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How awful for Fathers and Mothers to call Their children Jemima!—or nothing at all!
But hers were much wiser and kinder and cleverer;
They called her Diana Fitzpatrick Manleverer James.
The babies are irresistible, the irresistiblest a Miss Waterlow, aged one—"a tremendous age to be, and often she would lie on her back and laugh to think of all the babies who were None." The grown-ups are true to life, ridiculous persons when they are Fathers, but when they are Mothers—lovely beyond words.
*MANHATTAN TRANSFER—John Dos Passos —Harper ($2).