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GOING TO THE RIVER by Constantine Fitz Gibbon. 277 pages. Norton...
...World War I approaches its demi-centenary, more and more British writers are exploring it as a true watershed in European history. Presented by Anglo-American Constantine Fitz Gibbon, the war not only killed millions in the trenches, it destroyed the survivors. The demanding civic faith and exacting private moral code of the Victorians were the unlisted casualties. The survivors who carried on were Eliot's "hollow men, headpiece filled with straw...
Caldecott is a truly dreadful character, designed to win Fitz Gibbon no friends in British left-wing intellectual circles, who have detested him ever since When the Kissing Had to Stop (TIME, July 18, 1960) made the left the villain of contemporary British history. Fitz Gibbon does not seem to mind, has announced his next book as Random Thoughts of a Fascist Hyena...
...show that the White House library, in its present projected form, cannot truly be the library of a cultivated man, it is sufficient to mention a few names. In history, Thucydides and Gibbon. In philosophy, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas and Kant. In political theory, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. In literature, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Rabelais and Cervantes. It may be argued that these authors are not crucial to the working reference library of an American President. But certainly they deserve as much place in such a library as (to choose an unfair example) Herbert Warren Wind's The Story...
...career as a historian. Born into a wealthy Boston family, he wrote one volume of indifferent poetry, dabbled in literary criticism, traveled about Europe, and at 30 decided that he should write a significant book. The role of literary-man-turned-historian appealed to him; he had always admired Gibbon and Voltaire. But their weakness, he noted, was that their "writings are nowhere warmed with generous moral sentiment." Looking for a country on which to lavish moral sentiment, Prescott discovered Spain...