Huxley Aldous

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Point Counter Point.

1928Best.-Nr. vita9577New York: The Modern Library 1928. Duodecimo red cloth hardcover black spine and upper cover labels gilt letters 514 pp ads. Fair with light sunning to spine and light soiling to covers and page edges; lower interior hinge starting. “You won’t be late” There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling’s voice there was something like entreaty. “No I won’t be late” said Walter unhappily and guiltily certain that he would be. Her voice annoyed him. It drawled a little it was too refined -- even in misery. “Not later than midnight.” She might have reminded him of the time when he never went out in the evenings without her. She might have done so; but she wouldn’t; it was against her principles; she didn’t want to force his love in any way. “Well call it one. You know what these parties are.” But as a matter of fact she didn’t know for the good reason that not being his wife she wasn’t invited to them. She had left her husband to live with Walter Bidlake; and Carling who had Christian scruples was feebly a sadist and wanted to take his revenge refused to divorce her. It was two years now since they had begun to live together. Only two years; and now already he had ceased to love her he had begun to love someone else. The sin was losing its only excuse the social discomfort its sole palliation. And she was with child. “Half-past twelve” she implored though she knew that her importunity would only annoy him only make him love her the less. But she could not prevent herself from speaking; she loved him too much she was too agonizingly jealous. The words broke out of her in spite of her principles. It would have been better for her and perhaps for Walter too if she had had fewer principles and given her feelings the violent expression they demanded. But she had been well brought up in habits of the strictest self-control. Only the uneducated she knew made “scenes.” An imploring “Half-past twelve Walter” was all that managed to break through her principles. Too weak to move him the feeble outburst would only annoy. She knew it and yet she could not hold her tongue. The Modern Library, (1928). hardcover books

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YOUMANS, Edward L and William Jay (Charles S Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Herbert Spencer, Thomas H Huxley, James McKeen CBiblio.com

Popular Science Monthly: 205 Bound Volumes 1872-1976

Best.-Nr. 409666New York: D. Appleton and Company; McClure Phillips & Company; The Science Press; Modern Publishing Company 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. A near-complete set of 205 bound volumes of monthly issues published between May 1872 to December 1976 vols. 1-209 lacking only five volumes and with all monthly issues dating after November 1900 with their printed wrappers bound in. All are bound in cloth or cloth over boards. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece plates; plates and maps some folded; and in-text wood-engravings gravure and halftone photographs diagrams tables etc. Founded in 1872 by the chemist and polymath Edward L. Youmans The Popular Science Monthly was the leading American journal established to disseminate scientific knowledge to the educated layman. Youmans was associated with many of the worlds leading liberal and progressive thinkers ranging from Walt Whitman to Herbert Spencer and his journal became an outlet for the writings and ideas of Spencer and other Continental scientists like Thomas Henry Huxley and Louis Pasteur and for the rising generation of American philosophers like Charles Sanders Peirce John Dewey and William James and psychologist James McKeen Cattell who took over as editor in 1900. Among the many important first appearances are Peirces series of eight papers published in 1877-78 under the series title: Illustrations of the Logic of Science; a series of two lectures by William James: A Defense of Pragmatism published in March and April 1907; and three papers by John Dewey: Health and Sex in Higher Education March 1886 The Chaos in Moral Training August 1894 and Darwins Influence upon Philosophy July 1909. Also notable are several articles on womens issues of which we cite but three browsed at random: Woman and Political Power by Luke Owen Pike May 1872 Grant Allens Plain Words on the Woman Question December 1889; and Womans Struggle for Liberty in Germany by Mary Mills Patrick January 1900. Among the many articles published after the magazine changed its format in 1915 we cite Hugh Fullertons Why Babe Ruth is the Greatest Home Run Hitter October 1921 as the best representative example of the type of article this award-winning magazine has published throughout the 20th Century and up through the present day. An ex-library set with intermittent markings that varied over time including: ownership stamps small ink and/or embossed stamps in the early volumes some perforated stamps in the middle volumes and ink stamps in the later volumes and bookplates. Modest overall soiling to the cloth bindings some of the early printed wraps are toned and/or detached still present a few volumes with small repairs to the endpapers most volumes are very good or better. A very scarce near-complete set. D. Appleton and Company; McClure, Phillips & Company; The Science Press; Modern Publishing Company hardcover