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...Theodore Ropp Bluejackets with Perry in Japan: A day-by-day account kept by Master’s Mate John R. C. Lewis and Cabin Boy William B. Allen . Edited with an Introduction by Graff Henry F. . New York : The New York Public Library , 1952 . Pp. 181 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke...

...Joseph P. Roppolo The Building of Uncle Tom’s Cabin . By Kirkham E. Bruce . Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press , 1977 . Pp. vii , 264 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 132 The South Atlantic Quarterly usually presumed roles of a reader in this verse...

..., it is Beat Two, northeast of Oxford, where in 1938 John, having come upon hard times as a flyer, settled for a time as manager of William s farm and began to write. Artisti­ cally, it is the Cabin Road district, a fictional world of which we might sketch a map such as the one of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha...

... roles of a reader in this verse. All in all, one may suggest that Joseph Summers treatment of Herbert s life in relation to the poetry is far more satisfactory than an undiluted Life. Duke University A. Leigh DeNeef The Building of Uncle Tom s Cabin. By E. Bruce Kirkham. Knoxville: The University...

... efforts to put over ideas in fiction were am­ bitious and plentiful. There were anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, anti-Masonic stories, and temperance tracts. Perhaps the most interesting and varied group of purpose-fiction in mid-century America is composed of the replies to Uncle Tom s Cabin. In 1852...

...Emma Curtis Tucker The Little Lady of the Transformation Emma Curtis Tucker Tenino, Washington Everybody knows it as it used to be. Everybody has read the novels of John Fox, Jr., and has seen in imagination the rude log cabins, clinging like crows nests to the steep, densely wooded hillsides...

... in length and fourteen feet wide, propelled by six long oars, a stemsweep, and a gouger. Its cabin, which rose only a few feet above the full length of the gun­ wales, was divided into four compartments that ran from stem to stem, one forward for the crew, one for the male passengers, one for the women...

...) of the before Reverend ; a mangled quotation on p. 92; and long and (to me) somewhat boring details of changes in the text of Uncle Tom s Cabin in Chapters 6 and 7 although these certainly can be defended as documentation of new material. Curiously, the controlling metaphor in the title is completely ignored...

..., their authors were neither scholars nor literary craftsmen. Their recollections, when not too vague, did yield the flavor of A Day with Whittier or A Visit to Thoreau s Cabin at Walden or An Hour in the Laboratory of Professor Agassiz, but nothing of the long sequence of days and hours when the writer had...

... and his mind wanders back to an earlier visit to that strangely attractive and mournful Senegal. Thoughts of Dakar and Saint-Louis crept into his letter to Daudet written in that narrow cabin aboard the Friedland: You have given me a great deal of courage and desire to write; I am going to start to work...

... Duncan Phyfe table in the hall; the Irish chain quilts over a century old, laid away in state in the chill bedroom upstairs. The Hogge Cabin Most ancient of all Guinea homesteads is the old log house in the Achilles neighborhood which belongs to T. H. Hogge. This cabin is forest-shadowed, aloof, and hard...

... of a little shack to shelter them from the wolves at night. The father was taught how to wield his axe and cut logs for the cabin in this forest, so dense that little of the sky could be seen. Seven neighbors came to the raising of the cabin. A vivid memory of Emanuel s childhood dated from the next year...

... of the wolves. Uncle Dan l was a great one for gettin meat. I ve heerd one time how he hid in the loft of a cabin when he seen In­ dians cornin . They had a new killed deer with em and come inside and skinned it. He lay quiet where he was till they went to sleep, four or five of em. Then he tipped out...

... and the World in Bostonwere given the following information re­ garding Southern mountain life. The scene: A little cabin con­ taining an old bed of prehistoric model; some apples, beans and pepper-pods strung on strings, hanging on the outside walls of the cabin; the following articles scattered about the room...

... possessions. This was in 1833. A log cabin was their first home. The father was not a farmer. He was horseman and trader and fisher and once or twice he was elected sheriff. The mother was a fine, strong woman and she and this eldest son worked hand in hand, he Joel McFee, Master Farmer 297 her main...

.... 6. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden (New York, 1967), p. 247. 132 The South Atlantic Quarterly Through my history s despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm. (5) Much of Berry s writing has been done in a rebuilt cabin, adjacent to Lanes Landing...

... s Mate John R. C. Lewis and Cabin Boy William B. Allen. Edited with an Introduction by Henry F. Graff. New York: The New York Public Library, 1952. Pp. 181. $3.00. This is a worm s eye view of Perry s expedition to Japan, a log and two journals which the editor has worked into a running...

... the reversion of humanity to a feral state. Audubon stands before a cabin thrown together with no calculation or craft occupy­ ing a spot that resembles a wound rubbed raw in the vast pelt of the forest. The cabin may represent the human hope as well as the primal filth of human existence...

... during the 1996 raid on Kaczynski’s Montana cabin, includ- ing his tweezers, empty peanut butter jar, and his papers—forty thousand pages’ worth. The proceeds of the Internet auction would go...

... it with lard, shines his shoes with the compound, and then packing his bag with Spartan lingerie goes to New York, after a glance at his empty cabin and full family burying ground, to kill the last representative of the enemy. The very human ending when the young fellow, waiting with his Colt and the haft...