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... question, a good biography and will long remain an appropriate memorial to the late Professor E. G. Ainsworth. ROLANDB. BOTTINC State College of Washington Horace Walpole : Gardenist. An Edition ,of Walpole’s “The History of Modern Taste in Gardening...

...Jesse Molesworth The manipulation of local time, or clock time, constitutes a vital aspect of gothic storytelling, as seen in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto , Matthew Lewis’s Monk , and Ann Radcliffe’s novels. Several concepts emerge: the importance of the hour as a temporal unit...

...Alice Stayert Brandenburg Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE THEME OF THE MYSTERIOUS MOTHER By ALICESTAYERT BRANDENBURG When Fanny Burney read a copy of Horace Walpole’s Th.e Myste- rious Mother, which she had...

... Rising. Mackreth, who had inherited White’s in 1761 on the death of the original owner, Robert Arthur, soon turned the management of the club over to ar, agent and devoted his energies to bookmaking and usury.3 George Walpole, third Earl of Orford, became indebted to him and in October, 1774...

... portraits. These voluminous notes were heretofore available only through Horace Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, because the original Vertue MSS in the British Museum remained unpublished. The publication of his most important note- books by the Walpole Society, however, has made many of Vertue’s...

... cramp Names” mutilated by Joseph, “Ammy- conni” was that of a living competitor. A Venetian “painter of his- tory” who had worked in England during the 1730’s, Jacopo Amigoni possessed, according to Horace Walpole, a manner that was “a still fainter imitation of that nerveless master Sebastian...

... Tory Anarchy,” ECS, 3 (1969), 61-66; and John I. Fischer, “How to Die: Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift,” RES, n.s.. 21 (1970). 422-41. 246 PETER ,J. SCHAKEL 247 Suffolk and the Queen (179-88), Walpole (189-96), Lintot...

...Laura Hibbard Loomis Ronald N. Walpole. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1944. Pp. 385-452. Seventy-Five cents. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 REVIEWS Charlevnagne and Roland...

... might prove of interest to scholars in this field. First, however, it might be well to review very briefly the main theory of the Gothic romance before proceeding to its minor aspects. As Horace Walpole stated in his Preface to the second edition of The Castle of Otrunto (1765...

... illegitimacy, the corrupt machinations of Robert Walpole in particular, was closely tied to his more personal anxieties about printed autho- rial voices and an increasingly diverse readership. For Fielding, these debased oracles represented both communicative failures in modern political structures...

... addresses himself to Walpole and the Whig authorities, to Lord Car- teret, and, with less justification perhaps, to personal coteries. He writes for persuasion, encouragement, intimidation, entertainment, aesthetic satisfaction, self-defense, and self-expression (or, as the social scientist puts...

.... ENGLISH Chase, Isabel Wakelin Urban. Horace Walpole : Gardenist. An Edi- tion of Walpole’s The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening with an Estimate of Walpole’s Contribution to Landscape Archi- tecture. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1943. Pp. xxix + 285. $3.50...

... and will long remain an appropriate memorial to the late Professor E. G. Ainsworth. ROLANDB. BOTTINC State College of Washington Horace Walpole : Gardenist. An Edition ,of Walpole’s “The History of Modern Taste in Gardening” with an Estimate of Walpole’s...

...] . . . are so fair as to beget the fathers as well as the children.—Horace Walpole All quest-romances of the post-Enlightenment, meaning all Romanticisms whatsoever, are quests to re-beget one’s own self, to become one’s own Great Original.—Harold Bloom he brief career of the “marvellous...

...” or “polit- ical satire.” (;arretta gives an interpretation of the Epistle lo Reilhu,:st in chapter 3, discusses the Irnitcitioiis of‘HowicP and political satire of the 1730s in chapter 4, and devotes chapter 5 to Diriicicid 4. He argues that in theEpi.stlr to Reihioxt Pope was attacking Walpole...

... in declaring (p. 40) that W. L. Cross suggests that Wild here represents Townshend. Cross does not mention the matter at all on the page Irwin cites; later he suggests that though Wild might be equated in this scene with Walpole, a more likely identification would be with Wilmington (History...

... chapters, and continued in subse- quent chapters-two each for each of the three arts-that describe prelimi- nary attempts helping to clear the way for the ultimate triumphs. The chief forerunners are Jonathan Richardson and Horace Walpole; Charles Avison and Sir John Hawkins; Warburton...

... (Boston: The Gorham Press, n. d p. 84. 6Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Peter Cunningham, 9 vols. (London, 1857). Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 12, 1763, vol. IV, p. 148. D’Eon’s “madness first broke out upon one Vergy, an adventurer, whose soul he threatened to put into a certain...

... of The Welsh Opera may be suggested briefly : the play is a broad political satire, with a complex allegory in which may be distinguished George 11, Queen Caroline, Prince Frederick, Sir Robert Walpole, William Pulteney, and others prominent in the public life of England. The original title...

...Fritz L. Cohn Lawrence Marsden Price. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1944. PP. 27-124. $1.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 350 Reviews Two of Dr. Walpole’s minor...