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ISSUE:  Winter 1927

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

An anniversary is always interesting—especially if it is a new experience. With this number, the Virginia Quarterly Review begins its second year. In the contents of its five issues it has sought to redeem the promise of the first number “to be intelligently entertaining on all sorts of subjects” and to remember its claim to be “a national journal of discussion published in the South.” It has been proud to print representative work by such American and foreign authors as Arthur Symons, Gamaliel Bradford, Luigi Pirandello, Archibald Henderson, Walter de la Mare, Joseph Collins, Dallas Lore Sharp, Percy MacKaye—to mention but a few—: and it has if anything been prouder to present newr writers so gifted as George B. Logan, Lawrence Lee and Anne Blackwell Payne. How far it has performed the promise of its first number, its readers must judge.

J. g. de Roulhac Hamilton is Kenan Professor of History in the University of North Carolina. As historical writer and editor he has published extensively. He warns his readers that his article is not an attack upon Prohibition but upon some of the methods of its enforcement.

Joseph Warren Beach’s most recent book is the delightful “Meek Americans” (University of Chicago Press, $2.00), a book of travel essays. Its whimsicalities are in humorous contrast to the broad comedy of the “Innocents Abroad” of the past generation: a delicious and amusing book. Though “The Holy Bottle” draws most of its allusions from Mr. Cabell’s “Beyond Life,” Mr. Beach had in mind too “Straws and Prayer-Books” and the romances and novels, “fantastic as Gothic tapestry.”

The author of “Spiritual Relativity in Education” is the President of the Texas State College for Women, Denton. Texas. President Blayxey is a native of Kentucky, travelled in the East as Kahn Fellow in 1914-15. saw war service overseas, and was chief of a mission sent by the Peace The Greek-Room (Continued from page iv) of Hatred” is founded on an incident, related by the Red Cross of Geneva, constituting the bare facts of the play. The setting, details of character, and dialogue are, of course, imaginary.

“Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va.”: Edited by Mary Newton Stanard (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. $15,00) take the character almost of a centennial event, containing as they do two letters written by Poe as a student at the University of Virginia and being published first almost exactly a hundred years after their date. As Poe matriculated at the University of Virginia on February 14, 1826, precisely a hundred years and a day from the time at which the Green-Room is being written within sight of the room in which he lived, the article “The Young Man Poe”, by the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English in the University of Virginia (based partly upon Mrs. Stanard’s edition of the “New Letters”), has also an anniversary appropriateness. Interest in Poe is acutely active among publishers. Books upon him by Hervey Allen, Joseph Wood Krutch and others have been announced, as well as new editions including even a reprint in limited edition by the Dial Press of his “Autography”. Several of his letters have been sold at auction and a fifth copy of “Tamerlane and Other Poems”, recently discovered, is rumored to have brought fifteen thousand dollars. The Lippincotts have reissued “The Dreamer”, a romance based upon Poe’s life, by Mrs. Stanard, the editor of the “New Letters”. The letters, by the way, are handsomely printed with photographic reproductions of all the documents.

Readers of the resourceful study of Don Quixote in the January Virginia Quarterly will remember Waldo Frank.

Born in Stockholm, Edwin Bjorkman has lived in America many years. He has worked for The Times and The Sun in New York and has been on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and the World’s Work. As a translator of Strindberg, Bjbrnson, Schnitzler, and other modern masters he is known almost as widely as through his original work as essayist and novelist. Among his own books are “Voices of Tomorrow”, “The Soul of a Child”, and “Gates of Life.”

Of the reviewers of new books, Carroll Mason Sparrows Edward Waoexknecht, Johx Calvix Metcalf, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Dumas Malone, F. String-fellow Barr, and Archibald Henderson “need no introduction” to our readers. J. Fred Rippy is a member of the faculty of the department of history in Chicago University.

The virginia quarterly review

Edited by james south ALL WILSON

Advisory Editors Edwin A. Alderman Albert G. A. Bai.z  John Calvin Metcalf

F. Stringfellow Bark  Carroll M. Sparrow

Albert Lefevre  Bruce Williams

The Virginia Quarterly Review is published by the University of Virginia: in April. July, October, and January. Subscription rates: $3.00 the year. Canadian, $3.25; Foreign, $3.50. Single copies, 75 cents.

Contributions should be accompanied by postage for return and addressed to The Editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, 8 West Lawn. University, Virginia. The University of Virginia and the Editors do not assume responsibility for the views expressed by contributors of signed articles.

All letters relative to advertising and other business matters should be sent to

Atc meson L. Hench, Managing Editor PUBLICATION AND EDITORIAL OFFICE: 8 WEST LAWN, UNIVERSITY, FIR GIN IA “Here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal”

The Virginia Quarterly Review joins, with this issue, in the nation-wide observance of the centennial of the death of Thomas Jefferson and of the hundred and fiftieth year of American independence. The growing fame of Thomas Jefferson is nowhere so much a pulsating influence as at the institution which he founded and in the city which looks upward to the hill crowned by his home, Monticello, now owned by the people of the United States, and this year the Mecca of visitors from everywhere. Published from a community so associated with his life, The Virginia Quarterly is fortunate in being able to present papers by three such notable writers and students of American history as Claude G. Bowers, William E. Dodd, and John H. Latane.

Among the many books about Jefferson that have featured the last year no one has so captured the popular imagination as Mr. Bowers’ “Jefferson and Hamilton,” which, by the way, Professor Latane reviews in this number. Claude G. Bowers was a writer of recognized ability before the charm and brilliancy of his Jefferson book made it a “best-seller” and his name universally familiar. His best-known earlier book is “The Party Battles of the Jackson Period.” In Indiana he was a publicist and political leader before he joined the editorial staff of The World in New York in 1923.

“The Declaration of Independence” is Mr. Dodd’s title for the second article in this number; but his theme is rather the men who made it. Professor Dodd will be remembered by his readers as the author of the vigorous article in the October, 1925, number, “The Dilemma of Democracy.” He is professor of history in the University of Chicago.

The introducer of “The White House ‘Spoke|man,’” Lindsay Rogers, is professor of political science in Columv

to Quarterly readers, is author of many volumes of poetry and drama. His English publishers are about to bring out a one volume edition of his poems and plays. The Century Company will issue the volume in the United States. AnMiSTEAD Churchill Gordon collaborated with Thomas Nelson Page on the volume “Befo’ de War.” Other volumes of his verse are “For Truth and Freedom” and “The Ivory Gate.” His best known fiction is “Ommirandy.” Mr. Gordon recently published a “Life of William Gordon McCabe,” reviewed in the April, 1926, number of The Virginia Quarterly Review.

The writer of “Is This the Passing of Mr. Gandhi?” is the author of “Social Forces in Modern Literature.” He has edited many volumes and contributed to the Nation, the Unpopular Review and other magazines. Mr. Buck has recently gone from the University of Nebraska to the University of Wisconsin as professor of Comparative Literature. He writes from a first-hand knowledge of India.

Essays by Archibald Rutledge have appeared in the Outlook, Scribner’s and Harper’s. To the several books of prose and verse that he has published, he has recently added a collected edition of his poems. Mr. Rutledge was born in South Carolina and now lives in Pennsylvania.

A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, George McLean Harper, of Princeton University, is the biographer of Wordsworth and of Sainte-Beuve. An essay of his appeared in the October, 1925, number of The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Edward Wagenknecht, of the University of Washington, Carroll Mason Sparrow, of the University of Virginia, and Frederick P. Mayer, of the University of Pittsburgh, have contributed before to The Virginia Quarterly. Howard Mumford Jones, of the English department of the University of North Carolina, is a frequent writer on themes relating to contemporary verse. Kenneth Rede of Baltimore, a collector of rare books, has written chiefly as a critic of American literature. Raymond Turner, of Johns Hopkins University, was formerly professor of European history at the University of Michigan. He is author of “Ireland and England.” The Vni-ginia Quarterly will soon publish a study by Professor Turner of the provisions of the Locarno Treaty.

Of especial note in this Sesquicentennial Number is the paper by John H. Latane, the historian and former dean of Johns Hopkins University, on the editors and biographers of Thomas Jefferson. Dr. Latane has not only reviewed the notable recent books relating to Jefferson but he has also discussed critically the outstanding Jefferson editions and biographies of the past.

The virginia quarterly review

Edited by james southall WILSON

Advisory Editors

Edwin A.  Alderman

Albert G. A. Balz  John Calvin Metcalf

F. Stringfellow Barr  Carroll M. Sparrow

Albert LeFEvrE  Bruce Williams

The Virginia Quarterly Review is published by the University of Virginia: in April, July, October, and January. Subscription rates: $3.00 the year. Canadian, $3.25; Foreign, $3.50. Single copies, 75 cents.

Contributions should be accompanied by postage for return and addressed to The Editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, 8 West Lawn, University, Virginia. The University of Virginia and the Editors do not assume responsibility for the views expressed by contributors of signed articles.

All letters relative to advertising and other business matters should be sent to

Atcheson L. Hench, Managing Editor PUBLICATION AND EDITORIAL OFFICE: 8 WEST LAWN, UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA “Here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal!’

Nothing is so baffling to Americans to-day, in an effort to reach a sane understanding, as international conditions in Europe. In his article “Locarno”, Raymond Turner, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, has attempted to make clear to readers of The Virginia Quarterly developments in international relations among the chief countries of Europe from the Versailles Treaty to the agreement at Locarno. Professor Turner reviewed “The Intimate Papers of Colonel House” in the July number.

The author of “Battling Impulses” is Henry Pratt Fairchild, professor in New York University. His articles on themes growing out of his investigations in Social Science are familiar to most magazine readers. He is known as the author of several books on immigration. “Hunger vs. Love” is Dr. Fairchild’s own phrasing of his theme.

Articles by Sara Haardt have appeared recently in several publications. The author of “Our Social Revolution” writes as an Alabaman of the younger generation. She was educated at Goucher College and the Johns Hopkins. “The past two years,” she writes, “I spent in Montgomery, where I was born and raised, writing and watching the revolution in progress in the Southern states. For the present I am living in Baltimore.”

The paper on “Byron’s Fame in France” is a post-centennial view of the romantic poet. E. Preston Dargan, who recently collaborated on a notable history of French literature, is in the faculty of Romance languages of the University of Chicago.

The group of lyrics in this number is by three of the younger writers of verse. Lawrence Lee, whose poetry in earlier numbers of The Virginia Quarterly Review has drawn the attention of many editors to his work, is a writes in prose and verse and retains a lovely home in South Carolina.

The writing of Frederick P. Mayer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is already familiar to our readers. He was first represented by a notable paper on George Meredith and in the last number by a review of a group of novels. The “sad story” which he tells in this issue is presented as much for its human as its literary interest.

Gerald w. Johnson, who discusses Dr. Edwin Mims’s new book on the South, has recently left the University of North Carolina to join the staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun. His own trenchant papers on Southern matters in The Virginia Quarterly, The American Mercury and elsewhere, give a peculiar interest to his comments on “The Advancing South.” Frank P. Gaines, author of an interesting study of the Southern plantation in literature is professor of English in Furman University. Dr. H. D, C. Maclachlan, widely known as a vigorous speaker and writer on religious subjects, is pastor of the Seventh-Street Christian Church, of Richmond, Virginia. Dr. James C. Bardin, whose poetry and stories have appeared in many publications, is a careful observer of affairs in Latin-America, and a student of South American literature. F. Stringfellow Barr has frequently contributed to The Virginia Quarterly before. For some years he has been engaged in studying European history and has spent much time in England and on the Continent. Charles Lee Snider is new to our readers. He is a North Carolinian and belongs to a group of men who, as he says, are fighting “The movement to make the South safe for orthodoxy by statute.” William Harrison Faulkner is a close student of German literature and is professor of German in the University of Virginia. James Southall Wilson is the editor of The Quarterly. His associates on the editorial staff were happy that he could realize this past summer his long-standing desire to re-absorb some of the atmosphere of England and France and renew his acquaintance with many places associated with the great figures of English and Continental literature.

The virginia quarterly review

Edited by james southall WILSON

Advisory Editors

Edwin  A. Alderman

Albert G. A. Balz  John Calvin Metcalf

F. Stringfellow Barr  Carroll M. Sparrow

Albert Lefevre  Bruce Williams

The Virginia Quarterly Review is published by the Univer-, sity of Virginia: in April, July, October, and January. Subscription rates: $3.00 the year. Canadian, $3.25; Foreign, $3.50. Single copies, 75 cents.

Contributions should be accompanied by postage for return and addressed to The Editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, 8 West Lawn, University, Virginia. The University of Virginia and the Editors do not assume responsibility for the views expressed by contributors of signed articles.

All letters relative to advertising and other business matter* should be sent to

F. Stringfellow Barr, Managing Editor

PUBLICATION AND EDITORIAL OFFICE: 8 WEST LAWN

UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA “These Things Doth the Lord Hate” of last April. In reintroducing Mr. Hamilton, who is a writer of note as well as professor of history at the University of North Carolina, the Green-Room warns his former readers that they will find him in quite a different humor in “Mr. Jefferson Visits the Sesqui-Centennial.”

The names of the three poets of this issue are already familiar. Lawrence Lee of Montgomery, Alabama, now engaged in editorial work in New York, has, since first appearing in The Virginia Quarterly pages, published in almost every notable magazine in the United States. John Hall Wheelock, of New York, to whose name is credited a distinguished list of books, is one of the outstanding poets of America. Laurence Housman is an English author and artist whose work is as well known in this country as his own. His “Selected Poems” appeared in 1909. Other volumes of his work include “The Were Wolf,” “Little Plays of St. Francis,” “The House of Joy,” and “Prunella.”

Margaret de Forest Hicks is new to our pages. But her papers on Eastern topics in other magazines have been noteworthy. As political expert in the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department, she has a full and authoritative knowledge of Japanese affairs. “Japan and Russia in the East” was submitted by Miss Hicks to other eminent specialists.

“When I wrote this article,” Pierre Crabites said in a letter, “things in Egypt were quiet. They are quiet to-day. Tomorrow a storm may arise. Its salient features will constitute good newspaper copy. What I have tried to do is to go to the root of the matter and to prepare a paper which should make interesting reading whatever may or may not happen.” “The Anglo-Egyptian Controversy” is this paper and its author is “Juge an Tribunal Mivte du Caire” resident, of course in Cairo, Egypt.

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