IT is almost impossible now to imagine the claustrophobia which people of imagination and sensibility felt in mid-Victorian England. Its social injustices, the brutal squalor of its submerged ...

The news hit Madeline MacDonald “like a one-two punch.” Her mother was on the other end of the phone telling her that the man she and two other young women had accused of sexual assault was acquitted ...

WHILE the reprint of Samuel Butler’s “The Way of All Flesh” is reported as a best-seller in the Modern Library series, Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company have been slowly completing the definitive edition ...

In his latest article (February 1892), Prof. Garner says that the chatter of monkeys is not meaningless, but that they are conveying ideas to one another. This seems to me hazardous. The monkeys might ...

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