed as if Iwere topol, in escortingme through the immense structure, sailing the Pacific witha band of Argonauts from the on arrivingat a smalliron bed in one of themost CelestialEmpire in search of a new Golden Fleece in interesting rooms crossed himself, bent his knee to the the vast untrammelled spaces of worlds yet to be con- floor, andremarked : “This is the bed of my beloved quered. I had caught a glimpse of the Chinese avant- master, Nicolas I.” Istopped, and while lookingwith guards. I had seen the firstoff-shoots of peoplea surprise at the hard, uncomfortable-lookingcouch, the endowed with a patience, an endurance, and a sobriety Prince coolly remarked : “ He hadhis mind fixed on unknown toany of thenations of theWest. No one Constantinople.” My escort gave a slight shrug of the who sitsat home can possiblyrealise whatthe great shoulders, as much asto say hefailed, andhe died world-movementsare. Theymust be seen, heard,and of a broken heart ; and the Prince added as we walked sensed. To understandthem we have to enterinto away : “But we shall have Persia,, and we have an eye theirrhythmic action. Itis notenough to read about on Manchuria.’’ My escort led the way upstairs to the them. All primitivenational movements are sym- Chinesemuseum. When wearrived among the splen- bolical. Theysymbolise a greaterand a vaster future, didobjects which filled a great gallery, he said again, and every act has a special significance. 138 THE NEW AGE JUNE IO, 1909

Thegreatest livingauthority onChina andthe “NOW you knowwhat to answer to those enemies Chinese is Sir Robert Hart. “The words ‘ imperil the ‘ of Russia who come to disturb order amongst YOU, all world’s future ’,” he says, “may provoke a laugh, but thosestudents whosebrain hasgiven waybecause, letthe words stand. Twenty million or more of not being born noble, their intelligence was not strong Boxers,armed, drilled, and disciplined, animated by enoughfor the instruction they received, andthose patriotic motives, will take back from foreigners every- workmen of the great towns who are idlers, whom the thingforeigners have taken from China, and will pay Tsar is going to chastise with an exemplary rigour.” off old grudges with interest.” And hecontinued some time in thisstrain ; then, The Chinese are now, like, the Japanese, fully aware satisfiedwith himself, he retired with his brother and of theirimportance, not only in the future, but in the theforemen. By little groupsthe workmen went out, present. A Japanese Ambassador has recentlydeclared andlater, the same evening, a largenumber of them that a triple Alliance composed of England, the United came together again in another meeting place States and Japan could dominate the world. It is easy “Hein, how well he spoke ; his tongue is well oiled. to seethat in thenear future new andstartling- Alii- ‘ We are nobles,’ that’s what he said, ( with a perfect ances will be formed, but any combination that seeks to education. ’ ” separate England and America will be directed not only But a workman got-up and began speaking. againstthe peace of thenations but against Anglo- “My little brothers,”said he, “you see how they Saxon civilisation in the West, and a combination that speak to you, eh?He saidnothing of the misery in would. debar either of the great English-speaking coun- which we live, nor ‘of the famine among the peasants. tries would speedily inaugurate a series of warsand Whydo we die of starvation? Why is the people revolutionsthat would devastatethe whole civilised givenup tomisery? Why are vast Russia, unhappy world. Poland,the Caucasus, the Balticprovinces inundated with the blood of thepeople? The generals who caused our defeat at the war have placed themselves on Before the theirreturn to Russia at the head of thepunishing Strike. detachments.These detachments hang workmen and By George Raffalovich. peasants, whipthem todeath, set fire to the villages. And the cause of all this is that our brothers will not A WEEk beforethe firstelections ofthe Duma a live as theyhave done up till thepresent. They have thousand workmen werelistening in a distractedsort seen thatthe functionaries of theTsar, and the Tsar of way to the speech of their chief’s brother. The chief himself,have made themselves thedefenders of the had said : “You must go there, my little brothers,” and rich, whom they help to rob the poor people, and they they had gone. have decided to sacrifice their lives if necessary to estab- Itwas nothing more than an orthodox sermon- lish a new and better order of things. nothing magnificent ; all the commonplaces,all the “Brothers, a great epoch hascome for the Russian people. He who for centurieshas supported his serf- official lies, had found their place in it. domwithout a murmur isrevolting against the evil. “My very dear friends, I am happy, extremely happy, Everywherethroughout vast Russia peasants and to see you here. We aregoing to speak together a workmen, with the students, and even nobles also, rise littleabout our very dearRussia and our‘ verygood up to ask happiness and rights. And everywhere blood little fatherthe Tsar. I know thatthere are enemies flows. That is how theTsar loves us ! He received of Russia and of God who wantto push YOU to do withbullets andgrape-shot the workmen of Peters- burg who went towards him without.arms, asking things which are forbidden, real sins, but you must not liberty forthe people. The businesschiefs and pro- listen to them. It is evenyour very sacred dutyto prietors refuse togive up anything, and they askfor denouncethem, whoeverthey are,Poles, Jews, stu- soldiersand Cossacks from the Government to shoot dents,or even men fromamong your own ranks, the unarmed people. becausethey are wicked rascals. You mustdenounce (‘Brothers, we mustalso enter into the movement. them tothe police, andthen you will receive money We must go withthe Russian people. We muststop and our thanks, and the eternal benediction of God. workingat the signal if theyrefuse to let our elected act for us. And we shall have to struggle to the death “But perhaps you will say to me : ‘ Your Excellency, against those who oppress us, and we must conquer the we are notintelligent enough to discoverwhen they land and liberty. It is in orderthat our soulsmay be tell us evil.’ That is true, my littlebrothers, but it is free.Come, little brothers, let us all shouttogether. exactly that which I am going to explain to you. Downwith the bloody Tsar, withall his agents;his “Those you mustdenounce are those who make minions, and all his authorities.” trouble. Theyare discontented, the wolves, and when Somestudents then made a COLLECTION andthey all they are sure that nobody hearsthem theyshout that separated.The workmenracked their brains totry they want .to kill the Tsar, that they have no need of and understand which of the orators was right. the Holy-Synod which praysto God forthem and “ Eh? it would becurious to see them arguing works for your eternal salvation, that they will destroy together. H.ow he would know how toanswer him, the Governmentand kill the nobles. Well,it is very thecomrade. ‘ Weare notequals, and we are illite- horrible,and they have learned this of thosegood-for- rates, but I can read,’ he would say.” nothings,the ‘ zamouskaiapfitza,’ who kill thekings in theirgod-forsaken countries. “Yes, forsure, and the Excellence would not he ableto answer him. Perhapshe is a liar-the brother “Think of it, to live without a Government ! Eh ! it of the chief. The father says he isnot at all of noble would be pretty.Foreign nations will comeand take race,but only theson of amerchant, and that his our villages and our towns, and we shallhave to pay grandfatherwas also of theclass of peasants.Then heavyduties. And who would directyou if the nobles what can we know, we others? ” were no longer there? The enemies of Russia will tell “Allthe same, it would begood if we could live you that all are equal, but that is impossible. Are YQU theequals of my brother,are you worth as much as better. And why hangthe Poles andthe Jews? They are men also. we?We are nobles, men of standing,with a perfect education, and God has himself forbidden us to work. “All that is too complicated for us. We must go. to You arethe posterity of Ham, who was punished for workto-morrow all the same, because we must eat, having mocked his father, while we descend from Shem The baboushka must have gruel for the children.” and from Japhet. Your tribe has been given over to us “Well, then ! Will you strike when they say? ” that you maywork for us. You are absolutely illite- “Well,.perhaps ! Like that, youknow, one must rate,and you wantto be ourequals ! It is stupid. think of It. And if thelittle brothers stop working There is no equality. We are more than you, and you also, it is too sad to go all alone to the factory.” are morethan the Jews and the Poles,who throw “Yes. Good nightto you,brother.’’ bombs and shoot at the police and the soldiers, “Good night, my little brother,” JUNE 10, 1909 THE NEW AGE 139

Paternity was atleast no novelty to him; and his wife’s Whited Sepulchres. querulousnesscompared intolerably with theother lady’s attitude. By Beatrice Tina. “Dam ! ” he swore, atlength, “don’t plague me.” He. did not come home at all for several nights after this. CHAPTERVII. Shewept and raged. Moping and miserable she lived SHE flungthe telegram away asthough it were a death fromday to day, growing weak andharshly ugly. Her warrant;and sitting huddled up, clasped her knees mother,who came with muchdisplay of grandmotherly and grieved, rocking herself to and fro and uttering sounds authorityand fussiness, wasreceived with a burst of ill- which she had to choke against the bed-clothes. “ I can’t,’’ temper and incoherent accusations. She departed to send a she moaned at last--”I can’t ! ” maid to her daughter with the warning that Mrs. Heck was Yet, withal,the misery and private .degradation implied suffering from delusion.s. inher resolution, Nan Heck knew that she preferred that Thus the months dragged down, until one day a son was sort of miseryand secret shame to thespleen and public bornat 24 The Gardens. It was thetiniest creature, and shame her kin and her friends would cast at her. seemednot nourished enough to survive. Butall the aid She longed for Raymond’s flowers to come and the letter which money could procure was at its service, and its fore- -andjust as much shedreaded. When two o’clock of the doomed and blighted life was retained for it. afternoon -had struck, and there was stillno message from Gradually Mrs. Heckbegan to take an interest in the him, a revulsionfrom the importance of herproposed baby. The factthat Mr. Heck preferred it to remain in salvation seized her, the old cold proudness set in, and she its mother‘s bedroomincited her to -make a good deal of decidedthat since Raymond Cattle neglected her nothing fussabout it. Sheordered the most gorgeous robes, and mattered much : she would just go on living with Tom Heck asit was such a littlething, she kept it in long clothes as.usual. But three o’clock broughtthe bouquet and the until it was six months old. Every few days the doctor still note,and her panic returned. She rushed up to her room calledto see it, for some mysterious ill troubled its little to read :--“Dear Mrs. Heck: My motherbegs me to send frame.It wailed incessantly, so thatTom Heck declared yousome flowers fromher green-house. She hopes to see thehouse uninhabitable, and took to staying away for a you at churchyouat parade to-morrow.--Yours sincerely, week at a time. RAYMONDCATTLE.” Aftersome months Mrs. Heckrecommenced to receive Nan .studied thestrategic epistle. It was, of course,he on Thursdays.But since the firstfew visits of curiosity who hoped to meet her at the church parade ! peopleceased to foregather at 24. The“genius “ of St. His fidelity determined herto be relentless. Again, she Paul’s had changed into an ugly and peevish matron began to wish, Tom Heck would come-come back-and let herfeel herself securedand able to defythose cold grey CHAPTERVIII. eyes of thesarcastic Reverend Wales. She thought of the THE Heckchild was howlinglike three enraged puppies child, and in imagination she posedit beside her : a shield alltogether, and scratching and biting wherever his puny and a defence,installing her beyond all criticisms ,as teethand nails could take hold of hismother. She dared a virtuous wife. do little more than avoid his onslaughts, for the boy suffered stillfrom that mysterious disease which thefamily doctor, TomHeck came in about six o’clock. (‘Hurryup the forfear of itsmore offensive name,described .as neuras- dinner-I want to get up to town for an hour,” he ordered. thenia. His wife hastened to obey. She returned to the dining-room LittleEric Heck was fightingfor possession of avery with a vase filledwith her lover’s flowers. ‘(Aren’tthey lacerated and sanguinary dead white mouse. beautiful ? Mrs. Cattle sent them. ” At length the mother gave in to the hysterical little boy, “H’m ! ” he grunted. and wentaway toher bedroom in tears. But Tom Heck, She went roundto him, and laid handa upon his who arrived a fewmoments later, took a differentmethod shoulder,beginning in the way shehad worked outthe with hisson and heir. He seized themouse and smacked scene. He looked up, just blankly staring at her. thechild in the face withit. Thenhe kicked him out of “ Tom-Tom,dear,” she said. “I’m afraid I haven’t the dining-room into the passage, and left him there to wail. made OUT homewhat it should be.Don’t go outagain It was now the mother’s part to creep downstairs with -an to-night.” orangeand decoy thepoor little fiend up to his nursery. “Anything else ? ” hereturned. “ Get the dinner in.” Eric,glad enough to escape the neighbourhood of the His indifference positivelyterrified her. Unaccustomed dining-room, allowedhimself toaccept the orange and go to.this particular sort of wifelyguile, she knew none of upstairs,where he flung the fruit through a window-pane thepretty tricks with which wives ordinarilydisarm a He pickedup a fragment of theglass and began to chew husband of contempt, She was clumsy. it-a weird appetitefor such delicacies as glass and slate She slipped her arm tightly around his neck and pleaded : pencil being one of his milder idiosyncrasies. ”Tom, I dowant our lives to bedifferent in future. Stop “You musn’t dothat, Eric,” said his moth,er. “Now, put athome with me to-night.” He jumped up and eyed her it down at once, or I shallcall father. Naughty boy, o over. break the window! ” “ ! Damme-I don’t mind if I do ”. he exclaimed. “ So are you a naughty boy-hate you ! ” At church parade next day, Mrs. Tom Heck promenade “ Don’t talk like that to mother.” besideher husband. To her friends she accorded her “I want my mouse,”wailed thechild. stateliestgreetings, her chastest expressions. Shekept her ((Cruel boy-you shan’thave any more mice. Fancy impatient escort as long as possible upon the Common : for killing the dear little mousie ! ” RaymondCattle was latein arrivlng. At last Tom swore “ Never killed him. I givedhim to the kitty to kill. I’ll hewould return without his wife if shedid not mean to kill the kitty, too, cos she scratched my fingers.” leaveimmediately. So shehad to goback, resentful that “Oh yon dreadful boy.” halfher triumph over sin had gone uncelebrated. No “So are you.” wracked man’s heart was dragged along by her retiring feet. Themother lifted her hand to slap him, but he set up Her lover did not appear. such a screamthat she feared her husband would rushup By thetime she reached home she had concluded that andbeat him; so she held herhand over his mouthand he had expected her to answer his note, and was piqued at promised to gethim another mouse; a promise which, to ! her .negligence. It was better so ! do her justice, she had not the least intention of keeping. Onthe Tuesday evening she went over to themonthly It seemed wise, indeed,to premise him anything. His ‘;.At Home ” which was held at the Reverend Wales’ house. Thereshe sawMrs. Cattle, who mentionedthat Raymond little,ugly head was streaming with perspiration, and in a was abroad, had gone last Saturday, and was not returning few minuteshe had collapsed into quiet, and lay, a small until the autumn. Mrs. Cattle intended visiting him shortly. bundle of gaspinginiquity upon his mother‘s bed. She From that night the amazingly swift deterioration of Nan pattedhim, and sat beside him until, at last, he sank into Heck began. When, in the course of a few weeks, she dis- a slumber, with bothhis pitiable, twitching hands clasped covered herself to be pregnant, her chagrin and terror were againsthis face. Mrs. Heckthen wentdown topour out agonising to bear.She shut herself up in herhouse and tea for her husband. became a prey to every feeling of abandonment and despair. “Why the devil don’tyou manage that boy better? ” he She could no longer ‘doubt that Raymond Cattle had fooled demanded. “ The househas been one long hell ever since her, and of the honours upon which she had reckoned for her he was born.” future, all seemed to have slipped as worthless sand through “Well, Tom, don’t be toohard on him.Doctor Wright her hands. sayshe is in a verydangerous state, and anything may Shehad expected that Tom Heck would be wild happen.” with delightat the prospect of paternity. He appeared “ Good job, too. Damnedlittle weasel.” nothing of thesort. He received herintelligence with sur- “ He may grow stronger and better if we are very careful prise,incredulity, and a certain positive irritation. As a with him. ” matterof fact, a certainanonyma in the West End had ‘Pigs might fly. Keephim out of my way-that’s all already presented Tom Heck with three little beefy eplicas He ain’t more than half right.” of himself. Tom Heck was too rich now tu care a great deal whether 140 THE NEW AGE JUNE IO, 1909

orno Crone knew of hispeccadilloes. He attendedser- ableto help them much. You can onlyteach them their vices onChristmas Day and Good Friday,and gave con- duty.” siderablesums to charities-andCrone. demandedno “My dear Mrs. Heck, I hope you will pray about it.” more. Indeed,after the disappointing metamorphosis of “I have prayed. If only I could get well at once ! “ hiswife had..become generally recognised, Crone, in its Mrs. Wales rose. “All “ in God’s time,”she said, ineffable way, hadbegun to criticiseand blame her. benignantly. And had she attempted any act of separation in these later “You will come again, soon ? “ asked the sick woman. days, she would havegained no sympathy, but absolute “As soonas you like,” returned the minister’s wife. disapproval.Mrs. Heck was obviously notthe woman she “Good-bye, my dear. I feel you will become my right hand had pretended to be: further, she had aged frightfully, and in theparish.” seemedto have lost her manners. A few Sundayslater Mrs. Heck was leavingSt. Paul’s Her Thursdays were the joke of the parish. Nobody ever after service. Onher wayout she came face to face with went exceptMrs. Wales, who paid a duty visit once a RaymondCattle. Her eyesglittered outfrom their weary month; and eventhat lady’spious intentions had been un- lids. Mr. Cattlelooked at the witch-like “angel,” hesi- balanced by theintroduction of MasterEric. The boy tating. acted as if heespied in her some natural enemy, and the She bowed andhe lifted his hat-all in accordance with mildreproofs of hismother failed to make him behave. the rules. When,at last, he had snatched off the visitor’sspectacles [THEEND.] andbroken them, the order had been reluctantly given to remove him. “I am so devotedto my child,,’ simpered Mrs. Heck ; adding, by way of apology, “He is delicate, you know, and BOOK OF THE WEEK. I dread to lose him.” Tom Paine.* “But just a littlediscipline might not hurt him,”ven- tured Mrs. Wales. THESEvolumes are by way of a threefoldvindication. “Oh, I couldn’tbear to beathim. He ismy one jewel. Thefirst isDr. Conway’s memorable defence of For his sake I’m afraid I neglect everybody.’) ThomasPaine. To him,fell the congenial duty of It was balm tothe deserted genius of St.Paul’s to sup- rescuingthe real Paine from the lumber of archaic pose that she created an impression of being too wrapt up beliefs, and unmentionable calumnies, and handing him in her child to wish for any other society than his. Besides, overto enlightened minds as a reliableguide for the had not his birth been the means of saving her from sin ! presentand future. His taskwas formidable. No The poorlittle scapegoat was, happily,not destined to one can read “The Life of Thomas Paine ” without feel- growup to bear his full burden. One day-it was hisfifth ingthat the writer allthe while fighting his way birthday-he was broughthome ill from one of his rare is visits tohis grandmother’s house.Mrs. Heck received her throughimmense difficulties. succeeded.Buthe sonfrom the terrified old dame with a glare of suspicion, Under his transforming hand Paine emerged no longer intended to hint at any accusation from witchcraft to poison- the “dirty little atheist ” of Roosevelt the woad-stained, ing-and without vouchsafing a word, carried him upstairs. but a broad-minded theist and humanist. He moanedand clutched his burninghead incessantly, Thesecond vindication is containedPaine’sin breaking forth now andagain in a heartrendingscream. “Rights of Man.’.’ This work, it may be remembered, Ateight o’clock hebegan to choke in a convulsion,and was called forth by Burke’s “ Reflexions on the Revolu- soonafter he ceased to breathe, having practically- cried tion in France.” It sums up the author’s political ideas himselfto death. Mrs. Heckflung herself upon the floor whichwere largely the fruits of hisexperience in the and wailed andbeat her hands, and when herhusband returned that night he found a trained nurse in possession War of Independence.It serves, moreover, to express of the bedroom,from which loud and long crie‘s issued. and emphasize the ideas of the French Revolution, and Mrs. Heckhad excited her nerves into a state of tension thereby, as Mr.Robertson points out in his telling in- from which she could not relax them. troduction, has been the means of making a great revo- It was a bright day in June when she left her bed for the lutionarymovement an evolutionary one also. Though first timeafter nine weeks. She would scarcelyhave been thework is not faultless, though its ideas are not recognised.’ She seemed a very aged woman, for her golden original, seeing that they had been in the air in France, hair was allcut off, and only a few wisps of grey showed firedby the blazing needs of a starving and bankrupt under a. white cap she wore. She sat before the fire, shiver- ing a little, for nothing, seemed sufficient to warm her, and nation, yet with them, Mirabeau and his pupil Sieyes- the nurse watched for any sign of undue fatigue. whodiffered from Paine on a point of kingship-had “And so Ericis dead,” she said, suddenly gazing at the paved the way for Robespierre and Marat. With them wall. “Poorlittle boy. His fathernever cared for him.’’ the leaders of the Convention had quickened their own The nurse was pouringout a. cup of tea. Shehanded it patrioticambitions. Though its aims to promote effi- to the forlorn woman, saying gently: “Earth-life is not the ciency as a form of government to bepreferred to end of all our hopes.” superstitiondivine right of kingship),and power “No, there is thejudgment-and justice will bedone.” (physicalforce), are not unassailable, seeing that effi- Nan drew a deepbreath, as though fetching a bladefrom ciency tends to convert governments into, armed camps, withinherself, and her poor withered mouth set in a fierce andexcludes the wisdom of Fenelonin Telemachus, line. where he counsels basing government on peace, not on “Has my mother been? “ she asked, sharply. war ; yet whatever the particular defects the work, “ Oh,yes ! Manytimes, and she has sent every day. of These are her flowers.” theyare far outweighed by its excellence as a whole. “Take them away. I think I’d betterget back to bed. We feel that it was inspired by hatred of a government I’m weary. “ whichsought to imprison the mind of thepeople for Butthe unhappy heart seemed not too weary to go on seekinglight, just as a certainking imprisoned Plato beating, n.or the warped mind to continue its ever-smoulder- forteaching the aristocratic form of government. We ingresentment. Daily she grew stronger. At length she know that it gave a lasting,ever-widening impulse to expressed a desire to see Mrs. Wales. thecause of democracy. We cansee this, today, in And SO, thenext afternoon the pastor’s ladybent graciously over the wreck of womanhood who had once been threecountries at least.In America, where corruption “our clever Mrs. Heck.” is rife,democracy dominates inbastard form ; in “We. are all so delightedto know you are well enough France,where rapid extremes are the rule, it governs to receive.’) asanarchy ; inEngland, where we move slowly, and “ I hope to come to divine service next Sunday.” materialise as we go, itseeks supremacy in true and “Not SO soon ? OurFather doesnot expect suchsacri- permanent form. Thus Paine gave the stream of demo- fi ce. “ cracydirection in this country, and, we trust, nothing “I have a good deal of timeto make up. I am anxious to resume my work in the parish.” can stem the flow. “Oh, really! Well, by God’s race,your old district, the The third vindication we find in the “Age of Reason.’’ one you hadbefore dear little Eric was born, is without a It is a defenceof the Religion of Humanity. In it worker. I will keepit open for you.” Paineappears as a theistand affirms a God.But we. “ Thank you. I intendto bring about somechanges in knowthat in reality he is not a theist,unless he is the livesof those people. Theyare verythriftless and ___- loose. My dutyhas been neglected.’’ *”Works by Thomas Paine.” With a biographicalIntro- “Persuasion is the only way-as you know,of course, my duction by J. M. Robertson. “The Life of Thomas Paine.” dear.” With a sketch of Paineby W. Cobbett.(Watts. 2s. 6d, “Yes. the poor of to-day are too independent for one to be net each.) JUNE IO, 1909 THE NEW AGE 141 falseto his reason, or is inviting the question, upon THE . . whatreasonable ground can we reason? His real aim is.to take the place of theDeity and interpret His INTERNATIONAL. activitiesin terms of humanisticactivities. He refuses toregard him as crudesuperstition’s God of battles, JUNE No. on Sale. 1s. Net murders,and seductions. He iswilling to sacrifice PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. even Hisomnipotence to humanity. This instinct for MR.LLOYD GEORGESFIRST BUDGET. a reasonableDeity impels him to demand a clarified By L. G. CHIOZZA-MONEY,M.P. Christ. So he returns to the Christ of the first century, THEFUTURE OF PARLIAMENTARYLIFE IN to the Jesus of Rousseau, Voltaire, and an unsymbolis- TURKEY. ingCampbell, to the type of thehighest and sanest By MUSTAPHA BEY. sample of manon record. Briefly, hisGod and his THE PROBLEMOF THE OVERGROWN CITIES. Jesushave the qualities he prefers in himself forthe By MONSIEUREMILE VANDERVELDE. good of mankind.His “theology ” isthe New Theo- THEINFLUENCE AERIALOF NAVIGATION logy of theearly nineteenth century--a rational theo- ONCIVILISATION. logy whi,ch had long beenfeeling its way towards a By THEEDITOR. broaderplatform and freer air. It is simply honest INDUSTRIALINSURANCE. Campbellism. Thenew movements of popular reli- By FRANKB. HUTTON. gious freethought thus initiated by Paine, both in this T. FISHER UNWIN country and America, are many and varied. The wave of thephilosophy of doubthas been an all-embracing one. It hastouched the whole circle of thesciences PEACE,POWER, AND PLENTY. fromAstronomy to Sociology ; has civilised ethics ; By O. S. MARDEN. 4/6 net. This book written from an idealistic and optimistic standpoint will appeal to rationalisedart, poetry and literature ; democratised readers whoare interested in the Christfan Science and Higher Thought move- politics ; vitalised economics ; and made non-deistic the ment. Among the titles of the chapters are the following : The Power of the Mind to Compel the Body ; Poverty a Mental Disability; The Law of Opulence; problems of sex.It has brought new and vigorous Character-Bullding and Health-Building during Sleep ; Health through Right Thinking.Mental Chemistry- Imagination and Health; How Suggestton propagandistassociation? to view. Foremost,among influenced Health; Why Grow Old etc. theseis the Rationalist Press Association, which in unflinching pursuit of an enlightened policy now streng- thens its undoubted claim to recognition by placing two THE PASSING OF THE TARIFF. remarkable works well within the reach of all who care By RAYMOND L. 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For this age Paine and his stalwart vindicator,Moncure Conway, have prepared the T. FISHER UNWIN, 1, Adelphi Terrace, London, ground.These solid menhave revealed the fundamen- talmoral and spiritual truths ; thepoet must fill in COURT THEATRE the sky. the HUNTLY CARTER. PROPRIETOR:MR. J. H LEIGH. The Irish NationalTheatre Society, Limited, are presenting a series of IRISH PLAYS by the late REV I IEWS. J. M. SYNGE,LADY GREGORY, W, B. YEATS, and The Confessionsof a Beachcomber. B E. J. NORREYSCANNOLL. Banfield. (T. Fisher Unwin, Adelphi Terrace, London Every evening this week ; Matinées on Wednesday 15s. net.) . and Saturday. Box Office now open, “Does the fact that a weak mortal sought an unpro- Telephone 848 Gerrard. fanedsanctuary--an island removed from the haunts CHURCHSOCIALIST LEAGUE, of men--and there dwelt in tranquillity, happiness, and (LONDONBRANCH.) security, represent any just occasion for the relation of hisexperiences, experiences necessarily out of the THELATEST CHAPTER OF THECHURCH PAGEANT common? ” Thisquestion, whichto weeagerly Willbe written atTHE CHURCH HOUSE, GREATSMITH answered Yes ! opens Mr. Banfield’s book. STREET,WESTMINSTER (nearest station Westminster Bridge), The great expectations, however, raised in us by this Thursday, at 8 p.m., “justoccasion,” after careful reading, remain unful- On June 17, When Christian people will assemble to demand THE RIGHT filled. Mr. Banfield is so excessivelymodest and reti- TO LIVE for our poorer brethren. cent that in his dread of the charge of egotism he says The Proposals of the MINORITY REPORT will be explained by Mr. SIDNEY almostabsolutely nothing of theundoubtedly rich WEBB Mr. GEORgE Lansbury (RoyalCommissioner), Misa MARY subjectiveexperiences of hisunusual situation. Here Macarthur and Father HEALY. a manand his “lifetime partner ”-we areleft in Chairman: Rev. ARNOLD PINCHARD (Chairman of the League). a Seats 2s. 6d l&, and 6d. Tickets to beobtained from the Secretary ignorance as, towhether this lifetime partnerwas 36; Becmead AvenueStreatham. Some free. faithfulhound, a horse, a wife, a brother,or sister- “ not youthful enthusiasts, but beings who had arrived A BEAUtIFUL HOLIDAY CENTRE. at an age when many of the minor romances are of the 6ooft. above sea level past,after sedate and temperate ponderings upon all Magnificent scenery of Dean Forest, Severn and Wye Valleys, theaspects of voluntaryexile,” by arrangement with 25,000 acresunenclosed glade andglen, and the loveliestriver scenery in Britain. Charming House (25 bedrooms), 5 acres, pretty theQueensland Government obtained a leaseof the grounds. Billiard, bath rooms, tennis. Vegetarians accommodated, lovely littleuninhabited island of Coonauglebah (Dunk Board-Residence from 29/-to 35/- per week. Photos, particulars. Island),situated in semi-tropicalregions off thenorth- CHAS.HALLAM. Littledean House. Newnham. Glos. erncoast of Queensland,and there lived, ‘‘indulging aninordinate passion for freedom and fresh air,” for SWITZERLAND AND NORTHERN ITALY. nine orten years, still finding it good.Truly in this PRIVATE PARTY, Starting July 27. experiencethere is materialfor a greatbook on the philosophy of life. For itwas in nospirit of misan- Best Value. Lowest Terms. First-class Hotels (not “ Pensions “) thropy that Mr. Banfield left “the weariness, the fever, £8 8s. £11 11s. £15 2s. 6d N.B.-NO EXTRAS.-N.B. andthe fret ” of civilisation. He wasnot dead, but Apply for full particulars to the Secretary,203, Anerley Road, exhaustedfor want of “freedomand fresh air.” He Anerley, London, S.E. 142 THE NEW AGE JUNE IO, 1909

understood himself, and knew not only what he wanted but what he needed. He wished to be responsible for JustPublished. Intwo Demy 8vo vols. Over1000 pp. himself, and his healthy instinct drew him to the rich POSSESSIVECREATION virginity: ‘of nature and life on Dunk Island. His instinct led him aright, and he found the life idyllic, but AReconciliation of Religion with Science. ByRev. HOLDEN E.SAMPSON. the book. resulting therefrom is hardly an idyll. The Thisbook IS of thedeepest interest tomany classesof readers and author is the^ last person in the world to suggest such thinkers, and we do not-hesitate to pronounce it one of the most remarkable books published during the last half century. It ap- a thing. But his culture and intellectual calibre are peals to so many sections of human society, being a serious con- tribution to published thought in current scientific research. It is such that- we are sorry he did not attempt a higher a definite and positive advance of the Evolutionarytheory which flight. After ten years in comparative solitude, volun- startedfrom the publication of Darwin’s,memorable books ‘The Origin of Species’ and ‘The Descentof Man and it guides the scientific tarily chosen and loved, in a state of nature almost, we mind throughthe portals of psychology ’(as in effect, Darwin himself feel justified in expecting an account of his “ spirit-life ” prophesiedwould bethe case) intothe wider regions ofthe so-called Supernatural,’‘ and the Spiritual planes, breaking down the time-worn -his subjective experiences. But of these important barriers which for so many ages hare been reared up between the Spiritual and the Material, and between Science and Religion. It inner transactions nothing is said, and there is very affordsauthority of the Originof Life, of Being, of Nature and Forms, little of human interest or criticism of life. Of the ofEvil, ana of theEarth and HeavenlyBodies which has neverbefore in the historyof modern literature beenpropounded; atheory ofthe topography of Dunk Isle, its flora, fauna, and objective deepestinterest and importance. features, we get a full and loving account. On this To the Sociologist,the “ Fabian ” andthe Philanthropist and to all who have the welfare of mankindat heart, this book is’ eminently score alone the book is a good and valuable one, and pertinent. Itpropounds the simplest andplainest linesof reform, of betterment, and of influence, useful to the Christian ‘‘Missionary,” it is enriched by illustrations of great. excellence. But theSocialist, and the leaders of political, social and industrialreform. it could all have been done by a far inferior hand, and It sets forth the principles of a collective state and polity, in contra- distinctionto the abnormal and fallacious principles of Individualism. done almost as well. The New Age ofMay 20 says: “ . . His (the author’s)symbolical We hope Mr. Banfield will write another book. interpretation of theFall in terms of Eugenicsis startling. . . we con- sider‘ Progressive Creation’ isa work of the greatestvalue bothas an Thoreau’s experiment was nothing to his, and endeavourto turn the human mind from anutterly mischievous literal interpretation of the Bible to its true aspect asa book of poetryand Thoreau’s popularity is increasing. We feel sure Mr. symbols; as anendeavour to bring abouta loftier spiritual conception Banfield could say something valuable, suggesting the ofthe future of the world,and to supply humanitywith a newpoetic indecency of wearing clothes, the impurity of living and impulse,anew religious aspiration.” SecondImpression Now Ready. Demy8v0, 452 pp., cloth. sleeping in houses, the loss and gain of his way of Prlce10s (id. net. life He could tell us something good, no doubt, of Jefferies’ cries in the “Story of my Heart.” And, oh ! MARRIAGEAND DISEASE let us have something more of the doubts that become Beingan Abridged Editionof ‘‘ Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State Edited by Professor exalted and glorified, the hopes all rapture, “when long, H. SENATOR and Dr. S. KAMINER. Translated from the serene days are spent alone in the contemplation of the Germanby J. Dulberg M.D.,J.P., of Manchester. Aquarter of a century has elapsed since Francis Galton drew attention splendours of sky and sea and the enchantment of tropic to the urgent need for the foundation of a science and practice of shores.” .Ten Personal Studies. By Wilfrid Ward. (Long- mans and Co. 10s. 6d. net.) rebman ltd., Mr. Wilfrid Ward is, we believe, the son of “ Ideal ” Ward of Tractarian fame ; and, not unnaturally, the Catholic notables of his collection of “Personal Studies ” stand out more prominently than such lesser .Victorian lights as J. T. Delane, Sir M. E. Grant Duff, and Robert Earl of Lytton. The first essay is a skilful, SPECIAL OFFER OF MARX’s but. not very interesting, defence of the scientific dawd- GREAT WORK ON CAPITAL. ling of Mr. Arthur Balfour, Fabius Cunctator of Unionism. Mr. Ward, however, admits so much of CAPITAL :-A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production pessimism in the character of his subject as to leave us The Twelfth English Edition of “ Das Kapital,” by in doubt as to whether the “passionless aloofness, Karl Marx, translated from the German by SAMUEL leisureliness of aim,” etc., may not be the signs of a MOORE and Dr. EDWARDAVELING, and Edited by F. political Diogenes quite as much as of a slowly-moving ENGELS. The best translation of this important work, but. unerring Leader. The sketch of Sidgwick is an which contains the masterly statement of those Social- excellent presentation of the perfect sceptic of the nine- istic doctrines which are having so great an effect teenth century, ’ in whom a certain speculative pessi- throughout the world. Demy 8vo cloth, mism was married to practical contentment. Sidgwick never for a moment envied the success of idealists like Published at 10/6. NOW offered at 4/6 post free, T. H. Green, only wishing to train the faculties of his WILLIAM GLAISHER, Ltd., Booksellers, hearers, not to guide their judgments. “I would not 265, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, if I could, and I could not if I would, say anything Glaisher’s Catalogue ofBooks at Reduced Prices sent on application.. which would make philosophy--my philosophy--popu- lar.” Candour and humility could scarce go further. In strong contrast is the description of that “exile from Clifford’s Inn School of Journalism. eternity,” J. H. Newman, wherein Mr. Ward is evi- Correspondence Lessons if desired. dently on more familiar ground. Sidgwick stands for Send for prospectus to Principal, those who contentedly disbelieve, Newman for those who believe discontentedly. The secret of Newman is Miss L. M. MAYHEW, still a secret, though M. Brémond, Mr. Ward, and IO, CLIFFORD’SINN, E.C. others have lifted sections of the veil. He will be re- membered when all the rest of nineteenth century religious history, has passed into oblivion. Like most of the mystics, his writings contained as much of agnosticism as of definite faith : Huxley was probably CREMATION. perfectly correct in saying that he could compile a primer of infidelity from Newman’s works It is REDUCED CHARGES. curious that no one has yet seen the possible connection between the “illative sense,” of which he dreamed, and CHEAPER THAN EARTH BURIAL. that superconsciousness which-by the offices of psy- PARTICULARS FREE, chical research--is now passing into common talk. Mr. Ward charitably ignores Purcell ‘s notorious J R. WILDMAN biography in his estimate of Manning. He writes soberly and restrainedly, without any undue bias. If 40, MARCHMONT STREET, LONDON, W.C. his‘ book is somewhat unequal, it was well worth pub- TelephoneHolborn: 5049. 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Unemployment. The results of an Investigation made in Lancashire. By Prof. F. J. Chapmanand H M. JUNE NUMBER NOW READY. Hallsworth. (Sherratt and Hughes. 2s.) In view of Mr.Churchill’s State Insurance Bill, this is anextraordinarily up-to-date book. It SUMS up the wholesituation in the following terms : “For many years at least, nevertheless, encouragement of insurance and providence may be essential ; but it -is urgent that we should bear in mind that, in view of the dispositions of many of those who suffer most from unemployment, theprovision of workis as important almost as the provision of income.”On the question of seasonal employment, the authors are in favour of reducing the THE OPEN REVIEW whole body of workers, and ,not giving employment to some only (153). This distribution of employment is to heworked through the agency of LabourExchanges (152). Thebook’s clear statement of factson Lanca- shire Unemployment, together with its close hearing on the aforementioned Government measure, should ensure a very wide reading. Junius Unveiled. By JamesSmith. (Dent. 2s. 6d.) We are not convinced that Mr. Smith has solved the authorship of Junius. We feel hehas been led by mistaken zeal to adopt an erroneous hypothesis. In the first place, he is mistaken in believing that his is a new theory.Edward Gibbon is one of themany persons to whomthe Junius letters have been from time to time attributed, and one who has not had very considerable claimsto attention on this subject. Mr. Smith bases hisnot very strong case in favour of Gibbonon a number of startling resemblances in style, knowledge of A Monthly dealing with Business, Money, and Frenchand military matters, social position, attain- ments,and so forth,which he claims are consistent Politics from the Standpoint of the New School withGibbon having been Junius, but which, we main- of Finance. tain,prove nothing except that such resemblances do MONTHLY, 6d. NEt occur even in the works of the best regulated writers. In support of his arguments he is careful to quote from Edited by ARTHUR KITSON. the works of Gibbon written long after the letters were published,and whcih might,therefore, have been in- fluencedby them.Before we canregard Mt. Smith’s The Contents of theoryseriously we shallrequire proof of at leasttwo things-thatthe internal evidence which the letters The Open Review for June contain in regard to the age and experience of Junius Are of great Political and Social Importance. doesnot point to a mucholder person than Gibbon,‘ and that the psychology of the handwriting reveals the Among the principal articles are :- mind of anamanuensis, whose handwriting Mr. Smith (I) HOW WE BRIBETHE RICH. declaresit to be, and not that of SirPhilip Frances, By G. K. CHESTERTON. whose handwriting others declare it to be. (2) HOW TO BUDGETWITHOUT Random Recollections of a Commercial KILLING TRADE. Traveller. (Sherratt and Hughes. 3s. 6d.) By A BUSINESS MAN, In reading these illustrated “ Random Recollections,” weare reminded, a verylong way off, of thatrather (3) A FRAUDULENTSTANDARD. The dullwork, “ThePoet at the Breakfast Table.” The So-called Standard of Value, authormodestly characterises hisrecollections as (4) THE TAXATION OF LAND VALUES nothing “very profound or heroic,” but “ the experience of a very ordinary commercial traveller who has a full AND TARIFF REFORM, knowledge of hisliterary deficiencies.” Hisbook re- (A CRITICISM.) By ARTHURKITSON. sembles “ The Poet ’’ merely in plan-the wander-talk (5) UNEMPLOYMENT-SOMEFACTS of a bagman raconteur holding forth on “commercial ” AND A REMEDY, andother subjects, while threads of associated poetry By W. L. GEORGE. are woveninto the fabric. Though the author fears that “the rather profuse use of verse ” tends somewhat (6) CONSULARSERVICE REFORM, A “to convert the journal into an Anthology or Dictionary Crying Demand. of Quotations,”we can assure him it reveals a mind By PERCY F. 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If shewould only let it fall straight and writes from the standpoint of a schoolmistress who has looseeach side, her head, with its big eyes and elfin had a practicalexperience of thesubject with which features,would look farmore fairy-childish. At shedeals. Though she nowhere goes deeply into the psychology of Co-education, and we are left wondering, forinstance, how she meets the objection that with THE NEW AG€ PRESS, Ttd., the awakening of puberty there should be segregation of thesexes, she touches and illuminates the most NEW AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS, essential points of a most important question. NOWREADY. ON CERTAINFUNDAMENTALS. DRAMA. BeingEssays on Current Politics. ByCapt. Sir I FRANCIS VANE of Hutton, Bart.Crown 8v0, AdmiralGuinea (His Majesty’s). gilt, 2/= net. IT’S a pity that the last act of this play cannot be given NOW READY. alone. 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Indeed, I maintain that if this lady chose. to dance on her charming blonde head she not only could do so, but FRY'S COCOA would convince the majority of her audience that it was the best way of doing things. Who shall say that Dryads did not dance on tip-toe? PURE CONCENTRATED And if the County Council insists that we should assume that they wore clothes, why not silver garters? Herlove-making would have seduced Adonis where Venus failed, and would have sent any less preoccupied -man off hishead. There is a danceof triumph when the Shepherd promises to return after her ten years of imprisonment in the oak tree ; the tearing, rippling joy ‘‘ The most perfect form of Cocoa,” of itwrought one to tears, but the unforgettable -Guys Hospital Gazette. moments were those when she locked for her lover, just 300 GOLD MEDALSAND DIPLOMAS, beginningto doubt him a little. Theten years are over, and she runs In andout cf thetrees, searching SOCIALIST CIGARETTE MAKERS thedistance for signsof him. 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presentthere is toucha of Parisianchic, which, can see by the straightened shoulders that it is a signi- charming enough in its way, is rather out of the picture. ficant one, worthy of a bully bulldog hero. He snaps a We frequently mark the difference between elfin sprites slender twig from an orange ..tree and strides after the and civilised sprightliness by varying arrangements of lady. Hemust be goingto beat her. For a few thehair. For instance, take a headfrom Helen Strat- moments we were left to breathless and horrid imagi- ton’sillustrations to the “Ice Maiden,” put on it an nings. Then she dashed in, victim to another mediaeval elaboratecoiffure anda Paris hat, and you’ll have passion.These assets were well-wornby the end. something uncommonly like one of Willette’s or Stein- “He haswhipped me ! me ! ! me ! ! ! but I will be len’s women. avenged-Iwill getsome of my own back-he shall Mr.Gordon Cleather, who assisted Mlle. Genée as return, and my‘ servants shall holdhim while I layon thesongster shepherd, didwell. Theclear, unforced till I drop. . . . .” Thiswas herspeech, more or less quality of his voice waspleasing. I wished thedryad word for word. So the end is prepared for. had spared the garland of flowerswhich she added to Themerry one succumbs to her conquering bully. the other raggle-taggles hung about his person. The last scene was almost as charming as it should be. ‘Thelovers juggle prettily with the words master and A Merry Devil (The Playhouse). slave.Finally, when Sir Philip begs forgiveness, his A dramatistis allowing himself great indulgence lady murmers : “I won’t forgive you, I’ll marry you.” when he borrows from the treasures of Italian mediaeval MissWinifred Emery, whoplayed Giralda, “did do tradition. Half thework is donefor him, and so one her part most excellently well as I have heard a woman expectsthe rest to be very fine, veryaccomplished. in my life,”and Mr. Aubrey Smithmade’ a splendid Think of the jewels andthe lovers, thepoets and Britishhero. Once or twicehe even succeeded in poisons,the free-hearted ladies and their dark slaves, makingthe play and its emotions seem almost real. anda hundred other assets. Then, too, thepleasures Mr. Cyril Maude made as jolly a roisterer as ever trod of thetable constituted a wholerange boards. of drama and the N. C. taste--as a contemporary remarks, Mr. Fagan “derives Many people who are interested in the art of Madame much from the elegant Florentine setting.’’ Yvette Guilbert are sorry that she has usually confined Manyfacile writers have fallen heavily onthis herself lately to light comedy songs. They should visit treasure-trove,Maurice Hewlett and Max Pemberton, the Palace now, for she is giving one which is quite as for instance, but no man of them has laid it about more grim in its humour as any of those she used to sing. freely than Mr. Fagan. MadonnaGiralda Capponi is anattractive widow, wholives alone with her cousin Cassandra, chaperone and protegée. Giralda is themerry devil. Thetwo CORRESPONDENCE, womenmaintain the fact by theircontinuous mirth- For the opinions expressed by correspondents, the Editor does not there was no single demonstration of humorous appreci- hold himself responsible. ationto which they did nottreat us. Clear, bell-like Correspondence intended for publication should be addressedto laughter, the feminine substitutes for roars and guffaws, the Editor andwritten on one side of the paper only. giggles and chuckles, all these th,ey lavished, and other SPECIAL NOTICE.-Correspondents are requested to be brief variations of merrimentfor which I find noname. If, Many letters weekly are omitted-on account of their length at last, we were-not convinced that the lady is a merry SOCIALISM AND THE CHURCHES. devil and a gaydog to boot it wasnot for lack of telling. TO TEE EDITOROF “ THE NEW AGE.’” Thismerry widow hasscandalised the city by her As an officer of the British section of the Christian Socialist conduct.She appears to be respectable, but has three Fellowship, I feel it is very necessary to say a few words in suitors,whom she -encourages to wait upon her-Sir defence of our society andagainst the unfair andunkind remarks of your correspondent, F. G. Howe. Philip, the English “bully ” bulldog hero ; Count Silvio, In the first place, the address of the Rev. J. Stitt Wilson love-sick poet ; and Captain Bambazone, roistering out- was a very explicit analysis of the present capitalistic system at-elbows. Her uncle; an elderlygentleman with of production for profit. cholericinclinations, hasthreatened to poison the one He explained thatthe cause of all poverty was thefact of these who provesto be the lady’s choice. Why he that one portion of the community hadthe power to en- does this is not clear, but probably it is to upholdhis slave another and larger portion of the community for the attribute of avuncularmedievalism. Bambazone, who benefit of the smaller class. He elaborated the development of society from its infancy, provides a backbone of humour to the piecein an in- and drew this great conclusion, namely, thatall poverty ordinate love of his stomach, has annoyed Giralda out and suffering was caused by the power of the fewover the of herdainty, rollicking devilry. She conceives the many. idea of giving him an indigestible meal, and when the He alsoprophesied that unless GreatBritain once and inevitable pain arrives tells him that he must have taken for all decided that her people should have free access to poison. the soil and to the means whereby they could obtainthe When the jest is at its height and Bambazone rolling necessities of life, her days as a great nation were numbered. If your correspondent wants a better definition of the onthe floor, Sir Philip enters. Hearing the supposed Socialist position than Mr. Wilson gave, then he had better truth, his law-loving nature is shocked, and he demands readthe “Christian Socialist,” where Mr. Wilson explains fromGiralda the right to avenge her guest. The sug- his position more fully. gestionis received withpeals of merriment.He is Forour part, we areout to capturethe great Christian horrified, andcalling her a savage he departs in Churchfor Socialism, and I suggest to Mr.Howe thatthe dudgeon.The ladyfalls into a mediaeval passion,and best way to do that is to teach the elementary truths of the swearsrevenge. Bambazone shall be reported dead Socialist- ideal. Is this the new rallyingpoint amongst and a dummy corpse prepared. Then she will work on .Christians ? The Rev. Stitt Wilson said: “Never have the workers of theEnglishman with her fears of legalcomplications, the world received the just reward of their labours.” and so persuade him to condone the crime by burying “Social injustice has been the greatest sin on the page of thecorpse. The ruse succeeds admirably, and Giralda human history. ” leaves Sir Philip to swallow the jest. He stands think- Rev. WillReason: “ We must capturethe churchesfor ing a moment, then comes to a sudden resolution. One Socialism.”

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Rev. W. E. Orchard:“Socialism is the carrying of reli- tion of thelies repeated by C. H. Norman.For instance, gion into the sphere of economics.” we have only to remember Mr. Rhodes’action infacing Rev. Conrad Noel : “No religion is worth anything unless 2,000 armedMatabele warriors with nothing more than a it expresses itself in outward acts.” riding whip in his hand,and forbidding hisescort of two Rev. J. E. Rattenbury : “Socialism is the only real theory men to carryany arms. At that momentous interview he of society which can face the problems of society.’, secured peace from the Matabeles when all other means had If this is the new rallying point amongst Christians, then failed, and when they were actually in open hostility. let US thank God that at last the Church has awakened from As to Mr. Rhodes’ behaviour during the Kimberley siege, herslumber. At lastthe Christian ministers and clergy every aye witness can tell you thathe disdained even the have ranged themselves on the side of justice and truth. most ordinaryprecautions for his own safety, while atthe The Christian Socialist Fellowshipis not a soupkitchen same timeusing every meansand endeavour in his power society. Westand for the revolutionary principle of forthe safety of thehelpless women and children. Mr. Socialism asthe only hope of the world. We believe that Rhodes receivcd public acknowledgment and thanks for his theapplication of theprinciples of Jesus Christto society services rendered to the distressed within the town, and also must result in the overthrow of Capitalism and the substi- forthe spirited way in .which he assisted inthe sorties. tution of a co-operativecommonwealth, under which the Where was C. H. Normanat that time, when England means of life would be co-operatively owned, and controlled, needed men ? There was, as there always is under such con- and administered. ditions,friction between themilitary and civilianfactions The Fellowship, in a word, representsan international during the siege, which is to be regretted, and may account Christian revolt against orthodox and conventional economic for the slander. an.d social ideas, and the tendency in the Christian Church As to Mr. Rhodes being responsiblefor’ the war, I know towards firsttowards principles. Jos. REEVES. from my own personal knowledge that no one regretted it (Correspondence secretary of the C.S.F.) more, or used greater effort to guardagainst it, than he *** did, and I refer you to his attitudeat the time of the WORKERS’EDUCATIONAL ‘ASSOCIATION. Jameson Raid (which he did his best to avert) to showhow TO THE EDITOR OF “THE NEW AGE.” strongly he desired to maintain peace. In conclusion, you will always find among a nation some We notice that in your issue of the week before last you like this manNorman, who resort to the weakness of state that the Workers’ Educational Association is “a purely defamationas a means to much-desiredpublicity, and like private body ekedout by subscriptions from such trade theJackals, when the Monarch liesdead, they rend the unionistsas Lord Londonderry.” As members of Labour carcass of the Lion. FREDERICKRHODES. organisations, of Socialist organisations, or of both, who are *** at the same time members of the executive of the Workers’ Educational Association, we desire to state :- THE CABLECOMPANIES. THE OF (I) That the Workers’ Educational Association is as much, To EDITOR “The NEW AGE.” or as little, “a purely private organisation “ as a trade union As a man of considerable expert Enowledge of the cable or a co-operative society. business, I was astoundedto read Mr. Norman’s article on (2) That it consists of some 60 branches, including not less the agitation for cheap cable rates. It has been my business than 800 trade union, co-operative, and other working-class to keep in close touch with this movement from the begin- organisations. ning, and I unhesitatingly pronounce the scheme to be one (3) That its executive, which is democratically elected by set on. footby a certainnumber of businessmen whose the members appointed to the council by the branches and principalaim and objectis to havetheir cablegrams sent affiliated societies, includes, out of 20 members, 14 members cheaplyat the expense, either of cablecompany share- of Labourand Socialistorganisations, Theremaining six holders or of the taxpayers. areconnected with definite educationalinterests, viz., the Working Men’s College, Ruskin College, Directors of Edu- cation, Social and political Education, and Toynbee Hall. (4) That the report on “ Oxford and Working Class Edu- cation,” which YOU say“was never put before the trade unionists of thecountry,” has been submitted to the zoo societies.sending delegates to the conference,. at which the committee by whom the report was drawn up was approved. (5)- Thatthe Workers’ Educational Association has no responsibility, direct or indirect, for the proposals put for- is the Ideal BreakfastBeverage when mixed with hot milk, on or milk andwater without boiling. Its ingredients speak ward byLord Curzon in his memorandum “Principles for themselves :-Cocoa, Milk, Eggs. and Malt Extract ; it and Methods of University Reform.” also contains the greatest nerve and brain tonic in the world, Unless we were convinced thatthe association was a viz., active Lecithin. thoroughlydemocratic body, capable of making much- I needed educational facilities moreavailable for the work- people of thiscountry, who controlits policy, we should certainly not serve on the executive, and we desire to repudiate your ill-informed suggestion that, in some way- which we notice you do not defne-itis hostile tothe in- ?HE NEW LIQUID terests of the working classes. FOOD We rely upon you to give this letter as much, publicity as is equally beneficial to adults, children and convalescents. the statement to which it refers. I WILLIAMTEMPLE (Fabian Society). FREE SAMPLE Send Id. stamp for enough to make 4 I GEORGEALCOCK (Trustee Amalgamated Society of . A. 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TAWNBY(Fabian Society). *** THE JACKAL AND THE DEADLION. To THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.” My ‘attentionhas been drawn to a paragraphby C. H. Normanin THE NEW AGE of April 1st 1909, re Cecil MY.Palmer of The New AGE Rhodes’ conductduring the Boer war. Theactual fact of Mr. Rhodes’ courage is too well known to require any refuta- J EDGE,155 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON W.C. JUNE IO, 1909 THE New AGE I47

In a movement of thissort it is just as well toexamine Mr. ArnoldDaly, actor-manager, whose production of the provenance of the thing, and I should like to refer you Bernard Shaw’s “ Mrs. Warren’s Profession ” was stopped by to a meeting which was held atthe Mansion House on the New York police,has arrived in Paris from Carlsbad December 11th last.We find thatthe chair was taken.by in quest of a new play for New York this fall. theLord Mayor, andhe was most admirablysupported, “What I wantto talk about, however,” said Mr. Daly, from their own standpoint, by such good, sound democrats as “isthe suppression by the London censor of Shaw’s new SirEdward Sassoon the Duke of Argyle, Mr. Jesse Col- play, ‘The Showing-up of Blanco Posnet.’. Isn’t itridi- lings, M. Lemieux,the Canadian Postmaster-General (who culous ? made a long and florid speech, and said nothing), the Earl “ The minute anyone attempts to really benefit the public of Jersey, and Lord Milner. The irony of thesituation was heis declared immoral. Look at the case of Ibsen.When provided bythe silent presence on theplatform of Lord hisplays first appeared even thedramatic critics declared Strathcona, himself a director of a cable company! Despite he was a degenerate,and he nearly died beforegaining the fact that Sir Edward Sassoon protested that ”he was not recognition.Anything is permitted on the stage as long fighting for,privileges for the rich merchant,to whom a asone does not make the public think. But if thinking is largeor small cablegram bill meantlittle or nothing, but immoral in England, then it is high time the country became forthe small trader and for the artisan whose sons and immoral. daughters were far away in some remoteoutpost of Em- pire,” I think we know what importance to attach to public “Halfthe people don’t know whatis immoral. Here is utterances of gentry of theirdescription. Timeo Danaos et mydefinition : That is immoral which tendsto corrupt or dona ferentes. debase in any way that which is finest in any one. That is As for the cable ring, of which we hear so much, it is all moral, no matter what, which tends to encourage,uplift, moonshine. Anyone who knows anythingabout the cable andenlighten that which is best in you. Butlet a man business at all knows that there is no such thing as a cable to-day paint vice as disgusting, bestial, and working harm, ring. Andas for Mr. HennikerHeaton’s reiterated state- andhe is dubbed immoral; let him make vice attractive, ment that cables are idle during the night, I would simply charming,and wholly romantic,and he is hailed with recommend Mr. Heaton to take a few elementary lessons in delight.Note some of thesuggestive musical comedies, for geography: If hedid this, he would know that when itis example. Or take ‘ Raffles ’-there’s an immoral play, for it midnight ln London,it is seven o’clock in New York, six makes crime attractive. o’clock in Chicago, between half-past three and four in the “Certainly,the censor ought to be abolished. I refuse afternoonin San Francisco and Vancouver, one o’clock in the right to any one man to say what should be played inthe Honolulu,and “to-morrow morning” in the Australasian theatre.When every actor-manager in London, some time continent.And all this time messages are filling the cables agodeclared for the censor, theythereby declared them- as fast as the operators can key or punch them. Personally, selvesgrocers, and the only reason can be that they were my own regret is that Mr. Henniker Heaton, who has done afraid of offending the censor himself for fear of his retalia- undeniably good work in the area of postal reform, should ting by shutting down on ‘some of their plays. have been so innocent and short-sighted as to allow himself “I sayopenly that Shaw should now annihilate this to be made the cat’s .paw of the guileless and disinterested Britishcensor with ridicule.Ridicule is theonly way, and gentlemenenumerated. I have EXPERT. Shaw ismaster of this weapon. And when a man. is *** so ignorant, so asinine, he should be shown no mercy.

“ QUAINTDANCES AND LUSTY AMAZONS.” “In America, on the other hand, Mr. Taft did quite right, TO THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.” to leave the theatre if he thought the play was vulgar. This This was one of the attractions advertised by the Imperial is the way to censor a play, and others should emulate his International Exhibition-what anamount of brain power initiative. is used up in searching for words which will dimly suggest “ My fear, however, isthat if a playin America is indecency without offending our English consciences. These declaredvulgar, the people will go, instead of staying away. ” F. H. BURLINGHAM. lusty Amazons are to be found in “ Dahomey.” There was a circular railing penning in twenty or thirty men and women. Though I stood close and saw clearly, the MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS, thingseemed impossible in its shameless ugliness! The Advertisements are inserted In th& column at the following cheap Prepaid Rates : quaint dances turned out to be an incompetent performance Our.__ 6 18 16 of the danse du ventre. If the authorities admitted the show Insert Insert Insert Insert as such, they would probably justify themselves by a plea of 16 words l/- W- 17/- 24 ,, 116 7/6 awa10/6 “native dances,” but these dances were certainly not native m “ 2/- 1% W- 25/6u/- Y 1/(1ycw- to Dahomey ; they were taintedby European notions of DY- suggestive movement. The women trailedround and 25 :: 3/- l&- Cash must accompany order and advertisements- & be received & &ï#* them round,never glancing at their audience or companions, first post Monday morningfor same week’sissue likesullen beasts, but themen twisted theirnecks about, Trade Advertisments are not inserted at these rates casting shifty looks at the white women on the other side of Remittances and orders should be sent to the Manager THE NEW AGE therailing. Some seemed blind with misery, butfrom the 12-14 Red Lion Court Fleet Street LOD- eyes of others blazed an ecstacy of hard, naked contempt. FRENCH Riviera Boarders received tot winter, sanny And they flung the ugly gestures at the crowd knowing that comfortable house Terms moderate.-Les Charmettes-ErmigateAntibes that was what it had come and paid for. (Alp-Mar). Half-pastten had just struck; there was inthe atmo- HOUSING QUESTION SOLVED.-Why not enter ont own house In an district at once? NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED Repres- sphere an aching sense of dreariness born of the chilly air sentatives may receive deeds ‘without further payment In case of death.---write and the discordant noises from the enclosure. Dotted about for particulars, J C., 177a Longley Road, Tooting S W inthe “village ” were mudhuts where these people lived, large FURNISHED ROOM to let in Fabian‘s house. and outside them the babies lay-tiny wooden figures with Board optional. Vegetarian Diet.--23 Pandora Road, West Hampstead. monkey’s eyes. Tortured”pity, more than half loathing, ROFESSIONAL MAN’S WIFE wishes to receive two young sankinto my heart, and my legs swayed underthe cold fellows. Those interested ln S-cial Questlons preferred, terms moderate. weight of it. I hurriedback towards the entrance-a black -5P minutes Hlghgate Tube. Box 20 New Age Office man passed, andthe hatred in his eyesburnt through me PICTURESQUE OLD FARM HOUSE, 14 Rooms, Bath h&c, andmelted the coldweight, andmy heart shrivelled. Splendidwater supply, Large Garden Tennis. Charmlinglysituated. There seemed no certaintythat he would notmurder me, twenty pounds MonthlyFurnished, Summer months. Yachting Fishing, Golf, Sea-Bath- and no possibility of blame if he should. ng, allhandy. MotorCar, also nice pony trap,by arrangement.--Matthews, Round the pen the crowd had grown larger. A low moan Danbury,Essex. cut the air close beside me, and I shuddered, guessing what THE HOME RESTAURANT, 31, Friday Street, off Queen Victoria Street, E.C., will OPEN May 11th Pure Food Luncheons After= it was. A small child-of the audience-stood there.The noon Teas. Home Made Cakes, etc. Specialities--Fruit and Vegetable Salads white face was sick and miserable, and I watched while he The Home Restaurant is a new enterprise started by ladies ;its great feature will be to provide properly balanced meals, moderate in price), well-cooked, and pressed knuckles in his eyes (fiercely), believing, as children promptly served. Only leadless glaze ware will be used, do, thatthe horror lay there, and could be rubbed off. Hisparents looked on atthe dances, their chins dropping r ‘HE SPIRITUALITY OF THE BIBLE Proved BY THE T SPIRIT OF TRUTH. loosely. Themother hearing the tiny moan, grabbed the ZION’S WORKS, with Catalogne, in Free Libraries. childby the hair and rumpled it soothingly. “There, there; didthe black man frighten him ? Nevermind, he O SUBLET or SUBLEASE, Furnished or Unfurnished, T convenient and well-placed Flat in Gray’s Inn, overlooking the gardens, .won’t hurt you if you’re good.” Thesephrases reached me Three rooms, Kitchen Bath, and Attics,Electric light, eta.-Apply, Box AI,NEW as I went out. I wonder how longthey kept him there? AGE. C. TYPEWRIT1NG.- Expert typist wants work in order to raise *** T funds toenable him to carry on morevigorous propaganda, Terms to Socialists, 8d.per 1,0000--F. H. Minett 42. Shaftesbury Road Hammersmith, W -THE DRAMATICCENSORSHIP. 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