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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In the World of Literature, Art and Drama. 185

The address was worthy of our most finished
and in many respects greatest actress — a
woman whose serious, earnest and faithful
work is doing much to redeem the stage from
becoming little better than a Punch and Judy
show in so far as stimulating fine, true or se-
rious thought is concerned; for since the the-
atrical trust was formed the degradation of
the stage has been more and more glaringly
apparent. Men who are practically the mas-
ters of the dramatic field have placed the box-
office above all other considerations. There-
fore the high concern for art, education and
moral upliftment has had little or no influence
on their sordid natures, and the result is pain-
fully in evidence on every hand. Against this
degradation of the stage no one in the New
World has fought so bravely, fearlessly and
persistently as Mrs. Fiske, and for this brave
action no less than for her own fine work she
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Photo, by Barnett, London, England.

MISS EMILY H0BH0U8E.
of discriminating friends of true dramatic art.

Miss Emily Hobhouse: Heroine of Peace
and Humanity.

In the January Arena we published an
extended notice of the important humanita-
rian work inaugurated and being carried for-
ward by the English heroine, Miss Emily Hob-
house. Through the kindness of Countess
Evelyn Asivelli, of No. 8 Grand Pré, Geneva,
Switzerland, we are enabled this month to
give our readers a picture made from the
latest photograph of this true exponent of the
Golden Rule and leader of the civilization that
civilizes. In a personal letter accompanying
the photograph, Countess Asivelli, in speak-
ing of Miss Hobhouse, says:

"When looking at her peaceful, determined,
beautiful face, often have I thought of Byron's
words:

"Around her shone
The light of love, the purity of grace;
The mind, the music breathing from her face;
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And oh! that eye was in itself a soul."


186 In the World of Literature, Art and Drama.
Photo, by Rock wood. New York.

HENRY GEORGE, Jr.

Miss Hobhouse, as we have before observed,
has thrown her means and her life into the
work of founding schools and teaching the
Boer women and girls how to spin and weave
the wool and silk of South Africa into all kinds
of fabrics. Never did the parched earth moree
agerly drink up the grateful, life-giving rain
than have the maidens and matrons of South
Africa received this veritable God-send of
opportunity made possible through this hero-
ine of peace.
Miss Hobhouse has been warmly seconded
and aided in her work by Countess Asivelli
and a few other chosen spirits who have lib-
erally contributed to buy spinning-wheels and
looms, but the means at command are inade-
quate for the proper pushing of the work which
is instilling new hope and courage into the
daughters of South Africa, and which will do
more than can be estimated toward lessening
the bitterness that is necessarily felt by the
Boers toward the English.
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The Author of "The Menace of Privilege."
HENRY GEORGE, Jr. whose masterly and
timely work, The Menace of Privilege, has
recently appeared, was born in Sacramento,

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