July 1, 1939
Technique and Tantrum
Here Lies. Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker. Viking Press. $3.00 Wickford Point. By John P. Marquand. Little Brown. $2.75 Here are authors who rather amusingly illustrate almost opposite extremes of […]
July 1, 1939
Violence upon the Roads
Night Rider. By Robert Penn Warren. Houghton Mifflin. $2.50 Mr. WARREN must be a little tired of hearing that he has written an unusually good “first” novel and is now […]
April 1, 1939
About Dancers
Artists of the Dance. By Lillian Moore. Thomas Y. Crowell. $3.50 Miss Moore is a dancer and hence writes about dancers from a sensible point of view. She has agglomerated […]
April 1, 1939
The Mystic as Historian
Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man. By Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. William Morrow and Co. $6.00 Scientific anthropology can apparently find little concrete evidence in support of the belief in inherited […]
April 1, 1939
The Poet and Her Biographer
This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson by George Frisbee Whicher. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $3.00 It had better be said at once that Mr. Whicher is not […]
April 1, 1939
Arnold vs. The 19th Century
Matthew Arnold. By Lionel Trilling. W. W. Norton. $3.50 This presentation of Matthew Arnold gives us an admirable book, well written, thoughtful, and dispassionate. It is not, properly, a biography, […]
April 1, 1939
Music of a Mind
New Writing: Fall, 1938. Edited by John Lehmann. Knopf. $2.75 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. By Delmore Schwartz. New Directions. $2.50 A sentence in Mr. Lehmann’s volume might suggest to the […]
April 1, 1939
Two Party Poets
Dead Reckoning: A Book of Poetry. By Kenneth Fearing. Random House. $1.25Collected Poems: 1918-1938. By Genevieve Taggard. Harper & Brothers. $2.50 Politics yokes diverse talents. Miss Taggard and Mr. Fearing […]
April 1, 1939
The Morality of Mr. Winters
Maule’s Curse. By Yvor Winters. New Directions. $3.00 “God,” said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, “God will give […]
April 1, 1939
Stage and Film
The American Theater. By John Anderson. And “The Motion Picture in America,” by René Fülop-Miller. The Dial Press. $5.00 As I know no way of saying two things at precisely […]
April 1, 1939
The Quality of Man
Man’s Hope. By André Malraux. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair Macdonald. Random House. $2.50 To say that Man’s Hope is not a novel in the traditional […]
April 1, 1939
Another Typhoon
In Hazard. By Richard Hughes. Harper & Brothers. $2.50 What Richard Hughes has, above all else, is the power to startle. This is a great and dangerous gift which in the […]