labyrinthan aberration of thought, dares to wring a new strength to live, is good; all pusillanimity, all over-mastery by pain, all collapse under the burden of life, all disappointing desert of the censure, "O ye of little faith, why are ye fearful?"--all this is bad. It will be a new day for man when he feels it wrong and immoral to lament his lot, to whine, but right and moral to earn strength from pain, a will to labor from temptation to die. Not the fear of the moral man to sin, but the fear to be weak, so that one cannot do one's work in the world--that is to be the fear in the future. The powerful will, nay, the will become power itself, the fixed heart, the keyed and concentrated personality; this means freedom from every slave yoke. And it means that life is no longer at the mercy of capricious and contingent gain and loss, but a King's Crown conquered in conflict with itself, with man, and with God. Also sprach Nietzsche-Zarathustra! Keats and Fanny Brawne BY CHARLOTTE WILSON He tried to pour the torrents of his love Into a tiny vase; a trinket--smooth, Pretty enough--but fit to hold a rose Upon some shrewd collector's cabinet. Toward that small moon the wild tides of his love Reared up, and fell back, moaning; and he died Asking his heart why love was agony. And she? She loved the best she could, I think, And wondered sometimes--but not overmuch-- At poor John's queer, unseemly violence. A New Woman from Denmark Marguerite Swawite Karen Borneman, by Hjalmar Bergström. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.] From the north, whence Ibsen's Nora challenged the world as far back as 1879, comes a fresh message of rebellion in the more radical figure of Karen Borneman. In judging this play of Bergström's, which has but now appeared in Edwin Björkman's translation, we must remember that it was written in 1907--before we had grown so sophisticated concerning the rebel woman in her infinite manifestations. And yet, because this vanguard of a new morality is still a slender company, the addition of a new member cannot fail to arouse a ripple of excitement in the watchful rank and file. For that reason, as well as for some novel characteristics of her own, Karen Borneman merits a word for herself.