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Winter 1939 • Vol. I No. 1 • Book Reviews |

Russell’s Theory of History

By Vernon Venable

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 the text. The popular mood is nonetheless obviously upon Bertrand Russell, and it is perhaps ungenerous to take his pretensions too seriously. But these are serious days, and society a particularly serious subject.

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Poetry of Feeling

By Yvor Winters

THE COMPLETE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, 1906-1938. New Directions. $3.00W. C. Williams, in his view of life and of poetry, is an uncompromising romantic. He believes in the […]

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The Shattered Door

By Howard Baker

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 moving […]

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