Books Received

327 Gerber's introduction to The E rig_ ¿_is_h S.h£:r;t S_t_£r_y_ j_n Transition 1880-1920 (Pegasus, 1967). Also of interest: Robert Gish's "The Exotic Short Story: Kipling and Others," Weldon Thornton's "D. H. Lawrence," Juanne Trautmann Banks's "Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield," Richard Harter Fogle's "Saki and Wodehouse," James Gindin's "A. E. Coppard and H. E. Bates," and William Peden's "V. S. Pritchett." An index and a bibliography are included. BOOKS RECEIVED Adams, Joseph. Yeats and the Masks of Syntax. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1984. $20.00 Blainey, Ann. Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. $27.50 Brivic, Sheldon. Joyce the Creator. Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1985. $21.50 Brown, Julia Prewitt. A_ Reader's Guide to the N ineteenth -Century English Novel [An Informal Introduction to the World that Shpaed the Novels of Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy, Eliot, and Bronte]. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1985. $15.95 Buckler, William E. Han and His Myths: Tennyson's "Idyl Is" of the King in Critical Context. New York and London: New York Univ. Press, 1984. $42.50 Buckler, William E. Poetry and Truth in Robert Browning 's "The Ring and the Book". New York and London: New York Univ. Press, 1985. $42.50 Charlton, D. G. New Images of the Natural in France: A Study in European CuItural H istory 1750-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985. Cloth $49.50 Paper $13.95 Dawson Scott, C. A. The Haunting. Padstow, Cornwall: Tabb House, 1985. Clothe #8.50 Paper #3.95 Dowden, Wilfred S., ed. The Journal of Thomas Moore, Volume 2 1821-1825. Cranbury, NJ: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1985. $50.00 Fagnani, Flavio. Catalogo Del la Collezione Conradiana Di Ugo Mursia. Mursia, 1984. Frank, Lawrence. Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self. Lincoln, NB: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1985. $23.95 328 Howe, Irving. Thomas Hardy. 2nd ed. with a new Preface. New York: Macmillan, 1985. Paper $6.95 John Updike: An Exhibition. M. D. Anderson Library. University of Houston, 20 March-31 May 1985. Joseph Conrad: The Raymond M1 Sutton Jr. Col lection. Part One. David J. Holmes Autographs. Philadelphia, PA. Meyers, Jeffrey. Disease and the Novel, 1880-1960. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. $25.00 ...