… The Commander and the Birds The high fog never lifted from the … No. 4, the Eared Grebe; and No. 6, the Piedbilled Grebe. We also saw No. 10, the Pacific Loon. Then we skipped to No. … Nuttall, golden-crowned, chipping, and San Diego song sparrows; and with them the bush-tit, wren-tit …
… Legend. By Wayne Andrews. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.50. John D. Rockefeller. By Allan Nevins. Two … Hacker’s main argument runs as follows: The mechanics of commerce and land speculation shaped American development … land grants, and a sound banking system were the essentials of industrial progress. In order to secure these, the …
Fiction
… Louise almost said something but caught herself. Evelyn was coming through her door; let Evelyn announce her own … hearing but thought better of it. Janet couldn’t help the falseness; it was all Evelyn’s influence. Louise had tried, … enough at the time to know, but he did. Anyhow, once he died, I came back here. By then Janet—that’s my …
Criticism
… app produced by the New York Public Library is stuffed with commentaries and original documents connected to the 1818 … but proving further that this particular monster refuses to die. Why so much interest in Shelley’s tale, when so many … with the limits of knowledge and the disruptive potentials of technology.” Inhumanity versus humanity, humanity …
… Henry Taylor’s Persuasive Praise Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets. By … Taylor often displays his “sharp eye” (and ear), but he also proves himself to be the kind of sensitive and … be without regret And shall mortality forget, When I shall die who lived for this, I shall not miss the things I miss. …
… published in 1952, was lauded by historian Henry Steele Commager at the time of its publication as “the best book … of this book has just been published by Nebraska [$12.95]. Also available as a Nebraska paperback is George R. … her life was tragically short—she was only 34 when she died of tuberculosis in France on Jan.8, 1923—Katherine …