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445 and his patience are demonstrated in his letters to Yeats and Lady Gregory when dealing with the difficult troubles and crises that beset the Abbey. The Fay family, besides being excellent actors, were quite volatile of temper and often created difficult situations. Synge invariably advised patience and discretion in dealing with them. Saddlemyer's notes are especially helpful in identifying and clarifying persons, situations and other correspondence alluded to in Synge's letters. All in all, they offer us a vivid picture of Synge's development as a writer, student of literature, lover, and human being. Having all Synge's correspondence together in this two-volume edition is a valuable contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Synge as a man and a literary artist. Henry F. Salerno SUNY at Fredonia Briefer Mention Gray, John. Park, A Fantastic S tory. Afterword by Philip Healy. New York: Carcanet, 1985. Paper $6.50 This 1932 novel about Dr. Mungo Park, who dies but to reawake and find the future inhabited by technically sophisticated black Catholics while white Englishmen live like moles underground, is a dystopian satire ELT readers can now have in their libraries at a most reasonable price. Kipling, Rudyard. One Lady at Wairakei. Intro, by Harry Ricketts. Wellington, New Zealand: Mallinson Rendel, 1983. In 1891 Kipling spent eighteen days in New Zealand, and "One Lady at Wairakei" is based on that visit. It is not a really a lost story; prior to this publication it appeared in the Saturday Supplement of the New Zealand Herald on three occasions (30 Jan 1892; 20 Jan 1936; an abridged version, 27 Jan 1962). The introduction offers background to Kipling's New Zealand stay and a brief exegesis of the story. Says Ricketts, in answer to the question what does this story offer readers inside and outside New Zealand: "Some simple answers might, a trifle glibly, go as follows. 'One Lady at Wairakei' offered its original readers a distinguished visitor 's enthusiastic vision of their country's literary future, tactfully mingled with concern for what he saw as their present financial, bureaucratic and associated difficulties. For readers today, however, 'One Lady at Wairakei' offers something rather different. The story provides the opportunity of seeing what Kipling, a notable (some would still say notorious) visitor in 1891, made of New Zealand after a short stay. Or, it offers the chance for readers to match their own sense of what has actually happened to, and in, New 446 Zealand literature against what Kipling imagined would happen. Or, it offers the unusual opportunity of reading an almost unknown, because hitherto virtually unavailable, story of Kipling's, written after his initial fame, but before he became the unofficial spokesman and literary guardian of the British Empire." Levenson, Michael H. A Genealogy of Modernism: A S tudy of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922. Cambridge: Cambridge Uñiv. Press, 1984. $29.95 Levenson says this is a study in "literary transition" which "attempts to recover some of the intricacy of the period. It hopes to take modest steps towards some finer conceptual distinctions and towards a greater historical precision." The book falls into three segments: an introduction to the origins of modernism by way of Conrad; a close analysis of the contributions of Hulme, Ford, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis in the time before the war; and a discussion of T. S. Eliot and the consolidation of the movement in the period 1914-1922. Maxwell, D. E. S. A Critical H istory of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984. Cloth $47.50 Piper $15.95 Maxwell gives particular attention to the Abbey Theatre. This chronological study contains extended crtical assessments of Yeats and Synge, among others of course. ELT readers may particularly wish to peruse 1. "Dreams and Responsibilities: 1891-1904"; 2. "Possible Forms: The Early Plays"; 3. "Difficult, Irrelevant Words: W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge"; 4. "An Art of Common Things: 1905-1910." Twentyone illustrations/photographs are included. Repertoire: A Descriptive Catalogue of French Periodicals of English and American Studies, No. 0 (1985). Over forty French periodicals are dedicated to AngloSaxon studies in language, literature, and culture. This catalogue lists them in alphabetical...

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