Of Times and Tithes

Our department this time is devoted to intimate matters like social disease, the art of definition, criticism-of-criticism and You-the-gentle reader.

The other day we folded a magazine to a certain paragraph (what it was is not germane) and handed it to our ten-year-old with the remark that this was very interesting. He took the material by its margins, aimed his nose correctly, and then, before he began to read, “What,” he demanded, “is it about?” Hold on to that.