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… power in these narratives emanates not just from the plot points but from the voices of soldiers and civilians—of civilians in particular, who are … ways. For the viewer, the creative language of mark-making, communicating in this particular way, is as old as time. …

… By Lancelot Hogben, F. R. S. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.75. An Invitation to Mathematics. By Arnold … the contending parties. Thus, in politics, we have liberals and reactionaries, or conservatives and radicals. In … above the insights of men of genius and called “turning points” in the history of mathematics. Professor Bell’s …

… Neighbor. By MacGrcgor Jenkins. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.00. The writing of a modern biography has … home and after his death with her sister Lavinia; and died, known only to a few friends, May fifteenth, 1880. … the self-consciousness of the structure and occasionally also of the style. In the first chapter a letter is …

… They served omelettes stingy with filling and magnificently complicated fruits—soaked mulberries, candied lemon, papaya crescents, cubes of heirloom melon, a … her eleven-dollar egg, scooped the white, and dipped toast points in the molten yellow, thinking nothing of it as I …

… before the Civil War. The Whig Party was an essential component of that dominant system. Perhaps best remembered … leaders, Crittenden, Clayton, Toombs, and Stephens, but, also, the important state level party activists such as … But, by the mid-1850’s, the Whigs stumbled badly and then died. Why this collapse, given their vitality and many …