...Merle M. Bevington The Swinburne Letters . Edited by Lang Cecil Y. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1962 . Vol. V , pp. vii , 290 ; Vol. VI , pp. vii , 446 . $15.00 the set. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 BOOKS English Literature The Swinburne...

...W. H. Irving Poets and Story-Tellers . By Cecil David . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 201 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 624 The South Atlantic Quarterly of them are mentioned either in footnotes or in the bibliography) and ad­ mirably...

...William B. Hamilton Melbourne . By Cecil David . Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. , [ 1954 ]. Pp. 450 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 BOOKS Melbourne. By David Cecil. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com­ pany, Inc., [1954]. Pp. 450. $5.00...

...Merle M. Bevington The Swinburne Letters . Edited by Lang Cecil Y. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1959 . Vol. I , pp. 1 , 315 ; Vol. II , pp. vi , 378 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 436 The South Atlantic Quarterly the Civil War...

...Lionel Stevenson Max: A Biography . By Cecil David . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1965 . Pp. xiv , 507 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 BOOKS Max: A Biography. By David Cecil. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Com­ pany, 1965. Pp. xiv, 507. $6.95. What...

...Merle M. Bevington 348 The South Atlantic Quarterly and that thus, for better or for worse, Milton and Bunyan achieved completeness only within the limited sphere of Protestant Christianity. DUKE UNIVERSITY J. A. BRYANT, JR. The Swinburne Letters. Edited by Cecil Y. Lang. New Haven: Yale...

... known. With their book, ignorance can no longer be pleaded, with the result that wider and still more fruitful use of the Board should now become possible. DUKE UNIVERSITY RICHARD H. LEACH Porte Crayon : The Life of David Hunter Strother. By Cecil D. Eby, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...

...Cecil B. Williams Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THOMAS WOLFE FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER Cecil B. Williams Although scholarly interest in Wolfe is now at a low ebb, the demand for his books continues. The 1953 index to the Publishers' Trade List Annual lists twenty-two editions...

..., 1939, my eye was caught, under a page of miscellany, by the following account of a wager made in i860 by Lord Cecil with an American named Walter Hastings: They [Lord Cecil and Walter Hastings] had been arguing over the ef­ fect of solitary confinement on the human mind, Hastings inclining to the view...

... mentioned as witness of Henryson s living quality. P. F. Baum. Poets and Story-Tellers. By David Cecil. New York: The Mac­ millan Company, 1949. Pp. 201. $4.00. Lord David Cecil has republished a group of essays under the above title. The topics range through Elizabethan drama, Gray s poetry, two...

... that God in Charles Gordon Jacobite and Loyalist 399 His mercy has blessed this fair land, as no other land has been blessed. The counties of Cecil and of Kent are the two northern counties of the Eastern Shore; they were wealthy and prosper­ ous and here Charles Gordon located. He was soon admitted...

... lem of government. Here the two rivals, Leicester, the favorite, and Cecil, the shrewd and trusted servant, acted as poles, to use the author s apt metaphor, attracting the particles that made up the political group­ ings and factions of the age. Although Elizabeth continued to lavish personal favor...

... friction in the Cabinet was the resignation of Robert, Lord Cecil, who had been the British representative at Geneva. He was succeeded by Mr. Ronald McNeill, soon thereafter raised to the peerage as Lord Cushendun, who has none of the pro­ gressive tendencies of Lord Cecil. The back benches...

... personal interest was greater be­ cause a relative of the favorite was his young step-motherin-law. The Ashleys and the Coopers held manorial courts of their own, but they deferred in turn to the Cecils, the Digbys, the Howards of the day. They only sat in the lower house. The grandfather, Ashley, did...

... height of commercial rivalry, which later, coupled with her naval development and great army, so alarmed Europe. Nor had the lessons of Colenso and Spion Kop been given to the world. The long day of Gladstone had almost reached its close. There was a faint gleam in 1894, but now a Cecil was prime...

... existence after the famous scene with Rawdon and Lord Steyne, despite Thackeray s detailed account of it. Even critics will­ ing to contemplate her unsavory qualities tend to be rather indignant about them and to scold Thackeray for attributing them to her. Lord David Cecil, for example, complains (in Early...

... prompted British Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice to warn his Government: It is becoming a profession now among a certain number of Con­ gressmen to attack the British Government. It is quite unlike old times. The reason, of course, is that many of the Congressmen are Irish or with Irish connections...

... much new and impressive material. Some of the seventeen contributors have done their work well. Probably the two best essays are Jewish Cultural Influence in the Middle Ages by Cecil Roth and The Fountainhead of Western Religion by Vergilius Ferm. The Jews have indeed made a great contribution...

... Council is detailed and is generously larded with comment and anecdote. We are told a good deal less about his life apart from his work. His childhood in a large, middle-class, Nonconformist family is briefly and vividly sketched, as are his experiences at Cecil Reddie s experi­ mental Abbotsholme School...

... self-evident the truth that the main character of the Teutonic race differs very slightly from the character of the Anglo-Saxon. A few months after the outbreak of the war, Cecil Chesterton was to summarize this process of teutonizing England from a somewhat different perspective. The English, he...