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men who were at the front, wo- men of position and charactor, engaged in ambulance work, were addicted to these practices.

Miss Radelyffe Hall calling from where she sat at the solicitors' table, said, "1 protest, I most em- are defined, or, in any way held phatically protest. I am the au- up to admiration, no reasonable thoress of this book, and I cannot person can say that the hook is let that remark pass."* not, in that case, 217 obscene publication.

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Sir Chartres Biron-If you can- Inst behave yourself in this court, "I can imagine a book written i shall have to have you removed. on this subject presenting the Miss Radelyffe Hall-It is a whole matter an à tengedy-shame.

tragely being that there may be A police rervent approached people so afflicted, who try their Mies Radclyffe Hall and told her beat to fight against this horrible that she must keep quilt, vice, and find themselves in perit

Sir Chartres continued his judg-

in that direction, or unable to re-ment by quoting further passagen sist its tendences that result in from the book. One of these was the moral and physical degrada what he described as "the life of tion-I can imagine dealing with

the subject on those terms formeze two people living in filthy. sin.' Another incident in the ing the subject of a novel which book which seemed to have been might have a strong moral in overlooked by the defence, was finence. But does this book do it that the mother was denounced as " am told by Mr. Melville," he cruel, pitiless woman when she anid, "th the book is presented would not allow Stephen' to bring na a tragedy. That is true in the girl she had debauched Into aense, but what is the tragedy? It her household.

is not the tragedy, that I have just, There was another description Indicatét, of people fighting in the book of a menage in Paris against immoral instinets and un-cept by a French woman who, he able to resist them. On the con-said, was presented to the public trary the tragedy is presented herein the leading perverted woman in as that of people who indulge in Parla. She was' described, and all these vices and who are not tolera, the people who frequented the ted by decent people, not received mennge were described-although in society, but ostracised.

they had this vice-in terms of considerable culogy.

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"The whole note of the book is a passionate and almost hysterical plea for the toleration and recogni- tion of these people, and that theiri practices should be tolerated and recognised in decent society. It is n long book of 500 pages dealing solely or in the main with natural offences.

“Attractive People."

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Night of Existence. Then, he said, there was the

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incident when the mother refused to allow Mary to stay in the house with Stephen, and Stephen un-swered, "There is only one way to meet this situation," and threw herself into Mary's arms.

The book, he said, concluded] "There is not a single word with singular and hysterical pasy- from beginning to end in this ares in which the Deity was men- hook," he continued, "which sug toned quite frequently. The con- gests that anyone with these ten-cluding passage asked that He dencies is in the least blame-should acknowledge us before the worthy, or that they should be re-whole world and give us also the sisted Every out of the charac-right of our existence."

1 courges," said Sir Chartres, Lers in this book who indulge in these vices are presented to as the way in which the Deity is in attractive people, and put forward traduced reems to be singularly for our admiration, and those who inappropriate and disgusting." object to these vices are sneered at in this book as prejudiced, foolish, and ervel.

Unfortunately these women did exist, he added, and the book ask- ed that their existence should be "What is a much more serious recognised and tolerated. instead matter, the actual physical vices of their being treated with con- are described in the most alluring demnation as they were at present Lerms. It is actually put forward by all decent people.

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"These being the terms of the that this indulgence improve.

book," he said, "I have no hesita- their mental balance and capa-

tion whatever in saying it is an city."

Sir Chartres quoted a passage obscene libel; it would tend to from the book describing the corrupt those into whone hands, it friendship between the heroine, should fall and the publication of who was presented as a very fine this book la an offence against character, and a married woman public decency, an obscene libel, whom she ultimately persuaded to and I shall order it to he destroy Indulge in these practices..

Mr. Fulton asked for costs, and After reading the passage Sir

of Sir Chartros ordered the defend- Chartres said, "And in view that, I am asked to say that this ants to pay them. book is not a defence of these! practices,"

ed."

Miss Radclyffe Hall, as she left) the court, said to sympathising friends, "Believe me, the end is only beginning." Mire Redclyffe Hall's Statement.

Miss Radelvffe Hall, interviewed after the case ended, enid:

He said that it was very signi- ficant, In view of that appeal to him, that the girl was described in the book an expressing her up- proval of these practices. When

"Long passages in my book were the mother spokes to her about this alur on her life, she replied, "I misinterpreted in the most amaz am not ashamed of it. There is ing and shocking manner. no shame in me."'

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Authoress's Protest,

Sir Chartres sald that those were passages which had impress ed themselves on his mind when

"I particularly take exception to the Magistrate's reference to the war work done by British women,' whom he has held up to oppro- brium in a public Court.

"Those women were the nest,

he was asked by the defence to say the most couraveous, the most the that the book was in no sense a sacrificing, and above all,

great emphasis) defence of unnatural practices be purest (with tween women or a glorification of members of the British Empire them or praise of them.

during the War..

"The whole of this book, putting "That their fine work should be it on the most temperate basis," held up to question is a terrible he said, "a a demand for the thing. I defy anybody," she add- toleration and recognition of this ed. "to read, that portion of the; type of women-that in ordinary Well of Loneliness' which deals society they should not be made with the war work done by women outcasts or pariahs or ostracised and to find in the writing of that by decent people,”

portion anything but the highest

Ho said there was a suggestion and most reverent respect for the in the book that a number of wo-moral character of those women."

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