Abstract

Thoughts on the Universe

This article presents information on several books. Some of them are "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft," by George Gissing, "The Hive," by Will Levington Comfort, "Pavannes and Divisions," by Ezra Pound and "Prophets of Dissent," by Otto Heller. The reprint from George Gissing plays with the pretence at autobiography in its record of the observations which Gissing casually set down in the year of his death, 1903. Divided into four groups for the four seasons of the year, they ramble from the enthusiasms of the bibliophile, to English self-righteousness, the dangers of democracy, and the war mania. The World War I, Comfort seems to feel, is merely a big subjective experience in which, with a new application, every man is for himself, and the devil take the hindmost. Comfort depicts it in his book "The Hive."