There story of Heine that when he fell Po, love with Mathilde, tha lent young person, before listening his addresses, asked the manager the shop where she worked for some information about her suitor. " What is he?" Mathilde demanded. "A poet," replied the manager." And how much money does that make"? she pursued. " Rather. less than French poet," was the cynical answer: and Heine was compelled to reassure his lady love avec quelques billets de mille before she would have anything to say tohim. The story is typical of the way in which " mercenary World is prone to regard the position of poets, authors, dramatists and such like "fearsome wild fowl": and that position is not likely to be imy if the following news from Berlin is to be trusted. According to this " new drama by Shakespeare called Antinous has been staged at one of the Berlin province. Knowledge has become de-, mocratized, he continued, and therewith golf has been made between laity and clergy; but in proportion as the former tend to drift away from the latter, should make the greater efforts bridge over the division. In this the Cardinal thinks that it would wise for young men intending to orders to, seize every opportunity o gaining State and technical diplomas id order to remove the barriers which tends class andthe ordinary public. Touchy ing the question of Modernism, Cardinal explained that it was aimed chiefly at those, now unhappily suburban theatres by a Society of Ger- tic man Spiritualists, Mark the fatal|to which their resenings lead them. word: Antinous was no piece of ancient There are many," be exclaimed, " who manuscript miraculously discovered in deny the possibility of miracles without some hitherto unexplored library, but a considering that the whole Christian brand new piece dictated by the spirit of Shakespeare to Professor Ban! off of all. The Encyclical has no Munich. The scone of the play is laid prohibition for real science or real in ancient Rowe: its action is described culture. Modern science has no more as most vigor ud although there terrors for us than the ancient science, superabund: of ghosts among for it can only elevate men's minds and characters (not wonatorally), it is: bring them voarer to the Deity." If spoken of as a "sure nongh " Bard of the Encyclical Pascendi Avon. If this kind of thing becomes streed and carried out popular there is no telling where it will there certainly sppoarn end. Already "Peter Pao" is being dreaded in its effects. The Cardinal's given in London for the fourth year words acquire greater force from the in succession and there seems 00 reason fact that Capua is one of the most why it should not be played for four' illiterate districts of Italy where the hundred if the world lasts so long power of the clergy has always been fact which has been commented upon greatest, so that there was no local bitterly by more than one would-be need that his Eminence should make 80 dramatist. If the classics are to be brosd-minded an apology. brought into competition with ap-to-date plays their modern descendants THE ROMANCE OF A BARGE, who are still in the flesh may as well sages: anything omantie te word The word barge does not usually go and crossings at once. There is but one ray of hope that we can see. bargee is decidedly insnltiog. In special What will the Censor of Plays have to application to. that monsirons oaken say to the taste'of the ancients? Will vessel, first constracted for their they reform their habits of lustier Majesties William and Mary, in which age to suit his principles? Or will the present Royal family was once wafted Mr. Redford appear no more as the from Eton to Windsor Castle, a barge enemy, but as the very saviour acquires s certain historical glamour twentieth century playwrights in which case its crew cease to be called barges and become Royal Water-men with s uniform which makes them Janusry 22 resemble aquatic Beef-eaters. But the
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