Joseph F. McCrindle, an art collector who amassed a trove of old-master drawings and who founded and edited the Transatlantic Review to showcase young writers, died July 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. His death was confirmed by John Rowe, vice president of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, a philanthropic organization. In style and upbringing, Mr. McCrindle harked back to the philanthropists who endowed New York City's cultural institutions and sometimes ran them as well. He grew up in a Fifth Avenue mansion designed by Stanford White, and as a boy spent his allowance on rare books at auctions. His formidable mother, Odette Feder, was a wealthy socialite who married Maj. J. Ronald McCrindle, a flying ace who fought with British Field Marshal Lord Allenby in Mesopotamia during World War I. In 1928, she abruptly...
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