The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-08

English Inspiring
o Britain He Asserts
Those Creating Works Likely
to Be Of Lasting Value Are
Nots Battling with Move
ment, but Have Risen
Above 1t, Is His Opinion.

Comes wilfred Ward. with all the au
thority of the editor Of the Dublin Re
view, and the arbiter elegantiarum In
English literature. and says:
..The woman movement is hysteria
Mr.. Ward Travelled all the way across
the Atlantic Ocean and half way across
the American continent-to Chicago, IN
TACTIC drive his statement home to the
peopIe of the United States. In Large
part the assertion Is based upon the TACT
that every great movement has produced
genuine literature, and upon his claim
that the woman movement has not en-
rfched literature
The declarations of Mr.. Ward are re-
garded as among the most momentous
destinations of the so-called feminism that
the well-nigh eternal woman question has
eyinced and since it is quite possible he
NAV enunciate them in washington tney
have an added interest
Here is his attitude. as Mary Synon, OF
Chicago, set it down:
Feminism In London and Dublin.
nowhere in the world is the woman
movement more centralized, more fani-
testify important, more apparently vital
ing is feminine self-consciousness more
prolific than in writings dealing with the
phases of woman's new activity in life.
London and Dublin, the two great lit
erary cities of Great Britain. have been
flooded in the last ten years with tons
of print concerned with the aims, pur-
poses psychology, romance and tragedy
of womans revolution from acceptance
of the traditional standards of laws,
politics. industrial and social standards.
1t is therefore, more than ordinarily
significant that the greatest living critic
of English literature, Wilfred Ward. edi-
tor of the Dublin Review, should de-
clare that the woman movement has
produced no great literature for the sim
all hysteria.
Mr.. Ward came all the way from Dub
lin to Chicago to fire his lonG-range
guns al the militants, leaving the strong
holds of fighting femininity only to ar
rive ina city where women are exercis~
ing a franchise right that they have ac-
quired by gift from Democratic legis-
lature and a Democratic governor of
Illinois without even show of force,
but where the woman movement which
he condemns is very nearly at food tide.
THE great editors condemnation of
the more acutely effervescept phases of
the condition may apply IRE particu-
larry to London than to chicago, but
his criticism of the movement is general
enough to have application to every place
where women's self-consciousness has
become a factor in public affairs and
private life.
About Chicago itself the editor has
been enthusiastic. During his visit here,
where he has been the guest of Rev p.
J. 'O'CallaEhan. of St Mary's Church.
and Rev. Thomas V. Shannon, of Will
mette, at the University Club, Mr.. Ward
has expressed his wonder at finding that
this city has had more in common with
London than has New York. and his be-
lief is t IT Chicago is destined to be one
Of the great thought Centers. as it l. now
the great commercial center. of the west
ern continent.
"Of Chicago's part in the woman move
ment he pleads ignorance, except in its
relation to the entire question On that
his life in London and Dublin. his asso-
Citations. and his achievements give him
authority TO speak with conviction.
As One Having Authority.
In order that Mr.. Wards right of
Judgment be admitted, it may be stated
that no man in Great Britain has been
in closer touch with the significant and