July 1, 1944
Tom Wolfe of Argentina
The Bay of Silence by Eduardo Mallea. Translated from the Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. Knopf. $2.50. Eduardo Mallea has been hailed both here and in South America as one […]
July 1, 1944
The Essays of Horace Gregory
The Shield Of Achilles by Horace Gregory. Harcourt Brace. $2.50. Here is a most knowing critic. But let us ask what a critic is; or, first, what happens when a […]
July 1, 1944
Salt, Pepper, and Pity for Mankind
Persons and Places: The Background of My Life by George Santayana. Scribners. $2.50. Mr. Santayana has always professed that his writings were nothing but soliloquies, and in such works as […]
July 1, 1944
Some of the Trouble with Saroyan
Get Away Old Man by William Saroyan. Harcourt, Brace. $2.00. Saroyan’s psychology is more an objective of study than is his art. Critics, inclined to praise him as hairdressers are […]
July 1, 1944
The Aesthetic and the Ethical
Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard. Vol. I translated by D. F. Swenson and L. M. Swenson; Vol II translated by W. Lowrie. Princeton University Press. $7.50. In his Journals, Kierkegaard compared […]
July 1, 1944
Roman Criticism and English Translation
Clowns and Angels by Wallace Fowlie. Sheed and Ward. $2.50. Coronal by Paul Claudel. Translated by Sister Mary David. Pantheon Books. $2.75. Professor Fowlie’s book consists mainly of essays on […]
July 1, 1944
Fictions Not Wholly Achieved
The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow. Vanguard. $2.50. Return of the Traveller by Rex Warner. Lippincott. $2.00. Mr. Bellow’s hero reflects: He has a community. I have this six-sided box. […]
July 1, 1944
Dr. Leavis’ English School
Education and the University by F. R. Leavis. Chatto and Windus. London. 6s. We talked of the education of children; and I asked him what he thought was best to […]
July 1, 1944
Drawing as a Constant Glory
History and Technique of Old Master Drawings by Charles de Tolnay. 261 collotypes after drawings, on 120 plates, text, bibliography and index. New York: H. Bittner and Company. 155 pages. […]
April 1, 1944
Against Sickness of the Mortal Will
Time Of Year by Samuel French Morse. Introduced by Wallace Stevens. Cummington Press. $2.75. During the last twenty years the easiest things to find in first books of verse have […]
April 1, 1944
Sculpture
Problems Of The Scultpor by Bruno Adriani. Nierendorf Gallery, New York. $3.00. Twelve Bronzes by Jacques Lipschiz. 16 Collotype Plates, with Introductory Note. Curt Valentin, New York. $2.50. These two […]
April 1, 1944
Lost Illusions
Arrival And Departure by Arthur Koestler. Macmillan. $2.00. This novel is more the product of the exasperated political sensibility than of consistent political thought. It is a brilliant piece of […]