...Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. McIver of North Carolina . By Holder Rose Howell . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1957 . Pp. ix , 283 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly in fact doubts their authenticity...

...Joseph Katz Selected Letters of W. D. Howells. Volume I: 1852–1872 . Edited by Arms George Ballinger Richard H. Lohmann Christoph K. Reeves John K. Cook Don L. Nordloh David J. . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1979 . Pp. xxv , 498 . $30.00 . Selected Letters...

...Carl L. Anderson The Son of Royal Langbrith . By Howells W. D. , with Introduction and Notes to the Text by Burrows David . Bloomington and London : Indiana University Press , 1969 . Pp. 318 . $10.50 . The Shadow of a Dream and An Imperative Duty . By Howells W. D...

...Carl L. Anderson A Chance Acquaintance . By Howells W. D. , with Introduction and Notes to the Text by Thomas Jonathan Nordloh David J. . Bloomington and London : Indiana University Press , 1971 . Pp. 189 . $8.50 . Book Reviews 445 and development of the romance...

...-CHAMPAIGN ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN Selected Letters of W. D. Howells, Vol. 5, 1902-1911. Edited by William C. Fischer and Christoph K. Lohmann. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. Pp. xiv, 454. $40.00. This volume, penultimate in the series, covers the years 1902-1911. They might have seemed a time when Howells...

...Frank Turaj William Dean Howells: An American Life . By Lynn Kenneth S. . New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . Pp. 372 . $13.95 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 446 The South Atlantic Quarterly difference by suggesting that he would gladly apply dynamite...

...Frank Turaj The Social Gospel in Howells Novels Frank Turaj William Dean Howells was born when the Second Great Awaken­ ing was ending (1837). He and the Social Gospel, the result of the Third Great Awakening, died together (1920). This is a curious and meaningful parallel. His life was bound up...

... of modernism in the early century, British poetry, with some startling exceptions, feels most at home in the shadow of the commonplace. DUKE UNIVERSITY BERNARD I. DUFFEY The Immense Complex Drama: The World and Art of the Howells Novel. By George C. Carrington, Jr. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press...

...Louis J. Budd Joseph Kirkland . By Henson Clyde E. . New York : Twayne Publishers, Inc. , 1961 . Pp. 160 . $3.50 . Howells: A Century of Criticism . Edited by Eble Kenneth E. . Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press , 1962 . Pp. xii , 247 . $4.50...

...May Tomlinson Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Fiction and Mr. Howells May Tomlinson Tenafly, New Jersey We read fiction primarily because we desire to be enter­ tained. The fictional product most worthy of praise is that which affords the most exquisite delight. We are drawn...

...Clarence Gohdes A Bibliography of William Dean Howells . By Gibson William M. Arms George . New York : The New York Public Library , 1948 . Pp. 182 . $2.25 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 163 numerous enough to support the Trollopian...

...Louis J. Budd Howells and the Age of Realism . By Carter Everett . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1954 . Pp. 307 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 430 The South Atlantic Quarterly Howells and the Age of Realism. By Everett Carter. Phila­...

...Edd Winfield Parks HOWELLS AND THE GENTLE READER EDD WINFIELD PARKS IN HIS numerous critical essays William Dean Howells often defined the proper relationship of the author to the fictional world he is creating. The definition, however variously phrased, comes always to the same meaning...

...William M. Gibson Heiress of All the Ages: Sex and Sentiment in the Genteel Tradition . By Wasserstrom William . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . [ 1959 ], Pp. x , 157 . $4.00 . Criticism and Fiction and Other Essays by W. D. Howells . Edited with Introductions...

...James Woodress The Quiet Rebel : William Dean Howells As Social Commentator . By Hough Robert L. . Lincoln : The University of Nebraska Press , 1959 . Pp. 137 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 457 sponsive to any qualities of poetry other...

...Edd Winfield Parks Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 A REALIST AVOIDS REALITY: W. D. HOWELLS AND THE CIVIL WAR YEARS Edd Winfield Parks INNUMERABLE, at least uncounted, essays and a goodly num­ ber of books have been written on Howells s realism; most of these have also attempted...

...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...

...Joseph Katz Selected Letters of W. D. Howells, Volume 6, 1912–1920 . Edited by Gibson William M. Lohmann Christoph K. . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1983 . Pp. xiv , 242 . $36.50 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 114 The South Atlantic Quarterly The sheer...

...Lewis P. Simpson William Dean Howells: The Friendly Eye . By Wagenknecht Edward . New York : Oxford University Press , 1969 . Pp. 340 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly Allen s scholarly endeavors in connection with Philip...

...Elmo Howell The Snopes Dilemma: Faulkner’s Trilogy . By Watson James Gray . Coral Gables : University of Miami Press , 1968 . Pp. 242 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 430 The South Atlantic Quarterly an interplay of continuity and change in Northern...