... thrift, he may finger his bawbees rather tenderly before parting with three dollars for a book of only 133 pages. EDWARDG. Cox University of Washington The Connecticut Wits. By LEONHOWARD. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1943. Pp...

...Rodney O. Rogers TWAIN, TAINE, AND LECKY THE GENESIS OF A PASSAGE IN A CONNECTICUT YANKEE By RODNEY0. ROGERS Mark Twain was profoundly responsive to certain nineteenth- century historians...

....” In A Connecticut Yankee, the dream is “to create an ideal society-a dream that was to be realized in the nineteenth century” (pp. 17, 18, 19). As a realist and a humorist, Mark Twain was committed to relating his folk-hero dreams in “concrete, specific, accurate prose.” But as his pessimistic...

... wherein the importance of the Wits lies-not in their feeble imitations of foreign models, but in their revelations of the life and aspirations of the people of Connecticut, of New England, and of the new America. “. . . the importance of a study of the Connecticut Wits, in the literary history...

...Helen C. White Babette May Levy. Hartford, Connecticut: American Society of Church History, Studies in Church History, Volume Vi, 1945. Pp. 213. $3.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 250 Reviews where four volumes can be spread out for easy...

... tenderly before parting with three dollars for a book of only 133 pages. EDWARDG. Cox University of Washington The Connecticut Wits. By LEONHOWARD. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1943. Pp. xi + 453. $4.50. This critical...

... Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. xi + 261. $2.75. The chief function of this biographical sketch, together with the editing of John Chapman’s diaries for 1851 and 1860, is to throw light into a hitherto dark corner of George Eliot’s early career-a corner...

... rather than absurdities. ‘I‘he best parts of his study- explorations of The Confidence Man, A Connecticut Yankee, As I Lay 9ing -set me off once more in thinking of American proclivities for the ambig- uous and the paradoxical. American literature is by no means unique in this passion. Hut...

... was based on the copy of the Amours of 1552 in the Paul Laumonier Library, which forms part of the Renais- sance section of the Wilbur Cross Library of the University of Connecticut. This copy is imperfect in a number of important respects, but the pages on which the Bacchanales appear (214-36...

... By JOSEPH G. FUCILLA* During the closing years of the eighteenth century there flourished at Hartford, Connecticut, then the literary center of New England, a group of intellectuals who have become known as the “Connecti- cut or Hartford Wits The leaders of this little band of patriots...

...Mark D. Coburn Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 “TRAINING IS EVERYTHING” COMMUNAL OPINION AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN PUDD’NHEAD WILSON By MARKD. COBURN In A Connecticut...

... (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Univer- sity Press, 1957), and William Langlands Piers Plowman. Eine In terpret a t io n d es C-Textes, Wi 11i E r z gra b e r , Frankfurter Arb e i t e n aus dem Gebiete der Anglistik und der Amerika-Studien, 3 (Hei- delberg: Carl Winter, 1957). MLQ...

.... WOLFGANGPAULSEN Uniuersity of Connecticut Jahresbericht uber die Erscheinungm auf dem Gebiete der Germanischen Phil- ologie. Neue Folge, Vols. XVI-XIX : Bibliographie, 1936-1939. Heraus- gegeben von der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1954...

... themselves in Schalk’s rather involved and ponderous demonstrations. PAULH. MEYER University of Connecticut ...

... of this truth by such means as they thought effective to that end. If the reader thinks this an untenable theory of poetry, he will enjoy in Mr. Brooks’ book one of the most brilliant of recent con- futations of it. ROSEMONDTUVE Connecticut College...

..., Connecticut : Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. xi + 261. $2.75. The chief function of this biographical sketch, together with the editing of John Chapman’s diaries for 1851 and 1860, is to throw light into a hitherto dark corner of George Eliot’s early career-a corner conveniently...

..., it is to be hoped that Mr. Bieber will choose to pursue further his fruitful explorations. All stand to gain therefrom. CHESTERW. OBUCHOWSKI University of Connecticut The Contemporary French Novel. By HENRIPEYRE. New York: Oxford Uni...

... that Dr. McKillop will soon make available additional fruits of his studies of Thomson and his writings. JOHN EDWINWELLS New London, Connecticut A Study of the Novels of John Galt. By F~ANKHALLAM LYELL. Princeton: Princeton University Press...

...), it describes a journey from Quebec to Niagara, back to Montreal, then across New York State to Boston (not recorded by Hunter), and down the coast to Charles- ton, with a side trip to Connecticut, a visit to Washington at Mt. Vernon, and a winter’s residence with cousins in Virginia. Hunter...

... to Montreal, then across New York State to Boston (not recorded by Hunter), and down the coast to Charles- ton, with a side trip to Connecticut, a visit to Washington at Mt. Vernon, and a winter’s residence with cousins in Virginia. Hunter was pleasantly disposed toward the new country and did...