_David Roberts_ has all the mental and moral attributes of his adversary, coupled with the spirit of revolt and the inspiration of modern ideas. He, too, is consistent: he wants nothing for his class short of complete victory. It is inevitable that compromise and petty interest should triumph until the masses become imbued with the spirit of a _David Roberts_. Will they ever? Prophecy is not the vocation of the dramatist, yet the moral lesson is evident. One cannot help realizing that the workingmen will have to use methods hitherto unfamiliar to them; that they will have to discard the elements in their midst that are forever seeking to reconcile the irreconcilable--Capital and Labor. They will have to learn that men like _David Roberts_ are the very forces that have revolutionized the world and thus paved the way for emancipation out of the clutches of the "white-faced monster with bloody lips," toward a brighter horizon, a freer life, and a truer recognition of human values. JUSTICE No subject of equal social import has received such thoughtful consideration in recent years as the question of Crime and Punishment. A number of books by able writers, both in Europe and this country--preëminently among them "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist," by Alexander Berkman--discuss this topic from the historic, psychologic, and social standpoint, the consensus of opinion being that present penal institutions and our methods of coping with crime have in every respect proved inadequate as well as wasteful. This new attitude toward one of the gravest social wrongs has now also found dramatic interpretation in Galsworthy's "Justice." The play opens in the office of _James How & Sons_, solicitors. The senior clerk, _Robert Cokeson_, discovers that a check he had issued for nine pounds has been forged to ninety. By elimination, suspicion falls upon _William Falder_, the junior office clerk. The latter is in love with a married woman, the abused and ill-treated wife of a brutal drunkard. Pressed by his employer, a severe yet not unkindly man, _Falder_ confesses the forgery, pleading the dire necessity of his sweetheart, _Ruth Honeywill_, with whom he had planned to escape to save her from the unbearable brutality of her husband. _Falder._ Oh! sir, look over it! I'll pay the money back--I will, I promise. Notwithstanding the entreaties of young _Walter How_, who holds modern ideas, his father, a moral and law-respecting citizen, turns _Falder_ over to the police.