... The South Atlantic Quarterly The Aldrich Plan of Banking Reform Edwin W. Kemmerer,* Professor of Economics and Finance in Cornell University To most of us a million dollars appears to be a very substantial sum of money; multiply that sum by 450,000 and you have ap­ proximately the amount of business donein...

...Alice M. Baldwin Abby Aldrich Rockefeller . By Chase Mary Ellen . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. 159 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 270 The South Atlantic Quarterly Colebrook, Danbury, Fairfield, Farmington, Franklin. . . . Politicians...

...Louis J. Budd Thoreau as World Traveler . By Christie John Aldrich . New York : Columbia University Press with the co-operation of the American Geographical Society , 1965 . Pp. xiii , 358 . $8.75 . The Days of Henry Thoreau . By Harding Walter . New York : Alfred...

... Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 BOOK REVIEWS Thomas Bailey Aldrich. By Ferris Greenslet. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1908 xi., 303 pp. Such a biography as this justifies the remark of Sainte-Beuve: In the range of criticism and literary history there is no reading, which...

... Aldrich published his recol­ lections of a mild and pleasant Portsmouth childhood, he chose for his title The Story of a Bad Boy. He did so, he explained, partly to distinguish myself from those faultless young gentlemen who generally figure in narratives of this kind, and partly because I really...

.... R. H. Woody. TWO NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS Nelson W. Aldrich, a Leader in American Politics. By Nathaniel Wright Stephenson. New York: Scribner s, 1930. Pp. 496. $5.00. In the publication of this work Professor Stephenson has made two notable contributions to American history: he has written a biography...

... entirely ignored. It may be that some day, as Mr. Holbrook hopes, some funded professor will tell the story that is needed. Harry R. Stevens. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. By Mary Ellen Chase. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Pp. 159. $3.00. In this short biography Miss Chase has drawn an unforgettable...

... Dr. Johnson dominating a nondescript salon with cheerful bibacity. He became the roistering soul of their Bohemia. The maturing but still erratic Walt Whitman was a cautious satellite; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, oddly enough, was one of the group; even Howells visited, once only, the rendezvous in Pfaff...

... authority, and not as the scribes, could make a periodical endure the vicissitudes of a century. And men like Lowell or Howells, or even Aldrich, could perhaps be expected to have turned the trick. But Lowell lingered in office only until May, 1861, and Howells no more than a decade, though earlier he had...

.... The services of Chairman Glass and Owen and President Wilson were all that their positions of high responsibility demanded. No partisan prejudice should permit us to deny credit to the man of the opposite party who for years stood among the leaders for currency reform Nelson W. Aldrich, chairman of the Mone­...

... market securities which they had accumulated. By thus selling securities, the central bank could directly or in­ directly lower the reserves of the other banks and thus raise the rate at which the latter could make loans. The Aldrich plan was criticized, among other things, for not making provision...

.... Northerners also responded to the southern mill boom by demand­ ing tariff protection to help them acquire a large share of the home market for fine goods. Senators Henry B. Anthony and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island headed the New England drive in 1883 to raise the duties on finer grades of cloth. During...

.... Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich: A Leader in American Politics (1933); and H. F. Gosnell, Boss Platt. . . (1924) would be about the only biographies that could not be classified as memoirs. Thus a quick survey of the Congressional scene during the Pro­ gressive era made in 1948 showed that a fertile field...

... of property rights in slaves. Professor Dodd likes to compare the struggle against the interests in ante-bellum days with presentday warfare against monopoly and privilege. In Mr; Dodd s view Jefferson Davis was the Senator Aldrich or the Secretary Knox of his day. The volume is published by the Macmillan...

...; for his Beveridge an Aldrich. Here there is no one on whom the author can actually whet his character. George III is too remote; Edmund Pendleton, more fellow than rival; Hamilton has yet to cross Jefferson s path. ...

..., worthy of mention in the same breath with the names of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Whitman, Lowell, and Lanier? In this connection, permit me to suggest that history has not yet had time to fix the ultimate standing of such names as Stedman, Aldrich, Stoddard, Gilder, Hovey...

... Matilda Thomas, Louise Chandler Moulton, Elizabeth Stoddard, Louise Imogen Guiney, and Lizette Woodworth Reese; the perfectionists Aldrich, Gilder, Bunner, and Sherman; Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Richard Hovey, Stephen Crane, Father Tabb, Henry Van Dyke, Madison Cawein, Lloyd Mifflin, and George...

... touch with such men as Mark Twain, E. C. Stedman, Sir Walter Besant, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William E. Gladstone and others who have had perma­ nent or passing celebrity. The work contains many delightful recollections of the great men of America and England, and is il­ lustrated by numerous excellent...

... description of the quality of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller can be given than that of Miss Chase in her foreword. Singularly endowed with personal gifts of wit, charm, and gaiety, with a rare understanding and love of people, with keen intelligence and a quick sense of values, she lived her life with an intense...

... Jackson a Calhoun; for his Johnson a Stevens; for his Beveridge an Aldrich. Here there is no one on whom the author can actually whet his character. George III is too remote; Edmund Pendleton, more fellow than rival; Hamilton has yet to cross Jefferson s path. Books 33i It should be remembered that Mr...