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Reviewed Elsewhere ADAMS, HENRY Henry Adams: Selected Letters. Ed. Ernest Samuels. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xvi + 587. $29.95. Reviewed by George Cotkin. The Journal of American History, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 1624-25. "What renders Adams important and intriguing to historians ... is his sustained grappling with the forces of modernity. In these letters Adams shows an understanding of the new physics of power and possibility inherent in the modern age . . . Always alienated, always searching but never settling down comfortably, Adams thus becomes the quintessential American modernist." ALTHUSSER, LOUIS Louis Althusser. Une biographie. T.l La formation du mythe, 1918-1956. Yann Moulier Boutang. Paris: Grasset, 1992, pp. 510 + 8 plates. Fr 175. Reviewed anonymously. Bulletin Critique du Livre Français, no. 560, Aug-Sept. 1992, p. 1587. "Althusser's philosophical, political, religious and private path was inordinate indeed. A Catholic-monarchist student, a communist professor, an influential guru at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, married to a slightly bizarre woman whom he killed in a bout of madness in 1980, outliving her ten years in a mental clinic, such are the main facts and facets of a career told in detail and without concessions, so that the reader is impatiently waiting for part II." ALVAREZ, SANTIAGO V. Recalling the Revolution: Memoirs of a Filipino General. Santiago V. Alvarez. Translated by Paula Carolina S. Malay. Introduction by Ruby R. Paredes. Madison, WI: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1992, pp. ii + 279. $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. REVIEWED ELSEWHERE 72 Reviewed by Bruce Cruikshank. Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 52, no. 2, May 1993, pp. 490-492. ". . . we now have ready access to a useful account of the first Philippine revolution by one of its original military leaders. The author, Santiago Alvarez, referred to in his text as General Apoy, published his Tagalog-language account of the 1896-97 Philippine revolution in thirty-six installments in 1927-28. . . . The text by Alvarez is a wonderful, albeit unsophisticated and nonanalytical, presentation of these two years of the revolutions against Spain. This is a book of intrinsic value, a source that henceforth will be consulted as the standard by historians and students of the Philippine revolutions." BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian. E. F. Rivinius and E. M. Youssef. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, pp. xii + 228. $29.95. Reviewed by Jane Maienschein. Science, vol. 260, no. 5111, 21 May 1993, pp. 11631164 . "Spencer Fullerton Baird ... is one of the architects of American science who have not yet received much attention. . . . Rivinius and Youssef offer relatively little detail about Baird's scientific work, but they do not pretend to have written a comprehensive scientific biography. Rather they have given us a good first look at Baird as a person and as an important organizer of American science, particularly through his work at the Smithsonian. . . . This delightfully well-written volume whets the appetite for BARTHELME, DONALD Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991, pp. 152. £25.00. Reviewed by Clare F. Thomlinson. Journal of American Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, December, 1992, pp. 464-465. "Klinkowitz offers a study which is affectionate, detailed with out being in any way turgid, and humane. More pertinently, perhaps, he offers the possibility of a simplification of critical approaches to postmodernist fiction, breaking through the barriers which have been in place for so long, alienating so many readers where perhaps many need most help." BHUTTO, ZULFIKAR ALI Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times. Stanley Wolpert. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 378. $35.00 Reviewed by Steven R. Weisman. New York Times Book Review, July 4, 1993, p. 10. "Using interviews and family papers, Mr. Wolpert has written a fascinating book that nonetheless feels like an authorized biography. It never shrinks from the ugly details of Bhutto's life and reign—his philandering, his cruelty and his willingness to corrupt democratic institutions. . . . But the tone of the book is basically positive and forgiving , as if Bhutto's authoritarianism were a peccadillo, or tragic flaw." 73 biography Vol. 17,No. 1 BISHOP, ELIZABETH Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It. Brett...