The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-01

in Kings Hall, Convent Garden. Garden, London, under the auspices of the Fabian Society to which he belongs, speaking on The Illusions of the War, Bernard Shaw conclud ed very notable address in yer! suggestive way.
 He did not know whether his Audience had read that play of Euri pidcs called the Bacchae which had - been SO Beautifully translated by his friend, Gilbert Murray. In that play there We're certain women, The Bacchantes, who become so frenzieG thah they roamed about the noun tains in a state of ecstasy knowing nothing of what they were doing, and in that condition they tore the wild beasts limb from limb. The worst feature of all was that they considered they were exalted when they, in this state of frenzy, felt that they were better than their normal selves. The most terrible scene In that play was where one Bacchante who had been out on the mountain : all night in a state of ecstasy came home, bearing in her hands the head of wild beast. And when sht awoke she found it was the head or her son.
 There were a great many mothers in England and in Germany who felt that The were doing better than they hssi ever done in their lives before, who thought that they were tearing a wild beast limb from limb. These mothers were beginning to realize that what they held in their hands were the slaughtered bodies of thelr own sons.'
 at's pity everyone cannot be familiar with the play referred to by Shaw. It's one Of the most terr. ibie as we'll as suggestive ever written, and it surely was an espe. ciaIly apt comparison Shaw made uSe of in his lecture.
 Euripides the wise classical mon say is the father Of the modern drema. He is long w;nded, and his contemporaries used to take shots at aim every now and then, and some of theso satires by another playwright named AristophInes have come down to us. Eurip;des was what would have been called in these days, did pagan mythology prevail, an infidel, and his plays arc most of them terrific jolts ct the whole pagan system Cf panthoism. He seems to reverence them exceed ingly, but he hasn't got kind word for single one of the Gods.
 His Bacchae is fearful tragedy, perhaps the most fearful in all lite rature, and it is to be suspected Booze or it's God although he GOV ertly declares that Bacchus was inferior to no other God". His story of Pentheus which forms the plot of the Bacchae, is the story of a King of Thebos who wanted to mako Thebes dry, and tho influence of the vets in the form of tho god Dionysus himself. couldn't persuade him otherwise.
 n the women mad with Bacchic in soience" and when Pentheus hecrs aiAut it, he determines to crush ths women. It happens thct the god with his divine power and provid- ential wisdom made Pcntheus' mother, Queen AgCve, tho lccder ot the Bacchae, and the fiorccst anc maddest drunk of the whole crazy crew who were having a prolonged spres in the mountains.
 cionysus then peddled to Pen theus and offered to show him his power by bringing him to the hills in disguise whore the women were having the hot time in the old town. He got the iKng up in tree, anc then piped him off to the women Thcy went and dragged the tree up by the roots, and the King saw that the stuff was off with him.
 It's here that Euripides with master eloquence tells the terrific story. in 8 passage of barbaric beau fly unexcelled anywhere.
 The King took off his bead cover ing so that his mother who thinks him roaring lion might recognize