...George De Huszar Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 VOLTAIRE GEORGE DE HUSZAR PERHAPS THE REASON why Voltaire is not considered a philosopher is that, though he could be almost anything, he did not know how to be tedious. Neither did he build a system, and only the builders...

...Harold T. Parker The Poetry of History: The Contribution of Literature and Literary Scholarship to the Writings of History since Voltaire . By Neff Emery . New York : Columbia University Press , 1947 . Pp. ix , 258 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948...

...Loring B. Walton Studies on Voltaire . By Wade Ira O. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. ix , 244 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 248 The South Atlantic Quarterly which is sometimes used, as more intelligible. Is there any virtue...

...Samuel Kliger Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire . By Schilling Bernard N. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . $4.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 549 Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire. By Ber­ nard N...

...Beatrice Fink 346 The South Atlantic Quarterly areas of natural philosophy as well as religion, philosophy, and literature. Their presence is, in itself, reason enough to regret that few readers can afford to own this volume. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RICHARD D. ALTICK Voltaire: A Biography...

...George R. Havens Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 VOLTAIRE S MARGINAL COMMENTS ON ROUSSEAU GEORGE R. HAVENS -O COME directly into Voltaire s very presence and to _L hear him talk with customary verve, freedom, and even violence, to be another Boswell noting down for himself...

... happier than when rummaging through Paris bookstalls in search of rare editions of Rabelais, Diderot, and Voltaire. His last diary, entitled A Fort­ night in France, records the pleasure he experienced during a visit to the country in September, 1931, just a few weeks before the be­ ginning of his final...

... 1 Europaeum’’ conjured in Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth, it is to be found not in the work of Emerich de Vattel or other jurists, but in 2 Voltaire’s Candide...

..., reason enough to regret that few readers can afford to own this volume. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RICHARD D. ALTICK Voltaire: A Biography. By Haydn Mason. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 194. $14.95. Producing a concise biography of a man who lived to be 84, was one of the most...

...; and Maxwell Anderson s Joan of Lorraine, the latest major treat­ ment of the theme, reflecting a modern American approach and an attempt to relate the two periods, historically separated by five hundred years. Voltaire s epic poem, La Pucelle, is also worthy of comment. All these authors are in fairly close...

... his head, now his heart. It remained for Anatole France to achieve the ultimate combination of these opposing viewpoints. Like Heine or Renan, he too was compounded in equal parts of Rousseau and Voltaire, but in­ stead of shifting with utter abandon from one to the other as they had done, he...

.... They deserve to come to the renewed interest of the public as well as do the essays, which are now attracting longdelayed notice and appreciation. Of the four biographical sketches which he wrote, The Life of Richard Nash, Esquire is the fullest and the best. The Memoirs of M. de Voltaire is unfinished...

... entering the field of aesthetics will find help, and all readers, a humane and dis­ criminating temperament. Katharine E. Gilbert. Studies on Voltaire. By Ira O. Wade. Princeton: Princeton Uni­ versity Press, 1947. Pp. ix, 244. $3.00. The first of these studies concerns Voltaire s use of Adrien Baillet s...

... female the barest intimation of a vaginal crevice that the viewer had to look very closely even to see. This is true even of a couple of Moreau s illustrations for La Pucelle d Orleans in the Kehl Voltaire, which are usually well within the confines of decency (Figure 3). The engraver who deftly adds...

... in history. Historians disagree as to the number of rationalists in the 1700 s. Perhaps the actual number will never be known. It is possible to check those who left writings to posterity, but it is not so easy to count those who did not leave records. The wide sale of books by Voltaire and others indicates...

... English scholars may detect a trace of the school of grammar to which both Voltaire and Mme du Chatelet were introduced. In this volume Professor Wade has pursued elusive filiations of idea and fact with a discerning perspective. He leaves the reader enlightened re­ garding Voltaire and more impressed...

... contribution to the study of the manner in which man makes (or fails to make) a living in the twentieth century that has been made in recent years. John J. Corson, III. TWO BOOKS ON VOLTAIRE Voltaire. By Andre Maurois. Paris : Gallimard, 1935. Pp. 140. 12 frs. Voltaire. By Henry N. Brailsford. New York: Henry...

... highly successful. Indeed, to this reviewer Boswell on the Grand- Tour is better reading than either of the preceding volumes in this series. The climax of the book comes with the visits to Rousseau and Voltaire, and these are magnificently sketched. But Boswell, as Scottish Baron at large...

...Linton C. Stevens Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 JULIEN BENDA LINTON C. STEVENS HE PARADOXICAL career of Julien Benda suggests a comparison with Voltaire. But Voltaire had established his claim to fame at the age of fifty, while Thibaudet asserted that Benda s publication...

... for good or ill it was them or nothing. Happily, he need not be judged by his last days. No poet should. R. P. Harriss. The Young Voltaire. By Cleveland B. Chase. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1926. ix, 253 pp. This is a very readable and convenient account of the youth of Voltaire...