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...Carl R. Woodring Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE AIMS, AUDIENCE, AND STRUCTURE OF THE DRAPIER’S FOURTH LETTER By CARLR. WOODRING Many an undergraduate has noticed for himself that the famous satires of Dean Swift lack...

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... and that of the Additions. A letter by Voltaire on Diderot’s philosophic opuscule, Diderot’s reply (both texts are pub- lished here, though not for the first time, from the original manuscripts), notes, a bibliography, and the list of variants complete the edition. Professor Niklaus has listed all...

...Lewis M. Knapp. Lillian de la Torre. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 228 Reviews indispensable source for all future research on Voltaire and the eighteenth century. Mr. Gagnebin’s edition of Voltaire’s unedited letters brings to light...

...- mary of Renaissance achievement, comparable in tone with Gar- gantua’s letter to his son though far more comprehensive. We see also at first hand the gropings of a Renaissance mind, still held back in part by a strange mixture of astrology, Christianity, and Pla- tonism, yet slowly...

.... Sacvan Bercovitch’s The Of+jceof “The Scarlet Letter” forms a chief exhibit of the paradoxical recentralization of Hawthorne produced by this shifting of the critical ground. A brilliant and passionate exploration of the mechanisms of liberal ideology (the book’s real subject) and a richly...

...Louis B. Wright Jean Robertson, London: University of Liverpool Press, 1942. Pp. 80. 7/6. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 240 Reviews The Art of Letter Writing: An Essay on the Handbooks Publislwd in England dztring the Sixteenth...

...Margaret Maurer Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 JOHN DONNE’S VERSE LETTERS By MARGARETMAURER John Donne’s occasional poetry does not easily admit the enthusiasm readers feel for his other work. His passionate...

...Clarence Gohdes Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SOME LETTERS OF JOAQUIN MILLER TO LORD HOUGHTON By CLARENCEGOHDES Shortly after Joaquin Miller had achieved his first notoriety in journalistic circles...

...Joseph B. Harrison A. Gee John and J. Sturm Paul. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. xxiv + 147. $2.75. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Joseph B. Harrison 147 Letters of Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska, 1890-1920...

...Samuel W. Stevenson By Helen Sard Hughes. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1940. Pp. xiii + 506. (A Wellesley College Publication.) Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Samuel W.Stevenson 515 The Gerctle, Hertford: Her Life and Letters...

...Melvin Rader Leonora Cohen Rosenfield. New York: Oxford University Press. 1941. Pp. 353 + xxvii. $3.50. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Melvin Rader 341 From Beast-Machirze to Man-Machine. ‘Animal Soul in French Letters...

... in- formative book should appeal not only to Germanists, but to anyone concerned with poets aid poetry. WALTER s1l.Z C‘olrtmbin Unizwsity Zinirrcr Maria Rilkr: His Last Friendship. Unpublishcd Letters to Mrs. Eloui Bey. Edited...

...Harcourt Brown Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 1 These letters are published by permission of the Council and Officers of the Royal Society of London, to whom I wish to express my thanks. My attention was called to them in 1932 by Mr. H. W. Robinson, the learned...

... Letters of Ludwig Tieck, Hithcrto Unpublished, 1792-1853. Col- lected and edited by EDWINH. ZEYDEL,PERCY MATENKO, and ROBERTHERNDON FIFE, with the cooperation of the Depart- ment of Germanic Languages, Columbia University. New York : Modern Language Association of America...