Arnold Haskell on Bullfighting

Three articles on the corrida (Spanish bullfighting) by the ballet-critic Arnold Haskell: ‘The Corrida as Spectacle,’ New English Weekly, vol. 1, no. 24 (29 September 1932), pp. 565–6; ‘The Corrida and the Humanitarian, ibid., no. 25 (6 October 1932), pp. 590–1; and ‘The Literature of the Corrida,’ ibid., vol. 2, no. 7 (1 December 1932), pp. 155–6. The latter reviews Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Death in the Afternoon’ and Roy Campbell’s ‘Taurine Provence.’ I am reproducing them because they are interesting and not otherwise available online. If you own the copyright and want them taken down, let me know.

A. R. D. Fairburn, ‘On Work’ (1932)

A nice little article ‘On Work’ by A. R. D. Fairburn from the New English Weekly, vol. 2, no. 4 (10 November 1932), pp. 83–4. I reproduce it here as it is otherwise unavailable online. If you own the copyright and you would like it taken down, let me know.

The New English Weekly was founded by A. R. Orage in 1932. In many respects it was a continuation of what the New Age had been under Orage’s editorship with many familiar contributors (A. J. Penty, Ezra Pound, Anthony Ludovici) and themes (guild socialism, Nietzsche, the latest in literary modernism); though it was, for my money, more straightforwardly a ‘movement paper’ than the New Age had ever been, the movement in question being Social Credit.

‘Rex’ Fairburn was a poet New Zealand and a friend of Count Potocki de Montalk.

This article very satisfyingly skewers the poisonous doctrine doctrine of the dignity of honest toil. Though some of Fairburn’s references are out of date (‘Public School code,’ etc.), the evil he identifies is still alive and active.