{27} In _The New Arcadia_ Miss Robinson devoted to the Cause of Labour a
dilettante little book that had not even one note of the true, the sweet
and lovely poetry of her deeper impulses. There is the amateur, and the
female amateur, no less in perception and emotion than in the technical
aspects of our art, and we want no more flimsy "sympathetic" rigmaroles,
like "The Cry of the Children," or "A Song for the Ragged Schools of
London," from those who, in the portraiture of the divine simple woman's
soul within them, can give us poetry complete, genuine, everlasting.
{32} His attack on George Eliot in "Fiction, Fair and Foul," in the
_Nineteenth Century_, for instance.
{33} The attack on Missionary Ridge is an example of the brilliant
initiative, as the holding of the Bloody Angle in the Wilderness is of
the dauntless resolution, of the army of the Democracy of the United
States, while the last attacks on Richmond were the final exploit of the
conqueror of two combatants, of whom it is enough to say that they were
worthy of one another.
{35} Something like an adequate account of this great _revolution
manquee_, which in England and 1381 went near to anticipating France and
1793, has at last found its place in the historian's pages, and Longland
the poet, Ball the preacher, and Tyler the man of action, who first
raised for us the democratic demand, can be seen somewhat as they were.
This, and more, we owe to John Richard Green. An account of the Revolt
will be found in section 4 of chapter 5 of his "Short History of the
English People." The phrases in verses 3 and 5 were catchwords among the
revolters.
{36} After dismissing the peasants with the formally written
acknowledgment of their freedom and rights, Richard II. with an army of
40,000 followers avenged himself and his lords by ruthless and prolonged
massacres over the whole country.
{38} Who owns, and rack-rents, some of the vilest slums in London, and
is beautifully aesthetic in private life.
{39a} The French.
{39b} "Voe victis!" woe to the conquered--the motto of the Gauls in Rome
as of the modern Civilization of Land and Capital.
{44} France.
{45} In Pere-la-Chaise, the famous Parisian cemetery, the Communists
made a desperate stand, but were overcome and the captured ones shot.
And Morny's vaulted tomb was close at hand, and Balzac smiled his animal
cynicism from his bust. Victims, murderer, and commenting Chorus, all
were there.
{46} A part of Paris.
{49} The New Model is the name by which is known that reorganization of
the Roundhead Army, without which Cromwell saw that the Cavaliers could
not be conquered. No one was permitted in its ranks who did not
thoroughly believe in the Cause for which it fought.
{66} This graveyard, one side of a gully, which suddenly expands and
leaves its base large enough for the local race-course, is in summer one
of the loveliest spots on earth. Hindoos, Protestants, Catholics, and
Mahommadan have their separate portions. Here in regimental or
individual tombs are the record of noble lives thrown away in the
iniquity of the English relations with China.
{69a} The Russian tea-urn.
{69b} In China the system of Trades Unions is admirable.--Coolie is the
generic term in the East for labourer.
{70} This is one of the three well-known colossi of Gautama, the Buddha.
The same type of proud patience marks this embodiment of the suffering
East, wherever we meet it.
{76} Dr Moorhouse came out to Melbourne as bishop in the Church of
England there in 1876. He almost immediately took the position of the
leading religious personality in Australia. To a rare geniality he added
the gifts of a "scholar" and a "gentleman," both real and both as modern
as yet seems permitted to the old caste and religion. He achieved an
influence over men of all denominations, and of none, that was quite
phenomenal, and might have been used for a national object as great as
good. The work of his diocese, however, proving too much for his
strength, he announced the fact, and declared that, unless his bishopric
were divided, he would be compelled to resign it. Shortly afterwards he
accepted the bishopric of Manchester, on the ground that "a larger sphere
of labour had been offered to him unsolicited." His departure was a sort
of national event.
{79a} Orang-utan.
{79b} The Buddhistic temple in Java, known as the temple of Borobodo.
{80} This explanation of these curious arborial growths is Mr Alfred
Wallace's (_Malay Archipelago_, chapter v.), and in this matter also we
may perhaps be content to rely on that "innate genius for solving
difficulties" which Darwin has assigned to the illustrious naturalist
whom Socialism is proud to number among her sons.
{84} The Australian Seamen's Union, after defeating our most powerful
shipping company over the question of Coloured Labour, after compelling
the companies that used Coloured Labour to abandon all coastal trade, in
alliance with the Miners, faces the craft that was once the brutality of
the sea-capitalists with the same dauntless determination, the same noble
self-restraint, that made it long ago the protagonist of Australian
Labour.
{87a} His attack on Carlyle, for instance, of which the prose part is
the fouler, the verse part the more virulent.
{87b} Poems and Ballads. (1st Series.)
{87c} Songs before Sunrise.
{87d} The picturesque Italian gentlemen who struggled so heroically for
Italian Nationalism represent to-day a tyranny deeper and more dark than
that of the Austrian foreigners, the tyranny of _caste_. The certainty
of popularity was the bait held out by the greasy respectability of the
_London Times_, and poetical vanity swallowed it, making Mr Swinburne
also among the panders in his denunciation of Irish Nationalism.
{89} To Mr Zox is chiefly due the formation of the Union of Female
Workers, Servants, and Shop-girls in Melbourne. There is no class called
upon to endure more petty tyranny and injustice, more hard work and
insult, and there is no class which finds less real sympathy and help.
Cannot stupid Sydney follow suit?
{95} This was one of the most horrible crimes of our time. A band of
young ruffians assaulted, violated, and frightfully maltreated a young
girl of rather dubious character. Nine were arraigned, seven condemned
to death, and four hanged. The trial was most indecently hurried by a
Judge who seemed determined to make the affair, from the aspect of law
and justice, as evilly noteworthy as from other aspects of it.
{110} Charles I. and Stafford, _e.g._