Book Reviews
Spring 1957
Saints or Single Hounds?
New England Saints by Austin Warren. University of Michigan. $3.75. Austin Warren’s book of essays on a group of New England worthies has a striking jacket: a landscape blotted out […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1955
Emerson Changed His Mind
Freedom And Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Stephen E. Whicher. University of Pennsylvania. $4.75. This is not a fashionable kind of book on Emerson. In the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1949
Second Trip to Byzantium
Melville’s Billy Budd edited by Barron Freeman. Harvard. $5.00. The new text of Billy Budd reproduces every legible word in Melville’s difficult manuscript—that is, the text and footnotes taken together […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1947
Theatre Letter
Perhaps it is time to hand O’Neill over to the sociologists, along with Dreiser and Farrell. A concern with our generic weakness is proper to their discipline, and the critic […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1946
Henry James and the New Jerusalem: Of Morality and Style
Few critics still view Henry James simply as a consciousness or sensibility whose morality has no sanction but taste. It is an inference forced upon us by his style that […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1946
Notes on the Theatre
The Hero Who Can Prove It I found the New York stage badly cluttered with ideas and problems this season. The distinction between what is dramatic and what is not […]