ABSTRACT
Alfred Richard Orage is remembered chiefly as the radical editor of the influential weekly journal the New Age, which between 1907 and 1922 not only boasted amongst its contributors such major figures from English literary life as G.K. Chesterton. Of the younger generation of writers encouraged by Orage, Katherine Mansfield's short stories about her experiences in Bavaria that later formed the anthology In a German Pension, appeared first in the New Age. Orage's interest in Germany began long before he was a London editor. In 1903 Orage and Holbrook Jackson launched an ambitious scheme whose avowed aim was to reduce Leeds to Nietzscheism'. The implication that 'most literary persons' of Bernard Shaw's generation had either knowledge of the German language or contact with German culture is significant for an understanding of the outlook of contributors to the New Age. Opinion was divided amongst contributors as to which thinkers had influenced German policy.
