April 1, 1942
The Hero as Judge
Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollck, 1874-1932. Edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe. Introduction by John Gorham Palfrey. 2 vols. Harvard. $7.50 For most […]
April 1, 1942
Sorokin and Toynbee
Social and Cultural Dynamics. Volume IV: Basic Problems, Principles and Methods by Pitirim A. Sorokin. American Book Company. $6.00 This concluding volume of Sorokin’s great work contains the long-awaited […]
April 1, 1942
The Musical Tradition
Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang. Norton. $3.90 Our New Music by Aaron Copland. Whittlesey House. $2.50 In spite of many differences, Lang’s Music in Western Civilization […]
April 1, 1942
Contourscaping
Contourscaping by Ralph Rodney Root. Ralph Fletcher Seymour, publisher. $10.00 If God had fashioned the Earth instead of Heaven for His home, if He had made the Earth for […]
April 1, 1942
Homage to Oliver Allston
The Opinions of Oliver Allson by Van Wyck Brooks. Dutton. $3.00 The untimely death, two years ago, of the critic Oliver Allston was a real loss to American letters. […]
April 1, 1942
Rich or Thin
Selected Poems by George Barker. Macmillan. $1.90 It will be my contention that the poetry of George Barker lacks intellectual edge and discipline. But, in reservation to this, Mr. […]
April 1, 1942
Souvenirs and Experiments
New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 1941. Edited by James Laughlin. New Directions. $3.50 On the whole James Laughlin has been making good progress with his annual collection of […]
January 1, 1942
Greatness with One Fault in It
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. Houghton Mifflin. $3.50 I feel sure that this is a great book. To its greatness both […]
September 17, 1941
Indefatigable Tommy
Barrie by Denis Mackail. Scribner’s. $3.75 In 1890 Barrie was 30 years old and his biographer can imagine him taking stock of his achievement as follows: That he came to […]
September 17, 1941
Art Letter: The New Art Books
Roman Portraits foreword by Ludwig Goldscheider. Phaidon Edition. Oxford. $3.50 Donatello preface by L. Goldscheider. Phaidon Edition. Oxford. $3.50 Vermeer foreword by Thomas Bodkin. Phaidon Edition. Oxford. $3.50 Erik Gill: […]
September 17, 1941
Critical Mayhem and Confusion
Rainer Maria Rilke by E. M. Butler. Macmillan. $5.00 Miss Butler’s book has the distinction of being the first full-length study to appear in any language (or at least in […]
September 17, 1941
Origins of Our Heroes
The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship by Dixon Wecter. Scribner’s. $3.50 Mr. Wecter’s admirable study is the fruit not only of his own contemplation and sound scholarship; it […]