The Green-Room

The virginia quarterly review

“Here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal,”

For the past eight years Ernest K. Lindley has been in a peculiarly advantageous position to judge the character and ability of President Roosevelt. As a political reporter on the New York World, he was made Albany correspondent in 1928, when Mr. Roosevelt was Governor of New York. He continued in this capacity on the New York Herald-Tribune, and was assigned to the Washington Bureau of the latter paper when Mr. Roosevelt became president. He has been with the Bureau ever since, with the exception of the months of the 1936 presidential campaign, when he was assigned to report Governor Lan-don’s campaign. He has written three books on Mr. Roosevelt, the latest of which is “Half Way with Roosevelt.” Ma, Lindley is a native of Indiana, and was educated at the University of Idaho and, as a Rhodes scholar, at Pembroke College, Oxford. “Agenda for a Second Term” is his first contribution to the Virginia Quarterly.

The recent approach to currency stabilization by Great Britain, France, and the United States, coupled with Secretary of State Hull’s progress in negotiating trade agreements, has centered interest in the revival of our foreign commerce. In “Prospects for Foreign Trade,” W. Y. Elliott discusses the limiting factors and the directions in which progress may be expected. Mr. Elliott is joint editor of, and contributor to, “International Control in the Non-Ferrous Metals,” which is announced for early publication. He is also the author of “The New British Empire” and “The Need for Constitutional Reform.” Mr, Elliott, who is now chairman of the department of government in Harvard University, was born in Tennessee and studied at Vanderbilt University and, as a Rhodes scholar, at Balliol College, Oxford.

Readers of the Virginia Quarterly will recall Stark Young’s “Encaustics for Southerners” in the April, 1935, The Green-Room issue of the magazine. In “More Encaustics” he continues his use of a literary form that he has made peculiarly his own. He is a native of Mississippi, and lives now in New York, where he is a member of the editorial board of The New Republic. A poet, dramatist, dramatic critic, and novelist, he is best known for his most recent novel, “So Red the Rose.” An anthology of Southern selections, entitled “A Southern Treasury of Life and Letters,” edited by Mr. Young, is announced for early publication.

Kathryn Worth’s “Child in the Seasons,” a sequence of poems on childhood, appeared in the April, 1935, issue of the Virginia Quarterly. The author lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and has contributed poetry to a number of magazines.

The letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Daniel Gregory Mason form, according to Mr. Mason, the most considerable group that has yet appeared. As originally offered to the Quarterly, the letters were too bulky for publication in one issue; but because of their striking self-portrayal of Robinson when he was a young and struggling poet, the editors of the Quarterly decided to ignore their usual policy and publish them serially. In addition to the first series published in this issue, a second series will appear in the Spring issue. The recipient of the letters, and editor of the group, Daniel Gregory Mason, is the well-known American composer and music critic. Readers of this magazine will recall his earlier contributions to the Virginia Quarterly, “The Lesson of the London ‘Proms’ ” and “Sensationalism and Indifference.”

Ben Belitt’s poem, “The Unregenerate,” appeared in the April, 1936, issue of the Virginia Quarterly. He is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, and is now a member of the editorial staff of The Nation. A collection of poetry by George Mariox O’Donnell, “Return and Other Poems,” was published last spring. He is a native of Mississippi, now studying at Vanderbilt University.

“Christmas Gift” is Robert Penn Warren’s second short story to appear in this magazine; “Her Own People” was published in the April, 1935, number. He has also contributed poetry and critical essays. Mr. Warren is a member of the English faculty of Louisiana State University and managing editor of The Southern Review. He is the author of a life of John Brown and of a volume of poetry, “Thirty-Six Poems,” which was reviewed in the April, 1936, issue of the Quarterly.

The author of “Surplus Value,” Scott Buchanan, formerly of the philosophy faculty of the University of Virginia, was appointed this fall by President Hutchins of the University of Chicago a member of a committee to study the liberal arts in relation to their place in the college curriculum. He is the author of “Poetry and Mathematics,” “Possibility,” and “Symbolic Distance.”

John Peale Bishop is a member of the Younger Generation he discusses in “The Missing All.” A native of Charles Town, West Virginia, he graduated from Princeton in 1917, fought in the World War, and lived in France during the greater part of the ‘twenties. Mr. Bishop is the author of two volumes of poetry, “Minute Particulars” and “Now with His Love,” and of a novel, “Act of Darkness.” He has previously contributed poetry and essays to this magazine.

F. Cudworth Flint is a member of the English faculty of Dartmouth College. He is a native of Oregon, and was educated at Reed College and, as a Rhodes scholar, at Bal-liol College, Oxford. Robert P. Tristram Coffin won the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1936 with “Strange Holiness,” R. P. Blackmur has written numerous essays in the field of poetic analysis, a number of which have appeared collectively under the title “The Double Agent.” A volume of verse by Mr. Blackmur, “From Jordan’s Delight,” is announced for publication in January. Cuthbert Wright contributed “An Approach to Dante” to the October number of the Quarterly. Mangum Weeks is a lawyer by profession who has done extensive reading and field work in American ornithology. Archibald Bolling Shepperson is the author of “The Novel in Motley,” a study of the burlesque novel from the time of Fielding to Thackeray, which the Harvard Press recently published. Harold S. Quig-ley, professor of political science in the University of Minnesota, was a Guggenheim fellow in Japan in 1930. Harold Hutcheson is a member of the economics faculty of Connecticut College. Edd Winfield Parks is the editor of “Southern Poets,” an anthology published last spring, and a joint editor of “The Great Critics.”

THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW

Edited by LAMBERT DAVIS

Advisory Editors

Stringfellow Barr  John Calvin Metcale

Garrard Glenn  Carroll Mason Sparrow

James Southall Wilson

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