...Robert H. Woody Abigail Adams . By Whitney Janet . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1947 . Pp. xii , 357 . $4.00 . New Letters of Abigail Adams, 1788-1801 . Edited with an introduction by Mitchell Stewart . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1947 . Pp. xlii...

...Stephen J. Whitfield Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw . By Stone Albert E. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1982 . Pp. xvi , 349 . $28.50 (cloth), $9.95 (paper). Copyright © 1984...

...Anne Firor Scott Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams . By Withey Lynne . New York : The Free Press , 1981 . Pp. xiv , 369 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 356 The South Atlantic Quarterly Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams. By Lynne Withey...

...Stanley Trachtenberg The Ironies of Progress: Henry Adams and the American Dream . By Wasserstrom William . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press , 1984 . Pp. xiii , 269 , $28.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 330 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Morris Golden Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel . By Adams Percy G. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1983 . Pp. xi , 368 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 442 The South Atlantic Quarterly University of South Carolina...

...Andrew M. Scott Henry George, Henry Adams, and the Dominant American Ideology Andrew M. Scott Americans are generally considered, and generally consider them­ selves, to be nonideological. Our most notable political thinkers died before the industrial age was fairly under way, and systematic...

...Arlin Turner Essays in American Literature in Memory of Richard P. Adams . Edited by Pizer Donald . Tulane Studies in English , Volume 23 . New Orleans : Tulane University , 1978 . Pp. xv , 253 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 122 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Dougald Macmillan Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson . By Day Robert Adams . Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press , 1966 . Pp. [ viii ], 281 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 121 The Poetry of Meditation (1954...

...Charles Vandersee Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Henry Adams and the Invisible ro Charles Vandersee I Thomas F. Gossett, in his recent book tracing the idea of race in America, writes of the years 1865-1915: It is striking how often one finds among intelligent and sensitive...

...Robert F. Durden Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 . By Duberman Martin B. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1961 . Pp. xvi , 525 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book Reviews 125 Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886. By Martin B. Duberman. Bos­ ton...

...E. P. Douglass Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions to the Problem of Imperial Organization, 1765-1775 . By Adams Randolph G. . Third edition, with commentary by Merrill Jensen. New York : Barnes & Noble , 1958 . Pp. vii , 215 . $3.75...

...Leonard Casper Strains of Discord: Studies in Literary Openness . By Adams Robert M. . Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press , 1958 . Pp. ix , 215 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 127 proved untrue. We all have need of his queer slant...

...Everett A. Gillis Andy Adams, His Life and Writings . By Hudson Wilson M. . Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press . Pp. 274 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 579 Unfortunately, the second half of Lid s book rather steadily de­...

...Louis J. Budd The Montgomery Theater 1822-1835 . By Adams Henry W. . University : University of Alabama Press , 1955 . Pp. iv , 81 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 402 The South Atlantic Quarterly authority in the things which they have mastered...

...John A. Garraty Book Reviews 379 the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half, he wrote. No country should be so long without one. The series continues to be one of the major achievements in American historiography. noble e. Cunningham, jr. Henry Adams: A Biography...

...J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 JEFFERSON AND ADAMS AT EASE J. G. de ROULHAC HAMILTON University of North Carolina ONE OF the most striking happenings of the past two years has been the revival of keen popular interest in the life, character...

...Henry Commager Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 HENRY ADAMS HENRY COMMAGER New York University IN ONE of the most brilliant books of the year Thomas Beer characterizes the foremost historian of his generation as the dulcet Mr. Adams. The characterization is clever, but unjust...

...Eber M. Carroll Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Politics During the Administration of John Quincy Adams Eber M. Carroll Trinity College The slow development of sharply distinguished parties dur­ ing the administration of John Quincy Adams has given empha­ sis to the conflict...

...Herbert L. Creek Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 The Mediaevalism of Henry Adams Herbert L. Creek Purdue University It is my purpose to examine the motives that caused Henry Adams when nearly sixty years old to renew his studies in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...

...Ashbel G. Brice America Is West: An Anthology of Middlewestern Life and Literature . Edited by Flanagan John T. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1945 . Pp. xiv , 677 . $3.75 . The Treasure Chest: An Anthology of Contemplative Prose . Edited by Adams J. Donald...