The Auburn-Herrot Poetry

Auburn-Herrot was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art. The stranger who looked for the first time at the quaint redhouses could only think how very oddly shaped the people must be to fit into them. Even if the people were not artists, the whole was nevertheless artistic. On many nights those passing by his little back garden were here his high didactic voice laying down the law to men and particularly to women. Most of the women were of the kind vaguely called emancipated and professed some protest against male supremacy. Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever