The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

An historian by training and an artist by talent, Hendrik Willem Van Loon graduated from Cornell in 1905, studied for two years at Harvard, and took his Ph. D. at Munich. His knowledge, and his ability to delineate what he thinks, have qualified him as one of the ablest interpreters of our time. His Story of Mankind (1921), his Geography (1932), and now his new work on the Arts, will extend the horizons of many readers.