… Virginians are truly proud of the modern politics of their Commonwealth. Books by New Englanders, studies by Middle Westerners, and even reports of State study … future education, parks, roads, social services, and hospitals. As the euphoria continued, it was hard to challenge …
… The Life and Works of Edward Coote Pinkney: A Memoir and Complete Text of His Poems and Literary Prose, Including … which clear the meaning and intent of the poems at many points. This feature, indeed, is one of the most carefully … among the few who know of the young Maryland Cavalier who died at twenty-six; who had lived with song and danger, and …
… Fitts and Robert FitzGerald. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $1.25. Ion of Euripides. Translated with Notes by … declaration for a more direct appeal of poetry to a wider audience, with the obvious next-step notion that “the ideal … avoidance of naming characters or studying them as individuals, its debat engaged in by personifications of Passivism, …
… selections, among them many which are reprinted comparatively seldom: Euripides’ “Ion,” Ren .(onson’s … Affairs and is printed in English for the first time [Didier $2.50], Prompted by the present world conflict, Duell, … edition of Waldo Frank’s “Virgin Spain,” first printed in 1926 [$3.50]. Bernard Darwin’s “At Odd Moments” is a slim, …
Fiction
… train ride to Yonkers, much of it along the river. You come out of the city, off the island, and countryside … told him, What do you mean, eat my way? I’m always on some diet or other, you’ve seen that for yourself. Which was … to him: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Bill believed her but he also didn’t totally believe her. He also thought, Whatever …
… and manure, sausage and hay, where, of six children, one dies of scarlet fever, one of whooping cough, while three … he bites, and one named Churchy after the turtle in the comic strip C’s mother reads to him. One day the thunder … him, gripping a red Gibson guitar, hamfisting through Freddie King’s “San José.” Sometimes birdsongs outside C’s room …