The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

OSWALD SPENGLER is physician to the Western world. European civilization he regards as a physical organism, and, having felt the pulse, he pronounces the poor fellow old, weak, and ailing. The blood transfusions from Mussolini and Hitler, says Dr. Spengler, only prolong the hour of crisis. It is not a very hopeful bedside bulletin which this German historian gives us. But then it must be remembered that Germany herself has not had much cause for hope these past fifteen years.