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...C. Ashley Ellefson Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 An Appeal of Murder in Maryland C. Ashley Ellefson One of the issues with which the historian of the American colonial period is concerned is the question of how fully and how early the courts in America adopted the legal forms...

...Richard D. Altick Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 MARYLAND HAYMAKING RICHARD D. ALTICK TN MARYLAND in the summertime, dawn is an almost timeless process. It has neither beginning nor end; but it endures, endures so long, and so without apparent progress, that the wakeful...

...Dorothy Mackay Quynn Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 THE CATO AND THE NAUTILUS, MARYLAND PRIVATEERS DOROTHY MACKAY QUYNN IN JANUARY, 1780, two Maryland privateers were driven ashore by the English, near the mouth of the Patuxent. These ships had been intended to serve...

...Bernard C. Steiner, Ph. D. Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Maryland in the Revolution By Bernard C. Steiner, Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University No State stands forth more conspicuously in merit throughout the American revolution than Maryland, whether we look at the devotion...

...Harry R. Stevens The Maryland Germans: A History . By Cunz Dieter . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1948 . Pp. xi , 476 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 2^6 The South Atlantic Quarterly than one landsman s picture of his genius. Captain...

...Richard Beale Davis Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland . By Lemay J. A. Leo . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1972 . Pp. xvii , 407 . $13.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 278 The South Atlantic Quarterly be any doubt that writers of sensitive...

...Noble E. Cunningham The Present State of Virginia from Whence Is Inferred a Short View of Maryland and North Carolina . By Jones Hugh . Edited with an Introduction by Morton Richard L. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Published for the Virginia Historical...

...Joseph C. Robert The History of the Hoffman Paper Mills in Maryland . By Seitz May A. . 30 West Chesapeake Avenue., Towson 4, Md. : The Author , 1946 . Pp. 63 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 301 dent to find out things for himself...

...Bernard C. Steiner Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 Maryland and the West By Bernard C. Steiner Librarian of the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore The Virginia charter of 1609 gave the Pacific ocean as the western boundary of that colony, and, although the Virginia Com­ pany s...

... Atlantic Quarterly And down the dunes a thousand guns lie couched Unseen beside the flood, Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouched, That watch and wait for blood. Shrillest and sweetest of all, James Ryder Randall in My Maryland blew a silver trumpet call in the war s very be­ ginning: The despot...

..., Maryland, My Maryland. It rang out over the South, voicing the hopes and passions, the spirit of its time. Born in the storm of war, you feel the beat of its martial music. Oliver Wendell Holmes pronounced the three finest American patriotic poems The Star Spangled Banner, Drake s Ode to the American...

... documented textual history combined with insightful appli­ cation of that history in the service of discerning critical readings. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND JACKSON R. BRYER The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919. By Jonathan Rose. Athens, Ohio, and London: Ohio University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 275. $26.95. One...

... OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY DAVID C. COLBY Liberation and Its Limits: The Moral and Political Thought of Freud. By Jeffrey B. Abramson. New York: Free Press, 1984. Pp. x, 160. $14.95. Psychoanalytic critics who charge that the cultural legacy that Freud be­ queathed has been running on empty should...

... notes, a detailed index, a Book Reviews 347 bibliography, and 17 plates further enhance the value of this book, which can be read by specialist or layman with equal profit. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BEATRICE FINK Here the Country Lies: Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth-Century America. By Charles C...

..., Frederick Bancroft, and James Ford Rhodes. This is a useful and interesting book. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HORACE SAMUEL MERRILL Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860. By J. Mills Thornton III. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Pp. xxv, 492. $22.50. Contrary to Eugene...

..., that he is the hero. Altogether, notwithstanding some shamelessly faulty proofreading, Miltonists should welcome the volume. BETHESDA, MARYLAND JOHN L. LIEVSAY ...

... of Australian economic history, stressing the importance of ur­ banization and capital accumulation in national development. Apparently Australian scholars are catching a new vision of their nation s past. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DONALD C. GORDON ...

...R. S. Cotterill Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Telegraph in the South, 1845'-l 8j>0 R. S. COTTERILL Professorof History in Western Maryland College It may fairly be a subject of pride to the Southern people that the first telegraph line in the United States was laid down...

... homework and, as Mrs. Carlisle amply proves, often do it with more than a mechanical interest. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND JOHN T. LAVIA ...

..., which accounts for his state of mind and his approach to his subject, gives assurance of due care and ties the succeeding pages to the ideals of expanding democracy. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AUBREY C. LAND The Sociology of Colonial Virginia. By Morris Talpalar. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1960...