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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.

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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

Comments and Reviews
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

Comments and Reviews
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

Correspondence
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