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… a modest subset of the cache, I did so with a thrill of complicit transgression. The paintings are ex-votos, meaning … or illness that befalls ordinary human beings or animals. Each commemorates the miraculous intervention and … artists and collectors as inspirational artifacts. It was Diego Rivera who first deemed them valuable, preferring to …

… Biography. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. Point Counter Point. By Aldous Huxley. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. An air of strangeness declares the kinship … to mention a childhood grounding in “Alice in Wonderland.” Also an acquaintance with Strachey’s “Queen Victoria” and …

… 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 …

… 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 …