Notices

Notices All of us involved with biography know that it is a prolific field. A glance at the review periodicals reveals that at any given time there is more biography published for the discriminating reader than any other literary genre. The editors of Biography are indebted to publishers who send us lists and copies of offerings which they think especially appropriate to our concern. Availability of space, and various other factors, limit the number of our reviews, and it seems useful and right at this time to list, and summarize briefly, some of the books we have received to date. We intend to complete the list in our next issue. We also intend to review or to critically notice many of these biographies in succeeding issues. Garland E. Allen, Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. 447 pp. $25.00. A comprehensive biography of the scientist whose work on the structure of the chromosome won him the first Nobel Prize awarded to a geneticist . Australian Academy of the Humanities, Self and Biography. Ed. Wang Gungwu. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1975. 217 pp. $20.00. Published texts of lectures offered at a symposium on Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne. There are nine essays by various scholars on different aspects of the individual and society in various Asian countries. These range from biographical essays on religious matters (H. H. E. Loofs' "Biographies in Stone: The Significance of Changing Perceptions of the Buddha Image in Mainland 272 biography Vol. 2, No. 3 Southeast Asia ..." and S. A. A. Rizvi's "Changes in Islamic Perceptions of the Individual in Society") to social and philosophical aspects of biography (Wang Gungwu's "The Rebel-Reformer and Modern Chinese Biography"). Morris Ashley, James II. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1978. 342 pp. $13.95. A sympathetic reexamination of the reasons for James IFs failure as a ruler—a failure, Ashley feels, due more to tactlessness than to bigotry. Steven Gould Axelrod, Robert Lowell: Life and Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. 286 pp. $14.50. An attempt to suggest the absolute relationship between Lowell's life and his poetry. The biography contains much primary material—manuscripts of poems, unpublished notebooks, essays, and letters not previously published . Bollingen Series (XCII:2) C. J. Jung, Word and Image. Ed. Aniela Jaffé. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. 239 pp. $25.00. With extensive illustrations and color plates. An illustrated record of Jung's life and accomplishments, including such matters as his interest in the occult, his friendship and break with Freud, his travels and his attitudes towards life and death. M. C. Bradbrook, Shakespeare, The Poet in His World. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. 272 pp. $13.50. Professor Bradbrook aligns Shakespeare's growth as an artist with the remarkable development of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. 366 pp. $35.00. With extensive illustrations and color plates. This treatment is directed more at the development of Picabia as artist than as man, but it does show the personality behind his movement from Impressionism through Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism and on to his later and more distinctive forms. Richard Carline, Stanley Spencer at War. London: Faber and Faber, 1978. 224 pp. $21.95. Carline assesses the impact of World War I on one of the most important artists to paint between the wars. The biography emphasizes Spencer's work up to 1930, which, the author feels, was his most important contribution. notices 273 George Cawkwell, Philip of Macedón. London: Faber and Faber, 1978. 215 pp. $19.95. Professor Cawkwell contends that the pride and much of the impetus behind the empire of Alexander the Great was established by his father, Philip. Harry Crews, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. 171 pp. $8.95. Crews describes his experiences growing up in Georgia as the son of a poor sharecropper so as to reveal the region and the customs informing its life during his childhood . Charles Dickens, The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume IV (1844-1846). Ed. Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Oxford University...