British Social Democracy
Belfort Bax bought the cultural monthly magazine Time at the end of 1889 and started it with a clean sheet in January 1890. He did not want to turn it into a Socialist journal, but rather into a broader and progressive cultural paper. He apparently closed it down in December 1891 (See Yvonne Kapp, Eleanor Marx, Vol. 2, pp.442.) The only issues which appear to survive are those for 1890 at Bishopsgate Library while Cambridge University Library has both 1890 and the first two months of 1891. It had regular comments on the Theatre, Literature and Music, and Eleanor Marx and her partner Edward Aveling, (his pseudonym was Alec Nelson) and both helped to write the Literature and Dramatic notes, the latter regularly, the former occasionally. See Dramatic Notes and Literature Notes
Contents | page |
January | pp. 1-112 |
EDITORIAL | 1 |
NOTE ON THE DESIGN “TIME,” Walter Crane | 2 |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 3 |
ART AND INDUSTRY IN THE 14TH CENTURY, William Morris | 23 |
IBSEN AS HE IS TRANSLATED, William Archer | 37 |
THE GAS STRIKE, William Thorne and Mark Hutchins | 47 |
THE DECAY OF PAGAN THOUGHT, E. Belfort Bax | 52 |
A LONG DAY, Clementina Black | 73 |
Fwunauta snuetoisin, (poem) Herman Joynes | 89 |
BROWNING AS A THEOLOGIAN, H.W. Massingham | 90 |
POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL, after Baudelaire (poem) L.L. | 96 |
ART NOTES, Ernest Radford | 97 |
DRAMATIC NOTES. Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 99 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 101 |
LITERATURE NOTES, Anonymous | 108 |
February | pp. 113-224 |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 113 |
THE SCHOOL BOARD SCANDALS, Annie Besant | 130 |
STRANGE DISHES, Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. | 140 |
DARWINISM ON THE FRENCH STAGE, Paul Lafargue | 149 |
ENGLISH ALCAICS, G. Whyte, M.A. | 157 |
THE POET’s DEATH, (poem) Anonymous | 158 |
LAW AND THE LAWYERS, W.M. Thompson | 159 |
DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI, after Baudelaire (poem) L.L. | 166 |
A GOOD CONSCIENCE, Alexander Kielland | 167 |
THE READING PUBLIC, Herbert E. Clarke | 177 |
ROWLAND BILL AND PENNY POSTAGE, A.G. Bowie | 185 |
STILL AFTER THE DOLL’s HOUSE, G. Bernard Shaw | 197 |
ART NOTES, Ernest Radford | 209 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 212 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 216 |
LITERATURE NOTES, Anonymous | 221 |
March | pp. 225-336 |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 225 |
BIRTH AND DEATH, (poem) Anonymous | 249 |
THE POPULATION OF ENGLAND from 1259 to 1793, J.E. Thorold Rogers | 250 |
TO MY HUSBAND, (poem) Herman Joynes | 257 |
PRIZE-FIGHTING AND BOXING, Locksley | 258 |
FORMATION OF THE HIGHLANDS, H.P. Malet | 267 |
THE STREAM OF LIFE, (poem) Ernest Radford | 275 |
SOCIALISM IN THE GERMAN REICHSTAG, AND ON THE GERMAN THRONE, E. Bernstein | 276 |
AUTHORCRAFT, John Dawson | 284 |
DIANA, (poem) Anonymous | 290 |
THE WILD MAN OF OCHILBRAE, H.V. Brown | 291 |
THE MEREDITHYRAMB AND ITS CRITICS, Richard Le Gallienne | 307 |
ART NOTES, Ernest Radford | 320 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 323 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 328 |
LITERATURE NOTES, Anonymous | 332 |
April | pp. 337-448 |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 337 |
HER NAME, (poem) Anonymous | 352 |
FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIAN TSARDOM, Frederick Engels | 353 |
THE HORSES OF THE PAMPAS, R.B. Cunninghame-Graham M.P. | 370 |
THE SNOW QUEEN, (poem) Caroline Radford | 378 |
ONE ASPECT OF GOETHE, H. Schütz Wilson | 379 |
BLACK PLAGUE AT SEVILLE, (poem) Albert Fleming | 387 |
IMPERATIVENESS OF LEGAL REFORM, W.M. Thompson | 389 |
CRESSY’s PALADIN, M. Betham Edwards | 395 |
A STAGE ILLUSION, (poem) Israel Zangwill | 396 |
NATURAL HUMOUR OF THE KAFFIR, Wallis Mackay | 400 |
IRELAND’s PRESENT INFLUENCE ON THOUGHT AND LITERATURE, Justin MacCarthy, M.P. | 405 |
A REVOLUTION IN PRINTING, Edward Aveling | 412 |
WHAT WILT THOU SAY TO-NIGHT? after Baudelaire (poem) L.L. | 418 |
THOSE NEIGHBOURS OF MINE, Nigh | 419 |
NOTES FROM OLD SESSION ROLLS, B.F. Scarlett | 431 |
THE GIFT OF SONG, (Poem) O.A. Dawson | 434 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 435 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 439 |
LITERATURE NOTES, Anonymous | 444 |
May | pp. 449-560 |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 449 |
SONG, (Poem) Caroline Radford | 460 |
COURAGE: THE LOGIC, PHENOMENOLOGY AND HISTORY OF A CONCEPT, E. Belfort Bax | 461 |
IRISH WIT AND HUMOUR, J. O’Connor Power | 474 |
BIT ‘O COAST LIFE, A Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. | 482 |
MORNING SONG, (Poem) Israel Zangwill | 492 |
THE GREATER BROTHERHOOD, Felix Moscheles | 493 |
THE KINDERGARTEN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, Sarah Corbett | 503 |
GODWIN’s POLITICAL JUSTICE, H.S. Salt | 508 |
A BALL MOOD, Alexander Kielland (Trans. from the Norwegian by Eleanor Marx-Aveling) | 520 |
FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIAN TSARDOM, Frederick Engels | 525 |
THE GOLDEN AGE, (Poem from Rückert) Isabella J. Postgate | 545 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 546 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 551 |
LITERATURE NOTES, Anonymous | 556 |
June | pp. 561-672 |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 561 |
ON THE SCIENCES OF LANGUAGES AND ETHNOGRAPHY, Dr Leitner | 579 |
SERENADE, (Poem) Israel Zangwill | 596 |
THE NEO-BUDDHIST MOVEMENT, St. George Lane Fox | 597 |
IRISH NATIONAL POETRY, Michael MacDonagh | 603 |
VSEVELOD GARSHIN, Stepniak | 610 |
A GREAT CRITIC, Herbert E. Clarke | 618 |
THE EIGHT HOURS WORKING DAY, Edward Aveling | 632 |
IN THE BRAZILIAN CAPITAL, Arthur Montefiore | 639 |
FORMALISM, (Poem) Mary Geoghegan | 650 |
MR. SQUEERS, M.P Sidney Olivier | 652 |
HORACE “IN QUANTITY,” Oswald Smith | 658 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 662 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 667 |
LITERATURE NOTES, Anonymous | 671 |
JULY | |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 673 |
THE NATIONALISATION OF HEALTH, Havelock Ellis | 690 |
A STUDY IN MODERN CRITICISM, Mary B. Whiting | 699 |
A GREAT CRITIC, Chap. 3, Hulbert E Clarke | 705 |
A FINNISH POET: RUNEBERG, C Fell Smith | 714 |
A DAY-DREAM, E.A. Seal | 725 |
OLD JOHN BROWN AND THE MEN OF HARPER’s FERRY, Richard J. Hinton | 728 |
A LANDSCAPE MOOD, (Poem) Anonymous | 739 |
APULIAN VULTUR, Rennell Rodd | 740 |
TOYNBEE HALL, F.S. Boas | 749 |
THE ENEMY (Poem after Charles Baudelaire), L.L. | 757 |
ELECTRICITY IN THE FUTURE, J. Munro | 758 |
SONG, (Poem) C.R. | 764 |
ART, H.A. | 765 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 771 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 777 |
LITERATURE NOTES, L.S. & E.B.B. | 781 |
AUGUST | |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 785 |
REVELATIONS, Mary Geoghegan | 803 |
THE DEFENSIVE POSITION OF HOLLAND, Samuel Richard von Campen | 804 |
OLD JOHN BROWN AND THE MEN OF HARPER’s FERRY – II, Richard J. Hinton | 819 |
HINC ILLAE LACHRYMAE, Richard Le Gallienne | 830 |
LODE STARS (poem after Charles Baudelaire), L.L. | 832 |
CORSICA AND THE CORSICANS, Guy C. Rothery | 833 |
THE SCARLET BLOSSOM, Vsevelod Garshin, trans Virginia M. Crawford | 843 |
THE ARGOSY OF DREAM, (poem) Israel Zangwill | 860 |
THE REVOLT IN THE POST OFFICE, A.K. Donald | 861 |
POOR PERDITA AND THE PAPER HEART, C.J Langston | 869 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 878 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 884 |
LITERATURE NOTES, G.W., E.M.A, & E.A | 888 |
SEPTEMBER. | |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 897 |
LOVE’s EYES, (poem) Anonymous | 915 |
THE MYTH OF ATHENA, Paul Lafargue | 916 |
BORROWED PLUMES, J.C.H. | 929 |
HE AND SHE (poem) Anonymous | 932 |
THE BERMUDA OR SOMERS ISLANDS, E.T. Mitchell | 933 |
EDITING A LA MODE, Percy Fitzgerald | 944 |
CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS, E.T.C. Werner | 955 |
MITWATERSTRAAND -- THE STORY OF A SHOCK, Richard Marsh | 961 |
CONTEMPORARY COINCIDENCES, A.W. Holmes-Forbes | 978 |
VARIETIES OF SURNAMES IN IRELAND, William M’Grath | 988 |
AN EPICUREAN TO STOICS, (poem) Charles Gray Robinson | 993 |
SHORT SPEECHES IN PARLIAMENT, (New Parliamentary Hand) | 994 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 997 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 1001 |
LITERATURE NOTES, E.M.A, & E.A | 1005 |
OCTOBER. | |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 1009 |
CUPID’s WEAVING, (poem) Isabella T. Postgate | 1027 |
DISEASE-SPECIES, C Creighton M.D. | 1028 |
TO-DAY! (poem) C.A. Dawson | 1041 |
THE BOOM IN IRON, J. Horton Riley | 1042 |
THE LAGOONS OF LANGUEDOC, M Betham Edwards | 1048 |
TENNYSON AS A THINKER, H.S. Salt | 1055 |
HOPES, (poem) Herman Joynes | 1066 |
HOW REAL AXMINSTER IS MADE - A VISIT TO THE ONLY FACTORY IN ENGLAND, Harold Cox | 1067 |
FORBIDDEN GROUND, J.G.F. Nicholson | 1071 |
“PARKER,” Albert Fleming | 1072 |
HOW WE EDUCATE OUR BOYS, Senex | 1083 |
THE LIVERPOOL CONGRESS, Eleanor Marx-Aveling | 1088 |
AT THE OLD BAILEY, Edward Aveling | 1098 |
DRAMATIC Notes, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 1108 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 1113 |
LITERATURE NOTES, E.B.B., H.B. & E.H. | 1116 |
NOVEMBER. | |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 1121 |
WHAT WILT THOU, HEART? (poem) Isabella T. Postgate | 1144 |
RUSSIA, S Stepniak | 1145 |
MUSIC, (poem) Herbert Baynes | 1159 |
MIRACULOUS CURES, Benjamin Taylor F.R.G.S. | 1160 |
NOT TRUE, (poem) E.V.L. | 1169 |
WHO DISCOVERED NORTH AMERICA? John B. Shipley | 1170 |
THE DAY OF DAYS, (poem) William Morris | 1178 |
THE DEAD, Guy de Maupassant, trans. E.O. Scott | 1179 |
LIBERALISM versus SOCIALISM, Ernest Belfort Bax | 1184 |
UNDER THE STONES: A SORT OF A SERMON, Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. | 1203 |
O, THE SWEET RARE SUMMER DAY, (poem) Anonymous | 1210 |
ROBERT BROWNING: A YOUNG MAN’s RECOLLECTIONS, Anonymous | 1211 |
Untitled Poem, Anonymous | 1220 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 1221 |
MUSIC NOTES, Sidney R. Thompson | 1226 |
LITERATURE NOTES, E.B.B. | 1230 |
DECEMBER. | |
LADY HAZLETON’s CONFESSION, Mrs. Kent Spender | 1233 |
MY GAOLER, (poem) L.L. | 1250 |
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, Frank Podmore | 1251 |
A WINTER MORNING’s MOOD, (poem) Anonymous | 1270 |
SWITZERLAND AS A SCHOOL OF POLITICS, Arthur W. Hutton | 1271 |
TRUTH-HUNTING, Carl Geissler | 1289 |
HELGA-LAND: A SKETCH PROM THE COUNTRY OF A THOUSAND LAKES, (trans. from the German of B Sartorius) C. Fell-Smith | 1295 |
THE PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PHILOSOPHY, Ernest Belfort Bax | 1307 |
TYPE-WRITERS AND WRITERS, Edward Aveling | 1322 |
WAITING, A.E. Sale | 1330 |
DRAMATIC NOTES, Alec Nelson and E.M.A. | 1333 |
MUSIC, Sidney R. Thompson | 1338 |
LITERATURE NOTES, E.M.A | 1342 |
Note on authors initials and pseudonyms
E.M.A = Eleanor Marx-Aveling; E.A. = Edward Aveling; E.B.B. = E. Belfort Bax;
Alec Nelson = Edward Aveling;