Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reissue is of the 1963 combined set, including a final volume containing an important Retrospect by Dr Leavis and a substantial analytical index. Scrutiny offers an almost complete critical history of English literature from Chaucer to the mid-twentieth century. Medieval literature, Shakespeare, the seventeenth-century poets, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, the great romantics, the Victorians, and nearly all the important modern writers are seriously examined. Many of the articles have become classics, and resulted in revisions of previously accepted views. An important feature of Scrutiny, still of great interest, is the book review section, where many of the important books of the time, and some of the pretentious ones too, were reviewed as they appeared.

Table of Contents:
Volume 3 No. 1 June, 1934: Evaluations (III): Alfred North Whitehead James Smith; Revaluations (IV): Hardy the Novelist Frank Chapman; Amateurism and Professionalism in Economics H. E. Batson; The Work of L. H. Myers D. W. Harding; The Return of Odysseus, a poem Richard Eberhart; Comments and Reviews; Means to Social Consciousness: Denys Thompson; Auden, Bottrall and Others: F. R. Leavis; Poems of George Barker, reviewed by Hugh Gordon Porteus; Shakespeare Criticism: Art and Artifice in Shakespeare, reviewed by L. C. Knights; Poetry Direct and Oblique, reviewed by D. W. Harding; Ideals and Facts in Adult Education: Adult Education in Practice, English in Australia and Reading and Discrimination, reviewed by W. A. Edwards; English Studies in the W.E.A., a note; How Shall We Teach? Progressive Schools, Their Principles and Practice, reviewed by Eric Capon and D. T.; An Atlas of Current Affairs, reviewed by J. B. P.; Economics for the Uninformed: reviews by H. E. Batson; Modern Man in Search of a Soul, reviewed by D. W. Harding; Volume 3 No. 2 September, 1934: Oxford Letter H. A. Mason; Why Universities? F. R. Leavis; Revaluations (V): Shakespeare's Sonnets L. C. Knights; History in the Classroom W. E. Brown; Advertising and Economic Waste C. H. P. Gifford; Comments and Reviews; England and the Octopus: Denys Thompson; The Rock, reviewed by D. W. Harding; Mr. Eliot, Mr. Wyndham Lewis and Lawrence: After Strange Gods, reviewed by F. R. Leavis; Announcement; A B C of Reading, reviewed by H. A. Mason; Journey to the End of the Night, reviewed by William Hunter; Soviet Literature, reviewed by D. S. Mirsky; Music in Decline: The Reality of Music and Music Ho!, reviewed by Bruce Pattison; Which England?: Here's England, reviewed by Adrian Bell; Progressive Schools: reviews by Denys Thompson; Manifesto, reviewed by F. R. Leavis; Russian Sociology, reviewed by H. W. Durant; Periodicals; The English Association; Volume 3 No. 3 December, 1934: Culture and Early Environment Raymond O'Malley; Revaluations (VI): Wordsworth F. R. Leavis; The Novels of Jean Giono Henri Fluchère; The Religion of Progress J. L. Russell; Correspondence: 'Ephraim Pundit', John Sparrow, George Reavey and Ronald Bottrall; Comments and Reviews; Ex Cathedra; 'What is Truth?' The Seventeenth Century Background, reviewed by H. J. C. Grierson; Lowes Dickinson: a review by W. H. Auden; Shakespeare and Shakespeareans: A Companion to Shakespeare Studies and Elizabethan Essays, reviewed by L. C. Knights; The Twilight of Intelligence: John Middleton Murray and Aspects of Literature, reviewed by D. W. Harding; Mechanisms of Misery: Tender is the Night, reviewed by D. W. Harding; A Hope for Poetry, reviewed by H. A. Mason; Modern Prose Style, reviewed by Frank Chapman; In All Countries, reviewed by Frank Chapman; Longinus and English Criticism, reviewed by James Smith; A 'Sceptical' Psychologist: Religion and the Sciences of Life, reviewed by C. E. Lucas; Volume 3 No. 4 March, 1935: Proletarian Literature William Empson; Revaluations (VII): George Chapman James Smith; Unpublished Poems Isaac Rosenberg; Aspects of the Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg D. W. Harding; Musical History Bruce Pattison; Comments and Reviews; The Times in School Denys Thompson; Dr. Richards, Bentham and Coleridge: Coleridge on Imagination, reviewed by F. R. Leavis; Poetry 1934: a review by H. A. Mason; Mr. Pound's Propertius: a review by John Speirs; The Balcony, reviewed by Sylvia Legge; The Land of Plenty, reviewed by Frank Chapman; The Solid Virtues: Claudius the God, reviewed by D. W. Harding; Early Victorian Novelists, reviewed by Frank Chapman; The Criticism of Ballet: Balletomania, reviewed by Erik Mesterton; A Public for Art in Industry: a review by J. M. Harding; Sociology, reviewed by H. W. Durant; The Twilight of Parenthood, reviewed by C. E. Lucas.