They leave the car in pairs, the picnic baskets Rattling dismally plate and spoon and jar. Each clerk takes his girl to her lodgings in awkward silence, Indeed their eyes have not met since by the river Those wondrous moments Linked them to earth and night, not to each other. They look askance,—“Good-night”—the front door closed. They do not meet again except by chance. Editorials and Announcements _Wanted: Some Imaginative Reason_ “Nietzsche was an individualist, a hater of the State and of the Prussians, a sick man, a great artist in words to be read with delight and—your tongue in your cheek.” This is from John Galsworthy’s “Second Thoughts on this War” in the January _Scribner’s_. And so it goes on: he identifies Nietzsche with the new German philosophy (which the poor man would have hated as he did Prussianism), he talks of the Will to Power and the Will to Love as two forces at opposite poles (quite in the manner of the Chestertons), and he derides Shaw’s clear-headed understanding that there is no real struggle of ideals involved in the war as the statement of a brilliant intellect with “no flair, no feelers, none of that instinctive perception of the essence and atmosphere of things which is a so much surer guide than reason.” These things are heart-breaking. If the artists can not understand the prophets of their time why should we expect the masses to do so? _“Homo Sapiens” Is Obscene!_ Anthony Comstock’s successor, John Sumner, has arrested Alfred Knopf for publishing Przybyszewski’s _Homo Sapiens_. It was suggested that magistrate Simms read the book before passing judgment. The assistant district attorney protested that “no such cruel punishment be imposed on the court”; but Mr. Simms promised to try it. * * * * * _P. S._ Since writing the above something has happened which my brain still refuses to believe. I have just been told that Mr. Knopf has pleaded “guilty” to this asinine charge, in order to avoid the expense and the publicity, and that _Homo Sapiens_ will no longer be circulated in this country. If it is true it is the most inexcusably ridiculous thing that has happened for many months. It is incredible! “_The World’s Worst Failure_” Read Rebecca West’s brilliant articles in _The New Republic_. _Margaret Sanger and the Issue of Birth Control_ Nothing makes me so positively ill as the average radical. The average conservative is a ghastly figure, but at least he is true to type. The average radical is a person who professes to believe something that he does not believe. If he did, he would be in trouble. No one gets into more involuntary trouble than the splendid fools who think they can do quite simply what they believe in, and who proceed to do it.