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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

The car rolled on. But its load of hu­manity was transformed. Something divine had swept every soul in it clean of its doldrums. FOUR, MINUTE ESSAYS 99 Little songs started up in hearts, like crocuses pierce the snow in early spring. Gentle thoughts hovered about that company as swallows fly about the eaves at sunset. Everybody had been converted and be-came as a little child and saw the kingdom. All day long that one word echoed in a thousand avenues, and sounded on and on like a silver bell, and even its most distant waves brought peace on earth and good-will to men. Such a work was wrought by one word of utter brotherhood. And there came to my mind the phrase of John Masefield, the last words in his "Good Friday": "Oh, beauty, touch me, make me wise!" 100 HIDDEN HAPPINESS H APPINESS is rarely visible to the mul­titude, says a shrewd observer; it lies hidden in odd corners and quiet places. Happiness is a shy thing. Grief is blatant and advertising. If a boy cuts his finger he howls, proclaiming his woe. If he is eating pie he sits still and says nothing.

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