Saturday Notes
Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution held a BookForum on Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms in August and September. Clark participated in the extended discussion of his book. You can find the commentary gathered here.
Roberta Smith,"When Renoir Left the Parlor for Fresh Air," NYT, 5 October, reviews"Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883," an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
William Grimes,"Dogging the Footsteps of a Wonderer on the Low Road," NYT, 3 October, reviews Charles van Onselen's The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal. Learn more than you need to know about Joseph Lis, whose petty theft and grand pimpery between the 1880s and World War I ranged from Europe to North America and South Africa, Latin America, and Europe, again.
Jane Smiley,"Frank Schaeffer Goes Crazy for God," Nation, 15 October, reviews Frank Schaeffer's Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back. I can't do justice to this in a single sentence. Hat tip.
Finally, farewell to Frederick H. Burkhardt. Educated as a philosopher, he spent most of his career in administration, at Bennington College and the American Council of Learned Societies. Yet, Burkhardt also edited 19 volumes of The Works of William James (1975-1988) and launched the Darwin Correspondence Project, editing 17 of 32 volumes of The Correspondence Charles Darwin (1985- ).