Carcanet has just published a _Selected Writings_ of T. E. Hulme, edited by Patrick McGuinness. The price is L12.95, the ISBN mentioned in the TLS review is apparently wrong, because it has only 9 digits, and Amazon.com doesn't seem to be selling it yet in the United States. And here's part of what Scott Ashley says about it in the January 29 TLS, p. 38. "[T]here is much more at stake in a reading of Hulme than simply bringing some fine poetry from the shadows back to the light. For alongside the Imagist Hulme, who is not unknown to those interested in early Modernist writing, there is another Hulme, less palatable to twentieth-century taste. The insistence in his later work on the necessity of a belief in Original Sin, his contempt for the state of affairs we loosely call democracy, his vigorous anti-Humanism, seem rebarbative and even dangerous today. Yet on reading through 'Cinders' of 1906-07 to 'A Notebook' of 1915-16, we see something more complex and problematic than a mere reactionary. He found democracy repugnant, yet believed it a self-evidently 'true doctrine that all men are equal.' He may have washed up in the exclusivist circles of Action Francaise, but his writing is free of any trace of the anti-Semitism that so blighted the career of Pound. His espousal of extreme and absolute principles must be offset against his acute sense, derived from Henri Bergson, of fundamental chaos waiting to reveal itself. What remains of value in his work is not to be appreciated by reading him in the light of what our century became." Jonathan Morse Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa