ARNOLD BÖCKLIN
(German painter, 1827-1901. Painting in the Dresden Gallery)
LONDON
PAUL GUSTAVE DORÉ
French illustrator, 1833-1883.
(His pictures for Dante’s “Inferno” are well known)
Anti-Militarism
(From “The Red Wave”)
By Joseph-Henry Rosny, the Elder
(French novelist, member of the Académie des Goncourts; born 1856. A novel of revolutionary Syndicalism. The present scene describes a debate organized between champions of the revolutionary and the conservative labor unions, the “Reds” and the “Yellows”; a grand Homeric combat of ideas, in which the audience is wrought to a furious pitch of excitement, and does as much talking as the orators. In the following extract, from about forty pages of mingled eloquence and humor, the champion of the “Reds” announces “the grave and dreadful problem of anti-militarism”)