THE CIVILIZED WILDERNESS: Back–
grounds to American Romantic Liter–
ature, 1817-1860, by Edward Halsey
Foster. Free Press, $9.95
A consideration of the cultural im–
pact of the vast American wilderness ,
and its significance to two genera–
tions of Romantic writers , from
Cooper to Melville. The author ex–
plores the Romanticists ' efforts to
resolve the tensions of domestic and
natural ideals by creating a " civilized
wilderness. "
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF
CHRISTMAS FOLKLORE, by
Tristram Potter Coffin. Seabury
Press, $12.95
A tour through Christmas tradition
all the way from the dim orig ins in the
M ithraic sun rites to the advent of
purple Christmas trees . Illustrations
from genuine national folk art from
all ages and places, from Druidic and
Celtic to Pennsylvania Dutch-over
120 of them , many in two colors, are
spread lavishly throughout the book .
THE HOURS OF CATHERINE OF
CLEVES, introduction and commen–
taries by John Plummer, Curator of
Mediaeval and Renaissance Manu–
scripts , The Pierpont Morgan Library.
George Braziller Library of illumi–
nated Manuscripts, $30.00
" This beautiful little book can
hardly be faulted ." -John Canaday.
" An art masterpiece of singular in–
nocence and charm. . . . Now ex–
quisitely and faithfully presented ,
this jewel by an unknown Flemish
artist is a curio to be treasured ."
-Saturday Review
Out of print for some time , The
Hours of Catherine of Cleves is now
available again.
A STUDY OF FUTURE WORLDS, by
Richard A. Falk. Free Press, $15.00
A precise and inventive proposal
for a reformed and integrated world
polity , A Study of Future Worlds is ,
above all , a challenge to narrow , na–
tional approaches to the predica–
ments of an interdependent world .
TRUTH AND METHOD, by Hans–
Georg Gadamer. Seabury Press ,
$19 .50
Available at last in English,
Gadamer's monumental work . " In the
present situation Dilthey and in–
creasingly Heidegger are being
superseded by the Heidelberg philo–
sopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, a for–
mer pupil of Heidegger and Bult–
mann , whose magnum opus grounds
the humanities into a hermeneutic
oriented not to psycholog ism or exis–
tentialism , but ratherto language and
its subject matter."
The New Hermeneutic
NEGATIVE DIALECTICS, by Theodor
W. Adorno. Seabury Press, $17.50
This is the major work and culmi–
nating achievement of the late social
theorist, political scientist, philoso–
pher of aesthetics , and culture critic
par excellence. " Here the program–
matic aim of his earlier writings has
come to fruition. " - Times Literary
Supplement
PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN MUSIC,
by Theodor W . Adorno. Seabury
Press, $8.95
One of the most important socio–
logical studies of art ever undertak–
en-not only a critique of ind.ividual
composers and their works , but of
SOCiety at large.
JOURNEY TO THE TRENCHES: The
Life of Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918,
by Joseph Cohen. Basic Books,
$12.95
The eminent critic F.R . Leavis
wrote that "genius is the word for
Rosenberg " and credited the young
poet with " the enrichment of tradi–
tion by a new legend." And Edwin
Muirwrotethat " he used language as
on Iy the great poets have used it ; as
if he were not merely making it serve
his own ends; but ends of its own as
well , of which it had not known. "
Professor Cohen's thorough and
sensitive biography is based on an
exhaustive examination of Rosen–
berg ' s drawings , paintings, prose
pieces , poetry and letters; hitherto
unreleased family papers ; and a
close collaboration with the poet's
sister.
