ABSTRACT

The Futurists had made their manifesto and one English artist had written a remarkable pamphlet, heralding the Dawn. The Dawn of what? Even the artists themselves could hardly explain what they expected. The condition of London in that period is described in many of the novels of the day; especially in Subsoil, by Charles Marriott, who diagnosed that a turning of the sod was in progress and that underneath the top soil there was more fruitful earth, from which would grow plants more vital. One had been told of the disadvantages of the Middle Ages, of the Roman Empire, of the great Greek Period, and of the Jewish, Indian and Egyptian systems of living. The Masque of Learning was a great success In London: it played to full houses, and had to be repeated for a second week.