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… After the book’s appearance there was a brief spate of encomiums, and, for a few weeks, the book was a “bestseller.” … first is the belief that there is no longer much of an audience for the kind of sentences Mitchell writes: the short, … Dickens achieved with the rhetoric of imagination.” Cowley points to both Mitchell’s and Dickens’ ability to derive …

… way, and I in mine, have no hope of ever being civilians completely. Others, now in their seventies, sat on the … Osbert Sitwell wrote that the blackout made a medieval city of London. It didn’t. There were no pine … here a fragment of wall paper with faded rain-streaked animals of a nursery, there a drunken toilet, still clinging to …

… respect shows that the image of the West as open to and welcoming of cultural and racial diversity has been in large … and universal” is properly labeled an ideology. Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era … useful interpretive work. Nonetheless, the book has strong points. Lanier finds a multitude of strange and wonderful …

… I could go on for quite a while enumerating similar points of difference between myself and the average … when balanced against all the solar, planetary, and lunar bodies forming the Milky Way. It is the blasphemy of … ignorantly egotistic presumptions of the dominant majority. 264-274 By Edwin Bjorkman …

… the manuscripts, even to “vagaries in the use of capitals and in spelling,” but obvious slips of the pen are … but for the wide circle of “Wordsworthians,” who will welcome this addendum to the poet’s works. Most of the letters … France presented to him a case in point. “In France incompatible things are aimed at—a monarchy and democracy to …