...Alice M. Baldwin American Furniture: Queen Anne and. Chippendale Periods . By Downs Joseph . New York : Macmillan , 1952 . Pp. xl , 454 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 137 it is very important to attend an Ivy League college...

...Arthur B. Ferguson The Reign of Queen Victoria . By Bolitho Hector . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. 437 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 no The South Atlantic Quarterly plethora of dates and facts, with detailed explorations of the many...

...W. T. Laprade Rogues, Royalty, and Reporters; The Age of Queen Ann through Its Newspapers . By Ewald William Bragg Jr . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1956 . Pp. xi , 243 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 4io The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Clifford Lyons Shakespeare and The Faerie Queene . By Potts Abbie Findlay . Ithaca : Cornell University Press . 1958 . Pp. 269 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 505 tioned to the acceptance or rejection of the idea of Negro equality...

...John C. Cairns Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ^Che SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarterly CLIO AND THE QUEEN S FIRST MINISTER John C. Cairns WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, prime minister of Great Britain, has led more lives and turned his talents to more fields of endeavor than half a dozen...

... living with the failure. Meanwhile, it is good to read Henry Pachter at his best. QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FRANK WARREN Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South. Edited by David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr. Jackson: University Press of Missis­ sippi, 1984. Pp. x, 270...

.... To a semiotic critic, on the other hand, the orthodox notion of mimesis might seem epistemologically crude. In the end, given the radically different philosophical postulates from which semiotic and referential criticism derive, one suspects that the debate will be with us for a long time to come. QUEEN S...

... precisely because he was so tom. As W. B. Yeats, a poet who shared his infatuation with the daemonic, claimed, from our quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BARBARA FASS John Keats s Dream of Truth. By John Jones. New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1969. Pp. 302...

... manage to convey the excitement and subtlety of Swinburne s poetry and, even more signifi­ cantly for his purposes, its depth and occasional profundity. QUEENS COLLEGE MICHAEL TIMKO ...

... of The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. Chapter III re-examines the fair copy in Swift s hand of A Letter to a Young Lady on her Marriage, and by establishing the spe­ cific, topical occasion to the Letter significantly deflates Swift s sup­ posed misogyny. The central fourth chapter, Swift s...

... is largely literary; the element of new science in it is very slight, but since it is the new element, I be­ lieve that the more profitable approach to Norris is to concentrate on this new element rather than prove that Norris is largely contained in the tradition of Western humanism or dualism. QUEENS...

..., and the thirties. QUEENS COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK CHARLES CHILD WALCUTT Hume, Fielding and Gibbon: Narrative and Form in History and Fiction. By Leo Braudy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. Pp. viii, 307. $10.00. Struck perhaps by the two circumstances that Fielding amused him­ self...

... saying that it is and will be one of the basic works for all South African studies. QUEEN S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON ARTHUR KEPPEL-JONES ...

... by unscrupulous exploiters who wave the American flag and recite paeons to free enterprise. QUEENS COLLEGE, C.U.N.Y. MURRAY POLNER Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1941. Volume VII, The American Republics (Department of State Pub­ lication 7447) Washington: U. S. Government Printing...

... has worked consistently from an adequate conception of what Coleridge s poetic ends were. QUEEN S UNIVERSITY GEORGE WHALLEY Shaw and the Nineteenth-Century Theater. By Martin Meisel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. Pp. xii, 477. $7.50. Let it be said at once that this work clearly ranks...

... there on that date, as they did in 1600 and 1601 but not in 1602. Dr. Leslie Hotson, in The First Night of Twelfth Night,5 pre­ sented a fascinating argument that the play was written and pro­ duced before the Queen in ten days time for the entertainment of Queen Elizabeth s guest, Don Virginio Orsino, Duke...

... have readily chosen the Arthur of Spenser s The Faerie Queene for his para­ digmatic mythic hero. For Freud, a myth succeeds when its destiny moves us because it might have been ours ; it is compelling when there is something in the narrative that readers can recognize in themselves.1 The figure...

... of Rights, while he, the active agent, kept silent and missed an oppor­ tunity of martyrdom for liberty by not declaring his own responsibility and forcing the issue. Having written the fearlessly radical Queen Mab he did not loose it boldly upon a society that would have promptly fined and imprisoned him...

... been actively interested in astrology and alchemy. During his lifetime he was famous for being Queen Eliza­ beth s personal astrologer. This position, which inspired envy in some and awe in the more naive of his contemporaries, caused bio­ graphical dictionaries throughout subsequent generations...

.... CHAPEL HILL, N.C. JANE DE HART MATHEWS The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime. By Wallace MacCaffrey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. Pp. vii, 488. $10. It is a commonplace that the reign of Elizabeth I falls into two very different periods. The Queen s contemporaries could hardly have known...