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New York Letter

GEORGE SOULE

The most interesting hours of the last week I have spent in listening to discussions of the futurists. Someone told of a superb incident recently reported of a speech by Marinetti, the enunciator of the futurist philosophy. Marinetti, after denouncing the past in his usual method, proceeded to eliminate women from his world. "But," said someone, "how will you continue the human race?" "We will _not_ continue the human race," rejoined Marinetti, with superb _éclat_. Daring and magnificent utterance! But, after all, perhaps he is the only sane one, and the norm of human intelligence quite insane. That fits in well with the recently reported discovery of a Paris scientist, that all variations in the course of evolution are the result of disease, and that there would have been no man had not some ape had a parasite in his thyroid gland. All of which goes to show that I was right in my statement (which Chesterton probably has said before me) that all logical extremes are illogical, since the world is based on an eternal paradox.

Really it is quite simple to follow the futurist line of thought once you get the hang of it. For instance--two developments of painting predicted at the Troubetzkoys. In the first, each plane in the cubist picture, instead of being colored, is to be numbered, and the numbers printed in a catalogue opposite the names of the colors for which they stand. Thus any approach to the vulgar intrusion of realism would be avoided, and abstract beauty furthered. What chances for the imagination! And think of the subtle possibilities in the mathematics of color! One could surely express by some abstruse quadratic a color quite beyond the realm of visual possibility, and thus man by one gigantic tug at his bootstraps would pull his soul out of its finite limitations.

The second school was aptly named the auto-symbolists. In this school Nietzschean individualism attains its sublime extreme. The artist, instead of expressing his spirit in the vulgar symbols understood by everybody, arbitrarily chooses a symbol known only to himself. If he wishes to depict a determined man going up a mountain on a mule's back he may paint a mouse-trap. To him the mouse-trap perfectly expresses the particular feeling he has when viewing his own mental image of the picture he has decided to paint. What matter about anybody else? If you ask him _cui bono_?--he will reply: why any _bono_ at all? And, of course, he is perfectly logical. And the satisfying aristocratic aloofness of his position! If people--as they surely will--study his mouse-trap and discuss in vain what it portends, if they pay vast sums for his pictures and start a literature of criticisms to guess his unguessable riddles, so much the better. He can laugh at them with diabolical glee. Everybody is a fool but himself, and he can go on creating in the seventh circle of his own soul undisturbed by the barnyard cackle of the world.

Has the cubist literature of Gertrude Stein awakened echoes in Chicago? I have read it without understanding before this. But one night my host--a great, strong, humorous, intelligent hulk of a man, himself a scoffer at cubism--read part of her essay on Matisse so that it was almost intelligible. His inflection and punctuation did it. Her chief characteristics seem to be an aversion to personal pronouns and a strict adherence to simple declarative statements, untroubled by subordinate clauses or phrases of any kind. Her thought, therefore, resolves itself awkwardly in a four-square way. The multiplicity of her planes becomes confusing after a page, but each plane stands alone. Thus--(I quote inaccurately)--"Some ones knew this one to be expressing something being struggling. Some ones knew this one not to be expressing something being struggling. This one expressed something being struggling. This one did not express something being struggling." Which, of course, is the cubist way of saying that "Some thought he was trying to express struggle in an object, others thought the contrary. As a matter of fact, he sometimes did express struggle; sometimes he did not."

But it seems her early work is now getting too obvious, so she is in the throes of a later phase. In her "Portrait of Miss Dodge" she has eliminated verbs and sentence structure entirely, flinging a succession of image-nouns at the reader. One can surely not accuse her of "prettiness."

The craze for colored wigs is, of course, an outgrowth of futurism. Why should a man be any color except that which his will dictates? This has long (a few months) been the cry of the painter, and the smart set has echoed: Why should he? Women in green and blue wigs have been seen in New York already. But, of course, it would be senseless to stop there; if one has an orange toupé he should surely have a mauve face. Yellow complexions are worn with indigo hair. We have long been accustomed to blue powdered noses on Fifth Avenue, and the setting of diamonds in the teeth is an old story. The only trouble with this epoch-making idea is that it is old. Phoenician women did it! And wasn't it Edward Lear who wrote of _The Jumblies_:

"Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a sieve"?

Of course, if one doesn't believe in this new development of art, but is naturalistic, he should be brave enough to chase his idea to its lair and act upon it, like Lady Constance Stewart Richardson, who is now tripping about the homes of the rich in New York with nothing at all on--or worse than nothing.

Forgive my preposterosities! But the ridiculous seriousness with which everything unfamiliar is taken by a sensation-sated _haute monde_ is such a brilliant target for satire. I think with immense relief of a wonderful bit of sky, and a long stretch of beach, and of all things tangible and--yes, though it may be bourgeois--_healthy_.

To a Lost Friend

EUNICE TIETJENS

Across the tide of years you come to me,
You whom I knew so long ago.
A poignant letter kept half carelessly,
A faded likeness, dull and gray to see....
And now I know.

. . . . . .

Strange that I knew not then,--that when you stood
In warm, sweet flesh beneath my hand,
Your soul tumultuous as a spring-time flood
And life's new wonder pulsing in your blood,
I could not understand.

I could not see your soul like thin red fire
Flash downward to my gaze,
Nor guess the strange, half-understood desire,
The tumult and the question and the ire
Of those far days.

I saw your soul stretch longing arms to love
In adolescent shyness bound,
And passionately storm the gods above.
Yet, since my own young heart knew naught thereof,
You never found.

It is too late now. You have dropped away
In formless silence from my ken,
And youth's high hopes turn backward to decay.
Yet, oh, my heart were very fain to-day
To love you then!

Culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and
light. It has one even yet greater!--the passion for making them
_prevail_.--Matthew Arnold in _Culture and Anarchy_.

The Irish Players: An Impression

A small, low room with walls of cool green-grey; in the center an
old brown fire-place with a great black chimney; on the hearth a
light like a deep raspberry; at each end a chair of smudgy brown;
near the front a table toned with the walls; on it two black mugs
and a stein; in one corner at the back, piled against the
green-grey, flour sacks the color of dirty straw; and standing in
the foreground, balanced as Whistler would have done it, a miller
in a suit of brown, a thin widow in rusty black, a fat widow with
bustles in rusty black and dirty white.--Somehow one planned
beauty in that place.

The Novel of Manners

... And yet, even into Mrs. Wharton's work is creeping slowly a
part of the tremendous socializing spirit of today--the
realization that group backgrounds, unlighted by a sense of their
relativity to other groups, and to life, do not amount to much
more than painted scenery. Over in England, Wells, with all his
tremendous burden of national background and customs, manages,
often with a desperate wrenching of impedimenta, but always with
a great resolve that commands admiration, to inject into his
massive English settings a humanized world atmosphere as well.
Wells writes not of Englishmen and England, but of Englishmen and
the world. And Galsworthy, his soul permeated by this new social
sense, writes down, in his English men and women, all humanity,
with all the tragedy and plaintive joys of human life, with the
desires and hampered fruition of the desires of all living
things, as his background. Not the world alone, but life, is the
stage.--Edna Kenton in _The Bookman_.

A man should always obey the law with his body and always disobey
it with his mind.--James Stephens in _The Crock of Gold_.

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other
particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what
he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The
particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an
exception to the general rule.--_The Note-Books of Samuel
Butler._

Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet

All my life I seem to have been asking my friends, those I loved
best, those who valued the dearest, the kindest, the greatest,
and the strongest, in our strange human life, to come with me and
see Forbes-Robertson die in _Hamlet_. I asked them because, as
that strange young dead king sat upon his throne, there was
something, whatever it meant--death, life, immortality, what you
will--of a surpassing loneliness, something transfiguring the
poor passing moment of trivial, brutal murder into a beauty to
which it was quite natural that that stern Northern warrior, with
his winged helmet, should bend the knee. I would not exchange
anything I have ever read or seen for Forbes-Robertson as he sits
there so still and starlit upon the throne of Denmark.--Richard
Le Gallienne in _The Century_.

To feel, to do, to stride forward in elation, chanting a poem of
triumphant life!--James Stephens in _The Crock of Gold_.

Why is it that in some places there is such a feeling of life
being all one; not merely a long picture-show for human eyes, but
a single breathing, glowing, growing thing, of which we are no
more important a part than the swallows and magpies, the foals
and sheep in the meadows, the sycamores and ash trees and flowers
in the fields, the rocks and little bright streams, or even than
the long fleecy clouds and their soft-shouting drivers, the
winds?--John Galsworthy in _The Atlantic Monthly_.

The Dying Pantheist to the Priest

Henry A. Beers, the author of this dynamic poem from which we
quote only a part, is a professor of literature at Yale--a man
supposedly conventional and soft spoken!

Take your ivory Christ away:
No dying god shall have my knee,
While live gods breathe in this wild wind
And shout from yonder dashing sea.

O no, the old gods are not dead:
I think that they will never die;
But I, who lie upon this bed
In mortal anguish--what am I?

A wave that rises with a breath
Above the infinite watery plain,
To foam and sparkle in the sun
A moment ere it sink again.

The eternal undulation runs:
A man, I die; perchance to be,
Next life, a white-throat on the wind,
A daffodil on Tempe's lea.

They lied who said that Pan was dead:
Life was, life is, and life shall be.
So take away your crucifix--
The ever-living gods for me!

--_The Yale Review._

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