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… Dickens. By Arthur L. Hayward. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $6.00. From the outbreak of the World War it became … time-servers; but all defenders of conventions, even false conventions, are not hypocrites. A man may be dishonest … beautiful rendering of the French proverb: A brebis tondue Dieti mesure le vent. ‘God tempers the wind,’ said the …

… but it was uninterruptedly in one direction. Political expediency may have caused him to deviate on special points, but there are few men in public life whose course … of the American mind in words so firm and plain as to command assent.” There was nothing that was novel in the …

… I always felt very lucky—​and they did, too—​that they had come here. When I was growing up, Jackson had much more of … made me feel that I was in touch with something. My father died young, and my mother always encouraged me to write. She … You know, the South is a big place. As Reynolds Price points out, it is as big as France. And we do not live in …

… An Egyptian photographer was shot by a sniper and later died from his wounds, and two foreign reporters … up front. Soldiers waved us on at a half-dozen army checkpoints, and soon we were crossing over the train station and … on a slow business day. When we mounted the ramp for the 26th of July Bridge to Zamalek, I breathed a sigh of …

… undue caution. Howe, of course, did not live long enough to complete the project himself. At his death in May 1993, he … Storyteller”: “You won’t find much about the anecdote in studies of literary genre: it seems too humble a form to … not entirely resist scoring a few well-turned polemical points: A number of those drawn to deconstructionist theory, …