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30:1, Reviews engineering the "modem," other figures, not all of them in Baudelaire's shadow (as it may be agreed Mallarmé, Laforgue, Corbière and Verlaine indeed are) tend to be rendered peripheral, omitted entirely like Sade or presented largely as interpreters of Baudelaire, like Gautier (important for Imagism and Pound and less fruitfully for the Eliot of Ara Vos Prec of 1920). The case for Huysmans as an influence both on the 1890s and Eliot is dismissed in a sentence. And an account of modemism that omits Pound, Yeats and has very incidental reference to Lawrence must be somewhat partial. Nonetheless this is a work of which every historian of the "modem movement" must take account: it has made it impossible ever to return to the crass diagrams of an earlier criticism. Ian Fletcher ____________________________________Arizona State University________ A STUDY IN SIR RICHARD BURTON Glenn S. Bume. Richard F. Burton. Twayne's English Authors Series 412. Boston: Twayne, 1985. $21.95 The facts of Sir Richard Burton's life, even coldly listed with no commentary, are enough to inspire admiration and stimulate the imagination. This Englishman who disguised himself as a Persian merchant and daringly stole into the forbidden Arabian holy cities of Mecca and Medina; who journeyed into unexplored regions of Africa, mapping out broad expanses of territory new to Europeans, discovering Lake Tanganyika and paving the way for the discovery of the Nile's source; who knew twenty-five languages and translated the famed unexpurgated version of The Arabian Nights; and who dedicated his final energies to translating into English classic erotic works from the Hindu and Arabic defies easy classification. He ranks with David Livingston, Henry Morton Stanley, and John Speke as a renowned explorer; his publications include forty-two volumes about his travels, over a hundred articles, two volumes of poetry, and translations of works from the Portuguese, Latin, Neapolitan, African, Hindu, and Arabic; as an ethnologist he made an inestimable contribution to European knowledge of the cultures of India, Africa, the Near East, and South America, particularly in his studies of sexual practices in these various cultures. And in this study, Glenn Bume rightly groups Burton with the handful of men and women in every age "who stand so far outside their societies, whose personalities and careers are so brilliant and bizane and their achievements so great, that we can rarely account for them—we can only stand in awe of them, admire their works, and wonder at the enormous gulf that separates them from ordinary people" (Preface, no pagination). Bume has met the challenge of his task well, for we come away from this slight volume with a clear sense of Burton's complex, contradictory nature and an appreciation of his contribution to Western knowledge. 85 30:1, Reviews Following the standard Twayne format, Bume provides a chronology, a biographical summary, chapters describing and appraising the works, a final comprehensive overview, and a thorough and highly useful bibliography. The value of Bume's study, other than providing a quick overview of Burton's varied life and myriad accomplishments, is in his concise, evaluative summaries of Burton's voluminous writings. Burton's volumes loom large and the travel books in particular are filled with passages often tedious and dense. Bume does us the service of culling from this outpouring, uneven in its literary quality, the best of Burton. He spares us the tedium of endless pages which outline plans for procuring supplies and record the monotony of months on the journey. Instead, he presents lively accounts of such adventures as a visit to a cannibal tribe in West Africa, a close call when discovery of his disguise would be fatal, the daring attempted rescue of a lovely young woman from a nunnery in India, and the savage attack on his camp in the African jungle during which he received a face wound, the scar of which he wore the rest of his life. Bume proves Burton, as travel writer, to be a rich resource for the historian, anthropologist, and ethnologist, but his study is designed primarily for the general reader of the Victorian period who wants to know more about this man who did...

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