Books Received

39 of the contents is on the whole high. There is, in addition, a chronology of important dates, a selected bibliography, and an editor's introduction in each volume. These make useful anthologies of criticism on major figures like Fielding, Hemingway, Thoreau, Whitman, Proust, Frost, Camus, Eliot, and others. 3. Along similar lines as the Prentice-Hall series is D. C. Heath's Discussions of Literature. This series, however, also includes a few titles on the genres: THE NOVEL, edited by Roger Sale, and POETRY: RHYTHM AND SOUND, edited by George Hemphill, The various volumes in the series strike me as a little more uneven than those in the Prent ice-Hal i series, but D. C. Heath reaches back to THE CANTERBURY TALES, THE DIVINE COMEDY, and HAMLET, and it includes titles on the genres. Insofar as the titles on specific novelists are concerned, my own feeling is that there is too much emphasis on general appreciations and that the novels which have in recent times been given the most serious attention are not sufficiently represented. Thus, in the Dickens title, there is proportionately too little on BLEAK HOUSE and in the George Eliot title proportionately too little on MIDDLEMARCH. On the other hand, this series does often include some fine early appreciations, such as three essays by Henry James on George Eliot. — H. E. G. BOOKS RECEIVED Howe, Irving. WILLIAM FAULKNER: A CRITICAL STUDY. NY: Random House, 1962. Vintage Paperback. $1.45. Graves, Robert. SERGEANT LAMB'S AMERICA. NY: Random House, 1962. Vintage Paperback. $1.45. Hudson, Stephen. RICHARD, MYRTLE AND I. Newly Edited by Violet Schiff With a Biographical Note and a Critical Essay by Theophilus E. M. Boll. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania P, 1962. $4.50. Hughes, H. Stuart. CONSCIOUSNESS AND SOCIETY: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL THOUGHT: 1890-1930. NY: Random House, 1961. Vintage Paperback. $1.85. Paul, Sherman (ed). THOREAU: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Spectrum Paperback. $1.95. Paulson, Ronald (ed). FIELDING: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Spectrum Paperback. $1.95. Richardson, Henry Handel. THE FORTUNES OF RICHARD MAHONY [AUSTRALIA FELIX, THE WAY HOME, ULTIMA THULE]. 3 vols. NY: W. W. Norton, 1962. Norton Library Paperbacks. $1.35 each. Weeks, Robert P (ed). HEMINGWAY: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Vintage Paperback. $1.95. Young, Arthur C. THE LETTERS OF GEORGE GISSING TO EDUARD BERTZ, 1887-1903. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1961. $6.00. ...