Volume 1, Number 11 · January 23, 1964
Too Much Mustard
By Richard Hoggart
A State of England
by Anthony Hartley
Harcourt Brace, 255 pp., $4.95
Mr. Hartley's book—his first—is a wide-ranging polemic against British intellectuals for their inadequacies in Britain's present condition—for their parochialism, nostalgia, sentimentality, delusive pride, intellectual self-indulgence, and much else. Anyone who has read his articles in the Guardian, Encounter, the Spectator, and elsewhere will know that Mr. Hartley is shrewd, widely read, and has a sharp wit. He uses his assets to good effect here and makes some telling points. But I found myself becoming more and more puzzled by his argument as a whole, chiefly because of a curious thinness in his treatment of each issue.
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