Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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nto the throat was the smoulderingpathos of the voice. O Casshis, I am aide of many griefs . . .No man bean sorrow better. Portia is dead. In the scene before Agincourt KingHenrys prayer swelled like an organwith majestic spiritual fervor. O God of battles! steel my soldiers hearts;Possess them not with fear; take from them nowThe sense of reckoning if the opposed numbersPluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord.O not to-day, think not upon the faultMy father made in compassing the crown! None of us will ever forget the thrill wefelt when Alceste, in fiery abandon andpassionate fervor thundered out: I love my love, I love my love so well * In a magazine article it is impossibleto attempt an adequate criticism of Rich-ard Mansfields work. But a slighttribute to the worth and value of thatwork is one which every lover of the bestart is glad to pay. Now that HenryIrving is gone there is no one to disputeRichard Mansfields leadership. Kenyon West. New York City* Digitized by Google
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om wu 3 16 Digitized by Google THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DECORATIVE ART-SPIRIT OF JAPAN IN COMPARISON WITH THOSE OF WESTERN COUNTRIES. By Mbs. F. Edwin Elwell. I HAVE taken the Art of the East andWest at the present time. I do notinclude in my remarks on Western Artany of our inheritance of the past, butonly the contemporary phases that weare producing at the present I am notcomparing the ethical standards of Japan,but their standards of Art with those ofWestern countries. Art is simply the harmonious expres-sion of human emotions and thought—the power to perceive the beautiful andexpress it in artistic forms. Art is always interpretative. It in-terprets the life and feelings of the peopleof the period. We all recognize thatthe coin outlives the empire, the bustsurvives the state. Art is of two great classes, Creativeand Decorative. Creative Art follows no canons. It ispurely and simply inspirational, but cre-ating always new forms of expressingitself. Wh

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