23 MARCH 1934, page 34

The American Transcendentalist

The Life of Emerson. By Van Wyck Brooks. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) ACCEPTING the title of this book in its most literal and limited sense, Mr. Brooks has done his work very finely......

Wassermann

My Life as German and Jew. By Jacob Wassermann. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) WERE it not for the recent events in Germany, Herr Wasser- mann's book might be dismissed as the work......

The Seventeenth Century Synthesis

The Seventeenth Century Background. By Basil Willey. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6c1.) ENGLISII historians have not as a rule been attracted to the writing of histories of English......