ABSTRACT
Mr. Huxley's brilliant new short story-The Genius and the Goddess runs to only 120-odd pages-is a most characteristic piece of work, witty, expert, erudite, and just a little, as they say of game, 'high'. [Quotes passage on existence, p. 1, as an accurate reflection of Huxley's views] In his imagination flesh and philosophy, God and the glands do lie side by side and each cancels out the satisfaction that the other by itself might offer. As a novelist, Mr. Huxley's aim might be defined as the attempt to bring Beauty and the Beast into as simultaneous an existence as it is possible for arrangement to bring them, and, since the sense of sin is stronger in him than the sense of enjoyment, the desirable is always only the filling sandwiched between two slices of the nasty.
