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Winter 1967 • Vol. XXIX No. 1 • Book Reviews |

Thomas Carlyle, Novelist

By Russell Kirk

Sartor Called Resartus: The Genesis, Structure, and Style of Thomas Carlyle’s First Major Work by G. B. Tennyson. Princeton University Press, $8.50.

 

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Quixotism Vindicated

By Russell Kirk

Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, with Related Essays by Miguel de Unamuno. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan; introduction by Walter Starkie. Princeton University Press, $6.50. […]

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