Reviewed Elsewhere

Reviewed Elsewhere ADDAMS,JANE Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918. Mary Jo Deegan. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1988, pp. xv + 352. $34.95. Reviewed by Paula Baker. Journal of American History, vol. 75 No. 4, March, 1989, p. 1347. "Deegan's plans to recover the contributions of female sociologists and to study areas of male and female collaboration and conflict are worthy ones. But they are poorly executed in this badly written book." AQUINO, CORAZÓN The Impossible Dream: The Márcoses, the Aquinos, and the Unfinished Revolution. Sandra Burton. New York: Warner Books, pp. 483. $24.95. Reviewed by John Maxwell Hamilton. The New York Times Book Review, May 21, 1989, p. 13. "The fall of the Márcoses and the rise of Mrs. Aquino are distinctly Philippine stories that are of abiding interest to Americans. Sandra Burton has made the most of them." BARR, ALFRED H. JR. Alfred H. Barr Jr.: Missionary for the Modern. Alice Goldfarb Marquis. Chicago: Contemporary Books, pp. 431. $21.95. Reviewed by Louis Auchincloss. TL· New York Times Book Review, April 30, 1989, p. 3. "In her biography 'Alfred H. Barr Jr.: Missionary for the Modern,' Alice Goldfarb Marquis, a cultural historian and the author of'Hopes and Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times,' compares his [Barr's] passionate devotion to the recognition and development of modernism in art, architecture, decoration, films, machinery and even religion to his father's faith and proselytism, labeling her chapters 'Converting the Heathen,' 'Preaching the Gospel,' 'Defending the Faith,' 'Expanding the Canon,' and REVIEWED ELSEWHERE 343 so forth. She may have overdone it, but she successfully makes the point that Barr's life was that of a missionary totally dedicated to a great cause." BENEDICT, RUTH Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land. Margaret M. Caffrey. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 432. $24.95. Reviewed by Mary Beth Norton. The New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1989, pp. 20-22. "Margaret Caffrey . . . explores reactions to Benedict's theories at some length, and places Benedict carefully in the context of her contemporaries." BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Margaret Forster. New York: Doubleday, pp. 400. $19.95. Reviewed by Donald Thomas. The New York Times Book Review, May 7,1989, p. 32. "It is disappointing that she makes so little attempt to evaluate or analyze what Elizabeth herself judged the great pursuit of her life—her poetry. Even 'Aurora Leigh' is dispatched with a fairly brief summary of its story and its then sensational theme of wronged womanhood. For a judgment of poetic quality or literary accomplishment, the reader must go elsewhere. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is diminished by having her greatest achievement so underplayed." BUNYAN, JOHN A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688. Christopher Hill. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 394. $22.95. Reviewed by Margaret Ferguson. The New York Times Book Review, March 12,1989, p. 31. "In Ά Tinker and Poor Man,' as in his dozen other richly textured studies of 17thcentury England, Christopher Hill reinterprets the past to re-create a history of the present. Or rather, two histories, one of how the present came to be what it is, the other of how it might have been—better. For Mr. Hill, a former Master of Balliol College , Oxford, and arguably the most important living historian of the English civil war era, the present and past exist not only as many stranded webs of actuality but also as Utopian tapestries." BURNEY, FRANCES Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Margaret Ann Doody. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988, pp. 426. $40.00 hardcover, $14.95 paper. Reviewed by Katharine M. Rogers. Belles Lettres, vol. 4, no. 2 (winter 1989) pp. 2021 . "In the introduction to her landmark critical biography . . . Doody makes the point that it is patronizing to call the author 'Fanny.' This diminutive has been standard in writings about Burney, and it accurately indicates the traditional estimate of her work and her personality. . . . Feminist critics have brought a new sympathy and respect to Burney's life and novels. They have noted that this dutiful daughter, apparently obsessed with modesty and gentility...