“ AN odd thought strikes me,” exclaimed Madame de Staël: "we shall receive no letters in the grave !" Nor,it is to be presumed, do they read books the grave. But if it were otherwise,if there were ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT — Katharine Anthony—Knopf ($3). When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, ...

In the annals of irresponsible utopianism, few names stand out like that of Bronson Alcott. This dreamy 19th-century son of New England was a high-minded Transcendentalist and visionary teacher, and, ...

THE JOURNALS OF BRONSON ALCOTT — Edited by Odell Shepard — Little, Brown ($5). One small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ...

This well-researched account of Louisa May Alcott’s amply documented life is differentiated by Noyes’s emphasis on the toxicity of Bronson Alcott’s Transcendental beliefs, Abby Alcott’s frustration ...

OF the execution of this immense project there will certainly be no competent review in the present decade, and very likely none in the present century. We are told that the extant manuscript journals ...