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A WEEKLY REVIEW OF POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND ART

No. 742 series Vol. IV. No. 5 THURSDAY, Nov. 26, 1908. [registered at G.P.O.]ONE PENNY

CONTENTS, PAGE To OUR READERS . . . .,...... 81 A LITERARY SUPPLEMENT...... NOTES OF THE WEEK . . . .., ...... 81 India Impressions ...... 1 ARMS AND THE MAN. By Victor Grayson, M.P...... Present Day Socialism ...... 2 84 Little People . . . ,,...... 2 ADVANCE OR STAGNATION . . . 85 NANSON. By Aaron Watson...... THE FUTURE OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY ...... 86 THE BRAWLING BROTHERHOOD. By Edmund B. d’Auvergne 91 AT RANDOM. By Peter Pan...... 87 ON KNOWING ONE’S PLACE. By W. R. Titterton...... 92 THE COMMUNISATION OF SOUP. By Chris Healy. 1:: . . . 88 BOOKS AND PERSONS. By Jacob Tonson . . . .., 94 THE SOLEMN SPOOFER. By G. K. Chesterton. . . , *.. 89 BOOK OF THE WEEK: Recent Verse. By F. S. Flint :; THE PATHOS OF THE POLL. By A, W. Humphrey. . . . 90 CORRESPONDENCE : Mr. Grayson and Mr. Henderson . . . 97 NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.--All Business Com- NOTES OF THE WEEK. munications must be addressed to Publisher, " New Age,” 139, Fleet Street, E.C. ; communications for the Editor to 1 & 2 WERE we convinced that we have now not only the Took’s Court, Furnival Street, E.C. . latest but the last Education Bill we should examine it in some detail ; but we may expect “ another four, and more, and more and more.” The Government is To Our Readers. here entirely to blame. We were all getting on rather nicely under Mr. Balfour’s Act. It was not reason- WE beg to draw the earnest attention of our readers able ; it did not accept the facts, but we never expect and friends to the Prospectus of the proposed NEW AGE the Government to have respect for the facts of life. LIMITED COMPANY which we print on another page. Everyone knew that neither the parents nor the chil- dren, except religious zealots like Roman Catholics, Since our notice of October 24 the prospects of the Jews, and Extreme Secularists, cared a brass farthing paper have enormously improved. Thanks largely, we as to the quality of the religious instruction that ob- do not doubt, to the efforts of our readers, the circula- tained in the schools ; all sensible people recognised tion of THE NEW AGE has increased within the last five that whatever the nature of that religious teaching, the weeks by six thousand, making a circulation for the bulk of the children in our towns grew up to be entirely current week of 22,000 copies. In addition, as our indifferent, i.e., nominally accepted Christianity with- readers have observed, we have twice been compelled to out bothering themselves one way or the other. (Of course, this is not a Christian country.) But the issue a Literary Supplement to accommodate the in- Government would not let bad alone, but must needs crease of advertisements in our columns. make it worse. Under these circumstances we do not hesitate to say * 0 * that the tone of our Prospectus errs considerably (as There are two terms in the Education Bill to which we are willing that it should) on the side of under- educationalists must take exception. Clause 3 allows statement of the actual position. In fact, the total assistant-teachers in all schools to volunteer to give reli- prospects of the undertaking are considerably brighter gious instruction on two mornings in the week if they are permitted by the local education authority. In than the Prospectus itself conveys. practice this will simply mean that any assistant- In view, however, of the hundred and one schemes teacher who does not so volunteer when wanted will not we have in mind, both for the improvement of THE NEW be appointed or that some excuse will be found for his AGE and for the increased activity of the New Age dismissal. If any religious body desires to give de- Press, it-is necessary that a certain amount of working nominational teaching it should be required to supply its capital should be provided. These schemes include the own teachers. We know that many teachers object to this right of entry, but until this country brings its establishment of THE NEW AGE as the foremost weekly teaching into accord with its practice we see no hope journal of independent Socialist, literary, political, and of secular education. Teachers are still to be coerced intellectual discussion ; the creation of a central depot into giving religious instruction in conformity with the in London for the production, distribution, and ex- Cowper-Temple clause ; the number of teachers who change of the most advanced literature of the day ; and object to this, quite as much as to any other form of the organisation of the entire reform movement for the religious instruction, although rapidly increasing, is not purpose of intellectual fraternisation. yet strong enough to resist unfair pressure that is put We hereby invite our readers to co-operate with us upon them in this free country. Roman Catholic schools, etc., having at least 30 children in attendance in these undertakings, if only to the extent of a single and not situated in a single-parish school, will receive share. And we may add that as regards the proposed an Exchequer grant if the standard of efficiency is as means there is no time to be lost. The first lists of the high as the Council schools. In practice this will mean proposed NEW AGE COMPANY will statutorily close on overwork and underpayment of the teachers, antiquated December 10. We therefore beg to urge intending school-buildings with over-crowded classes, the ruin of subscribers to act at once. the health of the Roman Catholic children. We sup- 82 ThE NEW AGE NOVEMBER 26, 1908

pose it is on the whole better that the bodies of the frequently displays. A member approached the Presi- dent of the Local Government Board with the query, teachers and children suffer than adopt secular educa- ‘ Ought I to come to you, Mr. Burns, or to Mr. Master- tion, allowing all religious bodies to provide their par- man on a question of water supply? ’ With a flash of ticular brand of irreligion outside school hours. This the eye, Mr. Burns retorted merrily, ‘ My curate does would be too logical a solution. the baptisms ! ’ ” * * 46 * + * A pretty convention is a-growing between the Tory However, ex-Socialists and judges are not our only and Liberal Parties that our Foreign and Imperial humorists. Tory M.P. ‘s can sparkle on occasion. policy must be continuous. Said Mr. Balfour at Car- Witness Mr. F. E. Smith who, on the clause in the Licensing Bill which proposes to close public-houses on diff : “ I rejoice to think that foreign politics are likely election days, daintily observed : “ The voice of the to be entirely outside the sphere of party controversy.” people was the voice of God, but it spoke with a hic- The more reason, of course, for those who do not look cup. ” We opine that Mr. Smith has been lately re- upon politics as a game to be watchful of Britain’s reading “ The Mistakes of Moses,” “ The Ways of Imperial policy. The aim of Mr. Balfour’s amiability God ” -the literature that has fed so many who have is not far to seek. Foreign and Colonial policy is a craving for knowledge and for recognition as broad spirits. practically in the hands of the big financiers, who have * * * risen immeasurably in power under the present reign. The most encouraging item in the statement issued The Ministers are merely the puppets who obey the by the Anti-Socialist Union is that it will contain an strings pulled by the King and the financiers. There Intelligence Department. People are to be trained in is no difficulty in withholding all serious information the elements of economics and politics. This is a move from the people until the political coups are brought in the right direction, for our greatest difficulty is the off ; for the art of lying among Parliamentarians is in profound ignorance of our opponents. The cost of direct ratio to propinquity to the Front Benches. educating them has been heretofore borne by Socialist organisations. Grounded in economics and history, we When curiosity is unusually rife it is staved off by hints shall be able to make converts with some facility. The of mysterious dangers menacing our lands-“ I could A.-S. Union will have several classes fitted to the capa- an’ I would.” This was the case in the Denshawai city of their students. The Duke of Rutland, Mr. affair, in Natal, in the Russian visit. Home affairs, it Claude Lowther, and Sir Thomas Wrightson will pro- would seem, are regarded by Mr. Balfour as at once bably be classified according to rank, others according of minor importance and uninfluenced by our Imperial to attainment. The insect-house, we are informed, has three mantises, or soothsayers, policy. Speaking of foreign affairs, he went on : “ In several new arrivals ; have been presented. Persons interested will have a no case shall we aim at any party advantage to the good opportunity of seeing how they seize and hold discomfiture of the national policy of the country.” their prey. These insects are fed on rose-leaves, and Apparently, then, he would not object to a party advan- are so voracious that in some parts of the world they tage, say if it casually drove the people more readily off are decided pests. the land to sweep them into the towns, or if it merely * + + led to the starvation of school children. These are Every woman is at heart a servant-if she belongs to not questions of national policy. the working classes ; that is the opinion of ladies when * * + they discuss the question of women’s employment. Miss Clementina Black deals vigorously with one side of this Mr. Ramsay Macdonald admits that there is a fairly ignorant view in an article on Unemployed Women in widespread feeling that the’ House of Commons is the “ Daily News ” of November 20th. “ The fact merely wasting time by not dealing with the unem- that there exists an unsupplied demand for domestic ployment question. But he maintains that the Labour servants has very little bearing on the case : widows with children, wives with sick husbands, daughters with Party has adopted the best method to make the Govern- aged parents, cannot go and live under the roof of an ment take action. Seeing that the Government has employer ; and these three groups supply a large pro- done nothing at all, Mr. Macdonald becomes his own portion of the unemployed among women. ” “ Domestic most destructive critic. There is no objection to a service can never absorb more than a very small propor- Labour Party like the present one acting as a Left tion of the women out of work at any given moment.” Wing of the Government, but the Socialists demand Miss Black finds the experiment carried on in the St. something more vigorous than this ; there is room for’ Pancras tailoring workroom for unemployed women, that with “ very little real help, in the way of providing both the Labour Party and for a Socialist Party that well-fitted factories under public control, where the shall present Socialism to the country from the House tailoring work for public institutions could be carried on of Commons. Mr. Macdonald prophesies that in 1909 throughout the year- and independent of seasonal in- there will be a Session free for social legislation. Three fluences-we could regulate this trade so as to train and years ago the Labour Party was insistent on immediate employ at decent wages a number of unemployed social legislation ; now a year or so is of minor im- women. ” All measures deserve a welcome that will portance ; thus the Labour Party falls into line with the open up fields of employment for women, enabling those in whom, all sense of chivalry is not lost to drive women other orthodox parties. We are willing to admit that out of domestic slavery. Parliamentary life “ is at best a hard drudgery.” + * + But what is life for the unemployed who are not in The slow decay of feudalism in our land has polluted Parliament? The Socialists in the House are indeed whatever it had of merit, of grace ; the most revolting completely out of touch with Socialist feeling in this and degrading service it has handled on to, us is that of country. They were wanted to promote Socialism, not servants. On the material side alone the system is rife temperance legislation. with abuse ; only a very small proportion of servants is * * * sufficiently fed, a still smaller proportion is at all de- cently housed, none is adequately paid. We would it Mr. John Burns has been at pains to sustain our were in the power of the Medical Officer of Health to view that if once having entertained the doctrines of inspect the sleeping and living accommodation provided Socialism you later abjure them, there ensues a revival for the servants. In some of the most extravagant of humour. We take this example of wit from houses the servants are slept in what are little better than cupboards, without sufficient light or ventilation. “ Pictures in Parliament ” :- P.W.W.‘s These evils of the large majority are not compensated “ I am allowed to tell a delightful little story which by overfeeding in some few establishments. But apart illustrates the facility for retort which Mr. Burns SO from this, what a degradation, of life it is that for pay- NOVEMBER 26, 1908 THE NEW AGE 83

ment the whole personal life of any woman should be We call the attention of our readers to the above surrendered to an employer. That she shall have no letter and we hope that many will attend the protest private life of her own, that she shall not be able to meeting. There is some hope that pressure may be entertain her “ followers ” and friends when she will, brought to bear upon the authorities, so that cocoa that grown women must ask permission to go out, that drinkers may not feel themselves abettors of the horrors she must wear the cap and streamers of bondage, that depicted by Mr. Nevinson and others. But the state not any hours in the day shall be entirely her own to of affairs is not different in our British Colonies. Re- dispose of just as she lists. These are the conditions cruiting for the gold mines of the Transvaal is carried that the vast majority of women have to submit to out by all kinds of trickery and brutality, The natives when they enter service- the entire loss of control of are ignorant of the conditions of servitude to which they their body and soul. Any occupation is better than this are binding themselves. The mortality among the most loathsome service-degrading to the servant and natives in the Rand mines is enormous, as Colonel Seely dishonouring to employer. Meantime, a Trade Union admitted a few days ago. The mines are quite as un- for Women Servants might help in the abolition of healthy as is the climate in the cocoa plantations. some of the grosser material ills. Chinese slavery has had its day, but for all practical 8 * * purposes the negro-slavery still exists under the British Sir,-During the last six or seven years public attention flag. It will prevail until the recruiting of native labour has been drawn from time to time to the slavery still exist- is prohibited, until the mines are rendered healthy, until ing in the Portuguese colony of Angola, on the West Coast the compound system is abolished and the wages of Central Africa, and to the similar system for supplying brought up to the white man’s standard. Then the labour to the Portuguese islands of San Thomé and Prin- mines will not pay ; dividends are cheaply earned at the cipe, in the Gulf. The suspicions that had arisen from the expense of a few niggers. accounts of our own consuls and various travellers have * u unhappily been confirmed by Mr. Henry Nevinson’s book on his visit to Angola and the islands three years ago, and An interesting sidelight on this subject is thrown by by the recently published report of Mr. Joseph Burtt, who was a recently-issued Blue-book on the Transvaal Govern- specially sent out by three British cocoa firms and one ment’s proposal to recruit native labour in Madagascar German to investigate the question. for the mines. The Transvaal Ministry, in its first The evidence thus furnished prevents any doubt that, Minute, points out all the advantages that will apart from legal terms and Government regulations which are not observed, the system of working the sugar, sweet- accrue to Madagascar from employment in the mines, potato, and coffee plantations on the mainland and but carefully avoids mentioning that any advantage will the wood plantation on the islands is identical with be gained by the natives themselves. Contracts were slavery. The natives are obtained by purchase, cap- to be entered into, but with this difference from the ture, or trickery, in the interior, are brought down to the Chinese, that the Madagascar natives were to be allowed coast in gangs, usually tied together at night with wooden to remain in the Transvaal if they desired to after the shackles, are sold to recognised agents in the coast towns, termination of their bondage. The Governor-General of and those that are destined for the islands are labelled and Madagascar, however, stated that “ not a single native despatched in the ordinary steamers, running about once shall leave the country to go, abroad.” a fortnight. By this means an increasing supply of This was like- labourers for the islands is maintained, and the number wise the view of the French Government. We wonder of natives exported annually, which averaged 4,000 three why ? Does the French Government object to slavery years ago, has now reached nearly 5,000. The consent of when when it is called by another name? the natives is hardly even nominal, and they are sold at a + u + recognised price. The climate in the cocoa plantations is “ The Captain of the School, in knee breeches and very unhealthy, and in the first year many die of home- sickness and misery. Our Consular Reports describe the silk stockings, stepped forward and presented an death-rate as “ enormous.” So far none of the (( servicaes ” address to the King on behalf of present Etonians.” (as they are called) has ever returned. As Mr. Burtt says at We have always maintained that true education is the end of his report, “If this is not slavery, I know of no something other than a mere business of instruction ; word in the English language which correctly characterises that it should include the arts of eating and particularly it. ” of dress is part of our creed. We are gratified to dis- The publication of this report by the cocoa firms through cover this ideal carried out at one of our public schools, the Anti-Slavery Society appears to us to demand further but we do lament the paucity of detail that is vouchsafed public action. We are aware that the subject has been us about the Captain’s attire. discussed in private meetings, and that a pamphlet has been What colour were the issued by the secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society silk stockings ? How were the knee breeches buckled? reviewing its whole history ; also that the Foreign Office And the upper part of the body? Was it left natural has made representations to the Portuguese Government. or dyed with woad? The King was “ most gratified We are convinced that the hands of our own Government, by your loyal and dutiful address “-not beautiful dress, the above-mentioned societies, and possibly even the Portu- as one newspaper pointed out. Then the unhappy guese Government itself, will be strengthened in suppressing martyr went on with an allusion to his own sufferings : this abominable traffic if the wide support of British public ‘ Whatever may be your subsequent careers, you all opinion is gained. have the opportunity of leaving Eton trained in the It is proposed, therefore, to hold a public meeting for the discussion of the, subject at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on knowledge and accomplishments of English gentlemen, Friday, December 4th, at half-past three p.m., when Mr. and disciplined to the self-restraint, the consideration J. St. Loe Strachey has kindly promised to preside. One of For others, and the loyal acceptance of private and our country’s noblest achievements has been the abolition public duties, which are ideals of our race.” (A word of human slavery, and we invite the attendance of all who to these young stars : England expects every man to view with horror the continuance of a system under which have an ideal, but never to practise it.) The accom- men, women, and children are bought and sold for labour. plishments of English gentlemen, such as running with -Yours, etc., the beagles ; the consideration for others, such as allow- SAMUEL A. BARNETT. ing them to starve instead of ourselves. Eton must C. BIRMINGHAM. flourish. . H. R. FOX BOURNE (Aborigines Protection * + + Society). TRAVERS BUXTON (British and Foreign Anti- The refusal of Messrs. Hyndman and Grayson to Slavery Society). speak on the same platform with Mr. Hardie is cer- JOHN GALSWORTHY. tainly a sharp reminder to Mr. Hardie that he cannot ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS. expect to continue running with the hare while hunting ROBERT F. HORTON. with the hounds. On three memorable occasions with- LEONARD T. HOBHOUSE. RUDOLPH C. LEHMANN. in the last eight months Mr. Keir Hardie has as good J. RAMSAY MACDONALD. as said that he was prepared to lead the I.L.P. out GILBERT MURRAY. of the Labour alliance unless something more vigorously HENRY W. NEVINSON. Socialist was done by the Labour Party. No sooner C. P. SCOTT. had the only Socialist member in the House of Commons J. ST. LOE STRACHEY taken him at his word, and created a scene which as a H. G. WELLS matter of cool fact has attracted more attention to the 84 THE NEW AGE NOVEMBER 26, 1908 problem of the unemployed than all the debates of the any single question. If I wished to speak on any ques- Labour Party put together, than Mr. Hardie, both with tion before the House, I had to make my own arrange- the Labour Party and on his own account, emphatically ments and take my chance. On the visit of the King to dissociated himself from that action. And this repudia- the Czar I was quite frankly suppressed and Mr. Keir tion he followed up by a series of appeals on behalf of Hardie sat with the Labour Party and voted in favour of the Labour Party against the so-called “ disruptive ” tactics of Mr. Grayson. Having thus repudiated Mr. suppression. Grayson, it was distinctly unwise of Mr. Hardie to Since that occasion he has absolutely identified himself accept an invitation to speak on Mr. Grayson’s plat- with the policy and pace of the Labour Party, and both form. He has therefore only himself to thank for the in public and officially has denounced and dissociated Sorry position in which he now finds himself. himself from me. But no observant soul has bothered about these things. I find it impossible personally to distinguish between Mr. Hardie and the party he sup- Arms and the Man. ports so enthusiastically. He is jointly responsible- By Victor Grayson. M.P. and apparently bears his responsibility lightly-for all the Labour Party has done. By voting for the Labour A SENSE of logic is an uncomfortable companion. Its Party’s unmeasured condemnation of a fellow member possession leads inevitably to unpleasant tasks.. I have of the I.L.P., whose position was defined by an I.L.P such an one before me now. Hating the enemy, I want Conference, he has created a breach which could only our arms to be of the most modern and efficient quality. have its logical sequence in recent events. But in making the demand I am confronted with “the For years Mr. Hardie has refused to speak on the man. ” For many years there has been an extraordinary platforms of the Clarion Scouts, although often invited. tendency on the part of certain officials of our move- He has even gone so far as to attack their propaganda. ment to hide mistakes of policy and blunders in conduct Before going to America he was invited to speak for the behind the personality of Mr. Keir Hardie. At I.L.P. London Clarion Scouts at Holborn Town Hall, but it Conference after Conference he has been the willing was not till within a week of the meeting that he wrote When the wooden horse of many a doubtful escape. asking if he might come. I have felt, and still feel, loyal allegiance of delegates has shown signs of waver- that if Mr. Keir Hardie dissociates himself from me in ing the venerable figure of this sturdy warrior has been Parliament and in the country, with all the respect in brought to the footlights- with much the same motive the world I am bound to adopt the same conduct. and effect as the waving of a Union Jack before a City crowd. Now I wish to say here with the utmost sincerity that THE FIRST LONDON I give first place to no man in sincere regard and admiration for the altogether magnificent life and work CLARION MUSICAL FESTIVAL of Mr. Keir Hardie. But there never was, I am con- will take place at vinced, a period in the history of our movement when a few plain remarks were more necessary than now. CAXTONHALL, WESTMINSTER, Mr. Keir Hardie’s worthy and altogether deserved reputation was not made as an astute politician or a ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH, 1909. great statesman. It is as a fearless iconoclast-an in- corruptible propagandist- that Mr. Hardie has won the Competitions (open to all Musical Socialists) will be love and respect of the rank and file. As leader of the held in Solo Singing (Soprano, Mezzo, Contralto, Tenor, Labour Party Mr. Hardie found his position absolutely Baritone and Bass), Piano, Violin (Senior and Junior), untenable. One could not imagine the grim and un- and ‘Cello. Competitors entrance fee SIXPENCE. Also popular Socialist “ leading ” a nondescript company at Socialist Choir and Sunday School Choir Competitions. the, well-known pace. He resigned the leadership and Prizes awarded in each class. For further particulars became, nominally, an ordinary member of the Parlia- and forms of entry, apply to GEORGINA PEARCE, mentary Labour Party. I would point out that in con- ‘ THE CLARION,” 44, WORSHIP STREET, E.C., not later sidering the policy of the Labour Party one cannot than December 13th. separate Mr. Hardie from the party. On many doubt- ful occasions Keir Hardie has identified himself abso- SOUTH Place INSTITUTE, lutely with the policy of his party. How is it that the Finsbury.E.C. I.L.P. has never commented on the fact that its one (close to Moorgate St., Broad St., Liverpool St., and Tuba Stations.) time iconoclast has blandly acquiesced in the Labour On Tuesday Evenings at 8 p.m., commencing Party’s suppression of one of its own members in the November 24th, House of Commons? Readers will remember that dur- Four Lectures will be delivered by ing the Colne Valley election the Labour Party refused C. W. SALEEBY, M.D., F.R.S., its help, and prominent Labour and Socialist members ON made statements to. the Press that were calculated to PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE damage the candidature. At the I.L.P. Conference at Admission, 1/-, 6d., and 3d. Course Tickets, 2/6 (Numbered Huddersfield it was decided, at the suggestion of and Reserved), Unreserved, 1/6. Mr. Keir Hardie, that I should attend the Labour Tickets and particulars may be obtained from Hon. Secretary, Party meetings, and receive their whips without South Place Institute, South Place, E.C. signing the constitution. The alleged predominant ‘ Robert Blatchford comes in for some rough handling,” SO says The Dudley Herald. Socialist section failed utterly to carry out the expressed ‘ Never has his true character been more critically analysed,” wish of the National I.L.P. The Labour Party con- temptuously refused the terms. This decision, needless "A GODLESS to say, did not appear in the “ Labour Leader.” SOCIALISM.” Surely the most bigoted of the moderate and stately By FRANK G. JANNAWAY. This pamphlet has compelled Mr. Blatchford to rewrite “ Merrle England,” in school will admit that any existing breach of policy was the new ofedition which he has suppressed a whole chapter and many former facts. initiated by the Labour Party’s decision on the question. Published by WALTER SCOTT, Ltd., Paternoster square, London, They refused their assistance and did not consult me on On Sale at all W. H. SMITH & SONS’ Bookstalls, NOVEMBER 26, 1908 THE NEW AGE 85

two policies in question are radically different. The Advance or Stagnation. Labour Party now stands for political silence so far as Socialism is concerned : the rebels against that silence WHILE our most earnest wish is to disclaim absolutely demand an immediate declaration of war. It is im- all the personal feeling which some people are malici- possible to preach peace and war from the same plat- ously doing their best to weave round the refusal of form. We have come to a parting in the ways : he Mr. Hyndman and Mr. Victor Grayson to speak from who is not coming our way must go the other ; we the same platform as Mr. Keir Hardie, yet we cannot cannot have half-hearted people breaking our spirits allow our desire for personal friendships to hamper a and disturbing the ranks. Only last Easter Mr. Hynd- perfectly frank discussion of this incident, which took man asked the S.D.P. to join the Labour Party ; the S.D.P. refused. Since then the Labour Party has been place at the annual meeting of the Clarion Scouts last seized with a strange paralysis. Mr. Hyndman, in week. We need hardly say that we know all the parties common with many others, is now fully justified in concerned were animated by a single desire of advanc- definitely deciding that if this party refuses to reform ing the cause of Socialism at the utmost speed. Mr. its methods it must be left to go its stubborn way alone, Hardie is following a line of action against which Mr. and the men who believe in Socialism and a real inde- Hyndman and Mr. Grayson, felt compelled to protest in pendent Labour Party must go on by themselves. a decisive way which could not be misunderstood. We If Mr. Hardie is really with the moderate men of honour the sincerity of Mr, Hardie with the most com- quiet peace, then with infinite regret we realise that he plete respect ; but that cannot hold us back from the cannot mean to uphold the principles of his whole life. most emphatic expression of our opinion that his We refuse to believe that he is contented with weak manner of advancing Socialism is no longer the best compromise. We know he wanted to fight at Dundee way. The events of the last few weeks have made it and Newcastle ; after his magnificent speech in the clear as day that there are two methods of going for- Commons in the Unemployed debate a few weeks ago, ward. The question at issue is : Which is the quicker we thought he was ready to do whatever might be way to the goal? It is our business, as it is the busi- necessary. We would remind him how, in that speech, ness of every Socialist and Trade Unionist, to attempt he declared that if the Government would not give way to answer that question on its merits, without a trace he would go forth to his people and take the responsi- of personal bitterness towards our opponents. bility of his advice. The Government flung the Labour As we have said, there are now two main schools of demands in his face. We expected that ; but we did not practical political policy for the Labour Party in this expect the Labour Party to refuse to support Mr. country. There is, first, the policy which is at this Hardie in his declaration of war. Mr. Hardie has been moment being maintained by the members of that flouted by the Cabinet, he has been deserted by the party in the House of Commons. It is unnecessary to Labour Party- and we are still waiting for the fulfil- repeat once more what that system is. Briefly, after ment of Mr. Hardie’s threat. We do not advise any one has carefully weighed the meaning of the refusal to useless conflict with the law by incitement to riot : that fight at the Dundee and Newcastle elections, the tame would scarcely help. But we do expect Mr. Hardie to submission when the Government declined to do any- keep his promise by going out to rouse the people to thing satisfactory for the unemployed, the ardent co- every form of political rioting within the limits of the operation with the Government in spending the session franchise and public meetings. That is the only policy on the Licensing Bill instead of insisting on measures which now remains for determined men. We regret of immediate social reform ; all these big signs, and that Mr. Hardie is no longer a determined man. Had innumerable smaller incidents, go to prove that the he made the sign the I.L.P. would have risen to follow Labour Party does not intend to go out against the him. He would have had the support of the vast Liberals and Tories with the drawn political sword, but, majority of the S.D.P. We even believe he would take rather, means to beg on its knees for any scraps which a large number of the present Labour members with may be left over from the legislative feast. him. We know that he would have been welcome on To this policy- there is a clear alternative : which is every rebel platform in the country. the method of telling the bald truth on every possible It was because Mr. Hardie refused to admit the occasion ; warning the people that both Liberals and grave error of the Labour Party ; because he ordered Tories are fooling the people with sham reforms ; that us to close our ranks before we knew whether the party they are wasting their time over legislation which is was prepared to mend its ways ; that Mr. Hyndman almost useless and trivial at the best ; and that there is and Mr. Grayson could not stand beside him on a public no salvation for Labour unless the workers fight the platform. This- is not an attack on the Labour Party Government with every political weapon within their because it is not avowedly a Socialist body. It is a stern grasp, This is the policy of fighting openly at every criticism of Mr. Hardie- for having forgotten his first election, where a Socialist or Independent Labour can- determination to oppose all Governments who were not didate can be found, for the simple reason that only a working for Labour. This Liberal Government flouts Socialist or real Labour candidate will help to get what Labour on every day of the session ; and yet the Labour we seek. This is the policy of flatly refusing to allow Party and Mr. Hardie stand for gentleness and soft the Commons to discuss the Licensing Bill until the words. We are on the side of a policy which demands unemployed have been saved from starvation. braver men. If the present members will not move On the one hand, there is the policy of a war of hen it is time to look elsewhere. Perhaps there are desperate earnestness ; on the other, there is the risks in advancing ; there is certain stagnation and decay Labour Party’s method of peaceful waiting until the n standing still. We agree with every word which Mr. Liberal landlords and manufacturers think fit to move. Hardie said in his speech in the Unemployed debate. Mr. Hyndman and Mr. Grayson have come to a very t is because they agree also that Mr. Hyndman and definite opinion a s to which of these two policies is the Mr. Grayson (and Mr. Blatchford) did what they did. right. Mr. Grayson, in accordance with that belief, They are supporting Mr. Hardie against himself. made a public protest, and was expelled from the House of Commons. The Labour Party saw fit to publicly repudiate that action ; and Mr. Hardie indivi- Just Published. 1 vol., 430 pp., 7s. 6d. post free. dually repeated that repudiation. Therefore, it follows, that Mr. Hyndman and Mr. Grayson believe with their THE LIFE AND WORLD WORK whole hearts in one policy and Mr. Hardie disbelieves in it. OF THOMAS LAKE HARRIS. But why, we may be asked, could not these op- Written from direct personalknowledge, by ARTHUR A. CUTHBERT, an almost life-long associate. ponents meet in a friendly manner on the same plat- All interested will receive free a copy of the Preface, showing the full form ? We want to answer that question with the aim and purpose of the work, by application to the Publishers, utmost clearness. It is not honest to preach utterly C. W. PEARCE& CO,,139, WestRegent Street, Glasgow. different doctrines from the same platform ; and the THE NEW AGE NOVEMBER 26, 1908

have no means of getting to know the people for whom The Future of the Fabian they are voting. The obvious expedient of an annual conference of delegates with full legislative powers Society. does not commend itself to the “old gang,” who have no intention of surrendering to a lot of new members AMONGSTthe many signs that heaven has vouchsafed of the absolute control which they have exercised for a late for the encouragement of Socialists, the rapid quarter of a century. growth of the middle-class Socialist Society is not the And the “old gang ” have a strong case. Hitherto least significant. There are now four Fabians for every the Fabian Society has been the home of theoretical one who was enrolled three years ago ; and the pro- Socialism, pure and undefiled by the necessities of vincial organisation has been so extended that instead electioneering politics. It has provided a non-party of the half-dozen semi-dormant branches of 1905 there platform for the free discussion of Socialist principles. are between 30 and 40 flourishing local Fabian Socie- The vexed question of political method has been care- ties as well as a number of London groups. fully excluded. A man may belong to the Liberal Party To some of the older Fabians this growth may seem or he may be a revolutionary Marxist ; in either case rather disconcerting than encouraging, for certainly it he is free to join in the work of the Fabian Society so appears to involve some far-reaching changes in the long as he is prepared to sign its basis and declare constitution and function of the Society. Until re- himself a believer in the Socialist solution of present- cently the Fabian Society was a small and select body, day evils. Such a Society undoubtedly performs an completely dominated by a little group of very able invaluable, if not an indispensable, function. The divi- men whose names are well known. It confined its sion of people into separate and well-defined political activities almost entirely to the academic side of Social- parties may be a necessary evil, but it is certainly an ist work ; and its achievements in that direction gave evil ; and in so far as the Fabian Society provides a it a name and an importance, on the Continent and in common meeting-place for persons who, in spite of their the Antipodes as well as in England, which were alto- similar aims, would otherwise be hopelessly anta- gether out of proportion to its size. It never attempted gonised, it is doing excellent work. to take direct political action on its own account, and But democratic control would mean an end of all this. allowed its members complete freedom as far as party The provincial societies are by no means replicas of the In fact, it became a society politics were concerned. London Society. They exist, not for academic, but for of specialists, ready to give help to anybody and every- practical purposes. body who was working for Socialism, but unwilling to Their business is propaganda and political organisation, and when they became predomi- leave its own studies for the rough and tumble of mili- nant in the Conference, as they soon would, they would tant agitation. It did not aim at increasing its member- certainly insist upon excluding all those who were not ship, because there seemed no reason to suppose that prepared to work with them on party lines. Also they additional numbers would mean increased efficiency in, would want the Society as a whole to become more and the particular line of work it had chosen. more a political party, and to devote less and less of its The additional numbers, however, came of their own energies to the academic side of its work ; and soon the accord ; and the fact of their coming without invitation Fabian Society would have lost for ever the old position or propaganda of any sort showed how great were the possibilities for Socialism amongst the middle classes of which its present rulers are so justifiably proud. and how much those possibilities had been neglected in, It seems, then, that there is a great deal to be said the past. The Fabian Society, or rather the little on both sides, and we believe that there is only one way group who still control it, thus found themselves in a of providing for the harmonious fulfilment of all the dilemma. On the one hand appeared the necessity for functions which the Fabian Society has thrust upon it. active propaganda amongst the middle classes which The provincial societies and the London groups must no other existing Socialist society was in a position to have an annual conference of delegates, with complete undertake ; and on the other hand there was the keen control over their collective affairs and political policy, desire to maintain the old traditions and continue to whilst the central society remains free and indepen- concentrate upon political and sociological research. dent, pursuing its chosen path. The provincial socie- The two policies were (and are) clearly incompatible. ties would then virtually become a separate body, and Propaganda work would not only absorb energy, but would probably find it convenient to call themselves would make the Society too large, too unwieldy, and Fabian Associations instead of Fabian Societies in too full of political possibilities for it ever to be allowed order to distinguish their organisation from the autono- to settle down again to the old routine. The difficulty mous central society, which alone would retain the old has not been solved ; and as a result the Society is at name. A considerable number of the members and all present in a state of uncertainty and chaos. Nobody the officers of the local Fabian Associations would knows exactly what is its position in the Socialist move- naturally continue their membership of the parent ment. Whilst struggling to maintain its aloof attitude, society, and nearly all the present members of the it is being forced towards a political destiny. Two latter would in turn join London Fabian Associations ; years ago the Executive presented the Society with a and thus a close and frictionless connection would be report pointing out that the Labour Party did not and maintained. It would still be the duty of the Fabian could not provide for the effective representation of Society, through, its special organisers, to promote Socialism! in Parliament, and affirming the need for an the formation of new groups and societies all over the independent Socialist Party. That report was signed by country as at present, but once formed they would all the present leading officials of the Society, was automatically become Fabian Associations. adopted almost unanimously at a general meeting, and We offer this rough outline of a scheme to those who was the basis upon which the Executive were re- are interested in the future of the Fabian Society. The elected in 1907. Since then the Society has raised a problem is an urgent one for many reasons. There is fund for political purposes, but has put off the evil strong evidence of the existence throughout the country day when it must decide what to do’ with it. It is still of a very large number of unattached Socialists and nominally affiliated to the Labour Party, and it has a “ almost persuaded ” persons belonging mostly to the Liberal Member of Parliament on its Executive. Clearly middle classes who are quite capable of being organised these extraordinary anomalies cannot be allowed to con- for political purposes, but cannot be reached by speci- tinue indefinitely. fically working class bodies like the I.L.P. The Fabian The undemocratic constitution of the Society is an Society alone can undertake this important work. But additional source of instability. The provincial mem- it must be a political association, not an academic bers, who now make up about half the total member- society, that these middle-class people are asked to ship, being unable to attend the quarterly business join ; and so it is necessary for Fabians to begin at meetings in London, have no voice whatever in deter- once to get rid of the obstacles that prevent their mining the policy of the Society as a whole, except making a definite political stand. The first step must, the right to take part in the annual election of the we believe, be the adoption of some such scheme as we Executive-a merely nominal privilege as long as they have suggested, NOVEMBER 26, 1908 THE NEW AGE

if a bishop dies at 70, we call it a case of infant mor- At Random. tality. * * * MR. ASQUITH is not going to give evidence at the The “ Daily News ” was much troubled when it heard Suffragist trial at Leeds after all. A judge of the High that the vacancy in the archbishopric of York was not Court has ruled that the Prime Minister could not pos- to be filled on party lines, by the leader of the Liberal sibly have anything to say on the subject which was bishops. But it soon remembered that this most per- worth hearing. Which is a miraculous thought-trans- fect of Governments can do no real wrong ; so it an- ference of my own views of the matter. * * - nounced that Mr. Asquith had written to the neglected ecclesiastic a letter of “ warmest appreciation.” This During the annual municipal service in the parish is not a bad idea for the distribution of posts : divide church of Blackburn, a voice was beard : “ Let people each favour into (I) the post, (2) a warm letter ; and two have the right to work and live.” The newspaper people are pleased instead of one. I hope the idolators adds that “ the incident passed unnoticed by the of the “ Daily News ” will draw a letter, when their preacher. ” With a few honourable exceptions, that is time comes. the usual intelligent attitude of the Church. It doesn’t * * * notice anything of much importance to ordinary human That very living Irish journal, “ The Peasant,” has beings. some wise things to say on the relations between Sinn + * * Feinism and Socialism. “ The truth is that in this Mr. L. Harcourt told the anxious. member for Kil- country they are complementary. The man who im- kenny that every precaution had been taken for the agines Sinn Fein is the last word in nationality is relief of sudden illness in the House ; for, “ a large narrow-minded and short-sighted ; while he who thinks medicine chest replete with every drug and instrument the establishment of a Socialist régime would leave which the ingenuity or necessities of man can require nothing to be fought for will generally be found to be an has been generously presented to the House.” Drugs ! ass, long nourished on English fodder.” Please, Mr. Now I understand. That’s why they never get any busi- Irishman, do not put me amongst the long-eared ones, ness done in Parliament. Morphia ! indeed, “ every I don’t think Socialism will solve’ everything, either in drug. ” No wonder they couldn‘t think of a remedy for Ireland or anywhere else. It will give us our bread and unemployment. butter in reasonable plenty, sanitary homes, cheap tran- + * * sit ; that is about all. And then we can get to the But be fair to all men. In a conscious interval be- business of life : the business of more joyful work, more ardent loving -more ardent hating, for that matter. tween two doses, they occasionally think of something * * * sensible, even in Parliament. Just listen to this pure gem of reason which fell from the lips of the Chief When every unit of electricity comes out of a muni- Commissioner of Works when he was asked to clean cipal machine ; when every cornstalk is grown on a the Serpentine as work for the unemployed : “ I cannot,” county council farm ; when wise men go to Parliament said he, “ for I am arranging to clean part of the lake instead of drugged amateurs-when Socialism arrives, in the Regent’s Park.” That is about the only serious in short--there will still be each man’s work before him piece of work they’ve announced in the House of Com- which he must face much as he faces it now. He will mons this Session. The usual Parliamentary answer to have his food and clothing and railway tickets given unemployed questions is to take a dose of morphia and him, it is true but the only things which will matter murmur in a sleepy voice : “ don’t bother, please . . . . are those that matter now. He will continue to sell his no money . . . Licensing Bill.” Left nodding. soul-if he is wise-for a few minutes of a blackbird’s * * song, or a Bach fugue, or the comradeship of a merry heart and dancing eyes. And if he cannot get all these, Perched on a spike of blackthorn bush, which it was then Socialism will be cold comfort. softly endeavouring to permeate, I found, in a quiet PETER PAN. country lane last week, a long letter from the Fabian Society on the “ Disputed Points in the Old Age Pen- There is now in formation a Commercial Travellers’ sions Act. ” So I began to write down its words of Socialist Society. Every commercial traveller interested in wisdom, when a dismal rook passing overhead cawed : the movement is requested to apply to the secretary (pro “ Silly fellow, why do you waste your time ; it is only tern.), Charles H. Foyle, ‘[Stonehenge,” Cambridge Road, about people who are over seventy-and most of them King’s Heath, Birmingham. are dead-and none of them read THE NEW AGE.” I (( The Encyclopaedia of Social Reform,” which is advertised called after him that these little things meant revolution on another page, has, in its present edition, been brought up to the Fabian Society. But the bird had flown over the to date and published for the convenience of readers in two volumes instead of one. Readers of THE NEW AGE are in- next hill. Still, it is very wise of the Fabian Society vited to examine the volumes for themselves on the terms to remember these matters. described in the notice. We shall shortly publish a review - * * of the entire work. The Corporation of the City of London never quite got over the shock when the L.C.C. set up its rival show at the other end of the town. Nevertheless, it must try to preserve its few remaining scraps of dignity. It must really not allow its Lord Mayor to write to the papers begging for old boots and shoes for the poor children that inhabit his city. It’s all very well for a gipsy to go hawking round for rabbit-skins and scraps -but a Lord Mayor (of the richest city in the world, too) should surely think of something better than that. The City wants a governor, not a relieving officer of the Charity Organisation Society. * + * ‘Food’ The “ Times ” apparently thinks, that the world is after all a very comfortable place ; for it announced last Assists Teething: week with pride that, out of 30 names in one day’s consequently promotes the obituary list, 14 recorded over 70 years of age. These healthful sleep, so essential are the kind of figures which made the Government to the well-being of the believe that its Old-Age-Pension-Act-for-Deceased- infant, Grandparents was a thoroughly democratic measure. Unfortunately, it is only very thoughtful and thrifty Purveyors by Special Appointment to H.I.M. the persons who remember to die in the columns of the ‘ ‘ Times. ’ ’ So many are careless enough to die quite Empress of Russia, young in slums. While as Mrs. Bridges Adams says, 88 THE NEW AGE NOVEMBER 26, 1908

hall where some plain wooden tables with tin dishes The Communisation of Soup+ and iron spoons were waiting their share in this banquet to Unsuccess. The Lord Mayor’s dinner was given, to by Chris Healy. a special few at the expense of the whole community ; THE world with other people’s money in its pocket has this second feed was paid for in, exactly the same way, often been taunted with its indifference to the march but the great thing about the first was that you were en- titled to more than a good share in proportion to your of ideas. This is a flagrant injustice. Whilst street- lack or need of it, whereas in the second instance the corner orators, or respectable Fabians, stimulated now firm, kind lesson was manifested that poverty is the only and then by some young man in a hurry, have been crime. The Caesarian waiters were now replaced by patiently and respectfully asking for some such trifle as men of shrewder, harder aspect-men with power to ask a right to live and a right to work, the great world heart-searching questions and soul-destroying demands. with money in its pocket has gone further than the Instead of the goodly, loveable feeling which possessed wildest Socialist by communising -Soup. the great banqueting-hall, that it is a sweet and beauti- ful thing to dine at the expense of one’s city or country, A few days ago this idea came home to me with here was harsh Suspicion and sour-eyed Thrift with appalling force on an occasion which demanded cab, their mostly unanswerable queries : “ Why do you want white gloves, and a clawhammer coat. As I reached Soup at the expense of the community? Because you the huge banqueting-hall, and glanced at the long tables are out of work ! Why didn’t you lay in a store of glittering with cutlery, choice glassware, and rare Soup whilst you were in work and so be able to live flowers, it suddenly occurred to me that the Lord Mayor without spoiling the industrious? ” The Second Soup had small glamour save for the type at the chief table, and the select company of shipping of seeing eye which can detect romance in hungry cup- kings and merchant princes, and of tame politicians, boards and hands destitute of self-respecting work. It with us few writers and artists thrown in as an aesthetic was made of lentils, showing that the modern task- concession to prevent the air smelling over-greatly of master has not forgotten the lesson of Pharaoh and the ‘diamonds and yellow gold, had met not so much to do Pyramids. But, even then, the lentils recalled that the the City honour as to take part in a free distribution of historic hardening of the heart was always followed by Soup. Every eye shone with a kindly geniality ; there a great spoiling, and, mayhap, the time is not far away when the second eaters of soup shall take the was a very wave of good-heartedness sweeping through places of the first. From the point of view of charity, ‘the gaily decorated hall, strong enough even to make in the worst sense of the word, there is not a pin to us proof against the fear of poverty and old age. Then choose between them. One gets Turtle Soup served a multitude of waiters with Caesarian faces, picked for with honour, and pious extras, free, gratis, and for their swiftness in anticipating thought and need, spread nothing, the other gets lentils and dry bread, without themselves at our backs, bent over, and deferentially money and without price. Although the principle is right in theory it does not work right in practice. After hinted the waiting delights of communised Soup-clear some thought, even though it may mean some sacrifice turtle with its luscious gobbets of green fat, and its in standing no more with the first-eaters of Soup, I am romantic suggestions of yellow beaches, pirate caves, reluctantly driven to the belief that the only thing which and buried treasure, and the waving palms of Ascension can set matters right is the Communisation of the Soup- island ; or the less romantic but prouder ox-tail, with Pot. its prosperous note of national genius as concentrated in John Bull himself, and its subtle innuendo that naught can happen to London because God the Father SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. has a large amount of money invested in the City, and (HAMMERSMITH BRANCH.) English is rapidly crowding out all other tongues on earth, as it is in heaven. VICTOR GRAYSON, M.P. If the motto “ He who would be greatest among you " and still has any credence outside Sunday schools, then I F. G. JONES would respectfully urge that the greatest men in the will address a PUBLIC MEETING in great hall were the waiters. One could have con- HAMMERSMITH BATHS, Lime Grove, structed here the finest Cabinet in the world-men born Shepherd's Bush, W. with the very genius of reading the wants of the heart, on FRIDAY, 4TH DECEMBER, 1908 and, incidentally of the place so loved by Timothy where Doors open 7.15; Chair taken 7.45. Admission free and by ticket, the true-born Englishman’s soul is supposed to dwell. Prices, 2s., 1s, and 6d, each. If I had the tongue of men, and of angels, I might give Tickets from Branch rooms, 1, Lamington Street, Glenthorne you some hint of the joyous delights that followed, yet Road, Hammersmith, W., or W. J. MCDONALD, 71, Sterndale Rd., even these lost their glorious savour when I realised for West Kensington. the first time the real reason why we few writers and artists were honoured with places at these good men’s A COURSE OF THREE FREE PUBLIC LECTURES feasts. We were the unconscious Awful Examples, the on the memento mori of poverty itself, for we suggested the pleasing thought to each commercial domination, prin- Philosophyof Friedrich Nietzsche cipality, and power present, “There, but for the grace will be delivered by of Mammon, and Belial, go I ! ” It may have been ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI, ‘this feeling which made the business men look on us with unusually kindly eyes as poor men whose year’s in- AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, come did not reach their one day’s. On WEDNESDAYS at 5 p.m., beginning the 25th I may say that the discovery disconcerted me. It was NOVEMBER. ‘the exact reverse of one of those occasions “ when a great thought strikes across the brain, and flushes all 1st Lecture (25th November) : “ Nietzsche-The Immoralist.” the cheek. ” So after a decent interval, I left the hall, 2nd Lecture (2nd December) : ” Nietzsche’s Superman.” now ringing with bibulous mirth, lighted my old cherry. 3rd Lecture (9th December) : ‘* Nietzsche--The Moralist ” wood pipe, and wandered along not caring whence or where I was going, still greatly troubled about my exact RED FLAG BUTTERSCOTCH. place in the great Soup-Divide. When I lifted my head work The Leeds Branches S.D.P. are making a 1d. tablet of the I saw that the of Soup Communisation had two above Delicious Sweetmeat. It sells readily at Branch Clubs, Socials, branches, and that the second was spread before me- Meetings, etc. No weighing, no trouble, a long queue of men with pinched faces and sunken ABSOLUTELY PURE. eyes, whose clothes and boots consisted mainly of holes All profits to the Socialist Movement. 9/- per gross, carr. paid. and fresh air. Each man eagerly gripped his cardboard We send to any address, carriage paid, 3 doz. for 2/10½. Write to charter of entry into the cold, ill-lighted, and gloomy J. W. DUCKWORTH, 142, Church St., Hunslet, Leeds. (Manager.) NOVEMBER 26, 1908 THE NEW AGE

probably learns to rely too much, especially if he lives The SolemnSpoofer. by writing, and therefore writes in a hurry. That I A Reply to Mr. Belfort Bax. have such a trick, a trick of sharp inversions and short sentences, is quite obvious ; and that it is often a By G. K. Chesterton. nuisance I can very well believe. And now comes the THE Editor of this paper has asked me to resume my turn of Mr. Belfort Bax to confess. Mr. Belfort Bax very agreeable connection with it by making some com- will now tell you (the tears of sincerity streaming down ment on Mr. Belfort Bax’s criticism of my book called his face) that the trick of style to which he and his “ Orthodoxy. ” It is an undignified thing to do, but school trusts is the trick of science, that is of dignity has never been my strong point. I am quite a supercilious Vocabulary. I attempt to bully ready to write in any paper on any subject ; one of my people by short sentences. The Bax school favourite papers is THE NEW AGE, and one of my attempts to bully people by long words. I spoof favourite subjects is myself and my own opinions. by means of levity ; they spoof by means of scientific Therefore, if it gives any pleasure to the Editor, I will solemnity. If I bamboozle (which I do not admit), it do it straight away. must be by a deceptive appearance of lucidity ; if he I have always had a great admiration for Mr. Belfort bamboozles (which I do not allege), it is by a deceptive Bax for this reason : that his thinking is generally a appearance of profundity, by perpetual allusions to drive and not a drift. So many Socialists simply collect biology, economics, anthropology, and Prussian politics. all the opinions that have ever been called humani- Really, it is a mere matter of habit and method with tarian or advanced, and try to hold them all at once. both of US. I should say of Truth that it is true, and that Mr. Bax’s convictions have generally had a shape ; he anyone who does not grasp a primary idea had better picks his position independently upon things like sex, be locked up. Mr. Bax says of Truth that it is “the temperance, and the laws of history. In short, he intellectual expression of the self-consistency of con- thinks ; that is, he separates ideas from each other, sciousness as a whole ” ; a much shallower definition. even if he afterwards selects the wrong ones. Having I talk about the Trinity, because my readers have heard said so much with sincerity, I may go on to state the of it. He talks of the Trichotomy, because his readers sum of the matter with even more sincerity. And the have not heard of it. As regards methods in short, he is sum of the matter is this : that until I read Mr. Bax’s right in saying that I am of the school of Bernard article on “ Orthodoxy ” I had no idea of how utterly Shaw. He himself is of the school of Herbert Spencer and finally dead is the whole nineteenth century attack and the men who crushed the English people with poly- on Christianity. syllables. He is a mystagogue. I am a demagogue. Now, I believe that Mr. Bax is serious, in spite of That such a man should write such an article is a the fact that he is solemn. But naturally I know this fact that smells of sepulchres and mummies. The chief even better about myself ; so it is quite useless for Mr. proof that scientific materialism is dead lies in the fact Bax to try and invent any more periphrases for a that even the liveliest people drop dead--when they buffoon. I may be a fool ; but I know I am not a touch the topic. Ask Bernard Shaw to speak on any buffoon. Accusations of artificial paradox affect me other subject, and he explodes with epigrammatic as little as arrows aimed at the moon ; for I know that sagacity ; ask him why he denies miracles, and his I am serious, whatever else I am. Therefore, since we answer is a curious and dreary compound of a Hyde are both serious, and since we both have a certain con- Park Secularist and a Broad Church Bishop. Ask Mr. troversial trick or habit, let us amicably agree that neither will take any notice of the superficial swagger Bax about any point of politics or economics, and he of the other. I can heartily assure Mr. Bax that I am bristles with bold but well-ordered arguments. Ask no more frightened of his dim science and loose, allusive him about the case for materialism, and he can give history than he is of my cheap wit or hurried epi- nothing but a string of monotonous Early-Victorian grams. When I make some silly passing joke as that assertions. These assertions were never anything more “The hatter is mad because he must measure the human than fashionable ; and now they are even out of fashion. head,” Mr. Bax will be quite right to attach no value to The great mark of the surviving Rationalist is that he it. And when Mr. Bax says that Nationality arose from economic. or other material causes, I can assure him never reasons. He pronounces ; and is not even (like that I attach no value to the remark whatever. Con- the Pope) polite enough to do it in a long document. sidered in itself,-it is a view which I cannot even con- He does it in simple sentences. Christianity is dead ceive a sensible man supporting. Mr. Bax could not past recall ; Catholicism is a pose ; Nationality arose say that when he wrote a book or took a cab or ate a economically ; Socialism is a religion ; and if you do luncheon or expressed an opinion that his motives were not agree with all this, you are a card-sharper. If purely economic or material. How can I suppose that he really thinks that he can say of the whole growth of Christianity really were dead it could hardly be so dead France that it owed nothing to Catholicism, nothing to as this sort of attack on it. Socialism is a living and arms, nothing to the temperament of the tribe, but fruitful energy, right or wrong. But the Bax material- everything to elaborate and improbable calculations ism seems to be a sort of obstinate stump ; it has about the butcher and the baker. But he did not really ceased to branch or blossom. mean to maintain this for a moment ; it was uncon- scious or solemn spoof. “ Economic ” and “ Material ” If I am to consider this article in any order, I had are the holy and hypnotic words of his superstition. better, perhaps, begin with that deep and delicate prob- Unfortunately for his purpose, they are not the hypnotic lem (so much discussed among my friends and acquain- words of mine. tances) of whether I am a card-sharper. I mean the Having cleared all such matters away, it only remains question of whether I rely on what Mr. Bax calls “the to deal very shortly indeed with such solid criticisms as intellectual three-card trick ” ; a mere cheap verbal can really be found. I think they can be roughly and dexterity. Now, I am so far from being a card-sharper rapidly divided into three. (I) Mr. Bax is wrong in his notion of the value of that in this matter I should like to have all the cards paradox, Obviously, as he says, there is paradox in on the table, face upwards. I should suggest that all everything. But my object is not to get to such an angle of us should make our common confession together. that can state the paradox : my object is to select from Every man who writes (frequently and with any Suc- the fifty inevitable paradoxes the one paradox which is cess) does drop into a trick of style ; upon which he healthy and humane. If you like, the universe is para- NOVEMBER 26, 1908

doxical ; if you like, the universe is insane. But it has nine. It would not be long now. A line of police a sane spot somewhere ; and I seek for the paradox stood shoulder to shoulder across the foot of the broad which touches the spot. I take the first case that occurs steps of the Town Hall. to me. There is a paradox in the necessary treatment It would not be long. All eyes were fixed on the of a child ; we ought to restrict him more than adults, great closed doors. and yet to give him a jollier time. Whatever you do with Amid the strong light cast a child you will get this contradiction ; but you may Back they were thrown. get it wrong. You may give him what is worst and by a “flare,” a party quickly emerged. The great sea deny him what is best ; and that will still be a paradox. of white, upturned faces swayed, as a torrent of cheer- You may forbid him to find his stocking full of Santa ing broke from the throng. A bevy of pretty, healthy- Claus’s presents and allow him to find his tumbler full looking, well-dressed girls rapturously waved small of raw brandy. That will be a paradox, and it will handkerchiefs and party colours from the top of the kill him. But the case for the best philosophy is not steps. The crowd waved back, and the cheering was that it has found the paradox of the child ; that is obvious. It is that it has found the paradox that does prolonged. Two prosperous-looking gentlemen bowed not kill him ; that denies him brandy, that allows him ostentatiously. There was no doubt as to who hadn’t Santa Claus. won. The crowd roared ! (2) Mr. Bax is wrong in his idea of the arbitrary use The cheering subsided as the returning officer held of words. Of course, he or I can call each other un- up his hand. The momentous figures were announced. democratic, just as he or I can call each other Abraca- The storm of cheers was renewed when the poll of the dabra. But he really is undemocratic in a perfectly top candidate was made known. It died away for a simple and legitimate sense-that is to say, he has narrowed the word both from its verbal and its tradi- brief space, breaking out again the moment the name tional sense. When men like Mr. Bax say the Greek of number two left the speaker’s lips. Again the word which means “The rule of the people,” they are diminuendo and silence, this time broken by really only thinking of a particular Protestant towns- laughter from various parts of the great concourse. folk in billycock hats, and of how these people generally Then came the final figures ; an insignificant total. It vote for “Science ” and Centralisation and Wealth. was the poll of the Socialist, and the crowd-booed ! They are not thinking of the actual people of Europe rocked with laughter at such a huge and of how they have always voted for creeds and fairy Booed and jeered ; tales and family life. Mr. Bax is anti-democratic on joke ; exercised their wit on the subject. It was great ! the decent dictionary meaning of the word. Should think that’ll about finish t’ Socialists ! ” (3) Mr. Bax misunderstands all that I said about And the crowd? Taken as a whole, it was a poor Christendom and nationality. My theory (which may crowd. Many were the men who cheered who looked be right or wrong) was roughly this. There was in as though a course of square meals would be singularly old Paganism a power of creating beautiful types ; but appropriate ; whose clothes were shabby and worn ; aye, there was, no power of perpetuating them. There was Many were the women a power of dying for the dying nationalities ; but there and in many cases tattered. was no power of making them live again. Who now who cheered, and yet were in a similar condition. Many can be a Pagan Stoic in the style of Cato ; or even a were the mill-girls, faces wreathed in smiles and look- Republican Stoic in the style of Cato ; or even a ing as jolly as could be, delighted with the result ; but Republican Stoic in the style of St. Juste? But what of whom few did not look anaemic, few did not work there is of Stoicism, what there is of Democracy in harder than any girl should work, ought to work, or the Church, that is renewed for ever. This theory ever need work, if, in, the industrial world, order were may be fairly attacked. But you do not attack it by saying that nations existed before the Church substituted for chaos. But all cheered ; cheered to the was born or that the Church lived a long time before echo. she perceived that they ought to be born again. By The sight was not stirring ; it was pathetic. saying that you do not attack my case, but prove it. But the victories were glorious ! Away went the It was under the inspiration of the Church that the victors to their clubs. Again were they cheered. The two chief nations arose, separate and splendid, France Crowd in the street below was exultant when the opinion and Spain. If Mr. Bax says that they were Protestant was expressed that the “exhausted seedling of rampant products, I fear that in me the Gallic gaiety will for a moment overcome the Spanish seriousness. Socialism ” had been strangled. That was a rare I have only one thing to add. What Mr. Bax can sally ! The victors knew, as they had always known, conceivably mean by suggesting that Socialism is a that the people had some common sense, and would synthesis of the universe I leave to the other Socialists. not have “this Socialistic twaddle rammed down their How a particular theory of the place of property in the throats. ” And the people enjoyed being patted on the State can cover the question of whether the soul is back by their “betters,” and cheered again. immortal or whether there is a fourth dimension or Not five minutes after, the representatives of the whether fate forbids free-will, I am quite incapable of ‘exhausted seedling ” were on the market-ground. The conceiving. I admit that the solemn spoofer has a red flags were held aloft, and from “a humble chair it real advantage when it comes to saying nakedly un- was announced that that meeting was the first of the reasonable things. campaign for next November. Past experience shows that it will be. As has always been the case, the advance-guard of a cause which aims at the better- The Pathos of the Poll. ment of mankind was defeated by those whose interest in supporting it should have been, greatest. It had THE poll was closed. The crowd began to gather in been defeated by Ignorance. That is the foe, and as it the Market-place in front of the Town Hall. It grew is vanquished so shall we draw nearer to the time when and grew ; its impatience increased with its size. In . . . . the multitude make virtue three-quarters of an hour it became a huge crowd : a Of the faith they have denied. great surging, excited mass of humanity, eager and A. W. HUMPHREY. expectant. Light political banter flew about, ardent politicians engaged in heated argument, copious calcu- DELICIOUS COFFEE lations were made by the wiseacres, which were meant to show the way the poll must go. And the crowd grew, Police were already regulating it. A tramcar RED WHITEBLUE & crept slowly through making a lane in the dense mass, For Breakfast & after Dinner. which immediately closed in its wake. A clock struck NOVEMBER 26; 1908 THE NEW AGE 91

Nanson.* The Brawling Brotherhood. I. MOVED by the self-denying action of the Women’s Anti- Suffrage League, a number of gentlemen, whose dislike A mighty form, fast-mounting up the hill, of publicity I shall respect, are engaged in the promo- With solid tread, large motion, arms a-swing ; tion of an Anti-Men’s Suffrage League. The proper A grave, dark figure, walking with a will place for man is the office. This elemental truth is When homeward crows are beating on the wing constantly lost sight of nowadays, and we have the Through yellow flushes and low-tinted cloud, unedifying sight of men deserting the desk and the And solemn mists are creeping up the vale- counter -ay, even, the football field-to rush into the That’s Nanson ! sometimes singing out aloud, political arena, following noisy, unsexed men, whom I And sometimes calling lest we’re out of hail ; may properly call the Brawling Brotherhood. No one A. silhouette against the darkening west, can pretend to ignore the degrading influence of the An image of the forward march of man ; House of Commons and Parliamentary life generally He tramples onward, till some wooded crest, upon our manhood. What do we witness in that as- Clothed in its shadows dun, sembly daily ? Unseemly brawling, endless recrimina- Lifts us above a landscape which we scan tion, personalities, above all, that riotous loquacity so Till all the songs of all the birds are still. essentially feminine and unworthy of the masculine character. Rightly do we contemptuously brand our II. legislators as “old women.” All this is the melancholy He leads ; we hollow, sharing his delight result of man abandoning his proper sphere, Drawn by In the large charm of Nature. None but he unscrupulous agitators into the political vortex, he Knows half so well the time when fields are dight neglects office and shop, which as I cannot too much, In waving wild flowers, billowing like a sea. insist, are his proper place. The hand that opes the He knows the pathways through rook-haunted woods, ledger rules the world. Let our men remember this, The tracks that lead through golden fields of corn, resume their true place in society, and cultivate the The quiet spinneys where the pigeon broods, true masculine virtues of reticence, attention to busi- The hedgerows where the hungry thrush is born, ness, and calm. How can a man attend to his business The forest whose grave loneliness embowers if he has to go voting ? How can he fulfil the duties The haunt of martin, nightingale, and wren, of husband and, father if his time is taken up at the The glades in which the dusk of evening lowers, polling-booth ? Let men meditate on this. No, the proper place for man is the office. Leafed so that scarce the sun This unmanly craze for notoriety, this mania for neg- Can pierce them, or the stars and planets, when lecting their proper sphere, this unhealthy political The fields of heaven are flooded o’er with light. fever is wrecking our beautiful English home life. The virtual obligation of recording his vote once in seven years naturally preoccupies a man to such an extent III. that he neglects his business and his home. Our bar- To-day he leads us o’er the rolling downs, parlour at the Pig and Whistle is every night a scene To-morrow through the shadowy forest ways ; of the most painful divisions. Only the other day the Sometimes past little, ancient, haunted towns eldest son of a friend of mine said to him in my hearing, ‘For heaven’s sake, dad, ring off about the Licensing Swarming with memories of other days ; Bill ! ” Filial respect is gone, self-respect is going. Sometimes through deeply-sunken country lanes Thanks to the Brawling Brotherhood, men talk of When apple-blossom showers at every turn, nothing but their rights, neglect their business, and And eager faces look through leaded panes, develop that garrulity which used to be a reproach of Or autumn leaves to gold and russet burn. the other sex. Sometimes, again, we skirt the broad highway This horrible demoralisation must be checked. Man’s Through moor and common, with the gorse abloom, proper place is the office. If it be said that there are men who haven’t got offices I reply that they ought to Glorying in summer, reckless where we stray, be ashamed of themselves. All really nice manly men Pleased or with wood or field, have offices. If they are not husbands and fathers, I Or spreading acres clothed in yellow broom, say they ought still more to be ashamed of themselves. Or budding heather, with its myriad crowns. This demand for votes, or rather the exercise of the franchise, is robbing Englishmen of their manhood. What would our forefathers, say, of the tenth century IV. B.C., think of us? Did they go voting? No, they Where Nanson takes us, there does beauty dwell- attended to their business. Let us not abandon our old The loveliness of field and wood and moor, ideals. The sombre silence of the lonely fell, I hear someone advance the ridiculous plea that men ought to have a share in the government because they The cheerful comfort of the cottage door. pay rates and taxes. I have heard this piece of sophis- We march behind him, confident that he try used in defence of an extension of the franchise Will lead us to our England at its best ; in other directions. I will not stoop to confute so pal- The large wide landscape, or the litany pable an absurdity. It is instinct that should decide Of some small glade in all its wonder drest. these questions. All right-thinking men (those who But now he leaves us. We shall wander still ; agree with me) know that their proper place is the office. I don’t want a vote-why should other men? But not with his large figure in the van. If they have responsibilities I shall be expected to have We miss him now whene’er we climb Leith Hill ; them. And I won’t have them. No, the vote is not Missed is he in the Weald ; wanted by me and is not wanted by my fellow-men. And Epping Forest misses one true man Political life is demoralising and unbusiness-like. Does Who knew its magic and its mysteries well. anyone suggest the House of Commons is a business- AARON WATSON. like assembly ? Therefore, it is not the place for men. Man’s proper place is the office. + “ Tom ” Nanson, for sixteen years President of the The true man doesn’t want his rights ; he wants Saturday Field Club. Resigned, 1907. money. EDMUND B. D'AUVERGNE. 93 The NewAGE. NOVEMBER 26, 1908

AN INTRODUCTION On Knowing One’s Place. TO RATIONAL RELIGION. SOMEWHERE in the Book of Common Prayer is set forth. the rightness and properness of being contented in the station to which it hath pleased God to call US, and of recent years it hath been the evil pleasure of THE GREAT social reformers to jibe at this excellent piece of socio- economic sagacity. “Station, to which it hath pleased God to call us !- AND GOOD. are not all men born free and equal? ” they cry, and Large crown 8vo, Cloth, 5s. Net. not waiting for an answer, prance off with the head up, paws rampant, and a flapping tail. The object of this work is to state the religious “Free, equal, and dissimilar, my good friends,” I shout after them, “let me call your attention to the opinions of the greatest and best men of past and significance of that final adjective. ” present times, and to trace these opinions to the Yet sagacious as the Prayer-Book precept un- central principle in which they meet and are doubtedly is, it does not satisfy me ; it lacks enthu- harmonised. siasm. I find “contented ” too weak, too passive, too neutral a word. I would have men eager, conceited, C. TAYLOR, 22, 23 & 39, WARWICK LANE, LONDON. vain, proud, happy, and glorious in the station of life to which it hath pleased God to call them. (Only it CONCEPTS OF MONISM. should be clear that God hath been so pleased.) 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OF ALL BOOKSELLERS & LIBRARIANS. The lesson of aristocracy is that a cart-horse is a cart- EVELEIGH NASH ...... LONDON horse and a racer a racer. The lesson of democracy is --- that a cart-horse is as good as a racer, My lesson is THE NEW AGE NOVEMBER 26, 1908 that you must not choose your racer from your success- ful cart-horses, nor your cart-horses from your unsuc- cessful racers. The common people have never quite From MR. HEINEMANN’S LIST. lost hold of that-idea. Many an unemployed bricklayer will rather starve than do labourer’s work, or try to do carpenter’s work. That is the true spirit. W. R. TITTERTON. The Revolt of Books and Persons. (AN OCCASIONAL CAUSERIE.) the “Potemkin.” I HAVE discovered a new publisher, and as new pub- Reminiscencesof Constantine Feldmann lishers do not come into existence very frequently (the risks of violent extinction being notoriously great in 6s. net. this department of philanthropy), the discovery is worth mentioning. The new publisher calls himself “Chris- tophers,” and inhabits Lancaster Place, Strand. I say “ So lively is the tale that its interest would “ calls himself, ” because I am nearly sure that “Chris- hold its own with the keenest fiction, while the tophers ” is a nom-de-guerre. As a name it is too good truth of the story is everywhere apparent in the to be true. I can see the name of “ Christophers ” going down to posterity with the names of Blackwood, wealth of detail with which it is recorded.“- Murray, and Macmillan as one of the august makers of Daily Telegraph . Literature. For of course publishers, if their demeanour is any sort of guide, are the real makers of literature. Authors only write it. As Mr. “ Christophers ” is an ingenu and unspotted by the world, I will offer him one or two free suggestions. He would gain profit by pub- The Grammar lishing a reprint, at a shilling, of Malthus’s “Essay on the Principle of Population,” with an introduction by Havelock Ellis or someone else adequate to the task. of Life . No cheap or satisfactory edition of this great classic exists. Further, there is room for a history of journal- By C. T. WRENCH, M.D. ism in the nineteenth century. No such work exists. It is needed. It would be interesting. Thirdly, I can Crown 8vo, 6s. net. put him on. to a really good, and unknown, writer for children, who might be the equal of Mrs. Bland. This is enough suggestions for one day. But I have lots London: Wm. HEINEMANN, Bedford St., W.C. more. Let Mr. “ Christophers ” communicate with me, and a fortune is his. * * * Just Published, I fancy that I have possessed myself of the first book THE STORY OF A GREAT SOCIAL REVOLUTION. published by "Christophers.” If it is not actually the first, it must be nearly the first. “Side Shows,” by J. B. Atkins. It is very well produced. The volume THE IRON HEEL. consists of essays, largely upon social aspects of life. By JACK LONDON. l The essays, though some of them have appeared in the Author of” The Call of the Wild,” “ Love of Life,” etc. most singular journals, are excellent. Mr. Atkins has Crown 8vo, 6s. a style, a sense of humour, and an unshakable sagacity, This new novel of Mr. London’s contains all the witchery and is quite bereft of nonsense. If Mr. Arthur Chris- of his magnificent, closely pressed style of writing. It is sup- topher Benson could write as well, how much less posed to be written some seven hundred years hence, and to contain the history of the first (of many) social revolutions tedious the planet would be ! Occasionally I recom- which took place until the world got righted. mend a book-not often, I admit. I am always ready There is no doubt the “ Iron Heel “--this is how he names to back my opinions at the pen’s point. I recommend the all-embracing power of capitalism-will be read and this book. You who read it will thank me in your re-read by hundreds of thousands in almost every civilized city. It is so powerfully and vitally true. The lesson is hearts, though you will probably not put yourselves to driven home with the force of a steam hammer working on the trouble of writing me to express your gratitude. molten metal. * * * London: EVERETT & CO., 42, Essex street, W.C. Mr. J. B. Atkins has had an adventurous and varied career, -and he is still strangely young. He made war for the “Manchester Guardian ” in Greece, Cuba, and SPECIAL OFFER OF MARX’S South Africa. Of two hundred descriptive books on the GREAT WORK ON CAPITAL. Boer War, his “Relief of Ladysmith ” was the most distinguished. Who can forget the unforgettable con- certina chapter therein ? The “ M.G.” (as it is called CAPITAL: by its minions) created him its chief London corre- A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. spondent. Such dazzling greatness at such a tender The Twelfth English Edition of “ Das Kapital,” by age would have ruined a weaker man. When Mr. Karl Marx, translated from the German by SAMUEL Pearson bought the “Standard ” and lay awake of MOORE and Dr. EDWARD AVELING, and Edited by F. nights wondering what on earth he should do with it, ENGELS. The best translation of this important work, the idea was borne in upon him that he must have a which has been aptly styled “ the Bible of the Working brilliant and expensive Paris. correspondent ; and he Class,” and which contains the masterly statement of obtained Mr. Atkins. The explanation of Mr. Atkins’s those Socialistic doctrines which are having so great an readiness to go over to the enemy is this. He is a effect throughout the world. Demy 8vo, cloth, Radical, which is the same as being a Liberal. But he Published at 10/6. NOW offered at 4/6 post free, is a Liberal with Whig leanings (school of George Russell), which is the same as being a Tory. WILLIAM GLAISHER, Ltd., Booksellers, * + * 268. HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. However, retribution overtook him. I remember one afternoon when I was in Paris calling upon Atkins THE NEWBEEF TEA -JU-VIS Prepared solely from Beef and Vegetable. at the old offices of the “Standard ” in the Makes delicious rich gravies or a cup of strong Place de l’Opera. (Stately and antique chambers Beef Tea for a penny. Ask your grocer, NOVEMBER 26, 1908 THE NEW AGE 95 with cracked mirrors over cracked fireplaces ! Mr. BOOK OF THE WEEK. Pearson soon changed all that.) He was poring over a copy of the day’s “Standard,” which had Recent Verse.” just arrived, and his face was gloomy, disillusioned, nigh liquid with horror. “ Look at this! ” he bade me. AMID much that may be contradictory, one thing has “ And this!” I looked. This and this were split infini- been insisted upon in what I have written here about tives ! I gave first aid, and ultimately got him into a modern English poetry : the need for a revaluation of restaurant. But it was a serious crisis. When he was all poetical values. Coleridge has said that poetry is better, I told him sternly that a man who left the the best words in the best order ; but it remains to the “ Manchester Guardian ” to swell the cohorts of a mere poet, conscious of the demon within him, haughty in London daily must take the consequences. The next his aim and humble in achievement, to discover for him- thing I heard was that he had joined the editorial staff self what the best order may be, and not to let himself of the “ Spectator,” for which organ, I believe, he be led astray into imitation and easy acceptance of writes the articles dealing with foreign policy. I do forms, phrases, and rhythms that have served and are not assert that the daily shower of split infinitives from now effete. How much, for instance, can a poet be London drove him out of Paris, but the coincidence is conscious of his art, or can have any art at all, who, curious. like Mr. Drinkwater, writes at the end of his second * + * volume :- At the same time as I received “ Side Shows ” there Men say the strings are broken came “ When the Tide Turns ” (Grant Richards), the Of the magic lute of old, new novel of Mr. Filson Young, who was Mr. Atkins’s That heaven sends no token Of its silver tongues of gold; junior colleague in South Africa. Mr. Grant Richards They say that song is weaving has cleverly placed between, the leaves of this book No more the heart’s repose, information to the effect that Mr. Filson Young’s first They say that song is grieving novel, “The Sands of Pleasure,” is in its seventy-fourth In the shadows and the snows. thousand. There are few literary critics in London who And so on for five stanzas. Against this mere wordi- will be entirely frank about an author who has run to ness and mechanical rhythm it is good to place Mr. seventy thousand copies. Frankness does not begin Edward Storer’s verse, and to know, from the essay at again until the two hundred thousand mark is passed, the end of his book, sweeping and wrong though it may when critics say to themselves : “This is really going be in, many of its assertions, that we have a poet who too far, We must demolish this.” And Miss Corelli has fought his way out of convention, and formed for suffers accordingly. Hence Mr. Filson Young has himself a poetique. Neither is it surprising to find that already had a great deal of eulogy for “When the Tide he has drawn inspiration from France. Has not George Turns. ” The opening passages descriptive of the sea Moore said that English artists go to Paris with a have been warmly praised. I wish I could say that knapsack and come back with a few pickings as their these elaborate and self-conscious pieces do not merely stock-in-trade? Be that as it may, Mr. Storer makes irritate me. They are simply nothing but fine writing war on all poetic conventions : sonnet, ballade, vil- of the least excusable sort. Oh, mot juste, for what lanelle, stanza, poetic drama, narrative, didactic and fearsome moonshine art thou not responsible ! Mr. descriptive poem, heroic blank verse-all are wrong ; Young begins right off by describing the water as talk- even rhyme is only admitted on sufferance, as an occa- ing under the planks of a little boat. I should have sional embellishment ; and the sole poetry is the vers thought that that simile had been dead and buried years libre- heroic blank verse cut up and phrased accord- ago. But a few pages further on the confounded water ing to the flow of the emotion and the exercise of the is talking under a boat again. This, as we unlettered sixth sense -the sense of wonder ?-which has given savages say, is a bit too thick. (By the way, Mr. us exquisite impalpable lines like Atkins describes the waves as tinkling under a boat.) Fretted to dulcet jars And silvern chatter the pale ports o’ the moon.’ And listen : “The boy sitting on the rock, his ears filled with their [the tide’s] mellow, heart-breaking and music, thought suddenly the inevitable thought of youth . . . . magic casements opening on the foam -how long they were here before me, how long they Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn. will remain after me ! The same rocks, the same tides, To Mr. Storer, poetry is the handmaiden of this sixth the same sounds, a thousand years ago, a thousand sense ; and so it should be ; but I would rather say that years hence- and I no more than a ripple that smiles the lines quoted from Thompson and Keats are born of for a moment on their surface.” Bright boy, inevitably an exquisite sense of word music (this is not a trope, thinking ! Mr. Young’s women are far worse even as Mr. Storer says) married to the sense of wonder; than his Rupert. They are, in fact, silencing. They Having studied his instrument, Mr. Storer can naturally leave you speechless. The whole book is a morass of produce from it a music that is wise and beautiful ; but well-dressed sentimentality. I speak plainly, as an it has not altogether the magic charm of this sixth antidote to many columns of gorgeous praise. Mr. sense, which steals away the heart and leaves in its Young is clever-I am told that his practical hints to place an aching pain. Perhaps this is because he is too motorists are excellent-and he is still a literary infant. modern, because he plays the poet beneath the mask of If he will forget all that he has acquired about correct the man of the world. Perhaps it is because just when style and the craft of fiction, and all that he has read the ear is expecting the sweet chime of rhyme, he about life, and just look at life itself and put down what cheats you of it, and you feel unsatisfied. It is singular he sees, not what he thinks it is the classy, superior thing to see, he may produce something that experts * " Mirrors of Illusion, ” by Henry Storer (Sisley, 5s. can respect. If he cannot or will not do this, he will net) ; (‘ Nature Poems,” by W. H. 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Write for Photo. more to be said about it ; and so far from creating a THE NEW AGE new epoch in literature thus, as Mr. Davidson fondly the statement,’ I have felt it necessary. in order to vindi- imagines he is doing, you are merely destroying all cate my position, to write Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Balfour, literature, for literature is man’s little song and cry and Lord Percy on the subject, and their replies are as follows :- against the inexplicable infinite ; God “ Almighty ” Mr. Balfour writes : ‘(You are quite right in your recol- could not write a book. The epistle dedicatory to the lections. I certainly never consulted with you on the sub- Peers Temporal, applying his doctrine, only betrays utter ject of moving the closure on the debate to which you refer. ignorance of economic conditions and total lack of social I was not even aware you were going to move it.‘, psychology and lack of sense of humour. And the Sir Edward Grey writes : ‘(I had no communication with Testament itself is no surprise. We knew it all before. you as to the closing of the debate on the visit to Reval, “ London Visions ” are a pretty problem to Mr. nor, I may add, had I any communication on this point Storer, for they are in vers libres and in stanzas, -they are with Mr. Balfour or Lord Percy, as has been stated.” Lord Percy writes : ‘I There is, as you are aware, no foun- descriptive and they are narrative ; yet they are poetry. dation for the suggestion that the question of the duration Mr. Storer would say that there must be dreary wastes of the debate on the Royal visit to Russia formed the sub- of plain statement ; and that would be true. Yet be- ject of any discussion between Mr. Balfour, Sir Edward cause Mr. Laurence Binyon has gone about London Grey, and ourselves.” with imaginative eyes, he has written poetry. It is Thanking you in anticipation for the hospitality of your when the poet’s imagination ceases, and his brooding columns. ARTHUR HENDERSON turns to philosophy, that poetry ceases, too. Not the * ‘ * form makes poetry, but the content ; and descriptive MR. GRAYSON REPLIES. verse like “Red Night in London Visions ” becomes To THE EDITOR OF “THE NEW AGE.” poetry by the atmosphere it creates, impossible in “And if Satan cast out Satan he is divided against him- prose. Most of London’s wretchedness, squalor, en- self ; how shall then his kingdom stand ? ” One finds it difficult to deal with Mr. Arthur Henderson, chantment, tragedy, and mighty futile effort is crowded M.P., without a Biblical text. Mr. Henderson, finding me into this book. One feels a sense of awful detachment unwilling to question the veracity of my own eyesight, as one watches the strange orgiastic nightmare, and hastens to vindicate himself out of the mouths of very reli- peeps into attics of agony and loneliness. In his por- able and impartial persons. To convince the Socialist traits and sketches, like “The Rag-Picker,” “The movement that there was no such damning conference as the Little Dancers ” “The Builders,” “ Martha,” “ The one I charge him with, he secures the final testimony of Paralytic,” “ Midsummer Noon,” “The Convict,” and his fellow conspirators. I have personally never presumed all clearly imagined, limned, and to know what was the subject of these honorable gentlemen’s “John Winter,” conversation. I was only near enough to observe. Not realised, Mr. Laurence Binyon is at his human best. one of Mr. Henderson’s impartial witnesses denies the con- “Lyrical and Other Poems ” might serve as an ference. All they do deny is the agenda of the conference. example for Mr. Storer to declaim against. 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Cromwell, below the gangway crossed the gangway several times and a brewer, Macaulay’s “greatest prince who ever reigned in held conversations with Earl Percy, who sat next to Mr. England,” was such a genius, and chose for his colonels Balfour on the Front Opposition Bench, returning each time and other trusted officers several serving-men, a drayman, and conversing with Mr. Keir Hardie, who sat next to him on a wine cooper, a carpenter, a milkman, etc. These are his left. Earl Percy then crossed to the other side of the they who knocked into a cocked hat the “officers and House, around the back of the Speaker’s chair, and sat on gentlemen ” of the army of the King. the Treasury Bench in conversation with Sir Edward Grey. W. PARMENTER. 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TYPEWRITING.- Miss LOUBET, 5, Holstein Parade, Wey- Perhaps I may be permitted one remark ” in reply. To T bridge, Surrey. Authors’ manuscripts, 8d. 1,000 words, including paper, accuse Anglicans of using the word 'Catholic ” out of its Remington Small or large commissions executed expeditiously and carefully ‘(plain meaning ” is to be guilty of the well known (( fallacia UNITARIANISM. AN AFFIRMATIVE FAITH,” ( The accidentis.” U Unitarian Argument” (Biss), ’ Eternal Punishment ” (Stopford Brooke) CHARLES G. HARRISON. “Atonement” (Page Hopps), given post free.- Miss BARMBY, Mount Pleasant, * * * Sidmouth. WANTED. -Two Students, either sex, in the South-Western or THE SUPPLY OF ARMY OFFICERS. South-Eastern district, with knowledge of Elementary Physiology.- To THE EDITOR OF (( THE NEW AGE.” Apply, Box 839, THOMAS BROWNE & Co., LTD., 143-4, Holborn Bars, E C. Though not SO intended, the letter of " Ex-Officer ” is an ZION’S WORKS contain explanations of the Bible, which free mankind from the charge of indirect argument for a more Socialised and economical Sin. Read Vol. V., p. 87, and the “ Discourses,” Vol. XII. army. He seems to assume that physical courage is In THE PRINCIPAL FREE LIBRARIES, THE NEW AGE NOVEMBER 26, 1908 This Prospectas has been filed with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

(Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1907.) LIMITED. CAPITAL. £8,500. Divided into 3,300 £1 Preference Shares, 3,000 £1 Ordinary Shares, and 2,200 £1 Deferred Shares. The Preference Shares are entitled to a fixed non-cumulative Preferential Dividend at the rate of Six per Cent. per Annum on the amount paid-up thereon, and rank in priority to the other Shares upon a winding up. ISSUE OF 3,300 6 PER CENT. PREFERENCE SHARES OF £1. Payable 2/6 per Share on application ; 7/.6 on Allotment, and the Balance as and when required in instalments of 5/- each at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS.-ALFRED RICHARD ORAGE, Journalist, 1 and 2, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane, E.C. (Chairman). FRANK PALMER. Publisher, 140, Fleet Street, E.C. (Managing Director). GEORGE ROBERT STIRLING TAYLOR, Barrister-at-Law, 1, Pump Court, Temple. BANKERS.-THE LONDON CITY & MIDLAND BANK, LTD., Holborn Viaduct Branch, London, E.C. SOLICITORS. -BRABY & MACDONALD, 5, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C. AUDITORS.-HARPER & BROOM, 27, Chancery Lane, E.C. SECRETARY AND REGISTERED OFFICE.-A. F. LARGEN, 140, Fleet Street, E.C. PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed to acquire as a going con- taken over as from and after the 30th Sept., 1908, and cern the goodwill of the journal or newspaper known as all liabilities will be discharged by the Vendors up to THE NEW AGE, and also the publishing business known that date. The stock of the publishing business will as The New Age Press. THE NEW AGE, which was be taken over by the Company at cost price. founded in the year 1894, was purchased by the present The following information is given to comply with proprietor, Mr. A. R. Orage, in May, 1907, and has the provisions of the Companies Act 1907. now established for itself a recognised position as a The minimum subscription on which the Directors weekly review of politics, literature and art, viewed nay proceed to allotment is £1,500. from the standpoint of those who are interested in the The estimated amount of preliminary expenses is modern development of Socialism and its ideals. £125. No brokerage, commission or promotion money The New Age Press, which has been under the con- will be paid. trol of Mr. Frank Palmer, has become well known for The Articles of Association of the Company are the the successful issue of books and literature dealing more revised Table A of 1906, issued by Order of the Board especially with Socialism and its modern economic basis. of Trade. The provisions of Table A as regards the The results of this issue will enable the Directors to qualification and remuneration of Directors are as extend in many directions the scope and usefulness both follows :- of the periodical and of the publishing business. The remuneration of the Directors shall from time to The present Business Manager of both THE NEW AGE time be determined by the Company in general Meeting. and The New Age Press, Mr. Frank Palmer, has pre- The qualification of a Director shall be the holding sented to the Directors the following report as to the of at least One Share in the Company, and it shall be position of the two enterprises, and the Directors, while his duty to comply with the provisions of the Com- anxious to avoid making extravagant promises, yet feel panies Act, 19010, Section 3. justified in thinking these facts sufficient to convince The following Contracts have been entered into, viz. : intending subscribers that they will find a secure invest- (a) An agreement dated November 3rd, 1908, between ment for their money. Alfred Richard Orage and this Company, whereby the said THE PRESENT BUSINESS MANAGER’S REPORT ON “THE Alfred Richard Orage agrees to sell the said newspaper, with NEW AGE” AND “THE NEW AGE PRESS.” its goodwill, copyrights, and other property, to this Com- The business progress of the THE NEW AGE and The pany in consideration of the 2,200 Deferred Shares which New Age Press has been slow, but unbroken. are to be allotted to him, or his nominees, as fully paid, and When in January of this year I took over the manage- £300 in cash (to enable him to discharge the before-men- ment of THE NEW AGE, the weekly circulation warranted by tioned liabilities of the paper), and whereby he agrees to actual sales was 4.000. This week the number of copies serve the company as Editor for a term of five years at the circulated is considerably over 16,000. This rise is the more yearly salary of £208. satisfactory in that it has mostly been by regular weekly (b) An agreement dated November 3rd, 1908, between the increments of from 100 to 400 copies, and continued even said Alfred Richard Orage and Frank Palmer and this Com- throughout the summer holiday season. pany, whereby they agree to sell to the Company the said The advertisement revenue shows similar signs of im- publishing business with its goodwill, copyrights, and other provement. Comparing the average weekly revenue from property, in consideration of the 3,000 Ordinary Shares of advertisements during January with the latest week’s returns, the Company, which are to be allotted to them, or their an increase of over 300 per centum is shown. Within the nominees, as fully paid, and whereby the said Frank Palmer last few weeks several unsolicited testimonials to the value agrees to serve the Company as Publisher and Business of THE NEW AGE as an advertising medium have been Manager and Managing Director for a term of five years received ; and I am confident that the revenue from this at a yearly salary of £208 plus a commission of 2½ per cent. source will continue to increase. At this present rate of on the actual receipts of the business. progress the time is not far distant when THE NEW AGE These contracts can be seen at the office of the Company’s will pay its way; and with Capital it is certain that this Solicitors. 5, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C., at any time progress can be hastened. between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The New Age Press, which has been associated with In estimating the before mentioned purchase money, the THE NEW AGE, commenced publishing in January last. In goodwill of the said newspaper has been taken at £2,000, the space of nine months twenty-one books have been pub- and the goodwill of the publishing business at £1,000. lished. On nineteen of them already a good, and in some The said Alfred Richard Orage and Frank Palmer, cases a considerable, profit has been made. Accounts have who are Directors of this Company, are interested in been opened up with over 200 Booksellers all over the the promotion of it in the manner and to the extent country, and the New Age Press has already made a name for the character and format of its publications. Many above set forth. new books and other matters are now in preparation. The Dated November 3, 1908. old established reference book known as ‘(The Reformers’ This Form may be used Or a COPY made of it. Year Book ” has been taken over, commencing with the FORM OF APPLICATION. 1909 edition. This should be a sound additional source To THE MANAGER, THE LONDON CITY AND MIDLAND BANK, LIMITED, of profit. HOLBORN VIADUCT BRANCH, LONDON, E.C. Finally, I am of opinion that both undertakings have Having paid to the Company the sum of £ ...... ,...... , being the Deposit of 2s. 6d. per share, on Application for ...... a...... been handicapped in the past by the lack of Capital ; yet Preference Shares of £1 each, I HEREBY REQUEST you to allot me that number such excellent progress has been made as to warrant my of Preference Shares, and I AGREE TO ACCEPT the same, or any less number belief that with additional Capital THE NEW AGE and New allotted to me, AND I AGREE TO PAY the further instalments thereon as required, AND I AUTHORISE YOU to place my name on the Register in respect of such Age Press jointly have an excellent prospect before them Shares. of becoming financially successful. Name (in full) .,..,...,...... a...... *...... ** Oct. 24th, 1908. F. PALMER, Business Manager, Address (in full) ...... The paper and also the publishing business will be Occupation and/or Title...... *...... *..*...... *...... ~-_____-_--- Printed for the Proprietor by A. BONNER, 1 & 2, Took’s Court, Furnival Street, E.C. Agents for South Africa and Australia : GORDON & GOTCH,London, Melbourne, Sidney, Brisbane, Perth (W. Australia), and Cape Town; and (S. Africa), CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, LTD. Publishing and Advertising Offices: FRANK PALMER 139 & 140, Fleet Street, London, E.C.. TeL 6111 central Editorial communications must be sent to 1 & 2, Took's Court, E.C.