Then there’s “sharenting.” Today, many children’s social media presence starts with a sonogram, posted, obviously, without consent.

They may be chanceless children, disowned and unloved, for whom life holds no promise.

China is cut through by many great rivers, of which the mighty Yang-tzŭ, and the Huang Ho, or Yellow River, are the chief. Each of these rises in the mountains of Tibet, and finds its way eastward to the sea. The Yang-tzŭ, which is 60 miles wide at its mouth, with its numerous tributaries is to China what the Mississippi and Amazon are to the United States and South America.

The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.