...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...

... has appended a most useful bibliography of Schiller literature. CURTISC. D. VAIL University of Wiuhington The Spirit of Revolution in 1789: A Study of Public Opinion ar Revealed in Political Songs and Other Popular Literature...

... David C. Fodcr 36 I resistance to change found in all religious institutions-the same conservatism, for example, that induced Joshua, in the Iron Age, to circlimcise the Israelites with flint knives (Josh. 5 :3). In the course of this clash of opinion about...

... Vita Sua: Being a History of His Religiow Opinions. By JOHN HENRYCARDINAL NEWMAN. Edited with a Preface and Introduction by CHARLES FREDERICKHARROLD. New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1947. Pp. xxii 4- 400. $3.50. An Essay in Aid of a Grammar...

... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...

... sphere, persuading her “children” to exercise greater patriotism. She sways public opinion to effect improvement. Alone among writers of this period, James Thomson intuitively understood that no single voice had authority in the new politics and that all interventions were contingent. His 1729 Britannia...

.... If a book devotes a score of pages to comparing Arnold’s and Mill’s opinions on the very idea of organizing the religious spirit and establishing churches, he can still say (falsely, by the way: see pp. 29-31, 130, 249-56) that their conflict over religion and Church Establishment “is a subject...

... margin the fullest to date. Harold March 237 The first task is adequately and clearly done, even if no major revisions of current literary opinions are accomplished. Dr. Artinian brings up a number of interesting points and corrects some...

... of Churchill’s contradictions depend on his being Positive because he is Dubious: he is ready to present his unargued convictions as common sense, as things that we just know (“virtue be virtue still”), even as he skeptically unmasks commonly shared opinions as illusory. Saying that he is neither Positive nor...

.... In offering an opinion of a work that aims at interpretation and criticism, it may seem odd to begin with the Appendix. But if one is to do justice to Stevenson’s work on Measure for Measure, that is the way a commentator can demonstrate most clearly the contribution Stevenson has made...

... but have a few reservations; or, find it bad and make a few complimentary remarks. It is hardly normal to find a review in which the pros and cons are so evenly balanced and each side so convincingly defended that the reader is left wondering which of the two sets of opinions is really...

... theories of “natural law” he adopts, and Burke whose “constructive mind” and genius bring order to what Bredvold regards as the delusions of the speculative philosophers of the En- lightenment. In the new climate of conservative opinion, it has now become fashionable to forget...

... scarcely believe that Dr. May accepts Lefebvre’s opinion that Diderot’s sole ethical interests were in such matters.) The sources of La Religiewe which are to be found in Diderot’s own life are next developed with perspicacity. The last two chapters are a study of the book itself...

...Elmer Edgar Stoll Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 BROWNING’S IN A BALCONY By ELMEREDGAR STOLL There is an interesting difference of opinion, of which I have only of late become aware, concerning the value of Browning’s closet...

... of the book, is not merely abnormal, it is incomprehensible. Let me quote those portions relevant to the discovery of the poems: These poems, remarkably similar to those of John Keats, are offered here, pending further expert opinion, as the work of an anonymous author. They have, in fact, been...

... intellectuals feeling the responsibility to engage in public debate, sprinkles his chronicle with strong and some times sweeping judgments and opinions. He even risks the vulnerability of prediction; writing perhaps only six months or so before students disrupted Columbia University for more than...

... a clear distinction is made be- tween the modalities of theological opinion at a given time, and the basic tenets of the Catholic faith. Professor Barker has not often done this and consequently his criterion for placing Diderot is un- certain or shifting. For instance, he writes...

... and represented his opinion of Pascal in 1772. But it is the consensus of those who have investigated the authorship of the anonymous FGA reviews that it was not written by Goethe. Max Morris attributes the review to HerdeHe points out that the beginning of the article corresponds closely...

... “are true Copies of Nature but generally low and awk- ward.” Standing high above the rank and file are “Etheridge, Dry- den, Wickerly, Otway, Congreve and Vanbrug.” In commenting on this list, Mr. Wells remarks that his author’s opinion is “not far removed from the judgment of posterity...

... earlier opinions, and even contradicted himself. Meister, on the contrary, had right from the start an almost complete view of Rousseau the writer and philosopher. His state- ments are well thought out and well balanced. It is understandable, then, that the conclusions reached by both critics...