Random Notes

More October Titles: Tom Wolfe’s new book is From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, $10.95)—a perceptive and of course very funny study of the contrast between the spareness of modern architecture and the indulgent efflorescence of modern society. . . . The Graves of Academe (Little, Brown, $10.95) is by Richard Mitchell, a/k/a ‘‘the underground grammarian.” Mitchell is a brilliant stylist, a shrewd observer, and a genuine wit. He predicts the further decline of American education, barring unlikely developments.

In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (Putnam, $14.95) the prolific Malachi Martin argues that the Church’s secular preoccupations have gravely eroded its concern for spiritual matters and that the liberalism intruded into it by Vatican II has almost destroyed the institution and has caused confusion and immorality among its members.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

More October Titles: Tom Wolfe’s new book is From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, $10.95)—a perceptive and of course very funny study of the contrast between the spareness of modern architecture and the indulgent efflorescence of modern society. . . . The Graves of Academe (Little, Brown, $10.95) is by Richard Mitchell, a/k/a ‘‘the underground grammarian.” Mitchell is a brilliant stylist, a shrewd observer, and a genuine wit. He predicts the further decline of American education, barring unlikely developments.

In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (Putnam, $14.95) the prolific Malachi Martin argues that the Church’s secular preoccupations have gravely eroded its concern for spiritual matters and that the liberalism intruded into it by Vatican II has almost destroyed the institution and has caused confusion and immorality among its members.