pressure, or erect any laws, to forbid certain sexual practices, so long as, of course, these take place between consenting individuals.

It is a surprising thing that in a recent report on youth the French Institute of Public Opinion should have ventured to attribute to our youth, with a questionable unanimity, an attitude of rejection and suppression of prostitution and homosexuality, for, in the end, rejection and suppression are not at all the same thing. A great many of our young people, while they may reject such behavior for themselves,

do not necessarily wish to see the repressive arsenal of the State (which many consider as a "state of class distinction") unleashed against the homosexuals.

Still another reader, most humane of all, it seems to me, wrote me: "If homosexuality were considered by public opinion as simply one of the many forms of love, as natural as any other, there would not in all probability be one homosexual the more . . . but there would be a great many more happy men."

And that is my conclusion.

ILLUSION

The nimble fingers of the rain, Darting through the web of summer, Wove the drunken breath of grain. Into a fabric crazed with light.

Which you wore: lame of sunray Silken wheat upon your head. Pale as night the other one lay Beside you on your grass-downed bed.

No further food; he appetized

On sight alone, and then was done. For, lying there, he realized

That he was I, and you were none.

-Dorian Mode