... the limits of this magazine, as well as to propose for oneself a task of rather discouraging dimensions. In keeping with the implied suggestion of the above statements, only three subjects will be treated, viz., lettuce and dewberry culture, and turpentine distillation from lightwood. The growing of lettuce...

.... 83, 85) recall the dust mounds of Our Mutual Friend, which Lightwood calls a mountain range (pp. 55, 58) and Mr. Boffin treats as familiar hills (p. 101). Eliot s dry sterile thunder re­ sembles the hideous rumbling of the carts which finally haul the mounds away; and the red sullen faces Eliot...

..., Bradley Headstone, dies in the river, embracing in a death grip his own nemesis. Once we accept the idea of a psychic double we have committed ourselves to accepting a non-realistic understanding of the characters. Head­ stone and Lightwood represent parts of Wraybum. In this sense, therefore, Wraybum s...

.... Lightwood. By Brainard Cheney. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Pp. 369. $2.50. The Redlander. By Sigman Byrd. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1939- pP- 335- $2.50. The Straw Hat. By Joseph Vogel. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1940. Pp. 288. $2.50. The Art of Going to College. By J...

... to the profitable truck farming in Tidewater Virginia, to the won­ derful accounts of the raising of lettuce at Fayetteville in North Carolina, and to the extracting of turpentine from the stumps and lightwood of the old pine forests of North Carolina. It is evident that he had in mind, when citing...

... no lucubratory ap­ paratus, no candle, no lamp, not even lightwood, being chiefly American Negro Poetry 309 raised in oaky woods. A reading of Wesley s hymns made him so fond of poetry that he used to pick up scraps of paper in the hope of finding poetry printed on them. When in 1815 his master moved...

... these unexplained goings-on that lends glamor to the green valley that lies like a wrinkled rug on the floor of the room whose sides are The Mine Fork Rough, Pezzle, Lightwood Moun­ tain, and The Hawk. Roby is the miller at Hawk, but that is only incidental to his hobby of gem cutting. He is perhaps thirty-five...