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Born at Walthamstow, in Fssex, in 1834, the son of a business man, educated in a school presided over by a Scotchman, who described him as a rollicking boy, William Morris began early to take an interest in art and all that concerns art. In 1852 he entered Exeter College at Oxford, at a time when the religious atmosphere had many elements which affiliated it with medieval art. Morris came early under the influence of the painters of the Pre-Raphaelite school, and was drawn especially to the study of the art of the Middle Ages. He contributed a few poems to the "Oxford and Cambridge Magazine," which, like its predecessor, "The Germ," was the organ of the young movement. After leaving the university he studied architecture, and in turn painting and decoration. In 1857, in company with several leading artists, he assisted in the painting of the walls of the Oxford Union Hall. In 1858 he made his first mark as a poet by the publication of "The Defense of Guenevere, and Other Poems." 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Mr. Morris had been for a number of years associated with the Socialist movement in England, being convinced of the economic soundness of that movement and of its artistic necessity, and being also strongly moved by a deep and passionate sympathy with the humbler phases of human experience. He was a man of exquisite artistic feeling, whose work often has a kind of beauty which suggests detachment from the problems and questionings of modern life; but he was a Socialist of a pronounced type, and a practical worker in his profession of great effectiveness. His courage was unquestioned, his scorn of conventionality unconcealed, his love of beauty, next to his love of his fellows, the supreme passion of his life. "The Earthly Paradise" is the best known of Mr. Morris's works, and has won for him the title of "the nineteenth-century Chaucer," but the resemblance between the younger and the elder poet was a very superficial one. Mr. 66 Number 15 Morris, although a narrative poet, had the manner of an idylist. A great deal has been said for many months past in the newspapers about the treaty obligations of the Turkish Government which have not been fulfilled, and the failure to fulfill which makes it possible for the Great Powers to interfere in the Government of the Turkish Empire without incurring the responsibilities of arbitrary or revolutionary action. The "Evening Post" of this city has recently reprinted a section from the Berlin Treaty, and another from the Anglo-Turkish Convention, which not only show exactly the nature of these Turkish promises and afford a standard of measurement of willful and murderous unfaith to the Great Powers to which these promises were made, but also, as it seems to us, show very clearly England's responsibility to the Armenians. Under the Berlin Treaty "the Sublime Porte undertakes to carry out, without further delay, the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security against the Circassians and Kurds. It will periodically make known the steps taken to this effect to the Powers, who will superintend their application." Under the Anglo-Turkish Convention the Sultan "promises to England to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the Government and for the protection of the Christians and other subjects of the Porte in these territories; and, moreover, to enable England to make necessary provision for executing her engagements, his Imperial Majesty the Sultan further consents to assign the island of Cyprus to be occupied and administered by England." It must further be remembered that on the basis of this treaty England objected to Russian intervention. These facts not only confer the right, but impose on England the duty, of doing all that is in her power to protect the Armenians from the most cruel massacres in modern history. The failure of the Powers to compel the Turkish Government to keep its promises made in behalf of its subject peoples makes each of these Powers particeps criminis in the most terrible and repulsive of modern tragedies. These facts furnish the historical basis for Mr. Gladstone's speech at Liverpool on the Armenian question, which, as reported in full in last week's "Independent," is seen to be more significant than it appeared to be from the cable dispatches, on which our paragraph of last week was based. He declares in emphatic terms that "the guilt of massacre rests upon the Turkish Government," and that "the Sultan has added massacre to massacre;" he traces the history of past treaty relations, showing clearly Turkey's solemn obligation to introduce into Armenia effective reforms and England's undertaking in return to defend Turkey in Armenia against unjust aggression from Russia; he points out as a result that England has both a solemn |