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Babbitt Read Anew

Let me blow my own trumpet today—a feeble blast anyway, auxiliary to a great flourish for the late Irving Babbitt. For Babbitt’s first book, Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities, has just appeared as a paperback (Gateway Editions, Henry Regnery Company, $1.25), with an introduction by your servant. Most of the chapters of this book, which ushered in the intellectual movement called American Humanism, were written more than half a century ago; and the book itself was published in 1908.

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Babbitt Read Anew

Let me blow my own trumpet today—a feeble blast anyway, auxiliary to a great flourish for the late Irving Babbitt. For Babbitt’s first book, Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities, has just appeared as a paperback (Gateway Editions, Henry Regnery Company, $1.25), with an introduction by your servant. Most of the chapters of this book, which ushered in the intellectual movement called American Humanism, were written more than half a century ago; and the book itself was published in 1908.