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Brown, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - - - - - - - - - - THE FLY LEAF is distinctive among all the Bibelots.--FOOTLIGHTS, - PHILADELPHIA. - - The Fly Leaf - - A Pamphlet Periodical of - the Century-End, for Curious - Persons and Booklovers. - - CONDUCTED BY WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE. - - Published Monthly by the Fly Leaf Publishing Co., - Boston, Mass. Subscription One Dollar a Year. - Single Copies 10 Cents. April, 1896. Number Five. - - - - -Unique and Distinctive in Bibelot Literature. - -THE CRITICS AGREE IN SAYING THE FLY LEAF FILLS A FIELD OF ITS OWN. - - -THE FLY LEAF is distinctive among all the Bibelots.--FOOTLIGHTS, -Philadelphia. - -It is a delightfully keen little swashbuckler.--THE ECHO, Chicago. - -The latest of the Bibelots. In my opinion it is the only one of the -lot, including the “Chap-Book,” “Philistine,” etc., which knows what it -is driving at. The editor of the “Chap-Book” toddles along, following -or attempting to follow, the twists and turns of the public taste--at -least that is what he wrote in a Note not long ago--and the editor of -the “Philistine” curses and swears, and devastates the atmosphere, -trying his best to kill everything. “THE FLY LEAF” at once impressed me -that Mr. Harte knows what he wants, and seriously intends to have it. I -hope he will.--THE NORTH AMERICAN, Philadelphia. - -It will pay any one who wishes to keep up with the literary procession -to peruse this sprightly little periodical.--THE EXAMINER, San -Francisco, Cal. - -That bright little bundle of anecdote, comment, essay, poetry and -fiction, “THE FLY LEAF,” of Boston, comes out in particularly good -style. It gives rich promise of many good things to come.--THE -COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, New York. - -Number two of Walter Blackburn Harte’s dainty monthly “THE FLY LEAF,” -is out, and filled with the spirit of youth and beauty in literature, -and zealous with culture, taste and faith toward higher ideals, it is -going about doing good. - -Mr. Harte is strong, brilliant and brave as an essayist of the -movement, and is making friends everywhere. The poetry and prose is all -of high merit.--THE BOSTON GLOBE. - -The thing I like about Mr. Harte is his splendid spirit of Americanism, -his optimistic belief in native literature and native writers; his -hatred of all things bordering on toadyism or servile flattery of -foreign gods to the exclusion of home talent. This is the key-note of -THE FLY LEAF, and Mr. Harte will be apt to say some trenchant, candid -and always interesting things in its pages.--THE UNION AND ADVERTISER, -Rochester, N. Y. - -These are a few criticisms of the first two numbers, selected from -a great heap of enthusiastic notices. THE FLY LEAF is promoting a -Campaign for the Young Man in Literature. All the young men and women -in America are discussing its unique and original literature, and -spreading its fame. - - - - -The Fly Leaf - - No. 5. April, 1896. Vol. 1. - - - - -TO THE ILLUSTRATOR. - - - Send us some fancy cuts to go - With our great author’s next; - Give them the proper twist, that so - We can ad. lib. insert the text. - - TWENTY MINUTES AFTER. - - Here are the words, 1000 just; - Ideas left out, as you implore, - Makes prices double; but I trust - Your sales will mount a million more. - - A LITTLE LATER. - - Herewith the pictures, full of fizz! - But why on writers waste your type? - Give us a chance and this pen-biz - From off your pages we will wipe. - - --ADAM QUINCE. - - - - -THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE HARLOT IN THE PASSING SHOW. - - -I am well aware that the true lover of books is too wise to take a one -idea’d bigot of a reformer to his cosy fireside. I therefore preface my -observations under this somewhat alarming caption with an assurance -that I am inspired by no visionary enthusiasm to turn aside the course -of human nature. - -These few notes deal with certain superficial aspects of the general -consciousness, as molded and modified by the social, civil and moral -influences of our time. They show certain forces incident to the -development of some measure of mental life in the mass. They are not -made in any spirit of arrogant ascetism, or in the hope of radically -mending the everyday morals of mankind by precept or persuasion. The -morals of mankind are already under the care of a certain apostolic -succession, that with great wisdom has substituted faith for morality -as better suited to the constitution of human nature. These enlightened -trustees of infallible revelation are ably reinforced by a great many -reformers, and they need no support from profane literature. Indeed the -professional moralists find extremely good picking in the widespread -hallucination that presents morality in the fascinating form of a rabid -curiosity about the doings of others. They rather resent scientific -criticism, and I shall never intrench upon the workers in this field, -alluring as are all impossible reforms to me, so long as there is any -sort of following for common sense. But I think certain psychological -forces at work in the swelter of this century-end are worthy of -some sort of record; and at this moment I am thinking exclusively of -American conditions and phases, which are the least likely to find an -historian, and not of Max Nordau’s pictures of contemporary Europe. - -There is so much pinching of the spirit done in the name of morality -that it is not surprising that some who care most for the spiritual -side of life view all moral propagandas with some disfavor. In these -few pages I simply wish to make a plea for a little sweetness and -sanity from the Epicurean standpoint. Among the grossest satyrs the -ideal concerns of the intellect and imagination often find their most -inspiring welcome, while among moralists and reformers of human nature -they are regarded with indifference or open animosity. For this reason -it is important that a well defined distinction should be made in the -reader’s mind between the claims of simple sanity and the absurd dreams -of perfectibility which form the insensate ambition of moralists. The -aims of literature can never be those of reform. - -Every generous mind is impelled at some time or other to try to wholly -mend or end the perversities of human nature, but, in spite of the -faith and example of the saints and martyrs, a few years’ experience -shows the folly of it. The folly of a Utopian moralist and reformer is -greater than the folly of the mob itself. Even the old Hebrew prophets, -with all their fine fury and mystical reliance on the arm of Jehovah, -and their undoubted leadership and influence, failed to lessen the -potent and eternal allurement of carnal pleasure and indulgence one jot -or tittle. The world has grown too old for any but mad persons to dream -of combatting those evils which are inevitable in the constitution of -things. But since nearly all the consolations of life are not inherent -in human nature but are the painful conquests of the mind, are, in a -word, artificial creations of man’s own subjective life, and not at all -incident to the ordinary course of life in a wild and natural state, -we must strive to maintain a distinction between the interests of the -imagination and intellect, and the concerns of everyday human nature. - -It is not, therefore, in any intolerant spirit that would deny the -inevitableness of the carnal life that I touch upon “The Apotheosis of -the Harlot.” I simply wish to show, in the broadest and most liberal -temper, that even the most inevitable and legitimate passion of -humanity must be kept restrained within bounds, or the whole of human -life forfeits its hope and dignity and purpose. Nature can parody -herself in the excess of madness. The sanity of human life, social -institutions, and all intellectual activity is imperilled when the -passions of the blood, and especially passions perverted, obtain an -exaggerated dominance over the emotions and passions of the mind. That -there is a decided drift toward this ascendancy of the Pander and the -Harlot in the social and intellectual life of modern democracy, is -beyond all sort of doubt, and cannot be blinked by any clear minded -and untainted observer. That is, any observer who is not in fee of -one of these gigantic enterprises which flourish upon the epidemic of -mediocrity. There is an odd and strange obliquity of moral vision that -accompanies optimism professed as a probable investment in the follies -of the credulous. - -Of course the triumph of the Harlot in great affairs and destinies -is nothing new. She has swayed courts and kings and empires from -antiquity, and there is no moral force in human society that can -ever disturb this firmly established and most stable of all human -institutions. Dynasties totter, empires fall into ruins, religions -decline, philosophies shrivel to empty names, nations perish and their -history is lost, civilization advances or decays, but the Harlot -plays her fateful part in the destinies of the race. She is almost as -important a factor in molding the purpose and character of humanity -as the mother. Her potent and unassailable dominion of the minds of -men is due to the eternal fantasy of human passion, and whatever may -be the prevailing code of morals, she will hold her sway of wreck and -ruin to the end of time. To rail against an institution so inherent -in the constitution of human affairs is sheer folly. Indeed, it may -be almost said to be flying in the face of Providence, since the only -providence which we know to be effective in this world is the unfailing -crookedness of human nature. - -This view of Providence in human affairs makes turning on Providence -a less heinous offence than the phrase suggests to some with minds in -pawn; and there are always some idealists ready to oppose human nature -itself, in rash dreams of the conquest of life for love and beauty -and the spirit. It is not the eternal witchery and potency of the -Harlot I wish to emphasize in this place, for that needs no argument, -but the fact that with the progress of modern democracy this ancient -institution, hitherto confined within the limits of civic life, the -court and political affairs, has suddenly loomed up as the one great -overshadowing fact and potency of human existence. And so in spite of -my parade of common sense and sanity I may be held to be an impossible -idealist in many quarters, for I am opposing my own individual tastes -and those of a small minority, to the overwhelming tide of human -nature. I find the reign of the Harlot irksome--especially in the -distractions of literature and the theatre. - -Some sort of parity has hitherto been maintained, for a period of -historical development, between human nature in its unbridled enjoyment -of sensation, and those concerns of the intellectual life, which have -been the occupation and solace of the few, to whom the pleasures of -artifice have grown more necessary than those of sense, and, in moments -of clearness and calm, dearer than life itself. With the progress of -modern democracy, ordinary human nature has sought factitious and -unusual excitements, and plunged into a course of sophistication. It -has insidiously encroached upon this realm of artificial delights of -the intellect, which the aliens of the race have painfully wrested -from life and nature. The Harlot astride Pegasus is the end of popular -education. - -The authority of religion and the force of superstition, which for -centuries kept the arts and literature somewhat remote from the common -ideals and passions of the mass of men, have declined, and with their -eclipse the ideals of the great mass of vulgar appetites have grown -with social freedom and popular education, until, at this hour, we see -the greatest tyranny of history established, of which the Triumphant -Harlot is the head and front and fitting symbol. It is the pitiless -despotism of the millions of uplifted, cruel, greedy maws that hold -the fateful pence that decide every question of life and thought in -this age of enlightenment. Every clod’s dirty penny or vote counts -for as much as a head full of brains. It is a sublime spectacle. It -is not the fact of the prosperity of the Harlot in democracy which is -at all remarkable, for of course she has not depended upon societies -or governments, but upon human nature for her queenship; it is the -glorification of her arts and her power, in the open prostitution of -the printing press in her honor and worship, the deification of her -calling and character in the popular imagination, the dedication of -the theatres solely to her exploitation, and the trafficking in her -person and perversities, which is the stock in trade of the picture -periodicals devoted to the edification of the millions--these things -are not only maddening and nauseating, but they belong distinctly and -peculiarly to this end of the century. It is a form of insane sex -worship which is destitute of every vestige of glamor, of poetry, of -real excuse in nature. It is a grotesque parody of all the beauty -and dignity of human life. It is the grim and ironical ending of the -emancipation of the appetites of the millions, in the thousand and -one delusions of popular education. Ancient religions included the -glorification of sex. But this is the exaltation of the lowest type of -humanity--the sexless Pander to that grim disease of imagination which -is peculiar to our hypocrisy of ascetic morality. - -In the hourly prints of the day we pick up, at every turn in the -city, on hoardings, on every theatre bill board, in the shop -windows--everywhere the triumphant, glorious and illustrious Harlot -of the day or season, in one of her many roles, as dancer, actress, -singer, society woman, erotic novelist and the rest, confronts us in -her overwhelming and audacious supremacy of finery, wealth, comfort and -the adulation of the community. We get her triumphs, her person, her -biographies, her lovers, her scandals, her clothes and her character -(these are all about the same, too) with the painstaking detail of -sober history. Some of the queans, who have discovered the secret of -perpetual rejuvenation, we cannot escape by any chance. These we seem -doomed to get forced upon us forever. There may be great poets, great -thinkers, great philosophers and teachers in our contemporary world, -but there is no room for them in the tide of current history-making or -in the popular interest and imagination. The glorified Harlot alone is -worthy to fill the mirror of the time; she alone can warm the cockles -of the heart of democracy. It is for this that the great democracy has -mastered the three R’s. - -Aspasia in the full noontide of the greatness of Pericles, Lais -just turned into the wonder of the world in the marble of Appeles, -and Phyrne made immortal by Praxiteles as Venus rising, rosy, nude -and dishevelled from the sea, are wantons who will ever hold the -imaginations of men enthralled. But it is certain that in the very -meridian of their glory, with poets, philosophers and the greatest -artists of history at their feet, their fame never filled the narrow -confines of the ancient world as that of the season’s kicking strumpet -of the Music-hall fills the modern world with its enlarged boundaries. -The fame and name of every fresh bawd from the canaille is now cabled -to the four corners of the earth. The notorious harlot of each season’s -revels is the female Colossus of the modern world. She is the goddess -of the world of traffic. There, aloft, above the reach of all hungry, -envious paupers, she rules and overshadows two hemispheres with her -legs astride. - - WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE. - - - - -WHEN SHAKESPEARE WROTE. - - - When Shakespeare wrote his mighty plays, - Superb in action, thought and phrase, - He got but meagre vague renown - Beyond the wits of London Town:-- - To know the great the world delays. - - Obscure he walked the urban ways: - From queen and courtier came the praise, - The sneer, the cuff, the smile, the frown, - When Shakespeare wrote. - - But in our modern modish days - From sheer caprice the critic slays, - Or seeks to put the poet’s crown - Upon some pompous pedant clown. - No poetasters wore the bays - When Shakespeare wrote. - - A. T. SCHUMAN. - - - - -A LITTLE COMMENTARY ON CULTURED EUROPE. - - -I wish some eminent psychologist and impartial student of ineradicable -racial traits would calmly investigate the popular myth of an -“American” literature. - -I valiantly insist upon the existence of literature in America, but do -not see much prospect for an “American” literature. - -I wonder if the critics who are optimistic about an “American” -literature ever stop to consider the fact that two-thirds of the -people who live in this country are of different stock than ours, -and different racial traditions and language. Then they are from the -depth of savagery. They are illiterate and brutal, and possessed of an -unconquerable phlegm that cannot tolerate such trivial, foolish things -as the arts and literature. Moreover, they are utterly out of sympathy -with the ideals of our race. - -We often speak of Europe as the home of the arts and their uplifting -influences. It is true enough, of course, but here is one of the -ironies of that old cradle of misery. This is only the gloss of -barbarism. How many Americans remember Europe is also the home of the -illiterate and utterly incurable mob of low and bestial intelligences? -How many Americans, in thinking of the low ebb of intellectual life -here, ever consider that a great deal of intellectual and aesthetic -interest and activity in this country, among Americans of English -descent, is smothered and strangled by the popular pandering to the -appetites of an unassimilated mass of low intelligences, only to be -reached by coarse sensationalism and vulgar prints? - -We are recommended to go to Europe for aesthetic training. We could get -along much better with a sturdy stock of native observers, if we could -only keep out the hordes of ignorant and degraded savages that flock -here from every hell-hole in Europe, and then spread like a great itch -throughout the country. - -When one looks at the great blotches of ignorant and inferior races -which dot the map of the United States in different industrial -sections, one wonders where and when an “American” literature or -“American” anything will come in. Emigration is all right when it comes -from the right quarters, but the recent social history of this country -shows how it is absorbing the barbaric scum of Europe. - - JONATHAN PENN. - - - - -DEPENDENCE. - - - SHE. - - Since thou hast come, dear heart, I live no more - Save in the hours when thou art by. Thy grave, - Full penetrating voice and speech I crave, - And all thy cares.... I wonder how before - This satisfied companionship I bore - The old dull days, for thou with marriage gave - So much! And yet,--bear with me, dear!--My brave - Heart seems defenceless now! Those days of yore - Full of ambitious dreams, beyond my reach - Have vanished far. O love me! since the whole - Of life is narrowed down to this! and teach - Me willing subjugation, as years roll,-- - Be more than lost ambitions I beseech,-- - My lord and husband, since thou hast my soul! - - HE. - - Dear one, dost think thou art alone in this - Great overwhelming conflict of love’s might? - Dost think thou art dependent, and my right - Is subjugating thee? O sweet, the bliss - Of marriage lies beyond such talk as this! - True love is most dependent, and all right - Is yours as mine, since our supreme delight - Lies with each other; then let us not miss - The joy of this full time by hint of war, - Or agonize ourselves with distant fears,-- - A truce to these misgivings! With such store - Of love we’ll front our happiness, that years - Will bring us compensations more and more. - I master? nay, a beggar,--see these tears! - - JOHN ARMSTRONG. - - - - -PARILEE’S DREAM. - - “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” - - -Her husband turned on his pillow and looked at her. She was asleep, and -the smiles that played over her features, now and again interrupted by -a look of gentle sadness, showed that she was dreaming. He was about -to wake her, but he hesitated to break in upon what he knew must be a -very sweet vision, and, keeping his eyes upon her face, he awaited the -end. - -They had been married two years. He had come suddenly into her life, -taking her away from several admirers and out of a continuous round -of pleasure and excitement, and after a short courtship they had wed. -Parilee often said to herself: “How much better off I am,” and thought -with satisfaction that instead of being a silly and superficial girl -she was a wife, and at the head of a home. There had been hardly a -discord in their lives since the day of their union; and Parilee -believed she was quite happy. - -As she lay there, her lips moved in the words, “I love you,” and her -face flushed so deeply that her husband, doubting his eyes, speculated -as to whether she was really asleep. - -As the early light of the sun burst into the room, she started up, -thinking, “What a dream for me!” - -At her old home she had wandered along by the creek which ran through -her father’s fields. She had been in quest of something, but what that -something was she did not know; there was a longing and a longing, very -deep and sad. Suddenly she had seen Tom Harding coming toward her. -Taking him by the hand, she had led him to a large rock near, and they -had both sat down upon it. Then, in a trembling voice she had said: -“Tom, I’ve been seeking you such a long time; I love you.” - -Looking at her searchingly and with tenderness, Tom had replied, oh, so -softly; “You love me! I have long loved you, too”; and had taken her in -his arms and kissed her. - -“What were you dreaming about?” her husband asked, as she stirred and -opened her eyes; “I saw you smiling in your sleep.” She did not answer, -but went over her dream again and again, recalling every minute detail. -Sweeter sensations never lingered after a real kiss. She revelled -in memory as she looked out on the morning sky and thought of Tom’s -embrace. - -“Were you dreaming of me, Parilee?” - -She hesitated, thinking: “I can’t tell him of my dream; it was not -such a thing as a wife would want to repeat to her husband. Perhaps -I ought to tell him, though. No, it will not be best; he would be -displeased. I would better let him think that his surmise is correct -than to make him sad or jealous. Besides, I am not responsible for what -happens in my sleep. If the dream had included a thought or recognition -of Harry, I should think that I was harboring improper feelings. But it -was only a dream.” - -“Yes, Harry, I was dreaming of our old lover days.” - -When her husband started for his office he gave Parilee his accustomed -farewell kiss. To him it was the same as usual, but to her it seemed -slightly insipid; the dream kiss was still upon her lips. - -“It is because we have been married so long; I have grown used to him,” -she reasoned when left alone. “I love Harry, and always shall.” Then -she sat down by the window, looked far away into space, and went over -the dream again. - -“I wonder where Tom is now,” she questioned in her thought. “Probably -married by this time.” A disagreeable feeling went to her heart. “He -loved me before I met Harry. What changes time brings.” And she mused -on. - - OLGA ARNOLD. - - - - -THE NEW CIRCE. - - - No islet-kingdom has this fair-haired one, - Of drugs no knowledge, philtres brews not she, - Yet many self-sure men has she undone - By her own ways of pleasant sorcery. - She whirls in no mad dances dervishly, - Nor with incantatory crooning charms - Her hapless slaves, who yet would not be free - While with a conq’ring smile she soothes, disarms, - Born of some slight neglect, their fears, doubts and alarms. - - She has no wand nor needs one. Her demesne - Is ev’ry drawing-room. A slender chair - Be-carved and gilt, her throne that any queen - Might wish to sit upon. About her there - They crowd, the subjects of this guileless fair, - Fain for the services she may commend; - Content forever the sweet bonds to wear,-- - That even Egypt’s moly cannot rend,-- - If she, though loving not, to love them will pretend. - - EDWARD W. BARNARD. - - - - -BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. - - -The great books teach us to smile at life. - - -The old proverb that there is nothing new under the sun gives much -latitude to dullards and plagiarists, who are altogether destitute -of the fascination of a mood or manner. Egoism is the last virtue of -modern literature. - - -It is not so much what a man says, but what he looks, with women. It is -the fantasy of wickedness that flashes from eye to eye among dumb clods -that keeps poetry perennially in the world. - - -If the sun shone only upon the righteous, he would not need to get up -so early in the morning. - - -I have my livelihood to earn, and consequently I am an optimist. - - -There is something intellectually lacking in all converts to brand -new dogmas and creeds. A deep sense of wickedness is but a phase of -immaturity of mind. - - -A woman who is not at heart a tyrant in her dreams of love is a -perversion of nature. - - -So far as can be learned at this distance, there is only one industry -in the new South which is really in a flourishing condition, and that -is the unlimited production of abominable trashy “literature.” - - -If some half baked people would consent to go to night school instead -of covering endless reams with horrible aberrations, the progress of -aesthetics would be more rapid in America. Some people cannot realize -that mere mellifluous meanderings in verse or plain prose are simply -indications of an affection of the gray matter, akin to a cold in the -head, and are of no more significance to the outside world than the -week’s washing. - - -The instability of all industrial and business life in America is one -of the horrors of existence here, and it is one of the factors that -make culture impossible here. A nation on the jump runs to “smartness” -but not to intellect. There is only one class in our society that -enjoys stability, and that is the Police. Whether we may expect any -aesthetic appreciation from this quarter remains to be seen. - - -“To amuse respectable people,” said Moliere, “what a strange task.” And -God was good enough to allow Moliere to live and write for the Court -of Louis XIV. It is a great privilege for a writer to know precisely -the follies and moods of his audience. Moliere himself showed how -much appreciation of wit and sanity can be cultivated in a court of -folly. But how can the most assiduous student of human nature gauge -the vagaries of taste in a democracy? The amusing of respectable, and -other people, is the wreck of imagination and authorship in this happy -land of Educational Eclipse. Here, all are what is called “educated.” -But how few care for or know anything of that self education which -constitutes culture? - - -The poor alone trust in Providence. The rich own Providence. - - -TO AMARYLLIS: As you did not enclose postage for the return of your -manuscript, I address you through this medium. Your verses are good -enough from one point of view; but unfortunately this is a Bibelot of -Literature, and these are picture-book verses. They are in the right -key, though, for we have tried them on the office cat with gratifying -results. The cat was seized with a fit of melancholy, and has not been -out for two nights. It will be a sin if you do not send these potent -poems to the editor of the _Century_ magazine. - - -The woman who has plenty of red blood corpuscles, a body that is a -body and not a poetic wraith of the spirit, seems to be tumbling into -fiction nowadays. As the new heroine she is rudely disturbing the reign -of the pink and white saints, expressly made in Paris dollhouses for -the heroines of English novels, who open and close their eyes and smile -in every chapter. - - -Educate yourself to tell little lies easily and artistically, and the -big ones will take care of themselves. - - -The trouble with the Anglo-Saxon bourgeois is they have no -picturesqueness. They have an abundance of vices, but no redeeming ones. - - -The majority of men are Christians and pagans, Democrats and -Republicans, princes and paupers, and what not, first of all, and -themselves last of all--usually only in crises. - - -The salvation of stupidity in this world is that the instinct of -self-preservation has given it an undisputed currency among the masses -of men as common-sense. - - -Democracy is the damnation of ideals. Old John Calvin, if he were -living and working out his logic in the midst of modern life, would -have laid even greater distress upon total depravity and the eternal -damnation of the majority. That is the only dream which can console us -for the dominion of the vulgar in this life; and, unfortunately, there -is no substantial logic or evidence to support it. If instead of having -lived a quiet life in Geneva, in the sixteenth century, Calvin were -living to-day in the heart of New York or Chicago, he would have made -his theology more terrible. The kernel of his doctrines was evidently -derived from the observation of human society, and a career amid the -brutality of our modern cities would have left no room in his creed for -any compromises. The perseverance of the saints is not in evidence in -the cut-throat scramble of modern life. - -This doctrine of damnation has always condoned for me many of the -intolerable narrownesses in Calvinism. If it is probable that God -himself cannot contemplate an invasion of the mob without trepidation, -I cannot see what argument can be made in support of democracy in our -social and intellectual life here below. I envy all those who hold -this doctrine of damnation without any troublesome doubts. Calvin had -evidently fathomed human nature, even if he did not enjoy any special -revelation of the life hereafter. - - -About the only woman whose novels I am curious to read at this moment -is Diana of the Crossways. And her “Princess Egeria” and the rest are -out of reach forever. - - -Now here is a nice psychological point. A very clever woman, who knows -men and women as only some wonderful women can, and who yet has never -written a novel, came to me the other day, as to a Father Confessor of -the smaller sophistries of conscience, upon which religion affords no -certain light and assurance. The point she wished to know was whether -she was a new woman or simply a harmless flirt of the old school. As I -could not decide this momentous matter, I concluded to ventilate it in -print, suppressing the name of my friend. The situation is this: She -loves her husband with all her heart, but yet she sometimes lacks the -moral courage to tell some men whom she meets casually that she is a -married woman. - - -It does not seem to add to England’s glory to appoint Uriah Heep to the -job of court clown. The old jesters made better sport. - - -I sometimes wonder what peculiar influence in their environment -makes so many literary critics attached to the editorial staff of -periodicals, whose chief staple is some denominational form of -religious conviction, so offensively positive and dogmatic. They are -seldom troubled with any judicial hesitations. They proclaim their -ipse dixits with a solemnity and excess of asseveration and finality -which is hideously funny to the lay mind, that takes its own peculiar -predilections and distastes, with a shade of something approximating -good-natured tolerance of the possible tastes of others. I think -this critical attitude of the religious Pontifex is largely due to -some profound mental and moral confusion. He is so accustomed to -dealing out fire and brimstone and damnation with a callous and easy -conscience to all who differ with him in the domain of religious -belief, and especially to those who occupy the agnostic and rational -attitude toward the eternal problems of life, that he finally gets into -the trick of using the thunder of Jehovah for smaller offences and -occasions. - -Here is a case in point. A solemn and inspired lunatic writes, in -the New York “Independent,” of George Meredith, the greatest living -writer in the English speaking world, in this utterly mendacious and -injudicious fashion. “The most elaborately feminine man in English -literary life.” “The Amazing Marriage” is then described as “a -crazy structure gorgeously decorated, in which dwell nympholepts, -aged satyrs, erotic wives and foredoomed maidens, all moving on to -rainbow-hued destruction or jaundiced delight.” - -This in a religious paper that makes a great parade of its dignity, and -is always finding fault with the _honest opinions_ of others, because -they are apt to be so _irreverent_, looks like that simple and vulgar -bid for pre-eminence in heresy, which will always catch the greedy -ears of the envious and mediocre mob, that is glad to see hateful -superiority spattered with mud. I suppose this view of the modern -man of letters who is inflexibly true to his aims and the dignity of -his calling, and who is, moreover, the master of his craft, is to be -attributed to the superintellectual quality of the inspiration that -directs all organs of religious opinion. - - -It is a little hard to understand the criticism which hails the revival -of the old familiar blood and thunder fiction of our boyhood days as -the renaissance of genius in fiction. All this sort of literature, -whether wrapt in mediæval properties or not, is fatally melodramatic -and unreal, and constitutes so much lumber and nothing else, if it -should remain in the memory. But as all our picture periodicals and -Sunday papers are filled with nothing but blood and thunder stuff from -Stanley Weyman, Anthony Hope and the rest, it is obviously the taste of -the time. I am meditating a new magazine on these popular lines. It is -to be called: “The Antique Renascence; a Magazine of Pistol Shots and -Rape.” - - -One of the metropolitan Sunday papers advertises every week in -triumphant and gigantic capitals how many square miles of spruce -forest were converted into paper for the Sunday edition. The number of -square miles of forest that is disappearing in this way is something -appalling. It seems to a few reactionary wits, unintoxicated with the -spectacle of this modern progress, that sacrificing half a spruce -forest to make a Sunday paper is much worse than butchering a little -chain-gang of Christians to make a Roman holiday. - - -It is a simple death notice in the Boston _Evening Events_, for -February 2, 1896. It reads thus: - -“Miss Priscilla Prim, of 29976 Beacon street, Boston, died suddenly -of a severe mental shock yesterday evening. Miss Prim was well known -as the possessor of a very large fortune, a philanthropist, and a -patron of the arts and all sorts of moral reforms and missions, and her -decease will be mourned by all lovers of liberal culture.” - -She had just finished her supper, when a niece from Chicago, who was -stopping in her house, to come out this season in the “smart set,” -handed her a copy of the February FLY LEAF, fresh and virgin from the -press that evening. It contained some opinions which are regarded as -heterodox and impossible in “The Ladies’ Own Humbug and Treasury of -Misinformation.” It appeared to lack reverence for the unsupported -tradition of “culture” that lingers in modern materialistic, -money-grubbing Boston, in every well-regulated household, quite -independently of the fact that in thousands there is no evidence of -civilization in the shape of books, ancient or modern. This flippancy -is undoubtedly immoral, and its heinousness may be judged by its effect -in this instance. - -Miss Prim was mad, indignant, furious, and fumed at the mouth with the -passion of her outraged moral feelings. She sprang to her feet to write -a letter of protest to the editor of the _Events_, when she stumbled -over the only work of literature in the establishment--it was Mrs. -Parloa’s Appledore Cookbook, by the way--and falling face forward upon -the floor, she expired immediately of a severe bump and excess of moral -emotion. - -It is time the old fierce Puritanical spirit was calmed in the blood of -the hereditary Bostonians; but the old generation dies glum and hard, -and will refuse Heaven if the Almighty is so captious as to demand a -sense of humor. - - -Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is reported to have said that Fame depends -entirely upon being civil to interviewers. English visitors should -remember this--and a few, who want to feather their nests, are -beginning to appreciate the wisdom of our worldly sage. Conan Doyle -and Hall Caine have taken “the tip,” and have even been quite civil -and polite about American institutions and social life since gaining -their own shores. This little simple art of glossing is one the British -should cultivate. They are at present the most hateful people on earth. -The world is getting crowded now and they should endeavor to become -less obnoxious. English celebrities can extend their fame with their -courtesies. - - -A very pathetic and significant incident occurred in one of the leading -hotels of Boston the other day. It is fraught with a warning for the -injudicious, that needs no additional emphasis from me. But do not turn -aside and skip the paragraph because it has _a moral_! - -A well-known Temperance lecturer and social reformer from Shebogan -Falls, Arizona, who was stopping at the house, was suddenly taken -violently sick, and showed unmistakable signs of suffering from -delirium tremens. The gentleman had then been in the hotel for -twenty-four hours and he was known to have touched no liquor. A search -of his room and grip revealed no intoxicants. The doctors called in -were positive about the symptoms, and yet the man’s breath contained -no hint of alcohol. The stomach pump afforded no more confirmation. -But he was in the throes of delirium tremens, nevertheless, and the -doctors were perplexed. All sorts of elaborate theories of hereditary -influences were proposed and discussed, and the man’s history and -ancestry were looked up. Suddenly he recovered, and an explanation was -soon forthcoming. - -A well thumbed and dismantled copy of the ARENA magazine was discovered -under his bed. - - -Those who are interested in the diffusion of good literature among -all classes in America, should make themselves acquainted with the -publications of Thomas B. Mosher, of Portland, Me. A good book in -his list to put upon the shelf, to begin with, is the beautifully -bound volume of the Bibelot for 1895. In making a collection of -belles-lettres, the authors and books after all, who give most -pleasure, one provides a sure refuge always at hand for any sudden -invasion of the blues or ennui, and there is solace here for weightier -sorrows, too. For the brave idealists condemned to struggle in this -alien world, who can still unpack their minds of all sordid sorrows and -bitterness and carry merry and piping hearts to Arcady, are surely not -lacking in a profound philosophy--and the philosophy which includes -the life of the philosopher is rare indeed. - -It is for this reason that the poets and fantastists are closer to -our moods through the changing years than all other writers. When the -historians, philosophers and social prophets and the rest find us -indifferent and content to let the world slide, when great names and -ideals no longer stir or move us, when experience has disenchanted -us with life and humanity, and so stript history and philosophy and -religion of all significance, when all our enthusiasms are gone, love -is an exchange of domestic services for the sake of economy, and -friendship is a long laid ghost of youth--then we can recur again -and again to the authors who turn our chimney corner into that wider -dominion of freedom the human spirit can never quite relinquish in its -dreams. Fine spun logic and all the metaphysics of the ages cannot -bring us back to faith and hope and charity then; but these few blessed -spirits who found their way to Arcady occasionally, give us a spell of -oblivion, if not much philosophy, and often a pinch of fortitude for -our return to the doom of disenchantment. - -The republic of beauty is not an important territory or marked very -clearly on the current maps of Democracy. But there are still some -who cherish the ancient boon of poetry and beauty, and such will -appreciate a volume like “The Bibelot,” filled with the literature that -blows through our foetid life like God’s wind through a hospital. It -is one of the few books that cannot fail to hit the taste of any real -book lover. It contains selections from William Blake, James Thomson, -Francois Villon, a discourse of Walter Pater’s on Marcus Aurelius, -Fragments from Sappho, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, the Pathos of -the Rose in Poetry, extracts from Rossetti’s “Hand and Soul,” Robert -Louis Stevenson’s “A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Villon,” and -other masterpieces of literature. It is a priceless book for the poor -student, for these selections have been culled from scarce editions and -sources not generally accessible. - -If our young readers will read the Bibelot, they may acquire the sense -of beauty and power of discrimination, and the taste for the best in -literature, old and new. They will then become callous to the tawdry -domestic twaddle that has been circulated as “literature” in the -respectable domestic periodicals, for the past two decades, in this -country, and will learn to distinguish genuine literature from mere -merchandise. Perhaps then it will be possible for sincere and earnest -work to find currency in books in America, as it has not been since the -popular picture periodicals took the place of books in our breakneck -economy. - - -Anthony Hope is one of the few authors of the day honest enough to -confess that he reads very little. He is too busy writing. This is one -of the evils of the age. The writers outnumber the readers. Every man -or woman who takes to writing is a reader lost, for writers almost -invariably only read and reread their own works. But all authors are -not as candid as Anthony Hope. - - -That volume of lectures on “The Art of Making a Newspaper,” which all -“the bright young men” in American journalism have been studying, is -marred with the omission of an important historical matter. This is -the origin and career of Mr. Dana’s “office cat.” Charles A. Dana is -the most picturesque personality in contemporary American public life. -He is more definitely in the popular imagination of this generation -than any man engaged in literature proper, and so every characteristic -detail and whimsy of the “Sun’s” school of journalism should be -recorded for the benefit of posterity. The “office cat” has played -a great part in the “Sun’s” art and artifice, and its omission is a -national catastrophe. - - HABAKKUK HIGGINBOTHAM. - - - - -THE LONDON ACADEMY - - -The Leading Critical Literary Journal of London, in a long review of -“MEDITATIONS IN MOTLEY,” by WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE, says, among other -things: - -“When any book of good criticism comes it should be welcomed and made -known for the benefit of the persons who care for such works. The book -under notice is one of these. It is, so far as I know, the first from -the author’s pen; but his writings are well known, and those who read -his present book will, with some eagerness, await its successor. For it -is a book in which wit and bright, if often satirical, humor are made -the vehicle for no flimsy affectations, but for genuine thought. Mr. -Ruskin has affirmed that the virtue of originality is not newness, but -genuineness. - -“In this true sense Mr. Harte’s book is original. Here is his own -thought on several topics, pleasantly displayed, and no mere echo or -second-hand production of the ideas of others. If Mr. Harte continues -to act up to this sentiment, [a long quotation from the book under -consideration] as he does in the present book, he may not achieve the -triumph of twentieth editions, but he will be a power for good--as -every true man of letters is, and must be in the world. If it were -practicable I should be much disposed to let the author recommend -himself by giving copious quotations from these essays. At his -best--that is, in his most characteristic and seemingly unconscious -passages--he reminds one of Montaigne; the charming inconsequence, the -egotism free from arrogance.” - -PRICE IN HANDSOME CLOTH, $1.25. - -_For sale by all Booksellers, or sent Postpaid on receipt of Price by -the Publishers_, - -The Arena Publishing Co. - - - - -Economists and Politicians - - -Talk and write of the waste of society and the waste of health and the -waste of luxury and poverty. But they never remark upon the equally -disastrous and wanton - -WASTE OF WIT - -Which has for so long been the result of old-fogyism and timorous -commercialism in periodical Literature. If Statistics could be compiled -of the fine wits and humorists and writers of individual talents and -power whose brains and productions are spoiled or altogether suppressed -under the old regime of the Popular Literature for the weak minded they -would be appalling. There is a ruthless waste of good wit in America, -in behalf of good dullness. - -THE FLY LEAF aims to stem this tide of wasted wit. There are ever so -many clever writers in America, though they are seldom heard of. These -Younger Spirits are the backbone of THE FLY LEAF, which will present -the Best and most Individual Literature of the Day--as much as can be -squeezed into a Bibelot. - -It is not quantity but quality we seek to provide. THE FLY LEAF -interests all cultivated Independent minds, which can recognize “a good -thing” at sight. It appeals to Thoughtful and Bookish People, and it -will never pander to the Mob that buys its Literature by weight. - -Every issue is the most amusing and Unexpected little Bundle of -Surprises. It is the only Periodical in America that has Wit to waste. -Others have more Cash but no Wit. - - THE FLY LEAF, - 269 St. Botolph Street, Boston, Mass. - - - - -TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: - - - Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. - - Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. - - Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. - - Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Fly Leaf, No. 5, Vol. 1, April 1896, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLY LEAF, APRIL 1896 *** - -***** This file should be named 62763-0.txt or 62763-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/7/6/62763/ - -Produced by hekula03, David E. 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