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Wallace Hildick

Book Reviews

Autumn/ September 1966

Rhythm and Blues

By Wallace Hildick

A History Of English Prose Rhythm by George Saintsbury. Indiana University Press, $8.50.   Formidable (whichever way you scan it) and very depressing: these are the impressions a hopeful student […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1965

Bad Verses and Good Offices

By Wallace Hildick

The Woeful Victorian: A Biography of John Addington Symonds by Phyllis Grosskurth. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $6.95. Cockerell by Wilfrid Blunt. Alfred A. Knopf, $7.50.  Was John Addyas mediocre as […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1965

In That Solitary Room

By Wallace Hildick

The only group of any note to be seen in Bloomsbury these days is an occasional guitar-beating band of vocalists from the north, bound for the Soho recording studios and […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1967

Friendly Persuasion

By Wallace Hildick

Due To Circumstances Beyond Our Control. . . by Fred W. Friendly. Random House, $6.95. Mr. Friendly is a big, heavily built man with a deceptively ponderous manner. When speaking […]