The Murder of a Poet
It is reported that Rupert Brooke died of sun-stroke last month in the Dardanelles. There is nothing to be said in the face of such monster horrors.... And it is also reported that Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson has burned up his production of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra, not being able to bear the strain of acting in a play written by his unpatriotic countryman who protested against such horrors.
Emma Goldman’s Lectures in May
At a recent meeting of the Chicago Woman’s Club, when all the editors of Chicago magazines explained the virtues of their respective journals, Lucien Cary said, politely but in effect, that The Little Review was no good. “The only striking thing it has done (beside coming out at all) is to discover Emma Goldman, a nice woman with views less radical than Emerson’s and certainly far less well expressed.” I quote this because it is so exhilarating to catch Mr. Cary in a half-truth—the kind of thing that makes for the confused thinking he is so valiantly in arms against. If The Little Review had been alive about twenty-five years ago I hope we would have had the sense to discover that a great woman was beginning to work in this country. As it is, we could only try to point out how difficult and how fine has been Emma Goldman’s living of the things Emerson thought it would be good to live. It was not for the people who know their Emerson that we tried it, but for those who have forgotten him, like Mr. Cary.... Since we failed so miserably we shall have to try again. But in the meantime you may hear Emma Goldman herself and discover just how she is helping to make Emerson’s essays livable. She is to lecture for a week in Chicago, in the most delightful lecture room in the city—the Assembly Room in the Fine Arts Building. Her subjects are as follows, at 8:15 in the evening:
Sunday, May 9:
“Friedrich Nietzsche, the Intellectual Storm Centre of the European War.”
Monday, May 10:
“Is Man a Varietist or Monogamist”?
Tuesday, May 11:
“Jealousy” (Its Cause and Possible Cure).
Wednesday, May 12:
“Social Revolution vs. Social Reform.”
Thursday, May 13:
“Feminism” (A Critique of the Modern Woman’s Movements).