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...Jane De Hart Mathews Patrons and Patriotism: The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in the United States, 1790-1860 . By Miller Lillian B. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1966 . Pp. x , 335 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 187 great...

...C. Hugh Holman Melville as Lecturer . By Sealts Merton M. Jr . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1957 . Pp. xii , 202 . $4.00 . The Fine Hammered Steel of Herman Melville . By Stern Milton R. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1957 . Pp. x , 297 . $5.75...

...H. W. Puckett Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 FINE FRENZY IN THE THIRD REICH H. W. PUCKETT AMONG the striking features of the modern temper is the jLJL rapid change in literary and artistic ideals. Germany, like other nations, has experienced a startling number of liter­ ary...

...Francis R. Hart Maria Edgeworth and the Public Scene: Intellect, Fine Feeling, and Landlordism in the Age of Reform . By Hurst Michael . Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press , 1969 . Pp. 298 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 413...

...DeLancey Ferguson Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ON HUMOR AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS DeLANCEY FERGUSON ONE OF THE MOST firmly rooted of Anglo-American con­ victions is the dogma that American humor rests on exaggera­ tion. Long an article of faith in the British Isles, the dogma...

...Stanhope Sams Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 The Fineness of Japanese Poetry By Stanhope Sams, Literary Editor of the Columbia State The poetry of Japan must eventually command the con­ sideration of all students of literature, not only for its own value, but because...

... newly illuminating in that space of collision between No Future and crip theory is her selection and discussion of the journals and poetry of Gary Fisher, who would certainly have made a fine object of inquiry for all the books named above. He was a gay African American man who was one of her students...

... traffic stops, revenue policing from fines and fees, the overreach of automobile-related surveillance, the predatory auto loan and repossession businesses, and criminal justice debt—all shot through with profound racial bias. In the autocentric United States, transportation is a basic need, yet it has...

... in the nineteenth have traditionally played: the role of the simplifier and translator of the recipes of the classic cuisine to women with neither the training nor time to pro­ duce the original masterpieces in their own kitchens.2 That the great chefs of France, the source of fine cuisine, have customarily been...

..., in order to become a fine gentleman and man of fash­ ion. Yet there was with him a certain residuum of Crom­ wellian virtue and, in consequence of his puritan upbringing, he struggled to resist temptation in the matter of wine as well as of women, and Lord s Day found him pretty regularly at church...

... that it is easy to overlook the central role it plays in the debt economy. This dossier focuses on the heavy financial toll taken by a carceral system that has become a multiheaded debt monster. Even though debtors prisons were abolished in the United States in 1833, the inability to pay fines or fees...

...: Energy and Modern America . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Macalister Terry . 2016 . “BP Faces Further $2.5bn Charge Over Deepwater Horizon Spill.” Guardian , July 2 . www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/14/bp-fined-further-25bn-over-deeepwater-horizon-spill . Malm...

... that it would not be many years before the majority of the heavy goods will be made in the South, and as a consequence New England would have to go further with fine goods and fancy weaving. The Philadelphia Times likewise main­ tained that the eastern manufacturers have no permanent remedy against...

... party was to have the right of freely disposing of his or her share. The laborer was given a prior lien on the crop. In case of alleged violation of con­ tract, the local magistrate was to determine the party at fault and impose a minimum fine of $50 on the guilty landlord, or fine or imprisonment...

... the gold mines, and turned out $10, $5, and $2.50 gold coins. By weight one test of these coins at the United States Mint gave respectively 251, 123.3, and 60 grains.1 An assay made in 1842, however, gave the weight of a $10 piece as 248 grains, 942-1000 fine, and value $10.06. The value and stability...

... of the Rape. 1 He was similarly incapable of appreciating Belinda s charm. Perhaps no one has been so severe in judgment of this be­ guiling young woman, who becomes for him a ramp and a Tomrigg, an artificial dawbing Jilt, an errant Suburbian, and, among other things, a Lady of the Lake, a fine flow...

... a fine and generous contract from an old, dignified, and honest publisher, and later writes, Scribner s think the people in it are fine, and we hope the public will read it and like it too. In 1933, he is in a tremendous jam of work on the second book. Threaded through all the letters...

... they once knew in the mother country. Among certain inherent excellences bequeathed to us by the old regime, let us then give thanks for the fostering care of the fine arts, so potent in the life and tradition of the Old South. Cavaliers, Huguenots, Scotch-Irish and the French and Spanish of the lower South...

...] Vincent O Sullivan 395 A Book of Bargains, O Sullivan s first volume, was pub­ lished by Leonard Smithers, London, in 1896. It is a collec­ tion of seven stories, or bargains as they are called, in which the protagonists bargain with fate and invariably go down to defeat. The volume is finely printed...

... that The Thought oe Edward Kidder Graham 261 distinctively American trait which we may truly call a culture concept, achievement touched by fine feeling. There can hardly be found a finer analysis or a more apt definition of the real American spirit. But the test of Presi­ dent Graham s vision and conviction...