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LEA, Tom BERLIN, Isaiah DE LA MARE, Walter CHURCHILL, Winston Atlantic Monthly. Volume 184, Number 3, September 1949
Atlantic Monthly, Concord, N.H., 1949,
(LEA, Tom; BERLIN, Isaiah; DE LA MARE, Walter). The Atlantic Monthly. Volume 184, Number 3, September 1949. Concord, N.H.: The Atlantic Monthly, 1949.Pp [1]-95,(1). Double Column. 4to, illustrated green wrappers. Includes : “Quite a Beach” (a story by Tom Lea, pp 31-34); “Mr. Churchill” (by Isaiah Berlin, pp 35-44); “Poems” (three poems by Walter de la Mare, p. 58); and much more. Rubbed, else very good. 15.00
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WRIGHT, Berlin Hart and Bryant WALKER Check List of North American Naiades
The authors, Detroit, MI, 1902,
WRIGHT, Berlin Hart and Bryant WALKER. Check List of North American Naiades. Detroit, MI: Printed for the authors, 1902. 8vo, stapled printed blue-grey card covers. Name to title page, else vg. 20.00
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BERLIN, Isaiah Hedgehog and the Fox : An essay on Tolstoy's view of history.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1953,
BERLIN, Isaiah. The Hedgehog and the Fox : An essay on Tolstoy's view of history. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1953). First Edition. Pp (8),[1]-86,(2). Index. 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "In this essay on thesources of Tolstoy’s historical scepticism he deals vividly and originally with a little-known subject that is today specially relevant. Leo Tolstoy held uncompromising views about the laws and writing of history, and embodied these in the celebrated epilogue to War and Peace, as well as in the philosophical digressions interpolated here and there. These ‘theoretical asides’ have found little favour with the majority of Tolstoy’s critics. The epilogue tends to be spoken of as a prolix and irrelevant general discussion,a tedious sermon which, whatever its contemporary impact, now seems pedest rian and superfluous. Mr. Berlin does not share this view. Tolstoy’s reflections on history seem to him a great deal more original and sharp than the conventional comments of his critics. This essay is an attempt to relate Tolstoy’s analysis of history to his changing view, both conscious and semi-conscious, of life and art. Mr. Berlin provides evidence of a seldom remarked influence upon Tolstoy exercised by a celebrated early enemy of democracy, Joseph de Maistre. Tolstoy is known to have read the Savoyard publicist when he was writing War and Peace. Both Tolstoy and de Maistre were, to someextent, aristocratic dilettanti in open revolt against the rationalism and optimism of their own times. Their views, which often appeared to their co ntemporaries as merely perverse and obscurantist efforts to retard the inevitable march of enlightenment, seem, in the middle of the twentieth century, much more realistic and formidable. Both Tolstoy and de Maistre delightedin formulating solutions to problems in terms as unpalatable as possible t o the majority of their contemporaries. But, whatever may be thought of theanswers, or of their authors’ motives for urging them, the questions seem a good deal more ominous today than a century ago. Tolstoy put these question with characteristic force and directness, and at the same time made it impossible for himself to solve them, for reasons which this essay attempts to make clear." - from the dj. George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his nationalism, political conservatism, comments on technology, pacifism, Christian faith, and conservative views regarding abortion and is credited as one of Canada's most original thinkers. Grant was a faculty member at Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., twice (1947-1960, 1980-1988). Corners bumped, minor foxing toendpapers, else very good in browned and spine-chipped dustjacket. Ex-libr is George P. Grant (without indication, but acquired from his estate). 27.50
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