freedom of his own country, the English will soon destroy
themselves altogether, and we shall inherit their language, the
only worthy thing they have, and which their newspapers have not
yet succeeded in debauching and degrading beyond repair. There
are still universities in England. However, they have made it a
crime in England to write good English—for style itself is a form
of truth, being beauty; and truth and beauty are as welcome in
England as detectives in a thieves’ kitchen.—Aleister Crowley in
_The International_.
THE DRAMA
for May Contained This Interesting Material
THE CLASSICAL STAGE OF JAPAN Ernest Fenollosa’s Work on the
Japanese “Noh.” Edited by Ezra Pound.
“Noh” Dramas (from the Fenollosa Manuscript).
Sotoba Komachi.
Kayoi Komachi.
Suma Genji.
Kumasaka.
Shojo.
Tamura.
Tsunemasa.
Kunasaka.
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE CENSORSHIP, by _Thomas H.
Dickinson_
MAURICE MAETERLINCK by _Remy de Gourmont_ Authorized
translation by Richard Aldington.
THE “BOOK OF THE PAGEANT,” AND ITS DEVELOPMENT by _Frank
Chouteau Brown_
ON THE READING OF PLAYS by _Elizabeth R. Hunt_
A PYRAMUS-AND-THISBE PLAY OF SHAKESPEARE’S TIME, with notes
by _Eleanor Prescott Hammond_
THE PUBLISHED PLAY by _Archibald Henderson_
THE THEATRE TODAY—AND TOMORROW, a review, by _Alice Corbin
Henderson_
THE GERMAN STAGE AND ITS ORGANIZATION—Part III, Private
Theatres by _Frank E. Washburn Freund_
ASPECTS OF MODERN DRAMA, a review, by _Lander MacClintock_
THE JAPANESE PLAY OF THE CENTURIES by _Gertrude Emerson_
A SELECTIVE LIST OF ESSAYS AND BOOKS ABOUT THE THEATRE AND
OF PLAYS, published during the first quarter of 1915
compiled by _Frank Chouteau Brown_
THE DRAMA for August will contain Augier’s _Mariage d’Olympe_,
with a foreword by Eugene Brieux; an amusing account of his
experiences with Parsee drama, by George Cecil; a paper on the
_Evolution of the Actor_, by Arthur Pollock; a discussion of
Frank Wedekind, by Frances Fay; a review of the work of the
recent Drama League Convention; a plan for an autumn community
festival; an outline of the nation-wide celebration of the
Shakespeare tercentenary, and an article entitled
_Depersonalizing the Instruments of the Drama_, by Huntly Carter.
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Transcriber’s Notes
Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.
The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect
correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.
In the poem _Les Condoléances_, the line _Qu’il est sous les mers_ was
moved from the end of the stanza beginning with _“Je n’insiste pas. Je
suis venu vite,_ to the end of the stanza beginning with _“Si notre
avenir—souffrez que je cache_ where it most likely belongs.
The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical
errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here
(before/after):
[p. 9]:
... seines Nachbarvolkes fühlt, als würs dem eigenen Volk ...
... seines Nachbarvolkes fühlt, als wärs dem eigenen Volk ...
[p. 11]:
... for life, even if it be a fight against the whole world.
“Veder Schlafpulver ...
... for life, even if it be a fight against the whole world.
“Weder Schlafpulver ...
[p. 34]:
... And where shall be the end at last. ...
... And where shall be the end at last? ...
[p. 41]:
... I am such of the artificial inanities of the
drawingroom—the polite ...
... I am sick of the artificial inanities of the
drawingroom—the polite ...
[p. 42]:
... Schoengist nobility. ...
... Schöngeist nobility. ...
[p. 42]:
... rumble bizarrely from the depths of every philosophical
sub-celler they can ...
... rumble bizarrely from the depths of every philosophical
sub-cellar they can ...
[p. 42]:
... I am sick of their kinsmen, of the surgical tongues who
dissect, who who ...
... I am sick of their kinsmen, of the surgical tongues who
dissect, who ...
[p. 54]:
... Huntley Carter. ...
... Huntly Carter. ...