...Harry R. Stevens Across the Wide Missouri . By De Voto Bernard . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1947 . Pp. xxvii , 483 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 405 pictures, but there is no list of illustrations which this reviewer has been...

...Harry R. Stevens The Journals of Lewis and Clark . Edited by De Voto Bernard . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1953 . Pp. lii , 504 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 44i teen colleges which existed in Alabama in i860, only eight have...

... is to be something other than an instrument of self­ inflation, a lyricization of your appetite for experience. Wolfe, he concludes, was not an artist or an important writer. There s more. But why go on? Bernard De Voto said it all 366 The South Atlantic Quarterly thirty-three years ago when he drew up...

... and graphs. There are several Book Reviews 405 pictures, but there is no list of illustrations which this reviewer has been able to discover. Joseph C. Robert. Across the Wide Missouri. By Bernard De Voto. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Pp. xxvii, 483. $10.00. In 1935 Miss Margery Whyte of the Peale...

... teaching history at the university, and in time he worked with a number of graduate students. He gave them excellent academic training in the new historical techniques he had learned at The Johns Hopkins University; he gave them some notion of his ideas about The Course of Empire. By Bernard De Voto. Pp...

... politics on Main Street. Paul H. Clyde. AMERICAN SCENE, 1846 The Year of Decision: 1846. By Bernard De Voto. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. Pp. xv, 538. $3.50. As the author states in his Preface, The purpose of this book is a literary purpose: to realize the pre-Civil War, Far Western frontier...

... Wolfe. Bernard De Voto s attacks in this regard are too well known to need repeating. De Voto located what he considered all of Wolfe s main faults in the stinging essay Genius Is Not Enough. 12 De Voto sounded the lead themes in a Wolfe countersymphony, the echoes of which can still be heard today...

... The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Edited by Bernard De Voto. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. Pp. lii, 504. $6.50. The indefatigable Mr. De Voto has made another contribution to the history of the far West in abridging the Thwaites edition (1904-5) of the Original Journals 0/ the Lewis and. Clark...

...Robert S. Newdick Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ROBERT FROST LOOKS AT WAR ROBERT S. NEWDICK RECENTLY A VIGOROUS contemporary critic and thorough­ going champion of Robert Frost, Bernard De Voto, noted with satisfaction that W. H. Auden and C. Day Lewis, in their prefaces...

... when the literary brethren discovered that the frontier hypothesis of Frederick Jackson Turner and his historical disciples could be applied to literature as well as politics and industry. Bernard De Voto and a large group of more academic folk eagerly embraced the nationalistic view underlying...

... ON MARK TWAIN Mark Twain at Work. By Bernard De Voto. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. Pp. ix, 144. $2.00. This book is composed of three essays, each of which has previously been made public: The Symbols of Despair was the William Vaughn Moody Lecture at the University of Chicago in 1940...

... as it is with the wisdom of psychologists and psychiatrists (our author is fond of the blessed words of the new religion and is definitely among the saved): We read to escape our essential loneliness. If this is a cliche, Mr. De­ Voto, a good-natured egotist, unblushingly asks us to make the most of it. William...

... of Brooks and De Voto can be continued in future works, we may have reason to expect at long last a reasonable portrayal of Clemens instead of argument over the speculations about him. It is hard to believe that only a generation ago everybody with good sense believed that Albert Bigelow Paine had told...

..., would quarrel with the answer, elaborately adorned as it is with the wisdom of psychologists and psychiatrists (our author is fond of the blessed words of the new religion and is definitely among the saved): We read to escape our essential loneliness. If this is a cliche, Mr. De­ Voto, a good-natured...

... illustrate this fact. Beyond the one hun­ dredth meridian, where the average rainfall drops below twenty inches, says Bernard De Voto, one reaches a country controlled by the simple arithmetic of its rainfall. Salted with strange earths which must be leached before seeds will germi­ nate, it is plagued...

... not be a perfect sentence in anyone s early draft (not yet), and the free act of writing is done on Bernard de Voto s prem­ ise, The best reason for setting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. The choices of what to change, how to revise and rewrite, are the second freedom. Here writers throw...

... not understand it, though he considered it by all odds [O Neill s] finest work. On the other hand, Bernard De Voto, in his tart Minority Report (Saturday Review of Literature, November 21, 1936), grouped The Great God Brown among the silliest plays of our time, ranked it as O Neill s worst, and called...

...James M. Ferreira Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Only Yesterday and the Two Christs of the Twenties James M. Ferreira Among the mourners attending Frederick Lewis Allen s funeral in 1954 were Edward Weeks, Walter Lippmann, Bernard De Voto, John Gun­ ther, De Witt Wallace...

... in Harper s Bernard De Voto suggested in May, 1945, that Rice was a possible choice. In his biographical note on Amos Kendall in the Dictionary of American Biography, Frank Maloy Anderson suggested that Kendall, a member of Jackson s Kitchen Cabinet, probably wrote the Diary. Dr. Anderson had a lively...

... to a new name. And then, suddenly, it seemed that there was very little left to say about Samuel Butler. So little was there to say, indeed, that for long periods nothing was said. Evolution Old and New, Luck or Cunning? Ex Voto, joined the depressing ranks of the remaindered. The Note-Books, being out...