ABSTRACT
Human beings, those at least who reflect on their situation in this world, may be divided into three kinds. At the present time the Marxists are the chief representatives of the first kind, and the Roman Catholic Church still the most powerful representative of the third. D. B. Wyndham Lewis study of Boswell, The Hooded Hawk, has less humour and good humour than one expects to find in his work, and much more of what William Blake calls ‘the confident insolence sprouting from systematic. The most dazzling figure in Mr. Wyndham Lewis’s narrative is John Wilkes. Biography, to adapt Wordsworth’s saying about poetry, is human nature delineated in tranquillity. Boswell had many faults, including the malice which Mr. Wyndham Lewis so strenuously disclaims on his behalf. He had also many good qualities, which lose much of their outline as they loom through the cloud-rack swirling in the mind of Mr. Wyndham Lewis.
