March 2, 2024
The Classicism of Yvor Winters
Poems by Yvor Winters. Los Altos, California: The Gyroscope Press. $2.00 Yvor Winters has issued his selected poems privately printed on his own press. He has included all the verse […]
March 2, 2024
The Snopes World
The Hamlet by William Faulkner. Random House. $2.50 The Hamlet is William Faulkner’s fourteenth published book of prose fiction. With its opening sentence it proclaims itself a part of that […]
March 2, 2024
The Naturalism of Santayana
The Realm of Spirit by George Santayana. Scribner. $3.00 The Philosophy of George Santayana. Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. II. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Northwestern University Press. $4.00 Unperturbed […]
March 2, 2024
The Monster, Marriage
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 […]
March 2, 2024
Musical Analysis at Its Best
Essays in Musical Analysis, in Six Volumes by Donald Francis Tovey. Oxford University Press. $21.00 Nearly all the 254 essays included in these volumes were originally program notes written for […]
March 2, 2024
Mountaineers Are Shakespearean
The Hawk’s Done Gone by Mildred Haun. Bobbs Merrill. $2.50 This volume, advertised as a novel, is a collection of thirteen stories, twelve of which are told by an old […]
March 2, 2024
Lorca in English
Blood Wedding a Tragedy by F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Gilbert Neiman. New Directions. 50 cents Poems by F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili. Selection […]
March 2, 2024
Neither Historian Nor Critic
New England: Indian Summer by Van Wyck Brooks. Dutton. $3.75 One must agree that Mr. Brooks’s success is perfectly justified. The Flowering of New England has had more than a […]
February 28, 2024
Political Systems, Religious and Secular
The State in Catholic Thought. By Heinrich A. Rommen. Herder. $6.00 Systematic Politics. By Charles E. Merriam. University of Chicago. $3.75 Under review are two comprehensive treatises (Dr. Rommen’s […]
February 10, 2024
Kafka’s Tragi-Comedy
Amerika by Franz Kafka. New Directions. $2.50 In Amerika one sees the beginnings of the method that is developed in The Trial and perfected in The Castle. The unity, concision, […]
February 10, 2024
Poetry and Belief
Robinson Jeffers: The Man and His Work by Lawrence Clark Powell. San Paqual Press. $2.50 The Spiritual Aspect of the New Poetry by Amos N. Wilder. Harper. $2.50 Directions in […]
February 10, 2024
Success Stories from Mexico
Diego Rivera, His Life and Times by Bertram D. Wolfe. Knopf. $6.00 Modern Mexican Art by Laurence E. Schmeckebier. University of Minnesota Press. $5.00 R. Bertram Wolfe in his Diego […]