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… Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. Brooke, who died of blood poisoning in 1915 on his way to fight for the … Brooke-Strachey letters was elicited by Strachey’s having become Freud’s main translator into English; Freud had picked … was still trying to encourage Brooke’s writing talent; but also Strachey revealed something of his own sort of thinking …

… Portrait Painters. By Cuthbert Lee. W. W. Norton and Company. $10.00. Philosophy of Art. By C. J. Ducassc. New … talent. The author’s tendencies toward less conservative points of view reappear, however, before long. Ryder and … all, an editor of such a volume is responsible to his audience for more than an adequate survey of his field. There …

… president of the United States from 1929 to 1933, he was also the author of 15 books, including The Ordeal of Woodrow … a close friend of Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk who died mysteriously in 1948), Ms. Davenport wrote her memoirs … Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil [$12. 00]. Hyperion has come out with a new edition of David Rosenberg’s A Poet’s …

… was a self-conscious and introspective Phaethon-figure who compensated for feelings of inferiority by reckless … the destinies of mankind; they were ending it as captive audience of a minor suppliant’s interpreter.” From his war … asked if it was “worth hanging on.” Certain of Mack’s minor points need refinement or correction. Lawrence’s “long, …

… from Castle Rock, Alice Munro’s collection of stories forthcoming from Knopf in November, will be her twelfth volume in … Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; and Runaway. She is also the author of a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . In … a couple of years after he got there, he got cholera and died, and his family had to come back to Ontario. I find …