...Raymond Himelick Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 CABELL, SHELLEY, AND THE INCORRIGIBLE FLESH RAYMOND HIMELICK WHEN THOMAS JEFFERSON spoke of the pursuit of hap­ piness he was thinking of a political right; but sensitive men are forced early into the uncomfortable conviction...

...Raymond Himelick Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 CABELL AND THE MODERN TEMPER1 Raymond Himelick WHEN LEAR assured Cordelia that in prison they would be as God s spies, looking into the mystery of things and talk­ ing of who s in, who s out, he was not thinking...

...Raymond Himelick No Place on Earth: Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia . By Rubin Louis D. Jr . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1959 . Pp. x , 80 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 586 The South Atlantic Quarterly away...

... language works that the theory of relativity did under Newtonian physics. INDIANA UNIVERSITY JOHN H. FISHER No Place on Earth: Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia. By Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959. Pp. x, 80. $2.50. Mr. Rubin calls his book an informal...

... it achieves transcendence and detachment, the free, disinter­ ested attitude of reflection and comparison rather than self-involvement. In Jurgen, Figures of Earth, and Something About Eve Wells sees Cabell most sucessfully allegorizing the discrepancy between man s naturalistic probable the norms of fact...

... and the other a historical survey. Dorothy Schlegel in James Branch Cabell and Southern Romanticism has attempted in the beginning to relate the romantic, chivalric, historical, and conservative aspects of Cabell s mind to the general mind of the South; her remarks are stimulating and usually sound, but she...

... of Scot), you might receive a more impartial estimate of my book from someone who knows the South and Miss Glasgow s works. (May I suggest the literary critic, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., who has written on both Miss Glasgow and James Branch Cabell; the historian, C. Vann Woodward; or Howard Mumford Jones...

.... Brooks. From the Hidden Way. A Book of Verse. By James Branch Cabell. New York: Robert H. McBride and Company, 1916, 187 pp. $1.35 net. The Roof of the World. By Henry G. Barnett. Boston: Sherman, French and Company, 1916, 229 pp. $1.50 net. From the Hidden Way, by James Branch Cabell, is a novel...

... in an object which, in the broadest sense, is evil, because it achieves transcendence and detachment, the free, disinter­ ested attitude of reflection and comparison rather than self-involvement. In Jurgen, Figures of Earth, and Something About Eve Wells sees Cabell most sucessfully allegorizing...

... . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1963 . Pp xiii , 255 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 592 The South Atlantic Quarterly recalls, what is this? In Cabell s fable it is the stuff dreams are made on, the nourishing sweetness of illusion. So, if destination...

... of philosophy, (2) as the foundation for a series of studies on the origins and early environment of Christianity and certain modem movements influenced by Platonism. Rupert Clendon Lodge. University of Minnesota. Book Reviews 183 Beyond Life. By James Branch Cabell. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company...

... in sending the reader to the Journal itself and to a fresh perusal of Thoreau s writings. Vanderbilt University. Edwin Mims. The Certain Hour. By James Branch Cabell. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1916, 253 pp. $1.35 net. In the composition of the ten stories and two ballads that make up...

... valuable features of the volume is the extensive bibliog­ raphy which covers fifteen pages and contains a list of im­ portant books and articles relating to the subject generally. Edgar W. Knight. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck. A Novel of the Passing South. By James Branch Cabell. New York: McBride, Nast...

... of names, ranging all the way from Hardy, Joyce, Masefield, and Mr. T. S. Eliot, down through Conan Doyle and Branch Cabell, to Don Marquis, Heywood Broun, and Floyd Dell. Not all of ...

.... Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., is professor of history in Brenau Col­ lege, Gainesville, Georgia. Mary H. Flournoy (Mrs. William Cabell Flournoy) is a res­ ident of Lexington, Virginia. She is vice president of the Virginia Federation of Women s Chibs. She has been awarded a number of prizes for her papers...

...Emerson Grant Sutcliffe Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 Thackeray s Romanticism Emerson Grant Sutcliffe University of Minnesota With confidence one may look to Mr. James Branch Cabell to make two blades of romanticism grow where only one, or none at all, grew before...

... of hundreds of peo­ ple who have lived there not just Edgar Allan Poe, Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell, and Douglas Southall Freeman. The book is chatty and folksy in tone. About half of the contents will appeal only to Richmonders these parts the general reader can skip but the rest is highly significant...

..., was a great artist and a profound commentator on the American scene. There is nobody hardy enough in the contemporary critical world to say a good word for Joseph Hergesheimer or James Branch Cabell or Elizabeth Woodworth Reese or John McClure or Ruth Suckow and Mencken had predicted immor­ tality of one sort...

..., was a great artist and a profound commentator on the American scene. There is nobody hardy enough in the contemporary critical world to say a good word for Joseph Hergesheimer or James Branch Cabell or Elizabeth Woodworth Reese or John McClure or Ruth Suckow and Mencken had predicted immor­ tality of one sort...

... throughout he identifies almost every street and house in the environs and gives cogent vignettes of hundreds of peo­ ple who have lived there not just Edgar Allan Poe, Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell, and Douglas Southall Freeman. The book is chatty and folksy in tone. About half of the contents...