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...Marie A. Updike White The Last Actor-Managers . By Pearson Hesketh . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1950 . Pp. 84 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 618 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Last Actor-Managers. By Hesketh Pearson. New York: Harper...

...Merle M. Bevington Dickens: His Character, Comedy, and Career . By Pearson Hesketh . New York : Harper and Brothers , 1949 . Pp. 361 . $4.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 99 too, to the delighted readers of the products of so much toil...

..., and Lydia Bailey. William B. Hamilton. Dickens: His Character, Comedy, and Career. By Hesketh Pearson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. Pp. 361. $4.00. This book is a good example of literary biography intended for popu­ larity without vulgarization and without condescension to the public. Mr. Pearson...

... to give it coherence. Too many of her statements are inaccurate, though not all of them are so in the same degree as the sentence (p. 198): There were two million distilleries in England in 1714, by 1735 there were five million, nor Labby. By Hesketh Pearson. New York and London: Harper and Brothers...

.... Mr. Quinlan gives an excellent account of Cowper s early life, of his con­ nection with the Evangelicals following the first breakdown, of the second spring with Lady Austen, Lady Hesketh, and the Throckmortons, of the final distressing years when Cowper found no relief from his obsessions. We...

.... Some strange advice has been offered by various biographers. Arthur Bryant has urged the professor interested in describing men of action to get out of his study and spend part of his time in some nonacademic job in order to understand his subjects better. Hesketh Pearson, while not actually...

... gives an excellent account of Cowper s early life, of his con­ nection with the Evangelicals following the first breakdown, of the second spring with Lady Austen, Lady Hesketh, and the Throckmortons, of the final distressing years when Cowper found no relief from his obsessions. We are kept always...

... Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 BOOKS SHAW S LIFE AND PERSONALITY G. B. S.: A Full Length Portrait. By Hesketh Pearson. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. Pp. xi, 390. $3.75. This book must be considered from two points of view, which cor­ respond rather well with its two...

.... Their contribution thus also qualifies them for a claim to membership of an elite as well. The early days of the British administration saw an acute ap­ preciation of this fact. One of Lugard s immediate successors, Sir Hesketh Bell, in his annual report for 1910, dated November 17, 1911,3 wrote, we can only govern...

... of the Westminster Review, 1824-1836. By George L. Nesbitt. New York, Columbia University Press, 1934. Pp. vi, 208. $2.75. The Smith of Smiths : Being the Life, Wit, and Humour of Sidney Smith. By Hesketh Pearson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1934. Pp. 336. $3.75. The Reverend Sidney Smith. By Osbert Burdett...