Book Reviews
Spring 1989
Religious Immoralism
Jung: A Biography by Gerhard Wehr. New York: Shambhala, 1987. 549 pages. $25.00. William James: His Life and Thought by Gerald E. Myers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 672 […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1987
The Language of Chaos
Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics by A. Zee. New York: Macmillan, 1986. 322 pages. $25.00. T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and the Discourses of Difference by Michael […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1985
Faulted into Consciousness: Recent Writing on Auden and Eliot
Auden: A Carnival of Intellect by Edward Callan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 299 pages. $25.00 W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage edited by John Haffenden. Boston: Routledge & […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1970
Freud and Machiavelli
Power by Adolph A. Berle. Harcourt, Brace and World, $10.00. Berle tells us: “Implaecably . . . The balance of twentieth-century currents undermines the possibility of concentrated power. Power exists, […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1969
Stendhal’s Nominalism
Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom by Victor Brombert. Random House, $5.95. Stendhal: Notes on a Novelist by Robert M. Adams. Funk and Wagnalls, $5.95. Brombert concludes his brilliant […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1968
Sources of Judgment
George Santayana’s America: Essays on Literature and Culture. Collected and with an Introduction by James Ballowe. University of Illinois Press, $5.75. This volume is designed to complement Santayana’s major autobiographical […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1966
Theology or Camp?
In Search Of Philosophic Understanding by E. A. Burtt. The New American Library, $5.75. Professor Burtt’s new volume is in effect an extensive and often profound discussion of the genetic […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1965
The Perspective of Time
The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield. Harper and Row, $6.95. The authors describe this book as a “history of history.” It is a discussion […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1965
Time and Anxiety
Man and Time by J.B. Priestley. Doubleday and Company, $14.95. Priestly’s approach in this book is to accept the validity of precognitive dreams as the basis for a theory […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1958
The Founding Fathers and the Oedipus Complex
The American Conscience by Roger Burlingame. Knopf, $6.75. Proust And Literature: the Novelist as Critic by Walter A. Strauss. Harvard, $4.75. According to Proust, … each reader reads only what […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1946
A Theme That Runs Loosely
No Voice Is Wholly Lost by Harry Slochower. Creative Age. $3.75. There is no better index of the quality of one’s emotions than prose style. One naturally distrusts a critic […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1945
The Everlasting Mr. Huxley
Time Must Have A Stop by Aldous Huxley. Harper & Brothers. $2.75 Like Eyeless in Gaza Huxley’s new novel is a parable of his own spiritual development. The characters […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1943
Thought and Sensibility
The fact that sensibility is a function of intelligence has important implications. It is popularly, and not alone popularly, believed that thought and feeling are mutually opposed, that we employ […]