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

literature, and the fact that a popular monthly apparently believes that it is not ruining its circulation by publishing this wholesome stuff, along with the usual sex, adventure, and celebrity material that is supposed to lure the dimes from news-stand patrons, demonstrates that there is still a remnant of the elect among us. Grayson's value is that he has stopped to look at life. He is not going anywhere. He is just taking a walk. There is no burning fever of "getting on" in him. It is the jour­ney that is worth while to him, it is of little 118 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS matter at what inn or farmhouse the day's end shall find him. Thus he rediscovers for us, what every wise man has discovered, that life is good in the living of it, and not only for some reward at the close of it. He comes upon this secret as we all come upon it, by just standing still a bit and look­ing. He opens the gates of his soul and the beauties of this world troop in. Look long and wholeheartedly at any of nature's creatures, a tree or cloud, a meadow in the

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