, 1873-03-23

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| t;,i.i tt.ou l1,o ny swccti1g;
| B!ow, ncrtAec,! VIVID;
| Blow blow blow
1ch .sot q hu:1 II bower Lrif..
TIA: full accnaly 1s on sight,
| aloo,tul maiden Of might,
Fair and free to fond.
In al this worldlich won
4 hu-d g. blood ard bone,
Never yet k11oaEht none
L3oso:n2r In loud.
Blow, northern wind;
B!ow thou me- my sweetinC:
b;o", northern wind;
B!u%, blow, blow.
Prot. Masson does not admit that the activity
Of our modern EEti is neg1ectips 1ncrely literary
nnttcrs, and gathering its energies to the uewcr
scientific prob!eMY OF Darwin aai ptotopla3tic
philosophers. 1lo Eay3:
The number o. persons in B-ltain more or leas IA
milar with chaucer is now ten times what il fen
years ago; par:ious Of lin read even III our
long-neeaed critical edition OF his works on which tie
Cha1ctr Society aiid the Early English Text Society
tthauEs again to ~. Farn!vall) engaged between
them, and perhaps to otEer cditous, for popular use,
likely to grow out Of that. But, apar cAau-
GER there is sufficient: attraction Of literary interest
to his period evidenced very happily Of late i'll the
tcnon Of scholars =ud editors to s3u,e OF his coate
1orarts There has rot tvsn sZeater foat of resent
ts esdlsn:s for instance TIM sir sssats reissue or
lam 1angian1. Not only in this reissue are these
remarkable Poems accessible in their bss: texts,
and their various texts not only rho Poems nude
more ineligible by the proper discrimination Of the
"yi=ion coarcrning piera tie r,ow,.au," from tho
"ylsion Of Do-wei!, Do-bc:, anu Do~b1s: but, by
Mr.. Skeat's careful readings the p!yscgrony OF tbs
poet hi,ncclf .nd IL, facts Of his lifc have beea
made much clearer to than they Whitaker
long ago described him not badly and f9w s,deEt1
OF onr earlier literature but have been accustomed to
picture to themselves with fon1ncsa the rugged,
half visionary ngre o. the dreamer the Ma;eru
Hills, who wrote go gru1y and paasoaately for the
people wio Chaucer wss writing for thu Court but
1t reserved for i!r Skc-t to bring out distinctly
tho fact that this dreamer Of the Malvern HiL ".5,
through ut l;f. m II
as Chancer himself, and to let us him fs:niiary
tie '' Long Will whose tail gauut =, :;sll
known in the old London streets as cnau:ez's more
lcisurey walk and sly downward glance.
Prof. Goodwin Smith, IN his lecture on tho
'LABoA-MovEstEHr,"
originally delivered before the Mechanics Ins.i-
thnt, serious ns is the industrial war which is
extending over Europe aud the United States,
yet those who have studied industrial history
know that the present disturbance is mild coin
pared with the annals OF oven not very remote
past. The study Of history shows Us wheco We
are, and whittier things are tending:
Labor first appears III history al.ve treated like
beaEt Of burdeu, chained to the doorpott Of Rornau
master, or lodged IN tho underground I:an-stsblss
ttan Beast rcEesEy worried out, and Then cast forth
to 1ie, sconsgea, tortured, aaDs In 1noaent OF p.
oense, or none. set up csoss for n tie s ssve cscs
the Roman natrcn i'll Juszn.l. ''Why, what has the
faSs qsEs RI her hss1and on DAY 1or
A-AAoN N-'@NNN
tor 70 the T!lcst Of Roman pleasures wages long aud
terrible scryie war The revolt is put down 1t last
sand slves erueivd along the road from Ro1po
Capua Labor lad it's revcrGe for slavery brought the
doom Of Rome.
In the twilight Of history, between the fall Of Eome
and tie rise Of the new naonGties dirn!y tha
struggle going There is great i1ssurrectton Of
IN ean WS:n the sat eE darn m 4as s:ep has besn
gained Slavery has been generally succeeded by aer
dom But serfom is hard. The poasantry Of fculal
,o+11y },E,j1
secret n,eeticg1; the OMNIBUS n2:ue commune Is
beard But tie cou.pirscy is discovered ami sup
inspires dominant e1ass, whether in Normandy or
Jamaica. Amidst ths rcgios fcrror Of the Crusades
again breaks out wild labor movement, that Of
he PastoureauK rt!ikine for equality in the nan:e Of
right 10 Ise as Eone who deemed thesr
Of sdsg it ha s:sras 5 IN ind the ps3n
men. III the cities labor tas congregatsI numbers
mutual union its nde it is constantly
city walls, purch hases extorts charters Of liberty
The commercial aud manufacturing citics Of Italy,
ty, and. 1t the same time, Of intellect mt. e:vaa-
Boa But these are points OF Light amidst the feudal
darkness Of the rural districts In France for c1nn-
pie the peesanry cattle iu time of peace crushed
with forced labor, fcuds burdens, and mposts Of a
kinds in time Of war driven, in unwilling masscs,
and helpless. to The sha1nGlcs. |
After describing tho cause Of the vell-known
industrial troubles Of England which, fonentcd !
Dy tho Infamous Statute Of Laborcrs and bloody |
ragrant lawe. led to Wat Tylcrs revolution, and
referring to the groat movement of the leaders
under tho Commonwealth. Ir. Smith states |
hat
we're labor disturbances in England, compared with
which the preEen. industrial is mild. In 1916 |
thel die e the governing eiaszes VIII iesr n SUI
oll, nightly fires of incendiaries blazcd in |
EsEsn a4 burnt 1rsin"s ii open as s
yore stacked At Brandon 1stge bolics Of .vork1nen
assembled to prescribe maximum price Of grain and
ns. and to pq down The & honaes o Of butchers and
Blood" Insurgents from the Fen Country, special
Of Distress assembled at Littleror attacked tho
mptied the cellars of publc-houses, marched Ely,
nd hl1ed the district for two days aud nights with
runken rioting aid rlunder. The soldiesy
as wS9eh Siso blood lowed asSs @ on both 10 @ sidcs
hen special commission and hangings to close the
sacrnbled by thousands, stopped works. were with
i,1iculy diverted from marching to London. In 1872
mother stain Of blood WIS added to tho fanguinnry
riinal code Of thoee days by the act making death
be penalty for the destruction Of machinery. This
caused By the LrIdte outragea, which ware cer-
led on in The mot systs,nsts ~ manner m and ca
ounties, Bodies Of desperadoes, armed and dis
,lise1, went forth under leader styled Gen. Ludd,
ho divided them into bands, md assigned 10 each
and ita work Of destruction Terror rcgned around;
10 Inhabitants were commanded to keep in their
ouses nnd put ont their lights on pain Of death In
silence Of night houses and factories were broken
pen, machines demolished, unfnshed work scattered
2iracy bat1ed the efforts Of justice, and the death
enaty failed to put tho system down. Even the at
Epts made to relieve distress became of
scontcnt aud roup-kitchen riot at Glasgow led to
70 days' conflict between the eod!ery and the mob
1913, thrcateninE mass Of Manchester sEinuesa,
= strike, ca,no into bloody collision with the
Hillary. Then there were rick burpngs, !
ratrolling all night long. gibbets erected On
cnneudcn heath, End bodies swinging on thern bodies
boys IL 10 years old. Six laborc1s OF Dorsetshre
10 moet wretched county in England, we're sentenced
seyea ysars trantpor3tion noninally for admins
the trzdes made ruenscng demonstration marched
Westminster, thirty thousand strong, with petition /
tho release of the lEborerr, London an agony
fear, the Duke Of Wellington prepared for great |
in. hrin nm |