New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06
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Paris. gets sterner justice still In the shape of
| the guillotlne.
A book published by Messrs. Longmans. which
the extreme Socialists nail as masterpiece, is
the History of Trade Unionsm," by Sidney and
/ Beatrice Webb. husband and wife, and both en-
| thusiasts; both also capable. panstaking and
/ svmpathetic The book with all its hundreds Of
! solid pages Is a pamphlet and its partsanship
is but thinly disguised. It's authors have the
ory to maintain and a cause TO advance They
undertake nominally to write a history or Eng
sh labor. They do. In fact treat this large SUD-
iect chiefly in its relation to organization and to
the conflicts OF labor with capital and with So
c,ety in general. They have sought for facts IN
support Of preconceived social theory. They
have. nevertheless collected mass of original
information Of high value, and 1t is possible by
the help Of this volume to trace the progress
Of the working classes of England from an early
! state. which may be called inorganic, down to
| that highly developed contentious and agrees
sive New Unionism of to-day.
A controversy has ragged all the week over the
boycotting Of Mr.. George Moore's new novel,
esther Waters by the news agents ana hora-
rans known as Messrs. w. II. Smith IL Son.
Their manager pronounces it an immoral BOOK
| not fit for perusal by the fifteen thousand SUD-
scribers to the lending library of the firm. This
| is purely individual opinion. Neither MT.
| Nude nor any OF the other Librarians has put a
ban upon the book The reviewers, differing on
| other points, agree that the lesson and tendency
of the book are moral. Mr.. Conan Doyle Sir
Frederick Pollock. Nine Sarah Grand Mr.. Will
lam Archer, the dramatic critic; MI W. D. Jaw
son writing as a member of the Anti-Gambng
e nd md
mind defend the book and condemn the Smith
censorship Mr.. Moore himself states some iac's
| imnlyinC that the manager of Smiths library mas
| q prejudice based rather on personal than on 1T
| ar,rv grounds The manager says his customers
| do NOT complain and that his sole responsibility
| &c IN them Not So" answer the Moore party
| "You are monopolists Of the railway bookstaHs
| and libraries. and you have a duty to the pub
| lie" There is on the whole, pretty sFo"s
op,njon that Messrs. Smiths action Is indeieh-
| sib,e and there are even those who say mat
| firm Of booksellers and booklenders who set up
n censorship Of this kind are guilty OF an ihpe'-
Thence 10 their customers and the public III gen.
| eral Some Of them say II in print and IN iorci-
| Bile language Finally. the subscribers TO MessrS
smiths library are making up and sending In
dgnant protests to the firm
The private view yesterday OF the Koya'
! Academy Exhibition was perhaps the ieast III
| teresting exhibition OF recent times Many OF the
| hest men are absent or send but one or two PIC
lures Sir John Mliais has nothing; Mr. Alma
| Tadena one small. lovely genre piece ana one
| portralt; Mr.. IIerkomer. a huge canvas ehu'Ieu
| "Au Beautiful in Naked Purity on which lazy
| remarked Very naked not beautiful'; ana
| huge portrait Of Lord Salisbury. which gives
| rise TO the suspicion that Mr.. Herkomer Is
| Home Ruler Mr. Sargent has huge sample OF
| the decorative work he IS doing Tor the bos'oh
| Public Library a lunette. very daring IN aeSigh
and treatment ard strong In color. Mr. Sol
! omon's dashing-too dashing-portrat OF MIS-
Patrick Campbell with Lady Macbeth eyes and
a blazing yellow gown. Is one Of the sensations
Of the year-not an agreeable one The two best
nortraits are Mr. Fdess Mrs. RalN' and Mr..
| coreent's Miss Chanler" Mr.. Flldes paints the
Princess Of Wales less satisfactorily. Sir Fred
eric LEIGHTON is more learned than ever and
| rather perplexng. Altogether. neither the pic
lures nor the company which collected to look
at them and at each other thought first
rate.
| Mr. Henry Arthur Jones has borrowed from
| Mr.. Oscar Wilde and from Mr.. Pinero the process
| of playwrting which. though neither OF then
invented It, both adopted with some success.
| in inviting society 10 come TO the theatre to
Gee itself satrized If society comes. the rest Of
the world follows. The satire Of Mr.. Joness
1 play. which he entitled THE Masqueraders'' -
| clumsy enough but in his case. as In Mr. Wilde
| and Mr. Pinero's. the bait took There was a
| brilliant first night at the ST. James's Theatre.
with the Duke and Duchess Of York at the head
OF a smart social contingent. The Prince and
Princess Of Wales followed on Wednesday, The
Duke and Duchess Of Connaught followed them
on Thursday ard the public nightly throngs
| the theatre In the hope of baskng in the sun
| shine OF royal presences. Mr.. Jones's play con-
talns also a skilful appeal to the gambling In
stnct Of the British public, and his great success
on the first night was by stalking his heroine
on a game Of cards. between her husband and
her lover. There Is in two scenes OF this
piece n maximum Of dramatic effect. and
throughout the piece minimum OF refinery.
sincerity. FEASIBILITY. fidelity to nature and real
| knowledge of life. But the hero, David Remon.
is magniicently acted by Mr.. Alexander; the
heroine, Dulcie Larondie, very delicately por-
trayed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The villain
is vigorously. though coarsey. played by Mr..
Waring The ensemble Is good. The dressing
and scenery are attractive. and the advance
booking Is heavier than that for THE Second
Mrs Tanqueray." What more could a manager
desire, or what better basis for the raptures OF
the British critic? G. W. s
| AGAINST EX-KING MILAN.
DECISION FOR A NEWSPAPER HE suED-A ROYAL
| UKAsE DECLARED ILLEGAL.