Barzun’s Contributions to The American Scholar — with Additions

Compiled by Mark Halpern
Revised April 27, 2006, to include three additional items from John E. Adams
Revised November 9, 2006, with additions & corrections from Jason Rawnsley

(starred items signed “Roger du Béarn”)

Date of Issue	Title or Subject
Spring 1940	To the Rescue of Romanticism
Summer 1940	And Jacques Barzun Retorts
Spring 1945	Machiavelli Dead and Gone
Summer 1946	Of Making Books
Autumn 1946	Ça existe: A Note on the New Ism
Summer 1948	Radio in America
Summer 1951	The Retort Circumstantial
"         "	An American Encyclopedia (review)
"         "	A Loyalty Oath for Scholars (signed “Hippocrates Jr.”)
Summer 1952	A Writer Replies
Winter 1954-5	The Scholar’s Scratchpad
Summer 1955	page-long letter (pages 283–4)
Autumn 1956	The New Man in the Arts
Summer 1957	Fowler’s Generation
Winter 1957-8	A Chance to Tinker to Evans
"         "	Brief Comments (review)
Autumn 1958	Suspense Suspended
Spring 1959	A Lincoln Anthology in Brief
Spring 1960	TV in the World of Letters (signed “Anon”)
Autumn 1960	Brief Comments (review)
Spring 1962	In Favor of Capital Punishment
Summer 1962	Speaking of Means and Ends
Autumn 1962	A Briefbag of Felonies (essay-review)
Spring 1963	What is a Dictionary? (The Scholar Cornered)
Spring 1964	College to University — And After
Spring 1965	Meditations on the Literature of Spying
Autumn 1965*	Art and Letters: In the Hand or in the Bush?
Autumn 1966*	Art and Letters: The Feast of Cybernesia
Summer 1967	Controversy: About Cybernesia
"         " *	Art and Letters: Enigma Variations
"         "	Editorial on Irita Van Doren
Spring 1968	Arts and Letters: Scholarship
Autumn 1968	Five Thousand Orange Pips, or The Seeds of Pedantry (essay-review)
Winter 1969-70	The Book, the Bibliographer and the Absence of Mind
Summer 1970	The Horizontal Life (Controversy)
Autumn 1970	An Uncommon Carrier of Truth (Joseph Wood Krutch)
Spring 1974	Tribute to Hiram Haydn
Spring 1981	Sherlock Holmes and Sociology
Autumn 1981	Le Faux Chic (On Franglais)
Winter 1982-3	William James, Author
Spring 1984	The Aesthetics of the Criminous
Autumn 1984	The Colossus Laid Out
Summer 1985	Behind the Blue Pencil: Censorship or Creeping Creativity?
Winter 1985–86	Reply to Julia Glass’ letter re: Behind the Blue Pencil
Autumn 1986	Look It Up! Check It Out!
Spring 1987	Thoreau the Thorough Impressionist
Summer 1989	The Paradoxes of Creativity
Autumn 1990	The Cradle of Modernism
Summer 1992*	Clerihews for the Clerisy. Or: A Quick Fix for Cultural Illiteracy
Winter 1993	An Historian Who Writes History
Autumn 1993*	Clerihews for the Clerisy II
Summer 1994	Letter on “romanticism” as used by Paul McHugh in the previous issue
Autumn 1994	The Press and the Prose
Summer 1995	The Press and the Prose: An Exchange (w. Benjamin W. Fortson IV)
Spring 1996	Is Music Unspeakable?
Summer 1996*	Clerihews for the Clerisy III
Winter 2000	The Artist as Prophet and Jester
Summer 2001	Three Men and a Book
Autumn 2001	reprint (p. 14) of paragraph from Spring ’65 piece on spy literature
Summer 2006	brief letter on English usage and needless neologisms
Item Count =	59