THE OPIUM OF THE INTELLECTUALS (324 pp.)—Raymond Aron—Doubleday ($4.50). French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman’s head. Raymond Aron, ...

Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...

Christopher Hibbert's "The Days of the French Revolution" (New York: Harper Collins, 1980) is the best untangling of the subject I have ever read. He follows the days that were the set pieces of the ...

IN The Atlantic for October, 1890, we reviewed Captain Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power upon History ; pointing out the originality and worth of the book, and expressing the hope that it would be ...