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154 The Decadents made possible greater liberty for later poets in selecting materials, and, in their allegiance to the French Symbolists - however vaguely understood - they provided "a definite link" between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Munro's point here is, I think, well taken. The Decadents do form a significant transition from Ruskin to Bloomsbury; Whistler , Beardsley, Arthur Symons and Oscar Wilde anticipate in some meaningful ways Bell, Forster, Roger Fry and T. S. Eliot. The brevity of Munro's study, though, allows little time for close analyses of poems he deems significant, such as Dowson's "Cynara," Symons* "Javanese Dancers," and Johnson's "The Dark Angel" and "Mystic and Cavalier," Moreover, the truncated discussion of Degeneration can be misleading when Munro suggests that, "For Nordau, Europe was approaching its Armageddon; disaster was just around the corner." Nordau, in the last section of his book, repeatedly voices optimism about the future of art and the world. Munro*s credentials, of course, are irrefutably established elsewhere, especially in his book on Symons, where he does analyze "Javanese Dancers." It is perhaps symptomatic of the economic condition of the humanities today that Munro*s aspirations should encounter barriers similar to those confronted by the 1890*s intellectuals. State University College Donald J. Watt Geneseo, New York BOOKS RECEIVED Listing here does not preclude the publication of a review in a future issue of ELT. Publishers receive two copies of the review. THE BEST OF THOREAU*S JOURNALS, ed by Carl Bode. Carbondale and Edwardsvilles Southern Illinois U P, I967. $8.95. Brandabur, Edward. A SCRUPULOUS MEANNESS. A STUDY OF JOYCE'S EARLY WORK. Urbanas University of Illinois P, 1971. $6.95. Bronte, Charlotte. JANE EYRE, ed by Richard J. Dunn. NY: W. W. Norton, 1971. $8.50 (Cloth); $2.25 (Paper). COUNTER-TRADITION. THE LITERATURE OF DISSENT AND ALTERNATIVES, ed by Sheila Delany. NY: Basic Books, 1971. $5.95 (Paper). Cross, Richard K. FLAUBERT AND JOYCE. THE RITE OF FICTION. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1971. $6.50. Fleishman, Avrom. THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL NOVEL. WALTER SCOTT TO VIRGINIA WOOLF. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins P, 1971. $10.00. Gissing, George. MY FIRST REHEARSAL AND MY CLERICAL RIVAL, ed by Pierre Coustillas. Londs Enitharmon P, 1970. t 1»5°. Joyce, Stanislaus. THE COMPLETE DUBLIN DIARY OF STANISLAUS JOYCE, ed by George H. Healey. Ithacas Cornell U P, I97I. $6.00. KIPLING. THE CRITICAL HERITAGE, ed by Roger Lancelyn Green. NYs Barnes & Noble, 1971. $15.00. 155 Koike, Shlgeru, Giichi Kamo, C. C. Kohler, Pierre Coustlllas. GISSING EAST AND WEST. FOUR ASPECTS. Londs Enitharmon P, 1970. t I.625. Kroeber, Karl. STYLES IN FICTIONAL STRUCTURE. THE ART OF JANE AUSTEN, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, GEORGE ELIOT. Princetons Princeton u p. 1971. $11.00. THE MAN OF WAX. CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GEORGE MOORE, ed by Douglas Hughes. NYs New York U P, 1971. $10.00 (Cloth); #3.50 (Paper). NOW AND TOMORROW. THE RHETORIC OF CULTURE IN TRANSITION, ed by Tom E. Kakonis and James C. Wilcox. Lexington, Mass» D. C. Heath, I97I. Secor, Robert. THE RHETORIC OF SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES» CONRAD'S VICTORY (Penn State Studies, No. 32). University Parks The Pennsylvania State University, 1971. $2.50. Sherry, Norman. CONRAD'S WESTERN WORLD. Cambridges Cambridge U P, I97I. $14.50. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. "WE NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," trans by Paul W. Blackstock. NYs W. W. Norton, 1971. $1.35. Starr, G. A. DEFOE AND CASUISTRY. Princeton^ Princeton U P, 1971. $7.50. THE VICTORIAN NOVEL. MODERN ESSAYS IN CRITICISM, ed by Ian Watt. NYs Oxford U P, I97I. $3.95. ...