MARCH·APRIL,
1953
VOLUME XX, NUMBER 2
CONTENTS
FRIENDS OF HIS YOUTH, Robert Musil
137
THE HIGHBROW IN AMERICAN POLITICS, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
156
CONVERSATIONS WITH KAFKA, Gustav Janouch
166
THE CRITICISM OF JACQUES RIVIERE, Martin Turnell
179
REQUIEM FOR THE DEATH OF A BOY, Rainer Maria Rilke
(Translation by Randall Jarrell)
191
THE EYE IS A PART OF THE MIND, Leo Steinberg
194
EMMA'S STORY, John Thompson, .Jr.
213
STEP ON HIS HEAD, James LaughHn
215
THE VETERAN, Louis O. Coxa
215
THAT "CRANING OF THE NECK," Isabella Gardner
216
THE WORLD OF
"LA
MISERIA," F. G. Friedmann
218
BOOKS
AN EMBATTlED SENSIBILITY, Francis Fergusson
NUNC DIMITTIS, Angus Wilson
HISTORY AND LORD ACTON, Golo Mann
ENGLISH COMEDY REVISITED, Richard Chase
A LITERARY SELF.PORTRAIT, Arthur Mizener
VARIETY
POPULAR TASTE AND "THE CAINE MUTINY,"
Harvey Swados
232
236
239
242
244
248
