...Lionel Stevenson The Quest for Permanence . By Perkins David . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1959 . Pp. viii , 305 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 456 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Quest for Permanence. By David Perkins. Cambridge: Harvard...

...Alexander DeConde A History of the Monroe Doctrine (New Edition) . By Perkins Dexter . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1955 . Pp. xiv , 462 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 399 His book is descriptive rather than analytical, contains...

... pocket note­ books (no. 4), he came away from the meeting wondering whether he had actually spoken with the author of Ulysses. In December, 1930, near the end of his years of wandering, Wolfe wrote a noteworthy letter to Maxwell Perkins revealing his plans for The October Fair. He intended to use...

... a comment on the celebrated Wolfe-Perkins affair. DeVoto s sting­ ing criticism of Wolfe impressed me when it appeared in the Satur­ day Review of Literature as a review article on Wolfe s The Story of a Novel (April 25, 1936), and I have read with particular interest not only the volume of Perkins letters...

... Starapp and Foner, see, as an example, the editorial from the Newark Daily Advertiser, 2 April 1861, in Northern Editorials on Secession, ed. Howard C. Perkins (2 vols., continuous pagination, New York, 1942), pp. 601-02; and August Belmont to Baron Lionel de Rothschild, 21 May 1861, cited in Smith...

... passed, until in 1857 occurred an event that seemed to point to a possible answer. In that year Judge John Perkins, of Tombeckbee Presbytery in Mississippi, offered to endow, in any theologi­ cal seminary that would accept it, a Professorship of the Natural James Woodrow 485 Sciences as connected...

... persons in times of trouble; they were made for eras like the present. John r. alden A History of the Monroe Doctrine (New Edition). By Dexter Perkins. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Pp. xiv, 462. $5.00. In 1941 Professor Perkins, the foremost authority on the Monroe Doctrine, published...

... which Maxwell Perkins carved Of Time and the River stood two feet high on the table and included material from numerous works, some published like A Portrait of Bascom Hawke others abortive attempts like The 436 The South Atlantic Quarterly Fast Express, The River People, The October Fair...

..., Harvard University. Quotations from the letters of Elizabeth Nowell are made by permission of Clara Perkins Stites and of Houghton Library, Harvard University. L Letter to R. S. Kennedy, August 7, 1950. Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell 203 and wubber cement, and then she would go ahead and ask...

...Paschal Reeves Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Thomas Wolfe on Publishers: Reaction to Rejection Paschal Reeves One of editor Maxwell Perkins gnawing fears was that some day his prodigy Thomas Wolfe would take the publishing house of Scribner s as his subject matter...

... is no more valuable to us than our own diaries and letters. The sympathetic editor whose blue pencil and scissors are notori­ ous was the late Maxwell Perkins of Scribner s, to whom Wolfe dedicated Of Time and the River and to whom many other writers, including Miss Gordon, have dedicated their books...

... of the recipients intimacy with the writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald emerges as a man who engages our affection and admiration. Of these five hundred-odd letters, the most by far were written to Fitzgerald s editor, Maxwell Perkins, who as a young man at Scribner s persuaded the reluctant old guard led by Charles...

... engages our affection and admiration. Of these five hundred-odd letters, the most by far were written to Fitzgerald s editor, Maxwell Perkins, who as a young man at Scribner s persuaded the reluctant old guard led by Charles Scribner and William Crary Brownell to publish Fitzgerald s first novel...

... Perkins. Bos­ ton and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910, xix, 544 pp. In this posthumously published volume the late James Breck Perkins, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives, gives a readable account of the part played by France in the American Revolution...

... is an expression, no longer has meaning. Why does Professor Perkins believe that the Monroe Doctrine is not out­ moded? Although time and events have changed the context of the Doctrine, they have not, he believes, changed its basic idea, self-defense. Time has not outmoded Professor Perkins s fine book. Whether...

..., before com­ mencing my study, I met Samuel Perkins who told me that he had written a biography of Fitzgerald the biographer of Hobson the biographer of Boswell. This news did not discourage me, but, on the contrary, made me determine to write a life of Perkins and so become another link in a brilliant...

... wishes to thank Robert Byrd of Perkins Library, Duke University, and Thomas V. Hull, of the American Legion Archives in Indianapolis, for their help in making documents avail­ able; John Chambers, Calvin Davis, I. B. Holley, William Leuchtenburg, and Russell Weigley for scholarly assistance...

... ence took place. Johannah Sherrer, head reference librarian at Duke s William R. Perkins Library, provided invaluable research support and served as liaison with the Institut Memoires de l Edition Contemporaine in Paris. Margaret Bates, David Bell, Cathy N. Davidson, Paol Keineg, Naomi Schor, Philip...

... Buckner. The volume is therefore a contribu­ tion to the history of Muhlenberg County rather than a well rounded work. William K. Boyd. George Hamilton Perkins, Commodore, U. S. N. His Life and Let­ ters. By Carroll Storrs Alden. With illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914 xii...

... on the State of Virginia, with an Introduction by Thomas Perkins Abernethy ($1.45). Robert Welch, Inc., of Belmont, Mass., publishing under the name of American Opinion, offers for $1.00 an account of The Invasion of Mississippi, by Earl Lively, Jr. Since 1959, Mr. Lively has devoted his full attention...