March 2, 2024
The Way of Life
Suppose that, after various historical discontinuities, archaeologists five hundred years hence were to excavate the ruins of settlements of comparable size in Europe, in America, in Australia, and in other […]
March 2, 2024
The Polity
To divine the future of a people it is necessary to probe its past, for only in the acts that it has done is its spirit to be discerned. In […]
March 2, 2024
Mexican Letter
Mexico City, October 28, 1940. The worldwide attention that the Mexican artistic movement has received should make anyone give Mexico City the importance its million-odd inhabitants could allow it to […]
March 2, 2024
Mountaineers Are Shakespearean
The Hawk’s Done Gone by Mildred Haun. Bobbs Merrill. $2.50 This volume, advertised as a novel, is a collection of thirteen stories, twelve of which are told by an old […]
March 2, 2024
Lorca in English
Blood Wedding a Tragedy by F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Gilbert Neiman. New Directions. 50 cents Poems by F. Garcia Lorca. Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili. Selection […]
March 2, 2024
Neither Historian Nor Critic
New England: Indian Summer by Van Wyck Brooks. Dutton. $3.75 One must agree that Mr. Brooks’s success is perfectly justified. The Flowering of New England has had more than a […]
February 28, 2024
Political Systems, Religious and Secular
The State in Catholic Thought. By Heinrich A. Rommen. Herder. $6.00 Systematic Politics. By Charles E. Merriam. University of Chicago. $3.75 Under review are two comprehensive treatises (Dr. Rommen’s […]
February 17, 2024
Three Poems
I. From Venice was that afternoonThough our own land’s canal we viewed.There willows clove the bluish heatBy dropping leaf or two, gold green,And every tuft of hill beyondStood bright, distinct, […]
February 10, 2024
Kafka’s Tragi-Comedy
Amerika by Franz Kafka. New Directions. $2.50 In Amerika one sees the beginnings of the method that is developed in The Trial and perfected in The Castle. The unity, concision, […]
February 10, 2024
Poetry and Belief
Robinson Jeffers: The Man and His Work by Lawrence Clark Powell. San Paqual Press. $2.50 The Spiritual Aspect of the New Poetry by Amos N. Wilder. Harper. $2.50 Directions in […]
February 10, 2024
Success Stories from Mexico
Diego Rivera, His Life and Times by Bertram D. Wolfe. Knopf. $6.00 Modern Mexican Art by Laurence E. Schmeckebier. University of Minnesota Press. $5.00 R. Bertram Wolfe in his Diego […]
February 10, 2024
The Whole of Housman: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman. Holt. $3.00 The appearance of the Collected Poems provides an occasion for making some tentative generalizations on the total value of Housman and his […]