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POST-VICTORIANISM,'

That a new

ware of Victorianism is approaching is a fact which some will regret and some appland, but which most men, whose eye is observant of the outward things of life, will readily admit. How formidable that wave will prove to be when it draws near or how much of contemporary mannery will bo enveloped by it cone can my at this stage. As yet we know only the foam and froth of it. There is talk, and more than talk, of crinolines, of pictures that are to tell a

Tennyson himself. There is, story, of moreover, a curious change in youth'sopinion The prosperity of the seventies of enviable where once it seemeci grosk

ofitu

MOOMIN

and the quite contentment of these who en- jaye it is seen to be a quality not to be con demned out of hand. Even in playa sud novels tyrannical fathers have lost their air of terrible reality, and no one is moved sither to tours or to revolt by their ex aggerated misdeeds. So long as

* young men ot, more particularly, young women write sturies, so long, that is, as the world con- tinues

the claims of the younger generation will be 20 anilying theins and the older will be male to atund, in ogn pasture or another, in though never com in the pillory of wrathi. The

pelting Aport E

meted, has nevertholesa 13 iCR prizont

pletely to be actuates, and

popularity that

a sign of the on uning of post

The

giants who indulged in

wann.

it

at the turn of the nineteenth century have

not. perhaps, achieved their cerola- tion, but they have exhausted Hir sen- sation.

The

bullying fatler who never censes, through four acts pe tour, hundred Furnish un with examples of pages, to parental injustion, and his rebellious daugh- ter who must always have her own way or a... domestic revolution, are become tedious endurance. She seems, not the glorious

ous beyond

fire brand whom WO used to appla inshioned

but

a garrulous nuisance, than ber own father. She is told, perhaps, that she pust go to church when she wants to go On the river, or that she must endure Piralico though she desires. Paris, or that the man apon whom she amiles in financially insecure and socially impossible. Once it seemed

des- parate tyranny. The early years of the twentieth century were kindled to indigna

by it. She was right and he was We made symbols of her likes and dislikes, We made

e was wrong,

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more

sa if the river were the stream of liberty and Faris the capital of feminine freedom. We applanded her even when she stole the household money to support her Parisian trip, and if having avoined church by some stratagem, she was drowned in the fatal river, we made a a symbol of that too. Her grieving father

hind tenta

I the consequences of coer- cion. So more, we believed, would he dare to interfern with Li- children's liberty. must allow his daughters freedom lest a just fate should deprive him of them. With his bowed head and repentant tongue, he scen el, during the last act, a monument to it struck no one that the

Qui folls..

giris drowning proved, if it proved anything. that her father had been right when he had said, amid our jeers in the preending act, have been

that the miley would

taferin

How

LOWATIN

the

pew.

long will this change of

Attitude

will it rents be continued? How far

th

| not.

And.

Is the reaction dangerous Does it portend a complete Victorian re- establishment? They are questions which we need not yet attempt to answer. There are still tyrannical puren's and downtrodden daughters. There is still, perhaps good Cause in many quarters to ask

a greater From

Brenter sympati fur youth. But whereas we are now capable of discussing these matters without losing our sense

of humour, audiences of on carlier day were are reaching the generçus con- clusion that parents are not in

such fonls or such tyrants as once they

appmed. munners, like all Victorian manners, Their are taking upon themselves romantic glamour. Fathers are, indeed, becoming pleasant and fashionable affectation. like Victorian furniture and the poems of Tennyson.

Not long ago, the father, his armchair, and the pecins be enjoyed in

in it them, were red rags to modernity.

Progres you attacked, or cried:. passed on. Now you use and smile their their quaintness. Tennyson is already returning to power. The wickel acquiring a halo of benevolence Vers revolutionary young women of the fashion able sort will put away their Oriental divans, anal, leaning their heads against antique antimacassars, will read the "Idylle of the King"Truses.

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soon

The Pope has decided to resume in the sitting of the Ecumenical Coun- cil interrupted in 1870.

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