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

optimism of health upon the exquisite melancholy of sickness. There are moods when tears are far sweeter than laughter. "The March of the Shadows is not without a certain imperial beauty. And tender­ness, too. Is not forgetful Death like a great mothering bird gathering her troubled fledglings to her soft-feathered bosom? "There is a beautiful passage in Landor's `Aesop and Rhodope' that I recall : FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 17 " 'There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave; there are no voices, 0 Rhodope, that are not soon mute, however tuneful; there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.' " 18 HALF-SCIENCE T HERE is a kind of bastard science which is very dangerous. It gets a glimpse of the great law of "The Survival of the Fittest." It explains so many things. And the apprentice mind in its en­thusiasm imagines it explains everything. It does not. The Survival of the Fittest, the Struggle for Existence, and the whole law that the physically weak are extermi­nated

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