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Charles T. Harrison

Author

Poems for an Ignorant Year

The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson. By Lawrence Lee. New York: Charles Scribncr's Sons. $1.50. In What Hour. By Kenneth Rexroth. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1.75. Lawrence lee and Kenneth Rexroth differ widely in style, imagery, literary allegianc [...]

Literature in Transition

Figures of Transition. By Granville Hicks. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. The Novel and the Modern World. By David Daiches. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. $2.50. Today in American Drama. By Frank Hurhurt O'Hara. Chicago: The Univ [...]

Music, Solid and Spacious

The Music of the Seventeenth Century, By C. Hubert H. Parry. Revised by Edward J. Dent. New York: Oxford University Press. $6.00. The first sentence of C. Hubert H. Parry's preface to his history of seventeenth century music has irritated reader [...]

Straightforward Tales

Liana, By Martha Gellhorn. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50. A Dell for Adano. By John Hersey. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. Sunburst. By Mauricio Magdalcno; translated from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. The Viking Press. $2.50. Flint. By Charles G. Norris [...]

In Search of Mozart

Letters of Mozart and His Family. Translated and edited by Emily Anderson. New York: The Macmillan Company. Three volumes. $18.00. Mozart: The Man and His Works. By W. J. Turner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.00. Mozart is like his music. He [...]