Ten Cents a Copy Two Dollars a Vear %t 3nkmk\A A WEEKLY MAGAZINE FOUNDED IN 1848 March 26, J908 SURVEY OF THE WORLD Mr. Roosevelt's Legislative Program — Boycotts Under the Sherman Act— Protest of the Labor Conference— The Fleet Will Visit Japan — Mail Subsidies— Macedonian Reform— A Russian Duel — Germany — The French Pension Law. • Senator Knox and the Presidency . JAMES FRANCIS BURKE Travelers in the Air E. P. POWELL The Jeanes Bequest to Swarthmore College . JOSEPH SWAIN Across the Atlantic (Poem) ROBERT FROST Music, Art and Drama for the Month .... My Latest Experiment N. O. NELSON Pain Peace ARTHUR OILMAN Ipw l^w (t^ EDITORIALS: BOOK REVIEWS: Secretary Taft as a Conciliator Spain in Decadence Test-Tube Sociology George Matheson Dr. Van Eeden's Message Augustus St. Gaudens La Follette on the Panic Haiti Legal Exceptions to Morality ' Confessions of Orchard The Liberty of Ritual Janet of the Dunes Insurance, Financial, Etc. 130 Fulton Street, New York 676 THE INDEPENDENT ago, inspired by the teachings of George Fox, William Penn left all the oppor- tunities of the Old World to come to the new and establish this colony on the Delaware. His "holy experiment" em- bodied the most advanced ideals of civil and religious liberty of his time. He tried to found a state in which every man would have the power to follow the light of his own individual soul. • Can the board of managers of Swarthmore College aflford to stultify themselves by denying the future right of individual judgment to themselves and to their suc- cessors, even in matters deemed by them of minor importance? The college should not be responsible for an act which would belie the fundamental teachings of the founder of our society, the sage and seer of Swarthmore HdU ; nor should it belittle the faith of the founder of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania. Swarthmore's historic position has been one of freedom That freedom is above the price of endowments. These are a few of the considerations which led to the belief that the condition- al gift of Anna T. Jeanes should be de- clined. SwARTHMOREj Pa. Across the Atlantic BY ROBERT FROST Leaning^ one speaks between surrounding hands, With lashes lowered as deeming not to see, .A.nd the tide smooths the beaches at her feet. "Sister," she says, ''I faintly hear thy word. But hear thy word in heart-beats — speak again. Darkness comes down upon you speaking there ; The waves go toward you standing under stars; They come to me in sunlight further west; Somewhere between they leap to the wind's love. It is the old sea there, no man's abode. Not time shall make less desert than it is. And yet no more, no more the sundering sea. "Once she held in the hollow of her wave The little, tossing missive boat you sent. Days, nights, she had it in her power to whelm. But paltered with its fate and let it pass. Time to come then between us for all time ! The ship, light-riding, came and went again, Empty of India's jewels, to its port To find before it there da Gama's fame And nought to match against his prize in hand But truth that lit the yards like Elmo's fire. And the old sea was less the sundering sea. She has strewn wrecks since then and ships from port She has hurled back ashore and banked with sand. Too many have come with sails, to sink them all; And now they trample flat the waves they run. Ever the sea is less the sundering sea. "But demon-like she hides her secret thought ; She veils her face in mist and folds her hands; She murmurs 'What have I to do with men?' What had she ever, space made palpable, What but keep aching heart from heart too long. What but keep life too long from half , the world? But she has said it, little has she left Could she but hear the word we pass today — Perhaps she hears in the green moated gloom. Or feels like leaden touch thru all her cold, Like sea-stones smitten feebly under sea. Like bell-stroke deadened downward from the keel. I deem she hears. Could she but comprehend And say if T speak less than truth to thee: — • It needs not shipping to come safely thru. Sister; it needs not ropes of iron' more To hold, or she will part me from thy word: Thy softest word shall reach me thru her storm. Sister, dominion has past from her brow — Forget the sea, no more the sundering sea." Derry, N. H. AVUCIC DPAA\A Metropolitan Operas Enrico Caruso is undoubtedly the g^reatest lyric tenor of the time, yet he has his limitations, and some of them are surprising. Thus, for several seasons, Mr. Conried endeavored to induce him to assume the part of Manrico in "]} Trova- tore," and was finally compelled to place it in the hands of Heinrich Knote, who was remarkably successful in it. Possi- bly this aroused Caruso's jealousy; at any rate, altho the Munich tenor was here again, Caruso took the role into his own hands this time. The result proved that his hesitancy was not without just cause. He had to transpose one of the principal arias a whole tone down, and there was evidence that Verdi's style in this opera is somewhat too robust for his voice. Nevertheless, he sang most of the music beautifully, and with Emma Eames as Leonora and Louise Homer as Azucena the opera has proved one of the big successes of the season. Next to Caruso, the artist who has the greatest drawing power at the Metropol- itan is Geraldine Farrar. Her voice has improved since last season in beauty, flex- ibility and evenness, and as an actress she recalls Emma Calve in her best diys. Some object to her methods because she is no respecter of traditions, but insists on doing everything her own way ; to others this constitutes one of the princi- pal charms of her art. It gives it an in- dividuality that musical epicures enjoy greatly. Moreover, her way is usually better than the traditional one — more realistic and interesting. She is a pupil, to the present day, of Lilli Lehmann, yet she does not imitate her ways slavishly. Instead of going to the opera house to see how others do it. she studies the text and the score and tries to find out for herself how the composer wants things done. Of the eighteen roles in Miss Farrar's repertory New Yorkers have now had a chance to hear ten, the latest two being Violetta in "La Traviata," and Mignon in Ambroise Thomas's opera. She does not, of course, execute the florid music in Verdi's operas with the brilliancy of Ma- dame Tetrazzini, but she sings the melo- dies more sweetly and expressively, and as an actress she is more sympathetic than any of her rivals in this role. It has been truly said of her that her Violetta dies "not of phthisis, aided and developed by dissipation, but of a broken heart." Her Mignon is simply enchanting in its di- verse aspects, as a gypsy girl, a jealous rival of Filina in the attire of a page, and in her native land as an Italian beauty. The Filina in this revival of a once very popular French opera was another American, Miss Bessie Abott, who has also appeared as Gilda in "Rigoletto." Her beautiful voice is well trained, but it is rather light for so large an auditorium, and as an actress she is mediocre. She lacks the ambition, the determination to reach the top, which is one of Miss Far- rar's chief assets. It is likely that Miss Berta Morena, who arrived for the last four weeks of the season, will prove as popular an art- 677 ^mn^ Absolutely Pure A Cream of Tartar Powder free from alum or phos- phaticacid MAKESHOMEBAKINGEASY A Rare Treat— Very Best Teas anfl Coltes AT % PRICE Finest Teas 19c, 21c, Best 31c Finest Coffees 1 2c, i 3c, 1 8c, Best 23c Absolutely Pure Spices 19c and 20c a lb. 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