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...Warren Taylor Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 A LETTER TO LONGINUS Warren Taylor Y DEAR SIR: I hope that the convention of dating letters does not trouble you, for we humankind still often find it difficult to know just where we are in time. By the Greek reckoning of Timaeus...

...Margaret Diane Stetz Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 E. M. Forster: Abinger Harvest, Anger, and the Letter fC Margaret Diane Stetz I When a book is written round a central idea, it gains a dignity that is denied to its more discursive brethren Through the years, both...

...John Halperin Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Trollope as Letter-Writer John Halperin Affection from one man to another is not natural in letters, Anthony Trollope (1815-82) declares in Dr. Wortle s School (1880), one of his last tales.1 And yet his forty-seven novels, almost...

...Robert D. Warth Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE MYSTERY OF THE ZINOVIEV LETTER ROBERT D. WARTH ON THE MORNING of October 25, 1924, the daily press of London with lurid sensationalism published the Zinoviev let­ ter, a document purportedly emanating from Moscow and signed...

...Alice Freda Braunlich Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 A BIRTHDAY LETTER TO HORACE ALICE FREDA BRAUNLICH BECAUSE, Quintus Horatius, you have for many years heightened my energies and charmed my leisure hours, may I add one letter more to those which are greeting you upon your...

...David Y. Thomas The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXVI APRIL, 1937 Number 2 A PACIFIC POLICY FOR THE PACIFIC An Open Letter to President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull DAVID Y. THOMAS In time of peace prepare for warOld Proverb. In time of peace prepare for peaceNew Proverb by Dr. Charles...

...Melville J. Herskovits Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 A LETTER TO THE EDITORS Some Comments by Professor Herskovits* To the Editors of the South Atlantic Quarterly: My attention has been called to an article called Ba-ad Nigger by Dr. H. C. Brearley in your issue of January...

...Louis P. Lochner Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 AN OPEN LETTER TO VON BRAUCHITSCH LOUIS P. LOCHNER THE SUDDEN dismissal, in December, 1941, of Field Mar­ shal Walther von Brauchitsch, Generalissimo of the German armies, by Adolf Hitler is still shrouded in mystery. Nobody even...

...Louis J. Budd Melville and the Comic Spirit . By Rosenberry Edward H. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1955 . Pp. viii , 211 . $4.00 . The Yellow Ruff & The Scarlet Letter . By Reid Alfred S. . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1955 Pp. vi...

...William F. Harris; David L. Paletz Getting the Word Out: The News On Four-Letter Threats to Authority William F. Harris and David L. Paletz Most academics aspire to celebrity, labor in obscurity. Sometimes, fearing fame will never find them, they seek her out. So indeed we did. Our motives were...

...Arthur N. Gilbert Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Commitment and the Intellectual: A Letter to Noam Chomsky Dear Mr. Chomsky: I am writing to you because more than anyone else in the scholarly community you represent a particular position attitude may be a better word...

...Joan Foster Santas Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Letter to the Editor I really must protest the review of my book, Ellen Glasgow s Ameri­ can Dream, in your Summer, 1966, issue by Frederick P. W. Mc­ Dowell, the Ellen Glasgow authority. Obviously the review is neither...

...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...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters . By Baumgardt Carola . New York : Philosophical Library , 1951 . Pp. 209 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 603 Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life here first...

...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 Aerial Gunner from Virginia: The Letters of Don Moody to His Family during 1944 . Edited by Hemphill William Edwin . Richmond : The Virginia State Library , 1950 . Pp. 30 , 366 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 457 time...

...P. F. Baum New Letters of Robert Browning . Edited with Introduction and Notes by DeVane William Clyde Knickerbocker Kenneth Leslie . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1950 . Pp. vi , 413 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 443 alive...

...William Blackburn Letters of Thomas Carlyle to William Graham . Edited by Graham John Jr . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1950 . Pp. xx , 86 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 289 Pope and His Contemporaries: Essays Presented...

...Lewis Leary The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 . Edited by Paige D. D. . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1951 . Pp. 358 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 595 single man in a time notable for such ventures. By making Walpole his...