...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...

...Allan H. Gilbert Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age . By Adams Henry Hitch Hathaway Baxter . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. xx , 412 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 283 point the startled reviewer is apt...

...Harold T. Parker The French Education of Henry Adams . By Baym Max I. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. xiv , 358 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 BOOKS The French Education of Henry Adams. By Max I. Baym. New York: Columbia...

...Robert H. Woody John Adams and the American Revolution . By Bowen Catherine Drinker . Boston : Atlantic-Little, Brown , 1950 . Pp. xvii , 699 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 597 new viewpoints, offering to the specialist an important...

...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...

...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...

...Harry R. Stevens John Adams and the Prophets of Progress . By Haraszti Zoltán . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1952 . Pp. viii , 362 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 504 The South Atlantic Quarterly tradition than in the fashion of Livermore...

...Harry R. Stevens Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman 1740-1821 . By Boyd George Adams . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1952 . Pp. xiii , 321 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 601 tive immigration policy of the 1930 s, the end...

...Alexander DeConde The Adams Federalists . By Dauer Manning J. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press , 1953 . Pp. xxiv , 381 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 281 the depression and the New Deal, and another World War conspired to topple King...

...William B. Hamilton William Johnson’s Natchez: The Ante-bellum Diary of a Free Negro . Edited by Hogan William Ransom Davis Edwin Adams . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1951 . Source Studies in Southern History, Number 1 . Pp. xiii , 812 . $10.00...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...William H. Jordy Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 HENRY ADAMS AND WALT WHITMAN WILLIAM H. JORDY HENRY ADAMS and Walt Whitman a strange pair to be mentioned together! Is there anything common between the two? Is there anything but mutual contrast in everything they ever...

...W. T. L. Henry Adams Aand His Friends: A Collection Of His Unpublished Letters . Compiled, With A Biographical Introduction, By Cator Harold Dean . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1947 . Pp. Cxix , 797 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 600 The South...

...Edgar C. Knowlton The Shape of Books to Come . By Adams J. Donald . New York : The Viking Press , 1944 . Pp. 202 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 334 The South Atlantic Quarterly Heritage fatal d une vieille hydropique, Le beau valet de coeur et la dame...