The Truth About the Stork

This is another crusade against the poor old stork, emanating this time from the British Empire. The book was published in London. It is a gesture toward frankness, but the photographs of the male and female nude are from the rear. All the other illustrations are diagrams, with the exception of a few innocuous photographic fillers. Factually the book is satisfactory. The presentation is without originality and most of the drawings are relatively crude. Despite all that one hears about the shortage of paper, this book is wastefully printed. Several whole pages are devoted to illustrative drawings which contribute little or nothing, and there is considerable waste space on pages where single paragraphs or small groups of paragraphs occupy half a page and the remainder is white paper. The white space is not even utilized to give the book attractiveness.

This may be classified as a useful but not particularly