The Philistine A Periodical for Curious Persons. _Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, sit thee down, sorrow._—LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST. [Illustration: Vol. II. No. 6.] Printed Every Little While for The Society of The Philistines and Published by Them Monthly. Subscription, One Dollar Yearly Single Copies, 10 Cents. May, 1896. THE PHILISTINE. CONTENTS FOR MAY. Ananké, a poem, Eugene R. White The compensation of the martyrs. By Rule of Three, Elbert Hubbard A preachment by a Prizeman, showing the futility of certain things and the usefulness of others. A Sonnet of Hope, John Jerome Rooney Shakspeare’s Borrowings, Walter Blackburn Harte Life’s Voyage: a Mood, William B. Faville If Love were All, Elizabeth C. Cardozo An Hour with Cæsar Augustus, G. W. Stevens The inside of Roman Politics obtained from sources only just unearthed in recent excavations. Side Talks with the Philistines. A chronicle of opinion conducted by the East Aurora School of Philosophy. _Entered at the Postoffice at East Aurora, New York, for transmission as mail matter of the second class._ _COPYRIGHT, 1896, by B. C. Hubbard._ Only a very few copies of that noble book, The Song of Songs: which is Solomon’s, remain unsold. The price for these is now Five Dollars Each. The Vellum Copies can no longer be supplied by us at any price. The Roycroft Printing Shop, East Aurora, New York. THE CONSERVATOR Printed Monthly in Philadelphia. HORACE L. TRAUBEL, Editor. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ONE DOLLAR. All communications intended for the Editor should be addressed to HORACE L. TRAUBEL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. The attention of persons interested in Walt Whitman is directed to _The Conservator_, in which, along with the presentation of other views, affecting freedom, democracy, ethics, solidarity, there appear special studies treating of the significance of Walt Whitman’s appearance in history, written in part by men whose personal relations to Whitman, often whose genius, give their utterances great importance and offer special reasons why readers of books and lovers of man cannot afford to ignore or neglect their contributions. Grouped here following are some names of recent writers aiding in this synthesis.