Volume 19, Number 3 · August 31, 1972
A Saint-Simon of Our Time
By W.H. Auden
In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler
translated by Charles Kessler, with an Introduction by Otto Friedrich
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 535 pp., $10.00
Count Kessler's diaries begin when he was fifty, three days before the Armistice, and end in 1937, a year after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, when he was an exile living in Paris. Mysteriously, there are no entries between New Year's Eve, 1933, and May 25, 1935.
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