Seminar Programs

Seminar Programs

by | Mar 19, 2007

Transmitting Our Western Heritage Through Education For over thirty years, thousands of students and dozens of distinguished lecturers have participated in our seminars at Piety Hill. These gatherings have addressed a wide variety of topics, including: A seminar at...

A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale

by | Mar 19, 2007

Since most modern men have ceased to recognize their own souls, the spectral tale has been out of fashion, especially in America. As Cardinal Manning said, all differences of opinion are theological at bottom; and this fact has its bearing upon literary tastes....

Edmund Burke: Tradition, Liberty, Empire

by | Mar 19, 2007

Foreign Affections: Essays On Edmund Burke by Seamus Deane. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Indiana), 216 pp., $30.00 paper. 2005. The title of this work, Foreign Affections, could be misunderstood at first glance given the modern sense of the term,...

Frights and Chills, Intelligently Rendered

by | Mar 19, 2007

Acquainted With the Night edited by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden. Ash-Tree Press (British Columbia, Canada), 384 pp., $48.50 cloth; $26.00 paper, 2004. Ash-Tree Press specializes in classic supernatural fiction. From the village of Ashcroft in British Columbia,...

Mr. Shakespeare’s Plays

by | Mar 19, 2007

On Essays and Letters Under the listings of Shakespeare, the Internet abounds in essays, reviews, texts, and comments, almost anything one can imagine about his works and about works explaining his works. My Viking Edition of Shakespeare comes to 1,471 pages. I...

The Odds According to Whom?

by | Mar 19, 2007

Intelligence Was My Line: Inside Eisenhower’s Other Command by Ralph Hauenstein and Donald Markle. Hippocrene Books (New York), 182 pp., $24.95 cloth, 2005. There cannot be many WWII veterans still active in public life like Ralph Hauenstein: nearly ninety-four...

Plucking Out the Heart of Shakespeare’s Mystery

by | Mar 19, 2007

Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Claire Asquith. Public Affairs (New York), xviii + 348 pp., $26.00, cloth, 2005. With the publication of Shadowplay, Clare Asquith joins the growing number of scholars who maintain not merely...

Permanent Things Here and Abroad

by | Mar 19, 2007

The University Bookman has long been concerned with issues of the nature of history and historical memory. We are therefore pleased to present in this issue a major review-essay on historical thinking, by Mark G. Malvasi. Malvasi captures the complexity of the debate,...

Current Problems and Eternal Questions

by | Mar 19, 2007

This issue of The University Bookman engages several subjects close to the heart of Russell Kirk’s work and vision in founding this journal. The study of history helps us to determine the underlying reality, what Kirk called the Logos, of the human condition. In...

Our Neighbors and the Ground Beneath Us

by | Mar 19, 2007

We are very pleased to present you with this issue of the University Bookman. As befitting a quarterly devoted to serious books, the reviews cover numerous subjects with, we believe, learning and clear writing in explication of the major issues of our age. Continuing...