Books Received

447 reception of both the magazine and the book version of Mr. W.H." Schroeder claims that "there is no evidence for Harris 's claim, widely accepted today, that the story raised a scandal in 1889." He shows that it was favorably received. A history of the manuscript is traced as well. Squier, Susan Merril. Virginia Woolf and London. Chapel Hill and London: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985. $19.95 Squier argues that London was of enduring concern to Woolf because "as a woman writer, she found in the city the confluence of her personal, cultural, and aesthetic concerns. Linking personal history to culture and yoking both to the literary tradition, the city provided a rich vehicle for Woolf's creative imagination and her political analysis. The goal of this book is to attain a fuller appreciation of each through an exploration of the city in which they were nurtured ." Books Received Ogden, Merlene, and Clifton Keller. Waiden: A Concordance . New York: Garland, 1985. $42.00 Parrinder, Patrick. James Joyce. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984. Paper $10.95 Pearson, Bill. Rifled S anctuaries: S ome V iews of the Pacific Islands in Western L iterature. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984. $12.95 Pinion, F. B. A Tennyson Companion: L ife and Works. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. $27.50 Ricks, Christopher. The Force of Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. $29.95 Ruderman, Judith. D1 H1 Lawrence and the Devouring Mother: The Search for a_ Patriarchal I dea 1 of Leadership. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1984. $35.75 Schlossman, Beryl. Joyce's Catholic Comedy of Language. Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1985. $25.00 Smith, Peter. Public and Private Value: Studies in the 19th Century Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984. $29.95 Tennyson, G. B. A Carlyle Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984. Cloth $44.50 Paper $9.95 Trollope, Anthony. "Malachi's Cove" and other Stories 448 and Essays. Ed. with Intro, by Richard Mullen. Padstow, Cornwall: Tabb House, 1985. Cloth £ 7.95 Paper £3.50 Vaisey, David, ed. The Diary of Thomas Turner 17541765 . Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984. $27.50 Vernon, John. Money and Fiction: L iterary Rea 1 ism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1985. $19.95 Volgeler, Martha S. Frederic Harrison: The Vocations of a_ Positivist. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. §49.95 Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of P lays and P layers. 3 Vols. Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1984. $89.50 ...