...Gordon H. McNeil The French Revolution: A Concise History . By Hampson Norman . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1975 . Pp. 192 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 526 The South Atlantic Quarterly to be an informed and alert reader who can remind us...

...Robert S. Smith A Concise Economic History of Britain from 1750 to Recent Times . By Court W. H. B. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1954 . Pp. viii , 368 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 132 The South Atlantic Quarterly Lincoln...

...Louis J. Budd A Concise Survey of American Literature . By Wykes Alan . New York : Library Publishers , 1955 . Pp. 200 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 401 committee. Second, Hanssen s comparatively neutral position enabled him to know most...

...Cary Nelson Following a concise definition of academic freedom and a rejoinder to current conservative efforts to limit it by David Horowitz, the National Association of Scholars, and Stanley Fish, “The Fate of Academic Freedom” describes sixteen specific conditions emerging as major threats...

... recognized the thesis of the book, that at Vicksburg Grant was somehow suddenly transformed from a competent general into a mili­ tary genius. Theodore ropp A Concise Economic History of Britain from 1750 to Recent Times. By W. H. B. Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. viii, 368. $4.00...

... into a mili­ tary genius. Theodore ropp A Concise Economic History of Britain from 1750 to Recent Times. By W. H. B. Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. viii, 368. $4.00. This is a sequel to the late Sir John Clapham s Concise Economic History of Britain to 1750. Unlike the first volume...

... is accurate, judi­ cious, and scrupulous; and his concise summary-critiques of Shelley s poetry and formal prose are acute, very searching (considering his limitations of space), and well-balanced. Since Shelley does not answer well to summary, there is a certain aridity in Reiman s commentaries. Book Reviews...

... of Representatives, Volume II, The Commons House of Assembly (Columbia: University of South Other books of interest 263 Carolina Press, 1977, $14.95). It consists of 751 concise, wellannotated sketches of the members of South Carolina s colonial House of Assembly from its creation in 1692 until the assertion...

... newly conquered territories. Professor Winther s editing and translating of this important for­ gotten historical source are excellent. Theodore ropp A Concise Survey of American Literature. By Alan Wykes. New York: Library Publishers, 1955. Pp. 200. $3.75. Mr. Alan Wykes, British playwright...

... Winther s editing and translating of this important for­ gotten historical source are excellent. Theodore ropp A Concise Survey of American Literature. By Alan Wykes. New York: Library Publishers, 1955. Pp. 200. $3.75. Mr. Alan Wykes, British playwright and novelist, has tried to lay bare for his...

... (and permanent) effects upon their mar­ riage of Hardy s infatuation with Mrs. Arthur Henniker. The very nature of handbooks to poetry can make them something less than a joy to read. But here, several concise and vigorous historyof-ideas essays, and clear writing throughout, give pleasure as well as instruction...

... drama­ tist. They are models of British conciseness. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CYRUS HOY Elizabethan Poetry. (Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, II.) Edited by John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1961. Pp. 224. $7.50. This collection of essays, second of the Stratford-upon-Avon...

... is prefaced by a note wherein is compactly summarized the salient biographical, scholarly, and critical information concerning each drama­ tist. They are models of British conciseness. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CYRUS HOY Elizabethan Poetry. (Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, II.) Edited by John Russell Brown...

.... Whitfield s initial chapter traces the evolution of the controversial term, totalitarianism. He follows this with a concise analysis of the similarities and differences between the theory and practice of totali­ tarianism in Nazi Germany and in Stalinist Russia. He is quick to point out that Arendt...

... completing- a history of England which will repair the injured reputations of Richard and Mary: . . . at all my vacant hours in this and the following week, I endeav­ ored to finish the Concise History of England. I am sensible it must give offence, as in many parts I am quite singular; particular...

... are described historically. The relation of the commercial banks to the whole cotton economy is well described, and the inability of the commercial banking system to provide the type of intermediate credit needed is concisely traced through the era of state banks, the national banking system, and the Federal...

...Jay Luvaas Book Reviews 519 This is an unusually clear, concise explanation of the diplomacy of the most controversial of the wartime personal conferences, unencumbered by forced interpretations. Embodying findings from the latest scholarship and from published sources, it is the best over-all...

... the connotative range of a term like sublime. Nevertheless, the book rewards tolerance, and for those who can overlook its few deficiencies, there is a concise and masterly tracing of religious sublimity to its origins in Boileau s Longinus, in admiration and imitation of biblical style and subjects...

... and is strongly recommended for its general interest to all students of modern American literature. The editors ten-page Introduction is clear, concise, and informative, as are the Notes following most of the letters. An Index and Chronologies of the two writers are included. DUKE UNIVERSITY VICTOR STRANDBERG...

... concisely nor does he say it all in one place, but that is what this reader at any rate was able to distill from his luxuriant and erratic prose. Arthur B. Ferguson. ...