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...Charles Richard Sanders The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb . Edited by Marrs Edwin W. Jr. Volume III : 1809–1817. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1978 . Pp. x , 274 . $35.00 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 416 The South Atlantic...

...Charles R. Young Constantinople: Birth of an Empire . By Lamb Harold . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1957 . Pp. x , 334 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 273 Constantinople: Birth of an Empire. By Harold Lamb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957...

...Nettie S. Tillett Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 MARY LAMB (DECEMBER 3, 1764 MAY 20, 1847} NETTIE S. TILLETT ERNEST DE SELINCOURT has called the final chapter of the biography of Dorothy Wordsworth, Posthumous Life. Apt title for the two sad last decades of Dorothy s life...

...Robert Paul Lamb Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Prophet and Idolater: Walt Whitman in 1855 and 1860 Robert Paul Lamb I depart as air I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags. Walt Whitman, 1855 What you are holding...

...Ursula Lamb The Great Explorers: The European Discovery Of America . By Morison Samuel Eliot . New York : Oxford University Press , 1978 . Pp. xxv , 752 . Maps and Illustrations. $17.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 261 people to tell you...

...Nettie S. Tillett Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 ELIA AND THE INDICATOR NETTIE S.TILLETT ON December 27, 1934, at one by the clock, a hundred years will have elapsed since the Saturday afternoon on which Charles Lamb violated his own injunction upon his sister Mary that she...

...Edwin Mims Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Essayists: Old and New By Edwin Mims, Professor of English Literature in Trinity College It may be accounted a piece of good luck for an editor when he receives in one season the definitive life of Charles Lamb, a new edition...

... whiskers had such a vogue in America. The book has numerous illustrations, it is remarkably free from typographical errors, and we noticed only one misspelled name. R. H. Woody. THE ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES LAMB At the Shrine of St. Charles : Stray Papers on Lamb Brought Together for the Centenary of His...

...Charles Richard Sanders; Clark G. Reynolds; Elisha P. Douglass; John L. Lievsay; Louis Budd Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Other Books of Interest 535 Other books of interest . . . Edwin W. Marrs edition of The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb (Vol. I, Ithaca and London...

...-balanced seriocomic novel, Through the Fields of Clover (1961), there enters a period of variety. The Blood of the Lamb (1962) is almost unrelieved tragedy. Reuben, Reuben (1964) is serious fare mixing both tragedy and comedy. Let Me Count the Ways (1965) reverts superbly to the earlier manner...

... literature, and quite fascinating. Lord David Cecil, who is brother to the Marquess of Salisbury, Goldsmiths Professor of English Literature at Oxford, and author of studies of Cowper, Scott, Austen, and Hardy, in 1939 published The Young Melbourne, a book really about William Lamb s mother and his wife...

.... Charles Lamb, for one, was appalled by the linking of Gar­ rick s name with Shakespeare s, for he could not fathom what con­ nection that absolute mastery over the heart and soul of man . . . had with those low tricks upon the eye and ear, which a player . . . can so easily compass. Samuel Johnson...

..., familiar as they have become, add to our delight as we return to him, in the theater or in the library. His most popular play is that most filled with often quoted lines. But pleasure and appreciation will differ with the individual. In the remarkable paper in which Hazlitt deals with Lamb and Irving so...

... on Baby-sitting. The true personal essay reveals an integrated personality, his mood or experience, through some vivid touch or idiom, generally in a half-meditative, half-colloquial style. Charles Lamb revealed himself: spluttering, whimsical, lovable. An experience or an object is seen across...

... and Their Ways in English Speech, p. 380 f. 8 In a sense it is very true that the essay in the hands of such a writer as Lamb exemplifies the finest capacities of prose as a medium of self-expression precisely as lyric poetry expresses those of verse; but thereby an Essay of Elia and a pure lyric are as unlike...

..., First of the Moguls. By Fernand Grenard. Translated and adapted by Homer White and Richard Glaenzer. New York: McBride, 1930. 253 pp. In a review of Harold Lamb s two books, Ghenghis Khan and Tamerlane, it has been noted that the scholars of the West are widen­ ing their horizon and investigating...