...Louis J. Budd Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee . State College : The Pennsylvania State College , 1953 . Pp. 384 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 153 one being, a being greater than ourselves, who felt all and knew all...

... effort to prove a thesis provable only to those who need no proof in the first place. irving david suss Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee. State College: The Pennsylvania State College, 1953. Pp. 384. $4.75. Although Fred Lewis Pattee had many claims upon the respect of those who...

...Fred Lewis Pattee Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 THE SOUL OF FLORIDA FRED LEWIS PATTEE FLORIDA from the Easter morning of its discovery has been a Never Never Land, the domain that can be defined only in terms of escape. Always has it connoted romance, and what is romance...

...Fred Lewis Pattee Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON AND THE SOUTH FRED LEWIS PATTEE I CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON has been dead fortyfive years, her books are known only to the few, yet Rollins College in Florida has built on its campus a memorial shrine...

...Fred Lewis Pattee Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 FISHING IN FLORIDA FRED LEWIS PATTEE DURING THE EARLY Spanish period Florida was largely swamp, half the year waterlogged and muckbottomed. Even now, after a century of canals and drainage ditches, large parts of the peninsula...

... to Fred Lewis Pattee (often called the first professor of American literature), until 1900 and perhaps until 1910. But today both Roe and Holland are almost forgotten by American literary critics as they busy themselves with the new and the modern but frequently overlook the old, the precursors. Reynolds...

... of hearing. To report that Penn State s president had the chapel pulpit bolted down before Billy Sunday arrived and that the athletic department s trainer gave Billy rubdowns after every sermon is to add to our genuine Americana. But humor and color are not the main virtues here. Mr. Pattee avoided...

... to the very present, even speculating incisively about the short stories still to be written, yet he devotes one of his five chapters to Hemingway and Faulkner. With so large a program crowded into small space, Mr. West s book cannot hope to match the careful solidity of F. L. Pattee s classic...

... a program crowded into small space, Mr. West s book cannot hope to match the careful solidity of F. L. Pattee s classic, The Development of the Modern American Short Story (1923). The fate of this study will vary with the reader s own position in current skirmishings. Mr. West adopts the emphasis of much...

..., the beginnings of a libretto for a comic opera, and an unfinished novel set in Elizabethan England, with Shakespeare as a main character, and including the line By St. Hubert, bellowed my lord, I will wait me no waits! 5 3. Fred Lewis Pattee, Side-Lights on American Literature (New York, 1922), p. 56. 4...

... a mental, tem­ peramental, and social poise that is not entirely usual with American men. How much more difficult must it be for an author freely to criticize a book by his erstwhile host or guest. If one be a critic, said Professor Pattee recently then one must exclude from his fireside all creators...

... in 1923, with Fred Lewis Pattee as the chief speaker, the attendance was less than thirty; at its meeting in December, 1948, there were more than seven hundred. In 1927 Parrington published the first two volumes of his Main Currents in American Thought. In 1928 the American Literature Group, with Norman...

..., articles, including What Is Man?, Those Extra­ ordinary Twins, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and The Mysterious Stranger. The shadow of the man in the white suit was, as Fred Lewis Pattee has remarked, dark upon the period; and when he died in 1910, he was by common con­ sent the most embittered man...

... do we escape the complications when we turn to this side of the Atlantic. The laughter of the West, as Professor Pattee calls it perhaps because its practitioners showed a preference for being born in places like Watertown, Maine, Dedham, Massachusetts, and Vestal, New York is admittedly a part...

.... The Lady enters as a voice of God and Conscience, and her commands to walk in the ways of righteous­ ness are observed until she falls in love with one of the men; then, contemptuous of anything less than mystery, all of them fall again into their ungodly ways. Fred Lewis Pattee has awarded this story...