Books Received

REVIEWS 323 where the purest gusts of Aire are to be met with, Crystal Rivers, mossy Springs, solemnity of Entertainments, Theatrick Pomps and Shews." He goes on to summarize and comment: "Anyone who doubts that the seventeenth century had its nature lovers may be reassured by learning that the departed love to see the changes of seasons. These souls also are in the full stream of the new philosophy: 'they may entertain themselves with Intellectual Contemplations, whether Naturall, Mathematical , or Metaphysical.' Wordsworth and Descartes would be equally at home in Henry More's intermediate place of departed spirits.. .." Students of literature will miss the fuller treatment of Spenser and Milton which would have been relevant, though not essential, to the discussion; but that may perhaps await a treatment of the Apocalypse in the Renaissance to balance Professor Arnold Williams's study of the Renaissance commentaries on Genesis. With the reservations noted, it may be said that the book is an excellent presentation of a thesis and is clearly the product of research animated by imagination. It is, moreover, attractively produced, and the compiler of the admirable index (who, by the way, knows Rousseau as Je~-Jacques, not the Jean-Baptiste of the text) deserves a final word of praise, coupled with the pious hope that other university publishers will note and copy. BOOKS RECEIVED ATKINS, J. W. H . English Litera,.}, Criticism: 17th and 18th Centuries. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [Toronto: British Book Service]. 1951. Pp. xii, 383. $4.75. BRENA N, GERALD. Th e Literature of the Spanish People: From Roman Times to the Present Day. Cambridge: At the University Press [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited], 1951. Pp. xviii, 496. $8.50. BRITTAIN, VERA. Search after Sunrise. London : Macmillan & Co. Ltd. [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited], 1951. Pp. 271. $3.25. BRYSON, LYMAN, FINKELSTEIN, LOUIS, LASSWELL, HAROLD D., and MACIVER! R. M ., c=ds. Foundations 0/ World Organization: A Political and Cullum Appraisal; Eleventh Symposium. New York: Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc.; New York and London: Harper & Brothers. 1952. Pp. xiv, 498. $4.00. CARR, EDWARD HALLETT. A History 0/ Soviet Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution~ 1917-1923. II. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited]. 1952. pp. viii, 400. $6.50. DAVENPORT, BASIL, ed. The Portable Roman Reader. With an introduction. New York: The Viking Press [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limitedl. 1951. Pp. xiv, 656. $2.95. D ENONN, LESTER E., ed. Bertrand Russell's Dictionary 0/ Mind, Matter and Morals. New York : Phi1osophical Library. 1952. Pp. xiv, 290. $5.00. EDMAN, IRWIN. Under Whatever Sky. New York: The Viking Press [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited]. 1951. pp. x, 246. $4.00. 324 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY Franciscan Studi~s: St. Bonaventure University Commemorative Volume. Vol. XI, nos. 3-4. St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: The Franciscan Institute. Sept.-Dec., 1951. Pp. vi, 435. JORDAN, RUDOLF. The New Perspective: An Essay. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1951. Pp. vi, 316. $5.00. L EWIS, MATTHEW G. The Monk. Original text, variant readings, and 'A Note on the Text'; LOUIS F. PECK. Introduction: JOHN BERRYMAN. New York: Grove Press. 1952. Pp. 445. $4.75. MACCLJNTOCK, LANDER. The Age of Pirandello. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University ~ress [Toronto: The Copp Clark Co. Limited]. 1951. pp. viii, 341. $7.50. MACPARTLAND, J O HN. The March toward MaUer: Descensus Averno. New York: Philosophical Library. 1952. Pp. 80. $2.75. MISES, RICHARD VON. Positivism: A Study in Human Un derstanding. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press [Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders and Company Limited]' 1951. Pp. xii, 404. $8.00. Rinehart Editions. George Gordon, Lord Byron: Selected Poetry and Letters. Edited with an introduction and notes by EDWARD E. BOSTETTER. Pp. xxxiv, 444. - --Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose. Edited with an introduction and notes by ELISABETH SCHNEIDER. pp. xxviii, 543. - -- William Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, Henry IV (Part I) , Mu ch Ado about Nothing, The Tempest. Edited with an introduction and notes by ALAN S. DOWNER. pp. xxvi, 473. - -- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poetry and Prose. Edited with an introduction and notes by...