August 14, 1915 
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A LITERARY REVIEW 
"Belgium's Agony." By Emile Verliaeren. Trans- 
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It is a happy thing for Belgium to-day that in her mis, 
fortune and her glory she should have one man of letters who- 
pre-eminent in Europe, is at the same time supremely fitted 
to declare to the world the meaning of the Belgian sacrifice, 
and to reveal in his own writings the ideal elements of his 
nation. Such a man is Verhaeren. As a poet he is specially 
fitted to express the Belgium of to-day because, before these 
days of trial, he above all men sang of -the destinies of his 
nation ; he expressed in adequate verse the melancholy 
beauty of the relics of her past splendour — the monasticism, 
the churches, the old towns and villages — he reproduced the 
atmosphere of her still flourishing farms and pastures ; and 
equally he expressed the energy of the new generation forging 
ahead in the town, in the factory, in the mine, finding new 
openings for endeavour in finance, in pohtics, and especicdly 
in art. 
In the prose essays of these volumes he speaks with all 
the authority of one who is thus pre-eminently Belgian. His 
indignation against Germany is no ordinary indignation. 
He recalls the past of the people, celebrated in his poems, 
" hard-working, tenacious, and modest," and repeats in 
glowing language the story of outrage — the treachery of the 
attacks, the houses burned, the citizens murdered, the women 
and children violated, the land desolated by a people seized 
with a kind of " horrible lyricism." He sees on the one hand 
his own nation possessed of " a more complete armoury of 
weapons, national, intellectual and moral, than any other 
nation of her size," a nation which had " won the respect and 
admiration of the great sovereign nations of the world." 
And on the other hand he sees the consequences of ruin. 
Germany by this deed " has created against herself in the 
hearts of Belgians a hatred so passionate and so universal 
that it will go down from generation to generation to a depth 
that no man can foretell." 
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been made. It is an appeal direct from the emotions, from 
the passion, from the understanding of one who knows what 
beauty has been destroyed, what energy has been checked, 
where brutality has intervened. He knows exactly what all 
this wreckage means. The cottages scattered about the 
country " are to me hke httle islands of starvation and distress, 
looming faintly through the mist." In this volume we are ■ 
impressed by the wisdom of a student, the eagerness of a 
patriot, and the eloquence of a poet. 
"The Works of Signer Qabriele D'Annunzio." 
Novels. 5 vols. (Heinemann.) 3s. 6d. net. each. 
Just as the thoughts of so many readers have turned to 
the great Russian writers whom the publishers have made 
accessible to Englishmen, so it is natural that they should 
turn also to D'Annunzio, the greatest of contemporary 
Italian novehsts. D'Annunzio has been strangely prominent 
in Italy amid the wave of patriotism which has swept over 
the country. No English man of letters has recently held 
the attention of his countrymen as this singular wizard in 
words has moved the Italians. We may take it as an in- 
dication of the difference between the Italians and the English 
that even in time of war this man, who has shed lustre on his 
country only through the beauty of words and images and 
perceptions, should be held honourable. In his characteristic 
writings there has been no trace of the democrat. " The 
masses always remain slaves," he once wrote; "they have a 
natural impulse to stretch out their wrists to the fetters." 
And yet he is essentiaUy Italian, and only able to be 
appreciated by us in proportion as the old Renaissance 
influences linger or have been revived in recent years. Such 
an atmosphere as his, Latin and foreign to us, was utterly 
unknown in English literature until Walter Pater and his 
imitators endeavoured in vain to acclimatise it here. And 
even so it is different, for through all the sensuous Epicurean 
philosophy of Pater we feel the strong moral undercurrent 
which is opposed to the all-accepting impressionism of 
D'Annunzio, the keen desire to be intoxicated witli the 
exquisite delights of beauty from whatever sensuous object 
they are derived. D'Annunzio is pagan by temperament 
as well as by intellect. He is what he is, not merely because 
he is trained, but because he is Italian. 
And very different, therefore, from the pagans pf antiquity. 
He is a rhapsodist. He is a devotee of the art and the passiOQ 
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