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WILLIAM MORRIS: ARTIST, WRITER, SOCIALIST. Edited by May Morris, with on Introduction by Bernard Show. (Basil Blackwell, 2 vols., 52s. 6d.)

T was a good idea of Miss Morris to collect in these, two stately volumes over a thousand unprinted pages

of her father's work. We cannot have too much of him, and, I can imagine few things more healthy for the Socialist Move- ment than a return to the spirit he embodied,

His Ana militancy, his hatred of ugliness, his noble anger, his love of, and faith in, the common man, all these are supremely illustrated

here.

The Morris they reveal is essentially the Morris we already know Whether he is chunusing Bellamy's suburban Utopla, or noting the impossiblilty of anarchism, or depicting, with incom- parable vigour, the horrors of "Bloody Sunday," or writing on a cool strike or the artisan an artist or what a fac- tory might be like-It is always the. old. incomparable Morris whom to know is to love and whom to love is to be made Inescapably' living part of kis cause.

A Great Artist

These thousand pages ilustrate once more the truth that is becoming cleurer to us to-day than it was when Morris, first joined the Socialist Movement.

The price of the capitaifa ayster had aroused anger in grent artists be- fore, him-abaye all in Carlyle and Dickens. But he was. I think, the first great artist in our literature consci. ously and deliberately to ally himself to the workers' cause and to recognise that his sympathy carried with it pro- found personal obligations. He pald

s debt nubly.

It is not only that he gave the Move- ment two of its Imperishable classics. It is not only, also, that day in and day out he gave it that kind of per- sonal service which is the vital con- dition of its health. It is not only that he took the pains to equip himself to b a formidable controversialist in Its ense.

Perhaps even more important than All this is the road that led him to Socialism. He came to it through the sheer intensity of his moral insight. He joined it because, as a great artist. ho could not bear the meanness and the ugliness of the lives about him.

Cthers had seen. not less vividly than he, the hollowness of a civiliza ulon built only

nexus. on the cash Others, again, and notably Matthew Arnold, had emphasised how unreal were the pretensions of the governlig class to the power they enjoyed.

But Morria was not content with ex- posure, He attacked the roots of the

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system: he set out a considered alter- native. He told his generation that only the private ownership of the means of production stood in the way of a life that might menu beauty and happiness for all men.

Like A Prophet

Once that insight had been rouch- safed to him like a prophet of old he set out to communicate his vision to othera Ho lectured about it. wrote about it, sang about it. All his life was transformed by his dream. He deter- mined to make vigorous economic philosophy an integral part of our İllerature. How marvellously he suc creded these volumes amply testify.

He was a poet, and he became.an agilator. He was a rich craftsman. and he becaine a determined revolu- Intrigue. tionary. Disappointment, jealousy, came lus way-the intensity of his faith transcecded them all These pages show how fully be realised the price that might have to be paid for victory: It is typical of his courage that he faced squarely the need to pay that price.

There was never any going back. There was never any mealy-mouthed attempt to diminish the proportions of the enterprise to which he had set ha hand. If some deserted him, he found others to take their place. If others emplissed their doubt whether a poet, and craftsman could properly concern himself with the method of polities, be shuply shrugged his shoulders and went on with his appointed task.

He not bother himself. about leaders. He took his place in the army to which he felt cnlied with the same grand and milltuit simplicity that Kelt Hardie and Lenin showed when they had found their caUM.

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In Shirt-sleeves

There is a great lesson for all of us in this, and it is the more fully en- forced becauso in these pages Miss Morris, as it were; has admitted us into her father's workshop, and the man we 500 Is in his shirt-sleeves, caring heartily, dashing of a page here, n song there, cr, less hurriedly, putting Into coherent form that indictment of caplialist civilisation which will live ns long as our history.

The whole is enriched by some illu- minatlog pages from Bernard Shaw, Sometimes, an so often when Mr. Shaw writes of his Bocialist days, one may doubt whether he understands Marx- ism or whether he has ever seen the Fabians in their full historic per- spective.

But..we cannot help deep gratitude for glimpses of Morris which make him alive and grand.

Harold Laski

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A GUN FOR SALE,

By Graham Greene (Heinemann, 7s. 6d}

HERE'S Something about a gunman that the head of goes to

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nowadays.

However law-abiding they may be, they invariably rise to the criminal occasion. Of course, the killer must be trailed and caught, in the end. But while the hunt is on, he holds the screen and the atory.

Leaving the psychologist to explain. the phenomenon of this mass-interest in murderers, I commend Mr. Üreene's new novel to all those who are tired of thin, mechanical literary sleuthing and thrillers that sadly fail to thrill. For a gunman has gone to this author's head in aplendidly sensational style.

If the

An Englishman in the pay of an armament ring assassinates a foreign Minister. Another Power is, impii- cated-and Europe grinds 'rapidly into general mobilisation for war. truth can come out in time, Armaged don may, perhaps, be averted.

Against this signideant background. Mr. Greene Bets a host of lying figures intectives, Journalists, alum-dwellers, Londoners and Midianters. A night mure host, intelligently scan, with ench character vividly and sometimes viciously alive, Anightmare which will disturb your waking moments; and, I hope, agitate your conscience.

For A Gun For Sale is one of thos0 rare visitants-a book which you may put down, but which you will not easily put out of mind.

THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS. By Kosamond Lehawan. #Collins, 88.J

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N this long and carefully- written novel, Miss Lehmann re- introduces several characters from her Invitation to the Waltz, in particular, the two sisters. Olivin and Kate, who have grown older but not appreciably wiser.

Kate, happily married, has entered the settled down" period. Olivia, a murderce if ever there was one, has anade-and broken--a disastrous max- But she ringe with a spineless poet.

s has her dreams. One of them is that Rollo Spencer, rich and hand- an admirable person, and that Roma.

ls mother is a woman whose approval is worth havbig.

So she and Rollo, who is married also, become lovers in secret. Rolle's mother unds out. And at the end we are not sure whether she has surevedul in parting them or not.

Pu like this, the story sounds Although Actually I is not.

banul

I have a strong suspicion that this sort of novel is hordly worth writlag be

Goodbye,

Romance!

FAREWELL ROMANCE. By Gilbert Frankou. (Hutchinson, 88, Gil.)

LTHOUGH it deals with the

A hackneyed theme of hus-

wife, this is the most serious story that Mr. Frankau has written for a long, long, time.

It is a serious attempt to show you how a small group of men and women might react under abnor- mal

the circumstances - and author's asides on Nazism and Fascism bring the book right up- to-date.

*

Now and then he must picad guilty to such phrases, as, "Sheer pity for her took him by the throat." He can describe a dog as a belge bundle' of contentment" and speak of a woman's teeth as "treasured ivories." And his old

tr

- enemy, emotionalism, can atil send

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Gunman!

cause of the meagreness of its central theme, I must admit that The Weather In the Streets is extremely well done.

Mias Lehumann has an extraordinary power of making you feel intimate with her characters when she wishes thens to appear sympathetic and of presenting N sharp caricature of them when flat mults her purpose. And this gives a spice and variety to her pages which is most refreshing.

She can make the day-dreams of lovers, domestic routine and the table. talk of the rich equally convincing, She can bring out the eccentricity of outwardly dull people and the ware dullness of the eccentric. She tauchra nothing that her gentle but searching wit does not lumine with a soft, pleasing glow.

A book which will certainly add to its nuthor's reputation.

THE OPEN AIR: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE. Collected by Adrian Bell. (Faber and Faber, 78. 6d.

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UMMER has brought several rural collections, selections and anthologies this season. · Mr. Bell's, to my mind, is far and awny the best.

He is one of those stern spirits who withhold' their list of authors until the end of the book. But, with much con- tributors as Hudson and Tolstoy, Bunyan and Barbellion. Hardy and Bassoon, he may be easily forgiven.

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