The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

George is masterpiece which entities | him to a statue in Westminster Abbey.
 And one must not forget that the plan | to improve the conditions of the English | workingman comes from the English min | ister of finance himself The little man | who has overcome the selfish objections of | the large landowners against more just | distribution of the burdens of taxation, | has with one move advanced England to | la position in the front rank of nations, | where until now Germany stood alone" Three little words have of late kept Ger | many in a state of great excitement. You | saw them as headlines in all the news papers and you heard them in conversa- ton and discussion everywhere, the fate full words, "A socialistic chief mayor" | (Ober- er-burgermeister). Such a phenomenon was hitherto un- known in Germany: it was one which nearly everyone thought impossible when suddenly the news came from Stuttgart | that chances were that the next mayor of that city would be a socialist. | The news came as terrific shock not only to the conservatives, but even to the socialists themselves. A mayor has cer- | tain duties of representation which he must fulfil during his tenure of office and in city where the king resides he will be invited to attend all public festivities at court. Some day he gets on order, and ten or 15 years later he Is usually knight ed. Were his "Gonosson,'' his socialistic brethren, to permit such a thing? The answer was yes or no.
 | The bosses of the soeialistic party in Wuertemberg decided to nominate the so- cialistic member of the Landtag, pr. Lindemann, their candidate for mayor, on the condition that in his new position he | WOnld n a and principles of the party bosses. 1 Dr. Lindemann was willing, nay anx- | ious, to become a mayor, but would give no promises to the political bosses and re- served himself the right to fulfill all his duties as mayor, even those to the crown That is to say, if he received an invita- tion to attend a festivity at the royal
 court, he wanted to feel free to accept it. The result was that he was endorsed by
 a part of the party, who felt that he
 would never forget his duties as true socialist, while the radical socialists were furious and denounced him. The split
 even now that the election is over and the doctor defeated, threatens to become se- Irious danger to the unity of the socialist party, the effects of which may be felt at the coming general elections.
 That the famous composer. schumann,
 
 Tered by Berlin socialists, and the Vor- lwarts. He wrote, in 1S4S, revolutionary lparty songs which have never yet been published. The discovery has been made | through a French musicographer M. Charles Nalherbe, keeper of the library of the Paris opera. The find has involved lseveral curious questions of musical his
 tory and musical copyright. It is, in real Iity, no new discovery. Some time ago M a 1ic cal dle of manuscripts. Among them, to his own great surprise, he found the score in Shumann's handwriting of some songs flor four male voices on revolutionary words. evidently suggested by or com l posed on the outbreak of 1s4S all over Flu rope. The score was, as far as can be determined unknown to the best lovers of | Schumann, and had certainly never been published.
 M Malherbe communicated the manu- script to no one for long time. Eventu- ally a friend of his brought out volume T about Schumann and M. Malherbe showed him the score, which was mentioned in the | book Immediately afterwards the libra
 rian of the opera approached by persons on behalf of German choral societies. making to look at the manuscript M. Maleherbe refused, and has continued to refuse to show it. He gives fairly cogent I the copyright of Schumanns works has now lapsed. Therefore, M. Malherbe con tends, the ownership of an unpublished manuscript by Schumann rests solely with the possessor of it, who is the sole judge as to the advisability of publication. The term of copyright having expired. Schu- mann's heirs have no more claim in the matter.
 | On the other hand, Schumann never published the revolutionary songs in question. Therefore, acting only as an in l terpreter of the composers wishes, M.
 Malherbe considers that he would not be Justified in making known a work by Schumann which Schumann himself with ] held The argument against M. Malherbe is that the importance of any unpublished and unknown work by Schumann musr 1 perforce be such as to override all other considerations. Has the owner of such Q work the moral right to- withhold it from the public? That is the question. Mean while, on the strength of Schumann's 1918 revolutionary songs, which neither it nor anyone else but M. Malherbe knows any thing of, the Vorwarts of Berlin, is joy fully and with retrospective enthusiasm claiming Robert Schumann as a brother Irevolutionist, which is perhaps, larger order.
 | A curious light was thrown on Prussian-. Polish relations by a recent announce- mcnt in an official German newspaper