Book Reviews
Winter 1966
Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed
QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO SUCCEED by Elizabeth Longford. Harper and Row, $8.50. Appearing forty-four years after Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria, the Countess of Longford’s biography represents an astonishing failure to […]
Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section
Summer 1965
A Tremendous Drama
The Letters Of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Volume I, 1820-1839. Edited by Madeline House and Graham Storey. Oxford University Press, $20.20. It should be stated at the outset that […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1940
Amor Dei in Hollywood
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley. Harper. $2.50 Mr. Huxley’s new novel is a sort of multi-decker literary sandwich with slices of burlesque, jazz, melodrama, and […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1940
Three Proletarian Novels
Rope of Gold by Josephine Herbst. Harcourt Brace. $2.50The Stars and Stripes Forever by Elliot Paul. Random House. $2.50Industrial Valley by Ruth McKenney. Harcourt Brace. $3.00 Dealing with essentially the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1939
Technique and Tantrum
Here Lies. Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker. Viking Press. $3.00 Wickford Point. By John P. Marquand. Little Brown. $2.75 Here are authors who rather amusingly illustrate almost opposite extremes of […]