dressed and holding an immense bunch of roses, she advanced to the front of the stage and, smiling in a sweetly feminine way, said: "Friends, I have chosen as my subject for this evening, that which is of paramount importance in this day and time-Woman's Sphere, The Home." A Columbia Number WE did not intend to make one of our last issue, though the four articles from that university may look as if we did, but we do things of that kind only by accident happy accident that time. Professors in nine different universities contribute to this number. Guess! That was not intentional either. Queries and Cuckoos MAN is a questioning animal. We would cast no unjust aspersions upon all other animals, but we maintain that man is primarily an interrogation-mark, and of course was one long before Pope. From the nebulous dawn of things he has asked questions. And the answers? Ah, that's another story! "Am I my brother's keeper?" snarls Cain. How various have been the answers! "Why do the heathen rage?" found its way into the question-box at a missionary meeting, once upon a time, and the good brother in charge stammered and was troubled as he cast about for a reply. "What destroieth the memorie of thinges?" comes plaintively from a sixteenth-century clerk. "Not poppy, nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world," mutter the Iagos of the ages. But the queries are not all of this high seriousness. "What cast of countenance is the mark of love?" writes eighteenth-century Eugenius. Woman, in thine infinite variety, canst thou answer? Strephon breaks into metre: Doth she? "If Chloe breathes no, Doth she ever mean yes?" Aurelia yearningly poses the editor with: "How may a husband be kept constant, living in retirement?" What wonder that the editor felt "blasted by a sudden imbecility" as he groped for a reply? The problems do not always concern man. Many curious questions on natural history are folded away in the wrinkled records of scientific societies. "What is the origin of vegetables?" Seek the answer, Reader, in the dusty Transactions of the American Institute. But look not for much light. "O Cuckoo!1 Shall I call thee bird, queries the Poet. And in the worm-eaten tomes that A Few of the Things that Need Remedying THE Cabinet. The provisions of the constitution that restrict direct National taxation to the Income Tax. All provisions everywhere that put the spending of the taxes into the hands of the people who do not pay them. The poor editor supposed the conundrum was addressed to a skylark. Probably it has been put more than once. The levying of any taxes that people don't know they pay. Laws that are more careful of the criminal than of society. Neglect of the fountain-heads of culture in educational curricula. Confusion of business functions and educational functions in colleges. The same in the press. The spelling of English. Solos and primitive programs at the concerts of great modern orchestras. Piano playing with other instruments, except as accompaniment. The Smoke Nuisance. Taking off of enough city railroad cars outside of rush hours to keep the remaining ones crowded. The repetition of liturgies that priests and people no longer believe in. All other forms of lying. Philanthropies where the heart runs away with the head. "And therefore have we Our written purposes before us sent; Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know" -Antony and Cleopatra. Mark Twain, once a printer himself, advised his friend, William Dean Howells, against choosing a printer for a hero. "Better not," he said. "People will not understand him. Printing is something every village has in it, but it is always a sort of mystery.' If there is uncertainty in lay minds as to printers, how inscrutable to them are the duties of publishers! Questions in regard to the Yale University Press have revealed such a general ignorance of its aims that it may not be amiss to explain the purpose of its foundation. In fact, university presses are so new in America and fulfil such different purposes where they have been established, that an explanation may be interesting even to the initiated who know what publishing is. Briefly, the Yale University Press was founded: To provide an adequate medium for publishing notable books which tend to advance American scholarship in all its fields. To bring into prominence writers whose names would otherwise be known to but few, thereby aiding young scholars to secure recognition and promotion. To be alert to the opportunity and duty of publishing volumes by writers in other institutions and in other countries. It is not from accident, but from design, that the list of authors represented by Yale University Press publications includes men from three continents and from over one hundred universities. To publish only such works as shall reflect credit on the University whose name it bears. To this end, every manuscript to be published under its imprint must receive the approval of a Committee composed of officers and members of the University. To follow the very best traditions of printing and book-binding, making only books which may serve as a standard. Expressed in terms of books, its purpose is to publish such a work as that which Hon. James Bryce referred to as "One of the most important constitutional records in the whole history of the United States." i To make it possible for such men as William Ernest Hocking (since appointed to a professorship in philosophy at Harvard University) to issue his first book, "The Meaning of God in Human Experience." 2 To issue what Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., described as "the most important monograph on painting at once written by an American and published by an American press." 3 THE RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787. Edited by 2 THE MEANING OF GOD IN HUMAN EXPERIENCE. By William Ernest -- 3 JACOPO CARUCCI DA PONTORMO. His Life and Work. By Frederick Mortimer Clapp. 153 illustrations. $7.50 net, postpaid. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 209 Elm Street NEW HAVEN, CONN. 280 Madison Avenue NEW YORK CITY When writing to advertisers, kindly mention THE UNPOPULAR Review 1 THE UNPOPULAR REVIEW VOL. VII [Titles of Articles are printed in heavier type. The names of authors of articles ANDERSON, AGNES K., are printed in small capitals] 'Making Too Much | De Morgan, The Pass- ing of Mr., 436 novel-Difficulty of Being Alone, Colleges, 342; writing and, 140-150 'Edipus and Job,' 67 "The Ingenuity of Par- COLTON, ARTHUR W.. ents,' 25 Art, 168-170 On the, 135; sketch Columbia Number, A, Domestic relations, 25- Athletic committees, 427 441 6 BALDWIN, C. S., 'Looking Commissions, 85, 92-93 Barbarians, 223 Competition, 113-134 BECKER, CARL, 'On Be- Conscience, 67-83 ing a Professor,' 342 Conservation of Capac- BENNETT, JESSE LEE, 35 Double Entry Education, ity, The, 12; a growing guments against it, 400- Capital, railroad, 88-97 Constitution, U. S., 20, 23 Contributors, A Word to, 218 CHAPMAN, EDW. M., 'As Coöperation, industrial, Christian gospel, 104-106| 422 'The Future of Indus- try,' 251 Citizenship, 281 Civilization, 285 Clayton act, 121 Classics, 176, 177, 433 Counsel of Perfection, Hate, The, 36; war has Eliot, Chas. W., 152, 155, Crookes, Sir Wm., 210 En Casserole, 203, 429 |