23 MARCH 1934, page 36

The Ivory Tower

Paul Valery. By G. Turquet-Milnes. (Cape. 5s.) IT is surprising that the work of Paul Valery and Charles Maurras should not have been more deliberately studied in this country......

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......

Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh. By Peter Burra. (Duckworth. 2s.) Tins short biography of Van Gogh appears in the series known 'as Great Lives," and within the limits thus imposed, Mr. Burnt has done......