It is a common saying that anything may happen behind our backs: transcendentally considered, the thing has an eerie truth about it. Eden may be behind our backs, or Fairyland. But this mystery of the human back has, again, its other side in the strange impression produced on those behind: to walk behind anyone along a lane is a thing that, properly speaking, touches the oldest nerve of awe. Watts has realized this as no one in art or letters has realized it in the whole history of the world; it has made him great. There is one possible exception to his monopoly of this magnificent craze. Two thousand years before, in the dark scriptures of a nomad people, it had been said that their prophet saw the immense Creator of all things, but only saw Him from behind. '_G. F. Watts._' APRIL 23rd _ST. GEORGE'S DAY_ I see you how you smile in state Straight from the Peak to Plymouth Bar; You need not tell me you are great, I know how more than great you are. I know what spirit Chaucer was; I have seen Gainsborough and the grass. '_Tremendous Trifles._' APRIL 24th There is no fear that a modern king will attempt to override the constitution: it is more likely that he will ignore the constitution and work behind its back. He will take no advantage of his kingly power: it is more likely that he will take advantage of his kingly powerlessness--of the fact that he is free from criticism and publicity. For the King is the most private person of our time. It will not be necessary for anyone to fight against the proposal of a censorship of the Press. We do not need a censorship of the Press. We have a censorship by the Press. '_Orthodoxy._' APRIL 25th _ST MARK'S DAY_ The only thing still old-fashioned enough to reject miracles is the New Theology. '_Orthodoxy._' APRIL 26th The modern man thought Becket's robes too rich and his meals too poor. But then the modern man was really exceptional in history; no man before ever ate such elaborate dinners in such ugly clothes. The modern man found the Church too simple exactly where life is too complex; he found the Church too gorgeous exactly where modern life is too dingy. The man who disliked the plain fasts and feasts was mad on entrées. The man who disliked vestments wore a pair of preposterous trousers. And surely if there was any insanity involved in the matter at all it was in the trousers, not in the simply falling robe. If there was any insanity at all, it was in the extravagant entrées, not in the bread and wine. '_Orthodoxy._' APRIL 27th THE two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and a man who is. '_All Things Considered._' APRIL 28th