reader’s mind,” 1 where like the poet in “ Hurrahing in Harvest,” who is both a beholder and participant, the interpreter is asked to complete the types of an ongoing testament. These things, these things were here and but the beholder Wanting; which two when they once meet, The heart rears wings bold and bolder And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet. (“Hurrahing in Harvest,” lines 11-14) Because Mackenzie consistently combines authoritative scholarship with warm appreciation and critical good sense, he shows what few authors of hand books succeed in showing. He demonstrates that the kind of knowledge the interpreter brings to Hopkins’s poetry is not just knowledge of the kind we can look up in a glossary or a handbook, but knowledge of the reader him self in an ideal meeting of type and antitype, of the poem and its “beholder.” The best commentaries on Hopkins cease to be mere descriptive inventories of typological, syntactic, or other formal patterns. They become instead, like many of Professor Mackenzie’s commentaries in his guide, an invention (a “coming upon” or “finding” ) in both the descriptive and creative senses of that word. NOTE 1 Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Toronto: Academic Press, 1982), p. 226. w . da vid s h a w / Victoria College, University of Toronto A. F. Cassis, Graham Greene: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism (Metuchen, N .J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1981). 401. $22.50 How to review these thousands of reviews of reviews of Greene’s work? To be one of the reviewees is a help; having one’s own checklist is another; to have been an avid Greene-consumer for decades is a third. In Graham Greene: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism A. F. Cassis summarizes over 2,300 books, articles, reviews, and dissertations by some 1,300 critics. Every student of Greene must be grateful for so much drudgery spared. There it all is, fifty years of public reaction to the master, organized chronologically in one volume, complete with an index of critics’ names and another of selected topics and themes. The entries average 60-100 words (more for books) and give the essential drift of the criticism, spiked with a few key quotes. Professor Cassis remains dutifully objective, allowing him 378 self little more than the occasional “rather uninformed” or “ a searching review.” Entries are cross-referenced, and criticism from sources other than British and American is frequent. (In Uzbekistan see Greme Grina; in Japan, Gureamu Grin.) The book will be an indispensable tool for future Greene studies, and one can imagine the question: “Have you checked your Cassis?” becoming classic. But while saluting the diligence and industry that goes into such com pilations, and their general usefulness, one must also note their limitations and raise a few questions. Potted comments can never substitute for the real thing and a guide like this (No. 55 in Scarecrow Press’s Author Bibliogra phies series) should do no more than direct the reader back to the originals. This is especially true of summaries of books whose main themes and critical conclusions are not easily extracted for digest purposes, but it is also axio matic that the better the article or review, the harder it is to do it shorthand justice. Then there is the question of coverage. This is not the first Greene bib liography; Cassis cites six earlier, the latest being R. A. Wobbe’s which appeared a scant year before his own. Despite such proofs of activity in the Greene industry, however, there are still gaps. Comparing this bibliography with J. Don Vann’s Graham Greene: A Checklist of Criticism (1970), for the first ten novels one finds half a dozen items not carried forward; from my own checklist I find another 22 unrecorded items for the first ten books; using another measure, myself as guinea-pig Greene critic, I see one “ part of a book” (The Portable Graham Greene), two articles and a couple of re views that might have been included. Nor are all the omissions trivial. Miss ing are references to reviews by V. S. Pritchett, G. W. Stonier, and...