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Spring 1943 • Vol. V No. 2 • Book Reviews |

Psychopathic like Charlie

By Charles Neider

My World—and Welcome to It. By James Thurber. Harcourt, Brace & Co. $2.50.

Thurber’s is an interesting personality: amazingly funny, tearfully sad and almost embarrassingly honest. I don’t whether anyone has made the comparison before, but to me he is very much the Charlie Chaplin of contemporary literature.

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Gallic American

By Robie Macauley

Memories Of Happy Days by Julian Green. Harpers. $3.00. The lives of the poets are among the pleasant by-products of literature—the leisurely, intimate personal conversations about the past such as […]

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A French Aesthetic

By Walter Pach

The Life Of Forms In Art by Henri Focillon. Translated by C. Beecher Hogan and George Kubler. Yale University Press. $2.50. Since Professor Focillon’s book uses the word form on […]

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