July 1, 1940
Anterior and Posterior Conviction
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler. Simon & Schuster. $2.50 The book deals with what is I suppose the primary, though perhaps not the final problem of […]
July 1, 1940
The Modern Temper in an Aisle Seat
The American Dream Since 1918: An Informal History by Joseph Wood Krutch. Random House. $2.50 This book tells the story of the New York theater, from the Washington Square Players […]
July 1, 1940
Amor Dei in Hollywood
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley. Harper. $2.50 Mr. Huxley’s new novel is a sort of multi-decker literary sandwich with slices of burlesque, jazz, melodrama, and […]
July 1, 1940
The Faith of a Nihilist
Death Is Not Enough: Essays in Active Negation. By Michael Fraenkel. C. W. Daniel Company (London). 7s. 6D. This is an interesting book and probably one of some importance. It […]
July 1, 1940
Is There an American Art?
Modern American Painting by Peyton Boswell, Jr. Dodd, Mead. $5.00Modern Art in America by Martha Candler Cheney. Whittlesy House. $4.00 It is interesting to compare the following quotations: The paradox […]
April 1, 1940
Fiction Going and Coming
Night of the Poor by Frederic Prokosch. Harper. $2.50Tommy Gallagher’s Crusade by James T. Farrell. Vanguard Press. $1.00The Hospital by Kenneth Fearing. Random House. $2.00 Two of these novels are […]
April 1, 1940
It Is Later than He Thinks
The Idea of a Christian Society by T. S. Eliot. Harcourt Brace. $1.50Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. Harcourt Brace. $1.25 Old Possum had other things […]
April 1, 1940
Exodus: Freudian Version
Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud. Knopf. $3.00 It would be easier to review this book in a personal than in a critical manner, for the various stages of revision […]
April 1, 1940
A Mystic in the Raw
Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie. Norton. $3.37A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Delmore Schwartz. New Directions. $2.50Some Poems of Rimbaud translated by Lionel Abel. Exiles’ Press. $0.50 […]
April 1, 1940
Apologia for Modernism
Modern Poetry and the Tradition by Cleanth Brooks. University of North Carolina Press. $3.00 Consistently during its lifetime, the Southern Review has been the organ of the most powerful critical […]
April 1, 1940
A Latter-Day Saint
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson edited by Ralph L. Rusk. Columbia University Press. Six volumes. $30.00 One who remembers the exact apologia which “Uriel” sent the Rev. Henry Ware […]
April 1, 1940
Three Proletarian Novels
Rope of Gold by Josephine Herbst. Harcourt Brace. $2.50The Stars and Stripes Forever by Elliot Paul. Random House. $2.50Industrial Valley by Ruth McKenney. Harcourt Brace. $3.00 Dealing with essentially the […]