...Arthur B. Ferguson English Books and Readers, 1558 to 1603, Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I . By Bennett H. S. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1965 . Pp. xviii , 320 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966...

...Bernard Duffey The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality In American Literature . By Tanner Tony . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . 1965 . Pp. viii , 388 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 416 The South Atlantic Quarterly Laughter will spring from...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 Volume 1. OCTOBER 1902. Number 4. The South Atlantic Quarterly. The Reign of Passion In a certain Southern State a political party recently held a convention of delegates from all parts of the State. It was an important meeting...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 Volume 1. OCTOBER 1902. Number 4. The South Atlantic Quarterly. The Reign of Passion In a certain Southern State a political party recently held a convention of delegates from all parts of the State. It was an important meeting...

...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...

...David L. Dowd Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 SECURITY AND THE SECRET POLICE DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR* David L. Dowd IN AUTHORITARIAN and totalitarian states the secret police is a force of incalculable influence; even in democratic countries the centralized security agencies...

... S. . University of New Mexico Publications in History, Number Two . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1950 . Pp. 96 . $1.00 . The Reign of King John . By Painter Sidney . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1949 . Pp. viii , 397 . $5.50 . B O O© K S...

... of politics. . . . Also his nar­ row chronological limits bred myopia. Walcott s sin was to apply to several elections in the reigns of William and Anne an approach similar to that used by Namier when dealing with conditions at the beginning of the reign of George III. His weakness, if it is one, lies...

... of James lid. & the voluminous biographer of Nelson Dr. [James] Stanier Clark[e], he is now writhing under the sneers of our Host, & the acuteness of [John] Allens historical knowledge; It seems in a note upon the history of James lid. he quotes some observations upon the reign of that monarch & strictures...

... now be usefully com­ pared. For if this exhaustive second volume turns up little that is new in the way of Swift s biography, its reinterpretation of Swift s life and art in relation to the times the reign of Queen Anne is surely original, and, in general, most convincing. A reader may wonder, however...

.... 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...

... beauty was animated by manly sense, activity, and resolution (IV, 301); Victoria reigned with a manly vigour (I, 301); Mamaea s manly ambition sought the substance rather than the pageantry of power (I, 150); only Pulcheria among all of Theodosius descendants appears to have inherited any share...

... with the conditions. The extensiveness of practical charity and of the discussion of benevolence in the age of George II is, in fact, not duly appreciated by some his­ torians of English society. One of the first signs of reaction from the licentiousness and general moral atrophy of George I s reign is a widespread...

..., 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 in the years between her accession and 1572 that her reign would come to be considered one of the brilliant chapters in English history. Some­ one once...

... reign. The same writer would now write: Rejoice Columbia s Sons, rejoice, To Tyrants never bend the knee; But join with heart & soul & voice, Gainst Jefferson & Slavery. 1808. If the author s statement is to be accepted, the first stanza was written in the early part of Jefferson s first administra­...

... reign of law leaves him unim­ pressed. He does not believe that an impersonal form of govern­ ment can be secured. Neither does he accept the desirability of a sphere of anarchy wherein the coercive force of the government does not operate. As he sees it, there can be no effective charter...

...Philip F. Riley Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Policing of Sin in Louis XIV s Paris Philip F. Riley Violations of the sixth and ninth commandments never seriously troubled Louis XIV until midway through his fifty-four-year reign. For the first twenty years of his personal...

... Trade in the Reign oj Elizabeth I. By H. S. Bennett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. xviii, 320. $8.50. Students of the literature and history of sixteenth-century England will welcome H. S. Bennett s continued study of English reading habits and the vagaries of the book trade...

... was plunged became characteristic of the intellectual atmosphere, especially during the latter years, of the reign of Nicholas I, and was shared even by some high-ranking civil servants, such as, for instance, the censor and university professor Nikitenko.9 This atmo­ sphere changed almost as soon...

... the rulers. Ivan III, hailed by generations of Russians for having thrown off the Mongol yoke, actual­ ly ended the state of bondage without striking a blow. Under Ivan IV, the Terrible, the unification of the Russian lands was brought to its cul­ mination, but the slight constructive features of his reign...