Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents information on several books. "Speculations. Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art," by T.E. Hulme, is a posthumous collection of papers on the philosophy of religion and art by a young Englishman who was killed in the war. He has hitherto been known to most Americans only through the five poems in free verse which Ezra Pound published in 1915 and which are reprinted here in an appendix. "The Fabulous Forties," by Meade Minnigerode, is an attempt to make the Early Victorian era amusing for one by collecting and annotating original data to show the comedy of Victorian manners. "The Outsider," adapted by Joan Sutherland from the play of that name by Dorothy Brandoil, is a novel fabricated from the past season's play and filled with an abundant claptrap. The action depends largely upon a wondrous mechanical contrivance of vaudevillesque mysteriousness.