The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-03

let IL direct It's sure and clear appeal TO my
senses, 80 that when my spirit Is vaguely
cropping after an elusive mood my eye
shall be caught by the skyward tower,
showing me where, within the cathedral
l may find my way to the cathedral within
me-"
At page 81 we come to the anecdote Of the
Westminster Abbey verger who had q
stranger arrested for kneeing down, and
explained, in reply to remonstrance, that
If that sort Of thing we're tolerated they
would soon have people praying all over
the place. The anecdote is used In illus
tration. Atpage 20 Mr.. Shaw says: Go to
Milan and join the rush Of tourists to it's
petrifed christening cake Of cathedral
At page 81, having come to Verona, he
says: Let man 60 and renew himself for
half an hour occas ionally In San Zeno,
and he need eat no corpses nor drink any
drugs or drains to sustain him." which
carries us back again to the question OF
diet.
Some anecdotes follow. There Is con.
siderable about the new church Of st.
Georges In Newcastle, including praise.
in Mr. Shaw's manner, OF zone Spence
the architect. whose work, according to the
sexton, included the Mosaic decoration
around the chancel, the marble carving in
the altar. the ironwork, the wooden figure
of st. George. the stained Windows and four
panels in the dado with figures in oil. Mr.
Shaw reports that he found himself ir-
ritated, feeling that Spence was going too
far" Some recolections OF childhood
come after, and some comments, not too
decorous, upon religious belief. These cor
clude what Mr.. Shaw has to say on the sub
iect OF going to church.
MIR. Jack London's sOcialistic observations
Jack London's war Of the Classes" pre-
sents the significant features Of the So called
labor struggle in America in q series OF
correlated essays, direct and trenchapt in
style, fresh and vigorous in thought, and.
despite necessary verifcation In statistics.
exceedingly entertaining in matter. Mr.
London eonfesses himself Socialist in
the preface, and in the concluding chapter
gives an account Of his conversion from
the optimism -bred Of stomach that could
digest scrap iron. a body which hourished
on hardship" and life In the open West,
where men buoked big and the job hunted
the man," to consciousness Of the sub
merged tenth" realization Of the Social
Pit" and a determination to keep out OF
it brought about by visit to the congested
labor centers Of the East.
The first essay is devoted to the state
ment OF 'The Glass Struggle and the con-
dtions which produce it-"first, class
inequality. a superior class and an inferior
class las measured by power); and, second.
the closing Of the outlets whereby the
strength and ferment of the inferior olaR
have been permitted to escape Such
conditions are provided by the capital
class" and .the labor class" in the United
States, The opportunities offered by an ex-
banding frontier, the development OF
natural resources and the upbuilding Of
new industries whereby the ambitious
laboring man formerly made his promotion
into the ranks Of the capitalists are now
closed Rockefeller has shut the door
on oil, the American Tobacco Company on
tobacco, Carnegie, "the bourgeois king
on steel. The result Is that the captains
Of industry are drawn UP in battle line
against the captains Of labor. Labor is
organized in unions and strengthened
by affiliations with socialists, welding an
HlCIcdSlLk VI POWSi tuiVu6h poh-
tics. Capital Is organized In leagues,
offensive and defensive, but weakened by
divisions within itself, small capitalists
against large capitalists, which irritate
and confuse conditions, and by q lack Of
consciousness Of the imminenoe Of danger
in the vast propaganda waged by the
enemy. The outcome OF the conflict Mr..
London does not foretell.
Other essays in the book deal with par
ticular phases and products OF the struggle
"Ihe Tramp'-the sea pegoat Of economic
SHINING, the by-product Of the great surplus
la bor army which is an economic necessity
THE Scab'--the worker who gives more
value for the same price than another, by
which definition the United States Is the
great colossal -scab' against which all
Europe is clamorous with agitation. MIR.
Rockefeller is classified by the writer as a
most regal ex-scab-having passed through
all the vilain of scabdom. King Edward,
by the same distinction, Is royal non scab,
as are all others who receive hereditary
rights, powers entailed by plumber they
have not themselves accumulated.
In -The New Law Of Development Mr..
London advan ces the theory that the class
conscious" laboring man 10 not opposed
to the -trust, but on the contrary exults
in tin that it organizes industry on an
enormous labor saving scale, abolishes
wasteful competition and socializes produc-
ton. There remains nothing for him to
do but to socialize distribution, which it Is
his intention to accomplish by insisting on
his share Of the profits.
The book is printed by the Macmillan
Company.
Good Story OF . Murder Trial.