BAGS THAT WAX OLD LETTER 68 (August) 1. The rule of St. George to children-to give up all that they have and not be vexed-not inapplicable to parents. 2. The Christian law of stewardship. The Parables of Christ as touchstones of the heart. 3. Riches may be forgiven; but not theft, adultery, or usury. 4. Definition of usury. 5. Usury worse than theft, and why. Increment by usury to the rich, balanced by precisely equal decrement to the poor. 6. An example from the amount paid in rent by the author's hairdresser. 7. Impending revolution in commercial matters over Europe. 8. Bible teaching on usury. 9. Gain to the lender, loss to the borrower. Wesley on Usury. 10. A young disciple of St. Peter goes salmon-fishing on Columbia River in a stolen boat. The author's absolution. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-11. Affairs of the Master. Accounts. 12. Affairs of the Company. Sheffield Museum Account. 13-24. Letters from the young Englishman on Columbia River. 25. Note on R. D. Owen's Threading my Way. 26. Answer to a question on receiving interest from "ordinary investments." 27. A girl's letter on Valenciennes lace. PAGE 666 LETTER 69 (September) THE MESSAGE OF JAEL-ATROPOS 1. St. George's land at Barmouth. 2. Rent as a form of taxation. 3. To make England bigger, of no advantage; St. George's object is to make the best use of the land we have. 4. Letter describing life in the Oetzthal (Tyrol). 5-10. Contrasted with modern English life as the author noted it on a railway journey from Coniston to Barmouth. A fellow-passenger from Warrington and his use of the Graphic. Landscape of the Dee as seen from the train. Not one happy face and only eight well-dressed persons among eight hundred. Prevailing type of impudence (or independence). Over-production or overdestruction: the British public reclining everlastingly with its boots on its Graphic. 11. Why living is expensive. The message of Jael-Atropos: no bread without corn, and being dragged about by kettles feeds nobody. 12, 13. Reflections in a suburban village. "Improvement" of the land with bricks: country produce all sent to London, but the villager can buy cheap inutilities at the shop. 14. The man with his boots on the Graphic a good judge of art; the British public cannot rest in its bad possessions. 15. The Four Lesson Photographs. Why they are good. All, the work of men doing their best; of men trained 687 in schools, and obeying the law of order. The principle of sym- NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-17. Affairs of the Company. Accounts. 18. Affairs of the Master. Accounts. His extravagance in buying illuminated MSS. 19. Letter respecting rent on Lord Lonsdale's estate. 20. Letter on the admirable management of the Ardross estates by Mr. W. Mackenzie. 21. Letter on leaf-cutting bees (compare Letter 52). 22. Letter from a lady on the life of the poor in the country and on shells (compare Letter 63). 23. Diary of a sculptress under St. LETTER 70 (October) 1. Letters sent to the author in the hope of converting him. 2. Popular confusion between Property and Interest. 3. The A B C of Property. Property consists of good things, honestly got by those who can skilfully use them. 4. You can only possess wealth according to your own capacity of it. 5. The wealth of modern Europe is in the greater part composed of things suited to the capacity of harlots and their keepers. The property which they do not, and which they do, lend out on interest. 6. An extraordinary_article of property in the treasury of King David : the Law of God. 7. God, the Substance and Sum of Property. Meaning of "religion." 8. Catalogue of articles of property, rightly so called: (i.) Pater Noster, (ii.) the Law of God, (iii.) Spirit, (iv.) the Body in its sanity and beauty, (v.) Things good and pleasing to the Spirit, (vi.) Things good and pleasing to the Body, and (vii.) Money. 9. A man should neither sell nor lend that which is indeed his own. The estate of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Addington. The Lambeth Library. The "East Surrey Hall Museum and Library Company," under his Grace's presidency, and its five per cent. dividend. (Venice.) 10. The Archbishop and usury. Lord Lonsdale as curator of souls. Passage from Plato. The soul, the weightiest of a man's posses- sions. Its twofold nature. 12. Carpaccio's St. Ursula and her NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-13. Affairs of the Company. Minerals and an illuminated Bible sent to Sheffield. 14. Affairs of the Master. His extravagance in illuminated MSS.; does not set himself up for a saint. 15, 16. Why he continues to receive interest. Protest from an American Quaker, accompanied by a gift of 3s. expenses. 17. The third Earl of Lonsdale: his livings, and patronage PAGE THE FEUDAL RANKS LETTER 71 (November) (Venice.) 1. Carpaccio as an inspired painter. Opinions of no value opposed to knowledge. 2. By Carpaccio Venice utters her truest prophecy. 3. His principal work, the stories of St. Jerome, St. George, and St. Ursula-the latter an entirely immaterial saint. 4. Carpaccio may have believed in angels, as much (and no more) as Shakespeare in fairies; their works may have been toys. 5. But the significance remains that the people of those days were amused by them. Modern amusements. 6. A desire that spiritual realities should exist, the first step to faith. Existence of God not chemically demonstrable. 7. Proper relation between wishing to believe and in fact believing. 8. Carpaccio's picture of the Princess Ursula only to be understood by those who wish there were such Princesses. 9. The Feudal ranks: Servant and Maid, Master and Mistress, Landlord and Landlady, Duke and Duchess, King and Queen, Emperor and Empress. 10. Ecclesiastic Orders of the Feudal System: Rector, Bishop, Cardinal, Pope. 11. The King of kings. 12, 13. The Legend of Princess Ursula. 14. Carpaccio's rewriting of the myth. The "Vision of St. Ursula" described. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-15. Affairs of the Company. No help from the author's friends. Account by Henry Swan of a discussion at the Museum on Usury. 16. Accounts. 17. Affairs of the Master. Accounts. 18. Letter from a Methodist preacher on Wesley and Usury. 19. The author's comments on the letter. 20. Ineffable British absurdity, illustrated by story of a truant from school, punished by imprisoning the father, instead of flogging the boy, with the result. 21. Modern competitive examinations and their effect the Indian Civil Service. 22. Development of humanity in America (extracts from The American Socialist): caste to be abolished; the Communist home, menial service. PAGE 732 THE FATHERLAND LETTER 72 (December) (Venice.) 1. Morning light upon the church of the Salute. South wind on the Adriatic. England, pilotless and blind. 2. A cockle-shell from the island of St. Helena. Why cannot the author draw it and be happy, minding his own affairs? 3. Lakes and seas of the world full of its dead. 4. "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them." Meaning of the Revelation. 5. Carpaccio's faith in the Resurrection. The arrow in "St. Ursula's Dream." 756 6. Knowledge and opinion. The great Deceiver, and how men fall into his power. 7. Division of men into Faithful and Un- faithful. Eternal distinction of Spirit and Flesh. Acceptance of death at God's hand, the daily heroism. 8. Revelation by the Spirit to all childlike souls. God's preparation for those who love Him: here and close at hand. The knocking at the door drowned by modern blasphemy with its word of Hatred, Covetous- ness, and Disobedience. Blasphemy, snap-finger and deliberate. 9. Punishment of theft in Dante's Inferno: theft, blasphemy, and sacrilege. Modern rite of de-consecration at the church of All- Hallows. 10. St. Ursula's pilgrimage to holy graves, and the un- rejoicing travel of modern days. 11. The service of God and NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-12. Affairs of the Company. Again no help from the author's friends. The workmen and common land. |