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AUGUST 17,

BOOKS OF THE WEEK-

"His life was transformed by a dream."

Poet-Craftsman

WILLIAM MORRIS

ARTIST,

WRITER, SOCIALIST. Edited by May Morris, with an Introduction by Bornard Show. (Basil Blackwell, 2 vols., 52s. 6d.).

T was a good idea of Misa 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 Ane multancy, 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 in chastising Bellamy's suburban Utopia, or noting the impossibility of anarchism, or depicting, with incom- parable vigour, the horrors of "Bloody Sunday." or writing on a con strike or the artisan na artist or what a inc- tory might be Ilker-it is always the old. incomparable Morris whom to know is to love and whom to love in to be made inckenzably a living part of his cause.

A Great Artist

These thousand pagës lilustrate once more the truth that is becoming clearer to us today than it was when Morria Hat joined the Socialist Movement.

The price of the capitalist system had aroused anger in great artists be- fore him-above all in Carlyle and Dickens. But he was. I think, the first grent artist in our literature consci- usly and deliberately to ally himself to the workers' cause and to recognise that his sympatly carried with it pro- found person obligations. He pak (his debt nobly.

It is not only that he gave the Move- ment two of its imperishable clusaics.. It is not only, also, that day in and clay out he gave it that kind of per sanal service which is the vital con- dition of its licalth. It is not only that he took the pains to equip himself to be a formidable controversialist in its enuse,

Perhaps even more important than all this is the road that led him to Socialkan. He came to it through the sheer intensity of his moral insight. Ita joined it because, as a great arist, he could not bear the mcaunces and the ugliness of the lives about him.

Ctners had seen, not less vividly than he, the hollowness of n civilisa- tion built only on the cash nexus, Others, again, and notably · MalUtew Arnold, had emphasised how unreal were the pretensions of the governing class to the power they enjoyed.

But Morris 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 mean beauty and hoppiness for all men.

Like A Prophet

Once that insight had been vouch- cafed to him like a prophet of old he set out to communicate his vision to others. He lectured about it, wrote about it, sung about It, All his life was

He deter transformed by bis dream. mined to make a vigorous cennamic philosophy an integral part of our. Ilterature. How marvellously he ruc- ceeded these volumes umply testify.

He was a poet, and he became an agitator. He was a rich craftsman, and he became a determined revolu tiounty. Disappointment, intrigue. Jealousy, cume lus way-the intensity of his faith transcended them all. These pages show how fully he 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 inealy-mouthed attempt to diminish the proportions of the enterprise to which he had set his hand. 1 ponte deserted him, he found others to take their place. If others emphasised their doubt whether a port and craftsman equid properly concern himself with the method of polities, he simply shrugged his shoulders and went on with his appointed tunk.

'He did not bother himmelf about leaders. He took its place in the army to which he felt called with the same grand and militant sinpletty that Keir Hardic and Lenin showed when Hey I found their cause.

In Shirt-sleeves

There is a great lesson for all of us In this, and it is the more, fully en- forced because in these parca Miss Morris, as it were, has admitted us into her father's workshop, and the man we seo is in his shirt-sleeves, caring heartily, dashing off a page here, a song there, or, less hurriedly, putting into coherent form that indictment of capitalist civilisation which will live as long as our history.

The whole is enriched by some litu- minating pages from Bernard Shaw. Sometimes, an so often when Mr. Bhaw writes of his Bocinlist days, one may doubt whether he undersiands Marx- Iam or whether he has over seen the Fabians in their full historic per- spective. But we cannot help deep gratitude for ilimpses of Morris which make him alive and grand.

Harold Laski

1936.

-edited by Roger Pippett

There's Something

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A GUN FOR SALE,

By Graham Groene (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.)

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HERE'S something about n gunman that goes to the head of ardlences and readers

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 story.

Leaving the paychologist to explain the phenomenon of this mass-interest in murderers, I commend Mr. Greene's now novel to all those who are tired of thin, mechanient terary aleutling and thrillers that sadly fail, to thrill, For a guminan has gone to this author's head in splendidly sensational ntyle,

An Englishman in the pay of an armament ring assassinules a foreign Minister. Another Power is impli cated and Europe grinds rapidly into general mobilisation for war, If the truth can come out in tiine, Arninged. don may, perhaps, be avertesi.

Against this significant background, Mr. Greene zeta a host of nying Ogures -delectives, journalists, slum-dwellers, Londoners und Midlanders. A sight- mure hosi, intelligently seen, with cách And sometimes character vividly viclously alive. A rightmare which will disturb your waking moments, and, I 'hope, agitale your conscience.

For A Gun For Sale in one of those Tare visitants-a book which you may put down, but which you will not easily put out of mind.

THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS.

osamond Lehmann.

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

Kate, happily married, has entered the settled down" period. Olivia, n murderes If ever there was one, has made-and breken--n disastrous mar- riage with a spluctess poet. But she at has her dreams. One of them 35 that Rolla Spencer, rich and hand- some, is un admirable person, and itin his mother is a woman whose approval is worth having.

So site and Rolls, who is married also. become loyers in secret. Roilo's mother Inds cut. And at the end we are not sure whether she has succeederk In parting them or not.

Put

like 2018

the story sounda Actually it nal. Although

I have a strong suspicion that this sort of novel is hardly worth writing be

Goodbye,

Romance!

FAREWELL ROMANCE. By Gilbert Frankau (futchinson, 88, td.)

LTHOUGH it deals with the hackneyed theme of hus- band-married-to-invalid- wife, this is the most serious story

that Mr. Frankau has written for a long, lang. Ume.

It is a serious attempt to show' you how a small group of men and women might react under abnor- the circumstances - and mal nuthor's asides on Nazism and Fascism bring the book right up- to-date.

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Now and then he must plead guilty to such phrases as, "Sheer pity for her took him by the throat." He can describe a dog as "a belga bundle of contentment and speak of a woman's teeth as "treasured 1vories." And his old enemy, emotionalism, can still send him staggering to the ropes.

Gunman!

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

Miss Lehmann has an extraordinary power of making you feel intimate with her characters when sie wishes them to appear sympathetle and of presenting a sharp, caricature them when that sulis her purpose. 'And this gives a spico and variety to her pages which is most refreshing.

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She can make tho' day-dreams of lovers, domestle routine and the table- talk of the rich equally convincing. She can bring out the eccentricity of outwardly duil people and the Inwor dullness of the eccentric. She touches nothing that her gentle but searching wit does not tumíne with A soft, picasing glow.

A book which will certainly add to Ha author's reputation.

THE OPEN AIR: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE. Collected by Adrian Bell. (Faber and Faber, 78, 6.) UMMER has brought several rural collections, elections and anthologies this season. Mr. Bell's, to my mind, is far and away the best.

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He is ons of those sten spirits, who withhold their list of authors until the end of the book. But, with such col tributor as Hudson and Tolstoy. Bunyan and Barbellion. Tardy and Bassoon, he may be easily forgiven.

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