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150 WILLIAM HALE WHITE ("MARK RUTHERFORD") AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM By W. Eugene Davis [Continued from Number 2] [O'Connor,] T.P. "Mark Rutherford," T. P.'s and Cassell's Weekly, XLIV (20 July 192¿0, ^56. Autobiography is "In microcosm nearly all the faiths and the strivings of a whole generation . . . ." Novel reveals much of the English character. W started out In search of "two things which most Englishmen. . . are still ever pursuing: love and a creed." W1s "yearning for preaching" also "a very English characteristic." After the pain and depression of his earlier years W achieved peaceful resignation with D.V. White. O'London, John. "Readings and Mlsreadlngs," T.P.'s Weekly, XX (21 Nov I913), 66I. Objects to W's Interpretation of a line from Wordsworth's great Ode. In "Winds come to me from the fields of sleep" W thought Wordsworth referred to the west wind blowing from the hemisphere as yet untouched by the sun. This Is "destructive Ingenuity. It makes definite and prosaic what was meant to be Indefinite and poetical." "Party and Non Party," British Weekly, LIII (27 Mar 1913), 7^8. Ref to W's depletion In Deliverance of resolution of Parliamentary tension by "spirit of personal friendliness." Peel, Dr. Albert. "A Hundred Years Ago. William Hale White (Mark Rutherford)," Bookman (Lond), LXXXI (Dec 193D, 171-73. Wonders why two rather acute and occasionally severe critics like Robertson Nlcoll and H.W. Masslngham were so enthusiastic about W. Perhaps It was their busy lives or W's style. The conflict between Hebraism and Hellenism was strong In W. Attracted both to the God of Jacob and the gods of Olympus. W an outstanding literary critic, and capable of humor. "The Pilgrimage of a Victorian. Hale White In Literature and Life," Times Literary Supplement (Lond), 25 July 1936, p. 612. Rev of Oxford ed of Autobiography. Deliverance and Revolution. Brief bio sketch. Parallels W and George Eliot, but W's brevity and self-restraint separate his work from hers. R., S.K. "Mark Rutherford," New Statesman. XXII (13 Oct 1923), vlll, i. W's "best pages have a quality of simple and lucent beauty not surpassed by any of the Victorians"; "he had an exquisite gift of precision and economy." An extraordinary vitality In his pictures and characters because of his "verbal frugality" — "almost unknown" In 19th century, but "Never surely was there a modern writer of genius so startllngly devoid of technique." [Provocative, clear-sighted criticism,] Roth, Leon. Spinoza. Lond: Ernest Benn; Bost: Little Brown, 1929. Pp. 26, 35, I63. Refs to W's Spinoza trans. Quotes W's assertion concerning Spinoza's precepts that they proved "'productive beyond those of almost any man ... of that acqulescentls mentis which enables us to live."1 151 Ruskln, John. Dilecta. The Works of John Ruskln. Ed E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Lond: George Allen, 1903-1912. XXXV, 58I ff. Prints two of W's letters concerning the two ships named Téméraire and Turner's painting of one of them. The "vessel's biography" by W also Included. ....... Fors Clavlgera. The Works of John Ruskln. Ed. E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Lond: George Allen, 1903-1912. XXIX, 79-80. Prints long letter of W's telling of the "cottage" he had built—Its advantages and disadvantages [Charming but slight.] ....... On th£ Old Road. The Works of John Ruskln. Ed E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Lond: George Allen, 1903-1912. XXXIV, 386 n. JR expresses thanks for W's article "Byron, Goethe, and Mr. Matthew Arnold"(Contemporary Review. XL (Aug 1881), 179-85. ....... Praeterlta I. The Works of John Ruskln. Ed E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Lond: George Allen, 1903-1912. XXXV, 49 n. Notes that W wrote JR In I876 or 1877 about the proposed stand of freeholders and copyholders of Banstead Downs and fieath, who were fighting the efforts of Sir John Hartopp to enclose parts of the area. S., A. "Mark Rutherford," Nation and Athenaeum. XXXV (21 June 1924), 376. Letter objecting strongly to calling W a Puritan. [See Aldington, Richard, "Mark Rutherford In Old Age."] Schneewlnd, Jerome B. "Moral Problems and Moral Philosophy...

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