Book Reviews
Autumn 1941
Christianity and Modern Man
The Nature and Destiny of Man by Reinhold Niebuhr. Vol. 1. Scribner’s. $2.75 Reinhold Niebuhr is the most admirable kind of Protestant. This is the most convenient way to sum […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1949
Aristocracy and/or Christianity
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T. S. Eliot. Harcourt. $2.50 One first and natural question might be: What has happened to Eliot’s prose? The process, of course, has […]
The Critic's Business: By Four of the Critics
Winter 1949
A Present Tendency in American Criticism
Somebody with the necessary scholarship may be able some day to tell us just when, during the two decades past, American criticism began to seek what looks like a new […]
Fiction
Spring 1948
Two Scenarios for Ballet
1. The True Story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf I see him just at the moment when his last shouts—wolf! wolf!—roll away among the hills while no answering cry […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1947
Temptations of St. Yvor
The same judgments of taste can be maintained by people of very different beliefs. But just as obviously, the more deeply any such judgment involves us the more powerfully it […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1943
A Master of Irony
Philosophical Fragments by Sören Kierkegaard. Translated by D. F. Swenson. Princeton University Press. $2.00. Stages On Life’s Way by Sören Kierkegaard. Translated by W. Lowrie. Princeton University Press. $6.00. Concluding […]