THE LITTLE REVIEW Literature Drama Music Art MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR JUNE, 1914 "Incense and Splendor" The Editor A Kaleidoscope Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Futurism and Pseudo-Futurism Alexander S. Kaun A Wonder-Child Violinist Margaret C. Anderson The New Paganism DeWitt C. Wing Gloria Mundi Eunice Tietjens The Will to Live George Burman Foster Keats and Fanny Brawne Charlotte Wilson A New Woman from Denmark Marguerite Swawite Editorials New York Letter George Soule Correspondence: Miss Columbia: An Old-Fashioned Girl Poetry to the Uttermost Reflections of a Dilettante The Immortality of the Soul Book Discussion: Dostoevsky--Pessimist? The Salvation of the World à la Wells The Unique James Family The Immigrant's Pursuit of Happiness De Morgan's Latest 25 cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Publisher Fine Arts Building CHICAGO $2.50 a year THE LITTLE REVIEW Vol. I JUNE, 1914 No. 4 Copyright, 1914, by Margaret C. Anderson. "Incense and Splendor" MARGARET C. ANDERSON A young American novelist stated the other day that the American woman is oversexed; that present-day modes of dress are all designed to emphasize sex; and that it is high time for a reaction against sex discussions, sex stories, and sex plays. But I think she's entirely mistaken. The American woman, speaking broadly, is pathetically undersexed, just as she is undersensitive and underintelligent. The last adjective will be disputed or resented; but it's interesting once in a while to hear the thoughtful foreigner's opinion of our intelligence. Tagore, for instance, said that he was agreeably surprised in regard to the American man and astonished at the stupidity of the American woman. As for our fiction and drama--we've had much about sex in the last few years, some of it intensely valuable, much of it intensely foolish; but it's quite too early to predict the reaction. The really constructive work on the subject is yet to be done.