...Jay B. Hubbell Literary Study and the Scholarly Profession . By Craig Hardin . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1944 . Pp. xvi , 150 . $2.25 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Book Reviews 457 ministrators and teachers should be required to read...

...William B. Hamilton The Happy Profession . By Sedgwick Ellery . Boston : Atlantic-Little, Brown , 1946 . Pp. 353 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 299 Edited by William Starr Myers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. Pp. vi, 91...

.... BAILEY The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870. By William Charvat. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1968. Pp. xviii, 327. $7.00. William Charvat s main scholarly interest was in the logistics of professional authorship...

...Eric Foner While largely ignored by the historical profession when published in 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America has come to be regarded as a landmark of historical scholarship and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the era of Civil War and Reconstruction. Du...

... commonplace, radical history may well have de­ clined in the 1970s by being crushed by overwhelming opposition, with radical historians being forced out of the profession altogether or allowed to occupy only marginal positions outside the professional centers of power.19 And finally, what of the argument...

... to architecture, chemistry, or the medical profession, but rather to law and related fields. It must be noticed, however, that the newspaperman and the professional social scientist now share, in some measure, the prevalence of the lawyer in public affairs. The legal profession itself tends to develop...

... Left history seemed to many observers to be poised as a potentially important professional model, perhaps even the heir to the throne of domi­ nant paradigms. There were many predictions of the impending radicalization of the profession and the domination of the discipline by New Left perspectives...

... with children as well as with whole communi­ ties. This type of teacher is our chief need, rather than technical training, professional standards, and higher salaries, important as are all these. The presence in the profession of a considerable number of such teachers will, in due time and without forcing...

..., in the spring of 1786, from Cape Cod to the Berkshires, this profession, which had given state and country revered patriots and honored legislators, was harried from pillar to post and nearly abol­ ished by an angry citizenry in a lynching mood. Nothing in legal history, writes Charles Warren, is more...

... the circumstance might in reality be accepted as a token that a strain of talent lay in the family stock. It might be urged also that in lands and during periods when conditions for entrance into the Heredity and Genius 115 learned professions were peculiarly strict the fact of a career, though unrecorded...

..., their internal and national problems, and to support and applaud the doing of jus­ tice by their judiciary and executive, even when apparently opposed to their material interests. The same test of the effort to speak the truth and do justice is being applied to all professions and occupations. The best ele­...

... are: What will happen to me if I choose writing as a profession? Will I be unhappy all my life? Will I be transformed utterly, changed into a being I cannot yet imagine and may not admire? Are there matters at stake, hazards and pitfalls, that I don t know about? These are questions a young person might...

... that in the popular mind cooking as art and profession has always been associated with men. Even in America, where since the colonial era women have always cooked in local taverns and neighborhood cafes, one expects that the ele­ gant cooking of the haute cuisine will be produced by men. And so it has long been...

... into the cracks of your life—the life you spend in the megalopolis. I first learned of the existence of this company when I looked at the name printed on the visiting card of my friend S. He was once a professional...

... women in her profession, how and why that happened, what it really meant. So, how to begin? There are questions of content, of course, but first of style. Woolf always has such indisputable style; how she makes her argu­ ments distinguishes them forever from sociologists or historians or aca­ demics.4...

... arises, Is this mere talk on the part of a profession which makes its living by talking, or has the clergy forged something this time which will hold water? The answer can be determined only in event of war, and it is not worth another war to find out what these gentlemen, who according to the 1907...

... not mean to intimate that sound living does not still rest on sound thinking. But the erecting of an ancient confession of faith into the seat of authority has produced a falseconservatism, an insistence upon regularity of experience and profession that have at times made religious sects a clog on human...

... recent by-elections is due largely to the introduction of the new measure into party con­ troversy by the opposition. Affecting, as it does, both employ­ ers and employed as well as the influential medical profession, the act has naturally aroused much dissatisfaction and some oppo­ sition especially...

... this ancient dialectic. An exami­ nation of both the medical profession and the law reveals that the antici­ pated ambiguity is in fact present and active. It is common knowledge among physicians that despite the fundamental thrust of the professional ethos toward the sustaining and preservation of Medical...

... a religion that is emotional, given to profession, and sometimes froward in its retention of outworn forms, rather than conservative of the simple, essential spirit of Christianity. From this kind of conservatism has come insistence upon regu­ larity of experience and profession that has seemed to some...