John Calvin Metcalf

The Middle Span: Persons and Places continued. By George Santayana. Charles Scribncr's Sons. $2.50. Standing beside a wrecked German tank on a hill above Anzio, looking down reminiscently on that tragic beachhead after the fighting had moved on. [...]

Connecticut Yankee: An Autobiography. By Wilbur L. Cross. Yale University Press. $5.00. From schoolhouse to state-house would fairly well summarize in a phrase the career of Wilbur Lucius Cross as told in his autobiography. When at the age of four [...]

/ Came Out of the Eighteenth Century. By John Andrew Rice. Harper and Brothers. $3.00. Memories of Happy Days. By Julian Green. Harper and Brothers. $3.00. The present literary fashion of making copy of one's family is followed in the first part o [...]

Storm. By George R. Stewart. Random House. $2.50. Windswept. By Mary Ellen Chase. The Macmillan Company. $2.75. A Leaf in the Storm. By lin Yutang. The John Day Company. $3.00. Dragon's Teeth. By Upton Sinclair. The Viking Press. $3.00. Frenchman's [...]

Edwin A, Alderman. By Dumas Malone. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $3.50. The man upon whom Jefferson's educational mantle fell was throughout life an eloquent interpreter and defender of democracy. What Jefferson was in statecraft as phi [...]

The year 1816 was one of mental restlessness for De Quincey. Though he had lived for some time as Wordsworth's successor at Dove Cottage, the village of Grasmere saw little of him. The Wordsworths had moved to Rydal Mount, several miles away and only [...]

Pilgrimage, By Dorothy M. Richardson. Four Volumes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $10.00. Over a hundred years ago Goethe declared in "Wil-helm Meister" that the novel should proceed slowly and that the principal character's thought-pro [...]

Christophcr Marlotve: The Man in His Time. By John Bakclcss. New York: William Morrow and Company. $3.75. Turbulent Kit Marlowe, the Canterbury cobbler's son, flamed his way through Cambridge to London and a violent death at twenty-nine. After si [...]

The Development of English Biography. By Harold Nicolson. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. $1.25. George Henry Bokcr, Poet and Patriot. By Edward Sculley Bradley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $4.00. Kit Carson, The Happy W [...]

A Sentimental Journey, Letters to Eliza, and Other Pieces. By Laurence Sterne. Edited, with an introduction, by Wilbur L. Cross. New York: Boni and Liveright, $3.50. The Outlook for American Prose. By Joseph Warren Beach. Chicago: University of [...]

Appleton Biographies: Julius Caesar, by John Buchan; Queen Elisabeth, by Mona Wilson; John Ruskin, by David Larg; Voltaire, by Andre Maurois; Leonardo da Vinci, by Clifford Bax; Mark Twain, by Stephen Leacock. New York: D. Appleton and Company. $2. [...]

Samuel Johnson, By Joseph Wood Krutch, Henry Holt and Company. $3.75. The Club should have more members, since "we have travelled over one another's minds," drew from Dr. Johnson the positive assertion: "Sir, you have not travel [...]

Mark Twain's Autobiography. With an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine, 2 vols. New York: Harper & Bros. $10.Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1829-1865. Edited by Leonard Huxley, LL.D. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. $5.In his sev [...]

Tradition and Jazz. By Fred Lewis Pattee. New York: The Century Co. $2.00.Dead Reckonings in Fiction. By Dorothy Brewster and Angus Burrell. New York: Longmans, Green and Company.The Novels of Fielding. By Aurelien Digeon. New York: E. P. Dutton and [...]

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. South Seas Edition. 32 volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Each volume, 90 cents. The complete set, $28.80.A generation has passed since Robert Louis Stevenson died in far-away Samoa, a generation that has [...]