… By Walter Edwin Peck. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Two vols. $12.50. This is peculiarly a moment of … powerfully produced at the Empire Theatre in London in 1926 (only five years after the Barrymore performance), with … she not dismiss the trouble-making Eliza? And the list of points presented against Harriet is in any case incomplete. …
… By Herman R. Muelder and David M. Delo. D. Appleton-Century Company. $2.50. Atlas of American History. Edited by James … word “atlas” to being geographic. That which can be mapped comes always within the field of the geographer; hence my … of the geographer to enlarge the scope of cultural studies that causes regret. 619-621 By Roderick Peattie …
… A Briefer Comment Fiction Come Back to Erin, by Sean O’Faolain. … O’Brien. A BETTER than average sample of Mr. O’Brien’s annuals. There are stories, more or less expected, by Hemingway, … in action” is a worthy successor of the author’s able studies of the practical workings of our governmental system. …
Reporting
… Formula By Ruminatrix / Flickr / Creative Commons I have no beef with sensationalism in my … pushed my buttons. (Was it the one urging us married ladies to have sex when we don’t want to? Or her attack on … two different nonfiction pieces in which the writer reveals—eventually—that what we’ve just read was fiction. So we …
… Unwin. $24.50. This is an exciting time in 18th-century studies, and especially for the study of Alexander Pope. The … about him, remains deeply mysterious. Our difficulties are compounded by the fact that most of what we know about Pope … for any such vision has been missing. Irvin Ehrenpreis points the way to such an understanding in a brilliant …
Essays
… Alice Munro has always been a writer’s writer, and she has also become, for a short story writer, highly popular, simply for … She has a novel’s-worth of incident and character change compressed into a fairly short story. But her stories have …