SOURCE: Salvesen, Christopher. “Enduring Taste.” New Statesman 65 (25 January 1963): 126.

In the following review, Salvesen declares the third edition of Clark's The Gothic Revival to be “concise” and “informative.”

Sir Kenneth Clark's study [The Gothic Revival], first published in 1928, is worth its third edition, if only because it provides a concise and informative survey of a large and, it seems, increasingly popular subject—a subject which relates both to the visual sense and to a feeling for tradition, to an alertness about pinnacles and pointed arches and to the emotive overtones of gloomy, gas-lit decay which gather round churches and railway stations. The book, despite its rather clever-undergraduate style, brings a serious historical approach to the Gothic Revival—which itself was one of the original symptoms of our present highly developed sense of history. The revival grew from a general and ‘literary’ impulse, a sense of the past stirring in...