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NEW AGE A WEEKLY REVIEW OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND ART, No. 764] THURSDAY,APRIL 29, 1909 ONE PENNY CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE -NOTESOF THE WEEK ...... I Whited SEPULCHRES--Chapter I. BeatriceBy Tina .... 13 IN DEFENCEOF AROBINDAGHOSH ...... 3 A Clump OF RUSHES.By David Lowe ...... 14 SOCIALISTPOLITICS ...... 4 REVIEWS: Russia’s New Era ... 15 THE INSOLENTHEATHEN ...... 5 DRAMA : “Those Damned Little Clerks” By Cecil AN ETHICALMARRIAGE SERVICE‘” ...... 5 Chesterton ...... 16 AN ENGLISHMAN’SBACK GARDEN. By Edgar Jepson ... 6 MUSIC : Castorand Pollux. ByHerbert Hughes ...... 19 JOAN OF ARCAND BRITISHOPINION. By Joseph Clayton ... CORRESPONDENCE: Paul Campbell, H. Russell Smart, A SHRIEKOF WARNING-11. By G. K. Chesterton ... 7 Arnold Bennett, Henry C. Devine, Edward Agate, R. W. SYMPATHYAND UNDERSTANDING.By Eden Phillpotts ... 10 Talbot Cox,. Cicely Hamilton, C. H. Norman, F. L. BOOKSAND PERSONS. By Jacob Tonson ...... I2 Billington-Grieg ...... 20

ALL BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS should be ad- escapedthem, we can only saythat had he endured dressed to the ‘Manager, 12-14Red Lion Court Fleet St., London. them,he would notnow be where he is.. Thereare ADVERTISEMENTS : The latesttime for receiving Ad- only twothings necessary in modernelementary edu- vertisments is first post Monday for the same week’s issue. cation : to abolish the schoolsand to abolish the SUBSCRIPTION RATES for England and Abroad: teachers. Of thethree factors, the children are the Three months ...... IS. 9d. soleuncorrupted. Six months . .. . . 3s. 3d. ** * Twelve months ... . 6s. 6d. All remittances should be made payable to THENEW AGE PRESS, ‘Lord Crewe, the Colonial Secretary, had the audacity LTD.,and sent to 12-14,Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London todeclare in theHouse of Lordson Wednesday that The Editorial address is 4, Verulam Buildings Gray’s Inn, he had never seen any difficulty in defending the system W.C. of indenturedlabour. Plenty of better people than LordCrewe years ago found no difficulty in defend- ing slavery, and we do not doubt that in the House of NOTES OF THE WEEK. Lordsthe noble earlcan make the worseappear the EITHERthe “Times” has beeneavesdropping, or Mr. betterreason. But a more liberalassembly would Lloyd George has been at his usual game of giving the smile, and notvery indulgently, at hisclumsy sophis- showaway. Anyhow, the“Times ” of Wednesday tries.There is only oneexcuse for indentured labour, appearedwith exclusive information regarding one of and it is thesame for forced and underpaid labour of the lacunae of theBudget : there is to be no taxation every kind : the necessity of thelabourer. And this is of landvalues. About that nobody,we are sure will invariably exploited to the limit of his endurance. That care a pin,except it be fanatics like Mr.Fels, whose ourown proletariat are notindentured like coolies ideasrun on land as Shylock’sran on ducats. We argues novirtue inLord Crewe and his peers, who havealways ,declared that this particular roost was could as easilyjustify such labour in England as in eitherempty or containedonly pot-eggs, and that no Madagascar,the New Hebrides,theCongo, or Socialistwould spend five minutesfluttering the hen. PrincipéFor English labourers a silverchain hasto Mr. Lloyd Georgehas apparently arrived at the same be invented and labelled-Freedom. conclusion with the aid of the Cabinet ; for we are con- *** vinced that he could nothave done it unaided.About If the English Church in Wales were not one of the the “Times,” we see that Mr. Belloc intends to ask a outposts of the English Church in England, neither Mr. question. Hehad better inquirewhy the Cabinet Balfour nor Lord Hugh Cecil. would lift a finger to save leaks. it. As it is, theWelsh Disestablishment must be sup- ** * * ported as a buttressto the English. Unfortunately The number of promissorynotes issued by the Mr.. Asquith, in introducing his Bill; failedlamentably Governmentexceeds their credit. During the discus- to anticipatethe actual .opposition. On grounds of sionon Continuation Schools, inaugurated on Monday reason,his case wasunanswerable ; but Mr. Balfour by Mr. W. Jones, Mr. Runcimanpromised, or, at ignoredreason and stuck to solid sentiment.This Bill least, hoped, that“in the course of thenext few meant the diversion of money from a higher to a lower years ” the school-leaving agemight be raised. He use ; that is, if you please, fromsaving hypothetical might as well have said the millennium and done with ‘souls tosaying actual bodies. Also itwas due to it. The nation absolutely stands on the three pedestals malevolentNonconformist jealousy (probably true). of women’s,workers’, and children’s -slavery, andto ButMr. Balfour dung sentiment to the windswhen he abolish one would be tomake the gimcrack edifice declared that “it ‘was. a monstrousand extravagant topple-to theglory of God. Of theproposed Con- paradox that you make religion purer by making minis- tinuation Schools we have not, with an intimate know ters of religionpoorer Thatis not a paradox but a ledge of them, a single good word to say. Theyare fact, which canbe demonstrated by the method of theworst shams in a shameducational system. Mr. reductioabsurdam : not tosay by theauthoritative Gooch, of Camberwell,who would makethem corn- axiom concerning the rich man and heaven. Not a pulsorydeserves himself tobe sent to one. & for soul in Parliament had thecourage to denounce Mr. Mr. Summerbell, who appeared to regret having Balfour as a rank heretic,. 2 THE NEW AGE APRIL29, 1909

Anythingmore childish thanLord Morley’s attempt enterthe Holyof Holies. That should giveanother tocounteract the courageous and attractive propa- impetus to the Women’s Suffrage movement ganda of seditioncarried on amongIndian students ** * in England by ShyamajiKrishnavarma at hisIndia The “Times,” commenting on the recent crisis in the House at Highgatecan scarcely beimagined. Every I.L.P., remarks in asentence as full of inaccuracies youngIndian worth. his salt is, of course, an Indian as of mixed metaphors : “ifthe forward section suc- Nationalist, as everyEnglishman worth his beef is an ceed in severing the links between the Labour Party and English,Nationalist. LordMorley’s appointment of theTrade Unionists which theformer have been at Mr., Arnold toact as kind English grandmotherto such pains to forge, it is hardly open to doubt that they youngIndians in thiscountry is, therefore, not only will have paved the way to a debacle for their party at doomed tofailure, but doomed to worsethan failure. the General Election. ” The “ forward ” movement has Inthe firstplace, no Englishman of character would no intention of severingthe links, but only of adding undertake the invidious task, and, in the second place, fresh links to enable each section to move more freely. no youngIndian of character would submit tothe Our contentioh is that at present the two sections are deliberateprocess of denationalising. The .London running in a three-legged race. Also, we quite expected School of Economics has a betterscheme : the in- that the “ debacle at the GeneralElection ” would be stitution of speciala course of lectures forIndian attributed in advance to the “ forward ” section, though, students on Indianadministration. There is states- in fact, we have long prophesied such a debacle as the manship- in that. consequence of thefailure to move forward.The re- ** * cent awakening of the I.L. p., due wholly to the “for- ward ” section(which, by theway, is not, as. Mr. “ The price we are paying for the finest town-plan- Blatchfordungenerously claims, confined to himself ning in the world is the destruction of the home.” This and Mr. Grayson,and Mr. Hyndman),isthe best is the declaration of one of the housing experts of Ger- guarantee we have had for three years against the once many as reported in the “Times ” of April 22. “ With certaindebacle. The electionprospects of theI.L.P. all their planningand all their machine-like organisa- are already distinctly brighter as a result of Edinburgh. tion, the problem of the housing of the poor has yet to *** be dealtwith.” We commend this to the attention of We are glad that Mr. and Mrs.Sidney Webbhave Mr. Burns,whose Bill is now in Committee. For started ontheir campaign on behalf of the Minority neither by his Bill nor by anything short of the State Report. The Labour Party alone has not steam enough provision of freehouses for working men canthe to forcethe pace, and a great deal will be needed. problem be solved. ** * Peopledo not realise what an amount of raging, tear- ingpropaganda is necessary to propelagood Bill We have not the smallest objection to the raising of through Parliament : bad Bills glide through on greased the salary of the President of the Board of Trade from wheels. Thereis considerable danger lest the work of £2,ooo to £5,ooo. Our onlycondition is that he shall the Commission on the Poor Law be rendered fruitless earn it. At present there is not the smallest doubt that forageneration by theprevailing lassitude of re- Mr. Churchilldoes nothing of the kind.Neither he formers,who will need alltheir beststrength if they nor half adozen otherMinisters we could name, are are to succeed in embodying the Report or Reports in worth anything like the salary they receive. It ,is part Acts that alonematter. Anybodywho can use tongue of the general farce of English politics that a man like or pen should getto workon the subject at once. Mr. Churchill,with absolutely no commercial experi- *** ence, should be regarded as capable of -filling the post, Amongthe less disagreeable of theresults of the and be accepted by commercial men themselves without Naval Panic inaugurated with such folly by Mr. Asquith a grain of salt. £2,000 a year is quite enough for an himself,is theappointment which has beenforced on amateurgentleman politician. £5,ooo ayear is not him of a Commission of Inquiryinto the state of the too much fora trained and capable man. HomeFleet. As the Commissionconsists exclusively * ** * of members of theCabinet, and is to meet in private, Thefamous Clause III of theIndian Councils Rill nothingparticular can come of it. And, indeed, there which the Lords threw out at the instigation of Lords is nothing particular to come. Mr. Asquith now knows Curzon and MacDonnell, was re-inserted by the House that when heconsented to shout Wolf, Wolf,for Sir of Commonson Monday by a majority of 96, only 22 Edward Grey’s sole satisfaction, he did the worst poli- votingagainst it. The Clausepermits the Govern- tical day’swork of his life. His,majority is not only ment of India, atits discretion, to createExecutive demoralised butmelting, while theOpposition has re- Councils of an elective character in each of the Indian newed its youth like the eagle in the sun of the tropical provinces ; and thereby to associate with the Anglians panic. The concession of an Inquiry will, we fear, the Indians themselves in ’their own government. There have only the effect of whetting the appetite of the Op- is not the slightest doubt that it is the thin end of the position for more. The Government will pay dearly for wedge of ultimateself-government, and we welcome it Mr. Asquith’s blunder. onthat account. Another decision of considerable im- ** * portance was in the statement made by Mr. Hobhouse The Queen has long been knownto be morepowerful that the Government would not disqualify from service than Cabinet Ministers ; but we thought that the Censor onLegislative Councils in Indiaany British subject wasstronger still. However, by herMajesty’s express solely by reason of his having been deported on political wish, the ban which has lain for 36 years on the per- grounds.This, we sincerelyhope, is a step in the formance in this country of Saint-Saens’ biblical opera, direction of complete amnesty for existing political pri- “Samson et Dalila,” has been removed, and the opera soners inIndia under the Habeas Corpus Suspension was performed at Covent Garden on Monday evening. Act of last year : and a return to the method of Lord There is not the smallest reason left now for retaining Canning in 1858. theban on any workof art at all : and we shall not *** acquit of lèse majesté anytroglodyte who persists in TheHouses of Parliament Bill, the second reading opposingthe abolitionof theChamberlain’s office. As of which was moved by the Attorney-General on Tues- forMr. Redford, he canalways make a living as a day,might be better described as the“Bill for the Methodist parson. Exclusion of Suffragettesfrom theGallery.” There *** proved,however, to beno words in dignified English The members of the Fabian Society are to be con- capable of conveyingthe distinction betweenSuffra- gratulated on their good sense in refusing to elect Mr. gettes and women : and the silly Bill was in consequence JosiahWedgwood on to their executive. As things dropped Butthe wish thatfathered the Bill remains, have turnedout at Edinburgh and elsewhere, we see and will,we suppose,accomplish itself. Until the plenty of workahead for the Fabian Society. Mr. panic induced in the elderly gentlemen of Parliament by James Allan’s statesmanlikeletter to the“Labour the sound of a woman’s voice in the Gallery dies away, Leader,” on which we comment elsewhere, goes to the no woman, Suffragetteor servile, will be permitted to rootof the matter in declaring that theorganised April 29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 3

workersalone are incapable of bringingabout Social- have proved association between him and the different ism : they need the helpboth of theunorganised conspirators, I submit, and I again hope I have proved, workers and of the great body of the middle classes. It that you cannot place theslightest relianceupon that is with theselatter that the Fabian Society is con- evidence. Whenthe Government takes it into its head cerned ; and we wish the Society would tackle its task to believe that there is a widespread conspiracy, a vast with a due sense of its magnitude and importance. No organisationthat threatens its stability, it is a matter town of over ten thousand population should be without of commonknowledge that you docome acrossspies a branch of the Fabian Society, whichmay be recom- who are ready to give evidence of the character we have mended to maintain its traditions of insufferable super- here. . . . Is it argued that on the different letters put iority andto continue to justify them. We sincerely forward in .the evidence, thereis a caseagainst hope that. before theGeneral Election ison us the Arobinda?. My answer is thatthe letters themselves Fabians may have a closely-woven net spread allover show nothing of the kind. Itis my learnedfriend’s the countryfor the capture of theintelligent middle interpretation that makes that case, and it, has been at classes. By the way, we hope before long to publish a times of such a naturethat one can hardly resist the verbatim report of a lecture by Mr. Bernard Shaw on temptation of callingit ridiculous. For a parallel you “ Socialism and the Middle Classes.” mustturn to the celebrated case of Mrs.Bardwell ** * against Mr. Pickwick. . . . ‘ Look atthe probability, The discussion of the Necessitous Children’s Feeding look atthe man’sthoughts,’ says my learned friend Bill on Friday was marked by two incidents, the obvious and in that view he has put before you different news- division of opinion amongst the members of the Labour papers. ‘ Readthe “ BandeMataram,” ’ my friend Party,and the passage at arms betweenthe Labour seems to say. ‘ Readhis speeches, his writings, and members-and Mr. Harold Cox.Mr. Cox israpidly thendiscover his thoughts. If thereis any indication making for himself the reputation of a first rate under- in them that Arobinda was putting forward the ideal of study of Mr.Balfour at hisworst. Having nothing freedom, you must take it for granted that he was also original to say, and no constructive proposals to offer, in favour of bombsand secret societies, and such he issatisfied with the double position of ex-secretary other matters as some of the evidence in this case dis- of the CobdenClub andfriend of reactionwherever closes.’ And my submission to you is thatwhatever itappears. Nothing short of rudeness is capable of may be Arobinda’s offence, whateverbe his sin, he is suppressing him, and we hopethe Labour mem- notguilty of thecharges brought against him. . . . bers will risethatto method as often as re- But if itis suggested that he has preached the ideal quired. The division of opinionhowever,is, a of freedom to his fellow-countrymen ; ‘if it is suggested moreserious matter. For the first time the gulf that he has ventured to picture in his mind the future between the politics of theTrade Unionistand the ofhis country as a greatand glorious nation-he economics of the Socialist became apparent in the Par- pleadsguilty to that charge. Convict him if itis an liamentary ranks. Mr. Thorne, we are glad to see, was offence under the law, but do not impute to him crimes undisciplined enough to contradict Mr. Henderson .pub- against which hiswhole nature revolts, and which he licly, andtodeclare on behalf of Socialists that could neverhave perpetrated. That is his defence. Do Socialists at any rate believe in free State maintenance not accuse him of conspiracy or anarchy or some such for all children. offence. Butthe ideal of freedomhehas always ** * preached. It isfor that he hasgiven up all the pros- [NEXT WEEK : the first of a series of articles on pects of his life, itwas for that heleft Baroda and Music by M. Debussy specially translated with came to Calcutta, forsaking affluence for poverty. That the author’s permission by Mrs. Franz Liebich. has been, if I may say so, the one thought of his waking hours,the dream of hissleep. If that is an offence, if it is an offence topreach the ideal of freedom in a Defence Arobinda British dominion, here he is self-condemned, no evidence In of Ghosh. isrequired, no witnesses need be brought. Chainhim, [The hearing of the trial of Arobinda Ghosh, in Calcutta, imprison him, he will cheerfully bear any punishment it for alleged seditionand incitement violence,to re- entails, but it pains me to think that crimes which he centlyconcluded, judgment being reserved. Mr. C. R. Das, who actedas counsel for the defence,made, at the never could have thought, ideas which are repellent to close of the case, a magnificentspeech, ,which lasted over him,should be attributedto him. . . . . Butthe day eightsittings. The following is an extract from the con- has not yet dawned in this country of ours when it is cluding section.] criminal to preachthe ideal of freedom. And the “THEREis one point which strikesone at thevery chargesagainst Arobinda are absolutelyinconsistent outset, but I thought it wouldcome in more fitly and with everything he has said, everything he has written, appropriately after I had dealt with the evidence. Your everytendency of hismind discovered in the evidence Honour will remember that my learned friend’s case is here. . . . . My appealto you sir,therefore, is that thatArobinda is the head of thisconspiracy. Hehas a man like this who has been charged with such crimes, been creditedwith vast intellectual attainments, with stands notonly before the bar of this court, but before vastpowers of organisation,and it was said that he the bar of the High Court of History. Remember that was directing this conspiracy working from behind. But long after this controversy is hushed into silence, long havingregard to the nature of theconspiracy which after this turmoil, this agitation, will have ceased, long has beenestablished by the evidence, ifit has been after he is dead and gone, he will be looked upon as the established at all, it is impossible to think that Arobinda poet of patriotism,the prophet of Nationalism as the can ever have believed that that conspiracy was likely lover of Humanity.His words will be echoed and re- to succeed. . . . At bestit is a childishconspiracy, echoed, not only in India, but over distant seas and dis- a toy revolution of puerile enthusiasm,and it is im- tant lands. . . . I appeal to you, sir, in the name of_all possible that a man like Arobinda could ever have be- the greatand noble traditionsof the English Bench, lieved in hisheart of heartsthat by bombingsome which formthe mostglorious chapter in English his- Englishmen at different places he would be able to sub- tory. . . . Letit be not said that an Englishjudge vertthe British Government. . . . . Eitherdrop the forgot those traditions, .was overcome with the passions suggestion that it is because of his intellectual powers, and prejudices of the hour, and yielded to the clamour his eminent qualities, that hewas the fittest man to of the moment.” lead this conspiracy, and therefore you ought to believe he was the leader of this conspiracy ;drop that, or drop the other theory that he was the leader-of this alleged revolutionaryproject. . . . . Apartfrom that sugges-- DELICIOUSCOFFEE tion, if you turn to the evidence, oral and documentary, what do you find? Isit argued that the confessions are evidence againstArobinda? My answeris, and I REDWHITE &BLUE hope I have proved it, that they exonerate him. If it is For Breakfast & after Dinner. argued thatthe watchwitnesses andother witnesses 4 THE NEW AGE April 29, 1909

were cast atEdinburgh, is, or is not incompatible with Socialist Politics. I theunimpaired continuance of theLabour Party alliance. THE situationthat has arisen since the four I.L.P. Thatletter expresses our viewadmirably, and, if it leadersresigned is interestingand piquant. The new be the policy adopted by the N. A.C., we can promise the unreserved support of N.A.C. has indicated that it can do without them, and THENEW AGE. thatit will pursue a policy of reconciliationwith the Weare notblind, however, to certain plain facts. rebels.Mr. Jowett, the new chairman, wants peace. Notably,that the view enunciated by Mr.Allan was He is strongly opposed to the policy of proscription out- rejected by vote at the Edinburgh Conference. It is a lined by Mr.Keir Hardie. Withthat end in view, he view worthworking for, and, if needsmust, worth hasapproached Mr. Grayson and offered him official fighting for. Mr. Allan’sletter appropriately heralds a recognitionon the I.L.P. platform. We cordiallycon- letter we have ourselves received from an old and active gratulateMr. Jowett upon his sense and his courage. member of the I. L.P. He has worked strenuously and Thetruth is that the newN.A.C. is alive tothe sacrificedmuch forSocialism. We regret that he strength of theyoung movement, and is byno means prefersto write anonymously, signing his communi- disposedto antagonise it. VVe arenot identified with cation “ Veteran” He writes : any section, clique, or faction, and are only concerned Sir,-Although I do not always agree with the utterances with the healthy growth of Socialism,not only in the of THE NEW AGE, yet it is to me a weekly inspiration, and I know that whatever it advocates is written honestly, and study,but in practicalpolitics. We recognisethat (I am not flattering) with delightfulliterary force. I have Mr. Jowett is taking a saneand shrewd line, which watched closely all you have written in favour of a Socialist maysave the I.L. P. fromdisastrous dissension. Had Representation Committee, and more than halfsympathise. the root and branch attitude of Mr.Keir Hardie been But I respectfully submit that the method suggested is con- adoptedby the new N.A.C., a splitwould have been, trary to the spirit that dominates the I.L.P. At the present inevitable. And the responsibilitywould undoubtedly juncture, to found an S.R.C. would be to invite the suspi- havelain heavily upon the flustered four. They have cion, if notthe active opposition, of the party. You want Socialist representation. You mean bythat the real blundered ; they will paythe price themselves. Of thing: Socialismdistinct from, but not unfriendly to, course, if they still want war, they can have it-more Labourism. I believe thatthe majority of the I.L.P. than they think-but it is pleasant to observe the more desirethe same thing. But they are deeplyand genuinely sensibleappreciation of thesituation shown by Mr. committed tothe Labour Alliance. The oneought. not to Jowettand his colleagues. We haverepeatedly urged excludethe other. Mr. KeirHardie, who is honest, in- that there ought to be ample room in the I.L.P. for all stinctive, but a little muddle-headed (we are none of us shades of Socialist thought : we said it in our “Open perfect, not even the Editor of THENEW AGE), is perpetu- ally on guardagainst any movement thatmay seem to Letterto Mr. Keir Hardie ” ; werepeated it in our threatenthe Alliance. In this way he contrives to make “Word of Remembranceand Caution to the I.L.P. the two ideasappear mutually exclusive. Itis evident, Delegates ” ; yetagain in our “Note of Discernment however, that a considerable section of the Edinburgh dele- to Mr.Henderson ” ; and with iteration in our leader gates werenot deluded. Your problem,therefore, appears of last week. tobe two-fold: (a) toform an organisation that shall To make our position yetmore definite, we are de- strengthen those who advocate Socialist representation ; but lighted to reproduce a letterwhich appeared in the (b) that it must carefully restrict its purpose to that one end alone,and in no way, directlyor Indirectly, trench upon “LabourLeader ” of lastweek from Mr. James A. the political and propagandist work of either the I.L.P. or Allan, of Glasgow : S.D. P. As ‘an unrepentent member of the majority who voted for If some suchorganisation were inaugurated,any member the reference back of the Grayson paragraphs last Monday of either of these bodies might, with a clear conscience, join, week, and of the minority who voted against their reinstate- and I think youwould obtainconsiderable support from ment the following day, I ask for space in the official organ unattached Socialists. The constitutionmight be tersely of the I.L.P. to state my reasons for believing that the vote confined to the following declarations :- for the reference back wasnot an indication of ignorance, (I) -The name to be the Socialist Representation League. folly, or disloyalty to the party. (2) Membership is open to any declared Socialist. The original vote was not, I believe, intended to have any (3) The Socialist RepresentationLeague aims to supple- other Significance than the obvious one that the paragraphs mentthe efforts of all Socialists who are working for containeda one-sided and rather sneering account of inci- Socialist representationupon all localand Parliamentary dents better forgotten, and that these incidents had been, to bodies. some extent at least,contributed to by the action ofsome (4) To support,morally and materially,all duly of, the menwhose report was under consideration. If there accreditedSocialist candidates who have been adoptedby was any underlyingmotive it was, I think, the feeling that the recognised Socialist organisations in their own locality, Grayson was justifed in desiring that the political action of and who stand avowedly as Socialists. theparty shouldnot belimited to LabourParty candi- I believe that on, these lines there is a great need for some datures. This involves nodisloyalty eitherto the I.L.P. such organisation. I would,personally, be gladto join policy or to the.Labour Party alliances. It is merely subscribea and a soverèign. “VETERAN.” recognition of thefact that when theLabour Party has We gladly,publish this interesting and suggestive completed its work of winning the trade unions for Socialism letter, and trust it will be followed up. We shall com- the work of theI.L.P. will onlyhave begun. The unor- mentupon it later. Meantime, we want toclear up a ganised workers and the middle classes have also to be won. Whyshould not the political organisation-of these classes point upon which much confusion exists. The “Labour for Socialismproceed simultaneously? Do theretiring Leader ” last week referred to the particular school of members of the N.A.C. really believe in thepossibility of Socialistthought with which THE NEW AGE is identi- bringingabout the establishment of the Socialist state fied. Itsaid : by thepolitical action of organised labour alone? I desire The question of the Socialist and Trade Union combina- to see the I.L.P. the mainbody of the army of Socialism, tiontouches the very mainspring of Socialist policy, and, politically as well as for propaganda, and it is not with any irrespective of all Conference voting,the subject will, ln desire to break up or weaken theLabour Party alliance this as in other countries, form a constant line of cleavage that I wish to getfreedom for Socialist candidates along- betweenthose who regard Socialism as a matter of intel- side that alliance. lectual belief, and those who regard Socialism as primarily This is no mere question of labels, but of the method by an expression of the social revolution-the emancipation of whichSocialism can be attained. To mymind, thesnatch- the working class. ing of thereins of power byorganised Labour, without carrying with itunorganised labour andthe middle class, Thatstatement gravely misrepresents the views of would be as little likely to bring about a permanent solution the two schools. We are only concerned now to make of our social problemsas armed revolution itself. There an affirmation that, we believe, would be acceptable to is not a single member of the I.L.P., I make bold to say, allthose who think with us. We do notobject, and whowould think of refusingto make common cause with neverhave objected, to an’ alliance with the Trade organisedLabour, in so faras organisedLabour is ready Unions. Onthe contrary, we want an equitable and to make common cause withSocialism, butboth Mr. effective alliance. It is the terms of the present alliance Barnesin his letter,and Messrs. KeirHardie, Ramsay Macdonald, Philip Snowden, and Bruce Glasier in their to which we so strenuously object, because they hamper manifesto,seem -to me to begthe question as to whether our freedom of action and actually weaken the Labour independent. Socialist representation, for which 136 votes Party as a fighting force. APRIL29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 5 I He was fined £100 or imprisonmentfor 12 months The Insolent Heathen. (the fine was paid), forgiving shelterand food to SIR WILLIAM SMITH,the President of the Court which Bambata’s wife and children ; the offence was admitted, triedDinuzulu, has not met our wishes. The copy of but the prisoner pleaded that when the woman came to the evidence has not been printed, and so we know not him Bambatawas not regarded as an enemy of the onprecisely what technical groundshe shouldhave Crown, and that the woman, “being in a delicate con- hanged Dinuzulu. That is,however, of littlemoment. dition, was fatigued and unable to travel.”_Later on, We in Natal wanted the Zulu chieftain hanged, and it whenDinuzulu became aware of the war between the wasthe business of thejudges to find the reasons- Government and Bambata, it was his duty, of course, to since we had no wish to ruffle unnecessarily the preju- turnthe woman out of thekraal, or, as Sir William dices of theLittle Englanders, Labour Members, and Smithsays, “his obvious course was to say to the Socialists who are never satisfied with a hanging with- authorities, ‘ the family of Bambata is in my kraal, outthe legal preliminaries. And nowDinuzulu is what am toI do with them? ’ ” Instead of leaving, the merelysentenced to four years’ imprisonment, leaving poorwoman a widow, theGovernment would obvi- usto worry through the wholebusiness again. As ously have been ableto hang her with her husband. long ago as September I 11th 1906, the Commissioner, Instead Dinuzulu continued to give her food and shelter. Native Affairs, said : “However, the fact remains that, We do notthink that a £100 fine meets this charge. It whetherguilt attaches to him(Dinuzulu) or not,his ishigh treason, and something worse. It is insolence presence in the country is a menace to its future peace, on the part of a black man to act as an early Christian. There can be no possible doubt . . . . that the natives “ Naked and ye clothed me : I was sick and e visited generally fear him more, and regard him as of higher me ; I was in prison and ye came unto me,” is not a authority and importance in the land than the Supreme gospel forZulus to live up to. Dinuzulushould have Chief ” (the Governor of Natal is ex-officio the Supreme beenexecuted for his presumption in living up to. a Chief). On September 11th 1907, Sir Matthew Nathan, code of morals which everybody understands may have the Governor of Natal, telegraphs : “ I have reluctantly been practicable in Syria, but cannot be carried out in come to the conclusion, after discussing political situa- these days in Natal, where whisky is quite an item in tion in Zululandwith Saunders, that Ministers are one’s expenditure. rightin view thatthe peace of Colony requiresthe However, there was another charge upon which Dinu- removal of Dinuzulu from Zululand.” Zulu was convicted, and for which anyone of us would Dinuzulu, as everyone admits, was an extremely in- havehanged him.- SirWilliam Smith seems to think telligentZulu. And we do notwant intelligent Zulus he wasstraining a pointby sentencing him to four -it would never do .for Us to admit any sort of parity years’ imprisonment. He says : “On consideringthe withourselves. someYetin matters Dinuzulu whole of the evidence, I have come to the conclusion, has claimed to be superior to the white man, as will be thoughnot without some hesitation, that it is estab- clear to anyone on a consideration of the summing-up lished that- Mangati and .Bambata together visited the of Sir William Smith. Usutu, that they were allowed to remain there by the We must commend our Natal Government for doing prisoner, and were supplied by him with food.” its, very utmost to get a conviction ; every little rumour We do not quite see why the President of the court or prejudice against Dinuzulu seems to have been care- hesitated ; it seems to us thatthe evidence forthis fully broughtinto court. For instance, Mr. Samuel- count is pretty much thesame as for many of the son,the Under Secretary for Native Affairs, told the others (which he haddismissed). Dinuzulu asserts that court “that fromthe time of the Boer War onwards he did not see Bambata, but that Mangati came, and unfavourable reports concerning the prisoner continued that hedrove Mangati away. He brings four wit- tobe received.” [Thejudge quite inconsequently re- nesses to supportthis assertion. The Crown, on marks that the court was not told what these reports the other hand, has witnesses who were quite up to the were--as if Mr. Samuelscn’sword were not sufficient average. One man saw Bambata and. Mangati .some- whenhe saysthey were unfavourable.] Mr. Arm- wherein the neighbourhood, Mangati himself says strong mentloned that in 1904 rumours were prevalent Bambata was with him, as weshould expect. It is that Dinuzuluwas to be arrested, and that Dinuzulu prettyclear that none of Bambata’speople were going to kill Mr. Armstrongand Sir Charles favourable to Dinuzulu, whohad not given the help wasSaunders. d It is true these gentlemenwere not killed, expected.At any rate, a friend of Bambata’swent to but Dinuzulu wassubsequently arrested, which shows the prisoner’sresidence and very likely had a supper there was some truth in theserumours, although Sir givento him, and possiblya night’s shelter. Is fout Charles Saunders told the assembled people that there years a sufficient sentence to pass upon high treason of was no truth in them this nature ? As Sir William Smith remarks, he “can- The main charge against Dinuzulu--that of meeting notbe allowed to plead that heacted out .of compas- Bambata [the prisoner of war whom it will be remem- sion.”Indeed, as wehave suggested, this to our bered we thought it necessary to hang after a twenty- thinkingbut aggravates the offence. SirWilliam four hours’ respite, indeference to the feelings of thë Smithcould easily have sentenced Dinuzulu todeath LiberalGovernment]-was dismissed. Our principal for having been visited at his residence by the friend of witnesses included Daniels, a Christian Zulu, who had a man (Bambata) who was to be hanged when caught. lost an action which he had brought against Dinuzulu Our impression is that if it had been left to Mr. Justice for payment of £97, Cakigana, who gave evidence Boshoff weshould have ridden ourselves of Dinuzulu. against Dinuzulu oncondition that “ifhis evidence is Up to the last morninghe thought of standing out from satisfactory to the court, other charges pending against the majority of the court and giving judgment against him shall not be proceeded with ”; other witnesses on Dinuzulu onthe charge of inciting to rebellion. this count were Bambata’s wife and his two children. This is a point worth remembering when we next try The evidence of the wife was not quite satisfactory for Dinuzulu after he comes out of prison. us ; perhapsshe was not very well coached forher part.The judge’s comment on her evidence is“that it is either a deliberate invention for some motive which An Ethical Marriage Service. I cannot divine, or else that she is repeating and adopt- MUCHmay be said forthe form. of solemnisation of ing what has been told her by some one else, believing Matrimonyaccording to the use of the Church of herself that it is true.” We really think that there are England even by those who allow that the language and notwanting men of sufficient ability amongst us to thought belong to some unknown and perhaps prehis- have seen thather evidence wasperfect before she toric kind of man. Man and woman do sometimes join went into court, nor do we think that anyone in Natal in Holy Matrimony for love of one another, although would have grudged the expenditure of a few pounds this be not one of the causes for which Matrimony was moreto obtain better witnesses. ordained. The Church Service hasnothing warmer Therewere a number of othercharges, over 20, thanmutual society,help and comfort. And although against the prisoner upon which he was acquitted, but thewoman is made to declare that she will obey her, we managed to catch him upon two counts. wedded husband, we know not a few persons united in 6 THE NEW AGE APRIL 29, 1909 holy wedlockwhere the words are honoured rather in eugenics,where science shall step inand bestow its. the breach than in theobservance-and these not among approval of the union, then, at least, we might ask for the least obedient servants of the Church. This is, of such safeguards as science is competent to give.But course, all as it should be. in this Ethical Marriage ceremony the sanction of the The ceremony has been built up by many generations community merely means that Dr. Stanton Coit repeats of priests,the phrases have becomestereotyped, and some of theolder mummeries in a morestilted Ian- no oneis disposed to take them veryseriously. It guage. goes down as part of the pageantry with the bride and There would be something to be said (but not much) thebridesmaids, and the bridegroom’sshiny hat, the for â sanction after a careful investigation of the pros- rice and the slipper, which, for aught we know to the pective husband and wife as to their mental suitability contrary, is stillhurled afterthe departing couple for one another, which should enquire into their bodily To undertake(we adopt the funereal expression) the well-being, and so on. Without this, letus keep by the ceremony means simply that you do not wish to hurt the irresponsibilities of the present service. feelings or prejudices of your relations or friends in this Dr. Stanton Coit’s formulae leave outthe “obey, ” rather common-place affair-for, after all, marriageis on the part of the woman, but include all the tremendous not a very importantaffair. It occurs with the most issues involved‘ in theChurch text. Each undertakes occasionalperiodicity in anyone’s life-time ; itis not to-love and keep the other in sickness, and all the rest like your dinner, to which you have to sit down every of it, till death us do part. No man but a bridegroom, day, Now an immoraldinner every day would rapidly no womanbut a bride, would dareswear never to destroy your well being, but an immoral ceremony per- change, and no one should listen to such an oath Save formed once, twice, or even thrice in a. lifetime is not bride and bridegroom. The ceremony concludes with a going to prove your ruin. homily. Now, we can understand and sympathise with Moreover, if you‘ reallyobject to uttering an empty thosewho desire a sermonfrom the priest, who is form of words, there is the Registrar round the corner, something sacred by reason of’ his office : it is not a who will do the whole thing without a hitch and fur- manfrom whomyou are receivingcounsel, but a nish you with the necessary witnesses at a minimum of messenger of God. Cost, He will tie you up as tightly as any ordained But an Ethicallecturer-he represents nothing. but priest. himself. He is ,a self-appointèd moralist ; thewords For those, then, who, for one reason or another, or best express his opinions, and these you are prepared in despite of all reason, desire to enter into the estate to combat and refute. Indeed, we should dispute every of matrimony(we discard the adjective), there is pro- one of thepropositions set forth in this homily, were vision for the most diverse tastes. it worth while. The “holy flame of love ” will not last The Ethicalpeople are notsatisfied. According to a ifthey neglect it. We wonder if the author can have letter we have received, Dr. Stanton Coit has conducted anyconception of a “holyflame of love ” which has a Marriage Service which bringsthe Marriage Vow become a duty, which must be carefully looked after like abreast of the times. We wonderwhat queer kindof thekitchen fire lestit go out. “When sorelytried, it people can believe this in the present state of the law of grows morebeautiful, Patient, Prudent and serene.” England ; noceremony can avail to destroy the inde- This is thethoroughly English notion, thatfor other cencies and the perverse injustices inflicted upon a man people to be miserable isfor them to be happy. Of andwoman who go throughany legal ceremony for course,none Save a fewliterary Persons and Ethical marriage, We have pointed out why somemay tolerate lecturers believe thiswickedness. However, an Ethical the Church service ; but for Dr. Stanton Coit’s travesty, marriage ceremony, this contradiction in terms, .is not for this fooling has not the meritof being distinguished likely to be repeated, and that is the best we can say by accuracy or beauty,there can be nothing but con- for it. tempt. “The contract is not so much between the man and woman as between the community on the one side and The Englishman’s Back-Garden. the marrying couple on the other.” SENTIMENTALITYis an obfuscating thing ; and I know “The ceremony which solemnisesthis, compact is well that if I weie to labour from now till the end of nothing less than the act of organissd society approving the century, keeping myself SO long alive by a Patient and confirming a life union of one man and one woman, adherence to the fermented milk of Professor Metchni- and the acknowledgment on their part of the social re- koff, could I never, never convince Mr. Gilbert sponsibilities undertaken by them in that union.” Chesterton that I had never said (I) that there was no We quite admit that society,by the employment of such thing as the fact man, and that I had never said force,may prevent an union between anyman and (2) that the fact man did notdesire to own And as woman, but will anytwo individuals who desire to for his artful insinuation that I do not believe that the materegard the community as of moreimportance than fact man desires the fact woman, I Scorn.it. I have theirown inclinations? People in love arenot going often observed, sadly, that the fact man who is a fact to ask the approval of organised societyon .their union, man desires several of the facts women. whetherit be for.life, for eternity; orfor any lesser But as a matter of fact, I admittedcheerfully the term. It is an affair essentially for private agreement ; existenceof the fact man ; Ionly refused to admit the thisis just one of those matters where we shallnot existence of anyreasonable grounds for the silly but allow theState to step in and decide for us. We shallsentimental pessimism of- Mr. Chestertonand Mr. neither askthe approval nor the disapproval of society, Belloc about him. I scouted theirtearful contention organised or unorganised, upon “the intimacyof man thatthe fact man, “the stuff of humanity,”is hope- and woman.” Inthe highlycomplex civilisation of lesslybad ; and I amscouting it still. The facts of savagesthere is a verydetailed interference in these history inspire into me a strong hope that the fact man offices, but here we do not look back regretfully to the will develop and develop till he comes to lead a saner past. We can rejoice at the certain measure of emanci- and finer life. pation we have achieved, and we can look-hopefully to Also, as a merematter of fact, Iadmitted with an thefuture to liberate us from the shackles of the equalcheerfulness thatthe fact mandesires to own present. thingspresent. ; Iquantity onlygreat denied any that of him TO ask organised society to approve and confirm a desires to own a back-garden. NOW this passion for a life union is to ask us to forgo the wholeexperience back-garden is from the point of view of Socialism very of the past and present. Organised -society knows, or important, if itbe widespread. If thehuman race is should know, what this life union really means. It may suffering from a consuming passion to own each, man be for better or for worse that this experience is never hisown back-garden, it isplain that the State-owner- or seldom one upon which the two individuals, who are ship of land is quite impossible. I find the belief in the aloneconcerned, ‘will haveany faith in. It maybe widespread existence of this consuming passion a pure well that theyshould setout with the firm conviction sentimentality. Theearth-hunger is confined to sec- that in theircase there shall be no withering of their tions,and not comparatively large sections, of the blossoming love. If marriageis to be anaffair of human race. It existsgreedily among such sections APRIL29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 7

as the Irish peasants and the French peasant proprie- Joan of Arc had any real following in her ‘country? Admit- tors, sections to whom land has become a prime neces- ting her personal courage, is it not plain that Joan of Arc was onlyan hysterical female,without any sound know- sity, who, if they lose it, will surely die.And even the ledgeof politics, and unsupportedby her wiser andmore Frenchpeasant proprietor wouldnot furiously kick reliablecontemporaries? Personally, the one woman in againstthe French State becoming the owner of his history for whom I have unbounded admiration is Salome; land, if he remained secure in the use of it, and if he and that not for her own sake (for I understand the conduct paid a smaller sum in rent than he now pays in taxes, of Salome was at times far fromcreditable to a woman’s and was thereby relieved of those taxes. heart), but because she has become personified in our time Thefact Englishman desires to own many things ; by a lady for whom we must all feel the highest esteem. Right Hon. H--t G-e : Joan, of Arc brought her so-called but I repeat.that he does not suffer from any wide- martyrdom on herself by deliberately attacking the British spreadand consuming passion to own a back-garden Government. If shereally desired freedom forFrance and the house attached .to it. If he did, he would cer- (which sometimes I am inclined to doubt), that was no excuse tainlygratify it in far greater numbers than he does. fortaking up arms. Suchconduct must besternly This is especially the case with the intelligent English- repressed bythe Home Office-not thatthe HomeOffice man.Among my own friends, whom I alwayschoose really has any power inthe matter-or all law andorder fortheir intellectual attainments,not IO percent. of are at an end. Right Hon. L--d G-e: As a WelshNationalist, my those who can afford it own the houses in which they sympathies are all with the Maid. Atthe same time, her live. Ifthey suffered from a consumingpassion to right policywas to haveallied herselfwith theBritish ownthem, they would gratify it. They always gratify Government, which had plainly intimated its willingness to theirpassions : I knowthem. Scotchman, being takeup the cause of theFrench people whenoccasion moreintelligent, is evenless of a house-owner. What offered. theintelligent man desires is the use of a houseand Mr. P. W. W. : Whateverthat greatand noble-minded back-garden If he puts himself about to become their man, the Prime Minister, says, on this or any other matter, I gladly and gratefull endorse. Who is Joan of Arc,when owner, he only does so because he can get the use of we think of oursplendid leader-the strongestPrime them cheaper by becoming their owner. If he could get Minister England has ever known sincethe lamentable the use of them from the State at this same lower cost, death of thatother distinguished statesman, “ C.-B.”? ‘hewould prefer toget it from the State, and let the As long as I am permitted to pay, day by day, my humble State do the repairs. It is, moreover, plain to me that tribute to the revered and exaltedstandard-bearer of the Englishman is growing more and more nomadic-a Liberalism, I am content to know nothing of Joan of Arc- Scotch habit-and more and more loves, untrammelled who, moreover, did notcome within the scope of my studies in history at Cambridge. by proprietorship,to move from, villa to villa, from Right Hon. J--n B-S: Joan of Arc ought to havebeen villa to flat,and from flat to villa. Heis more and married I naturallytake Shakespeare’s view of her more,and, as I think,wisely, shunning the chains of character. proprietorshipwhich fetter him to one building plot. Mr. J. M. R--n, M.P. : The best higher criticism has now EvenMr. Gilbert Chesterton, the Bedouin ! is moving definitelydecided that “Joan of Arc ” was a lunar myth ; campfrom the flat in whichhe has been glutting his no more a historicalpersonage than Alfred theGreat or consumingpassion to own land. Has he, I wonder, Charlemagne.Probably the word stands for a tribe of Amazonswho overranEurope in the fifteenth century; at bought the house in Battersea? all events, the name Jean is common enough in Scotland, It is, perhaps, a cruel suggestion ; and Heaven for- andthere is a wellknown ballad relating to “Joan,” and bid that it should drive him, m a frenzy of consistency, ”Darby,” her husband-doubtless theEarl. Reason,cold, to buy it, and have to repair the roof before ten short calm, anddisinterested, rejects all popularlegends con- years are passed. But I do trust that mytimely warn- cerning the so-called “ Maid.” inghas saved him froma repairing lease. Dr. R. F. H--n Hampstead) : I cannotbut regret the Na : the belief thatthere is a generalconsuming Catholic leanings of Joan of Arc and her indifference to the ministrations of Protestantism. Hadshe devoted herener- humanpassion to own a back-gardenis a pure senti- gies tademanding the public inspection of convents,what mentality.Back-gardens and the houses attached to a brighter and better world this might havebeen. them should be owned by the State ; and if the human P.S.-It has been pointed out to me that Joan lived before race can get the secure use of them under that owner- theProtestant era, but any slight inaccuracies of expres- ship at a lower cost than it gets it under private owner- sion on my part are readily pardoned by my friends and by ship, lightening also the burden of taxation, the human the public which has known me all these years. race, as soon as it understands, will jump at it. I have Rev. J--h H-g: Joan of Arc was certainly a tool of the Jesuits-in league with the Pope to overthrow the power of set forth these simple facts again because I will try to England. I am writing a novel,based, as all my literary getthis sentimentality out of Mr.Chesterton’s head, laboursare, on careful research and a sturdyProtestant andprevent his faithful followers from falling into it. intuition, to prove this. Why has Romeblessed Joan of These-sentimentalities are very’ cramping. And Mr. Arc if she was not its minion? Chesterton can think with uncommon clearness when he Thelate leaders of the I.L.P.(commonly known asthe lets himself. lets EDGARJEPSON. Four Just Men) : The life and death of Joan of Arc are a trifling matter by the side of the treatment we have received fromthe I.L.P. The party madeus men of national im- portance, and then it ventured to express some slight criti- Joan of Arc and British Opinion. cism of our conduct-an unpardonable affront. (Inaddition to thisjoint epistle, Mr. J. R. M--d wrote THEmeeting held in London last week to celebrate that the presumption of V. G. in daring to live left him no the beatification of the Maid of Orleans was remarkable time to think of Joan of Arc.Mr. P-p S--n wrote that as ratherfor the variety of opinionsexpressed by those long as B. G. edited the“Labour Leader ” it wasuseless unable to be present than for- any very practical result. to hope forpeace and plenty. Mr. K--r H-e wrote that As thismeeting was boycotted by the daily Press he retainedthe whole-heartedrespect for Joan of Arc he (owing to the large amount of spacerequired for the had always felt.) report of cup-tiesand the latest racing tips), these Sir E--d C-e, K.C. : Joan of Arcwas, presumably, a woman. Therefore,there is a primafacie case against her opinons have not yet been published, and so the world for attempting to do a man’swork. Withoutexpressing knowsnothing of whatthe master minds of Britain any opinion on the actual proceedings at Rheims, I hold the really think of Joan of Arc. conduct of this misguided young woman to have been as The following represents, as faithfully and as accur- foolish as it was unnatural. ately as memory permits, the letters sent by some of the (Right Hon. A--nC--n, M.P., L--dCromer and L--d celebrities invited to the meeting :- R--d all wrote to the same effect as Sir E. C.) RightHon. H. H. A-h: In mymore sober moments I L--d W-rd-e : The world would have been turned topsy aminclined to regard the burning of Joan of Arc as a turvy had Joan of Arc succeeded in her ridiculous agitation regrettableincident. Yet, apparently, it wasnecessary, It is a greatmistake, even afterthe lapse of centuries,to since her activities threatened the great Liberal watchwords give any honour to a mere slip of a girl, whose reprehensible ofpeace, retrenchment, and reform. Betterthat a thou- performances were in the face of all nature’s teaching. The sandJoans should perish than a British Government be maiden exists forthe pleasure of theman, and the supre- hindered in its all-important work of guarding the finances macyof themale is indispensable if that pleasure is not of our land. Besides, is thereany evidence to-daythat to be curtailedor threatened. 4s the mistressof a king, 8 THE NEW AGE APRIL 29, 1909

Joan ,of Arc would have enjoyed a power and influence Mrs. H-y W--d : Joan of Arc’s life. satisfies me abun- approriate to thefemale mind.; buther militanttactics dantlythat women are unfit to take part in. international madeher the scorn of men and women of the world, and politics. Had she been content with aseat on theparish brought her to the fire. council at Domremy she might have proved her usefulness Mr. H-e B-c, M.P. : If I could be convinced that Joan to her neighbours far more excellently than by anysilly of Arc leda nationalist movement, I would gladly yield dressing up in armour. her praise. Probably the cause she championed was hindered, A large number of other letters and telegrams were and not. helped,. by her interference,for is it possible received,and a representativeCommittee Was finally that ashepherd girl of peasantfamily could graspthe high politics of her time! Herbitter antagonism to the formedwith Lord Rosebery for Chairman (an honour English Government of the day, and her indifference to the his lordship speedily declined), and with Dr. Robertson good work it was doing breed suspicion of Tory influences. Nicol,Mr. Clement Shorter, Mr. A. C. Benson,Mr. But what Joan of Arc never realised was that there were AndrewLang, Sir Oliver Lo’dge, Father Bernard plenty of men far morecompetent than herself to direct Vaughan, Canon Hensley Henson, and Dr. Saleeby as the fortunes of war. vice-presidents. JOSEPH CLAYTON. G. K. C. : It is only inthe really devout and religious ages of the world that we burn our enemies. The growth of tolerationmeans, necessarily, the decay of Christian charityand belief. Was Joan of Arc fighting for liberty, A Shriek of Warning. orwas she merely a bureaucrat ? Let us settle these ques- tions before goingany further in the matter.But what a Part II. jolly .time that 15th century was. Miss M-e C--i : I do not pretend to understand who Joan By G. K. Chesterton. of Arc may havebeen ; but if it. is truethat she wore a About a fortnight ago I saw Mr. Cecil Chesterton and man’s clothes and rode astride on Horseback, she certainly Mr.Muggeridge falling head foremost and with the forfeited the respect of every true woman and chivalrous utmost enthusiasm into the big hole that was expressly man. I have no patience with such a minx. To impu- dently fly in the face of England’s most sacred convictions dugfor them by the English aristocracy ; thetrap was to invitepunishment. Besides, wasn’t she a Roman which has swallowed many other good men, and which, Catholic ? indeedhas very seldom failed. I uttered a highand The Bishop of L--n : I must confess my ignorance of humane scream, which was, unfortunately, too long for Joan of Arc. Apoor overworked Bishop hasno time to that NEW AGE andtoo late for the next ; SO that I read books, and history was never my strong point. Just have(as it were) remained for a fortnightwith my now, too, weof the dear old Church of England are busy mouthopen, and present an undignified spectacle. over a Pageant-toprove the one and indivisible nature of theEstablishment since the time of theRomans, and, Nevertheless, I cannot,merely for my own personal incidentally, to show how far more Catholic it became when appearance,permit them to perish in theiryouth and it was separatedat the Reformationfrom the rest of beauty, so I will resumemy abrupt but very sincere Christendom. While leaving full liberty to our members to warning. hold what views they like concerning Joan of Arc, as loyal I say that, with all their knowledge, these excellent Anglicans we cannever forgetshe was a member of a Socialists do not knowwhere they are. They are not foreigncommunion. livinginEngland. They are not living now.My Mr. E. R. P-e : TheFabian Society hasalready ‘appointed a smallsub-committee to considerthe relations brotherreally sides withthe people, but it is with a of Joan of Arc to social questions, and a report will, in remoteand foreign people ; hebemuses himself wilth due time, be issued. historicparallels which are not in any single point Mrs. D--d : Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, Shelley ! How parallel.Mr. Muggeridgeon the other hand, is a the souls of these truly great and blessed ones can be seen puremystic. He is a mystic of thatsilvery and inspiring the wonderful movements itis our privilege to translucent type that sees everything cut out of eternal take part in ! crystal. He seesnot facts, but the platonic ideas of Prof. G--t M-y (Oxford): As alife-long Nonconformist and Liberal, I hold that all authority resides in the superior facts, and he knows things only by their divine names. physical force of the male-such belief is the ver essence I will proceed to give examples both of the false historic of Protestant Liberalism. Joan of Arc, a female, deliberately analogyand the inapplicable theoretic abstraction. violated this greatprinciple of Liberalism by fighting Cecil Chesterton believes he is in Paris just before the againstthe BritishGovernment, and by takingpart in Revolution.Muggeridge believes he is inheaven. -The a matter of no interest to women, outraged common decency. onIy difference is that my brother is rather too late for Her love of notoriety, conspicuous in so many ways,was doubtless atthe root of herfantastic doings. However hisexperience, whereas I am quite sure that Mugger- severe the sentence pronounced upon her may seem to us, idge may wait with confidence for his. we have got to remember that the British Government was To explain what I mean, I will put Mr. Muggeridge boundto deal firmly with the irresponsible lawlessness first as the simpler case. I have not his text or anyone displayedby Joan of Arc. Rome may call Joan of Arc else’s with me, but his arguments are always .lucid and “blessed” but will Protestants-thesons of Cromwell and vivid. I think I rememberthis one correctly. I had Luther, of Knox and Calvin-endorse theverdict? The saidwhat I saythroughout this business ; a small, triumph of Joan would have meant the triumph of Rome. Mrs. M-y entirelyagrees with me, andis all against rich, and generally trusted class, who may roughly be petticoat government. called the Politicians, are the masters of England ; they The Executive of the S.D.P. : Inasmuch as the movement will probably be the masters of any big political reform, ledby Joan of Arcdid not aim directly atthe complete including Socialism ; they will be the masters, because economic emancipation of the proletariat, omitted all men- they will bethe paymasters. Muggeridge replies sub- tion of the internal wrongs of the peasantry, and was osten- stantially, rich men cannot capture and control Social- tatiously connected with monarchy, the Executive of the ism,because if realSocialism comes they will notbe, S.D.P.regards it as a sham agitation of the propertied classes, a red herring, reddened in the people’s blood, and richmen. This affects me as theanswer of a cherub warns the working class of Great Britain to hold aloof from fromParadise, the soul of a newlybaptised child. It any celebration of such an obvious fraud. is simply saying that if Socialism is perfect, it will not Mrs. P--t: The only way to do honour to the memory of be imperfect. It amounts to this : that if the Archangel Joan of Arc is to demand “Votes for Women.” Michaelcomes down and miraculously wipes away all Mrs. A--r .S-l : I used tothink that Joan of Arc was trace of theexisting English Government and estab- right, but I can see now that she made a great mistake. If lishes a literal equality in everything, then we shall not she .had onlystayed at home she might have won immor- tality as Mary of theLittle Lamb has won it,and been betroubled with one governing class any more. spared all the horrid imprisonments and the dreadful burn- I agree, but I rather doubt if it will happen that way. ings, and all the other shocking and unladylike things. The Muggeridge argument can only make sense if we Prof. O--r L--e; I am extremely interested in the visions suppose that the social change will actually begin with of Joan ofArc. I have myself proved the immortality of the taking away of the private fortunes of the financial the soul by experiments in my laboratory at Birmingham, politicians.Now saythat any man who thinks that and without expressing any opinion on thepublic work I of Joan of Arc, or the ethics of adopting male attire, I can in the atmosphere of modern England it will begin with see inthis remarkable woman a distinct forerunner of the that, must have left his five senses in the moon. Surely, 20th century religion-a religion that will unite the scientist, we all know how such a social change, successful or no, the spiritist, and the social optimist, will begin. It will begin with sweeping and really im- APRIL29,. 1909 THE NÈW AGE 9

pressive. public schemes which require the handling of I am afraid that it is vain to argue ; my honourable huge sums of money, .and the politicians will jolly well opponentshave not the-‘faintest notion of whatthe handle them. It will begin, let us say, with the organ- EnglishGovernment is like. For example, my brother isation of all employment,and the politicians will pay comparesthe aristocracy of Englandwith the aris- themselves fororganising it. It will beginwith the tocracy of France before the Revolution. All such State feeding of all children, but it will not be the chil- comparison is useless, forthis excellent reason : .that dren who are the best fed. And remember that at every therewas noaristocracy in France before the Revo- point of this cosy business, whenever the politicians are lution.None at all in thesense that there is one in voting thousands for the expenses of a nephew’s experi- England now. Francewas not an oligarchy,‘but an ment,or millions forthe purchase of an uncle’scoal- impotent .autocracy. The noblessewere proud, but not mine, they will be able to quote texts from the strong- powerful ; whereasour noblesse is omnipotentand estSocialist text books, to the effect thatorganisers charminglyfree and easy. TheFrench lords were should be handsomelypaid and public funds heartily merely lords,hardly even landlords ; theKing could voted.I heard Bernard Shawsay that rich men were makethem and break them. The Republic and in this sense better on a Parish Council than poor men, Napoleon could breakthem and make them again. because they were free from “financial timidity.” Now, My brother compares their posts in the army with our theChurchills and Russells are entirelyfree from highposts in politics ; butthere is no cornparison. financial timidity ; they have never owed or stolen under Theyhad served in thearmy, they ran away to the four-figures.Therefore, they will not onlycontinue to enemy, andother people servedin the army instead. manageour yet more concentrated affairs ; butthey But our aristocracy does not merely serve in the army ; will beable to invoke the blessing of BernardShaw. it is served by the army. Itis England, and the It is no answer to this peril,real or not, tosay with noblesse wasnot France. Any newforce that comes Muggeridgethat it could not occurunder perfect in England,Female Suffrage, or Conscription, or Col- Socialism. We are nottalking about perfect Social- lectivism, or ChristianScience, will havearistocratic ism, but about what is likely to happen. Suppose Mr. approval. To which assertions the obvious answer is : Muggeridgesaid to me : “The Church of Englandis “ How the deuce do they do it? ” I will tell you. a merehypocrisy, supporting the avarice of the upper The English oligarchy has managed to keep its hand classes.” What would he say if I answered : “ I assure you Christianity cannot in principle support avarice and on the helm by alwaysbeing, generation after gener- ation,on the side of Progress.Perhaps you do not hypocrisy ” ? He would answerthat he was not dis- exactly know what the word means-nor do they, nor cussingabstract Christianity, but the Church of England. I am notdiscussing abstract Socialism, but doesanybody. But in a general way itmeans this’: the Socialism of England. being in sympathywith that turn whichbooks and The first obvious answer to my brother is The same. bookish people, the hypotheses of science, the fairly He falls back on the suggestion that the English people educatedhopes, and some of the sincere needs of the might rise, as the French people (under utterly different time are alltaking at a givenmoment. This is .the circumstances)did rise, in armedinsurrection. I wish secret. of theEnglish aristocracy ; theyalways seize the fashionable fad and run it without being faddist. I they would : Ihave spent much of my life arguing could prove this point over and over again from history with Socialists, who thought such a rising hopeless and wicked. But I amnot talking of what conceivably if therewere space for it. Our oligarchy has for- might come. I amtalking of something which un- gotten many other things-God, patriotism, democracy -but it has neverbeen such a fool as to forget Pro- questionably will come unless we all leap up to avert it. gress ; that is, thelatest thing. In the sixteenth I say that a very active, plausible, and intriguing group century our lords were themselves lewd and Epicurean ; will increaseits ownpower under cover of current but they threwthemselves in withCalvinism because Socialism. Itis no answerto say that a particularly pacific, indifferent, andacquiescent population could it was the new intellectual thing ; and with its help they broke the Stuarts. In the nineteenth. century our lords conceivablybombard Chelsea Barracks if it had an were themselves genteel and exclusive, .but they threw impulse which ithasn’t got. The onlypoint I bother themselves in with Manchester Individualism because it about is, which is likely to happenfirst ; andthat I will leaveconfidently to my brotheror any other was the new intellectual thing, and by its help they beat rationalman. Which does my brother honestly think downthe Chartists. To-day our lords are themselves luxurious, lonely, and utterly anti-social ; but they are themore likely picture of twelveyears hence : that throwing themselves into Collectivism because it is the Winston Churchill will be calling himself a Socialist, or new intellectual thing, and by its help they may break that Will Crooks will bewearing a sabre?Let him Belloc and the Anti-Puritans, and all the brazen voices talk to the next young Parliamentary Secretary, Whig thatare beginning to tell them thatan ordinary or Tory, whom he meets ;then let him talk to the next Englishmanmight possibly managehis ownaffairs. coal-heaver or cabman that he meets. Then let him tel: me how farthe young politician wasfrom being a This has been the English oligarchy ever since it existed theoretic Collectivist, and then how far the coal-heaver -thatis,since thedestruction of Catholicism in wasfrom being a ruthlesssoldier of the Revolution. England. It has always put itself at the head of every He will find that armed revolt has not even crossed the march-and made it march slow. Thearistocrat a ; mind of the coal-heaver ; while Socialism(essentially made splendid appearance as the sane Puritan yet Puritanism waswrong. Thearistocrat made a splen- accepted in theory,perpetually debated in details) is hardlyever absent from the mind ofthe young oli- did appearanceas the sane Individualist ; yetIndi- vidualism waswrong. He will now make his appear- garchy.That is quite sufficient answer.I agree that ance as the sane Collectivist ; and Collectivism will still a bloody revolution would improveSocialism. I think, be wrong. personally, that it would render Socialism unnecessary. But the plain fact is, that the governing class is about This is the simple and staring mistake ofmy brother twohundred years nearer to theoretic Socialism than andall the Socialists. They look eagerlyand un- the peopleis to practicalrevolution. To getthe man tiringly to the political oligarchy to oppose Socialism ; in the street to fight will be a very long business. But butit will neveroppose Socialism. It will achieve to getthe hon. TomNoddy to take over (at an in- Socialism, as itachieved theReformation. And when creasedsalary) the milk supply, as well asthe stamp itis achieved we shall find it a splendidfailure, as all supply, will be one of the smoothest and most agreeable thinking people have found theReformation. Puritan. businessesin the world. To summarise : My noble ism was a failure, because it left out the human hunger relative comforts-, himself by thinking that we shall net for symbol ; it was a failure, but the class which built‘ get State. ownership until the people fight. I think that on it was a success. Manchester anarchy was a failure we. shall get something very like State ownership before becauseit left outthe instinct of brotherlyresponsi- the .people have even dreamed of fighting. Moreover, I bility ; it. was a failure,but the class that built on it think that if the people do ever fight (and when), they was a success. Collectivism will be a failure.because won’t establish State ownership. it will leave.. out the humaninstinct of possession; 10 THE NEW AGE April 29, 1909

it will be failure, but the class that builds on it will his nose,like a camel. Hishands were exquisitely a modelled, andhe was proud ofthem. He was a little be a success. I ought to add that my relative puts to me a pleasing in-kneed. He smokeda cigarette, and Spokewith a verbaldilemma which I amglad to answer. Hesays big but well-bred voice. (I have not the exact words) that if the English people “What an angel of mercy you are, Sibella ! ” areactive they can establish real Socialism, and if Considerable irritation marked his intonation. they are supinethey will not establish peasant proprietor- “ I try to win their trust and love, Torn ; and I think ship. Tothis I merely answerthat if somebody is Isucceed-generally.” heavily and dangerously asleep, it is often worth while “Always--always--whodoubts it? I can’tpretend to know what words or sounds are likely to wake him to understandyour magic. It’s a gift, I suppose. MY mother had it.” up. The word“Collectivism ” is not a word that “They bare their hearts to me, and I feel the com- wakes men up. Theword “ Liberty ” is. Weagree pliment. Theyknow I sympathiseand understand.” that the democracy is asleep ; whereas the politicians are not,having an insomniaof avarice. Offer to poli- “Yes, you’ve got the touch But dont go too deep. It’s rather like turning over stones. You’ll See nothing ticians thethings politicianslove, coercive powers, large financialpools, management ofmen in masses, but ugly creatures hurrying out of sight. I don’t mind the bird’s-eye view of bignations. But to men these poverty--or even dirt ; but why, because you’re Poor, should YOU have no gratitude, no reticence, no common things are not attractive, and the healthy tramp sleeps decency?If we were hard-up to-morrow,should we through all yourSocialist debate. If you wantthe let people come poking into our hovel to pat US on the commonman to fight, you mustbe offeringhim the back?They’re so mean-spirited. Whoworth calling thing for which he fights best--his own honour and his a man can stand pity? ” own home. “Many are impatient, and resentit. One needs great tact. They begin to think more.” “,Yes, they do--or I shouldn’t be lecturing on Social- Sympathy and Understanding. ism atthe parish-roomto-morrow. Tell Jane Bates JOHN BATES, thegamekeeper, was burying a fox. He and her children to be there ; and old Gregory, if he’s had shot it an hourbefore. A patch of vegetableslay well enough.” at one side of his home, and before the cottage stretched “Of course, they’ll come--everybody will come.” a magnificent grassy drive that dwindled to a spot at “They ‘know our duty to them very well ; but they the skyline, andwas flanked oneither side by great have yet to learn their duty to US.” woods. The cottage and garden lay hidden at the skirt At thecottage Lady Tudor knocked, and entered of the forest, and the perspective of the sweep remained beforethe summons was answered ; while her hus- unbrokenby them. Outside, the cottage wasdesigned bandlighted another cigarette, and seeing John Bates to be picturesque ;inside, it was a real cottage. in the garden, called to him. Anne Bates watched the interment. She was brown, “Come here, John.” black-haired, large-featured, and hard-mouthed, like her The young man stuck his spade into the earth and brother ; but hereyes were beautiful andless furtive approached. He did not touch his hat. than his. “Yes, my lord.” “There ! ” he said, flinging the carcase into a three- “ HOW’Syour father?” ” foot grave. “No morechickens for you, my bold “Pretty bad still, my lord ; his breathing parts hurt, ! hero ! ” andthe rheumatism grinds at him. But he’smend- Thefox fell with a heavythud, and John wiped a ing. ” red hand on his trousers. A vulpine odour hung about “You night-workers have no sense. If he hadonly the air. dressedproperly.. when he was a young man--but he The man and woman were clad in earth-colour, and made it his stupid boast never to wear different clothes, she wore a dirty white apron. winter or summer.” Anne yawned and lifted lier eyes. Then a flash of The other did not answer. life animated her face. “I hearthere was a rascaltalking in the open-air ! “Christ ! Here’s ‘ Tom ’ and ‘ Tabby ’ coming ! ” lastnight at thevillage cross--one of theseSocialist she cried. blackguards ? ” Descending thefamous grass drive of Tudor Park “Therewas a gentlemanaddressed a meetingdown appeared two figures--a man and a woman, They were there, my lord.” merespecks in theexpanse, but woke veryactive “Keep the word ‘gentleman ’ for those who merit it, emotions in those who watched them John. I hope you didn’t go? ” “I’llrun in and tellmother,” said Anne. She did “I went, just to hear the man, my lord.” SO. “Andmight have been better employed. Don’tyou John lighted his pipe, and poured the odour of shag understand that these rascals are only feathering their tobacco into the air while he flung earth on the fox. own nests atthe expense of you stupidfellows? All Within the news was swiftly broken. they want is tomake YOU fall out withyour betters, “Drat ’em,”said Mrs. Bates. “Now the dinner will andthen get the pickings from the quarrel. Equality all be bitched up. Here, take these peas Ibe shelling. isnot trueto Nature, and therefore impossible. Only They don’t reckon we’ve got a right to eat peas. Then madmen dream of it.” you get your sewing and ope the winder. She’s always Bates lookedinto himself. He couldnot affordto cryingout for air. I’ll justturn my apern,and tell angerthe hereditaryruler of -hisrace. But herisked father to keep out of sight. What the mischief do she further speech. want to come at this hour for? ” “The mandidn’t exactly put it that way, my lord. She disappearedthrough a wooden door,from He said ’twas the unfair start that rich folk had that behind which camethe croak of bronchitis.Anne made all the trouble. He didn’t say. men was equal, or tidied a dirtykitchen, hid thepeas and anewspaper, couldbe ; andhe didn’tsay the chap as wanted to opened the window, and brought a littleair into the work ten hours a day shouldn’t be allowed, because it close, sharp reek of the room. was beyond the power of weaker men to do so much. Lord and Lady Tudor approached. She was a sweet- Hegranted that mencouldn’t bemade llke lead faced woman of fifty with delicate features, hair tinged soldiers ; but what he did say was that as things are, with grey, and eyes wherein burned the beacon fire of we handicapthree parts of the world to hell afore faith. He toweredover her, and tramped solidly upon they’re born.” hisown earth. He was a tall, flaxen man, with the “ Remember to whom you are talking, John ! !” high Tudor eyebrow and drooping Tudor eyelid. From “ ’Twashis word, not mine. Heargued as we thisgreat drive he could seenothing that didnot couldn’ttell how high a manmight rise to, and he belong to him excepting the sky. allowedwe couldn’t all win ; buthe said there didn’t He worepale greyHarris tweed, held his neck very ought to be such heavy odds against the poor man at stiffly in its high collar, and looked down the sides of the start. ‘ Start fair,’ was his motto, my Iord.” APRIL29, I 1909 THE NEW AGE 11

“Like all, of these impious fools, he argued without “We are veryproud of him,Jane. And YOU must God, John. Theargument basedon man’s idea of try to get back to church again on Sundays, now that what is rightmust prove fallacious. We have tosee be is better. And hemust come,too, when. he can, what God means,not what man wants. You’ll be at and return thanks for being spared.” the lecture to-morrow, and then you’ll know the truth. “ He wants to do it, your ladyship. ’Tis funny your And don’t fear to ask questions. I am not angry with ladyship should say that, for ’tis the very thing father anybody-I am only hurtthat those who have been wishesto do, isn’t it, Anne? ” born and bred at thegates of TudorPark should-- “Yes, it is, mother.” however, we’ll leave thatfor my lecture. Thebirds ‘‘ He must come up and see Lord Tudor when he can, going onall right? ” and I’ll send another bottle of the port before long.’’ “My lotbe doing well, my lord. Therewas afine “Andthank youkindly, my lady. ’Twill be a God- dog fou round here this morning.” send, and something for him to look forward to.” “Ah-hunting for a litter, I hope. Don’t deny him The visitor rose. a chicken or two,John. Chickens are moreplentiful “Andremember system,’ Jane ‘ system ’ and than foxes.But keep the rascalaway ‘from the ‘ air.’ Don’t forget the ‘air.’ It is meat and drink to pheasant coops.’’ me. My friends say I live on it, you know ! ” “Trust me, my lord ! ” “Andlong mayyour ladyship do so ! Good morn- “Followyour father, John, and I haveno fear for ing, my lady. Thank you kindly foryour great kind- you. Stickto his principles, and you won’t go far ness, my lady. Father will beproud as yourladyship wrong.” axed after him.” “He’s got his Old Age Pension, my lord.” “Good-bye,good-bye, Jane. There’s my husband “Longmay it last, John ; long mayit last ! He growingquite impatient. I mustn’tkeep him wait- understands, of course, that the family pension ceases? ing. ” Has he readthe Budget? Probably not. But you can “Go and ope. the wicket for her ladyship, Anne.” read it for him, and explain it.” Anne obeyed, and the guests departed. “ That’ll be a startler for father ! ” Whereupon Mrs. Batestook a deepbreath of relief “The Budget was a startler for me, John. We live and shut the window. Anne returned, and the wooden in startling times. And yetnothing they dostartles dooropened. An ancientman inhis night-shirt, with me. However, theGeneral Election is coming,thank a blanketover his shoulders, appeared. His naked, God ! Good morning,John.” hairylegs were visible tothe knees. The feet were distortedand verydirty. His backand hands were “ Good morning, my lord ;.thank you, my lord.” twisted; andgnarled with rheumatism. His face was unshaven ; his brown. and bleared eyesstared at the Withindoors Mrs. Bateshad curtseyed and Anne table. He croakedrather than talked. hadrisen fromher seat in the window. The elder “ Have Tabby ’ left anything ?” he asked. spoke in a changedvoice -- thatmagic change which “Only a stink of scent,” answered Anne. ! of all thingsmost eloquently marks reality from pre- “.Blast the bitch ! That’s the third time she’ve come tence between employer and employed. to bleat and nought else.” He coughed. “ ’Tis terrible kind, your ladyship calling like this- “You get back to bed,father. She’s going to send terrible kind,I’m sure. I was saying to .Anne what another bottle of wine. She didn’t know as you’d been yourvisits mean to us, butyour ladyship spoils ‘US dangerously ill.” coming so often.” -The invalid cursed, and returned to his bed. An evil “I look forward to the visits quite as much as you odour had crept from the sick-room. do,Jane. How isGregory? Did the wine do him “Go and tuck him up and see the steam be coming good ? ” out of the kettle, Anne,” said Mrs. Bates. “A power of good,your ladyship. He looked for it Her son entered. He was muchconcerned. of a night, and it made him sleep something wonderful “Here’sTom going to knock off father’s money till ’twas gone. And then he missed it.” along of the OldAge Pension. That’s to teach us no “ Would he like to see me? ” goodthing can come of the Liberals. And we’re all ‘‘ He would like to, your ladyship ; but ’twas wash- to go and hear his speech at the parish-room presently.” ing-day yesterday, and what with one thing and another “Knock off the money ! ” criedMrs. Bates. “Oh, he’s not quite tidy for the minute.”‘ my God--he didn’t say that? ” “I wish you’d planyour work better, Jane. We “Didn’t“ he?Then I’ve gotsomething wrong with musthave method. Nothing goes well withoutit. my ears. The swine spoke clear enough. And the foxes Everything needs it-my work just as much as yours. must have our chickens, so long as they be kept away Without method I don’t know what I should do.” fromthe game birds. I’d like to have dug up what “ ’Tis a blessed thingand Iwish I’d more of it. was under my feet and wiped his bloody face with it ! ” Anne’s always saying to me, ‘Mother, you know how “Get in some wood. Here’sdinner all behind. The her ladyshipstands for tidiness and everything in its pension-” Shehad shrunk and aged at the news. place.’ ” “Who to God begoing to break it to father? ” she “Yes, and if weplan our time, allfits in so easily, moaned to herself. and we are never hurried. It is the same with money, andchurch-going, and everything. System. My hus- The lord and the lady stroIled homeward. band always says that system conquers all things.” “I’m sure you’re faint,” he said. “I know how their ‘‘ He’s sure to be right, your ladyship.” dens try you ; you’re looking pale, too.” A harshsound broke the silence, andLady Tudor “Not a bit. Itwas worththe trial-it always is. started. Poor Jane is one of the old, brave sort. But how rare “What is that ugly noise. ” they’re getting ! ” ‘‘Only father,your ladyship. I’ve told him to hold “Thatcub doesn’t touchhis hat now John, I in all he can,but It will out.” mean.” ‘‘ Has he seen the doctor? ” “And Annewon’t curtsey. One misses it ; but after “Every day, your ladyship-thanks to your ladyship. all--” He’s a lot better-quite out of danger, your ladyship.” He cut her short : “I did not know that he had beenin danger, Jane. “ Leaveit alone-leave itaIone--and talk of some- Hestands for what my husband call’s thegrand old thing else. You’ll go amongthem oncetoo often and order ofservants-the men who obeyed withoutques- be poisoned. ” tion,and stood unshaken before the evil breath of- “If you couldsee theirfaces lighten up as I come of-” in ! ” “ ’Tis a great blessing to us as his lordship thinks SO Shetook his arm. well of him, your ladyship. He worked fifty-two years, “Don’t go so fast, Tom, I’m tired.” and only ten days off-three when he married me, and He expressedannoyance, and pulled his yellow seven in the Cottage Hospital after the poacher fight,” moustache, 12 THE NEW AGE APRIL29, 1909

“You’ll kill yourself. for the brutes,’’ he declared. penny, thatanything could stop it? l‘ suppose they “And who’ll thank you? You put them before me and did ! Moreagreeably comic thanthe attitude and the children and everything--I’llswear it ! ” arguments of the publishers are the attitude and argu- Sheshook her head. ments of the booksellers.But the largest firms, Smith “ You do your’ duty. Shall not .do mina? ” she and Son andWymans, “do not find thatthe seven-,. asked. penny has. interfered with’ the 6s. novel.:. Be it noted “ You’reright,” he answered. “You teach us all. But nobody wants them to Be happy more than I do. that Smith and Son are now the largest buyers of.’6s. If they .only had-brains enough to understandthe novels in England. truth-” ** * “Your lecture will help them to do so,” she said. In the auctorial report, in the arguments of publish- Her wistful eyes looked up to heaven hopefully. ers, in the arguments of booksellers, not a word. about EDENPHILLPOTTS. theinterests of theconsumer ! Yetthe consumer will settlethe affair ultimately. Thatthe price of new novels will comedown is absolutely certain. It will Books and Persons. come down because it is ridiculous, and no mandarinic efforts cankeep it up. Inthe process of readjustment (AN OCCASIONAL CAUSERIE.) manypeople will temporarilysuffer, and a fewpeople SOMEtime ago a meeting (henceforward historic) took will be annihilated. But things are what they are, and placebetween Mr. Longman, Mr.Macmillan, Mr. the consequences of them will bewhat they- will be. Reginald Smith, Mr. Methuen, and Mr. Hutchinson of Why, therefore,should we deceive ourselves? I quite theone partand Mr. BernardShaw, Mr. Maurice expect to suffermyself. I shall not,however, complain Hewlett,and Mr.Anthony Hopeof. the other part. of thecosmic movement. The suctorial report (which, Mr. Longmanwas the host, and the encounter must by the way, is full of commonsense) envisages immense havebeen touching. I would havegiven a complete changes in thebook-market. I agree. And I amsure set of the works of the brothers Hocking to have been thatthese changes will comeabout in theteeth of invisibly present. The publishershad invited the violent opposition from both publishers and booksellers. authors(who represented the Authors’ Society),with The book-market isgrowing steadily. It is enormous compared to what it used to be. And yetit is onlyin the object of dissuading them from allowing their books its infancy. Theinhabitants of this countryhave to be reprinted at theprice of sevenpence.Naturally, scarcelyeven begunto buybooks. Wait afew years thepublishers, as always,were actuated by a pure and you will see ! ‘desire forthe welfare of authors. Messrs. Shaw, ** * Hewlett, and Hope have written an official account of As forthe sevenpenny firmsstriking the flag, far their impressions of the great sevenpenny question, and from that they will assuredly become more bellicose and itappears in thecurrent number of the“Author.” It adventurousthan ever. Withinthe last fewweeks, I have been informed, as a profound secret, by quite ten isamusing. The most amusing aspect of the whole differentpersons, of a certain new adventureplanned affairis the mere fact that one solitary Scotch firm, by a certain firm. As there noissecrecy whatever Nelson’s-have forced themandarins, nay, the arch- aboutit, I may as well state in printthat Messrs. mandarins, of thetrade to cryout that the shoe is Nelson are going to bring out a series of new novels at pinching. For thesupreme convention of life on the two shillings.Ihave been carryingthe load of this mandarinicplane is that the shoe never pinches. The secret up and down London for many days, and I am publishers made one very true statement to the authors, glad to tumbleit off my shouldersinto this column. I alsoknow that Messrs.Nelsons are specially commis- nameIy, that sevenpennyeditions give the public the sioning novels for their series, and paying high prices impression that 6s. isan excessiveprice for a novel. to their carefully selected authors. (I wish I could give Well,it is. Rutis that areason for abolishing the names and prices-for suchdetails arealways tooth- sevenpenny?The other statements of thepublishers some-but I mustnot.) The mandarins ought to call were chiefly absurd.For instance,this : “Anyauthor theseauthors together and remonstrate withthem for allowing a novel to be sold at sevenpence will find the their own good. *** sales of hisnext book at 6s. suffering a considerable decrease.” Well, it is notorious that if the sevenpenny Another“secret de Polichinelle ” is that Messrs. Whitefey, in conjunction with the “Times ” Book Club, publishers are publishing one particular book just now, areabout to start a largecirculating 1ibrary. Mr. that book is “ Kipps.” It is equally notorious that the Selfridge, are you going to be leftbehind, or are you sales of “ Tono-Bungay ” are, and continue to be, ex- going to call upon Smith and Son in the hour of need? tremely satisfactory. And you, O HarrodAgrippa, where are you going to ** * come in? *** On the other hand the remarks of the sevenpenny publishersthemselves arenot undiverting. I have All which hasnothing to do with literature. Dis- tinguishedartists will still earnless than grocers. heard from dozens of people in the trade that Messrs. JACOB TONSON. Nelson-could not possibly make the sevenpenny reprint pay. I havenever believed thestatement. But the CROYDON SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, Shaw and Co. reportmakes Messrs.Nelson give as onereason for not abandoning the sevenpennyenter- SOCIALISM AND THE LABOUR PARTY. prise the fact that “ the machinery already in existence istoo costly to. be abandoned.” Which involves the novelmaxim that a lossmay be too big to be cut ! Weretheir amazing factory ten times as large as it VICTOR GRAYSON, M.P., AND actually is,Messrs. Nelson would haveto put it to other uses in face of a regular loss on their seven- Mrs, DESPARD pennies.However, thereis no doubtin mymind that Will address a PUBLIC MEETING at the the enterprise is, and will be, remunerative. The Shaw LARGE -PUBLIC HALL,GEORGE STREET, CROYDON, andCo. reportis of thesame view, Did the man- On FRIDAY, MAY 14th, at 8 p.m. darins imagine that they were going to stop the seven- Tickets from S. G.STUBBS, 66, Enmore Road, Woodside, S,E, APRIL29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 13

Miss Pearson. admired the young man. She was gratified Whited Sepulchres. by hls exclusive .attendance upon herself, and hls utter i neglect of every other girl of theirmutual acquaintance. Beatrice Tina. He spentthree full evenings of the week in her society, By and every Sunday, and if she ever asked how his other even CHAPTER I. lngs were tobe occuped, he had always a satisfactory ON thenight before she was ta be marriedto ’Thomas reply. She knew that he wentoccasionally to music-halls Heck, Nan Pearson,seated in her bedroom, was dreaming and. such’ places; but hedeclared that only marriage could into the future A cheval glass reflected herform at full cure him of these little frivolities, and the maiden demanded length. She had slipped on one of her new peignoirs-the no more flattering confession. turquoise-for the sake OP the silken feel of it against her There were moments when Miss Pearson thought arms.Her petticoats flowed in a gratifyingripple of un- Thomas a trifle coarseand “beefy” ” ; but she. stifled usualfullness around her knees, and a pair of fine ern- as best she might such squeamishness on her part, intending broidered slippers caused her toes to pointat acorrect to refinehim aftermarriage ; and when once, during .a angle. quarrel, he had caught her roughly by the arms and ‘forced a hot kiss upon her, she had soon accepted his subsequent She reclined beneath a pink-shaded light. Her fàir hair, promise thatsuch behaviour shouldnever occur again. It parted à la Madonna, had a gold sheen, and hung in long, neverhad. Mr. Heck slipped himself undercontrol, even coarse waves to her waist. Her eyes were cleargrey in, suppressing the tiny exhibitions of superiority which usually colour, andnot in the least green, nor did her healthy provoked the mild satire of his lady. So everything went cream eyelids give any .hintof that -rednesswhich smites the favourably towards the wedding day,and this pre-nuptial less perfect blondeinto a hagat thirty. Since features eveningfound Miss Pearson not merely very eagerto matter very little in Pearsonic circles, Nan was there thought become Mrs. ThomasHeck, but even to weavepure none the worse for the over-significance of her cheek-bones, romanticvisions of unbroken bliss ,at 24, The Gardens, orfor the hint of vulgarityin her obstinate nostrils. Crone, herfuture home.: Her lips, though unclassical, were full and red. In later years Nan. Pearson never could tell exactly what Herhands were lyingidly in her lap in the novelistic these visions had. offered. They were allvague and veiled fashion. There was a certainline of gracein her position in a rosymist, +hereinpink ribbons and white curtains which suited well with the unskilled demi-romantic arrange- andvisiting cards and an everlastinglyadoring husband, ment of her room. It was crowded with art needlework, strong yet gentle,honourable yet successful, intellectual, imitation Rossettis andBurne Joneses. Pinkribbons handsome, and faithful, loomed, each clear in turn, to fade trimmedher pillows, andon the wall above,a tribe of and loom again. Strange though it may. seem, the fact was maidens appeared coming down a stairway in various posi- thatalthough the -round of Pearsonic existence scarcely tions of studied awkwardness. A volume of Rossetti, morocco sufficed forthe maiden., the Heckish lifeappeared to the bound, had been laid open at ((The Blessed Damozel,” and expectantbride as thepinnacle of earthly happiness. The a little marginal note in ink read thus : “ O, poor Rossetti ! fact isinexplicable. Thereshould appear no producible How he must have loved her ! !-N. P.’’ reason for Miss Pearson’s wild ecstatic hopes,-since the mere There was avery bad painting above the dressing-table, assumption of household responsibility and the substitution a head of a girl “after Greuze,”signed (‘NanPearson ” ; of Heckthe loverby Heck the house-husbandseem alto- also a small water-colour drawing of “A Saint,” which exhi- gether insufficient. Miss Pearson, moreover, was not a bited a young man with black hair, moustaches, and a halo. fully sexed woman, but the merest childin her conception Behind Miss Pearson stood a paintedscreen pourtraying of thesecrets of marriage.She liked to be kissed and some long-tressed undines at the bottom of a pool ; a dis- petted,and she liked the sense of possession which Mr. creet profusion of reeds and gold-fish taking the place of Heck‘s attentions arousedin her. Buthers were no un- drapery.There was no bookcase or writing-table inthe licensed dreams of nuptial bliss. Hermind had never room, and the curtains were tied with art bows;but there opened wider than her submission to engagement”kisses was a small, yet unmistakeableair of personalityabout had forced it; if ThomasHeck had knelt onhis the whole ; it,had evidently been occupied byone alone. knee and embraced her hand only, she would have believed A faint scentof some flower-distilled perfume played around that to be the total limit of possibility, for she was of ex- Miss Pearsonas she reclined dreaming of thelife before tremely latent devlopment. her. It seemeda life where all was going harmoniously as It may,perhaps, rightly be concIuded that this girl had themarriage bells. Nan Pearson’s dreams were innocent been hypnotised from her cradle to suppose that an engage- andnatural enough. Thethrill of kisses shehad known ment naturally accompànied the knotting up of her golden vibrated pleasingly into her future, wherein the kisses were hair. Nevertheless, thattheory does not explain, the to be onlymore intimate and more frequent. Sheunder- romatichalo she weaved aboutmarrïage. She had seen stood, so far as a young girl might, the significance of the her father and mother, a grey wedded pair, and ‘from- their biblicalphrase, ‘(one flesh” She knew thather mother daily conduct could not possibly have concocted her extrava- andfather occupied one roomtogether. Married people gant ideals. Thematrons who came with their.daughters thuschanged their condition.. Whatfurther: this change to her mother’s weekly “At Home “ exhaled no perfume of might imply .she did cot know, or bother -much about dis- romance,and the few young wives whom she knew very’ covering; but whatever it was, Thomas Heck was to share slightly, were always engaged with babies, dress-making and it, and she adored Thomas quite considerably. meals, no one of which occupations stirred in her any feeling TheHeck circle was so exactly likethe Pearson circle that but of commiseration.careless Y that no greatlyadventurous change wouId seem to be im- Perhaps the popular artists are to blame for these mirages pendingfor Nan. Thomas Heck was just what a brother which deceive youth. In novels, in plays, in pictures, the of Miss Pearsonmight have been. He was considereda public is shown the state of marriage as a luxurious enter- propermatch for Nan. His father was deceased,but he tainment, where throughout a series of daintymisunder- and his mother and sisters were very well off, and with the standings,the husband remains the lover andthe wife is Pearsons, they worshipped at St. Paul’s, in the metropolitan always youthful andattractive. Even when the plays suburb of Crone. Thomas himself was a tall,masterful become tolerably realistic, thedrudgeries of thenursery young man of twenty-seven, black-haired, and moustachioed andthe kitchen are never madesubjects for exact repro- afterthe manner of Guardsmen.Thomas, by business a duction,but the mother is representedas the indulgent house agentand furnisher, having succeeded his defunct angelguardian of witty and precocious infants, whose father, affected the military figure-a pose easy to his broad froward tricks become (on the stage) a most agreeable form shouldersand upright carriage. He made agood contrast, of relaxation for the gracefully-gownedactress-mother. said folks, with Nan-he so very manlyand she so very Miss Pearson had been healthilyand soundly slow in womanly.! She held himat a respectful distance, too, maturing. At. eighteenshe had no desirefor maternity. having acquired that weapon of suburban maidenhood which Sherarely gave the subject a thought. Of course, some is .a kind of off-hand, but gentle, “teasing,” and which her day, a long while hence, she would havea beautifullittle conventional demeanour only rendered at once more piquant .baby girl to show off; and its name should not be Anne, or and less vicious. There was very littlemalicious intention anything so vulgar ! Thatmuch was fairly clear. But whatever behind Miss Pearson’saffectation of teasing. The before the time when she should have become a mother was acquired,idiosyncrasy must be mentioned, however, because an epoch of glorious rapture and dignity for Mrs. Thomas it appears significant as one of the signals. which attracted Heck thè bride : and all speculation as to the possible basis theattention of themasterful Tom Heck. Many a bout of forthis doomed card-castle must be abandoned, since Mrs. thissort of wit had heengaged in with Nan Pearson,and Heck herself can give nomore accountable reason for always, in some way,. had he felt himself to have come off having builded it than that, she “thought it was sure.to be ratherthe worse of the two. And yet-Nan had -never the so.” air of having meant to irritate him, nor,indeed, had he Thislast evening before her wedding, thecastle was ever quite decided how hehad been hurt.. Nevertheless, destined to receive acertain shock toits foundations; but his hungry,and rather stupid, black eyes would narrow perhaps hard common-sense blows have no searching effect sometimes duringthese mock conflicts, and his fists would upon fabrics made of the stuff of dreams. double in a way which Nan might have thought menacing A knockfell upon the bedroom door. Thegirl was had shenot found it rather amusing; he could always be expecting it. Shecalled “Come in, mamma.” mollified by a kiss. (To be continued.) 14 THE NEW AGE APRIL29, 1909

relation ismarble to the sculptor, words to the poet, A Clump of Rushes. wood tothe carver, and experience to every man Our life is an expression. Touch that object, utter that THE.smoking-room of theArt Club is about twenty- sound,draw that line, dothat deed, and in eachcase four feet broad by sixty feet long, with a lofty, sloped ceiling,. andforms a large saloon at the backof the YOU will discover,express, and revealyourself. It applies to thehumblest occupation and to the most first-floor suite of rooms. It is entered from two doors exalted office. Books are authors first and then reading onthe north side only, thedoors leading by Iobbies matter. Sartor Resartus is the essence of a Border Scot, fromthe cloak-room anddining-hall respectively. The andafterwards a philosophy of clothes ; ‘ TheStory walls are coloured a brick-red, and the woodenpanel- of My Heart ” is essentially Richard Jefferies and after- lingabout four feet high which iscarried round ‘the wards a somewhatinarticulate cry for soul expansion. room is of yellow oak ; the mantelpieces and doorways Carlyletook clothes, and Jeffries took introspection : are oh similar wood and colour. Occasionally the walls theydiffered in the choice of material. Theaim of hung closelywith exhibition pictures, but usually are government shouldbe toarrange for each person there are pictures by members of the club displayed- in havingthe best material in which to findexpression. modestnumber. In the middle of theroom is a large What ism could do more? ” table covered with magazines and papers, and here and “Don’t let us drift into politics,” said Rammerscales. thereare small tables with the usual smoking acces- “The question is : What is art? ” sories. At eachend of thelong roomis a generous “Goodheavens ! whatpossessed you to say that?’? fireplacewith elaborateovermantel dotted here and therewith small Tanagra figures. Thecarpets are criedRothes. “We’ll bein a deepmorass in five costly excellentin colour anddesign. A grand Bech- minutes.” “I wasjust thinking that pictorial artwas a nice stein stands next the north wall in the middle distance use of lines and circles,” replied Rammerscales frankly. of the room. Onan ordinary evening the place ringswith ani- “You are right, Rammerscales ; a great picture con- tains the severe lines of Egypt and the flowing masses mated speech, and little groups may be seen laughing orarguing amidclouds of smoke.There is a merry ofItaly,” said Quarles. “It is nowbeing discovered thatTitian could draw ; but we are stillwithout a tinkle of glassand a steadypassing to and fro of demurely smiling maidens. At these tables are gathered definition of art, and we dearly like to fix things.” architects,authors, painters, musicians, doctors, Sully,who had been smoking withnoticeable pre- lawyers,merchants, sculptors, journalists, and in the cision, looked up, and remarked slowly, “I know this : season,late into the night, appear confident actors, we see nothing till we fed for it, and what we see we liberatedfrom their duties at thetheatre The latter reflect.” gentlemenusually drove Quarles and his friend to the “It seems to me a question of the application of library of the club,the best roomin itfor a small reason to knowledgeand experience,” said Rothes. company of congenialspirits. The loudspeech and “ Havingchosen a subject,and having selected expansive manners of the actors and their egotistic self- material, the next step is to see the treatment ration- consciousnesswere too much forthe hermit of Byres ally carried out.” Road. If the expression on Rammerscales’ face was capable Sully,the sculptor, was showing us photographs of of interpretation, it showed a conviction of having led hismost recent commissions. The firstwas the squat towardsthe bog. He lookedover toQuarles appeal- figure of a woman who held in her hands the model of ingly, as if saying,“Lead us to firm ground,” little a steam engine, and was intended to adorn the vestibule reckoning what was to happen. of a commercial house, “Creations of the second rateare the result of “I think you shouldpresent it to the Governors of reasonand consciouschoice of material, but the best theTechnical College,” said Rothes, with an ironic comes from a higherunity of forces,”said Quarles. “Reason began when Eden was lost, and Eden shall be smile, “ as a token of, eh-steam.” won when reason is outgrown. It would seem that art The second was a buxomfemale, who held a short is that tendency in theexpression of humanactivities scrollin her outstretched right hand. It was an excel- which makesfor the fourth dimension.Experience lentfigure, anddestined to surmountthe dome of a teaches us what to forget. Give me the imagination of prominent public edifice. men, and I care not who gets the rest.” “I like the statue well enough,” remarked Rammer- “There, now, Rammerscales, you see what you have scales, “and,do youknow, there is something essen- done,”remarked Rothes, “ I amsinking rapidly,and tiallyBritish about it. Thestatue, which I notice already feel bits of damp peat in my ears. I can’t hold has an indifferent indication of clothing, seems to say : on to a clump of rushes all night ! ” ‘ I am a decent woman ; here .are my marriage-lines.’ ” “ Grip fast,” said Rammerscales, “and wait for day- “ It is quite clear I am not a modern Pheidias,” said light.” Sully,with great good-humour ; “but I amnot so- “ I’m gripping fast,” answered Rothes ; “but there’s clear as towhat constitutes the differencebetween nothing strong enough to bear my weight.” ancient and modern sculpture.” “Whynot seekrefuge in religion? ” said Sully, “Therethisis difference,” remarkedQuarles. smiling. “Greek sculpture had serenity and vigour, but one feels Quarles did notappear to notice the persiflage. that modernsculpture may at anymoment become “ Religion, religion,” he began slowly and meditatively, violent.” “religion is unexpressedArt. The ideaunderlying Sully looked searchingly at Quarles,then proceeded religion is that of binding up again the discordances in to pull vigorously at hispipe, and two deeply vertical ournature, making imagination, taste, and conduct linesmarked his brow with the sign of concentrated harmonise. Thiscan only bedone by sinking self, thought.“That is almost an historicalcomparison of makingthe mind passive, and trustingto invisible two eras,” he murmured. agencies for a renewal of force to help us to overcome “Is sculpturenot an historical document? ” said desireand illusion. Religion isthe passive or femi- Quarles. ninemanifestation of Art. It creates nothing, but it is “Then art is not only an individual proclamation of the great matrix of masculine imagination and where the spirit, but a token of the spirit of the period? It is Artand Religion are linked together in thehighest thepure ether of autobiographyand history? ” re- degree in oneperson, there abides the greatest and marked Rothes ardently. mostenduring spiritual force, for then the thing “It is the expression of the man and of mankind- created isangelic, it has cast over its form of beauty therace revealed throughthe individual,” replied thegarment of reverence. The creative artist whois Quarles. “When we look at a picture it is not merely most religious will mount highest and approach nearest to have our eyessatisfied with pigmentbrushed on to immortalitybecause he has within him the new canvas, but in the hope of seeing a great spirit reveal- Adamiclight. Wherethere is genuine lovebetween ing itself. Paintis only a material which a certain manand woman, it is, firstly, an illumination, but it type of manuses to express himself, and insimilar is too rare and anti-terrene tolast, and so they seek APRIL29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 15 what they consider a closedunion, which in reality is the first divergence. For the poet in love there is more hope, because he can make his love substantial in song andthus avoid, if hecan, the scorching fire. The exercise of true poetic force is an illumination a light VOL.II No. 2. MONTHLY, 2/6 that neverwas on sea or land. Loving is theart of being,religion isthe art of nurturing,poetry is the art of creating, and these three are founded on virtue, whether brief or prolonged. ” “ Did anyone ring? ” asked a dainty Hebe who had glided noiselessly intoour midst. DAVIDLOWE. ENGLISH REVIEWS. REVIEW Russia’s New Era. By R. J. Barrett. (The “Financier andBullionist,” Limited. 6s.) Mr. Barrett informs his readers of the nature of this work by stating in his introductory chapter : “My chief CONTENTS FOR MAY object in visiting Russia was to ascertain. the prospects Algernon of Britishcommerce and the openings for British CHARLES capital.” The author has ably carried out this objective SWINBURNE by collecting andtabulating a mass of interesting I. Modern figures, which unquestionably prove that even if Russia Poetry STURGE MOORE has been greatly damaged by her war with Japan, yet DOLLIERADFORD she cannot, as some people seem to believe, be counted OSMAN Edwardes as almost a negligible quantity in the world’s politics. The author devotes interesting chapters of hisbook to 2. NORMANDOUGLAS descriptions of the shipping, minerals, agriculture, and industries of Russia, which cannot fail to prove of great The Isle of the Sirens assistance to those who intend entering uponbusiness with Russianmerchants. Mr. Barrett,like many other 3. DOSTOEVSKY An Honest Thief Englishmenwho have visited Russia, is certainly im- pressed with the kind manner in which Russians always treat visitors to their country, and with the polite way 4. JOSEPH CONRAD they invariably render the foreigner assistance whenever Some Reminiscences possible. 5. W. H. HUDSON But although many chapters of “ Russia’s New Era ” are-devoted to statistics, yet there is another, and prob- Goldfinches atRyme Intrinsica ablyto the ordinary reader amore attractive part of this very readable book. The principal towns of Russia 6. WYNDHAM LEWIS ThePole are describedin a vivid,picturesque, and attractive manner, which will help those who have seenthem to 7. PERCEVALGIBBON recall theircharms, and will give a mostrealistic de- AfrikanderMemories scription to thosewho have not. Theauthor’s description of Moscow, which is particularly fascinating, 8. BARON I, VON ASCHENDROF will be of special interest to those who intend visiting the former capital of Russia.Mr. Barrett says of this TheNature of a Crime city : “Truly in Moscow the East merges in West, and g. GERTRUDE BONE An Experience within its boundaries are to be found the characteristics of both.”After describing the Kremlin and many IO. STEPHEN REYNOLDS other places of interest, Mr. Barretttells his readers something of the cotton factories, the value of land, and The HolyMountain of the Exchange in Moscow Theauthor gives up a chapterto a treatise upon With specialarticles on Current Events, RussianRailways, and enumerates many interesting and one by the details of theTrans-Siberian Line as itexists to-day, and of the possibility of doubling the existing line, or PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED of constructingan alternative route. Theease and STATESON THE PANAMACANAL pleasure of a journeyon this great trans-Continental AND CRITICS. railway, which is equipped with probably the most com- ITS fortabletrains in theworld, are accuratelydescribed. Contributorsto the preceding numbers We are told that a first-class ticket, including sleeping have included Messrs. Thomas Hardy, Henry accommodation, works out at about £30, which cannot beclassed as an expensiveprice, considering the James,Joseph Conrad, Geo. Meredith, T. journeytakes eleven daysfrom Moscow, andcovers Watts-Dunton, John Galsworthy, Violet approximately 5,500 miles. Hunt, Count Tolstoi, Anatole France, Emile The fact that the author has travelled to so great an Verhaeren, D. G. Rossetti, Gerhardt Haupt- advantage from end to end of Russia with “a vocabul- mann, W. B. Yeates,Granville Barker, H. ary limited toabout twenty Russian words ” mustbe G. Wells ; and among thecontributors to an encouragement to others who intend to visit Russia. the earlynumbers of Vol. I. will be found The bookis illustrated by forty-eight excellent photo- graphs, many of which are reproduced from snapshots M. CamillePelletan and thePresident of taken by the author. the UnitedStates. AnInIand Voyage. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Noel Rooke. (Chattoand Windus. DUCKWORTH &CO., HENRIETTA ST.,W.C. 7s. 6d. net,) Of Robert Louis Stevenson’s part in this book it is not now thetime to speak. With all theperils of his decision clearly before him, he decided to write a classic. Forthere issomething else thanimmortality on the 16 .THE NEW AGE April 29, 1909

shelves of ,,the bookcase of the immortals--there is too “ It can hardly be questioned that the freedom and sim- often the dust that gathers roundunopened pages.But plicity of their dress was to a great extent the cause of Stevenson, SO far, has gained his eternal fame without the development of the splendidphysique which the suffering its pains : he is still an immortal who is read. Greeks undoubtedlyenjoyed. Their loose draperies So many of the- immortals aredead, they are often allowedtheir limbs perfect freedom, and their bodies merelydead lions. Those of uswho are wiseread were unhampered by constraint of any kind.In the Stevenson’s “ Inland Voyage,” because under the pass- palaestraand the gymnasium air and sunlight were ingadventures of a pair of boatmen he foundthe allowed to exercisetheir salutary influence, forthe philosophy of the great adventure of life itself ;and he Greeks were not ashamed of their own naked skin ! ” has the art to lure ’us on, all unconsciously, from the All AboutInvestment. Henry Lowenfeld. tri-vial, until we find ourselves in the deeps of the great (” Financial Review of Reviews” 5s. net.) things that will alwaysmatter. SO muchfor the This book deals witha subject which is oneof the letterpress. Fromthe illustrations we can testify that most intricate and difficult of all the subjects of modern Stevenson has discovered a very congenial collaborator. commerce. The author has a genius for simple exposi- Mr. Noel Rookehas painted and ’drawn twenty-four tion, and in his track the reader may safely tread some very charming works. Both in his precise architectural of the dizzy mazes of finance. The book should be par- pictures(for example, thefrontispiece of Noyon ticularlyuseful to the silly people whoimagine that Cathedral) and in the river landscapes, which are packed investmentneeds no skill. Mr. Lowenfeldclaims that with the sun andthe air of the open sky, he is success- itis anart. If so, heis one ,of themasters. ful. Nevertheless, ,we suspectthat the colour-printer has not done him justice. We can rememberMr. Rooke’s works in the annual exhibitions and elsewhere, DRAMA. and we can detect errors of tone and colour in the re- “ Those Damned Little Clerks.” productions of this book which we feel convinced were notin the originals. This only raisesthe general NUNCDIMITTIS ! I was so fortunate last Sunday as to question whether colour-printing is yet perfect enough witnessthe first appearance of anew playwright of to dealwith the niceties of landscapepainting. We unmistakeabledramatic genius. Those who have read incline to the opinion that the .-painter who intends his my dramaticcriticisms in THENEW AGE will not,I work to ,be reproduced in this manner must set out with think, suspect me of any tendency to hail unconventional the object of limiting himself to the possibilities of the geese as swans.Indeed, Iwent tothe performance process ; in .other.words, he must not so muchpaint given by the“Play Actors ” atthe Court in novery a picturewhich. will be effective onhis canvas ; he sanguine mood. I so often find that Societiesformed must, rather,’ paint one which the printer will be able for the production of “advanced ” plays .produce plays to reproducewlthin the limitedscope of hiscraft. In which,when they arenot by Mr.Bernard Shaw, are fact, we. suspect that, to reachsuccess, it will be im- unsuitable for the ordinary stage, not because they are perative that the .designer and the printer shall be one subtle or over-thoughtful, or ethically provocative, but andthe same person. We would, further, call atten- simplybecause they are verybad plays. I musthave tion to the extraordinarysense, of atmosphere which excepted Mr. Whelen’sexperiments atHis Majesty’s fromthis criticism, and I must nowexcept the Play Mr.. Rooke-has given in his pencil sketches “ Pont-sur- Sambre ” and “The Straight Road.”, Finally the few Actors,who, besides the very great honour of having produced “Chains,” have, I gather, the credit of having words of the “Note by the Illustrator ” lead us to hope that one day soon he will write his own letterpress ; it firstperformed that admirablelittle playlet, “ ’Tilda’s is certain that he will do it with entire success. New Hat,” which I havealready reviewed in these columns. Greek Dress. By E. B. Abrahams. (Murray.) I do not for amoment hesitate to call “Chains ” a If our dressmakers were scholars like Miss Abrahams, great drama--at once the most brilliant and the deepest weshould turn to thefashion articles withsome problemplay by amodern Englishwriter that I have alacrity, assured that we could at least understand what the writers might desire to tell us. In describing some SPECIAL OFFER OF MARX’S of thegarments, Miss Abrahams has “suggested GREAT WORK ON CAPITAL. dimensions and given diagrams,”so that those who wish maycut out and make these Greek dresses for them- CAPITAL Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production selves. The directions are so clear that evenunskilled :-A persons likeourselves areprepared to make these TheTwelfth English Edition of “Das Kapital,” by costumes. Any womanwho wantsto anticipate the KarlMarx, translated from the German by SAMUEL height ,of fashion cannot do better than copy some of MOOREand Dr. EDWARDAveling andEdited by F. the models in this book. A few of them may be a little ENGELS.The besttranslation of this important work, out of date--for instance, the dress worn by the Snake which contains the masterly statement of those Social- Goddess and Votary,of which an illustration is given, isticdoctrines which are having so great an effect is exactly. that of the pannier costume which some may throughout the world. Demy 8vo, cloth, remember as thething in the eighties.But, then, it is Published at 10/6. Now offered at 4/6 post free, the female costume of the pre- Hellenic age. However, WILLIAM GLAISHER, Ltd., Booksellera, the over garment with two overfolds figured on page 96 265, HIGH HOLBORN,LONDON. will be soon the exact model “as worn to-day ” by all Glaisher’s Catalogue of Books at Reduced Prices sent on Application well-dressed women. For the merely curious,for those who wantto know how theGreek men and women dressed,what boots theywore, what their hats were Clifford’s Inn School of Journalism. like,, and howthey did theirhair, this essay is full of enlightenment, and is written in an attractive and sin- New Course starts MAY 1st. gularly lucid style. We are delighted that the prosy old Send for Prospectusto Principal, grammarians are being replaced by women of wit and Miss L. M. MAYHEW, learning. If shopkeepersdid not make the fashions, IO, CLIFFORD’SINN, E.C. Miss Abraham’s,conclusion mightbe of someavail :

ADVERTISEMENT: DIAMOND STAR FOUNTAIN PENS APRIL 29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 17 seensince “.,Major Barbara;” Indeed, there are’ some MAY respects in which I.think Miss Elizabeth Baker might NUTS AND well challenge even Mr. Shaw’s supremacy. She has, in. a sense a wider range of sympathythan his, and THE relationship between nuts’ and Ma-y‘is, to-.say ‘the if Mr. Shaw would havemade the playmore scintil- least of it,somewhat obscure. Nobody goesnutting lating, I am not sure that he would nothave made it in May-except individuals who are already. wandering lesshuman. I ‘do notsay the play was faultless ; on thecontrary, I shallvindicate my integritypresently in mind. Yet the phrase remains, and will remainas by venturing a fewcriticisms. But I do say,without long as there is an English languageand children to anyhesitation whatsoever, that unless ‘(Chains” gets speak it. For, inconsequentand unscientific though quicklyon tothe boards of apopular theatre and the words be, they havetheir sanction in thesacred achieves a magnificentsuccess there, it will beour managers and playgoers, and not Miss Baker, who will games. of children, andthe world’ will need to grow have been judged and found wanting. very old and stupid before it ceases to join hands with The play deals with those whom Mr. Wells’s artillery- the youngsters singing :- man .calls “damnedlittle clerks.” The vividness with which the social atmosphere of thirty and forty bob a Here we go gathering nuts and may week black-coated proletarian respectabilityis caught On a cold and frosty morning! andpresented is quite miraculous. No onewho has ever come within that atmosphere will fail to recognise Logic and science may revolt against this jumble of un- the types-Leslie, theclerk, with areputation as a connected things, but all sane and healthy people recog- humourist, which he sedulously lives up to ; Sybil Frost, thesuburban belle, clad in a resplendentcostume of nise its mystical and artistic fitness. It .belongs to the primary colours, who tells every male person that he is same great order as that other mysterious liturgy. :- “such a tease,” and passionately protests, “Oh, I can’t Oranges and Lemons, sing first ! ” ; Fenwick the elderly clerk, almost fit for the knacker’s so pathetically uncomplaining,yard, pru- The bells of St. Clemen’s; dentlycounselling submission. Whothat knows the I owe you five farthings, The bells of Martin’s so clerk-world doesnot know them? The “ musical St. . . . . and on evening ” in the second act,with its expressionless But even apart from these high questions of science and gaiety, the quiet Sunday afternoon in the third act, at thehome of the wife’s father, Mr. Alfred Massey, poesy, there is a very real connection between Nuts .and retired plumber; and successful; respectable, self-helpful May-or should be.’ SamuelSmiles ex-workman, are perfectpieces of Directly you spell Nuts with an N you are liable to dramatic realism. The story of the playis easily told. CharlieWilson conversion. : it doesn’t at all matter whether it be sudden is a clerk,married ta a dutifuland affectionate wife, as the sunrise of an Eastern May Day, or gradual ‘as and contriving to make “a home ” for her at 55 Acacia the unfolding of the May’ blossom ; conversion awaits Road,Hammersmith, with the help of a lodger. The lodger,Fred Tennant, is also a clerk,but, being un- YOU. The very heat of the summer which May is now married and without responsibilities, he has come to a about to herald- calls fora change in certain habits and suddenresolution to chuckup his wretched starched- reinforcescertain instincts of revulsion. On a warm collar existence and take his chance in Australia. This day the very thought of a slaughter-house becomes un- decision, which seems to mostmembers of hiscircle mere lunacy, strikes, a responsive note in the breast of endurable, the very. sight of. meat is unpleasant. You Charlie. He alsofeels thathe would liketo confront pause on the threshold of the restaurant, the smell of “the openroad andthe bright eyes of danger.” But gravyand chops diminishes your zest for. food.’ You he is married man, and his wife is loving, and sym- pathetic, andprudent, and unselfish, and everything take up knife and fork-but ugh !you ‘can’t eat -for that a womanought to be--but she does not under- nuts. And there, embeddedin that slangy phrase, you stand;- Of course she wins ; poorCharlie’s rebellion havethe solution of the problem. You have only to cornes to nothing. Hereturns to hischains, and we have him dressingfor the City, .putting on thehigh give nuts their original and proper place, and you are white collar thatirritates his chin “I suppose,” he free of the joint, free ’of the greasy odours, free of the .says, with incisive irony, “ that a clerk has no right to ugly and disturbing associations of needless slaughter. have a neck that does not fit his collar.” Of course you need a littleadvice, little help, a It is in hertreatment of the wife that Miss Baker a shows herself a genuine dramatic artist. It would have fewhints. But these, you will see, are forthcoming. been so easyto excite cheap sympathy for Charlie Thevarious varieties of nuts now obtainablein this by makingher harsh and unsympathetic. But the country are all rich in those two essentials of a safe and dramatist has dealt with her with so much understand- ing andtenderness that. there are moments when our balanceddiet, namely, fatand proteid.But not many sympathiesaltogether desert Charlie and turn to her. people possessthe good teeth necessary forchewing After all, our social orderthrows uponwomen the rawnuts properly. Hencethe value of a nut-mill, burden of makingends meet, and it is not altogether which, costingbut fewa shillings, will in a few unpardonable that theyshould resent menbeing romantic andadventurous at their expense. Eventhe momentsconvert the nut kernels into snowy flakes, misunderstandings of Lily Wilson increase the force of which can be takeneither with salad, fruit or bread,. herhuman appeal. When she can see nothing in her or as an ingredientin simple summer dishes.. husband’s revolt against slavery but that he wants to used leave her, one feels. gripped by the real pathos of her Lastly, you can get supplies of the freshest and finest ’inability to comprehend the man she loves. nuts imported, ready shelled, from G. Savage and Sons, I have said that the play was not faultless. The first Nut experts, 53, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C., who two acts were perfect, but the third, though admirable a as a reallstic“slice of life,”failed dramatically, as it are only waiting for your name and address on post- seemed to me, in that it carried the story no further, card to present you with their new 56-page Booklet all leavingthe hero and all theother characters exactly about nuts and other natural foods and products. This in the same position at the fall of the curtain as at its unique little contains aseries of thirty-six simple rise. Inthe fourth act, though Lily’s sister Maggie book is a true and vivid picture of. the courageous and high.. nut recipes. All you need do is to ask for “ New Age mettled girlworker who may yet prove,the salvation Offer,” giving full name and address. I8 THE NEW AGE APRIL29, 1909

of the suburbs, I thought the drama would have been morepoignant if theprompting of Charlie’srebellion had come wholly from within. But with all these reser- vations, the play wasnot only incomparably well written, but showed keen and forceful dramatic instinct. I shallbe deeply disappointed if I am not offered the chance of seeing it again. Afterthe merits of the playitself, thething that THE MENACE struck me most was the quite extraordinarily high level OF of theacting. Never have I seen a cast so perfect, and it is really a high tribute to the actors and actresses SOCIALISM that, wilthout thehope of great commercialprofit, or even of much popular kudos, they .should have put so EverySocialist should read much hard and careful work into their parts. Indeed, “The Menace of Socialism,”by their all-round excellence must be considered almost a W. Lawler Wilson, which is just handicap to them, for one knows not which to praise. published. It is a study of the Besides theadmirable acting of Mr. Pearce as the pasthistory of Socialismand a husbandand of MissGillian Scaife as the wife, Mr, forecast of the future of the move- LeonardCalvert interpreted inimitably the clerk- ment by one of ‘our leading Anti- humourist,Morton Leslie, and Mr. HaroldChaplin Socialists. The wholeSocialist created the part of Percy Massey--a very vivid study systemis studied from anew the small-souled snob that black-coated proletarian- point of view, and his conclusions of are as strikingas they are serious. ism tendsto produce. And tothe end of my days I The book willbe especially in- shall not easily forget Miss Doris Digby as Sybil Frost. teresting to Socialists because of Of course, “Australia ” in the play must be taken as symbolic. I aman Imperialist, andhave no desireto the alternative policy to Socialism depreciate our Colonies. But I fear that if Charlie had whichthe author offers allwho gone to Brisbane he would have found a life not very are dissatisfied with the present different from the 1ife he had left, musical evenings and state of things. It has quietSunday afternoons, Morton Leslie raging furi- manymaps and diagrams. ously and MissSybil Frost flourishinglike a green The priceis 6/- net. bay-tree. No-the solutiondoes not lie there. These GRANTRICHARDS, “damned little clerks ” must be made to feel that they 7, CarltonStreet, are men-must rise at least to that degree of solidarity S.W. of which theworkman has beenfound capable. ThomasFenwick must be taught that to allowhis P.S.-A CheapEdition of BERNARD employers to dock his wages in order to keep up their SHAW, byHolbrook Jackson, will be profits is not humility or prudence, but cowardice and readyin a week or so. It hasacover dishonesty.Percy Massey mustlearn that he must designby Joseph Simpson. Price net. not, even forthe sake of Sybil Frost,take another I/- man’s job at a lower wage. They must acquire a sense of comradeship with each other and with the great army ofLabour. Then. alone will thecollar be made to fit TWO NEW VOLUMES IN the neck. By the way, will Miss Baker forgive me if I advise THE FABIAN SOCIALIST SERIES. her to change the title of her play? “Chains ” sug- The most authoritative library of Socialist thought, by gestsjust the kind of play that I wasafraid it was Members of the Fabian Society. goingto be-but thatit wasn’t-a play aboutthe No. 6. sexual complications of wealthy persons of independent SOCIALISM AND NATIONAL MINIMUM. By Mrs. SIDNEYWEBB, Miss B. L. means ! How would “ 55 Acacia Road ” do? HUTCHINS,and the Fabian Society. 6d. each nett, post- CECILCHESTERTON. age rd., or 1/4cloth gilt top. Is. nett, postage 2d. ** * TheWomen. Suffragists evidentlyintend to play No. 7. THE WASTAGE OF CHILD anothercard. They have talked most of their oppo- LIFE. 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Recent Music. Duckworth & Co.’s List. Castor and Pollux. JUST PUBLISHED. THEminiature controversy that has been raging in the columns of THENEW AGE upon the relative positions of THE INFAMOUSJOHN FRIEND. Weberand Debussy has come to a littleclimax. Mr. GordonBottomley has pilloried me. I hadhoped that THE INFAMOUSJOHN FRIEND. with my last letter we might have cheerfully agreed to By MRS. R. S. GARNETT. differ upon Weber’smerit, and let the matter end in A Novel of English Life in thetime. of thecorrespondence columns. In that letter, however, Napoleon. a curious misprint crept in ; I used the words “proves Crown 8vo. 6s. nothing except his (Debussy’ç) professed admiration for Weber.”Instead of “professed,”the word“profes- A’ NOVEL OF THE OPEN AIR. sional ” appeared, which, of course,placed my con- tention in a somewhat different fight ; and not only have THE HEART OF A GYPSY. Ibeen accused of havingchanged my ground (a not By ROSAMOND NAPIER. very serious charge), but several things have been said Crown 8vo. 360 pages. 6s. about Weber that I never heard before. At the risk of “ A touching and human story.”-Times. being considered trite, I would still insist that an artist should be judged by his work alone ; and I would, with “ This clever and thoughtfulbook.”--Academy. Mr. Bottomley, prefer to leaveDebussy’s opinions on “ Imaginative and original work.”-Observer, Weber to Debussy.But I go furtherthan Mrs. “ Poetic and mystic imagination.”--MorningPost. Liebich and Mr. Bottomley, and prefer to leave out of “ A living and poignant piece of work.”-Outlook. allconsideration the circumstancesunder which such SECOND IMPRESSION. work is produced. I do not really believe that itis necessary,for instance, in order to judge the poetic JOHN GALSWORTHY’S PLAYS. valueof Milton’s work that one should know he was blind, orthat heliked eating hi’s breakfast at seven STRIFE. o’clock-if that hadbeen his extraordinary habit. And THE SILVER BOX. I do notthink it is of anyimportance to insist that JOY. Weber’sfriends and companions were muchimbued In One Volume. 6s. with the romantic spirit of the age, and that he was in close sympathy withthem; One does not judge Bach’s R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM’S position as a music-maker from the fact that he was the NEW BOOK. father of a very large family, orthat he was very friendly with the Emperor Frederick. One might more FAITH.

easily judgethe ’artistic position of theEmperor “ Here then is a rare book-Mr. Cunninghame Frederick from the fact that he was amicably inclined Graham is of the spiritual race of George Borrow towardsthe composer of theforty-eight fugues. And and Stevenson. His books should lie on the shelf when I said somethingabout Weber running amuck by the side of theirs, being differentyet related, in thefashionable romanticism of themoment, I do similar in kind but distinctive feature.”-Evening in notnecessarily doubt the man’ssincerity. It is con- Standard. ceivably possible that a man may follow a great popular Crown 8vo, 6s. movementin the arts, as Romanticismthen was,. and be quite sincere about it. But it is quite another thing TEE CLOTHING TRADE. to say that he is a Romantic, or a Decadent, or a pre- Raphaelite-as the case may be. MAKERS OF OUR‘ CLOTHES. A case for Trade Boards. And it is,I hold, a very difficult thing, indeed, to prove, as somevain writers have suggested, that By MRS. CARL MEYER and Weber was the founder of the Romantic movement in CLEMENTINA BLACK. music. It isnot sufficient to use the terminology of Demy 8vo. 5s. net. Romanticism as Weber did,when he employed faeries and knights-errant and distressed damsels, ,and all the THE COUNTRY . war-paint of stage romance, and to be the first to use MONTH BY MONTH. them. (I loathe pioneers.) WhenWeber wrote A compendium of knowledge for Natare Loyere. “ Euryanthe ” and“Oberon,” he was talkingabout Romance in the terms of Romance ; he wasn’t creating By J. A. OWEN and Prof. G. S. B0ULGER. Romance, ordoing anything more significant than A New Edition. With Notes by the late saying in music whatother peoplewere sayingbetter LORDLILFORD. in prose and verse. 20 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 6s. net. I am half sorry I hadn’t used the word “profes- sional ” when referring to Debussy’s“professed ” MEMOIRS A admirationfar Weber. If I had, I wouldhave ‘been OF . . statingan even strongercase against Weber than SURREY LABOURER. previously. For Imay quite possiblyhave a fervent By GEORGEBOURNE. professional admirationfor aman who can writean New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net. effective double fuguefor trombones, but it does not, therefore, imply that I haveany desire to learn’ the SOUTH AMERICAN trombone. I mayapplaud the man’s ingenuity, or go into raptures over his profoundlypoetic genius, but it . SKETCHES . . . . doesnot mean that I would toleratethe performance By W. H. HUDSON. of a concertofor trombones in my drawing-room. . A Re-Issue. Cloth, crown 8vo. 1s. net. M. Debussymay write about Weber as much as he likes,he may express unqualified delight ; itwon’t ESSAYS IN FREEDOM. make people like his music any the less or think more highly of Weber’s. As I have said before, nobody can By H. W. NEVINSON. Large crown 8vo. 6s. Ready shortly doubtWeber’s great orchestral skill ; butto many I peoplehis music represents thelast word inboredom DUCKWORTH & CO., 3, HENRIETTA STREET, andirritation. I donot, of course, pretend toexpress COVENT GARDEN,LONDON, W.C. other people’s opinions-my Editor, for instance,may a0 THE -NEW AGE APRIL29, 1904

bean ‘ardent Weberite all the ,tirne-I try feebly to ! it time that some of themillionaires were roped intothe express my own ; and I may say that ever since I was ~ Socialist movement? Apaxt from economicreform, Socialism is mèrelythe propaganda of Beaut andArt; a Ghild, and taken to hear “ Euryanthe ” and “Oberon,” this-class of music has been antipathetic to me. Among hence, thegreatest European artists are Sociazsts. Mil- lionaires are patrons of art ; a fortiori,let thembecome concert-goers, as a crowd, I know of no subject so tabu Socialists. I am convinced of theimportance of a definite as the music of Weber ; I knqw of no art-music so un- appealto the wealthy and well educated classes. To do phpular,and I know of noother subject inwhich the thisproperly, a real organisation is wanted, andfunds are prejudicè of theaverage musician is so justified,and I which gives me, personally, so much satisfaction. I am told on the highest authority that M. Debussy .enjoysbeing placedon the same programme with Weber.This is the Weberite’s trump card. I donot Physicians for one instant dare to doubt his bona. fides, and I will acceptthe suMestion that he really adores Weber. and

(Many extraordinary and perplexing likes and dislikes !, have happened among ‘the creative artists of the world,) I $ive this position over to the enemy cheerfully, and from their visionary standpoint it is certainly a strong Headaches, ’. excuseto listen to Weber and Debussy in thesame evening.Alas, there are still many of us whose tastes Physicianshave diagnosed more than fifty kinds of are not SO “catholic,” who never hear “ Euryanthe ” or “Oberon ” without feeling very unhappy indeed ; and Headaches, and sufferers from the more common forms there are some of us who would much prefer spendïng mayrelieve themselves by locating the cause and an evening at the “Galette.” (You know the place-at treatingthemselves accordingly. As the old Latin the top of the hill?) HERBERTHUGHES. adage says : ‘I When the cause is removed the effect CORRESPONDENCE. must cease.” &V the opinions exfwessed by correskondents, the Editor does not But,as is universally admitted, prevention is ten hold himsev responsible. thousandtimes better than cure, and those who take Corrcsfiondence intended for publicationshodd be a,d&essed to the Editor andwritten oft one side of the baper ody. Vl=COCOA habitually,rarely if ever, suffer from BPEQIAL NOTIQE,-Correspondents are reqz~stedto be brief, headaches.For this valuable food-beverage, though it Many letters weekly are omitted on account of their length. . costsonly sixpence a packet, will maintainall the ‘C SELF-CONSTITUTEDCRITICS.” organs of the body in such a healthy state that they ,TO THE .EDITOROF c( THE NEW AGE.” As the delegate from Walthamstow to wE.om you refer in willperform their varied and multitudinous functions your a!ticle onthe I.L.P. Conference as having used the in the way Nature intended them to do and so keep the expression, cc self-constituted critics,” may I beàllowed to wholesystem free from disease. ~aythat I didnot, and do not,“object yy to any such critics? I simply used the expression tosignify that such You can try it free of expense. Write to critics only spoke for htmselves-that they had constituted themselves critics, and occupied no representative position. The-value of their criticism mustbe judged according1 . This- is.. far fro,m suggesting that no such .criticism shou rd bepermitted, and only personsauthorised by those criti- cised.should be allowed a hearing. You havebeen good enough to interest yourself in theI.L.P., and to give us 12, Henry Street, London, W.C., for a dainty sample what .d&ubt you consider wise counsel to th.e manage- .PO as Tin of Dr, Tibbles’ Vi-Cocoa, free and post paid, It is ’ment’of our. internal - affaïrs and the policy we ought, to pursue. 1 You .will forgive us, however, if we do not attach a plain,honest, straightforward offer. It is done to the meimportance to your counsel, as that of a “self- constituted critic,” as we do to the counsel and criticism introduce the merits of Vi-Cocoa into every home, of . a I representative character, coming either from within our .;rWn .ranks or from without. We are not withoutsome sense of proportion. PAUL CAMPBELL. THEOSOPH’Y. weaccept Mr,Campbell’s apology, and further remark LECTURES BY that THENEW- AGE represents at least twenty thousand Socidkts, mostly excluded from Mr.Campbell’s twig of the I;L.P.-ED. N.A.] Mrs. ANNIE BESANT. . .. , **+ , AT THE THE SOCIALIS,.T SITUATION. ST. JAMES’S HALL, GreatPortland Street, W, TO THE EDITOROF l‘ THE NEW AGE.” On the followlng Sunday evenings, May 16th, 33rd, Therupture in the I.L.P. may resultin a bleeding to June 6th, 13th, zoth, a7th, and July I Ith at death ; that is a possibility which those, on both sides, who 7 p;m. precisely, Doors open at 6.30. havebeen instrumental in causingit, shouldhave con- For Subjects, Sea Handbills. Tickets numbered and reserved, 216 each or 141- the course, 11- sidered.more carefully. The strongestpoint in favour of and 6d. Mr. Grayson .is thathe desired to forceon the Labour Apply : THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING161, SOCIETY, New Bond Party,through the I.L.P., a policywhich will effectively Street, W. (IO to 6, Saturdays IO to 2) at the Hall., distinguish in the mind of the country the former from the or LiberalParty. The strongestpoint against the controlling ~~ and resigning members of the N.A.C. is that they made it NEW LINES OF THOUGHT,~INTERESTINGTO necessary for Mr. Graysonto agitate for theadoption of SOCIAL REFORMERS, such. a policy.. The essentialoutstanding fact isthat neitherside has upheld their respective theories, andthe are opened up by Dr, EILOART’SEssay, “ Shakspere andTolstoy,” 1.L.P. is wastingits energies in internal dissensions. whichtouches on Property, Marriage, and Political Relations, The question to be faced is, what are those ilxdividuals, Published by GARDENCITY PRESS,LTD., Printers, etc,, like myself, .to do who deplore a disruption of any Socialist Letchworth,Herts. 1909. 47 pages. Price ad. organisatidn,and, at the same time, recognise thatthe existing Socialist organisationshave little attraction. for AN EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF WRITING, mqy would-be Socialists of the well educatedclasses? By EDGAR FOSTER, X.A. The S.D.P; and, the 1;L.P. are working-class. organisations. Fourth Edition. ENLARGED.An original System of AbbreviatedLonghand The ‘Fabian SMiety has an innate distrust of speriding time Writing for the use of persons unacquainted with Shorthand. Can be lemned in a con k. of hours. Of great value for making Private Memoranda, taking on politid action ; itprefers a privatepropaganda to a Notes ofI.,ectnres, Writing Sermons, and the like. ublicagitation. Has the momentcome foran aristocratic Price Bd. per copy, post free from Emialist Party?It ismany years since Mr.Shaw wrote J. p. SPR1<3aS, PI, Paternoster Square, London, E.C. Catalogue free. PlClzSC WWM his pamphlet on (ISocialism for MillionaiIes ” ; but is not @PM’, .. APRIL29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 21 needed. TheLiberal and Tory Parties’strength is the generosity of theirfinancial backers; the weakness of the Socialistmovement isthe comparative stinginess of the THE wealthySocialists (and there are many; there are several millionairesamong them) ingiving a financial basis for suchan organisation. THE NEW AGE has proved itself, on the whole, a capableand satisfactory organ for the educated Socialist and open-mindednon-Socialist. It is a ANTI-SOCIALIST safemaxim that papers should not formpolitical parties; butthat they should represent their essential, principles. Thearistocratic Socialist Partymight be debated in your Starts in the MAY Number columns; it should notbe officially formed by THE NEW AGE. We can then best tell what is the real truth about the thousands of educatedand well-to-do Socialists who are ready to band themselves together in advancing Socialism. Personally, I challengetheir existence. Inthe meanwhile, however, theSocialist politicians squabbleand squabble ; it is a melancholyspectacle, except forour opponents. Must we really wait untilthe deaths of Mr. KeirHardie, CONFESSIONS Mr. Shaw, Mr. Hyndman,Mr. Blatchford, Mr. Sidney Webb, Mr. Quelch, and Mr. Macdonald removethe OF obstacles to unification? If so, what is thereleft to the Socialist men of action outside the present Socialist organi- sations but to devote their energies to something else? A DISCONTENTEDSOCIALIST. *** A CHALLENGE. SOCIALIST TO THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.’” Ihave received severalrequests toallow myself to be A nominated for the N.A.C. From the Pen of a brilliant I havedeclined, on thegrounds that the resignations shouldnot beaccepted, butthat the quartette shouldbe given theopportunity of returning,penitent, to the fold. Socialist Writer. I would, however, modify this position, in order to elicit, if possible, a definiteopinion of the party on the question of democraticcontrol, as opposed to theImperialist policy pursued by the Junta during the last few years. If a member of theJunta, or anyone representing its policy (except Keir Hardie, with whom, from my regard and ANTI-SOCIALIST, reverence, I will not ut myself inopposition), will stand, I will gladly enter the lists against him. A MONTHLY REVIEW W. My deliberatepurpose in standing at Huddersfield and Edinburgh was to reverse, if possible, thecentralising policy of the last few years, which has producedsuch PRICE ONE PENNY. discordin the party, and disaster at the polls. I would stand for the following principles :- Thecontrol of theParliamentary policy andpublic appearances of I.L.P. members of Parliament by the party, MANCHESTER FABIAN SOCIETY, or a committeeelected by the party. Decentralisation of executive power, and devolution of as much of the business as is practical to Federal Councils. Mr. &Mrs. SIDNEY WEBB Restoration of local autonomy to the branches in election WILL SPEAK ON policy, givingthem freedom torun candidates when the THE POOR LAW COMMISSION’S REPORT ,local L.R. C. haddeclined to do so, providingthey raised AT THE the funds locally and legitimately; freedom to designate such candidatesby any title; freedom to support the candidate MEMORIAL HALL, -ALBERT SQ., MANCHESTER, of anyother Socialist organisation,providing the local On THURSDAY, APRIL 29th, 8 p.m. L.R.C. had decided not to contest. The I.L.P. members of the Labour Party executive to be Mr. CHARLES ROWLEY, M.A., J.P., in the Chair. instructed not to agree to any condition limiting the freedom Admission 6d. Reserved Seats 2s. of the I.L.P. in the above matters. Tickets from Mrs. GORDON,13 Highfield Road, Chorlton-cum- I will gladly enter on a contest for the above principles Hardy : or from the Hon Secretary, Arthur Hughes, 8 Rosebery which the branches once possessed, but of which they have Street, Moss Side. now been deprived. Will any member of the Junta take up the challenge? A Pamphlet Everyone Should Read. They have come out “ to fight down and fight out ’’ demo- cracy iathe I.L.P. Here is a chancefor them. H. RUSSELLSMART. A Solution of the *** MR. HERBERTHUGHES, WEBER,DEBUSSY. Unemployed Problem, To THE EDITOR OF “ THENEW AGE.” By THOMAS SMITH, F.R.H.S. In his articlein your last issue uponthe subject of his (Superintendent of the Fels Small Holdings, Maylad, Essex.) own songs, Mr. Herbert Hughes says : “Gentle readers, you will, I hope, forgive this perfectly gratuitous advertisement.” No, we will not. There was no excuse for it. PRICE ONE PENNY. And, while I am about it, I may as well say that we have Usual Terms to Branches and the Trade. had enough of Mr. Hughes’snotions on Weber. Obviously, Mr. Hugheshas a knowledge andgenuine appreciation of To be obtained of the TWENTIETHCENTURY PRESS, LIMITED, music immensely surpassing that of the average critic; but 37a. Clerkenwell Green, E.C , and of the Author. thisequipment gives him no right to cut capers. There is only one adjective for hiscriticism of Weber : it is absurd. It does not deserveanswering. Mr. Hughesmight as use- fullydecry Byron as Weber. An occasional private absurdityis charming, or, at least, forgivable;but when inpublic Mr. Hughes ineffectively assaultsthe reputation of a man whom generations of greatcreative artists have agreed to consider a great creative artist, he is insufferably tedious. He seems to regard musical criticism for THENEW AGE asin the nature of a’gorgeous lark. Let him pull himself together, and try to be worthy of himself. On Monday there is a concert of works by Maurice Revel 22 THE NEW AGB APRIL29, 1909

andFlorent Schmitt, two distinguishedyoung modern went alone intothe manager’s office totake out another French composers whom I greatlyadmire. I hopethat in contract for more work, have the door locked behind them, praisingthem Mr. Hughes will be ableto refrain from with no one in the room but themselves and the manager, asserting casually that Bach and Beethoven were a couple a manover forty years of age.Mothers working atthe cu ckoos. ARNOLD BENNETT.ARNOLD of cuckoos. sameplace havewinked at thistreatment of theirgirls. Y** Whetherit was that theydid notcare, or fearedto lose “ THE JURY DISAGREED.” theiremployment, I cannot say. TO THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.” Pregnant women have worked as near to the time as ever Surely Mr. Hughes is making a lot of pother oververy theydared, and when the childhas come, itmay have little ! He seems surprisedthat the Londoncritics should lived a few daysor a few months then died. Forits own hold different views as to his musical talent and the worth sake,death came as a blessing, but a damned bad jobits of his songs. Why? Shouldthey all hold thesame souldid not stay andhaunt the peopleresponsible forits opinion? And why, afterinviting criticism,should he creation into their graves. S. W. enterinto a longand elaborate defence? ** * Presumably, he has yet to learn the value of the opinion WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. of the average daily paper critic. TO THE EDITOROF “THE NEW AGE.” Mr. Hughes should be thankful the hostilities came from May I be permitted to amend a sentence in Mr. G R. S. English,and not German, papers; otherwise, he would Taylor’s article on the Suffrage movement in your issue of havehad avery much worse time. I, for my part (if I the 15th inst. He states that the “great business ” of suffra- may be allowed tomention my own case), feel somewhat gists “is to settle on an effective and united election policy.” angry (annoyed, at least) whenever any ordinary critic ex- It seems tome that he would better have expressed our need, presses sympathy for any musical work of my own ! and explained our situation, if he had written “an effective Mr. Hughesmust really cultivatea stronger conviction and united general election policy.” inthe value of his own music, orelse a keener sense of Untilsuch apolicy has beendecided upon I do not humour. And onepoint more; whatdoes hemean by imaginethat any thinking suffragist cancontemplate the sayingthat the quality of “ singableness ” is largely out comingGeneral Election with anythingbut foreboding- of fashion in art songs? since without it we shall be in a parlousstate, indeed. What are “art songs ” ? The “again the Government ” tactics of the militant section I have heard so muchabout modern songsthat are im- must necessarily fall to the ground when no Government possible tosing that I shouldlike to find some. I wish exists to be “ agin ” ; while theconstitutional party will Mr. Hughes could help me. EDWARDAGATE. probably find itself-for lack of anyalternative, and not ** * without searching of heart--in its accustomed, and somewhat THE CO-OPERATIVE BANKS MOVEMENT. TO THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.” The reviewer of my handbook on “People’s Co-operative Banks ” in your columns states that the fault of the system Delicious Ovaltine is which it explains is that it is based upon the ignoranceof the ‘perfectly digestible, every atom of it borrower, and adds that the book aptly illustrates “how the Moreover, every grain of it is pure monied classgets a holdupon the working class through food--the concentrated essence of all the latter’s ignorance of simple arithmetic.” that is nourishing and fortifying. It Every movement forthe betterment of thepeople must lis the Ideal Breakfast Beverage when mixed with hot milk, takeinto consideration average ignorance. If it does this or milkand water without boiling. Its ingredients speak for themselves :-Cocoa, Milk, Eggs. and Malt Extract ; it with theobject of enlighteningthis ignorance, it is to be also contains the greatest nerve and brain tonic in the world, commended. If it is to exploit it, it should be condemned. viz., active Lecithin. I claim, and have endeavoured to prove in my book, that the People’sCo-operative Banks movement hasthe former object. It is a complete mistake to imagine that it is a movement for assisting the monied class to get a hold upon the working class. THE NEW LIQUID Genuine Co-operative Banksare societies controlled by FOOD their own membersintheir own interest.They are is equally beneficial to adults, children and convalescents. thoroughly democratic and co-operative, and seek to educate their members in brotherly business principles. FREE SAMPLE. Send Id. stamp for enough to make 4 HENRY C. DEVINE. cupfuls, to N. A. WANDER, Ph.D., I & 3, Leonard -** * Street, City Road, London, E C. SOCIALISM AND MR. CHESTERTON. TO THE EDITOROF “ THE NEW AGE.’’ ManySocialists who were previously Chestertonians would be grateful for an answer to some such questions as these :- CREMATION. Seeingthat four-fifths of “public opinion ” is formed and confirmedby newspapers, would that opinionbe in REDUCED CHARGES. any way changed if, letus say, Mr. Harmsworth ceased to control two vast sections of it through the “ Daily Mail ” CHEAPER THAN EARTH BURIAL. andthe “ Times ” ? If themass of the people had more leisure, would their criticism of thepublic Press be more PARTICULARS FREE. acute?Would our oligarchybe entrenched so securely in the affections of the people if there existed forty papers JOHN R. WILDMAN as honest, let us say, as THE NEWAGE? If the poor are the finest class, will they become less fine 40, MARCHMONT STREET, LONDONW.C if we givethem as much money asthe middle class? Is Telephone :HOLBORN 5049. Telegrams “ EARTHBORN,LONDON.“ therean ideal towards which all classes shouldconverge?. Has not the thought of this ideal a lot to do with the dis- content of manySocialists with all classes, including their own andthat of thepoor? Must Mr. Chesterton always stop outside the only movement which is aimingat that FITS FITS FITS ideal, which noclass at present has a decentchance of realising?Will he not come aboardour car, and do some of the guiding, instead of sitting down in our path? ALL PERSONS SUFFERING from EPILEPSY or HYSTERIA R. W. TALBOTCox. should sendname and address toJAMES OSBORNE, Medical ** * Pharmacy Ashbourne, Derbyshire, who will forward, free of charge particular; (with Testimonials and, on receipt of 4d. for postage, full! COST OF CHEAPNESS. size FREE TRIAL BOTTLE), of the most successful remedv ever TO THE EDITOROF “THENEW AGE.’’ discovered for these distressmg maladies. Sent to all parts of the world I noticed inthe article, “HOW muchcheap millinery BEAUTiFUL HEALTH AND HOLIDAY HOME, costs,’: that seductions were carried on by men in authority Altitude 600ft over thevarious departments, in the factory referred to. Magnificent scenery of Dean Forest, Severn and Wye Valleys, When I saw this, itmade me wonder how muchthe pro- Spacious. House, 25 bedrooms, grounds 5 acres, billiard and bath duce of every industry costs where women are employed. I rooms, tennis, conveyance. Vegetarians accommodated. Socialist haveseen girls in the mill where I used to work, herein rendezvous. Board-Residence from 29/- Photos, particulars, the North, fifteen and sixteen years of age, when they CHAS,Hallam, Littledean House, Newnham Glos. APRIL 29, 1909 THE NEW AGE 23 undignified,position of supporting“friends “ of thetype have been lamentin . As he is politically dead; it is no use of the 420 returnedto the present House of Commons. rebuking him for the form and matter of hiscriticism. There is a rumour-it is only as a rumour that I allude to It isreally absurd to expect meto delve into literature it-thatone organisationintends to devote itsenergies to of nineyears ago to justify a well known fact. Mr. Sharp opposingthe return of outgoingCabinet Ministers; but if should read some contemporaryaccounts of the siege of. sucha course be followed, onefears that the victory (if Kimberley, I 899-1900. C. H. NORMAN. obtained) will be attributed to Dreadnoughts, Tariff Reform, ** * championship of the House of Lords-anything rather than the efforts of the suffrage party. POETIC STUFF. Be it remembered that while the various women’s organi- sations are able to descend in force upon one constituency, TO THE EDITOROF “ THE NEW AGE.” they will hardly be ableto descend inforce upon several If THE NEW AGE will publish verse for the entertainment hundreds at thesame time. Itis obvious, therefore, that of its readers, why not give the writer of it instructions to a General Election policy which is to stand any chance of deal with current events? success must be one which, while bringingthe question As for instance, before thecountry as a clear issue, permits of concen- NIGHTMARES tration of effort incertain quarters, i.e., incertain given Lastnight a vision came to me, constituencies. I thought I joined the I.L.P., It seems to methe duty of everysuffragist toface the And criticised the N.A. C., difficulty of thecoming General Election; and the duty And, O, but theydid bellow! of someat least amongst them to bring pressure to bear TheGodlets of the I.L.P. upon the executives of their various societies-which, so far Were very shortand rude with me, as can be gathered,are showing nogreat eagerness to That I should carpthe N.A.C., grapple with thequestion. Yet it is theone thing that And cause the fools to bellow! matters-since the present Parliament is moribund, and it is They put a rope about myneck, really with the next that we have to deal-that we ought to Agood, stoutrope about my neck, be dealing already. It is no use spending too much energy And all their Godships hauled . . O, Heck ! in flogging a dead horse. It would pay us better, if neces- They hauled as they did bellow. sary, to drop every sort of presentagitation, even parti- They hauled me on to Liberty, cipationin bye-elections, ratherthan run the risk of un- The Liberal land of Liberty- preparedness for thecoming contest. For if we areunpre- And here the Godlings (( anchored” me, pared we shall very surely be swamped by amultiplicity of Where I “ abide ” and bellow. interests. Thesuffragist’s voice may be neither stillnor FREDL. BILLINGTONGREIG. small ; butTariff Reformers, Labour men, andBig and Little Englanders can also makethe deuce of a row when theyare all let loosetogether. CICELYHAMILTON. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. ** * Advertisements are inserted in this column at the following cheap Prepaid Rates Ont 6 13 26 TO THE EDITOROF “ THE NEW AGE.” Insert Insert Insert. Insert. l6 words 1 ’- 5/- 10/6 17/- To an outsider in the Colonies, THE NEW AGE, in com- 24 1/6- 7/6 15/9 25/6 32 “ 2/- 10- 21/- 34/- mon with asection of the British Press which favoursfull 40 ,, 2/6 12/6 28/6 42/6 citizenship for women in common with men, appears to 48 ,, 3/- 15- 31/6 51/- darken counsel by words without wisdom. Cash must accompany order and advertisements must be received not later than first post Monday morning for same week’s issue The chief grievance calling for prompt redress is not the Trade Advertisements arc not inserted at these rates. suffragequalification generally, so much as the disqualifi- Remittancesand orders should be sent to the Manager, THE NEW AGE, cation on account of sex : the keeping of woman outside the i 12-14. Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London.. pale because she is not man. Take a concrete case. As mattersstand the New Palaceat Westminster is simply ALL SUMMER OUTDOORS FOR LONDONERS!-Waterloo (54s. quarterly), twenty minutes.--family CAMP, Dltton, Surbiton. and solelya Phallic temple, themace is theemblem, the Particulars free. Speaker is thehigh priest, Messrs. Asquith andGladstone are priests-in-ordinary, the police are the lictors--and right BOARD AND EDUCATION FOR GIRLS.-Home in connection with Classes for Dag-pupils. Vacancies. Healthful diet on brutally dothese performtheir odiousfunctions. I have humanitarian principles.-The Misses MESSIEUX,Oak Dene, Hayward’s Heath, not seen theBill now before theHouse drafted “ to meet Sussex, thePrime Minister’s views,” butsurely the first, and only present,step is to remove theexisting pagan blotfrom FRENCH RIVIERA.- Boarders received for winter, sunny comfortable house. Terms moderate.-Lea Charmettes-Ermigate Antibes. British law. ALP-Mar.) The deputation of M.P’s. that “ waited on Mr. Asquith ” last session, gotthe red herring they were looking for, HOUSING QUESTION-SOLVED.-Why not enter your own house ln an district at once? NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED. Re re- and which has done duty ever since. Here, we would have sentatives may receive deedswithout further payment ln case of death--Write calledthat episode a put-up-job ; it was nothing else, for particulars J. C., 177a, Longley Road, Tooting, S.W. although itseems to have served itspurpose in deceiving W. GOTT, Wholesale Tailor, 28, Church Bank, Bradford, Mrs. Fawcettand her coterie. Seeingshe invited Mr. J. who makes suits for thousands of Socialist Comrades in all parts of the Asquith’s gramophone, Mr. Lloyd George, to grind out the Country will gladly send samples and self measurement form of his famous “ NEW AGE SUITS to measure price 41s. All made under TradeUnion same twaddle at a recent meeting of women, Whig Jingoes, conditions. (Spare time Agents Wanted.) and others, Mr. George must have called tomind another meeting of his atBirmingham, when Mr. Chamberlain’s PIONIRA LIBREJO ESPERANTO, 46b Hackford Road, Brixton, London, for Esperanto Literature. Student’s Instruction Book- lambs paid their respects to him. It is true that at Birming- Set 7d. post free. ham a life was lost and the town hall wrecked, but in the latter case the violence was as brutal, and the victims were RAILWAY CLERKS AND STATIONMASTERS should join their TradeUnion, the Railway Clerks’ Associatlon. Established 1897. educated,earnest women, pleadingfor the common rights Affiliated to English, Irish and.Scottish Trades Union Congresses. Good of their sex. Doubtlessthey should feel thankfulthat the Benefits. Send postcard for particulars to A. G. WALKDEN, General Secretary,. chuckers-out confined themselves torending the ladies’ 337, Gray’s Inn Road, London, W.C. DO IT NOW. clothes, with accompanyingmild assaults, and didnot HE SPIRITUALITY OF THE BIBLE PROVED BY THE forcibly carry them out feet uppermost, nor turn them over T SPIRIT OF TRUTH. to roughs for indecent assault outside,as in former instances. ZION’S WORKS, wlth Catalogue, in Free Llbraries. And these militant ladies are suffering thus because, for- O SUBLET or SUBLEASE, Furnished or Unfurnished, sooth, they are “not playing the game.” The proper way to T convenient and wel1-placed Flat in Gray’s Inn, overlooking the gardens. playthe game is to promise anything on thehustings, to Five rooms ; Bath; Electrlc light, etc.-Apply, Box AI, NEW AGE speak strongly atpublic meetings and in the House, and TYPEWRITING.-AuthorsMSS. neatly typed. 9d. per 1000 thereafter to connive at backstairs’obstruction, count-outs, words. Carbon COpies, 3d. per 1000 words. Prompt delivery.--Miss talk-outs,and suchlike. Make no mistake ! Woman is WINIFRED LESLIE,19, Balaclava Road, Bermondsey, S.E. now the under dog, and the Whig Jingoes, their aiders and TYPEWRITING.- Expert typist wants work in order to raise abettors,mean keepto her there. A CANADIAN. funds to enable him to carry on more vigorous propaganda. Terms to Socialists, 8d. par 1,ooo.--F.K. 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