to speak, in the Andtot manner. Then
came a novel, published in 1917, with the
title Doktor Gräsler, Badearzt,'’ which is
the comiedly of a dector at a health-resort.
Finally, also during the war—for nothing from
his pen has appeared since the Armistice,
though a new Casanova episode is just
announced—Schnitzler wrote this full¬
length comedy, Fink und Miederbusch, which
has been played with success, and the
Casanovas Heimfahrt, whiich,
“novelle,?
if we may judge from the fact that it now
stands in its fortieth impression, also appears
to have been given à most favourable recep¬
tion in Germany and Austria. Both works
are of particular interest as exemplifying the
—rirespensibte
and the sensnous, ummoral,' of Schmitz¬
ler’s literary art.
Arthur Selmitzler is supremely the artist
of Viennese life—that is, of life in Vienna
before the war. No one, unless it be his
fellowconntryman Hermann Bahr, has
painted so brilliantly the gaiety, the irre¬
Sponsibility, the materialistie, the sensuous,
and pleasure-loving life of the Austrian
capital. In Anatol it is Viennese intrigue,
the amours of the city, which are depicted.
But that Schmitzler was also capable of
satirizing Viennese politieal conditions was
shown by his comedy Professor Bernhardi,
published in 1912, which caused great dis¬
pleasure in Austrian official circles when it
was put on the stage. Fink und Flieder¬
busch is equally a comedy, a farcical comedy,
of Viennese political rivalry and intrigue.
Its plot is briefly as follows: The brilliant
voung journalist Fliederbusch is about to
leave the staff of the leading organ of Vienna
Liberalism, the Gegenwart. Just before he
comes into the oflice with the object of
annonneing his decision we are presented with
the picture of“ behind the scenes?' of Vienna
journalism—an interesling piece of work
which it is difficult to believe Schnitzler
did not copy from an existent model
too well known to need specifying.
The most interesting figure, before Flieder¬
busch’s appearance, 18 that of the conceitedl,
precions“ poet Kajetan, a type one seems
t0 meet more often on the German stage than
any other; one wonders whv. In the micst
of the badinage of the sub-editorial room
Fliederbusch enters and the conversation
turns to the burning question of the moment.
A riot has taken place at Strakonitz and a
working man has been killed. The reaction¬
aries, as represented in tho Staatsrat by the
Graf Niederhof, have shamelessly excused the
deed on the ground that the authority of the
State must be upheld; the principle of
State authority stands higher than the life of
an individual. This sentiment of the Graf
has not only been applauded by the reaction¬
ary Press, but one paper, the Elegante Welt,
has greeted Niederhof as a prophet of a new
era of law and order. Naturally the fact is
hotly debated in the oflice of the foremost
organ of Viennese Liberalism. For a moment
there is a doubt as to the attitude to take up,
as a rumour will have it that the paper i8
about to become ofliziös' and therefore
prohibited from taking any side except that
of the law-abiding party. But this report is
shown to be untrue—at least for the moment.
And then Fliederbusch comes again with an
article against that in defene of the Graf
Niederhof which has appeared in the Elegante
Wel. The Herr Chefredakteur is charmed
with this piece of high-sounding, demagogie
denunciation, passages of whlich are given—
asly piece of satirical parody. Fliederbusch’s
career sceins assured.
In the next act theszene of action changes
tothe office of the Elegante Welt. The dis¬
zussion turns on the brilliant article on the
Of
and the b
and absorption of Casanova’s auto¬
biography—that faithful reflection of the
as of ga.
scholarly, blackguardly, utterly immoral,
half a do
witty, unserupulous man that he was—and
a poor e
age that le lived in. The title of the
novelle’ cornes from the fact that the time
Thong
of the action is ehosen at the momnent when
appear
Casanova is returning to Venice from Mantua,
lns und
after years of enforced exile. At the latter
Charm.
city he falls in with an old friend, Olivo,
starlings“
whose wife had been Casanova’s lover.
winter a
He has, however, lost all love for her. His
bles am
tierce affection has fallen on a young girl,
Fears be.
Marcolina, who is staying with Olivo. She
with
ie reputed a bluestocking, and does indeed
Peon 1oy
tion“.
Airprise Casanova by the erudition she
starling
chsplays in discussing with him lis proposedl
reply to Voltaire. Her learning does not
which p.
dimnish his passion, and he watches to see
whether her reputation is sustained. He
flock, ju
soon finds that Marcc'ina is in the habit of
in the ;
receiving a voung soldier, Lorenzi, who
birds or
escapes from her room at dawn. With him
among
Casanova makes a shameful bargain, in con¬
starling
sideration of writing off his heavy debt at
for a lor
cards. But Marcolina discovers the decep¬
is evider
tion, and Lorenzi, regretting his weakness
each otl
of sepa
and shame, attacks Casanova with a dagger.
out tha
In the fight that ensues Lorenzi, however,
birds se.
is killed and Casanova continues his home¬
divide
ward journey to Venice, wliere he is warmly
London
welcomed after so many vears of absence
early su
and amorous adventure in almost all the
great cities of Europe. The story is, of
More
course, unpleasant. But so is the life of
altered
Casanova. That is, perhaps, all that can be
tempert
said. Schnitzler has, in a“ long short story'
writing
of remnarkabie technical achievernent, summed
thology
up a disgusting character.
he vier
bireis 8
Amerie
time th
On Monday next, Mr. Arnold will publish
heips t
Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. Picot’s narrative
spectiv
of his experiences, With the British In¬
doves
terned in Switzerland.'’ Some acconnt is
times
given of the whole work undertaken by the
have h
Swiss Government on behalf of prisoners of
singing
war g# verally, as well as the life and organiza¬
andth
tion of our own interned troops, of whom the
back 1
author was British Officer in Charge. The
with tl
story is also told of the Bread Bureau at
perfun
Berne, which provided bread for 100,000
Such :
British prisoners of war in Germany itself,
race o
and of the activities of the British Legation
spring.
Red Cross Organization; both institutions
less dis
were founded by Lady Grant Duff, wife of
trating
the British Minister at Berne.
thougl
Besides his history of the part played by
ment
the R.A.M.C. in the Great War, which
andm
Messrs. Constable are to publish, Lieutenant¬
agains
Colonel F. E. Brereton has continued his war
creatie
stories for boys, Messrs. Blackie announcing
closely
two further volumes for publication this
most
autumm. One of these is a tale of adventure
conti#
written round the çlosing phase of the
his be
struggle on the Western front, entitled“ With
deligh.
the Allies on the Rhine. The second book is
and
77
With Allenby in Palestine: A Story of the
to wil
Latest Crusade.? Other books of brave
the m'
adventure for boys and girls announced by
villag
the same publishers inchde Winning lns
child,
Spurs: A Story of the R.A.F., by Perey
choir,
F. Westerman, who is also represented with
nor e
another naval tale entitled“ The Thick of
adds
the Fray at Zeebrugge?;
A Transport
a tan
Girl in France,“ the romance ofa W.A.A. C.,
shreu
by Bessie Marchant, whose second string,
whiel
#
Norah to tlie Rescue,'' is a tale of plot
the #
and counter-plot in the Philippines; and
the #
Phyllis in France,“ by May Wynne, another
humt
story of the war. Apart from war books,
large
Messrs. Blackie are publishing an illustrated
fond¬
acconnt of" Triumphs of Invention, by
able
Cyril Hall, uniform with the same author’s
tions
* Conquests of Engincering.
the
came a novel, published in 1917, with the
title Doktor Gräsler, Badearzt,'’ which is
the comiedly of a dector at a health-resort.
Finally, also during the war—for nothing from
his pen has appeared since the Armistice,
though a new Casanova episode is just
announced—Schnitzler wrote this full¬
length comedy, Fink und Miederbusch, which
has been played with success, and the
Casanovas Heimfahrt, whiich,
“novelle,?
if we may judge from the fact that it now
stands in its fortieth impression, also appears
to have been given à most favourable recep¬
tion in Germany and Austria. Both works
are of particular interest as exemplifying the
—rirespensibte
and the sensnous, ummoral,' of Schmitz¬
ler’s literary art.
Arthur Selmitzler is supremely the artist
of Viennese life—that is, of life in Vienna
before the war. No one, unless it be his
fellowconntryman Hermann Bahr, has
painted so brilliantly the gaiety, the irre¬
Sponsibility, the materialistie, the sensuous,
and pleasure-loving life of the Austrian
capital. In Anatol it is Viennese intrigue,
the amours of the city, which are depicted.
But that Schmitzler was also capable of
satirizing Viennese politieal conditions was
shown by his comedy Professor Bernhardi,
published in 1912, which caused great dis¬
pleasure in Austrian official circles when it
was put on the stage. Fink und Flieder¬
busch is equally a comedy, a farcical comedy,
of Viennese political rivalry and intrigue.
Its plot is briefly as follows: The brilliant
voung journalist Fliederbusch is about to
leave the staff of the leading organ of Vienna
Liberalism, the Gegenwart. Just before he
comes into the oflice with the object of
annonneing his decision we are presented with
the picture of“ behind the scenes?' of Vienna
journalism—an interesling piece of work
which it is difficult to believe Schnitzler
did not copy from an existent model
too well known to need specifying.
The most interesting figure, before Flieder¬
busch’s appearance, 18 that of the conceitedl,
precions“ poet Kajetan, a type one seems
t0 meet more often on the German stage than
any other; one wonders whv. In the micst
of the badinage of the sub-editorial room
Fliederbusch enters and the conversation
turns to the burning question of the moment.
A riot has taken place at Strakonitz and a
working man has been killed. The reaction¬
aries, as represented in tho Staatsrat by the
Graf Niederhof, have shamelessly excused the
deed on the ground that the authority of the
State must be upheld; the principle of
State authority stands higher than the life of
an individual. This sentiment of the Graf
has not only been applauded by the reaction¬
ary Press, but one paper, the Elegante Welt,
has greeted Niederhof as a prophet of a new
era of law and order. Naturally the fact is
hotly debated in the oflice of the foremost
organ of Viennese Liberalism. For a moment
there is a doubt as to the attitude to take up,
as a rumour will have it that the paper i8
about to become ofliziös' and therefore
prohibited from taking any side except that
of the law-abiding party. But this report is
shown to be untrue—at least for the moment.
And then Fliederbusch comes again with an
article against that in defene of the Graf
Niederhof which has appeared in the Elegante
Wel. The Herr Chefredakteur is charmed
with this piece of high-sounding, demagogie
denunciation, passages of whlich are given—
asly piece of satirical parody. Fliederbusch’s
career sceins assured.
In the next act theszene of action changes
tothe office of the Elegante Welt. The dis¬
zussion turns on the brilliant article on the
Of
and the b
and absorption of Casanova’s auto¬
biography—that faithful reflection of the
as of ga.
scholarly, blackguardly, utterly immoral,
half a do
witty, unserupulous man that he was—and
a poor e
age that le lived in. The title of the
novelle’ cornes from the fact that the time
Thong
of the action is ehosen at the momnent when
appear
Casanova is returning to Venice from Mantua,
lns und
after years of enforced exile. At the latter
Charm.
city he falls in with an old friend, Olivo,
starlings“
whose wife had been Casanova’s lover.
winter a
He has, however, lost all love for her. His
bles am
tierce affection has fallen on a young girl,
Fears be.
Marcolina, who is staying with Olivo. She
with
ie reputed a bluestocking, and does indeed
Peon 1oy
tion“.
Airprise Casanova by the erudition she
starling
chsplays in discussing with him lis proposedl
reply to Voltaire. Her learning does not
which p.
dimnish his passion, and he watches to see
whether her reputation is sustained. He
flock, ju
soon finds that Marcc'ina is in the habit of
in the ;
receiving a voung soldier, Lorenzi, who
birds or
escapes from her room at dawn. With him
among
Casanova makes a shameful bargain, in con¬
starling
sideration of writing off his heavy debt at
for a lor
cards. But Marcolina discovers the decep¬
is evider
tion, and Lorenzi, regretting his weakness
each otl
of sepa
and shame, attacks Casanova with a dagger.
out tha
In the fight that ensues Lorenzi, however,
birds se.
is killed and Casanova continues his home¬
divide
ward journey to Venice, wliere he is warmly
London
welcomed after so many vears of absence
early su
and amorous adventure in almost all the
great cities of Europe. The story is, of
More
course, unpleasant. But so is the life of
altered
Casanova. That is, perhaps, all that can be
tempert
said. Schnitzler has, in a“ long short story'
writing
of remnarkabie technical achievernent, summed
thology
up a disgusting character.
he vier
bireis 8
Amerie
time th
On Monday next, Mr. Arnold will publish
heips t
Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. Picot’s narrative
spectiv
of his experiences, With the British In¬
doves
terned in Switzerland.'’ Some acconnt is
times
given of the whole work undertaken by the
have h
Swiss Government on behalf of prisoners of
singing
war g# verally, as well as the life and organiza¬
andth
tion of our own interned troops, of whom the
back 1
author was British Officer in Charge. The
with tl
story is also told of the Bread Bureau at
perfun
Berne, which provided bread for 100,000
Such :
British prisoners of war in Germany itself,
race o
and of the activities of the British Legation
spring.
Red Cross Organization; both institutions
less dis
were founded by Lady Grant Duff, wife of
trating
the British Minister at Berne.
thougl
Besides his history of the part played by
ment
the R.A.M.C. in the Great War, which
andm
Messrs. Constable are to publish, Lieutenant¬
agains
Colonel F. E. Brereton has continued his war
creatie
stories for boys, Messrs. Blackie announcing
closely
two further volumes for publication this
most
autumm. One of these is a tale of adventure
conti#
written round the çlosing phase of the
his be
struggle on the Western front, entitled“ With
deligh.
the Allies on the Rhine. The second book is
and
77
With Allenby in Palestine: A Story of the
to wil
Latest Crusade.? Other books of brave
the m'
adventure for boys and girls announced by
villag
the same publishers inchde Winning lns
child,
Spurs: A Story of the R.A.F., by Perey
choir,
F. Westerman, who is also represented with
nor e
another naval tale entitled“ The Thick of
adds
the Fray at Zeebrugge?;
A Transport
a tan
Girl in France,“ the romance ofa W.A.A. C.,
shreu
by Bessie Marchant, whose second string,
whiel
#
Norah to tlie Rescue,'' is a tale of plot
the #
and counter-plot in the Philippines; and
the #
Phyllis in France,“ by May Wynne, another
humt
story of the war. Apart from war books,
large
Messrs. Blackie are publishing an illustrated
fond¬
acconnt of" Triumphs of Invention, by
able
Cyril Hall, uniform with the same author’s
tions
* Conquests of Engincering.
the