New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-22

Hear the wormwood-worded greeting
From each city, shore and lea
OF thy victims;
Enemy, all hail 20 thee"
Yea; "All hall" We grimly shout thee
That vast author, fount, and head
OF these wounds, whoever proven
When our times are thoroughly read.
"May thy dearest ones be blighted
And forsaken." be il said
BY thy victims.
and thy children beg their bread"
Nay: too much the malediction--
Rather let this thing befall
In the unfurling of the future,
On the night when comes thy calf
That compassion dew thy pillow
And absorb thy senses all
For thy victims.
TIL death dark thee with his pail.
Not emotion alone, however, is found
in these pages. There is many an OBJ
servation. many an idea here, that sug
gests reflection and leads one far.
There Is the late Paul Hcrvieu's vision
of science, without conscience to guide
it toward the better, toward the good
a vision Of science having turned its
genius. once for all, toward the perfec-
tion Of destruction:
II these unholy innovations were
10 blaze the way for the future,
We should find the war-makers OF
tomorrow causing the wheat fields
20 bear a poisoned harvest and
forcing the very clouds IN heaven
10 rain down pestllences whose
germs are known TO Us now.
Kultur would channel the lava OF
volcanoes under great cities, and
hurl into space vast stretches or
the earth's crust. The planets OF
the universe, watching, would learn
in centuries TO come that mon
strous Science had TRANSFORMED
our World into another Moon, void
Of life and air. around which swim
still-born satellites that were once
the blasted continents Of the Old
World and the Americas
Where there is such abundance OF
what IS worth while and claims quo
tation, the limitations Of space are
sorely felt. The longest contributors
are Joseph Conrad's Poland Revisited
and Henry James, The Long Wards
Mr.. Conrad IS reminiscent and autobio-
graphical, yet ever returns 10 the SUB
iect the war. lie begins with his first
arrival I'm London in 1873, which was
the wear Of Beaconsheld's return from
the Congress Of Berlin with peace
with ho.or." lie takes us trip across
the North Sea, which even then the
efficient Germans were beginning TO dot
with their nascent merchant marine.
His English captain was an admirer OF
that efficiency, and a hater Of France.
Two German-American passengers on
board admired il even more. Then on
20 the Balkan war, which was held 20
have proved that the European concert
was strong enough 10 prevent world
confederation, and 20 the many subse-
ouent assurances that there would be
no great war because war does not pay.
As he goes along, Mr.. Conrad stars his
pages with memorable phrases. KIP
ling's "White Mans Burden" raised by
the German idea 20 "The Perfect Mans
Burden" Again, There Is an immense
force Of suggestion in highly organized
mediocrity," which remark leads US
back 20 Nietzsche. but which also sug-
gests the question. Is chaotic mcdloc-
ritv 70 be preferred? After all Hux-
lev. too. was puzzled by the ultimate
results Of the survival OF the unit in
ever-increasing numbers. thanks 10 the
progress Of science and Of humani-
tarianism. Joseph Conrad hates the
Germans with a triple hatred as Pole,
as Englisbman and as the enemy Of
deadly efficiency in war.
Henry James's visits 10 "Ihe Long
Wards" Of the military hospitals In
England led him 70 draw from their
English. Scotch and Irish inmates
"the palpable, ponderable, the admira-
blv appreciate. residuum as to which
If I be asked just how il is that pluck
the flower of amiability from the
bramble Of an iudividualism 30 brlst-
ling with accents, J am afraid | can
only say that the accents would seem
by the mercy Of chance 70 fall toeeth-
er in the very sense that permits Us
TO detach the rose with the fewest
scratches. The rose Of active good
nature, irreducible, incurable, or, IN
other words, all ineffective, that Is
the variety which the individualistic
tradition happens, up and down these
Islands, 10 wear upon lls hHllt nifhc
even IL may be with a considerable
effect Of monotony." Elsewhere Mr.
James returns TO his impressions OF
"The American Scene" revisited some
wears ago after years Of disconnection
10 confess that he missed the soldier
rather distressfully from the picture
OF things offered him" In our cities.
Among the illustrations there are
,o~.~.fts ,F Tbnrrga Harfy George
Moore and Stravinsky from paintings
by Jacques Emile Blanche; Of Andre
eide, Nerhaeren and Vincent d'lndy
from pencil drawings and an oil sketch
by van Rysselberghe; Sargents por-
trait Of Henry James, and "a pencil
drawing by him, reproduced here; and
pencil and pen-and-ink drawings, and
pastels and aquarelles reproduced in
colors by Blashfeld, Bonnat. Dagnan
Bouveret, Gibson. Menard, Bakst and
Rodin.
The original manuscripts, drawings
and paintings OF these contributions 70
Mrs. Wharton's book will be placed on
exhibition at the American Art Gal
leries this morning at d. m. They
will remain on view until the day Of
their sale on January %. al p. m.
Here is a rare chance for collectors 20
enrich their collections. while az the
same time helping 10 swell the funds
so urgently needed 10 carry on the
good work undertaken and carried on
BIZ sn American woman.