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...newborn Popular Science Monthly was denounced as the devilish work of atheists and evolutionists. But blind Editor Edward Livingston Youmans, no atheist but a devout missionary from the world of science to the world of laymen, took the abuse in stride. "The work of creating science," he wrote in Vol. I, No. 1, "has been organized for centuries. . . . The work of diffusing science ... is clearly the next great task of civilization...
Last week, after a mere 256 years of suspended animation, the name, of the first paper had life again. Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, got safely past Vol. I, No. 2. Under its new management, it saw no need to change its aims with the times: it would continue to expose any "malicious Raiser of a False Report," would work "towards the Curing, or at least the Charming of that Spirit of Lying, which prevails amongst...
...plug U.N., but strictly unofficially, Vol. I, No. 1 tried to warm up to its subject with intimate facts about top U.N. delegates (i.e., 13½% of them are polygamous, 6½% won't tell); a crossword puzzle emphasizing global words (No. i across: "goal of the U.N." in five letters); and a four-page picture sequence showing U.N. delegates shaking hands and grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent...
Ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution agree with Pope that "the proper study of mankind is man," and that no detail is too small to be recorded. Recently, in dedication to this proposition, they offered a weighty work: The Marginal Tribes-Vol. I of their monumental Handbook of South American Indians (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington; $2.75). In its closely printed pages, readers could study the childhood...
Many of the individual chapters are subtly, brilliantly managed; here & there (as in Vol. VIII, entitled Verdun) they blend into a more or less related whole. But ordinarily Author Romains moves his characters about by whim or wind, endows his chance encounters, political musings, philosophic sermons, fancy seductions with no more apparent interrelation than that of news stories in the daily press...