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...Marilyn L. Williamson Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 The Ring Episode in The Merchant of Venice Marilyn L. Williamson Anyone who studied The Merchant of Venice with Allan Gilbert knows that the final episode of that play is based on the story of Hans Carvel s ring, but no one...

...Lisa A. Freeman Lisa A. Freeman Tragic Flaws: Genre and Ideology in Lillo s London Merchant In the history of theater, no dramatic genre of any period has been accounted a failure as con­ sistently and persistently as eighteenth-century tragedy. For the most part, twentieth-century critics have...

...Theodore Ropp Sea War: The Story of the U. S. Merchant Marine in World War II . By Reisenberg Felix Jr . New York : Rinehart and Company, Inc. , 1956 . Pp. 320 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 413 Kentucke, published in 1784. The book...

...Robert S. Smith Jonathan Trumbull: Connecticut’s Merchant Magistrate (1710-1785) . By Weaver Glenn . Hartford : The Connecticut Historical Society , 1956 . Pp. x , 182 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 408 The South Atlantic Quarterly Perhaps the most...

...James Rabun The Cotton Regency: The Northern Merchants and Reconstructions, 1865-1880 . By Woolfolk George Ruble . New York : Bookman Associates , 1958 . Pp. 311 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 636 The South Atlantic Quarterly Robert E. Lee...

...Robert S. Smith Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua . By Fairchild Byron . Ithaca : Cornell University Press (for the American Historical Association) , 1954 . Pp. xi , 223 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 560 The South Atlantic...

.... [Clark G. Reynolds, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy] Mr. Schwab is a genius. I have never met his equal, said his close friend and long-time business associate, Andrew Carnegie. In his fine biography, Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, $14.95), Robert...

... alone had the right to a lien on the crops and property, which he had advanced to his tenant. The small farmer executed his mortgage to the merchant who ad­ vanced him credit. The risk assumed by the merchant was great, and it was Albert Burton Moore, History of Alabama (2 v.; N. Y. 1927). 84 The South...

... jeopardize suc­ cessful commercial relations. In the end, Golovin secured Manchu consent to the unfettered passage of Russian trade caravans to the Chinese capital, provided that the merchants, state or private, were equipped with Russian credentials or passports in proper form. Author of a forthcoming...

... of the bourgeoisie is as absent from the Elizabethan and Jacobean do­ mestic play as it is from the classical high tragedy of the time. In George Lillo s well-received, longrunning play The London Merchant (1731), for example, the power of truth is figured as a confluence of fluids that gushes from within (blood...

... a Magazine, as it was called, which was a stock of goods sent to Virginia in the hands of an agent called the Cape Merchant. He was expected to sell the goods at rates fixed by law, and to buy in return tobacco from the colonists at rates similarly established. The Company were not able to live up...

... of the State. The planters who had prospered under the old regime were unable to adjust themselves to the new order of things so swiftly brought upon them. The war had left them without money and without any easy way of getting it. They resorted to the cotton factors and merchants for the money and supplies...

... as to the contribution of the Ren­ aissance to economic life have proved defective. The coming of great merchants and bankers the patrons of humanism and the arts was long regarded as the most suitable stand- * An abstract of lectures given at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Columbia (Casa Italiana...

... 63 to satisfy its ancient supporters, the merchants and traders, either by retaining old markets or capturing new ones. Matthew Carey, the great American protectionist, long ago set the fashion (little followed) of finding the interpre­ tation of the French Revolution in the breach between...

...Josiah Moffatt Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 A MERCHANT-PLANTER OF THE OLD SOUTH JOSIAH MOFFATT WILLIAM MOFFATT S house was built on the brow of a wooded hill, a hundred yards north of the Char­ lotte-Columbia road. To the Negroes it was known as the Big House. Sometimes...

... a clear and balanced view of what undoubtedly was Lee s greatest battle. ALLEGHENY COLLEGE JAY LUVAlAS The Cotton Regency: The Northern Merchants and Reconstructions,, 1865-1880. By George Ruble Woolfolk. New York: Bookman Associates, 1958. Pp. 311. $5.00. That the American Civil War was a far-reaching...

..., was commercial and military. From it swarms of emigrants could pour out, but its strategic figure was the merchant, the man with a purse who could buy (or seize) something in the new land to send back to the old. Sea empires have mothered colonies of settlement, but in themselves have been urban and commercial...

... hamshire Grenvilles, headed by Temple, and the group of North American and West Indian merchants in London headed by Wil­ liam Beckford. Temple was perhaps the more indispensable. Pitt and Temple together formed a near-perfect statesman-politician, with Pitt supplying the broad aspects of statesmanship...

... (markup of H.R. 2533, H. Con. Res. 135, H.J. Res 216, H. Con. Res. 137). May 19 and June 2, 9, 10, 11, and 23 . Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office . United States Congress House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries . 1987 . Kuwaiti Tankers, Hearings before...

... are vitally concerned with the problem would welcome a sequel which would suggest how the United States is to give true education to everybody. alan k. Manchester Jonathan Trumbull: Connecticut s Merchant Magistrate (ifio17^5)- By Glenn Weaver. Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1956. Pp. x, 182...