Books: Unamunity

THREE EXEMPLARY NOVELS—Miguel de Unamuno—Boni ($2.50).

Unamuno, a great name in Spain, famed throughout Europe, is not so well known in the U. S. Most religious of philosophers, most passionate of professors. Unamuno's earnestness and energy are untypical of Spain, his violent, rebellious liberalism untypical of his academic profession. Unamuno looks at life passionately and sees it as a tragedy. Says he, in the prologue to Three Exemplary Novels: "I believe the curve of the hyperbole strives — just so! to join with its asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe...

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