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...Ruth Aproberts Thackeray’s Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public . By Colby Robert A. . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1979 . Pp. vi , 469 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass of Humanity: An Author...

...John Abbot Clark Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 FRANK MOORE COLBY: AN AMERICAN FAILURE John Abbot Clark BACK IN THE days when he was reviewing for the New Yorker, Clifton Fadiman called upon somebody to please do a book pointing out that the very greatest Americans and I mean...

...David C. Colby 196 The South Atlantic Quarterly treatment for commercial interests. Reflecting their agrarian bent, they rewrote laws to ensure the dominance of landed interests over labor. In some cases, they even violated their notion of minimal government to do so. This volume is a good...

...Capt. Elbridge Colby Thomas Holcroft Man of Letters Capt. Elbridge Colby, U. S. A. New York City Take a man whose reputation rests today more on his life than on his works,1 more on biography than on bibliography, more on his politics than on his publications, and immediately the wonder arises why...

...Elbridge Colby Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 The New Economic Interpretation of Literary History. Elbridge Colby Proudfit Fellow in fetters, Columbia University. Now that the theory of the Economic Interpretation of His­ tory is well established, historians have begun...

...Elbridge Colby Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 Some Irish Plays and Social Sketches Elbridge Colby Proudfit Fellow in Letters, Columbia University. We have heard a great deal during recent years, about the Irish National Theatre. Mr. William Butler Yeats, Dr. Doug­ las Hyde...

... of Humanity: An Author and His Public. By Robert A. Colby. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1979. Pp. vi, 469. $25.00. In Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research (1978), Robert Colby said that Thackeray was being recovered more and more in the con­ text of his times an essential step toward true...

...J. O. Bailey The Rise and Fall of James Ripley Osgood: A Biography . By Weber Carl J. . Waterville, Maine : Colby College Press , 1959 . Pp. 283 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 449 These men pinned their hopes on manual or industrial...

... seems interested in Colby Simpkins. But Lucasta breathes the air of unreality that pervades this improbable play. Only in the scene with Colby in the second act where she confronts her real self does she seem to emerge as a viable character. And here she, like nearly all of Eliot s women, is unhappy...

... and write to Frank Colby. F. E. Bowman. Folk Laughter on the American Frontier. By Mody C. Boatright. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Pp. 182. $3.00. This is a delightful collection of tall tales and anecdotes, strung to­ gether on a dependable strong cord of sound scholarly exposition...

...Charles S. Sydnor Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet . By Patrick Rembert W. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1944 . Pp. x , 401 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Book Reviews 45i In the remaining papers Charles Colby discusses...

.... The general public who read this book will still support mail-order English courses and write to Frank Colby. F. E. Bowman. Folk Laughter on the American Frontier. By Mody C. Boatright. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Pp. 182. $3.00. This is a delightful collection of tall tales and anecdotes, strung...

... read this book will still support mail-order English courses and write to Frank Colby. F. E. Bowman. Folk Laughter on the American Frontier. By Mody C. Boatright. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Pp. 182. $3.00. This is a delightful collection of tall tales and anecdotes, strung to­ gether...

.... On television of course all is either horseplay or deadpan. And, as we have often been told, in the theatre satire is what closes on Saturday night. Is it that we have turned sentimental? As Lamb wrote, satire does not look pretty on a tombstone. Or have we become too gregarious to write satire, which Colby has...

... sentimental? As Lamb wrote, satire does not look pretty on a tombstone. Or have we become too gregarious to write satire, which Colby has called a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can de­ scribe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. Or is the Swiftian glass, where beholders...

... Ripley Osgood: A Biography. By Carl J. Weber. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1959. Pp. 283. $8.00. Readers of books published in Boston in 1870-1885 have seen the publisher s imprint of J. R. Osgood. Osgood first published Jewett s Deephaven, the American edition of the Rubaiyat, Poole s Index...

... garded simply as an invitation to aggression. Book Reviews 45i In the remaining papers Charles Colby discusses the geographical pro­ blem, Robert Redfield the ethnological, William F. Ogburn the sociolog­ ical, David Slight the psychological, Richard McKeon the philosophical, and James L. Adams...

... but somewhat competitive twoparty system is a valued addition to the research on southern politics. He continues the fine intellectual tradition of V.O. Key. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY DAVID C. COLBY Liberation and Its Limits: The Moral and Political Thought of Freud. By Jeffrey B. Abramson. New...

... and by extension the Wilson-Colby State Department before it for violating tradition by refusing to recognize the right of the Russians to change their govern- 31. I raised this issue briefly in Thomas Jefferson: The Idealist as Realist in Frank J. Merli and Theodore A. Wilson, eds., Makers of American Diplomacy...

... the Communists steadily retreating toward the capitalism they imagined was forever done with. On the other hand he charges that the Division of Russia in the State Depart­ ment at Washington under Lansing and Colby was allowed to become a nest of Russian nobles and American husbands of Russian emigre princesses...