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… Melville, 1819-1891. By Jay Leyda. Harcourt, Brace and Company. Two volumes. $12.50. Herman Melville A … ambitious, aggressive older brother Gansevoort who died in London at thirty-one. Here is the sad story of his … My word of advice to those who follow the trail to which he points is this: Jay Leyda will have found the missing …
Fiction
… occasional sighs and slight fidgeting exposed their discomfort. Naked babies filled the room, indistinguishable … dry, rib cages and joints sharply visible, their wrinkled bodies so starved for nutrition they fed off themselves. … over every street corner. Occasionally, government officials announced news of the war’s progress, encouraging, …
… operations on a gigantic scale. We have landed huge bodies of troops on hostile shores in the Atlantic, the … at Pearl Harbor, but the most fundamental one was almost completely ignored. These events did not prove that naval … was a low velocity weapon with a rate of fire of only 265 shots per minute, much too slow for a gun of that size. …
… of the ecumenical relations between these two world bodies has degenerated to the place where any points of difference or disagreement at all stated by any … When the Episcopal Church and the Anglican communion in the 70’s and the 80’s moved toward the …
Criticism
… only because the series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, but also because race remains a tricky, paralyzing subject. What … more than the “usual mosaic of dreary census, school, and income statistics, studded with pious quotations from the … of discovering those meanings in large measure on the audience”) or in the nearly 100 pages of extended …
… life. Yet he has evolved an elastic, racy style that deals casually with erudition and philosophy. Morally serious, … personal history ravaged for quick marketing: no small accomplishment in a period when it is all too easy for the … forties, sinks into oblivion and madness in the fifties, dies an early death in the sixties. Success undoes him. …