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BOOKS OF THEDAY.
of his intenled wife at the theatre. Thenfol- vie
lows a scene in which Henri actually does kill
the Duc, having at last learnt the réal truth.
By W. L COURTNEY.
But which is the more powerful incident of the
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twe? In some ways it is the simulated wrath
and fury of the histrionic episode, the actual
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER.
murder being tame in comparison. In so in¬
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(GAY AND HANCOCK. 28 6d.)
genious a fashion does Schnitzler euggest either
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that art is stronger than nature, or that
Slowly the reputation of Arthur Schnitzler,
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imagination is as potent as reality, or that our
the Austriandramatist, is making its way in thie
bee
life is spent between visions and things, and we
country. First a piece of his called“ Liebelei?
WII
often mistake the bwo. Or, perhaps, the most
larshall
rea
was seen at an afternoon performance in
succiet moral we can take comes from a line
vell
His Majesty’s Theatre; then came the fasci¬
in another of the plays included in this little
Wynne
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volume—“ Paracelsus.“ Here Paracelcns is a
nating sequence at the Palace called“ Anatol,?
In
wesmerist, and in the hypnotio condition he
Gerard adapted for the English stage by Mr. Granville
80c
extracts from Justina a confession which is
türeen Barker; finally, only the other day, we had
wol
probably false, but which may yet have some
Hugo two pieces done by the Stage Society,“ The
glimmering of truth, and which, at all events, ###
Conntess Mizzi“ and“ The Green Cockatoo.?
breaks down the barriers between dreams and im
larrod) I# is very dillicult to say precisely in what
reality. Just before Paraceleus leaves thestage Laf
Sladen consists the remarkable charm of chese pieces.
he utters the sentence, “ Life is a game; who Nol
cini
Adair They are very witty, amusing, and agreeable;
knows it he is wise.“ Truly, if we accept
Schnitzler’s platform, life is a game—stupid,
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stoliffe they are equally cynical, flippant, and—if one
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amusing, bitter, agreeable, tragie or comic,
likes to call them so—heartless. But the in¬
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vealed and concealed the bitter tragedies under¬
THE INSTDE OF THE CUP.
haf
Rita“lying the gay romance of woridly life. Rarely
Tb
(MACMILLAN. 68.)
has a dramatist exhibited eo masterly a gift of
milton
con
saying just enough and not too much, of prob¬
Mr. Winston Churchill (who is not the First Lord
Stuart
of !
ing folly, yet not going down to the bed-rock of
of the Admiralty) discusses in this noyel some burn¬
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ferdew
bitterness, of making us aware of the tragie
ing questions öf religion as it presents itself to
Pro
issues without insisting on them, and investing
modern minds Ho takes the quite common case of
the
some of the gloomiest of all possible scenes with
those who want to believe, and whb cannot accept
low
an unfailing gift of humour. It is throughthis
Christianity in the traditional forms in which it is
I#.
flas
lightness of touch that Arthur Sehnitaler gume
expounded tothem by the Churches. The probiem is
his distinction and puts himself inte tiie com¬
worked out in the career of John Hodder, a clergy¬
cen
pany of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw. Heis,
man, who holds strongly orthodof views, and who
Pa
of course, modern of the moderns, and as
becomes the rector of a fashionably-attendod place
Wo.
ageinst the thorough-going somewhaf stodgy
of worship in a big American city. The church is
ter
philosophy of Berlin, places before us the light
sunported and pradtically controlled by Eldon Parr,
and dainty fare, the brilliant artificiality of
s groat millionaire, who is noted both for his pro¬
Vienna.
str.
fuse charities and for the unscrypulous methods by
A MEDICAL TRAINING.
it
which he has amassed his möney. It gradually
of
to
Schnitzler has one great advantage over his dawns on Mr. Hodder that the religion which he
80
preaches and adminsters attracts only citizens of
rivals and competitors in that he is a doctor,
the
ouswani respectability, and of these he finds that
and has had a thorough medical training.
ret
the leading members, equally with the millionaire,
believe that at the present moment he has an
are ongaged in dubiouß, if tacitly acccpted, schemes
extensive private practice in Vienna. Very
of money-making. The inhabitants of the slums
ch
rarely, I suppose, has practical experience
which zurround the church will have nothing to do
gained in the sick room been conjoined with
with its services or ceremonies, and they can be
such an acute artistic sense as is to be found
influenced only through social activitics. Morcover,
inthe Viennese dramatist. His analytical
the earnest-mindod and upright persons of his own
power is as remarkable as his synthetic
class, who like him as à mah, derive no help from
brilliancy. He knows what is the matter with
his creed.
the modern human soul; he knows to what
wh.
After much stress of mind and a temporary loss
extent it is subject tto nervons discase; he can
En
of faith. Mr. Hodder arrives at the conclusion that
say from personal experience“ Tou ailost
the
the Church of which he is ihe minister, is a whited
here, and here,' not only to his patients, but
Er
senulehre. that its suppoffers are, in the main,
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820
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Pr
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6223
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SeRkEr
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mont done for their spechal betwof, aber
81
—
of the
sort of impromptu drama, in which the actors
self
P
2
22
#mulate passions and suggest vivid episodes ma
Ar A r
#
S
A 4
S
by the sheer forco ef their mimetic talents.tin
aining
Now, the best actor of the lot is a man called wh:
2 55.—
Henri, who is about to marry the actrees called his
Léocadie, who, we learn, is too friendly with
Emile, Duc de Cadignan. First Henri goes
mat
through a scene in which he pretends he has
D0½
killed his rival the Duc in the dressing-room##rt
BOOKS OF THEDAY.
of his intenled wife at the theatre. Thenfol- vie
lows a scene in which Henri actually does kill
the Duc, having at last learnt the réal truth.
By W. L COURTNEY.
But which is the more powerful incident of the
—
TAR
twe? In some ways it is the simulated wrath
and fury of the histrionic episode, the actual
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER.
murder being tame in comparison. In so in¬
ar
(GAY AND HANCOCK. 28 6d.)
genious a fashion does Schnitzler euggest either
ove
that art is stronger than nature, or that
Slowly the reputation of Arthur Schnitzler,
the
imagination is as potent as reality, or that our
the Austriandramatist, is making its way in thie
bee
life is spent between visions and things, and we
country. First a piece of his called“ Liebelei?
WII
often mistake the bwo. Or, perhaps, the most
larshall
rea
was seen at an afternoon performance in
succiet moral we can take comes from a line
vell
His Majesty’s Theatre; then came the fasci¬
in another of the plays included in this little
Wynne
chei
volume—“ Paracelsus.“ Here Paracelcns is a
nating sequence at the Palace called“ Anatol,?
In
wesmerist, and in the hypnotio condition he
Gerard adapted for the English stage by Mr. Granville
80c
extracts from Justina a confession which is
türeen Barker; finally, only the other day, we had
wol
probably false, but which may yet have some
Hugo two pieces done by the Stage Society,“ The
glimmering of truth, and which, at all events, ###
Conntess Mizzi“ and“ The Green Cockatoo.?
breaks down the barriers between dreams and im
larrod) I# is very dillicult to say precisely in what
reality. Just before Paraceleus leaves thestage Laf
Sladen consists the remarkable charm of chese pieces.
he utters the sentence, “ Life is a game; who Nol
cini
Adair They are very witty, amusing, and agreeable;
knows it he is wise.“ Truly, if we accept
Schnitzler’s platform, life is a game—stupid,
rei
stoliffe they are equally cynical, flippant, and—if one
ind
amusing, bitter, agreeable, tragie or comic,
likes to call them so—heartless. But the in¬
Horn
according to the taste and predilection of the
Th
variable characteristic is the lightness of touch
gamester.
pon
Vynne with which the dramatist skates over thin ice,
nat
tho. deft ekill with which he has t once re¬
Wodnil
Mo
vealed and concealed the bitter tragedies under¬
THE INSTDE OF THE CUP.
haf
Rita“lying the gay romance of woridly life. Rarely
Tb
(MACMILLAN. 68.)
has a dramatist exhibited eo masterly a gift of
milton
con
saying just enough and not too much, of prob¬
Mr. Winston Churchill (who is not the First Lord
Stuart
of !
ing folly, yet not going down to the bed-rock of
of the Admiralty) discusses in this noyel some burn¬
Paf
ferdew
bitterness, of making us aware of the tragie
ing questions öf religion as it presents itself to
Pro
issues without insisting on them, and investing
modern minds Ho takes the quite common case of
the
some of the gloomiest of all possible scenes with
those who want to believe, and whb cannot accept
low
an unfailing gift of humour. It is throughthis
Christianity in the traditional forms in which it is
I#.
flas
lightness of touch that Arthur Sehnitaler gume
expounded tothem by the Churches. The probiem is
his distinction and puts himself inte tiie com¬
worked out in the career of John Hodder, a clergy¬
cen
pany of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw. Heis,
man, who holds strongly orthodof views, and who
Pa
of course, modern of the moderns, and as
becomes the rector of a fashionably-attendod place
Wo.
ageinst the thorough-going somewhaf stodgy
of worship in a big American city. The church is
ter
philosophy of Berlin, places before us the light
sunported and pradtically controlled by Eldon Parr,
and dainty fare, the brilliant artificiality of
s groat millionaire, who is noted both for his pro¬
Vienna.
str.
fuse charities and for the unscrypulous methods by
A MEDICAL TRAINING.
it
which he has amassed his möney. It gradually
of
to
Schnitzler has one great advantage over his dawns on Mr. Hodder that the religion which he
80
preaches and adminsters attracts only citizens of
rivals and competitors in that he is a doctor,
the
ouswani respectability, and of these he finds that
and has had a thorough medical training.
ret
the leading members, equally with the millionaire,
believe that at the present moment he has an
are ongaged in dubiouß, if tacitly acccpted, schemes
extensive private practice in Vienna. Very
of money-making. The inhabitants of the slums
ch
rarely, I suppose, has practical experience
which zurround the church will have nothing to do
gained in the sick room been conjoined with
with its services or ceremonies, and they can be
such an acute artistic sense as is to be found
influenced only through social activitics. Morcover,
inthe Viennese dramatist. His analytical
the earnest-mindod and upright persons of his own
power is as remarkable as his synthetic
class, who like him as à mah, derive no help from
brilliancy. He knows what is the matter with
his creed.
the modern human soul; he knows to what
wh.
After much stress of mind and a temporary loss
extent it is subject tto nervons discase; he can
En
of faith. Mr. Hodder arrives at the conclusion that
say from personal experience“ Tou ailost
the
the Church of which he is ihe minister, is a whited
here, and here,' not only to his patients, but
Er
senulehre. that its suppoffers are, in the main,
S
K