Reviews

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André Spire: “Plaisir poétique et plaisir musculaire: essai sur l'évolution des techniques poétiques.” New York, Vanni, 1949. 547 pp. Reviewed by Pierre Delattre

Adolf Ingram Franz: “Half a hundred thralls to Faust: a study based on the British and American translators of Goethe's ‘Faust,’ 1823–1949.” With a foreword by Carl F. Schreiber. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1949. xx + 315 pp. Reviewed by R. M. Browning

Angelo Philip Bertocci: “Charles Du Bos and English literature.” New York, King's Crown Press, 1949. x + 285 pp. Reviewed by H. Dieckmann

Alfredo Obertello: “Madrigali italiani in Inghilterra: storia, critica, testi.” Milano, Bompiani, 1949. Reviewed by Elio Gianturco

Geoffroy Atkinson: “Les Idées de Balzac d'après la Comédie Humaine.” 5 vols. Genève, Droz. 1949. Reviewed by Albert J. George

Francis Fergusson: “The idea of a theater.” Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1949. 240 pp. Reviewed by Richard L. O'Connell

Yvon Belaval: “L'Esthétique sans paradoxe de Diderot.” Paris, Gallimard, 1950. 307 pp. Reviewed by Marlou Switten

C. A. Sainte-Beuve: “Correspondance générale.” Volume VI. Edited by Jean Bonnerot. Paris, Stock, 1949. 620 pp. Reviewed by G. R. Bishop

Gilbert J. Jordan (ed.): “Southwest Goethe festival” (Southern Methodist University Studies No. 5). University Press in Dallas, 1949. 112 pp. — James Boyd: “Notes to Goethe's poems.” Vol. II, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1949. 270 pp. Reviewed by Oskar Seidlin