April 1, 1939
One Thousand Sonnets
M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets. By Merrill Moore. Harcourt Brace and Co. $5.00 Dr. Merrill Moore’s variant on the sonnet has pleased many choice readers. One of them is Dr. […]
January 1, 1939
Gallic Pageant
Death of a World (Men of Good Will, volume VII) by Jules Romains. Knopf. $3.00. As each new volume appears, the reader of Jules Romains’ Men of Good Will feels […]
January 1, 1939
Twenty-Five Directions
NEW DIRECTIONS 1938. Edited by James Laughlin IV. New Directions. $2.50 Finding twenty-five or thirty new directions a year is a task that might strain any literary compass, even so […]
January 1, 1939
Farrell and Steinbeck
NO STAR IS LOST. By James T. Farrell. The Vanguard Press. $3.00THE LONG VALLEY. By John Steinbeck. The Viking Press. $2.50 Two or three years ago, the grouping of James […]
January 1, 1939
Painter of the Half-World
Toulouse-Lautrec by Gerstle Mack. Knopf. $5.00 At the time of his death in 1901, after scarcely more than a decade of mature activity, Toulouse-Lautrec had made for himself a distinctive […]
January 1, 1939
Genius Limited and Yearning
GEORGE GERSHWIN. Edited by Merle Armitage. Longmans Green. $5.00 In this book are a number of pieces about Gershwin, a number of photographs of him, the caricatures by Covarrubias and […]
January 1, 1939
The Shattered Door
The Fathers by Allen Tate. Putnam’s Sons. $2.50. No doubt many readers of Allen Tate’s novel, The Fathers, have read it in about the way they read current novels—as a […]
January 1, 1939
Private and Public Verse
A Glad Day by Kay Boyle. New Directions. $2.00.The Carnival by Frederic Prokosch. Harper and Brothers. $2.00.The Five Fold Mesh by Ben Belin. Knopf. $2.00. Miss Boyle’s poetry like her […]
January 1, 1939
Poetry of Feeling
THE COMPLETE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, 1906-1938. New Directions. $3.00 W. C. Williams, in his view of life and of poetry, is an uncompromising romantic. He believes in […]
January 1, 1939
Mature Intelligence of an Artist
FURTHER LETTERS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott. Oxford University Press. $6.00 Professor Abbott’s present volume completes the publication of all Hopkins’ […]
January 1, 1939
Russell’s Theory of History
POWER: A NEW SOCIAL ANALYSIS. By Bertrand Russell. W. W. Norton & Co. $3.00 The title of this book makes scientific pretensions which the author elaborates in some detail in […]