# Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review was a literature periodical founded in 1932 by F. R. Leavis, who remained its principal editor until the final issue in 1953. Other editors include Lionel Charles Knights and Harold Andrew Mason.

## Volume 1
### No. 1. May, 1932

* A Manifesto, by The Editors
* A Note on Nostalgia, by D. W. Harding
* 'The Literary Mind' — F. R. Leavis
* Notes on the Style of Mrs. Woolf, by M. C. Bradbrook
* On a Grave of the Drowned, a poem — Ronald Bottrall
* The Political Background — G. Lowes Dickinson
* The Development of the Public School — Martin Crusoe
* Release, a poem — C. H. Peacock
* The Art-Form of Democracy? — William Hunter
* Comments and Reviews: A middleman of ideas: the works of Stuart Chase reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* How high is the higher education? a review of Flexner's Universities — Willard Thorp
* Biology and Mr Huxley: a review of Brave New World — Joseph Needham
* Babbitt buys the world: a review of The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind — F. R. Leavis
* Many Psychologies: a review by D. W. Harding
* Felo de Se? a review by H. L. Elvin
* New Bearings in English Poetry, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* The London Book of English Prose, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* Philosophy of the Sciences, reviewed by J. L. Russell

### No. 2. September, 1932

* 'Enlightened' Education — Alan Keith-Lucas
* The Chinese Renaissance — I. A. Richards
* The New Bentham — Michael Oakeshott
* What's Wrong With Criticism? — F. R. Leavis
* Eagles and Trumpets for the Middle Classes — H. L. Elvin
* Excursion, a poem — C. H. Peacock
* Comments and Reviews: The Literary Racket
* The Wordsworths and Coleridges: a review by Edmund Blunden
* And the novel? i. Four Times and Out? Sartoris, reviewed by Willard Thorp
* ii. A Serious Artist, the novels of John Dos Passos reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* iii. 'The Book Society Recommends...', — Q. D. Leavis
* The Essential Shakespeare, reviewed by M. C. B.
* The Orators, reviewed by Douglas Garman
* Mencius on the Mind, reviewed by Denys W. Harding
* G. K. Chesterton's Chaucer, reviewed by H. M. R. Murray
* Reminisces of D. H. Lawrence: a note by F. R. L.
* Private Pleasure — W. H. Auden
* World-Losers — Denys Thompson
* American Liberals seeking a home: a review by Donald Culver
* Ethical Relativity, reviewed by James Smith
* Short Notices

### No. 3. December, 1932

* Editorial Note
* 'Under Which King, Bezonian?' — F. R. Leavis
* Festivals of Fire, Section I — Ronald Bottrall
* Surrealisme — Henri Fluchere
* Two Poems by Selden Rodman
* Marvell's 'Garden' — William Empson
* Advertising God — Denys Thompson
* Will Training Colleges Bear Scrutiny? — L. C. Knights
* From 'Coolstone Park', A Novel, by C. H. Peacock
* Comments and Reviews: D. H. Lawrence and Professor Irving Babbitt — F. R. Leavis
* A Professional Enemy — Douglas Garman
* Dryden Redivivus — Sherard Vines
* News from the Mountain, reviewed by Gilbert Armitage
* Proletarian Criticism — Q. D. Leavis
* The Common Reader, Second Series, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* 'Lord, what would they say...?' — F. R. Leavis
* Music in London, reviewed by Bruce Pattison
* Reading about art — Donald Culver
* An American lead — F. R. Leavis
* Resolute Optimism — F. R. L.
* Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. I, reviewed by W. A. Edwards
* Industry and Education in Soviet Russia, reviewed by Montagu Slater
* Eugenics and Evolution; The Moral Judgement of the Child, reviewed by Denys W. Harding
* Short Notices
* Notes on contributers

### No. 4. March, 1933

* Appeal to Readers
* Restatements for Critics — F. R. Leavis
* Culture and Leisure — A. L. Morton
* Evaluations (I): I. A. Richards — D. W. Harding
* History of the Marxian Method — H. Butterfield
* Notes on Comedy — L. C. Knights
* English Work in the Public School — Martin Crusoe
* Wordsworth and Professor Babbitt
* Comments and Reviews
* Mr. Punch's political supplements — Denys Thompson
* Training colleges - repercussions — L. C. Knights
* Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot, reviewed by Edgell Rickword
* Form in Modern Poetry, reviewed by James Smith
* Leviathan Hooked: The Shakespearian Tempest, reviewed by M. C. Bradbrook
* Oxford Poetry 1932, reviewed by Gilbert Armita

## Volume 2
### No. 1 June, 1933

* A Cure for Amnesia Denys Thompson
* Revaluations (I): John Webster W. A. Edwards
* Festivals of Fire, Section II Ronald Bottrall; Evaluations (II): Croce James Smith
* English Tradition and Idiom Adrian Bell
* The French Novel of To-day Henri Fluchere
* 'Hero and Leader,' M. C. Bradbrook

#### Comments and Reviews;

* 'This Poetical Renascence,' F. R. Leavis
* Songs of Experience, Words for Music Perhaps, reviewed by M. C. Bradbrook
* Dunbar and the 'Scottish renaissance,' John Speirs
* Donne Not an Elizabethan, The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, reviewed by W. A. Edwards
* Sixteen Bobs'-Worth of Culture, The English Muse, reviewed by Douglas Garman
* The Lost Leader, A Study of Wordsworth, reviewed by T. R. Barnes
* Reading About Art, a review by Donald Culveer
* Dostoevsky or Dickens? Light in August, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* 'Quicunque Vult...,' Essays in Order, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* In Job's Balances, reviewed by Michael Oakeshott
* A Realist Looks at Democracy and If the Blind Lead, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* Arnold Bennett: American Version, Dreiser and the Land of the Free, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Short Notices

### No. 2 September, 1933

* XXX Cantos of Ezra Pound Ronald Bottrall
* Milton's Verse F. R. Leavis
* Scrutiny of Examinations L. C. Knights
* To Maecenas, a Poem C. H. Peacock
* Will Economics Follow the Robbins Road? Donald K. Kitchin
* Mr Kitchin on the Insignificance of Economics Harold E. Batson

#### Comments and Reviews

* 'Our Serious Weeklies,' Q. D. Leavis
* Flank-Rubbing and Criticism D. W. Harding and L. C. Knights
* 'The Machine Unchained' Denys Thompson
* Art and the Negative Impulses, Voyage au Bout de la Nuit, reviewed by Douglas Garman
* Joyce and 'The Revolution of the Word' F. R. Leavis
* Canons of Giant Art, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* Battles Long Ago, Conquistador, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Literary Quotation and Allusion, and Plagiarism, reviewed by John Speirs
* 'Go to the Professors!' Gorley Putt
* The Christian Renaissance, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Film, reviewed by William Hunter
* Moscow Dialogues, etc., reviewed by Montagu Hunter
* Good Intentions in Education, The Educational Frontier, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* Short Notices

### No. 3 December, 1933

* On Metaphysical Poetry James Smith
* French Literary Periodicals Henri Fluchere
* Prospectus for a Weekly Denys Thompson
* The Criticism of William Empson M. C. Bradbrook
* The Significance of Economics Thus Conceived D. K. Kitchin
* Foot-Note to the Above H. Batson
* Sonnet by Gongora and Translation E. M. Wilson
* Revaluations (II): The Poetry of Pope F. R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Essayist at Large Denys Thompson
* Mr Eliot at Harvard, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* The Latest Yeats F. R. Leavis
* Henryson, Chaucer and the 'Scottish Language,' a review by John Speirs
* The Case of Mr Pound, Active Anthology, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Lytton Strachey, a review by T. R. Barnes
* Towards Standards of Criticism, reviewed by I. M. Parsons
* Gog-Magog, reviewed by Hugh Gordon Porteus
* The First Lord Melchett, a review by W. H. Auden
* Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* Mr. Christopher Dawson, a note
* Social Eddies, Recent Social Trends in the United States, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* The Rigour of the Game, The Dynamics of Education, reviewed by Raymond O'Malley
* Social Development in Young Children, reviewed by D. Q. Harding
* Eddington, Jeans and Sullivan, reviewed by C. A. Meredith
* War: Can the Intelligent Stop It? H. L. Elvin
* Notes on Contributors

### No. 4 March, 1934

* Editorial; Revaluations (III): Burns John Speirs
* The Scientific Best Seller J. L. Russell
* The Irony of Swift F. R. Leavis
* What Shall We Teach? Denys Thompson
* Fleet Street and P...

## Volume 3
### No. 1 June, 1934

* Evaluations (III): Alfred North Whitehead James Smith
* Revaluations (IV): Hardy the Novelist Frank Chapman
* Amateurism and Professionalism in Economics H. E. Batson
* The Work of L. H. Myers D. W. Harding
* The Return of Odysseus, a poem Richard Eberhart
* Comments and Reviews; Means to Social Consciousness: Denys Thompson; Auden, Bottrall and Others: F. R. Leavis
* Poems of George Barker, reviewed by Hugh Gordon Porteus
* Shakespeare Criticism: Art and Artifice in Shakespeare, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* Poetry Direct and Oblique, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Ideals and Facts in Adult Education: Adult Education in Practice, English in Australia and Reading and Discrimination, reviewed by W. A. Edwards
* English Studies in the W.E.A., a note
* How Shall We Teach? Progressive Schools, Their Principles and Practice, reviewed by Eric Capon and D. T.
* An Atlas of Current Affairs, reviewed by J. B. P.
* Economics for the Uninformed: reviews by H. E. Batson
* Modern Man in Search of a Soul, reviewed by D. W. Harding

### No. 2 September, 1934

* Oxford Letter H. A. Mason; Why Universities? F. R. Leavis
* Revaluations (V): Shakespeare's Sonnets L. C. Knights
* History in the Classroom W. E. Brown
* Advertising and Economic Waste C. H. P. Gifford
* Comments and Reviews; England and the Octopus: Denys Thompson
* The Rock, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Mr. Eliot, Mr. Wyndham Lewis and Lawrence: After Strange Gods, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Announcement
* A B C of Reading, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* Journey to the End of the Night, reviewed by William Hunter
* Soviet Literature, reviewed by D. S. Mirsky
* Music in Decline: The Reality of Music and Music Ho!, reviewed by Bruce Pattison
* Which England?: Here's England, reviewed by Adrian Bell
* Progressive Schools: reviews by Denys Thompson
* Manifesto, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Russian Sociology, reviewed by H. W. Durant
* Periodicals; The English Association

### No. 3 December, 1934

* Culture and Early Environment Raymond O'Malley
* Revaluations (VI): Wordsworth F. R. Leavis
* The Novels of Jean Giono Henri Fluchere
* The Religion of Progress J. L. Russell
* Correspondence: 'Ephraim Pundit', John Sparrow, George Reavey and Ronald Bottrall
* Comments and Reviews; Ex Cathedra; 'What is Truth?' The Seventeenth Century Background, reviewed by H. J. C. Grierson
* Lowes Dickinson: a review by W. H. Auden
* Shakespeare and Shakespeareans: A Companion to Shakespeare Studies and Elizabethan Essays, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* The Twilight of Intelligence: John Middleton Murray and Aspects of Literature, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Mechanisms of Misery: Tender is the Night, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* A Hope for Poetry, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* Modern Prose Style, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* In All Countries, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* Longinus and English Criticism, reviewed by James Smith
* A 'Sceptical' Psychologist: Religion and the Sciences of Life, reviewed by C. E. Lucas

### No. 4 March, 1935

* Proletarian Literature William Empson
* Revaluations (VII): George Chapman James Smith
* Unpublished Poems Isaac Rosenberg
* Aspects of the Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg D. W. Harding
* Musical History Bruce Pattison
* Comments and Reviews
* The Times in School Denys Thompson
* Dr. Richards, Bentham and Coleridge: Coleridge on Imagination, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Poetry 1934: a review by H. A. Mason
* Mr. Pound's Propertius: a review by John Speirs
* The Balcony, reviewed by Sylvia Legge
* The Land of Plenty, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* The Solid Virtues: Claudius the God, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Early Victorian Novelists, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* The Criticism of Ballet: Balletomania, reviewed by Erik Mesterton
* A Public for Art in Industry: a review by J. M. Harding
* Sociology, reviewed by H. W. Durant

## Volume 4
### No. 1 June, 1935

* Preamble to a Great Adventure, A Poem Ronald Bottrall
* Propaganda and Rationalization in War D.W. Harding
* Approach to Ariosto J.H. Whitfield
* A Hundred Years of the Higher Journalism Denys Thompson
* The Scottish Ballads John Speirs; Revaluations (VII): George Chapman ii James Smith
* Correspondence: from J.B.S. Haldane, J.L. Russell, W. Empson and P. Mansell Jones

#### Comments and Reviews

* Apology to 'The Times'
* Experiment in Arden; American and English Earth, Fiction Kay Boyle
* William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Erskine Caldwell and T.F. Powys, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* L.H. Myers, The Root and the Flower, reviewed by D.W. Harding
* Untouchable, reviewed by Boman Mehta
* The Eternal Smile, reviewed by I.M. Parsons
* The Poems of John Clare, reviewed by John Speirs
* Marianne Moore, Selected Poems, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Elizabethan Drama and the Critic, Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Criticism and Literary History, English Poetry and the English Language, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Mr Murry's Autobiography, Between Two Worlds, reviewed by D.W. Harding
* The Sentimental Journey, A Life of Charles Dickens, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* The Faith of a Schoolmaster, reviewed by Raymond O'Malley

### No. 2 September, 1935

* Lady Novelists and the Lower Orders Q.D. Leavis
* 'Intelligent Ideals of Urban Life,' Uno Ahren
* Tradition and Ben Jonson L.C. Knights
* Revaluations (VIII): Shelley F.R. Leavis
* Correspondence

#### Editorial

* Poets and the Drama, Murder in the Cathedral and The Dog Beneath the Skin, reviewed by T.R. Barnes
* Recent Verse, review by John Speirs
* The Bond and the Free, Growing Opinions, I Was A Prisoner, Means Test Man, Caliban Shrieks, reviewed by W.H. Aude
* 'The Economic and Social Background,' Literature and a Changing Civilisation, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Coleridge as a Dual Personality, Coleridge and S.T.C., reviewed by R.G. Cox
* The Destructive Element, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Mr Maugham and Spanish Literature, Don Fernando, reviewed by E.M. Wilson
* Ethical Taste, Patterns of Culture, reviewed by D.W. Harding
* The Letters of Gerald Manley Hopkins, The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, reviewed by C.E. Lucas
* The Appreciation of Poetry, reviewed by Frank Chapman

### No. 3 December, 1935

* English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century F.R. Leavis
* The Maddermarket Theatre T.R. Barnes
* Thomas Hobbes Michael Oakeshott
* The Critical Writings of George Santayana Q.D. Leavis
* Comments and Reviews; Editorial
* The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* A Public for Poetry, Janus and Poems by Louis Macneice, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* William Empson's Verse, review by H.A. Mason
* Hugh Macdiarmid, review by F.R. Leavis
* The Poet's Tongue, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* The Achievement of T.S. Eliot, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Gropius, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, reviewed by Herbert Read
* Doughty and Hopkins, review by F.R. Leavis
* The Powys Brothers, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* The Orage Legend, review by F.R.Leavis
* The Last Epicurean, The Last Puritan, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Clear Horizon, King Coffin, Beany-Eye, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Chinese Testament and The House of Exile, reviewed
* The South Africans, reviewed
* The Golden Grindstone, reviewed

### No. 4 March, 1936

* Scrutiny of Modern Greats E.W.F. Tomlin
* English for the School Certification: A Note Frank Chapman
* Tragic Philosophy G. Santayana; Revaluations (IX): Keats F.R. Leavis
* Post Obitum: Diaghileff, Pavlova Vladimir Kamen...

## Volume 5
### No. 1 June 1936

* The Robber Barons Denys Thompson
* English Poetry in the Eighteenth Century F. R. Leavis
* Psychology and Criticism Richard March
* Psychology and Criticism: A Comment D. W. Harding
* Shakespeare and Profit Inflations L. C. Knights
* A Note on Hopkins and Duns Scotus W. H. Gardner

#### Comments and Reviews

* Recent Pacifist Literature, reviews by Denys Thompson
* The Revolutionary Simpleton, The Fate of the Middle Classes, reviewed by E. W. F. Tomlin
* Mr. Eliot and Education, Essays Ancient and Modern, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Ontogenetical Criticism, In Defence of Shelley, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* English Novelists and Higher Reviewers, The English Novelists, reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* Mr. E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest, reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* Shakespeare as a Force of Nature, Shakespeare, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Criticism of Life, Strange Glory, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* The Higher Education of Women, reviews by Sylvia Legge
* Indian Progressive Writers, When One Is In It, reviewed by Som Nath Chib
* The Faber Book of Modern Verse and The Progress of Poetry, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* The Burning Cactus, reviewed by E. S. Huelin
* An English Technique, reviewed by T. R. Barnes

### No. 2 September 1936

* Oxford Letter E. W. F. Tomlin
* Jules Laforgue G. M. Turnell
* Tight-Ropes to Parnassus
* A Note on Contemporary Music W. H. Mellers
* 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'All For Love'
* A Critical Exercise F. R. Leavis

#### Editorial Note

* T. S. Eliot, 1925-1935, Collected Poems, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Twentieth Century Bunyans; Mr Aldous Huxley; Dustier and Dustier; novels reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* Lagerkvist, Guest of Reality, reviewed by Norman Shrapnel
* The Contemporary Situation in Scotland, reviews by John Speirs
* American Miscellany, reviews by Geoffrey Walton
* Omnibus Criticism, reviews by R. G. Cox
* Logical Negativism, Language, Truth and Logic, reviewed by E. W. F. Tomlin
* Rural Civilisation, The Open Air, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* Missionary Survey, The New Survey of London Life and Labour, Vol. IX, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Farming Near Skye, Highland Homespun, reviewed by Adrian Bell
* Educational Experiment, Sane Schooling, reviewed by R. O'Malley and Denys Thompson

### No. 3 December 1936

* French Intellectuals and the Political Crisis Henri Fluchere
* The Swallow's Egg: Notes on Contemporary Art Richard March
* Yeats, Synge, Ibsen and Strindberg T. R. Barnes
* Bernard Van Dieren: Musical Intelligence and 'The New Language,' W. H. Mellers
* Revaluations (X): Piers Plowman D. A. Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* Mr. Dos Passos Ends His Trilogy, The Big Money, Death of a Man and Summer Will Show, reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* Entertainment Literature, Antigua, Penny, Puce, reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* Music and Education, Music, the Child and the Masterpiece, reviewed by Bruce Pattison
* Marxism and the Modern Mood, reviews by E. W. F. Tomlin
* New Writing, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, reviewed by Donald S. Culver
* Mr. Auden's Talent, Look! Stranger and The Ascent of F.6, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* The Principles of Shakespearian Production, reviewed by T. R. Barnes
* Yeats and the Irish Movement, Dramatis Personae, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* Reading the Spirit, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* The Reading and Writing of English, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* Propaganda and the News, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* Psycho-analysis and Social Psychology, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Fine Writing, Reperusals and Re-collections, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Additions to 'Everyman'; Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry

### No. 4 March 1937

* The Winter's Tale F. C. Tinkler
* Christopher Dawson H. B. Parkes
* Literary Criticism and Philosophy R...

## Volume 6
### No. 1 June 1937

* The Great Reviews R. G. Cox
* Othello and the Mangold-Wurzels: Literacy in the U.S.S.R A. Stawar
* The Religious Problem in Hopkins W. H. Gardner
* Coriolanus D. A. Traversi; Literary Criticism and Philosophy: A Reply F. R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* Mrs. Woolf and Life, review by W. H. Mellers
* A New Symphony, note by W.H.Mellers
* Poetry in 1936, reviews by H. A. Mason
* Mediaeval Scots Poetry, Scottish Poetry from Barbour to James VI, reviewed by John Speirs
* Detachment From Social Norms, The Psychology of Social Norms, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Orpheus Britannicus, Purcell, reviewed by Bruce Pattison
* New England Culture, The Flowering of New England, reviewed by Donald Culver
* A French Critic, Histoire de la Litterature Francaise de 1789 a nos jours, reviewed by P. Mansell Jones
* Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson, reviewed by L. G. Salingar

### No. 2 September 1937

* Restoration Comedy: The Reality and the Myth L. C. Knights
* The Cultural Background of Intelligence Testing D. W. Harding
* The Great Reviews (II) R. G. Cox
* Abraham Cowley and the Decline of Metaphysical Poetry Geoffrey Walton
* Correspondence; Literary Criticism and Philosophy Rene Wellek
* Christopher Dawson and 'Arena' H. B. Parkes
* Comments and Reviews; Mass Observation, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* 'The Marxian Analysis,' The Mind in Chains and Education, Capitalist and Socialist, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* The Arts in Totalitarian Russia, Seven Soviet Arts, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* The Modern Mind, reviewed by Michael Oakeshott
* Advanced Verbal Education, The Philosophy of Rhetoric and Scepticism and Poetry, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Teaching Poetry, reviewed by R. O'Malley and Denys Thompson
* The State of Farming, Farming England, reviewed by Adrian Bell
* What Science Stands For, reviewed by C. E. Lucas
* Tuesday's Hash, reviews by H. L. Bradbrook
* The Recognition of Isaac Rosenberg, The Complete Works of Isaac Rosenberg, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Id Quod Visum Placet? Art and Understanding, reviewed by Richard March

### No. 3 December 1937

* Education by Book Club? H. A. Mason
* The Role of the Onlooker D. W. Harding
* Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero: A Note on Othello F. R. Leavis
* Jean Wiener and Music for Entertainment W. H. Mellers
* Revengers against Time Ronald Bottrall

#### Comments and Reviews

* Trahison des Clercs, Gide's Retour and Retouches, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* Chinese Poets and Others, reviews by W. H. Mellers
* The Fall of the City, reviewed by T. R. Barnes
* Vitality in Social Surveys, Middletown in Transition and May the Twelfth, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* A Plan for Public Taste, Industrial Art in England, reviewed by J. M. Harding
* There's Only One Sturt, The Carpenter's Shop, reviewed by F. C. Tinkler
* G.B.S. and the Problem of Music Criticism, London Music in 1888-99 As Heard by Corno di Bassetto, reviewed by W. H. Mellers
* The Case of Miss Dorothy Sayers, reviews by Q. D. Leavis
* Elizabethan Reading Matter and Elizabethan Literature, Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* Shakespeare and Mediaeval Thought, Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* 'The Book of the Week,' Daylight and Champaign, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* The Wild, Untutored Phoenix, Phoenix, reviewed by F. R. Leavis

### No. 4 March 1938

* The Modern Universities L. C. Knights
* A Letter from Ireland Grattan Freyer
* The Composer and Civilisation: Notes on the Later Work of Gabriel Faure W. H. Mellers
* 'The Revenger's Tragedy' and the Morality Tradition L. G. Salingar
* Correspondence, from Boris Ford

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Illusion of Cogency, Illusion and Reality, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* The End and the Means, The Poetry of Pope, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* Lives and Works of Richard Jefferies, Q. D. Leavis

## Volume 7
### No. 1 June 1938

* The Modern Universities: A Postscript L. C. Knights
* 'Cymbeline' F. C. Tinkler; The Apotheosis of Post-Impressionism Richard March
* Wordsworth: A Preliminary Survey James Smith
* William Dunmar John Speirs
* Correspondence: Exact Thought and Inexact Language

#### Comments and Reviews

* Gissing and the English Novel, review by Q. D. Leavis
* 'Femina-Vie Heureuse' Please Note, I'm Not Complaining, reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* Kafka's Life, review by Rene Wellek
* Left-wing Allegories, reviews by R. G. Cox
* The Poet and His Readers, reviews by Geoffrey Walton
* The Education of Girls, review by Sylvia Legge
* The Academic Mind on the Seventeenth Century, Seventeenth Century Studies, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* In Defence of Milton, Milton and Wordsworth and The Miltonic Setting, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Aristocracy and the Middle Classes in Germany, reviewed by Rene Wellek
* Mr. Turner's Mozart, review by W. H. Mellers
* Berlioz: A Prophetic Romantic, review by W. H. Mellers
* Note on Gramophone Records, by W.H. Mellers

### No. 2 September 1938

* The Philosophy of Marxism, by H. B. Parkes
* Baudelaire James Smith
* The Composer and Civilisation (II): Albert Roussel and La Musique Francaise W. H. Mellers
* E. M. Forster F. R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* Music: Van Dieren and Rubbra, Note by W.H.Mellers
* Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite! Three Guineas, reviewed by Q. D. Leavis
* The T. E. Hulme Myth, T. E. Hulme, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* Hopkins and Patmore, Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Mr. Spender's Play, Trial of a Judge, reviewed by H. A. Mason
* The Poet of Revolution, Arthur Rimbaud and Rimbaud in Abyssinia, reviewed by Martin Turnell
* Rainer Maria Rilke, reviews by Richard March
* Aids to English Teaching, Poetry in Practice and English Poetry: A Students Anthology, reviewed by Frank Chapman
* A History of Economic Thought, reviewed by P. Harris
* Busoni's Letters to his Wife, noticed by W.H. Mellers

### No. 3 December 1938

* 'The New Republic' and the Ideal Weekly H. A. Mason
* Henry James's Heiress: The Importance of Edith Wharton Q. D. Leavis
* 'The Great and Good Corneille,' Martin Turnell
* 'Troilus and Cressida,' D. A. Traversi; Revaluations (XI): Arnold as Critic F. R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* Ivor Gurney and the English Art-Song W. H. Mellers
* Defending Letters, Defense des lettres and translation reviewed by H. A. Mason
* The Press, review by H. A. Mason
* Education, Writing and Action, Writing and Action reviewed by F.C.
* Poetry and Anarchism reviewed by D.W. Harding
* Mr. Chase on Words, The Tyranny of Words reviewed by James Smith
* The Significance of Kafka, America reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler
* Auden and Isherwood, On the Frontier reviewed by T. R. Barnes
* 'Human Nature' in Society, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies reviewed by F. C. Tinkler

### No. 4 March 1939

The American Cultural Scene (I) Political Thought H. B. Parke
* 'Wuthering Heights,' Boris Ford
* Music in the Melting Pot: Charles Ives and the Music of the Americas W. H. Mellers
* Leslie Stephen: Cambridge Critic Q. D. Leavis
* Giovanni Papini and Italian Literature D. A. Traversi
* Correspondence: The 'PEP' Report on the Press

#### Comments and reviews

* A 'Corresponding Bureau'?; Social Relationships, The Clue to History reviewed by D. W. Harding
* The Historian's Task, reviews by H. B. Parkes
* The Progress of Poetry, Modern Poetry and The Year's Poetry reviewed by G. Walton
* The Fate of Edward Thomas, reviews by F. R. Leavis
* Hart Crane From This Side, The Collected Poems of Hart Crane reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Hoelderlin, review by H. L. Bradbrook; Nineteenth-Century Scotland in Allegory, The House with the Green Shutters reviewed by John Speirs
* Ruth Adam Again, There Needs No Ghost revie

## Volume 8
### No. 1 June 1939

* The American Cultural Scene (II) Criticism H. B. Parkes
* The Ideas of Machiavelli Grattan Freyer
* Classics and Education: A Note H. A. Mason
* Marlowe's 'Dr Faustus,' James Smith
* Edmund Rubbra and Symphonic Form W. H. Mellers

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Background of Twentieth-Century Letters, reviews by Q. D. Leavis
* The Central All-Connecting Study, Interpretation in Teaching reviewed by H. A. Mason
* The Method and Theory of the Bauhaus, The New Vision reviewed by Storm Jameson
* Mr. C. S. Lewis and the Status Quo, Rehabilitations and Other Essays reviewed by L. C. Knights
* Arnold's Thought, Matthew Arnold reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* The Function of Science, review of The Social Function of Science C. E. Lucas
* Mr. Eliot's New Play, The Family Reunion reviewed by Martin Turnell
* Euclid on Helicon, The Poet's Defence reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler
* Modern Poets in Love and War, reviews by W. H. Mellers

### No. 2 September 1939

* The Claims of Politics: Richard Church, Geoffrey Davies, Christopher Dawson, George Every, S.S.M., Michael Oakeshott, Olaf Stapleton, L. Susan Stebbing, R. H. Tawney
* Literary Criticism in France (I) Martin Turnell
* Harmony and Composition Edmund Rubbra
* A Classical Education and Eighteenth-Century Poetry A. R. Humphreys

#### Comments and Reviews

* The End of the 'Modern Movement,' Wyndham Lewis the Artist and Art Lies Bleeding reviewed by Richard March
* Ronald Bottrall, The Turning Path reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler
* Post-Marxist Criticism, The Poet and Society reviewed by E. M. Bewley
* Fairies in Bloomsbohemia, Portrait of Stella Benson reviewed by W. H. Mellers
* Critical Guidance and Contemporary Literature, The Present Age from 1914 reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Mr. Wilson Knight, The Burning Oracle reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler
* Pope on the Upswing, The Twickenham Edition Vol. IV and The Poetical Career of Alexander Pope reviewed by F. R. Leavis

### No. 3 December 1939

* The Spens Report: A Symposium-Review
* The American Cultural Scene (III): Education H. B. Parkes
* The Tragedy of Blood James Smith
* Literary Criticism in France (II) Martin Turnell
* Escapism in Literature Olaf Stapleton

#### Comments and Reviews

* 'The Turning Path': a correction
* Christian or Liberal?, The Idea of a Christian Society reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Twentieth-Century Music-Making, Music in the Modern World reviewed by W. H. Mellers
* Philosophy at Oxford, An Autobiography by R. G. Collingwood, reviewed by J. G. Maxwell
* Poetry in France, Introduction a la Poesie Francaise reviewed by Martin Turnell
* Roger Fry and Art Criticism, Lectures reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* Hollywooden Hero, The Fifth Column reviewed by W. H. Mellers

### No. 4 March 1940

* Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen D. W. Harding
* 'Athalie' and the Dictators, by Martin Turnell
* Searchlight on Tin-Pan Alley, W. H. Mellers
* Revaluations (XII): The Poetry of Coleridge, Eugene Marius Bewley
* Correspondence: James Smith, D. W. Harding, Professor Parrott, James Smith

#### Comments and Reviews

* English in Schools
* How to Read a Newspaper, Between the Lines reviewed by F. Chapman
* Educational, Village Life and Labour and The Control of Language reviewed by T. R. Barnes
* Scientific Humanism, Dangerous Thoughts reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
* The Great Yeats, and the Latest, Last Poems and Plays reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Classical and Romantic Again, Tradition and Romanticism reviewed by R. G. Cox
* 'Nature' in the Eighteenth Century, The Eighteenth Century Background reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
* Music, The Music Review reviewed by W.H. Mellers

## Volume 9
### No. 1 June 1940

* The American Cultural Scene (IV): The Novel H. B. Parkes
* 'As You Like It,' James Smith; Tradition and Innovation To-Day Olaf Stapleton
* Music and the Dramatic W. H. Mellers
* Revaluations (XIII): Coleridge in Criticism F. R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* 'New Writing' in the 1930's, Folios of New Writing, Spring, 1940, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* The Bard and the Prep-School, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and The Backward Son reviewed by W. H. Mellers
* What Boys and Girls Read, What Do Boys and Girls Read? reviewed by T. R. Barnes
* Greek Tragedy, Greek Tragedy reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
* Remy de Gourmont - Precursor, Remy de Gourmont - Essai de Biographie Intellectuelle reviewed by G. D. Klingopulos
* Folk-Song in its Cultural Setting, The Blue Grove: the Poetry of the Uraons reviewed by D.W. Harding

### No. 2 September 1940

* Education and the University: Sketch for an English School F. R. Leavis
* Rubbra's No. 3 W. H. Mellers
* The Significance of Manzoni's 'Promessi Sposi,' D. A. Traversi
* Prince Hamlet L. C. Knights

#### Comments and Reviews

* A Statement of Positives, The Pool of Vishnu, reviewed by D. W. Harding
* Marxists and History, The English Revolution, 1640, and The Role of the Individual in History, reviewed by L. C. Knights
* The Literary Life Respectable, reviews of Edwin Muir and George Orwell by Q. D. Leavis
* Pelicans, reviews of Pelican Books by G.W., W.H. Mellers and F.R.Leavis
* Art History and/or Art Criticism, Modern French Painters, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* Machiavelli, The Statecraft of Machiavelli, reviewed by D. A. Traversi
* Scottish Literature, The Scots Literary Tradition, reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
* Petulant Peacock, Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, reviewed. W. H. Auden, reviewed by F.R. Leavis

### No. 3 December 1940

* The Custom of War and the Notion of Peace D. W. Harding
* Crime and Punishment in Ben Jonson D. J. Enright
* Postscript on Verlaine Martin Turnell
* Education and the University: Criticism and Comment F. R. Leavis
* 'Greats,' J. C. Maxwell

#### Comments and Reviews

* Marxism: a Post-mortem reviewed by Christopher Hill
* A Scientist on Propaganda, Political Propaganda reviewed by D.W. Harding
* Milton and his Critics; Folios of New Writing, Autumn, 1940 reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Cats in Air-pumps, or Poets in 1940, reviews by W. H. Mellers of Richard Eberhart, T. S. Eliot, William Empson and Poets of Tomorrow: Cambridge Poetry 1940 Marvell, Andrew Marvell reviewed by L. C. Knights

### No. 4 March 1941

* Education and the University (III) Literary Studies F. R. Leavis
* The Politeness of Racine R. C. Knight
* The Theme of 'The Ancient Mariner,' D. W. Harding
* Mahler as Key-Figure W. H. Mellers
* Henry the Fifth D. A. Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* Poets in Wartime, reviews by T. R. Barnes
* A Book on Yeats, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, reviewed by W. H. Mellers

#### Note

* Proust, Introduction to Proust, reviewed by Martin Turnell
* Essays on Culture and Civilisation, Topics, reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
* Musical Conditions in the XVIIIth Century, The Orchestra in the XVIIIth Century, reviewed by Eric Blom
* Science in War, reviewed by C. E. Lucas
* Knowledge and Experience, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler

## Volume 10
### No. 1 June 1941

* Correspondence (re Marxism) H.B Parkes
* Towards a Musical Academy W.H. Mellers
* Revaluations (XIV): Joseph Conrad (I) F.R. Leavis
* Nietzche H.B. Parkes
* A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings Q.D. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* BARTOK ON WAX, Quartet No.2 reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Louis Macneice, Plant and Phantom reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* The Ox in Spain, For Whom the Bell Tolls reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Science and Society, The Social Relations of Science reviewed by C.E. Lucas

### No. 2 October, 1941

* Conservatism and Tradition: Post Obitum - Donald Francis Tovey, Hamilton Harty, Frank Bridge W.H. Mellers
* A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings (II): 'Lady Susan' into 'Mansfield Park,' Q.D. Leavis
* The Development of Modern Italian Poetry (I), D.A. Traversi
* Revaluations (XIV): Joseph Conrad (concluded), F.R Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* A Plea for the English Ballet, Boris Ford
* The 'Thirties Reply, Folios of New Writing, Spring 1941 reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Crumbs from the Banquet, Points of View by T.S. Eliot, reviewed by R.O.C. Winkley
* Ideals and Illusions by Susan Stebbing, reviewed by J.C. Maxwell
* the Concise 'C.H.E.L.', The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature reviewed by Boris Ford
* Mr Auden's Weltanschauung, New Year Letter reviewed by R.O.C. Winkler
* ABrahms Recording, Trio in A minor for clarinet, 'cello and piano reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Mr Newton and the Conquest of Appearances, European Painting and Sculpture reviewed by Stephen Reiss

### No. 3 January, 1942

* 'First Broadcast Performance,' W.H. Mellers
* The Ambiguity of 'Measure for Measure,' L.C. Knights
* The Greatness of 'Measure for Measure,' F.R. Leavis
* A Note on Literature and the Irish Tradition, D.J. Enright
* The Significance of the 'Princesse de Cleves,' by Martin Turnell
* A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings (II): 'Lady Susan' into 'Mansfield Park' (concluded), Q. D. Leavis
* Comments and Reviews; After 'To the Lighthouse' Between the Acts reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* A Book on Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, reviewed by D. J. Enright
* Dickens as Journalist, The Dickens World, reviewed by R.C. Churchill
* The Starlit Dome, reviewed by T.R. Barnes
* Tippettan Discovery, Fantasy Sonata for Piano, reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Dvorak Centenary Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers
* Cornish Microcosm, Tudor Cornwall, reviewed by Vero Mellers
* Science and Values, Knowledge for What? and The Scientific Attitude, reviewed by C.E. Lucas
* Editorial Note on Reviewing

### No. 4 April, 1942

* After Ten Years: Editorial
* The Significance of 'Cymbeline', A.A. Stephenson, The Criticism of Shakespeare's Late Plays: A Caveat, F.R. Leavis
* Language and Function in American Music, by W.H. Mellers
* Dickens, Drama and Tradition, R.C. Churchill

#### Comments and Reviews

* Master of the King's Musick, 1942, W.H.M.; Poetry and Politics, Life and the Poet, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* A Prescription for the West, The Recovery of the West, reviewed by R.O.C. Winkler
* Modern Verse and the Anthologist, reviews by R.C. Lienhardt
* Recent Political Theory, reviews by J.C. Maxwell
* Academic Scholarship, English and American, reviews by R.G. Cox
* Shchedrin: The Russian Swift, Shchedrin's Fables, reviewed by D.J. Enright
* Gramophone Records, Bloch's Quartet for piano and strings and String Quartet, reviewed by W.H.M.

## Volume 11
### No. 1 Summer, 1942

* Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (I): Melody and Texture, Mediaeval and Modern W.H. Mellers
* Farewell and Welcome: A Sequence of Poems Ronald Bottrall
* A Case for Kipling? Boris Ford
* Demigods and Pickpockets: The Augustan Myth in Swift and Rousseau J.C. Maxwell
* 'Measure for Measure' D.A. Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* Eliot's Later Poetry, The Dry Salvages reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* An American Critic, Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Gramaphone Records, Byrd: Mass for Five Voices and Recital of Russian Songs reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Johnson, The Poems of Samuel Johnson reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Ruins and Warnings, Stephen Spender's Ruins and Visions and Henry Treece's Invitation and Warning reviewed by D.J. Enright

### No. 2 December, 1942

* Evidence Evalued Ronald Bottrall
* Chaucer: (I) 'Troilus and Criseyde' John Speirs
* A Letter on the Music Criticism of W.H. Mellers Boris Ford and Stephen Reiss
* A Reply W.H. Mellers
* Benjamin Constant and 'Adolphie' Martin Turnell

#### Comments and Reviews

* Milton Again, A Preface to Paradise Lost, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Landor and the Seasoned Epicure, Savage Landor, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Scientific Attitudes, A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion, reviewed by R.O.C Winkler
* Holderlin: Poet of the Gods, Holderlin: Gedichte, reviewed by D.J. Enright
* A Novel to Recommend, Darkness at Noon, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis

### No. 3 Spring, 1943

* Education and the University: Considerations at a Critical Time F.R. Leavis
* New English and American Music W.H. Mellers
* Cormac's Ruined House: A Survey of the Modern Irish Novel D.J. Enright
* Chaucer (II): The Canterbury Tales (I) John Speirs

#### Comments and Reviews

* 'We have not Reached Conclusion', Little Gidding, reviewed by D.W. Harding
* Hopkins and Yeats, Gerard Manley, Hopkins, Priest and Poet, and The Development of William Butler Yeats, reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* 'Education for Democracy', A New Order in English Education and The Universities in Transformation, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Hardy and Criticism, Thomas Hardy (English Men of Letters) and Hardy the Novelist, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Current Pamphleteering, reviews by Geoffrey Walton

### No. 4 Summer, 1943

* 'Le Misanthrope' (I) Martin Turnell
* Objections to a Review of 'Little Gidding' R.N. Higinbotham
* Reflections on the Above F.R. Leavis
* Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Dissociation of Sensibility L.C. Knights

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Innocence of Dr. Wooster R.C. Churchill
* The Heirs of Baudelaire, The Heritage of Symbolism, reviewed by Martin Turnell
* Architecture and Society, reviews by Geoffrey Walton
* Academic Case-History, Haddon the Head Hunter, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Physics and Metaphysics Again, Physics and Philosophy, reviewed by R.O.C. Winkler
* Thomas Mann and the Abyss, Stories of Three Decades, reviewed by D.J. Enright
* Note on Music W.H. Mellers.

## Volume 12
### No. 1 Winter, 1943

* Literature and Society F.R. Leavis
* 'The Discipline of Letters': A Sociological Note Q.D. Leavis
* 'Le Misanthrope' (II) Martin Turnell
* Chaucer (III): The Canterbury Tales (II) John Speirs

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Modern Universities, Redbrick University, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Advertising and Civilisation, Voice of Civilisation, reviewed by R.C. Churchill
* English Character, Orientations and Man and Boy, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Hugh Macdiamid, Lucky Poet, reviewed by John Durkan
* 'the Dunciad', Poems of Alexander Pope, Vol.V., reviewed by F.R. Leavis

### No. 2 Spring, 1944

* Evaluations (IV): Gerard Manley Hopkins, by F.R. Leavis
* Rilke and Hoelderlin in Translation D.J. Enright
* A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings: III. The Letters Q.D. Leavis
* Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (II): Voice and Dance in the XVI and XVII Centuries W.H. Mellers

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Ultimate Vision, An Anthology of Religious Verse, etc., reviewed by R.C. Lienhardt
* How Shall we Teach? Education Through Art, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Climate, Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Charlotte Younge and 'Christian Discrimination', reviews by Q.D. Leavis
* Bax and the British Council, Symphony No.3, records reviewed by W.H.Mellers

### No. 3 Summer, 1944

* Stefan George and the New Empire D.J. Enright
* George Herbert L.C. Knights
* Johnson as Critic F.R. Leavis
* Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (II): Voice and Dance in the XVI and XVII Centuries (ii) W.H. Mellers

#### Comments and Reviews

* Co-Prosperity?, The Case for Examinations, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* The Liberal Case, The Road to Serfdom, reviewed by J.C. Maxwell
* 'Attitude for the Modern Poet', The Personal Principle, reviewed by R.C. Lienhardt
* Approach to Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition, reviewed by A.I. Doyle
* 'Modern Poetry' in School, Introducing Modern Poetry, reviewed by Frank Chapman

### No. 4 Summer, 1944

* Moral Bewilderment Morris Ginsberg
* Tragedy and the 'Medium': a Note on Mr. Santayana's 'Tragic Philosophy' F.R. Leavis
* Two Generations of English Music W.H. Mellers
* 'Phedre', by Martin Turnell
* J.B. Leishman and the Art of Translation D.J. Enright

#### Comments and Reviews

* Catholicity or Narrowness?, A Critical History of English Poetry reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Hopkins Commemorated, Gerard Manley Hopkins reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* Tristan and Isolt, Tristan and Isolt reviewed by D.J. Enright
* Meet Mr. Forster, E.M. Forster reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* The Age of Yeats or the Age of Eliot?, poetry reviewed by Geoffrey Walton

## Volume 13
### No. 1 Spring, 1945

* The Interpretation of History A.J. Woolford
* Goethe's 'Faust' and the Written Word (I) The First Part D.J. Enright
* On the Social Background of Metaphysical Poetry L.C. Knights
* 'Thought' and Emotional Quality: Notes in the Analysis of Poetry F.R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* Hail Butler!, Willingly to School, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* Sociology and Literature, The Sociology of Literary Taste and English Social History, reviewed by F.R. Leavis

### No. 2 September, 1945

* Existentialism and Literature: A Letter from Switzerland H.A. Mason
* The Controlling Hand: Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice Reuben A. Brower
* Correspondence: Rilke, George and 'Re-integration W. Schenk and D.J. Enright
* Imagery and Movement: Notes in the Analysis of Poetry F.R. Leavis
* Comments and Reviews; Cobbet as a Classic, The Opinions of William Cobbet, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Auden's Inverted Development, For the Time Being, reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* Contemporary Verse, reviews by A.I. Doyle
* Non Sequitur, A Planned Economy, review by A.J. Woolford
* A Debussy Recording, review by W.H. Mellers
* Tippet, Concerto for double string orchestra, note by W.H. Mellers

### No. 3 Autumn-Winter, 1945

* The Dark Ages: Culture and the Oratorio W.H. Mellers
* Revaluations (XV): George Eliot (I) F.R. Leavis
* Goethe's 'Faust' and the Written Word: (II) A Chapter of Accidents D.J. Enright
* Flaubert (I) Martin Turnell

#### Comments and Reviews

* Reform is Altogether? Fifty-five Years at Oxford, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* From Playground to Grace, The Unquiet Grave and The Condemned Playground, reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* The Grammar Schools, The Boy's Grammar School, reviewed by Denys Thompson
* Symbolism and Apocalypse, Holderlin's Symbolism, reviewed by D.J. Enright
* Music, reviews by W.H. Mellers
* British Council Recordings, reviews by W.H. Mellers

### No. 4 Spring, 1946

* 'Much Ado About Nothing' James Smith
* Revaluations (XV): George Eliot (II) F.R. Leavis
* Flaubert (Concluded) Martin Turnell
* Goethe's 'Faust' and the Written Word: (III) The Second Part D.J. Enright

#### Comments and Reviews

* A Partial Convert? The Yogi and the Commissar, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Aragon: Capitulation or Resistance? Reviews by A.I. Doyle
* Calderon and the Morality, The Allegorical Drama of Calderon, reviewed by James Smith
* Critical Essays by George Orwell, reviewed by T.R. Barnes

## Volume 14
### No. 1 Summer, 1946

* Les Chemins de la Liberte H.A. Mason
* Revaluations (XV) : George Eliot (III) F.R. Leavis
* Goethe's 'Faust' and the Written Word: (III) The Second Part (Concluded) D.J. Enright

#### Comments and Reviews

* Planning your life at the University, First Year at the University, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Clio Elevated, or the Spirit of English History, The Spirit of English History, reviewed by A.J. Woolford
* Mr Lewis's Theology, The Great Divorce, reviewed by E.K.T. Dock
* Mixed Currency, The Mint, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances, reviewed by Wolf Mankowitz
* Elucidating Eliot, Four Quartets Rehearsed, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Malinnowski, The Dynamics of Culture Change, reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers

### No. 2 December, 1946

* M. Camus and the Tragic Hero H.A. Mason
* The Rhythmical Intention in Wyatt's Poetry D.W. Harding
* George Eliot (IV): 'Daniel Deronda' and 'The Portrait of a Lady' F.R. Leavis

#### Comments and Reviews

* Henry James and the English Association
* 'The Times Literary Supplement'
* An Irish Monthly
* 'The Kenyon Review' and 'Scrutiny'
* For Whom do Universities Exist?; A Passage to Palestine, Thieves in the Night reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Eliot's Heir, A Map of Verona and The Garden reviewed by G.D. Klingopulos
* Modern Poetic Drama, The Poet in the Theatre reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Guillaume Apollinaire, Choix de Poesie and Apollinaire reviewed by G.D. Klingopulos
* The Sights of Coney Island, The Cosmological Eye reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
* The English Kafka, The Cult of Power reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers

### No. 3 Spring, 1947

* Andre Malraux and His Critics H.A. Mason
* The Cultural Implications of Planning and Popularization G.H. Bantock
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (I): 'Hard Times' F.R. Leavis
* Professor Chadwick and English Studies A Pupil

#### Comments and Reviews; Rehabilitating Isben, Ibsen

    the Intellectual Background and Ibsen the Norwegian, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Room for Doubt? Mr Bottrall's Selected Poems, Selected Poems, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Henry James: The Stories, Fourteen Stories by Henry James, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* The Appreciation of Henry James, Henry James: the Major Phase, reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Secret Chromatic Art in the Netherlands Motet, reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Gramophone Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers

### No. 4 September, 1947

* The Two Henry Jameses Quentin Anderson
* Professor Chadwick and English Studies: Comments by J.C. Maxwell and Redbrick
* The Critical Review Today: Prolegomena to a Historical Inquiry R.G. Cox
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (II): 'Wuthering Heights' G.D. Klingopulos
* Music Chronicle W.H. Mellers
* Correspondence from R. Bottrall

#### Comments and Reviews

* Henry James's First Novel, Roderick Hudson, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* The Poetic Image, Day Lewis, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Folk Songs of Chhattisgarh, Verrier Elwin, reviewed by D.W.H.
* Note on The Great Short Novels of Henry James, Philip Rahv Q.D.Leavis
* Albert Camus: Difficult Hope, La Peste, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Hugo - All the Best, Modern French Literature, Denis Saurat, reviewed by C.A. Hackett
* Inyerpreter or Oracle? The Crown of Life, G. Wilson Knight, reviewed by R.G. Cox.

## Volume 15
### No. 1 December, 1947

* Henry Sidgwick's Cambridge Q.D. Leavis
* Henry James, His Symbolism and His Critics Quentin Anderson
* Contemporary French Criticism Henri Peyre and H.A. Mason
* Henry IV - Part I D.A. Traversi
* Marivaux Martin Turnell
* Correspondence from T.S. Eliot; Comments and Reviews; Approaches to T. S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot: a Study of his Writings by Several Hands, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* The Institution of Henry James, The Question of Henry James, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
* Recent Literary Criticism in German, Die Freien Rhythmen in der Deutschen Lyrik, reviewed by D.J. Enright
* Education, Young Enthusiasts, reviewed by R. O'Malley
* The Poet as Exucutant, Four Quartets, read by the author, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers

### No. 2 Spring, 1948

* Some Cultural Implications of Freedom in Education G.H. Bantock
* Henry James and the Function of Criticism F.R. Leavis
* Reflections on Clarendon's History of the Rebellion L.C. Knights
* Henry IV - Part II D.A. Traversi
* Music Chronicle W.H. Mellers
* Correspondence re Mr. Bottrall and Mr. Eliot, and 'Henry IV Part I'
* Comments and Reviews; 'Critique': The First Two Years, review by H.A. Mason
* Ambiguity Revised, Seven Types of Ambiquity, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Footnotes on Literature and Art, The Harp of Aeolus, reviewed by Geoffrrey Walton
* Mr Auden's Quartet, The Age of Anxiety, reviewed by H.A Mason
* Progressive Exercises on Reading, reviewed by T.A. Birrell

### No. 3 Summer, 1948

* Freedom in Education: Thoughts Provoked by Mr. Bantock Boris Ford
* Goethe's 'Roman Elegies' D.J. Enright
* Mencken and the American Language Marius Bewley
* 'Timon of Athens' J.C. Maxwell
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (III): 'The Europeans' F.R. Leavis
* Correspondence Ronald Bottrall
* Comments and Reviews; A Note on Intellectual Life in the USA H.A. Mason
* Background and Doctrine, Five Poems 1470-1870, An Elementary Essay on the Background of English Literature E.M.W. Tillyard, and Essays on Literary Criticism and the English Tradition by S.K. Bethell, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Reason and Unreason in Society by M. Ginsberg, reviewed by G.H. Bantock
* 'The Portrait of a Lady' Reprinted, review by F.R. Leavis

### No. 4 December, 1948

* The Case of Stefan George D.J. Enright
* Notes from American (II): Kenneth Burke as Literary Critic Marius Bewley
* Intellectual Life in the U.S.A.: Comment and Reply Seymour Betsky
* Authority and Method in Education: Some Reflections on Mr Ford's Rejoinder G.H. Bantock
* Comments and Reviews; The Progress of Poesy F.R. Leavis
* Some Marginal Notes to a Study of History, by R.G. Lienhardt
* Translation into Scots, A Braird o Thristles, by Douglas Young, reviewed by J.H. Speirs
* What is a National Monument? Reviews by Geoffrey Walton
* Three Books on Music, The Poetics of Music by Igor Stravinsky, Music and Poetry of the English Renaissance by Bruce Pattison, A History of Music in Scotland by H.G. Farmer, reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* Scientific Man Versus Power Politics H.J. Morganthau, reviewed by G.H. Bantock
* The British Council in the Council in the Golden Age, records reviewed by W.H. Mellers.

## Volume 16
### No. 1 March, 1949

* Measure for Measure: Or Anglo-American Exchanges H.A. Mason
* The Colloquial Mode of Byron Marius Bewley
* The Moral Basis of Political Conflicts Morris Ginsberg
* Correspondence from Boris Ford
* The Case of John Webster, by Ian Jack

#### Comments and Reviews

* D.H. Lawrence Placed, F.R.L., and Letter from H. Coombes
* Culture and Dr. Joad, R.C. Churchill
* A Note on Contemporary 'Philosophical' Literary Criticism in France H.A. Mason
* Puritan Bunyan, John Bunyan: L'homme et l'ouvre reviewed by Maurice Hussey
* Mr Eliot and Education, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture reviewed by G.H. Bantock
* American Critics and Poetic Drama, reviews by R.G. Cox
* Cross-Currents in Twentieth Century Music, records reviewed by W.H. Mellers
* 'Humanitas', Note

### No. 2 June, 1949

* Arthur Koestler G.D. Klingopulos
* The 'Cortegiano' and the Civilization of the Renaissance Wilhelm Schenk
* Mill, Beatrice Webb and the 'English School' F.R. Leavis
* 'The Tempest' Derek Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* Shakespeare and the Meaning of 'Nature', Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature, by John F. Danby, reviewed by L.C. Knights
* Lovejoy and the History of Ideas, The Great Chain of Being and Essays in the History of Ideas, reviewed by Marius Bewley
* Homage to Common Sense, Francis Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review by James A. Grieg, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Men of Letters and the English Public in the XVIIIth Century by Beljame, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Beatrice Webb in Partnership, Our Partnership reviewed by F.R. Leavis

### No. 3 September, 1949

* James' Debt to Hawthorne (I): 'The Blithedale Romance' and 'The Bostonians' Marius Bewley
* The Shakespearean Dialectic: An Aspect of 'Antony and Cleopatra' John F. Danby
* Required Literature Courses as a Contribution to Culture Margaret Diggle
* 'The Family Reunion' John Peter
* In Memoriam: W. Schenk, 1928-1949
* Correspondence, D.R. Browning, Donald A. Davie, Marius Bewley

#### Comments and Reviews

* Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge, Two Memoirs, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* The Cult of Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas by Henry Treece, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Mr Turnell's Criticism, The Classical Moment, reviewed by Alan M. Boase
* The New Antiquarianism, The Theory of Literature by Wellek and Warren, reviewed by Seymour Betsky
* Proust and his Critics, reviews by Martin Turnell
* The Content of Education, An Essay on the Content of Education, reviewed by G.H. Bantock

### No. 4 Winter, 1949

* 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', by John Speirs
* James's Debt to Hawthorne (II): 'The Marble Faun' and 'The Wings of the Dove' Marius Bewley
* On The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra L.C. Knights
* Correspondence: G. Wilson Knight and John F. Danby

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Shakespeare Industry: Progress Report, Shakespeare Survey 2, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* The Logic of Christian Discrimination, Poetry and Personal Responsibility, by George Every, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
* Art: The Religion and the Saint, Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith reviewed by H.A. Mason.

## Volume 17
### No. 1 Spring, 1950

* Mr Eliot and Social Biology L.A Cormican
* James's Debt to Hawthorne (III): The American Problem Marius Bewley
* 'The Windhover' F.N Lees
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (IV): 'St. Mawr', by F.R Leavis
* Correspondence: Leon Edel and Marius Bewley

#### Comments and Reviews

* Sin and Soda, The Cocktail Party, by T.S. Eliot, reviewed by John Peter
* The American People, by Henry Bamford Parkes, reviewed by Marius Bewley
* Wyatt and the Scholars, The Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century, reviewed by H.A. Mason
* Palisades of Fear, by Ronald Bottrall, reviewed by Peter Lienhardt
* English Art, 1307-1461 Joan Evans, reviewed by Peter Ferriday

### No. 2 Summer, 1950

* Appearance and Reality in Henry James Marius Bewley
* James's 'What Maisie Knew': A Disagreement F.R. Leavis
* Correspondence re 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
* John Marston's Plays John Peter
* The 'Doctor Faustus' of Thomas Mann D.J. Enright

#### Reviews

    Theory and Criticism: English Poetry: a Critical Introduction, by F.W. Bateson, reviewed by F.R.G. Cox
* Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert, reviewed by John Speirs
* Art Books For All, reviews by Geoffrey Walton
* Academic Criticism Today, Shakespeare's Problem Plays and English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans, reviewed by Derek Traversi

### No. 3 Autumn, 1950

* Medieval Idiom in Shakespeare: (I) Shakespeare and the Liturgy L.A. Cormican
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (V): 'Women in Love' (I) F.R. Leavis
* 'Wynnere and Wastoure' and 'The Parlement of the Thre Ages' John Speirs
* Correspondence: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' Again Q.D. Leavis
* Maisie, Miles and Flora, the Jamesian Innocents: A Rejoinder by Marius Bewley

#### Comments and Reviews

* What Oft was Thought..., The Meaning of Beauty by Eric Newton and Aesthetics and History by Bernard Berenson, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
* Victorian Journalism, The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, by J.W. Robertson Scott, reviewed by R.G. Cox
* Social Anthropology, Past and Present, Note by D.F. Pocock
* Symposium on Mr Eliot's 'Notes' (III) D.F. Pocock
* Who are the English Baroque Poets?, Poetry and Humanism by M.M. Mahood, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton

### No. 4 March, 1951

* Roger North and Political Morality in the Later Stuart Period T.A. Birrell
* Medieval Idiom in Shakespeare (II): Shakespeare and the Medieval Ethic L.A. Cormican
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (V): 'Women in Love' (II) F.R. Leavis
* Correspondence: The Relation between William and Henry James Marius Bewley

#### Comments and Reviews

* Aspects of Modern American Poetry, Focus Number Five: Modern American Poetry, reviewed by Marius Bewley
* What is Background? The Enchanted Glass by Hardin Craig, reviewed by L.A. Cormican
* Anthropology and the Lay Reader, Male and Female by Margaret Mead, reviewed by D.F. Pocock.

## Volume 18
### No. 1 June, 1951

* Victorian Criticism of Poetry: The Minority Tradition R. G. Cox
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VI) F. R. Leavis
* Matthew Arnold, H.M.I. G. H. Bantock

#### Comments and Reviews

* Keynes, Spender and Currency-Values: World within World by Stephen Spender and The Life of John Maynard Keynes by R. F. Harrod, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* History and Criticism in the Home University: Seventeenth Century English Literature by C. V. Wedgwood, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* The Arnoldian Function in American Criticism: The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling, reviewed by N. Podhoretz
* Mr. Eliot and Lawrence: D. H. Lawrence and Human Existence by Father Wm. Tiverton and Portrait of a Genius, But... by Richard Aldington, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
* Pound in His Letters: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Ezra Pound, a collection of essays edited by Peter Russell, reviewed by F. R. Leavis

#### Correction

* The Verse of Christopher Fry: Venus Observed, The Lady's not for Burning and A Sleep of Prisoners reviewed by Marius Bewley

### No. 2 Autumn, 1951

* The Mystery Cycle (I): Some Towneley Cycle Plays John Speir
* 'Reason' and the Restoration Ethos Harold Wendell Smith
* Correspondence: Lawrence and Eliot: Robert D. Wagner and F. R. Leavis
* 'Troilus and Cressida' Again L. C. Knights

#### Comments and Reviews

* Auden as Critic and Poet: The Enchafed Flood by W. H. Auden and Auden: an Introductory Note by Richard Hoggart, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Middle English Literature by George Kane, reviewed by John Speirs

### No. 3 Winter, 1951-52

* Scott Fitzgerald D.W. Harding
* 'The Dissociation of Sensibility' Harold Wendell Smith
* Correspondence: Marjorie Cox, V. de S. Pinto, John Gillard Watson, John Speirs
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VII): 'The Rainbow' (I) F. R. Leavis
* Poetic Satire and the Satire in Verse D. J. Enright

#### Comments and Reviews

* Mr Pryce-Jones, The British Council and British Culture: Edmund Wilson of 'The New Yorker': Classics and Commercials reviewed by John Farrelly
* An Approach to Sophocles: Sophocles the Dramatist by A. J. A. Waldock, and Shakespeare's Tragedies by G. B. Harrison, reviewed by R. Mayhead
* Shakespeare's Imagery: The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery by W. H. Clemen, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Donne Re-considered: The Monarch of Wit by J. B. Leishman, reviewed by R. Mayhead

### No. 4 June, 1952

* The Mystery Cycle (II): Some Towneley Plays John Speirs
* Scott Fitzgerald: Another View John Farrelly
* 'The Novel as a Dramatic Poem (VII): 'The Rainbow' (II) F. R. Leavis
* Nature, Correctness and Decorum Harold Wendell Smith

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Latest Auden: Nones by W. H. Auden, reviewed by R. Mayhead
* Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry by M. C. Bradbrook, reviewed by L. A. Cormican.

## Volume 19
### No. 1 October, 1952

* Reflections on the Milton Controversy John Peter
* The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VII) F. R. Leavis
* Graham Greene: A Comment F. N. Lees
* 'King Lear' (I) D. A. Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* American Criticism: The Fields of Light by Reuben Arthur Brower
* Modern Poetry and the Tradition by Cleanth Brookes
* The Permanence of Yeats, Selected Criticism edited by James Hall and Martin Steinmann
* Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, 1920-51 selected by John W. Aldridge
* Gertrude Stein: a Biography of her Work by Donald Sutherland, reviewed by Robin Mayhead
* Emily Dickinson: Emily Dickinson by Richard Chase, reviewed by John Farrelly
* Social Anthropology: Structure and Function in Primitive Society by A. R. Radcliffe-Browne
* and Social Anthropology by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, reviewed by D. F. Pocock

### No. 2 Winter, 1952-3

* The New Scholarship? R. G. Cox
* Reality and Sincerity: Notes in the Analysis of Poetry F. R. Leavis
* Revaluations (XVI): James Fenimore Cooper Marius Bewley
* 'King Lear' (II) D. A. Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems, 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas, reviewed by Robin Mayhead
* French Poetry: The Poetry of France, an Anthology by Alan M. Boase, reviewed by Henri Fluchere
* Great Sidney and Great Shakespeare: Poets on Fortune's Hill: Studies in Sidney, Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher by John F. Danby, reviewed by J. C. F. Littlewood

### No. 3 Spring, 1953

* The Responsible Critic: or The Function of Criticism at Any Time F. R. Leavis
* Cowley, Marvell and the Second Temple Harold Wendell Smith
* 'King Lear' (III) D. A. Traversi

#### Comments and Reviews

* The Cult of Benjamin Britten: Benjamin Britten edited by Donald Mitchell and Hans Keller, reviewed by Robin Mayhead
* A New Journal of Education: British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. I, reviewed by G. H. Bantock
* Lives and Letters: Some Recent German Studies, reviewed by D. J. Enright

### No. 4 October, 1953

* Valedictory; Crawshaw and 'The Weeper' John Peter
* 'The Captain's Doll' F. R. Leavis
* 'Much Ado About Nothing' T. W. Craik
* Correspondence: 'The Responsible Critic', from F. W. Bateson
* Reply F. R. Leavis; Letter from Geoffrey Walton

#### Comments and Reviews

* Shakespeare Criticism: Shakespeare by Henri Fluchere and The Shakespearean Tempest by G. Wilson Knight, reviewed by R. G. Cox
* Joyce-Eliot-Tradition: The Anathemata by David Jones, reviewed by J. C. F. Littlewood

## Volume 20

* Retrospect and Index: A Retrospect — F. R. Leavis
* Indexes — Maurice Hussey
* Index
** A Subjects
** B Authors, Artists and Composers
** C Books reviewed
** D Contributors
** E Poetry published
** F Music reviewed
** G Gramophone records reviewed
** H Correspondence
* List of Errata