Book Reviews
Winter 1950
The Unfallen
The Irish by Sean O’Faolain. New York City: Devin-Adair, 1949. 180 pages. $2.75. The Face and Mind of Ireland by Arland Ussher. London: Gollancz, 1949. “Was it that they […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1949
The Faust of Georges Bernanos
Augurs and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secretest man of blood. — Shakespeare, Macbeth. Do you believe in hell, Pernichon?” asked M. Guérou, […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1948
Francois Mauriac: Catholic and Novelist
Margaret of Cortona, a 13th Century Franciscan saint, had been a great sinner and was the mother of a son. When, after her lover’s murder, she became converted and entered […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1947
The Pieties of Evelyn Waugh
Mr. Evelyn Waugh’s seventh and latest novel, Brideshead Revisited, was fortunate in earning the approval both of the reading public and of the theologians. In England, The Tablet saw in […]