...Oliver W. Ferguson James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769 . By Pottle Frederick A. . 1966 . Reprint. New York, Toronto, London : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1985 . Pp. xviii , 606 . $24.95 . James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 . By Brady Frank . New York...

...-1785. Edited by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. Pp. xxv, 419; illustrations. $22.95. This must be ever remembered as a melancholy day, for it brought me the dismal news of my...

...William H. Irving Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764 . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill , 1953 . Pp. xxiii , 357 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 591 nill we, we are being irresistibly drawn closer...

...William Henry Irving Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763 . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1950 . Pp. xxix , 370 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 591 This book will remind historians of some...

...Lodwick Hartley Boswell in Holland . Edited by Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co. , 1952 . Pp. 433 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 145 cesses in 1940 had made him feel qualified to handle all kinds of military operations...

...J. E. Congleton Boswell in Search of a Wife: 1766-1769 . Edited by Brady Frank Pottle Frederick A. . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1956 . Pp. xxiv , 390 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 524 The South Atlantic Quarterly of means...

... as a creative writer. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, the editorial policy of which grew out of Frederick Pottle s work on the later volumes of the Private Papers, were based on manuscripts and printers copies un­ known to Hill and the nineteenth century. These editions employed tech­...

... a unique status by presenting a historical person in literary form. Donald Greene replied in 1973 that he was prepared to concede the literary merit of the Life, but that as a history it was flawed, inaccurate, and in need of replacement. In 1974, Frederick A. Pottle responded to Greene by reformulating...

... recognition of the universities. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY HARLAN W. HAMILTON James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. By Frederick A. Pottle. 1966. Reprint. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985. Pp. xviii, 606. $24.95. James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769-1795. By Frank Brady...

... by Frederick A. Pottle. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950. Pp. xxix, 370. $5.00. Some twenty years ago or more Claude Collier Abbott, Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, visited Fettercairn House, the residence of Lord Clinton near Aberdeen, looking for papers concerned...

... in classics or mathe­ 6. Boswell in Search of a Wife, ed. Frank Brady and F. A. Pottle (New York, 1957), pp. 163-64. 7. Times, 21 July 1984, p. 8; Punch, 23 March 1983; Newsletter ofthe Johnson Society of the Central Region, November 1983. 8. Chap. 29; Clifford, Dictionary Johnson (New York, 1979), p. 218...

... the tremendous vista of more than two thousand years of sustained thinking. Robert leet Patterson Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. Pp. xxiii, 357. $5.00. Boswell thinks man a curious animal dependent for happiness or misery...

... would probably have valued them more. But the side of Johnson which was more like Boswell was also more difficult for Boswell to imagine. Professor Pottle has written of Boswell s ability to assume with complete conviction, simultaneously or in very rapid succession, attitudes generally con­ sidered...

..., col. 1. 8 Bertrand H. Bronson, On a Special Decorum in Gray s Elegy, in From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, ed. F. W. Hilles and H. Bloom (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), pp. 171-76. 9 John Scott, Critical Essays on some of the Poems of several English...

... was an original member.17 In 1773 Boswell had reason to be thankful for Beauclerk s standing with the Club. On April 30 he was invited to Ryskamp and Frederick A. Pottle (New York, 1963), p. 90. Even though Bos­ well admired and respected Beauclerk s social class, he was sometimes offended by Beauclerk s noble...

... such as Hobson and Smart, was the prophet of the economics of the welfare state. merle m. bevington Boswell in Search of a Wife: 1766-1769. Edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. Pp. xxiv, 390. $6.00. These were Boswell s marvelous years. Arriving at his...

.... Reed and Frederick A. Pottle, observe, If this journal has a major theme, it is the persistence of problems. We see Boswell struggling 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly with financial difficulties; worrying over his wife s health and his children s future; above all, taking stock of himself and his...

... that governed or failed to govern his moral and religious decisions. One gets from Mr. Lewis s book and this is the same point an inadequate notion of Boswell s ability to force himself to work hard for long periods of time, the lesson about Boswell that Mr. Pottle has been teaching us in recent years. Boswell...

... Boswell in Holland. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1952. Pp. 433. $6.00. After young Boswell s year of gay debauchery in London in rebellion against his austere Scots father, his residence in Holland during 1763-64 was not unlike a prolonged morning after the night before...

... that the debate will be with us for a long time to come. QUEEN S UNIVERSITY, CANADA TILOTTAMA RAJAN Boswell: The Applause of the Jury 1782-1785. Edited by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. Pp...