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Haakon M. Chevalier

Book Reviews

Spring 1941

The Monster, Marriage

By Haakon M. Chevalier

Costals and the Hippogriff by Henry De Montherlani. Knopf. $2.75 Henry De Montherlants’s early writings—La Relève du Matin (1920), Le Songe (1922), Les Olympiques (1924), etc.—are intensely personal and reveal […]

Correspondence

Spring 1940

Correspondence

By Haakon M. Chevalier

Sirs: I don’t quite see the point of Mr. Ransom’s comments on Malraux in the Winter issue. It may or may not be true that the ideas of the “school” […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1939

Gallic Pageant

By Haakon M. Chevalier

Death of a World (Men of Good Will, volume VII) by Jules Romains. Knopf. $3.00. As each new volume appears, the reader of Jules Romains’ Men of Good Will feels […]