January 1, 1944
Partisan and Tendencious
The Machiavellians: Defenders Of Freedom by James Burnham. John Day. $2.50. Professor Burnham’s widely discussed The Managerial Revolution was built around an arresting thesis: that the nexus of social relationships […]
January 1, 1944
Criticism from Oxford
The Heritage Of Symbolism by C. M. Bowra. Macmillan. $3.75. This book consists of essays upon Valéry, Rilke, George, Blok, and Yeats with introductory and concluding chapters considering them as […]
July 1, 1943
Images with Abstract Titles
Paul Klee: Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to 1939 edited by Karl Nierendorf. Oxford. $8.00 These are 67 reproductions, two in color, the best selection out, with pleasant reminiscences by Mr. Nierendorf, […]
July 1, 1943
Commentary by Ghosts
Genesis: Book One by Delmore Schwartz. New Directions. $3.00. I remember remarking of Mr. Schwartz’s earlier book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, that he was perhaps too spontaneous, that to his […]
July 1, 1943
Elinor Wylie
Last Poems OF Elinor Wylie by Elinor Wylie. Alfred Knopf. $2.75 Except for the three “Subversive Sonnets,” nothing is here to add to what we already know of Elinor Wylie […]
July 1, 1943
Caribbean Horrors
Dark Wedding by Ramon J. Sender. Translated from Spanish by Eleanor Clark. Doubleday, Doran. $2.50. The materials of Dark Wedding might seem undeserving of serious treatment. While we approve when […]
July 1, 1943
The Merit of English Painting
English Painters: Hogarth to Constable by Andrew C. Ritchie. John Hopkins Press. $2.25.American Leonardo by Carleton Mabee. Knopf. $5.00.American Pioneer Arts and Artists by Carl W. Drepperd. Springfield, Massachusetts: Pond-Ekbert. […]
July 1, 1943
Shakespeare Allegorized
Shakespeare and the Nature of Man by Theodore Spencer. Macmillan. $2.75 Mr. Spencer undertakes three critical tasks. He presents his pattern of the Renaissance intellectual background, relates Shakespeare’s plays to […]
July 1, 1943
A New Freedom
The Interpretation of History by Jacques Barzun, Hajo Holborn, Herbert Heaton, Dumas Malone, and George La Piana. Princeton University Press. $2.50. Jefferson, the Road to Glory, 1743 to 1776 by […]
July 1, 1943
Nearer to the Well-Spring
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by M. D. Herter Norton. Norton. $2.50. These latter (the Duino Elegies) were begun in 1912 (at Duino), continued—fragmentarily—in Spain and Paris […]
April 1, 1943
Péguy Pared Down
Charles Péguy: Basic Verities. Rendered into English by Ann and Julian Green. Pantheon Books. $2.75. The current fashion of printing translations page by page with the sources is more than […]
April 1, 1943
Gibbs and the Age of Power
Willard Gibbs by Muriel Rukeyser. Doubleday Doran. $3.50. Both before and after writing this book, Miss Rukeyser has received for her intrepidity a number of slaps on the wrist—and even, […]