. The Argonaut. lmost as much bewildered as though they hadsuddenly been introduced to life upon another poor have been a tradition with them, a class thatmust be aided as an honorable duty and through charityorganizations, soup tickets, and the parson. But nowcomes the realization that poverty means a suffering byreal human flesh and blood like their own and thatsuffering brings desperation and a new and dangerousfraternity. Perhaps it is too much to speak of a realiza-tion. It is rather a persistent knocking at the mentaldoor by facts that refuse to recognize their own non-existen
. The Argonaut. lmost as much bewildered as though they hadsuddenly been introduced to life upon another poor have been a tradition with them, a class thatmust be aided as an honorable duty and through charityorganizations, soup tickets, and the parson. But nowcomes the realization that poverty means a suffering byreal human flesh and blood like their own and thatsuffering brings desperation and a new and dangerousfraternity. Perhaps it is too much to speak of a realiza-tion. It is rather a persistent knocking at the mentaldoor by facts that refuse to recognize their own non-existence, a knocking that must and wii! be heard. Mr. Galsworthy is not the only man who persists inshowing us, with a sort of deadly and dispassionatepersistency, the wounds of Lazarus. But he is the onlyaristocrat who does so, the only one who can tell uswhat the aristocrat thinks about it all. It is a sign ofthe times. Then, too, there is Mr. Wells. Villadom does notapprove of Mr. Wells, but then he is so much more. Louise Closser Hale, Author of The eV Brothers. interesting than Mrs. Ward. Villadom reads Ward from a sense of duty, but it reads Mr. Wells froma desire to be amused. It does not like Tono Bungaywith its merciless exposure of commercialism, for is notvilladom built up of quack medicines and ponderoussolemnities and conventional respectabilities, and villa-dom does not like to be laughed at. But it toleratesMr. Wells, who goes on his gibing, biting, caustic wayunrebuked. Of course there are other men who are scraping offthe whitewash from the social sepulchres and showingthat they are actually and truly filled with dead mensbones, and that traditions, however old, may actuallycome from the Devil and should be sent back is such men who sound the new note in Englishfiction and its effective undertone is the increasingclamor of starving, despairing multitudes who used tobeg but who now threaten. The influence of Mr. Chesterton upon the new li
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