Abstract

This is a neat pocket-size edition of the original Pantheon production which lacks the sixty-eight plates in black and white, the “texts without comment” for seven of the nine chapters, and “many footnotes and references”. These accessories however had never much relevance, even illustrative, to Mr. Maritain’s “philosophy of art”, and believers have all the nine Mellon lectures here—and a monumental work in its kind—very cheaply for about ten shillings. The work has been amply reviewed since its first publication, and since then Mr. Maritain has been put severely in his place in many quarters. Let it suffice therefore to indicate once again that the book will be valued by those for whom the phrase “philosophy of art” makes sense, and that among these few artists, critics or intimate lovers of this or that art are likely to be found.