In "Active Negation as a Revolutionary Solvent" Mr. Michael Fraenkel confesses himself a pessimist who takes his pessimism whole-heartedly, and yet holds. that. Active Negation ....leads us, I em not ashamed to Say, to believe in anything. By our negation of everything known we are ready to affirm everything unknown. The magic of faith is restored. We have thrown, wide open the gates of the soul, and God, the Unknown, for whom the way was too narrow before, may enter.
Mr. Pel Chung-ching has been moved to contribute a "Geology Chronicle" by the fact that not far from Chungking the Geological Society of China held its annual meeting early in March. Mr. Harold Acton gives an explanatory foreword to his translation of "Ch'un-hsiang Naa Hsueh" a K'un-ch'ü light comedy from the Ming Dynasty play "Mu-tan T'ing" by T'ang Hsien-tsu (1550-1611).
'The chief merit of Ch'un-hsiang Naa' Hsüeh is the piquant contrast between blithe youth and crabbed age and the titillating atmosphere Of spring that pervades it...
Book reviews conclude a pleasant number.
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