; ditto of every poem; ditto of every picture ever painted, with
estimates of every artist in every one of his manners at every stage
of his development and decisions as to which pictures are not
genuine; also of every critic of literature, drama, art, and music
(in all of which departments certain names are equal to an appalling
plexus of questions--Wagner, Ibsen, Meredith, Browning, Comte,
Goethe, Shakespeare, Dante, Degas, Rousseau, Tolstoi, Maeterlinck,
Strindberg, Zola, Whistler, Leopardi, Emerson, Carlyle, Swedenborg,
Rabelais). Socialism, its various schools, its past and its future;
Anarchism: bombs. Labour questions: the Eight Hours' Day, the
Unemployed, the Living Wage, etc., etc. Mr. Gladstone's career. Shall
members of Parliament be paid? Chamberlain's position; ditto for
every statesman in every country, to-day and in all past ages. South
Africa, Rhodes, Captain Jim. The English girl _v._ the French or the
American. Invidious comparisons of every people from every point of
view, physical, moral, intellectual, and aesthetic. Vizetelly.
Vivisection. First love _v._ later love; French marriage system _v._
the English. The corrupt choruses in the Greek dramas (also in modern
burlesque--with the question of the Church and Stage Guild, Zaeo's
back, the County Council, etc.
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