...Clarence Gohdes The Notebooks of Henry James . Edited by Matthiessen F. O. Murdock Kenneth B. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1947 . Pp. xxviii , 425 . $6.00 . The James Family: Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry and Alice...

...Edward Stone Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James . By Canby Henry Seidel . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1951 . Pp. 318 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 468 The South Atlantic Quarterly Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study...

...Harold T. Parker The Scientific Thought of Henry Adams . By Wasser Henry . Thessaloniki , 1956 . Pp. 127 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 129 The Scientific Thought of Henry Adams. By Henry Wasser. Thessaloniki, 1956. Pp. 127. George, remarks one...

...Andrew M. Scott Henry George, Henry Adams, and the Dominant American Ideology Andrew M. Scott Americans are generally considered, and generally consider them­ selves, to be nonideological. Our most notable political thinkers died before the industrial age was fairly under way, and systematic...

...Terence Martin The Battle and the Books: Some Aspects of Henry James . By Stone Edward . Athens : Ohio University Press , 1964 . Pp. xi , 234 . $5.00 . Henry James and the Modern Reader . By Jefferson D. W. . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 1964 . Pp. viii , 240...

...Edward Stone Henry James. American Men of Letters Series . By Dupee F. W. . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1951 . Pp. xiii , 301 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 596 The South Atlantic Quarterly atheist, the seducer, because of the impact...

...Theodore Ropp The Story of the Mexican War . By Henry Robert Selph . Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1950 . Pp. 424 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 142 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Story of the Mexican War. By Robert Selph Henry. India­...

...Harry R. Stevens The Prodigal Century . By Fairchild Henry Pratt . New York : Philosophical Library , 1950 . Pp. xvii , 258 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 601 The Prodigal Century. By Henry Pratt Fairchild. New York: Philosophical...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character since the 1880’s . By Commager Henry Steele . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1950 . Pp. xl , 476 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 580 The South Atlantic...

...Allan H. Gilbert Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age . By Adams Henry Hitch Hathaway Baxter . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. xx , 412 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 283 point the startled reviewer is apt...

...Alan K. Manchester The Hickory Limb . By MacCracken Henry Noble . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1950 . Pp. 212 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 452 The South Atlantic Quarterly the eyes of his subject. Curiously enough, the most striking parts...

...Harold T. Parker The French Education of Henry Adams . By Baym Max I. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. xiv , 358 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 BOOKS The French Education of Henry Adams. By Max I. Baym. New York: Columbia...

...William B. Hamilton Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diary and. Sketches, 1818-1820 . By Latrobe Benjamin Henry Boneval . Edited by Wilson Samuel Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Illustrated. Pp. xxiv , 196 . $8.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke...

...Allan Gilbert The Royal Play of Macbeth . By Paul Henry N. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 438 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 185 it needs to be qualified in terms of the differing social conditions of the two...

...William B. Hamilton Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations . By Smith Joseph Henry . With an introductory essay by Goebel Julius Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. lxi , 770 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952...

... borrowed in 1775. ROBERT H. WOODY The League of Nations Movement in Great Britain, 1914-1919. By Henry R. Winkler. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1952. Pp. xiii, 288. $3.00. The League of Nations was an experiment that failed leaving behind the widespread feeling that failure should not have been...

...Donald M. Murray Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 HENRY B. FULLER FRIEND OF HOWELLS* Donald M. Murray ONE OF THE pleasantest ways to absorb American literary history in the barren stretch from 1865 to the turn of the cen­ tury is to read the letters of William Dean Howells...

...C. Chilton Pearson Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 William Henry Ruffner: Reconstruction Statesman of Virginia C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College I The year 1920 marked the semi-centennial of the opening of the public schools in Virginia under the administration of William...

...C. Chilton Pearson Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 William Henry Ruffner: Reconstruction Statesman of Virginia C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College II Among the excellencies of the Virginia constitution of 1869 was the flexibility of its school provisions. Taking ad­ vantage...

...James E. Routh, Jr. Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Poetry of Henry Timrod. By James E. Routh, Je., Adjunct Professor of English in the University of Virginia. America has produced many writers but few schools of letters, few abiding traditions handed down from writer...