xii PREFACE 



Kahn T H. Fujimara, and Knut Behr. Professors Albert L. 

 Guerard, Brandeis University, and Rene Wellek, Yale University 

 have also given me the benefit of their criticisms. I ani gratetul 

 to Miss Evelyn Boyce, of the Columbia University Press, for 

 helpful suggestions. 



The Hebrew University 

 Jerusalem, 1952 



