...James Cannon, III The Wisdom Tree . By Hawkridge Emma . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1945 . Pp. 504 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 262 The South Atlantic Quarterly brought together in a uniform format with thin paper and narrow mar­ gins...

...William B. Hamilton The Scarlet Tree . By Sitwell Sir Osbert . Boston : Atlantic-Little, Brown , 1946 . Pp. 391 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 149 ered together an enormous amount of material and commented on it with acumen; they have...

...Robert S. Rankin Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE ROOTS OF THE TREE OF LIBERTY ROBERT S. RANKIN THE AMERICAN form of government is being threatened both without and within without by the totalitarian states, where participation of citizens in the government and individual...

...Kenneth Surin Duke University Press 2006 Kenneth Surin Fandom: Colin ‘‘Pine Tree’’ Meads They once asked him [Meads] why British forwards were no good in his era. ‘‘Too many sweatbands, not enough sweat he growled...

... of its coming. Too wet the year before and too dry this year, it was a formula for disaster in any part of the world. I see the memory of it all around me in the burnt stubble and charred stands of trees...

... and across the pastures to a lookout point atop the highest hill on one ofthefarms. One hundred andfifty years ago this area was known as the Great South Gippsland Forest. The trees were so dense at the time of White settlement that explorers could barely pass through them. A temperate rainforest of tall...

... by a much loved and familiar author the same ideas, but seen from a wholly fresh perspective. What could be better? Three of Tolkien s works dating from this period are especially important: The Hobbit, written in 1936, Tree and Leaf, a volume Mr. Monsman, who teaches English at Duke University and whose...

... is required to reveal this pre­ occupation in its entirety. The visible sign of the poet s preoccupation the word is not too strong is the recurrent image, particularly in his earlier work, of dark woods and trees. Often, as in the lyric with which we have begun, the world of the woods (for such in effect...

... of forestry in growing new stands of timber throughout the United States, especially in the regions which are characterized by the most favorable conditions for the development of trees. Of the two regions which possess these conditions to the greatest degree the Pacific Coast and the South the latter has...

..., and me. Susan is important here in the Western folklore of islands, Suzanne and the Pacific, the Lovely Susan of Palm Tree Island.14 So we know where we are going, but we do not know when or how. When Tony comes, Susan worries about the boat and the supplies. It seems small and unfull for all...

... to the island dramatically; the trail from the dock leads through magnolia woods so thick that one can see only a few feet into them. The trees themselves are giants, smooth­ trunked and displaying shiny, dark-green leaves. In the spring they bear large, fragrant white flowers, waxy and so perfectly formed...

..., as if the down too needed shaving; and into it the road to London slipped, covering the bushes with white dust. Chalk made the dust white, chalk made the water clear, chalk made the clean rolling outlines of the land, and favoured the distant coronals of trees. Here is the heart of our island: the Chilterns...

... died away; the musicless rasping of the tree frogs, the perpetual echoing of katydids, the simple young noise of the crickets, have disappeared one by one; and there are left for the sleepless listener only the low liquid rip­ pling of the brook-water over the slippery stones, and the mysterious...

...) who make us see the world for a moment herrlich wie am ersten Tag. Again, just as a forest is a more present reality after hearing the Forest Murmurs in Siegfried, so we know more of what it is to be a tree after meeting the tree-men, the Ents. Like all mythmakers Tolkien imprints humanity...

... Wind. And if we turn to the clos­ ing years of his long life, we find him still writing on The Path, The Return of the Birds, My Autumn Walk, Among the Trees, May Evening. Relatively to the quan­ tity of his verse, Bryant wrote more poems of nature than any­ one else in American literature...

... the death (line 3) to come from both man s first dis­ obedience and the forbidden fruit with which it was linked. The of beginning the second line initially seems simply to make for a periphrastic genitive Unking fruit and tree, Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal fast, but it also provides a sugges­...

... who have pointed themselves the wrong way, makes power lines swing and tree limbs dance. The thing that stomped through here did not contain winds of 145 mph or any other speed. A wind of 50 mph is recognizable as something double the intensity of the same thing at 25 mph. A wind of 100 mph...

... the meadow, there rise numerous oaks of a great size that have sprung up entirely apart; and as each tree thus enjoys the full beneficence of the unimpeded air and light, all have been able to attain an extraordinary roundness and symmetry in their successive tiers of expanding limbs. There are here...

... the following, which Miss Lowell calls one of the most completely successful things that Mr. Fletcher has done The trees, like great jade elephants, Chained, stamp and shake neath the gadflies of the 'breeze; The trees lunge and plunge, unruly elephants: The clouds are their crimson howdah-canopies...

.... There was no one to see as it toiled up the deserted wagon trail now blocked in many places by fallen trees and completely overgrown with shrubs and undergrowth of all kinds. A hidden observer would no doubt have been very suspicious of such strange actions and would certainly have notified the sheriff...