{"numero_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_sha256": "2a6033c72a5799c07ce443e300f26bd76ede58ecbfbefa2f88d27220ab44a9a7", "source_tei": "https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/bluemountain-transcriptions/blob/main/periodicals/bmtnaau/issues/1918/11_01/bmtnaau_1918-11_01.tei.xml", "source_mets": "https://github.com/pulibrary/BlueMountain/blob/main/metadata/periodicals/bmtnaau/issues/1918/11_01/bmtnaau_1918-11_01.mets.xml", "url_numero": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01", "articles": [{"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c001", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c001", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "33", "page_fin": "33", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.1", "titre_corps": "A GARDEN THEATRE", "titre_sommaire": "A GARDEN THEATRE", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "33", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 145, "fin_caractere_exclue": 194, "texte": "A GARDEN THEATRE\nSHOWING GROUND PLAN AND SECTION."}, {"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "33", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 272, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1519, "texte": "THIS is the Garden Theatre in the Grossen Garten,\nDresden:... the section shows you (1) the seats for the\nspectators raised on 5 (or is it 7) steps ; (2) the orchestra ;\n(3) the stage ; (4) the hinter-scene in perspective; but for\nthis last you will refer to the plan. Altogether a delightful\nconception. Most open air theatres in private gardens of the\npresent day are mere lawns decked up on occasion like the\nmare's tail of the well-to-do farmer. A modern hostess is\nvery artistic.... so much so that it is unnecessary to call upon\nthe services of an architect to design a theatre.... the flat\nlawn, a few lanterns and bits of costume will do to her\nmind. Add to that a few friends who can wave their arms\nso as to sadly imitate the imitators of the great Dancer,\n.... and 10, Art is at last with us. The sadness of the\nperformance is by no means decreased because of the sol-\nemnity of the performance.\nBut the expenses are thus curtailed.... and that is by no\nmeans unimportant with some very wealthy people. Nay,\nin some instances money is even made by such shows, while\never-ready and obliging Journals are glad to send photogra-\nphers to chronicle the event and record a performance of the\n20 th century for those of the 21st to marvel at."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c002", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c002", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "33", "page_fin": "33", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.1.1", "titre_corps": "A GARDEN THEATRE : SHOWING GROUND PLAN AND SECTION", "titre_sommaire": "A GARDEN THEATRE : SHOWING GROUND PLAN AND SECTION", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "33", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 196, "fin_caractere_exclue": 270, "texte": "a.a. Positions for groups of Figures. b. Littie Temple. c. c. c. c. wings."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c003", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c003", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "33", "page_fin": "35", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.2", "titre_corps": "WE OF THE NEW MOVEMENT", "titre_sommaire": "WE OF THE NEW MOVEMENT", "signature_source": "E. G. C", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "33", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 1521, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3561, "texte": "WEOF THE\nNEW MOVEMENT.\n\nA LETTER TO THE LAWLESS\nONES.... THOSE WITH TALENT\n.... THAT'S YOU?... WHAT?\nMY dear Rogues and Vagabonds :...\nWe are a bad lot, you know,\nfrom the point of view of the Garrick\nClub — and probably of the Players\nClub in New York, the old fogies in the\nUniversities in Mokeshane.... everyone,\neverywhere....\nWe are up against something.\nIt used to be the clergy, — but as\nyou know there are some mighty fine\nhearty old friends of ours amongst the\nClergy. Doctors, too,... except the\npet doctors, are with us.\nYou like them?.... so do I. I have\nalways found them the friends of ar-\ntists.... especially the independent ar-\ntists.... the rebellious ones.\nWho else is for us ? Well, now I\ncome to think of it mostly everyone.\nWho's against us, then ?\nNearly Everybody.\nAt least so the Garrick Club would\nsuggest, I expect.. and the Players ?...\nI query that, for I really don't\nknow what kind of hearty hosts these\ngentlemen are as a body. I never was\ninvited by them to any function.... nor\nhave I all my life heard from any but\none member of that great American\nBody. It's true I've heard indirectly\nfrom Belasco.... who was gracious\nenough to say I had written a good\nand useful book. I suppose he is a\nmember of the Players.\nBut what the deuce is it doing as\na representative club in not expressing\nin some definite manner its fullest ap-\npreciation or its greenest contempt for\nthis our New Movement ?\nWe are 1 suspect !, we awful revo-\nlutionaries.... we \" new n people.... we\nold -as-the-hills folk. At least we must\nbe allowed to think so until our big\nbrothers brace up and take the fatal\nplunge and come up with us in a\nbody.\nWhy now I can't guess.\nWe stand for good by our Move-\nment.... we don't mean any tricks....\nwe don't want to steal any of the\nClub writing paper-., we are Honest\nInjuns. Well then, why all this hol-\nding back ?...\nThere's Mackaye huddling behind\na screen somewhere in the smoking\nroomwhat's he doing in a club\nwhich doesn't welcome the whole pack\nof us? What's all this Imitation Eng-"}, {"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "34", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.2", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 7078, "texte": "land doing in America ? ?... Pseudo\nGarrick Club tactics.\nIt won't d 0.... Still, I've told you\nwhy it is. We are less nice than we\nought to be if we attended to their\nways a bit more and followed them....\ninstead of being so raw,... so rough....\nso independent.\nAre we to attend to them.... or to\ngo our own path ?\nWell, I think we can lay down\nno lav/ for this. So far as I can\nsee we must go on —at all costs go\non. That phrase 11 at all costs 33 has\na certain twang of desperation about\nit, but our situation is anything but a de-\nsperate one. If anything it is in some\nways a little too easy.\nLiberty is always a little too easy,\nremember the n remember n of that\nsentence being for the youngest mem-\nbers of our band. Still it is thrown\naway on them, for how can they\nremember that which they have not yet\nexperienced ?\nAnyhow we who have gone some of\nthe way.... Those of us past 35,...\nor perhaps 36.... can understand that\nit is not the breaking free from old\nbonds that is really the difficult thing ;\nit is to know where not to break, and\nwhere and how to unite a little\nbroken thread or two.\nAnd it is this breaking old bonds\nand making new paths and doing the\nwork of pioneers that leaves us in the\ncondition I spoke of above as n less\nnice ff. Lack of sustenance and of re-\nfinements is apt to bring that about:\ndon't you see how the presence of\nsome silver on the table, and n waiter,\nbring me a clean plate 33, would help\nto give us that nicer manner.... that\ntone which we lack and (you remem-\nber) Bonaparte's Generals all lacked :...\nhow they horrified the n Clubs 33 in\nthose days ... those men who were\nmaking history!\nWell, you are making history too.\nIt's a delicious feeling,... what?\nWhen one is in doubt about it the\npain in the tummy reminds 0ne,...\ndon't let us talk of the heart.... let us\nleave that to the gentler ones of the\nClubs. We need.... positively need....\nour periods of abstinence..,, one mustn't\noverdo it, you know,... but it's so\nuseful.... though when it becomes a\nfixed state one revolts and one is apt\nto be still more n less nice 3f. But\nthen abstinence, which our charitable\nfriends at the Garrick or Players or round\ntea-tables plot for us !f for our good n,...\nfrom Christian motives.... and which\nthey tactfully force us without force\nso endure, is not nice either ; and it\nit particularly nasty to spirits more sen-\nsitive than mine.... a humour less\nbuoyant..., than ours.\nI can well understand how an article\nin the Quarterly killed poor John\nKeats.... and how all the lies of the\ntea-tables presided over by Lady By-\nron failed to kill Lord Byron.\nNeither Keats nor Byron were\n33 nice 33 :... no artists are:... we need\nnot be proud of this.... we have to\naccept it as a fact: it's only when\nyou decide to join the Liars' or the\nPlayers or the Garrick that you pre-\ntend to be n nice n,... and try to for-\nget about that vulgar thing Art:... and\npretending, you come to forget that\noutside the dear Club are really as\ngood fish as ever came into it.\nIt's a pity we can't be 33 nice 33 and\nyet remain artists ... but it can't be\ndone. Read for example the tales of\nthe Middle Ages.... the 13th Century\ntales.... they are not at all nice, but they\nare packed with what a work of art\nmust have in it.... reality and not pre-\ntence. Read the tales of the Greeks...\nthe Chinese.... the Indian tales.... the\nEgyptian and the Latin tales :... the\nwriters if they lived today would\narouse the animosity of all the English\nchiefs of the great Tribe of Pale\nFaces.... No, now I come to think of\nit they are not at all pale.... some are\nhearty dogs.... hearty as honest 1ag0....\nThere's one Englishman in New York,...\nwhat a hearty fellow. ..\nBut I must get on.\nIf such writers as I have mentioned\nwere alive today and wrote their tremen-\ndous master-pieces, the Editor of some\n13 Century 33 or other would ask his sub-\neditor if she knew these fellows, and\nshe would reply that they were not\nexactly nice. The Clubs.... the ladies'\nClubs.... would approve the sub-editor....\nthe manager of some Little Theatre\n(commercial brand).... a sort of good\nMr Winthrop Ames, would look clas-\nsically peevish.... noble if peevish....\nand calling unto him that ever-ready\nHamilton would say unto him.... n Tell\nme, my good man, are these decent ? 33\nAnd Hamilton would reply, n The\nEditor of 11 Vogue 13 told me they\nweren't \".... and Mr Winthrop Ames\nwould draw a long lot of air in into\nhim and say nothing till he'd let it\nout again, and then say nothing, but\nthink to himself,... 31 How awful they\nmust be, then! 33 and Mudie would\nwrite to 33 Vogue 31 and 33 Vogue 33 to\nHamilton, and Hamilton to Ames, and\nAmes to Mudie and Mudie to the\nGarrick and the Garrick to the Players,\nand there would be a fine feeling\namongst them all that they were in\nthe majority; and all the ladies would\nbe set talking, and the lies would\nspread and.... Art would mark time\nfor a while.\nAll because ignorance was suffering\nunder the delusion that to be Nice\nwas the first and last thing.\nAnd yet bear this in mind ; while\nit's not the one and only thing it is a\ngreat deal, and it is of great value.\nHamlet is not always nice, nor the\nMerchant of Venice, nor Othello, but\nsomehow or other Shakespeare i 5.... I\nwas going to say, balanced...• not a\nscrap of it. Shakespeare is excentric,\nbeyond all words excentric. That's why\nhe's Shakespeare and not Pinero:...\nand Pinero is not so n nice n neither ;\nthat's what makes him Pinero. Why,\nPinero would be with us today were\nhe 35.... or 36.\nAnd so would most of these older\nmen.... possibly are:... but it's the rag\ntag and bobtail which make up a Club,\nyou know.... the dear little black-\nballs.\nAnyhow I suggest we think of this a\nlittle in our new Movement, so that\nat any rate we avoid being out\nthe fashion.... or in it.\nThere sit Messrs Non-Committal\nand Co, these good gentlemen, having\na pow-wow in the gilded smoke-rooms\nof some club and separating to spread\ntheir ancient principles afresh. That\nthey have damned what is good in our\nTheatres is obvious, for, had they not\ndone so, they would long ago have\nbeen heard and seen to bless it with\nraised hands from the Sacred Temple\nin Garrick Street and Grammmercy\nPark.\nThey live to damn what they con-\nsider is 11 a bad influence 33 or 11 a great\npity 11 or n most rash n or n old-fashio-\nned !f or 33 clever clever but what\na pity he drinks I 33\nNow, we don't drink, we New\nMovement folk we drink no more\nthan those at the Garrick. We are\nin every respect exceedingly virtuous\npeople, for we are as abstemious as\nare these Garrickites, Playerites, Cen-\nturyites, Vogueites, Commercialites, and\nthe rest of the little tights.\nThe New Movement is rough. It's\nmen have been at pioneer work (pio-\nneer without the label), and so their\nclothes hands skin boots\nall are a bit rough not 11 nice 33,\nalthough tidied up and mended every\nweek. But then the Army in Flanders,\nseveral million men strong, that is not\n33 nice n either.\nSo it will very shortly come to be\nconsidered afresh, this pretty word,\nand its value revalued.\nWe, however, in the New Move-"}, {"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "35", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 415, "texte": "ment of the Theatre must try to be\njust as nice as possible, taking as our\nstandard not the dandelions of the\nmiddle-class clubs, but the daisies and\nroses of the other places.\nThe finer flowers in those aristo-\ncratic and democratic circles in which\nwe have so many true and loyal\nfriends.\nNEVER APOLOGIZE FOR SHOWING\nFEELING, MY FRIEND. REMEMBER\nTHAT WHEN Yo'u DO SO YOU APO-\nLOGIZE FOR TRUTH.\nDisraeli.\n\nE. G. C."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c005", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c005", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "35", "page_fin": "35", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.3", "titre_corps": "SIZE", "titre_sommaire": "SIZE", "signature_source": "JOHN SEMAR", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "35", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 417, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6229, "texte": "SIZE.\nJOHN SEMAR.\nLittle drops of water,\nLittle grains of sand,\nMake the mighty ocean,\nAnd the pleasant land.\nLITTLE Theatres Little Reviews\nLittle Galleries what is\nexactly meant here by this adjective\nn little !f ?\nExcept to a certain group size doesn't\ncount at all.\nTrue it is that Mozart, tripping into\nthe presence of his beloved, a certain\nMademoiselle Aloysia Weber, found\nher n unobservant of the greatness of\nhis genius she saw him only as n a\nlittle man and \"he was a remarkably\nsmall man w (0 .\nSo then size does count for it\ndeceives, and they who love nothing\nso much as to be deceived will al-\nways suffer. Therefore a Little Thea-\ntre, Gallery or Review can be as mighty\na thing as the \" little man n above re-\nferred to and be rejected.\nBut heaven forbid that in our\nmodern craze for inversion, should come\nto consider all little things as mighty\njust because of their littleness! It is\nthe kind of thing which happens for a\nwhile about those little receptacles of\nart. We call our Theatres, Galleries\nand Reviews \" Little n because, know-\ning our fine fools, we have no par-\nticular longing to hear them drawl out\nthe obvious the only thing their\nintelligence would notice. n What a\npokey place ! n All right all right\nthat's all right, bright boys it\nis little we anticipate your profound\nobservation we tell you it is.\nWhy came the3e small places into\nexistence ? We will tell you. When\nyour large theatres, large galleries and\nlarge reviews closed their doors to us\nthey did so promising that we would\nsooner or later come down on our\nknees and beg for admission. You\ncommercial money-grinders love us on\nour knees. The closed doors certainly\ndid stagger us for a few years (we\nlive years in seconds sometimes)\nand the next moment we had opened\nour Little Gallery or Theatre or com-\nmenced our Little Review. How ?\nGoodness knows ! It was done. But\nit needs capital, you say. It does. It\nneeds blood or money. We gave\nblood. Go on, young men, give your\nblood and open your Little Theatres,\nReviews and Galleries don't forget\nto give them some brains as well.\nNot brains to make a hit that's\nbest left to the old fogies of commer-\ncial intentions. A success is not for\nyou : but pay in blood and brains\nto make poems plays scenes\ncostumes operas pictures books\nand sculpture.\nYou are all on the right road\nall's quite well things are going fa-\nmously. You know of course without\nmy saying anything that if your ven-\nture fails you have not failed but\nit can't fail provided you don't attempt\nto make a hit provided you avoid\nn !!\n\" success \".\nUnfortunately success is what a few\nof the Little Theatres aim for, but\nthat is only when they have at their\nhead a man who is really one of the\nsort a commercial disguised as an\nartist. For an artist never fails. You\ncannot show me in all history an ar-\ntist who has failed, unless it was just\na tradesman in disguise.\nA very few of the Little Theatres\nare controlled by men of that stamp.\nI'll not mention names just yet. You'll\nfind some of them in the books re-\nviewed in The Marionneite and The\nMask.\nWe need not bother about them\nbut we should separate from them at once.\nAnd while success or a hit will not\nbe dreamed of by you, success will be\nachieved by you. That is quite ano-\nther thing,\nMozart, that 11 little man n, strove\nfor no 11 hit n, no \" success n, but he\nmade nothing else. His whole life\nwas one succession of hits. Mozart\nthought a good deal about money,\ntoo. If you'll read his life you'll see\nhow much he thought about it and\nwhy. And he bore money in mind\nmore than the elect would think pos-\nsible.\nMy point is this to neither him\nnor you (if you are an artist) can it\nmake a scrap of difference whether you\nthink of money or not. You will\nexpress yourself in your art and\nyou can do this all the better if you\nhave enough to eat well on - dress\nwell on and some to waste on\nyourself and friends. Get all you can\n- don't be frightened about money\ndesire it have it it cannot\nspoil your work one scrap.\nPeople (Lord Rosebery for exam-\nple) are always ready to believe that\nlack of money makes the artist. It\ndoesn't.\nNow and again the lack of it is\nvaluable, but only now and again. Con-\ntinued poverty merely kills the man\nwhose being is possessed by a flame.\nIt killed Mozart; Van Gogh too:\nthey lacked fuel to go on. So after\nyour Little Theatre. Why not? What\non earth is to dictate to you that\nyou're not have a large theatre or\ntwo if you can tackle them both ?\nThe value of your Little Theatre\nwas to smash the conceit of the fat-\nheads who slammed their doors in\nyour fate. It is smashing it. Follow\nup the attack with large theatres and\nsmash what's left.\nIt is sound and rather war-like.\nWell, we know something about war\nby now. Some of us have been at\nthe front for fifteen years. I make no\napology for my metaphor it will\nserve.\nThere wasn't an opening for us\nwe were about to be overwhelmed.\nWe opened our Little Theatres and\nGalleries, we started our Little Jour-\nnals. We made glorious mistakes\nbut we made them only at the expense\nof ourselves and our friends. They\ndidn't mind, so we won't. The main\nthing is that we WON.\nWe won our first three offensives.\nThere are to be another half dozen,\nmay be, before we finish what we set\nout to do.\nBut let us remember this: Little\nanythings be they States, Armies\nor Theatres are in themselves no-\nthing. It is the big man behind them\nthat counts or the little man if\nwe choose to call Napoleon, Nelson,\nMozart and Moliere little, as certainly\nthey were all called in their time.\nMr. Bernard Lintot wrote about\nthis word Little in \" Today \", a new\nand excellent London journal, and that\nset me thinking about it too. He says\nbetter things than I have done, but\nthen I have this advantage over him\nI can read what he says.\n(l) Reminiscences, 1820. Michael\nKelly."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c008", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c008", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.5", "titre_corps": "BOOK REVIEWS", "titre_sommaire": "BOOK REVIEWS", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 68, "texte": "BOOK REVIEWS.\n\nA BOOK MAY BE AS GREAT\nA THING AS A BATTLE.\nDisraeli."}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 2080, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2864, "texte": "A WORD FROM LAO TZU.\nSIR, if you would cause the Empire\nnot to lose its source of nourishment,\nthere is the universe, its regularity is\nunceasing; there are the sun and moon,\ntheir brightness is unceasing ; there are\nthe stars, their groupings never change;\nthere are birds and beasts, they flock\ntogether without varying; there are\ntrees and shrubs, they grow upwards\nwithout exception.\nBe like these; follow Tao ; and you\nwill be perfect.\nWhy then these vain sfruggles after\nCharity and Duty to one's neighbour,\nas though beating a drum in search of\na fugitive ?\nAlas ! sir, you have brought much\nconfusion into the mind of man.\n\nrT'he First Emperor of the later Chin\ndynasty if Tao was any\nuse in government.\nChang Ch9ien-ming replied.\nn With Tao a corpse could govern\nan Empire n."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c009", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c009", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.5.1", "titre_corps": "A Untitled Text", "titre_sommaire": "A Untitled Text", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 15, "fin_caractere_exclue": 68, "texte": "A BOOK MAY BE AS GREAT\nA THING AS A BATTLE.\nDisraeli."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c010", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c010", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.5.1.1", "titre_corps": "THE DRAMATIC RECORDS OF SIR HENRY HERBERT by Joseph Quincy AdamsTHE LIFE OF AUGUSTIN DALY by J.F. Daly", "titre_sommaire": "THE DRAMATIC RECORDS OF SIR HENRY HERBERT by Joseph Quincy AdamsTHE LIFE OF AUGUSTIN DALY by J.F. Daly", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 70, "fin_caractere_exclue": 957, "texte": "THE DRAMA TIC RECORDS OF\nSIR HENRY HERBERT; edited\nby Joseph Quincey Adams, Ph. D.\nYale University Press, U. S. A.\nTHE LIFE OF A UGUSTIN DAL Y\nby J. F. Daly. (Macmiilan.)\nTHE Dramatic Records of Sir Henry\nHerbert, who was Master of the\nRevels 1625 to 1673, is one of the\ndry books, whereas the Life of Au-\ngustin Daly is one of the other kind.\nI don't like to read that R Augustin\nlost faith in * Mrs. Jasper ' (a play\nwritten by Henry James) and the at-\ntempt to bring it out was therefore gi-\nven up n ; whereas I do like to read\nin the Elizabethan book of Sir Henry\nHerbert protecting Anthony Devotte,\nPuppet-player, in a long letter to the\nEarl of Manchester from the 11 unjuste\ndemands n of some serjeant or police-\nman of the period.\nBut then this is because I admire\nthe 17th century and think that the\n19th was poor in its understanding of\nall but scientific and suburban things."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c011", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c011", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.5.1.2", "titre_corps": "THE DIAL : A Fortnightly Journal", "titre_sommaire": "THE DIAL : A Fortnightly Journal", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 959, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2078, "texte": "THE DIAL : A Fortnightly Journal\nof Criticism, etc. New York.\nWE have known The Dial for long,\nbut we have never known it\nas good as it is today. It has a\nmost interesting group of writers on\nits staff. After the Editor-in-chief come\nthe contributing editors, one and all\nexcellent. Scofield Thayer, Randolph\nBourne, and others; and, until M. Cle-\nmenceau, the champion and exponent of\na free press, turned him out of France,\nwe had Mr. Robert Dell. He was\nturned out for putting in practise the\ntheory M. Clemenceau has at heart, so\nwe are told. Why not ? If our Rulers\nmay not make mistakes sometimes,\nwho may ? If a Ruler likes to cont-\nradict himself in a I! world made\nfree for Democracy 11, why should De-\nmocracy cry ? Has not the greatest\nof all democrats uttered the sublime cry:\nnDo I contradict myself ? Very well\nthen, I contradict myself, I am large,\nI contain multitudes n.\nAh, but then he was an Barba-\nrian n who uttered that 11 yawp n I Ci-\nvilized Democrats must be like every-\none else, as tame, as diplomatic, as\nconvenient, we are told.\nWhat a world ! But the n Dial n is\nworth reading, every page."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c012", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c012", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.5.2", "titre_corps": "A WORD FROM LAO TZU", "titre_sommaire": "A WORD FROM LAO TZU", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 2080, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2710, "texte": "A WORD FROM LAO TZU.\nSIR, if you would cause the Empire\nnot to lose its source of nourishment,\nthere is the universe, its regularity is\nunceasing; there are the sun and moon,\ntheir brightness is unceasing ; there are\nthe stars, their groupings never change;\nthere are birds and beasts, they flock\ntogether without varying; there are\ntrees and shrubs, they grow upwards\nwithout exception.\nBe like these; follow Tao ; and you\nwill be perfect.\nWhy then these vain sfruggles after\nCharity and Duty to one's neighbour,\nas though beating a drum in search of\na fugitive ?\nAlas ! sir, you have brought much\nconfusion into the mind of man."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c013", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c013", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.5.3", "titre_corps": "[Sans titre]", "titre_sommaire": "[Sans titre]", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 2712, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2864, "texte": "rT'he First Emperor of the later Chin\ndynasty if Tao was any\nuse in government.\nChang Ch9ien-ming replied.\nn With Tao a corpse could govern\nan Empire n."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c014", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c014", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.6", "titre_corps": "PRINCE AND POET : How the Lord of Ravenna, by honoring and serving Dante, did honor to himself.", "titre_sommaire": "PRINCE AND POET : How the Lord of Ravenna, by honoring and serving Dante, did honor to himself.", "signature_source": "BOCCACCIO", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 2866, "fin_caractere_exclue": 4395, "texte": "PRINCE AND POET.\nBOCCACCIO'S Life of Dante.\n|aiiiimnw»wi ■■■■ ■mim—ii— laiiniaM^nr—■■■»■■■! miii ———■ niT—r—wrMT—i\nHOW THE LORD OF RAVEN-\nNA, BY HONOURING AND\nSERVING DANTE, DID HO-\nNOUR TO HIMSELF.\nIN those times was Lord of Ravenna\n(a famous city of Romagna) a no-\nble Ca\\alier whose name was Guido\nNovello da Polenta; he was well skil-\nled in the liberal arts and held men\nof worth in highest honour, especially\nsuch as excelled others in knowledge.\nAnd when it came to his ears that\nDante, beyond all expectation, was\nnow in Romagna and in such desperate\nplight, he, who had long time before\nknown his worth by fame, resolved to\nreceive him and do him honour. Nor\ndid he wait to be requested by him\nto this, but considering with how great\nshame men of worth ask such favours,\nwith liberal mind and with free prof-\nfers he approached him, requesting\nfrom Dante of special grace of that\nwhich he knew Dante must needs have\nbegged of him, to wit, that it might\nplease him to abide with him. Ihe\ntwo wills, therefore, of him who re-\nceived and him who made the request\nthus uniting on one same end, Dante\nbeing highly pleased by the liberality\nof the noble Cavalier, and on the\nother side constrained by his necessities,\nawaited no further invitation but the\nfirst and took his way to Ravenna,\nwhere he was honourably received by\nthe Lord thereof, who revived his fal-\ntering hope by kindly fostering, and\ngiving abundantly such things as were\nfitting, he kept him with him for many\nyears, yea, even to the last year of\nhis life."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-11-01-c015", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01#c015", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-11_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "36", "page_fin": "36", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.2.7", "titre_corps": "[Sans titre]", "titre_sommaire": "[Sans titre]", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 4397, "fin_caractere_exclue": 4779, "texte": "IF YOU CAREFULLY WATCH FOR\nALL THE GENIUS YOU CAN\nDETECT, APPLY IT TO GOOD SER-\nVICE , AND THEN REVERENTLY\nPRESERVE WHAT IT PRODUCES,\nYOU WILL NEVER HAVE TOO LIT-\nTLE ART ; AND IF ON THE OTHER\nHAND, YOU NEVER FORCE AN\nARTIST TO WORK HURREDLY, FOR\nDAILY BREAD, OR IMPERFECTLY,\nBECAUSE YOU WOULD RATHER\nHAVE SHOWY WORKS THAN COM-\nPLETE ONES, YOU WILL NEVER\nHAVE TOO MUCH.\nJohn Ruskin."}]}], "pages_ocr_originales": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "33", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.1", "texte": "HTLJC 1\\ /f A CIS\n1 oil, MAbfv\nA MONTHLY LEAFLET OF\nTHE ART OF THE THEATRE\nPRICE ONE PENNY\nVOLUME EIGHT: NUMBER NINE\nADDRESS: BOX 444. FLORENCE\n\nA GARDEN THEATRE\nSHOWING GROUND PLAN AND SECTION.\n\na.a. Positions for groups of Figures. b. Littie Temple. c. c. c. c. wings.\n\nTHIS is the Garden Theatre in the Grossen Garten,\nDresden:... the section shows you (1) the seats for the\nspectators raised on 5 (or is it 7) steps ; (2) the orchestra ;\n(3) the stage ; (4) the hinter-scene in perspective; but for\nthis last you will refer to the plan. Altogether a delightful\nconception. Most open air theatres in private gardens of the\npresent day are mere lawns decked up on occasion like the\nmare's tail of the well-to-do farmer. A modern hostess is\nvery artistic.... so much so that it is unnecessary to call upon\nthe services of an architect to design a theatre.... the flat\nlawn, a few lanterns and bits of costume will do to her\nmind. Add to that a few friends who can wave their arms\nso as to sadly imitate the imitators of the great Dancer,\n.... and 10, Art is at last with us. The sadness of the\nperformance is by no means decreased because of the sol-\nemnity of the performance.\nBut the expenses are thus curtailed.... and that is by no\nmeans unimportant with some very wealthy people. Nay,\nin some instances money is even made by such shows, while\never-ready and obliging Journals are glad to send photogra-\nphers to chronicle the event and record a performance of the\n20 th century for those of the 21st to marvel at.\n\nWEOF THE\nNEW MOVEMENT.\n\nA LETTER TO THE LAWLESS\nONES.... THOSE WITH TALENT\n.... THAT'S YOU?... WHAT?\nMY dear Rogues and Vagabonds :...\nWe are a bad lot, you know,\nfrom the point of view of the Garrick\nClub — and probably of the Players\nClub in New York, the old fogies in the\nUniversities in Mokeshane.... everyone,\neverywhere....\nWe are up against something.\nIt used to be the clergy, — but as\nyou know there are some mighty fine\nhearty old friends of ours amongst the\nClergy. Doctors, too,... except the\npet doctors, are with us.\nYou like them?.... so do I. I have\nalways found them the friends of ar-\ntists.... especially the independent ar-\ntists.... the rebellious ones.\nWho else is for us ? Well, now I\ncome to think of it mostly everyone.\nWho's against us, then ?\nNearly Everybody.\nAt least so the Garrick Club would\nsuggest, I expect.. and the Players ?...\nI query that, for I really don't\nknow what kind of hearty hosts these\ngentlemen are as a body. I never was\ninvited by them to any function.... nor\nhave I all my life heard from any but\none member of that great American\nBody. It's true I've heard indirectly\nfrom Belasco.... who was gracious\nenough to say I had written a good\nand useful book. I suppose he is a\nmember of the Players.\nBut what the deuce is it doing as\na representative club in not expressing\nin some definite manner its fullest ap-\npreciation or its greenest contempt for\nthis our New Movement ?\nWe are 1 suspect !, we awful revo-\nlutionaries.... we \" new n people.... we\nold -as-the-hills folk. At least we must\nbe allowed to think so until our big\nbrothers brace up and take the fatal\nplunge and come up with us in a\nbody.\nWhy now I can't guess.\nWe stand for good by our Move-\nment.... we don't mean any tricks....\nwe don't want to steal any of the\nClub writing paper-., we are Honest\nInjuns. Well then, why all this hol-\nding back ?...\nThere's Mackaye huddling behind\na screen somewhere in the smoking\nroomwhat's he doing in a club\nwhich doesn't welcome the whole pack\nof us? What's all this Imitation Eng-"}, {"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "34", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.2", "texte": "land doing in America ? ?... Pseudo\nGarrick Club tactics.\nIt won't d 0.... Still, I've told you\nwhy it is. We are less nice than we\nought to be if we attended to their\nways a bit more and followed them....\ninstead of being so raw,... so rough....\nso independent.\nAre we to attend to them.... or to\ngo our own path ?\nWell, I think we can lay down\nno lav/ for this. So far as I can\nsee we must go on —at all costs go\non. That phrase 11 at all costs 33 has\na certain twang of desperation about\nit, but our situation is anything but a de-\nsperate one. If anything it is in some\nways a little too easy.\nLiberty is always a little too easy,\nremember the n remember n of that\nsentence being for the youngest mem-\nbers of our band. Still it is thrown\naway on them, for how can they\nremember that which they have not yet\nexperienced ?\nAnyhow we who have gone some of\nthe way.... Those of us past 35,...\nor perhaps 36.... can understand that\nit is not the breaking free from old\nbonds that is really the difficult thing ;\nit is to know where not to break, and\nwhere and how to unite a little\nbroken thread or two.\nAnd it is this breaking old bonds\nand making new paths and doing the\nwork of pioneers that leaves us in the\ncondition I spoke of above as n less\nnice ff. Lack of sustenance and of re-\nfinements is apt to bring that about:\ndon't you see how the presence of\nsome silver on the table, and n waiter,\nbring me a clean plate 33, would help\nto give us that nicer manner.... that\ntone which we lack and (you remem-\nber) Bonaparte's Generals all lacked :...\nhow they horrified the n Clubs 33 in\nthose days ... those men who were\nmaking history!\nWell, you are making history too.\nIt's a delicious feeling,... what?\nWhen one is in doubt about it the\npain in the tummy reminds 0ne,...\ndon't let us talk of the heart.... let us\nleave that to the gentler ones of the\nClubs. We need.... positively need....\nour periods of abstinence..,, one mustn't\noverdo it, you know,... but it's so\nuseful.... though when it becomes a\nfixed state one revolts and one is apt\nto be still more n less nice 3f. But\nthen abstinence, which our charitable\nfriends at the Garrick or Players or round\ntea-tables plot for us !f for our good n,...\nfrom Christian motives.... and which\nthey tactfully force us without force\nso endure, is not nice either ; and it\nit particularly nasty to spirits more sen-\nsitive than mine.... a humour less\nbuoyant..., than ours.\nI can well understand how an article\nin the Quarterly killed poor John\nKeats.... and how all the lies of the\ntea-tables presided over by Lady By-\nron failed to kill Lord Byron.\nNeither Keats nor Byron were\n33 nice 33 :... no artists are:... we need\nnot be proud of this.... we have to\naccept it as a fact: it's only when\nyou decide to join the Liars' or the\nPlayers or the Garrick that you pre-\ntend to be n nice n,... and try to for-\nget about that vulgar thing Art:... and\npretending, you come to forget that\noutside the dear Club are really as\ngood fish as ever came into it.\nIt's a pity we can't be 33 nice 33 and\nyet remain artists ... but it can't be\ndone. Read for example the tales of\nthe Middle Ages.... the 13th Century\ntales.... they are not at all nice, but they\nare packed with what a work of art\nmust have in it.... reality and not pre-\ntence. Read the tales of the Greeks...\nthe Chinese.... the Indian tales.... the\nEgyptian and the Latin tales :... the\nwriters if they lived today would\narouse the animosity of all the English\nchiefs of the great Tribe of Pale\nFaces.... No, now I come to think of\nit they are not at all pale.... some are\nhearty dogs.... hearty as honest 1ag0....\nThere's one Englishman in New York,...\nwhat a hearty fellow. ..\nBut I must get on.\nIf such writers as I have mentioned\nwere alive today and wrote their tremen-\ndous master-pieces, the Editor of some\n13 Century 33 or other would ask his sub-\neditor if she knew these fellows, and\nshe would reply that they were not\nexactly nice. The Clubs.... the ladies'\nClubs.... would approve the sub-editor....\nthe manager of some Little Theatre\n(commercial brand).... a sort of good\nMr Winthrop Ames, would look clas-\nsically peevish.... noble if peevish....\nand calling unto him that ever-ready\nHamilton would say unto him.... n Tell\nme, my good man, are these decent ? 33\nAnd Hamilton would reply, n The\nEditor of 11 Vogue 13 told me they\nweren't \".... and Mr Winthrop Ames\nwould draw a long lot of air in into\nhim and say nothing till he'd let it\nout again, and then say nothing, but\nthink to himself,... 31 How awful they\nmust be, then! 33 and Mudie would\nwrite to 33 Vogue 31 and 33 Vogue 33 to\nHamilton, and Hamilton to Ames, and\nAmes to Mudie and Mudie to the\nGarrick and the Garrick to the Players,\nand there would be a fine feeling\namongst them all that they were in\nthe majority; and all the ladies would\nbe set talking, and the lies would\nspread and.... Art would mark time\nfor a while.\nAll because ignorance was suffering\nunder the delusion that to be Nice\nwas the first and last thing.\nAnd yet bear this in mind ; while\nit's not the one and only thing it is a\ngreat deal, and it is of great value.\nHamlet is not always nice, nor the\nMerchant of Venice, nor Othello, but\nsomehow or other Shakespeare i 5.... I\nwas going to say, balanced...• not a\nscrap of it. Shakespeare is excentric,\nbeyond all words excentric. That's why\nhe's Shakespeare and not Pinero:...\nand Pinero is not so n nice n neither ;\nthat's what makes him Pinero. Why,\nPinero would be with us today were\nhe 35.... or 36.\nAnd so would most of these older\nmen.... possibly are:... but it's the rag\ntag and bobtail which make up a Club,\nyou know.... the dear little black-\nballs.\nAnyhow I suggest we think of this a\nlittle in our new Movement, so that\nat any rate we avoid being out\nthe fashion.... or in it.\nThere sit Messrs Non-Committal\nand Co, these good gentlemen, having\na pow-wow in the gilded smoke-rooms\nof some club and separating to spread\ntheir ancient principles afresh. That\nthey have damned what is good in our\nTheatres is obvious, for, had they not\ndone so, they would long ago have\nbeen heard and seen to bless it with\nraised hands from the Sacred Temple\nin Garrick Street and Grammmercy\nPark.\nThey live to damn what they con-\nsider is 11 a bad influence 33 or 11 a great\npity 11 or n most rash n or n old-fashio-\nned !f or 33 clever clever but what\na pity he drinks I 33\nNow, we don't drink, we New\nMovement folk we drink no more\nthan those at the Garrick. We are\nin every respect exceedingly virtuous\npeople, for we are as abstemious as\nare these Garrickites, Playerites, Cen-\nturyites, Vogueites, Commercialites, and\nthe rest of the little tights.\nThe New Movement is rough. It's\nmen have been at pioneer work (pio-\nneer without the label), and so their\nclothes hands skin boots\nall are a bit rough not 11 nice 33,\nalthough tidied up and mended every\nweek. But then the Army in Flanders,\nseveral million men strong, that is not\n33 nice n either.\nSo it will very shortly come to be\nconsidered afresh, this pretty word,\nand its value revalued.\nWe, however, in the New Move-"}, {"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "35", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.3", "texte": "ment of the Theatre must try to be\njust as nice as possible, taking as our\nstandard not the dandelions of the\nmiddle-class clubs, but the daisies and\nroses of the other places.\nThe finer flowers in those aristo-\ncratic and democratic circles in which\nwe have so many true and loyal\nfriends.\nNEVER APOLOGIZE FOR SHOWING\nFEELING, MY FRIEND. REMEMBER\nTHAT WHEN Yo'u DO SO YOU APO-\nLOGIZE FOR TRUTH.\nDisraeli.\n\nE. G. C.\n\nSIZE.\nJOHN SEMAR.\nLittle drops of water,\nLittle grains of sand,\nMake the mighty ocean,\nAnd the pleasant land.\nLITTLE Theatres Little Reviews\nLittle Galleries what is\nexactly meant here by this adjective\nn little !f ?\nExcept to a certain group size doesn't\ncount at all.\nTrue it is that Mozart, tripping into\nthe presence of his beloved, a certain\nMademoiselle Aloysia Weber, found\nher n unobservant of the greatness of\nhis genius she saw him only as n a\nlittle man and \"he was a remarkably\nsmall man w (0 .\nSo then size does count for it\ndeceives, and they who love nothing\nso much as to be deceived will al-\nways suffer. Therefore a Little Thea-\ntre, Gallery or Review can be as mighty\na thing as the \" little man n above re-\nferred to and be rejected.\nBut heaven forbid that in our\nmodern craze for inversion, should come\nto consider all little things as mighty\njust because of their littleness! It is\nthe kind of thing which happens for a\nwhile about those little receptacles of\nart. We call our Theatres, Galleries\nand Reviews \" Little n because, know-\ning our fine fools, we have no par-\nticular longing to hear them drawl out\nthe obvious the only thing their\nintelligence would notice. n What a\npokey place ! n All right all right\nthat's all right, bright boys it\nis little we anticipate your profound\nobservation we tell you it is.\nWhy came the3e small places into\nexistence ? We will tell you. When\nyour large theatres, large galleries and\nlarge reviews closed their doors to us\nthey did so promising that we would\nsooner or later come down on our\nknees and beg for admission. You\ncommercial money-grinders love us on\nour knees. The closed doors certainly\ndid stagger us for a few years (we\nlive years in seconds sometimes)\nand the next moment we had opened\nour Little Gallery or Theatre or com-\nmenced our Little Review. How ?\nGoodness knows ! It was done. But\nit needs capital, you say. It does. It\nneeds blood or money. We gave\nblood. Go on, young men, give your\nblood and open your Little Theatres,\nReviews and Galleries don't forget\nto give them some brains as well.\nNot brains to make a hit that's\nbest left to the old fogies of commer-\ncial intentions. A success is not for\nyou : but pay in blood and brains\nto make poems plays scenes\ncostumes operas pictures books\nand sculpture.\nYou are all on the right road\nall's quite well things are going fa-\nmously. You know of course without\nmy saying anything that if your ven-\nture fails you have not failed but\nit can't fail provided you don't attempt\nto make a hit provided you avoid\nn !!\n\" success \".\nUnfortunately success is what a few\nof the Little Theatres aim for, but\nthat is only when they have at their\nhead a man who is really one of the\nsort a commercial disguised as an\nartist. For an artist never fails. You\ncannot show me in all history an ar-\ntist who has failed, unless it was just\na tradesman in disguise.\nA very few of the Little Theatres\nare controlled by men of that stamp.\nI'll not mention names just yet. You'll\nfind some of them in the books re-\nviewed in The Marionneite and The\nMask.\nWe need not bother about them\nbut we should separate from them at once.\nAnd while success or a hit will not\nbe dreamed of by you, success will be\nachieved by you. That is quite ano-\nther thing,\nMozart, that 11 little man n, strove\nfor no 11 hit n, no \" success n, but he\nmade nothing else. His whole life\nwas one succession of hits. Mozart\nthought a good deal about money,\ntoo. If you'll read his life you'll see\nhow much he thought about it and\nwhy. And he bore money in mind\nmore than the elect would think pos-\nsible.\nMy point is this to neither him\nnor you (if you are an artist) can it\nmake a scrap of difference whether you\nthink of money or not. You will\nexpress yourself in your art and\nyou can do this all the better if you\nhave enough to eat well on - dress\nwell on and some to waste on\nyourself and friends. Get all you can\n- don't be frightened about money\ndesire it have it it cannot\nspoil your work one scrap.\nPeople (Lord Rosebery for exam-\nple) are always ready to believe that\nlack of money makes the artist. It\ndoesn't.\nNow and again the lack of it is\nvaluable, but only now and again. Con-\ntinued poverty merely kills the man\nwhose being is possessed by a flame.\nIt killed Mozart; Van Gogh too:\nthey lacked fuel to go on. So after\nyour Little Theatre. Why not? What\non earth is to dictate to you that\nyou're not have a large theatre or\ntwo if you can tackle them both ?\nThe value of your Little Theatre\nwas to smash the conceit of the fat-\nheads who slammed their doors in\nyour fate. It is smashing it. Follow\nup the attack with large theatres and\nsmash what's left.\nIt is sound and rather war-like.\nWell, we know something about war\nby now. Some of us have been at\nthe front for fifteen years. I make no\napology for my metaphor it will\nserve.\nThere wasn't an opening for us\nwe were about to be overwhelmed.\nWe opened our Little Theatres and\nGalleries, we started our Little Jour-\nnals. We made glorious mistakes\nbut we made them only at the expense\nof ourselves and our friends. They\ndidn't mind, so we won't. The main\nthing is that we WON.\nWe won our first three offensives.\nThere are to be another half dozen,\nmay be, before we finish what we set\nout to do.\nBut let us remember this: Little\nanythings be they States, Armies\nor Theatres are in themselves no-\nthing. It is the big man behind them\nthat counts or the little man if\nwe choose to call Napoleon, Nelson,\nMozart and Moliere little, as certainly\nthey were all called in their time.\nMr. Bernard Lintot wrote about\nthis word Little in \" Today \", a new\nand excellent London journal, and that\nset me thinking about it too. He says\nbetter things than I have done, but\nthen I have this advantage over him\nI can read what he says.\n(l) Reminiscences, 1820. Michael\nKelly."}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "36", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191811-01.1.4", "texte": "BOOK REVIEWS.\n\nA BOOK MAY BE AS GREAT\nA THING AS A BATTLE.\nDisraeli.\n\nTHE DRAMA TIC RECORDS OF\nSIR HENRY HERBERT; edited\nby Joseph Quincey Adams, Ph. D.\nYale University Press, U. S. A.\nTHE LIFE OF A UGUSTIN DAL Y\nby J. F. Daly. (Macmiilan.)\nTHE Dramatic Records of Sir Henry\nHerbert, who was Master of the\nRevels 1625 to 1673, is one of the\ndry books, whereas the Life of Au-\ngustin Daly is one of the other kind.\nI don't like to read that R Augustin\nlost faith in * Mrs. Jasper ' (a play\nwritten by Henry James) and the at-\ntempt to bring it out was therefore gi-\nven up n ; whereas I do like to read\nin the Elizabethan book of Sir Henry\nHerbert protecting Anthony Devotte,\nPuppet-player, in a long letter to the\nEarl of Manchester from the 11 unjuste\ndemands n of some serjeant or police-\nman of the period.\nBut then this is because I admire\nthe 17th century and think that the\n19th was poor in its understanding of\nall but scientific and suburban things.\n\nTHE DIAL : A Fortnightly Journal\nof Criticism, etc. New York.\nWE have known The Dial for long,\nbut we have never known it\nas good as it is today. It has a\nmost interesting group of writers on\nits staff. After the Editor-in-chief come\nthe contributing editors, one and all\nexcellent. Scofield Thayer, Randolph\nBourne, and others; and, until M. Cle-\nmenceau, the champion and exponent of\na free press, turned him out of France,\nwe had Mr. Robert Dell. He was\nturned out for putting in practise the\ntheory M. Clemenceau has at heart, so\nwe are told. Why not ? If our Rulers\nmay not make mistakes sometimes,\nwho may ? If a Ruler likes to cont-\nradict himself in a I! world made\nfree for Democracy 11, why should De-\nmocracy cry ? Has not the greatest\nof all democrats uttered the sublime cry:\nnDo I contradict myself ? Very well\nthen, I contradict myself, I am large,\nI contain multitudes n.\nAh, but then he was an Barba-\nrian n who uttered that 11 yawp n I Ci-\nvilized Democrats must be like every-\none else, as tame, as diplomatic, as\nconvenient, we are told.\nWhat a world ! But the n Dial n is\nworth reading, every page.\n\nA WORD FROM LAO TZU.\nSIR, if you would cause the Empire\nnot to lose its source of nourishment,\nthere is the universe, its regularity is\nunceasing; there are the sun and moon,\ntheir brightness is unceasing ; there are\nthe stars, their groupings never change;\nthere are birds and beasts, they flock\ntogether without varying; there are\ntrees and shrubs, they grow upwards\nwithout exception.\nBe like these; follow Tao ; and you\nwill be perfect.\nWhy then these vain sfruggles after\nCharity and Duty to one's neighbour,\nas though beating a drum in search of\na fugitive ?\nAlas ! sir, you have brought much\nconfusion into the mind of man.\n\nrT'he First Emperor of the later Chin\ndynasty if Tao was any\nuse in government.\nChang Ch9ien-ming replied.\nn With Tao a corpse could govern\nan Empire n.\n\nPRINCE AND POET.\nBOCCACCIO'S Life of Dante.\n|aiiiimnw»wi ■■■■ ■mim—ii— laiiniaM^nr—■■■»■■■! miii ———■ niT—r—wrMT—i\nHOW THE LORD OF RAVEN-\nNA, BY HONOURING AND\nSERVING DANTE, DID HO-\nNOUR TO HIMSELF.\nIN those times was Lord of Ravenna\n(a famous city of Romagna) a no-\nble Ca\\alier whose name was Guido\nNovello da Polenta; he was well skil-\nled in the liberal arts and held men\nof worth in highest honour, especially\nsuch as excelled others in knowledge.\nAnd when it came to his ears that\nDante, beyond all expectation, was\nnow in Romagna and in such desperate\nplight, he, who had long time before\nknown his worth by fame, resolved to\nreceive him and do him honour. Nor\ndid he wait to be requested by him\nto this, but considering with how great\nshame men of worth ask such favours,\nwith liberal mind and with free prof-\nfers he approached him, requesting\nfrom Dante of special grace of that\nwhich he knew Dante must needs have\nbegged of him, to wit, that it might\nplease him to abide with him. Ihe\ntwo wills, therefore, of him who re-\nceived and him who made the request\nthus uniting on one same end, Dante\nbeing highly pleased by the liberality\nof the noble Cavalier, and on the\nother side constrained by his necessities,\nawaited no further invitation but the\nfirst and took his way to Ravenna,\nwhere he was honourably received by\nthe Lord thereof, who revived his fal-\ntering hope by kindly fostering, and\ngiving abundantly such things as were\nfitting, he kept him with him for many\nyears, yea, even to the last year of\nhis life.\n\nIF YOU CAREFULLY WATCH FOR\nALL THE GENIUS YOU CAN\nDETECT, APPLY IT TO GOOD SER-\nVICE , AND THEN REVERENTLY\nPRESERVE WHAT IT PRODUCES,\nYOU WILL NEVER HAVE TOO LIT-\nTLE ART ; AND IF ON THE OTHER\nHAND, YOU NEVER FORCE AN\nARTIST TO WORK HURREDLY, FOR\nDAILY BREAD, OR IMPERFECTLY,\nBECAUSE YOU WOULD RATHER\nHAVE SHOWY WORKS THAN COM-\nPLETE ONES, YOU WILL NEVER\nHAVE TOO MUCH.\nJohn Ruskin.\n\nAll rights reserved November 1918.\nGerente responsabile : Giulio Vanzi.\nTipografia Giuntina. Firenze.\nANCIENT COMEDY PRESERVED THE MASK, AND IT DID WELL, FOR\nTHE MASK IS THE SECRET OF ITS POWER. Charles Nodier."}]}