I don't like the family Stein,
There is Gert, there is Ed, there is Ein;
Gert's poems are bunk,
Ed's statues are punk,
And nobody understands Ein.
—"Stein's Way." Unsigned review of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein. Time (11 September 1933): 57-9. Print.
And that's not even the best part of the review.
One more gem:
[AABT] has been approved by the bluestocking Atlantic Monthly (where part of it was serialized).
Bluestocking.
Thank you, Sterling Memorial Library; I love you.
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