Characteristic of What ?
Dr. Kinsey's book, called Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, which I am afraid I did not read, sold 300,000 copies: and now he has almost completed a companion volume deal. ing with the ladies. No less than 17,000 of them have told the doctor and his staff of fourteen assistants all that—and sometimes perhaps, one unchivalrously suspects, a little more than—they need to know about feminine mores; and I am sure the result will be another rattling good book. But when read in the Sunday Times that Dr. Kinsey, interrogating his own daughter about her sexual habits, had "with characteristic detachment begun by asking her her name and address," and although I remembered that King Lear adopted a roughly similar procedure in the case of Goneril and Regan, there formed in my mind the suspicion that, if I ever do attain a partial comprehension of the mysteries of human life, it will not be through the guidance of this particular savant.
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