Books Received

76 no intensity though the spectacle was superb . . . This is all that a world catastrophe amounts to. Something which one is too sad and sullen to appreciate . (Diary, Sept. 8, 1940). The student of early modern literature is grateful for a book at once so authoritative, so compendious, and so intensely conceived as Furbank's life of Forster. University of Iowa Frederick P. W. McDowell 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. Biles, Jack I., and Robert 0. Evans (eds). William Golding: Some ■Critical Considerations (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 197871 $16.75Colmer , John. Coleridge to Catch-22 (NY: St. Martin's P. 1978). $18.95Cushman , Keith. D. H. Lawrence at Work (Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1978j. $12.50. Davies, Robertson. One Half of Robertson Davies (NY & Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1975). Paper: $4.95. Ford, George H. (ed). Victorian Fiction (NY: MLA, 1978). $17-50. Gomme, A. H. (ed). D. H. Lawrence : Critical Studies on the Major Novels and Other Writings INY: Barnes & Noble, 1978) . $19-50. Hill, Eldon C. George Bernard Shaw (Boston: Twayne [TEAS 236], 1978). $8.50. Hough, Graham. Selected Essays (NY & Lond: Cambridges Cambridge UP, 1978). $19.95Kennedy , James G. Herbert Spencer (Boston: Twayne [TEAS 2I9], 1978). Kupke, Lothar. Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen des Achtergewichts in der englisch-schottischeη Volksballade (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang [Europaische Hochschulschriften],1977)· Marsh, Jan. Edward Thomas: A Poet for His Country (NY; Barnes & _Noble, 1978). $23.50. Murfin, Ross C. Swinburne, Hardy, Lawrence, and the Burden of Belief (Chicago & Lond: University of Chicago P, 1978).""$15.00 Odom, Keith C. Henry Green (Boston: Twayne [TEAS 235], 1978). $9.50. Pound, Omar S., and Philip Grover. Wyndham Lewis : A Descriptive Bibliography (Folkstone, Kent: William Dawson [^Archon Books], 1978). $20.00. Sagan, Françoise. Scars on the Soul (NY & Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977)- Paper :~$~1. 95. Sagan, Françoise. Sunlight on Cold Water (NY & Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973). Paper: $1.95. Schneider, Daniel J. The Crystal Cage: Adventures of the Imagination in the Fiction of Henry James (Lawrence: Regents P of Kansas, 1978)"! fTJToo. ...