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...childhood is a crystal ball wherein the seer discovers an im- placable inferiority feeling fastened upon the sensitive orphan son of an itinerant actress and a disinherited Baltimore mooncalf. The child was sheltered, not adopted, by hardheaded John Allan of Richmond. He was insecure in a town of lordly livers. And what went deeper, at home and at school his mother's calling was made his shame. Psychoanalysis calls his loyal passion for her dead purity a "fixation." Another woman once laid a kind hand upon his head, and upon her too he "fixed" after her death...
...strenuous attempt will be made to define a Baptist Church as one composed of immersed persons. This would exclude Dr. Harry E. Fosdick's church, now abuilding (TIME, Feb. 22). Most Christians these days are baptized symbolically by a few drops of water. The Baptist Church advocates total im mersion of the convert in water, either in natural surroundings as in the River Jordan, or in a pool in a church...
...Damrosch raised his arm and thereafter the assembled audience listened intently for a considerable time. They heard pinguid plati- tudes of the symphonic concert hall resuscitated; they heard discreet echoes of Tschaikowsky, of Stravinsky, of Rachmaninov; they heard sentimental melodies in pseudo-jazz they heard the anxiously im- mature opus of a youth who-no longer child of the Cyclades and of Broadway-has become an earnest aspirant for musical respectability. There was nothing daring, nothing racy, nothing even individual Law- rence Gilman said...
...lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity of life and the in- cessant struggle for existence. Reader Doe is most likely a memtally-gregarious animal. It should excite him not a little to read this able book and realize that of all the creatures he has learned about...
...Britain exported 1,000,000 tons less steel than in 1913, and im- ported 200,000 tons more. For the twelve months ending in May, 1925, Britain's steel imports cost her $100,000,000. Meanwhile the cost of doles and pensions has shot up from about 5c a ton in 1913 to $1.75 per ton today...