New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-30

$500, ~ ,.,,ross aThe House of the wolHngs.'
But he is many sided. and there can De little oono'
that the phase of his own life WHICH interests I'M,
most is that in which lie poses us one OF the mos.
pronounced advocates OF the "soc'al hcVouuoh'
ie IL we are inclined TO think, according to his own
e,,ma,. first ~ all a socialist, then an artist and
las, poet Now nothing could be more natural than
that a man OF cultivated imagination ana strong views
az 10 the failure OF the existing CIVILIZATION sho"u
indulge I'm dreams OF an MISUNDERSTANDING Oh Ill u
realizable-future This is what he has done IN tnc
singular book entitled News from Nowhere we
,e not describe II as an imitation OF Mr. Bellamys
Choking Backward" for such description wouid Do
s,ihe untust and misleading. Mr. Belamy aims
throughout at practically. reason method' IN HIS
book Mr. Morris the other mana gives Tres swihe 70
his poetic fancy. and the result Is truly mhehhai
nIct,re Of England as she Is TO DO when the Social
po,o,,,, hall have come full ripe There is nothing
,,ho tboronr,ncss I'm conceptions OF this kind and II
.h. oro NOT IN Ia attractive to what end are they
ipdulced, Mr. Bellamy repels sensible people by
dream of governmental paternaiism carried 10 ulo
length of universal slavery. His Social kevouuoh is
merely the complete surrender OF all Individual rshts
and liberties and the running OF society into nxed
mould which, however, owes all its stability TO the
elimination Of human passion from the account But
Mr. Morris gives lis a very different picture. In his
dream all government has ceased to exist with the
abolition of property. The people. freed from the
necessity OF working have learned to take pleasure
in work Nobody having any motive for amDluop
which cannot easily be gratifed there quarrels
mr. conspigacies and above all, there no politics
II seems that in those halcyon days love is to be
the only thing about which will continue to have
some differences but for such Qnarrels, though
they may at times take homcidal FORMS no coercive
methods of treatment are provided 1t will be held
absurd then to arrest, much less try or punish,
murderer for clearly 10 do so would only make MN
anercr and that would not be good for him. But the
speculations on this theme must be read to be ap-
preciated Mr.. Morris has arrived at a plane where
there is no longer need for government or law or COM
mcrce or organized industry in any way. His people
dress gayy and artlscay, cultivate gardens have done
away with education 1t is now understood, 1.-Two free
of cost and in the handsomest though at whose
charges nowhere appears with any clearness; ana
generally remind the reader Of the happy peasaptry
who appear on the stage in the opera singing coruscs
and fourishing drinking glasses in unison II Is very
pretty and Mr. Ruskn ought TO feel grateful to the
author for his marvellous Thames Improvement meas
ures-or perhaps ii would be better TO call them
suggestions. The utter wldncss and impossiDhi'y
of any of must OF strike the sane reader AZ AL
early stage but that need not interfere with thorough
enjoyment of the book which has remarkable literary
qualities abounds in graceful, quaint and fahtasuc
IDEAS smells of the unpouted country and Is perVaacd
by genuine poetry. 1t is, in short, not DOCK 10
believe in for its philosophy or its prcscencc ou' one
to be read for its bright fancy and its pleasant English