Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review
vol. 9 1940-41

Table of Contents

Volume 9 No. 1 June 1940: The American Cultural Scene (IV): The Novel H. B. Parkes
'As You Like It,' James Smith
Tradition and Innovation To-Day Olaf Stapleton
Music and the Dramatic W. H. Mellers
Revaluations (XIII): Coleridge in Criticism F. R. Leavis
Comments and Reviews
'New Writing' in the 1930's, Folios of New Writing, Spring, 1940, reviewed by R. G. Cox
The Bard and the Prep-School, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and The Backward Son reviewed by W. H. Mellers
What Boys and Girls Read, What Do Boys and Girls Read? reviewed by T. R. Barnes
Greek Tragedy, Greek Tragedy reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
Remy de Gourmont – Precursor, Remy de Gourmont – Essai de Biographie Intellectuelle reviewed by G. D. Klingopulos
Folk-Song in its Cultural Setting, The Blue Grove: the Poetry of the Uraons reviewed by D.W. Harding
Volume 9 No. 2 September 1940:Education and the University: Sketch for an English School F. R. Leavis
Rubbra's No. 3 W. H. Mellers
The Significance of Manzoni's 'Promessi Sposi,' D. A. Traversi
Prince Hamlet L. C. Knights
Comments and Reviews
A Statement of Positives, The Pool of Vishnu, reviewed by D. W. Harding
Marxists and History, The English Revolution, 1640, and The Role of the Individual in History, reviewed by L. C. Knights
The Literary Life Respectable, reviews of Edwin Muir and George Orwell by Q. D. Leavis
Pelicans, reviews of Pelican Books by G.W., W.H. Mellers and F.R.Leavis
Art History and/or Art Criticism, Modern French Painters, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
Machiavelli, The Statecraft of Machiavelli, reviewed by D. A. Traversi
Scottish Literature, The Scots Literary Tradition, reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
Petulant Peacock, Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, reviewed. W. H. Auden, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
Volume 9 No. 3 December 1940: The Custom of War and the Notion of Peace D. W. Harding
Crime and Punishment in Ben Jonson D. J. Enright
Postscript on Verlaine Martin Turnell
Education and the University: Criticism and Comment F. R. Leavis
'Greats,' J. C. Maxwell
Comments and Reviews
Marxism: a Post-mortem reviewed by Christopher Hill
A Scientist on Propaganda, Political Propaganda reviewed by D.W. Harding
Milton and his Critics
Folios of New Writing, Autumn, 1940 reviewed by R. G. Cox
Cats in Air-pumps, or Poets in 1940, reviews by W. H. Mellers of Richard Eberhart, T. S. Eliot, William Empson and Poets of Tomorrow: Cambridge Poetry 1940 Marvell, Andrew Marvell reviewed by L. C. Knights
No. 4 March 1941: Education and the University (III) Literary Studies F. R. Leavis
The Politeness of Racine R. C. Knight
The Theme of 'The Ancient Mariner,' D. W. Harding
Mahler as Key-Figure W. H. Mellers
Henry the Fifth D. A. Traversi
Comments and Reviews
Poets in Wartime, reviews by T. R. Barnes
A Book on Yeats, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, reviewed by W. H. Mellers
Note
Proust, Introduction to Proust, reviewed by Martin Turnell
Essays on Culture and Civilisation, Topics, reviewed by J. C. Maxwell
Musical Conditions in the XVIIIth Century, The Orchestra in the XVIIIth Century, reviewed by Eric Blom
Science in War, reviewed by C. E. Lucas
Knowledge and Experience, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler.

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