... of reminders here and some examples to follow. All are salutary. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, GREENSBORO J. A. BRYANT, JR. The Book of King Arthur: The Unity of Malory s Morte D Arthur. By Charles Moorman. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965. Pp. xxx, 106. $5.00. In 1947 Eugene Vinaver proposed...

...Peter Schwenger Peter Schwenger Agrippa, or, The Apocalyptic Book All techniques meant to unleash forces are tech­ niques of disappearance. Paul Virilio Black box recovered from some unspecified disaster, the massive case opens to reveal the textures of decay and age. Yellowed news­ paper, rusty...

...Frank Lentricchia Frank Lentricchia Ezra Pound s American Book of Wonders Xks a social and literary critic Ezra Pound is a celebrant of the intensely peculiar: the apparently primordial, autonomous force which he believed stood under and pro­ pelled all expression: what rescues Homer or Dante...

...Janice Radway Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Janice Radway The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Class Fracture, and Cultural Authority ^Rie Book-of-the-Month Club was legally incorporated under New York state law on ii February 1926.1 Given its first...

... against the wall of old theories and institutional values attributed to the founders. This is a provocative book. Professor Bradford states a central theme, if there be one, in the statement Not religion, but the cult of equality is the opiate of the masses in today s world part of the larger and older...

...Robert Kimbrough The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare’s Sonnets . By Giroux Robert . New York : Atheneum , 1982 . Pp. xv , 334 . Illustrations. $17.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 468 The South Atlantic Quarterly one of those rare...

...Ruth F. Boorstin The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse . Chosen by Grigson Geoffrey . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. xviii , 454 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 352 The South Atlantic Quarterly Tidrick seeks to find the linkage between...

...Kenneth Cherry Book Reviews 417 One Book/Five Ways: The Publishing Procedures of Five University Presses. By the Association of American University Presses. Los Altos, Calif.: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1978, Pp. x, 337. $18.75 hardcover; $9.75 paper. Publishing is a combination of idealism...

... Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 BOOK REVIEWS The Tragic Era. The Revolution After Lincoln. By Claude G. Bowers. New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. xxii, 567 pp. With an eye to the dramatic, and with many a literary, or perhaps one should say journalistic...

... Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 BOOK REVIEWS James Bryce. By H. A. L. Fisher. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. 2 vols., xi, 360 + 360 pp. England has never produced a finer type of liberal than James Bryce. Indeed he was unique in that his view of life was international...

... Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 BOOK REVIEWS Jesus the Nazarene Myth or History? By Maurice Goguel. (Translated by Frederick Stephens.) New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926. 320 pp. The myth theory of Jesus which was worked out in thorough-going fashion by Strauss as long ago...

... Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 BOOK REVIEWS Disraeli: Alien Patriot. By E. T. Raymond. New York: The George H. Doran Company, 1925. 346 pp. In the annals of mutability there are recorded few changes stranger than that which has come about relative to the general estimate...

... Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 BOOK REVIEWS The Life and Works of Edward Coote Pinkney. A Memoir and Complete Text of His Poems and Literary Prose, Including Much Never Before Published. Prepared by Thomas Ollive Mabbott and Frank Lester Pleadwell. New York: The Macmillan...

... Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Book Reviews The Advancing South; Stories of Progress and Reaction. By Edwin Mims. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1926. xviii, 319 pp. Mr. Mims has made an invaluable survey of currents of opinion in the South of today...

... Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Book Reviews Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America. By Claude G. Bowers. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. xvii, 531 pp. Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson. By Francis W. Hirst. New York: The MacMillan...

... Book Reviews Great Britain and the American Civil War. By Ephraim Douglas Adams. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1925. 2 vols., 307, 340 pp. These volumes are timely as well as informing. It is well indeed in this day when the nature and course of European international relations...

... Book Reviews John Keats. By Amy Lowell. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. 2 vols., 631, 662 pp. Miss Lowell s publishers advertise this book as a biography of absorbing interest and a permanent addition to English literature. Most American reviewers have endorsed these claims...

... Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Book Reviews Personality in Politics. By William Bennett Muro. The Macmillan Company: New York, 1924. Pp. 114. This little book embodies the Weil Foundation lectures delivered at the University of North Carolina by the Professor of Municipal...

... Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Book Reviews A History of the Foreign Policy of the United States. By Randolph Greenfield Adams. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. xv, 490 pp. The story of the foreign policy of the United States can be told in several different ways...

... Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Book Reviews The Beautiful. By Henry Rutgers Marshall. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. 328 pp. This serious-minded rather than serious work on aesthetics makes of beauty a subjective phenomenon, and argues for the psychological...