"Ayres Two TwoUsaNo, Years."—A Dialogue, between "Plate and Modern: Young: Alan Dickinson, George Alles Unven Lud, London.
The name of G. Lowes Dickinson on this imaginary dialogue between Plate and a Modern Young Man recalls memories of a quarter of a century ago when the publication of "A Modern Symposium" put now literary hero on a pedestal for the worship of young men and young women of that day. The London School of Economics knows Mr. Dickinson's quality well. beautiful command of English, hi clarity of thought, and his almost precious flights of unadorned intellect... Yot to-day the Fabianism for which he stood, and presumably still stands, seems painfully ineffective. It has done good work, but in the essence it has avoided realities, to the despair of those who hoped to be able to regenerate the world by its aid. One day, presumably, the record of Fabianism will be plainly written. How does it stand at present? There is. Mr, Bernard Shaw, brilliantly' acrobatic even in his youthful octogenarian recklessness. There is Birs. Snowden, the modern Egeria, who in this very year of grace has actually shown that the wife of a Chancellor of the Exchequer can make him ablare his customary negative for the sake of her well-moaning belief in operatic culture. There is Lord Passfield, in whom
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