...Connie Eble The Language of the American South. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures No. 28 . By Brooks Cleanth . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. x , 58 . $9.95 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 202 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Thomas H. Naylor L. Q. C. Lamar, Pragmatic Patriot . By Murphy James B. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1973 . Pp. 294 . $11.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 140 The South Atlantic Quarterly L. Q. C. Lamar, Pragmatic Patriot. By James B...

...Robert H. Woody When All Is Said and Done . By Lamar Dolly Blount . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1952 . Pp. xii , 286 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 159 view, and the argument falls. In the same way, the theory that mean­ ing...

... in the movement, first to elect Breckinridge and later to secede from the Union. Excellent maps and a useful bibliographical essay add to the high quality of this most impressive volume. LAMAR UNIVERSITY RALPH A. WOOSTER The Meaning of Czech History. By Tomas G. Masaryk. Edited and with Introduction by Rene...

...Robert F. Durden Stephen A. Douglas . By Johannsen Robert W. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1973 . Pp. xii , 993 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 140 The South Atlantic Quarterly L. Q. C. Lamar, Pragmatic Patriot. By James B. Murphy. Baton...

...C. Hugh Holman The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature . By Simpson Lewis P. . Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 16 . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1975 . Pp. xi , 109 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

... Atlantic Quarterly The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature. By Lewis P. Simpson. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 16. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 109. $6.00. These three elegant lectures are a worthy addition to what is be­ coming a very...

...C. Hugh Holman A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South . By Sullivan Walter . Mercer University Lamar Lectures, No. 18 . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1976 . Pp. xxiv , 81 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977...

... Professor Stace describes, and merely to assert dogmatically that they do settles nothing. Meanwhile, we have still the task of justi­ fying God s ways to man. Professor Stace gives us once more the old tale: God s ways are mysterious. paul welsh When All Is Said and Done. By Dolly Blount Lamar. Athens...

... the Union. Excellent maps and a useful bibliographical essay add to the high quality of this most impressive volume. LAMAR UNIVERSITY RALPH A. WOOSTER The Meaning of Czech History. By Tomas G. Masaryk. Edited and with Introduction by Rene Wellek. Translated by Peter Kussi. Chapel Hill: The University...

... ern South. By Walter Sullivan. Mercer University Lamar Lec­ tures, No. 18. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1976. Pp. xxiv, 81. $6.00. The title of A Requiem for the Renascence is apt, for these three lectures, delivered at Mercer University in November 1975, indeed form a lament...

... and papers: essays on Thomas Wolfe s prototype for Altamont; on the themes of Faulkner and (with John Cullen) the raw materials of life in Mississippi that gave flesh to that master s vision; and (most recently, in his 1969 Lamar Lectures, The Death of Art) on the harmful effects of preoccupation with racial...

... prototype for Altamont; on the themes of Faulkner and (with John Cullen) the raw materials of life in Mississippi that gave flesh to that master s vision; and (most recently, in his 1969 Lamar Lectures, The Death of Art) on the harmful effects of preoccupation with racial reform upon the craft of Southern...

.... Q. C. Lamar, artificer of recon­ ciliation. Although differing widely in origins and achievement, these men were all products of the older South and shapers of the new. As such they illustrate the basic unity undergirding the diversity of Southern society. The difference between the extremes...

... ; Wade Hampton, redeeming arm ; and L. Q. C. Lamar, artificer of recon­ ciliation. Although differing widely in origins and achievement, these men were all products of the older South and shapers of the new. As such they illustrate the basic unity undergirding the diversity of Southern society...

... Anderson Alderman and Armistead Churchill Gordon. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911, xx, 454 pp. The life ofJabez Lamar Monroe Curry was so full of unusual opportunities and privileges, and he crowded into seventy-eight years so much service to mankind that, when the authors essayed to present his...

.... Tribune, May 10, 11, 18, 1872, and Springfield Weekly Republican, May 10, 1872. 75 See, for instance, Lamar to Runielin, May 6, July 15, 1872; Mayes, L. Q. C. Lamar, 170f. 78 Avery, History of Georgia, 501; Hill, B. H. Hill, 65, 350ff.; Phillips, Life of Robert Toombs, 267. 77 Official Proceedings...

..., and the healing of all dissensions. The patriotic sentiments which at that crucial period inspired his brave spirit found a response in the faith and deeds of other Southern leaders who, at that time, guided the affairs of the South. Lamar, in his eloquent eulogy upon Charles Sumner, rose to the full height...

.... Finding notable expression after the war in the letters of Robert E. Lee, in Lamar s speech over the dead Sumner, in Lanier s Centennial Cantata, and in the speeches of Henry Grady, it is now the dominant spirit among the younger men of the South, who will not have it that this is an isolated part...

... Mexico. By G. B. Winton. Smith and Lamar. Nashville, viii., 203 pp. Dr. Winton, at present editor of the Nashville Advocate, was for several years a missionary in Mexico. From his observations of Mexican life and his study of Mexican history he has written this interesting book as a guide to intelligent...