...), while he taught history at Harvard. Rice ran a number of articles on the Civil War, one of which was the Diary. He died in 1889, leaving no clue to its authorship. The Diary is full of interesting passages about Lincoln, although Seward, with whom the Diarist has close relations, is mentioned more...

... the reader can get, as it were, an unedited picture of the war years. It would have been difficult to have selected a better diarist. Mrs. Chesnut s father, Congressman, Governor, and Senator, had been a nullifier in South Carolina; her husband, Prince­ ton educated and scion of a wealthy family...

... a full and accurate diary of what she saw and knew; she was wise enough not to try to separate the trivial from the significant, and thus the reader can get, as it were, an unedited picture of the war years. It would have been difficult to have selected a better diarist. Mrs. Chesnut s father...

... Burton and Bismarck, some circumstance will cause Mr. Blunt to go back and record impressions received years before he began taking notes. Sometimes a hiatus is briefly bridged by the diarist in editing; sometimes it is left to take care of itself. The historian who * My Diaries, 1888-1914, by Wilfrid...

... at the inaugural, as the diarist avers, and that fictional characters were freely and cleverly invented to give semblance to the story and to make the work of any brash literary sleuth extremely hazardous. Ward was probably aided by William Henry Hurlbert, a clever and un­ scrupulous journalist; Allen Thornike...

...: A Biography. By James Lees-Milne. London: Chatto& Windus, 1980. Volume 1:1886-1929. Pp. xii, 429. Volume II: 1930-1968. Pp. xii, 403. $30.00 the set. Harold Nicholson, great diplomat, diarist and raconteur, moved in numer­ ous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people. Thus begins...

... editorship of The Neglected Thread she has failed to warn the reader to withhold judgment of this Journal of the Calhoun Community until he reaches page fifty-two, where the diarist begins her account of a sixweek visit to Augusta, Georgia. Mary E. Moragne, who seems to have been least unhappy when away from...

..., are recent, lively, and especially interesting. [Monroe K. Spears, Rice University] Nothing takes us inside a vanished culture so directly as a detailed diary wherein the diarist unconsciously exhibits the manners and mor­ als, the values and habits of her contemporaries. The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes...

... a Secesh Lady with intelli­ gence and spirit and a diarist whom all who relish a window on the past will enjoy and appreciate. [Robert F. Durden, Duke University] In Indian Thought and Tradition in T. S. Eliot s Poetry (Bareilly U.P. [India]: Prakash Book Depot, 1977, Rs. 35.00, $5.00), Dr. A. N. Dwivedi...

..., and, to a lesser degree, the workings of the county court. There is new light on political developments as the Revolution approached; the positive and yet moderate political convic­ tions of the diarist show that he was not without reservations about the goodness and wisdom of man. Colonel Carter came to feel...

... moderate political convic­ tions of the diarist show that he was not without reservations about the goodness and wisdom of man. Colonel Carter came to feel that he was not properly appreciated by the public or his own family in his time, and there is evidence that the diary was intended for posterity...

...-one days. Such a document was obviously important, for the diarist was on intimate terms with many of the leading men of that critical time. He was the recipient of much confidential information, and Doug­ las, Seward, Stanton, and even Lincoln sought his advice and active co­ operation. The diary...

.... As for the hunting, Johnson was no more of a sportsman than his contemporaries in the Eng­ lish aristocracy: he shot anything that lived. The diarist conducted barber-shop, real-estate, and money-lending operations in a period of cutthroat speculation, peculation, and fluctuation 6o8 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... not protect Sir George Etherege, author of She Would If She Could, from the diarist s outburst: Lord! how Pepys as Dramatic Critic 415 full was the house and how silly the play a silly, dull thing. Sir Robert Howard s The Surprisall, he dismissed as a very mean play. Pepys records 273 visits...

... culture so directly as a detailed diary wherein the diarist unconsciously exhibits the manners and mor­ als, the values and habits of her contemporaries. The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, edited with an introduction by John F. Marszalek (Ba­ Book Reviews 117 ton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1979...

... leader and diarist; and Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, author of Letters from an American Farmer. Mr. Hesseltine has written a cogent essay on the meaning of the war to introduce his interesting assortment of documents in The Tragic Con­ flict. They range in time from Thomas Hart Benton s dire...

... lish aristocracy: he shot anything that lived. The diarist conducted barber-shop, real-estate, and money-lending operations in a period of cutthroat speculation, peculation, and fluctuation ...

... dissenter and theologian; William, the renowned psychologist; Henry, Junior, most structural artist of all British and American novelists; Alice, the sharp-tongued diarist; and the lesser members of the tribe, who are represented only by a few of their letters. It is an anthology illustrating the history...

.... $2.50. Any one who wishes to see the contemporary life through the eyes of a spritely and intelligent widow who was living in Washington and adding to her pension by doing copying work for the War and State departments may read this diary with interest. Despite the fact that the diarist knew many people...

... of the Private Papers of James Boswell reveals a less exuberant diarist than the twenty-twoyear-old writer of the first volume in the series, The London Journal ( 1 must submit to life losing its vividness reads an entry in 1783); but the character, habits, and personality displayed by the young man are evident...