...Rodolfo Acuña Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest . By Tutorow Norman E. . Palo Alto : Chadwick House, Publishers, Ltd. , 1978 . Pp. xi , 320 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 375 promise calculated...

...Mody C. Boatright Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 THE TALL TALE IN TEXAS MODY C. BOATRIGHT THE pioneers who came to Texas to found there a cattle industry that eventually extended from the Rio Grande to the Big* Bow, brought with them from the older Southwest a large body...

...Richard N. Current Slavery and the Annexation of Texas . By Merk Frederick , with the collaboration of Merk Lois Bannister . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1972 . Pp. xiv , 290 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The South Atlantic Quarterly scholar...

...Harry R. Stevens The Texas Revolution . By Binkley William C. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1952 . Pp. viii , 132 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 625 much for Mark Twain. At the end, after all his disillusioning...

...Robert F. Durden Stephen F. Austin: Father of Texas . By Beals Carleton . New York : McGraw-Hill , 1953 . Pp. 277 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 167 The Idea of the incoming settlers, meeting with friendly reception, was that the Indian...

...William Henry Irving Studies in English, Department of English, the University of Texas . Austin : The University of Texas Press . Pp. 297 . 1945 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 248 The South Atlantic Quarterly is suggestive, and Professor Frankel avers...

... into the first four decades of twentieth-century American political history (p. ix). The three volumes represent a scholarly achievement of unusual distinction. Vanderbilt University Dewey W. Grantham The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938-1957. By George Norris Green. Westport...

...Eve Dunbar In July 2018, the New York Times reported on the remains of some ninety-five people discovered at a construction site in the Houston, Texas, suburb of Sugar Land. The archaeologists called in to identify the remains determined that they likely belonged to African American laborers who...

... commonplace subjects of Chaucer scholarship. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN JAMES I. WIMSATT The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires on Women, 1660-1750. By Felicity A. Nussbaum. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Pp. viii, 192. $20.00. With elegance and wit, demonstrating impeccable...

... the full, innovative significance unrecognized, even in her time of Piozzi s work. His account of her career is subtle and soundly researched, and it should be valued by both eighteenth-centuriests and readers of women s literature for some time to come. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ELIZABETH HEDRICK...

.... Preferring compro­ mise, Victorian Noon evades a confrontation at high noon in the Vic­ torian corral; instead it assembles a lonely group just this side of the Crystal Palace. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN JANICE HANEY-PERITZ Truth in History. By Oscar Handlin. Cambridge: Harvard Univer­ sity Press, 1979...

... and the introduction to each division are helpful, and there is a brief index. One could wish that in so large a collection of essays the index were fuller. NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY ARTHUR M. SAMPLEY The Shaping of Urban Society: A History of City Forms and Functions. By Janet Roebuck. New York: Charles Scribner s...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Alfred Tennyson: A Victorian Romance Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas I The Victorian age, whose idols for a generation or more have suffered so grievously at the hands of the inconoclasts, is finding again its champions...

...Evert Mordecai Clark Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 AN UNPUBLISHED BIT OF JEFFERSONIAN VERSE EVERT MORDECAICLARK The University of Texas UPON the margins of a folio edition of Machiavelli s Works,1 found in Yale University Library, appear various notes and comments of the late...

...Katharine Harrison Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 A French Forecast of American Literature Katharine Harrison Waco, Texas Alexis de Tocqueville, with his friend Gustave de Beau­ mont, was sent to this country by the French government in 1831 to study the prison system...

...Harry J. Leon Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ROMANISM HARRY J. LEON University of Texas IF THERE is any value in Roman tradition, the imperial city began as a village, the original settlers of which were shepherds and the dregs of the neighboring towns...

...Albert Edmund Trombly Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Rossetti Studies IV: Rossetti as Translator* Albert Edmund Trombly University of Texas A little wild bird sometimes at my ear Sings his own little verses very clear: Others sing louder that I do not hear. For singing loudly...

...Aaron Schaffer Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Louvre and Eugene Fromentin Aaron Schaffer University of Texas Who has not experienced that utter sense of bewilderment that overcomes one when, in endeavoring to cross a busy street, one finds oneself threatened with a sudden...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Heredity and Genius Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas The fundamental interest of mankind has ever been, and evermore is, destined to be the parental one. No other strikes so deep a root in the mind and heart of man none plays its...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII OCTOBER Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Recent Death-Orgies: A Study of Capital Punishment. Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas The epidemic of executions in the South, with five negroes at Huntsville, Texas...