… By John Holla-day Latane. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $4.00. PROFESSOR LATANE’S qualifications are well … foreign policy written by a scholar who has for years studied the facts in all the available source material. The … of national policy. Nevertheless, as Professor Latane points out, there are some very definite aims in American …
… Asthma on the platinum benches W H Auden I Even before he died, on December 21, 1940, the figure of F. Scott … of the mosaic that he himself might have called golden completed the pattern with an art, quiet, ironic, not very … united casually in an unclassified muddle, with a few ideals figuring as tattered banners—all captured from the flux …
Essays
… bringing to bear on his entire world a single though widely comprehensive gaze. This essential unity is revealed both in … but Napoleon himself made accommodation impossible; in 1826 he enraged a Tory government headed by his own friends … the Prince Regent a better man than the forester Tom Purdie. Though Scott was generously charitable, he sharply …
… and the bedroom, windowless, was too close and too completely dark. Delahaye himself had done such tasks, which … no one could prevail indefinitely against European soldiers. A marabou youth across the table hotly rejoined that … were collaborating with the British at Port au Prince and points further south. “Yes,” the bearded man agreed, “And …
… oaks were noble. The house was gray, unpretentious, comfortable looking, and it didn’t have decks; it had … Dutch blue—and to listen to the birdcalls that were like pinpoints in the envelope of silence. At noon, she made herself … swear. You heard it, too, didn’t you?” The desperation had died, and his voice had a confused and imploring tone. She …
… Lytle witnessed at 27 Bank Street in New York City in 1926 was habitual; and just as certainly he was “the soonest … president, Gordon Keith Chalmers. All these men suddenly died in 1956, but Ransom continued his work at the Kenyon … he was cold and in a useful way without illusions.” At such points in John Crowe Ransom’s life one is struck by the …