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… Poetry. By Joseph Warren Beach. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.00. The Decline and Pall of the Romantic Ideal. … exciting syntheses which appear in this book. For it deals, as the publishers truly state, with “one of the bravest … of faith to agnosticism or comparative unbelief, “from medieval Christian faith to the scientific positivism which …

… as I leave them. Smoke from a home fire roams the air. Snow comes. My shoulders go soft— two blades loosening into the … a careless warrior, who watches the leaves as they turn and die, and Jon is leaving. Lynn is lying about her life, so I … so I can’t hold her or hold her down. But what is the cold compared to the fire? Where does the rage go? The road’s …

… of belief not only manifests in the singular psyche but also in the great hulking veers and crashes of history … of self-alienation and spiritual torment that hitherto accompanied ideas like theirs. The result of Ryrie’s effort is … been its own gravedigger.” The (inconsistent) leniency of medieval religious institutions toward philosophical criticism …

… Character of Thomas Jefferson. By Joseph J. Ellis. Knopf. $26. Finding someone who doesn’t know that Thomas Jefferson … pages of her book, Gordon-Reed’s client seems to be Fawn Brodie, late author of Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History … Sally Hemings’s “white” children? Historians, Gordon-Reed points out effectively, are prone to factual errors and …

… for the intelligentsia. Such oligarchic notions are not uncommon for people in that end of the newspaper business. … academic disciplines with a broader and appreciative audience. No, the best source for original ideas and … they call for the clips on the subject, they will see both points of view and, it is hoped, be moved to check and …