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The Untold Story of Shields Green: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider by Louis A. DeCaro Jr.

Reviewed by: The Untold Story of Shields Green: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider by Louis A. DeCaro Jr. J. Brent Morris The Untold Story of Shields Green: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider. By Louis A. DeCaro Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. xxii, 221. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-4798-1670-5; cloth, $28.00, ISBN 978-1-4798-0275-3.) When an author begins a book with "According to the conventional narrative," as does Louis A. DeCaro Jr. in his latest work, The Untold Story of Shields Green: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider, readers might reasonably expect that most of the pages that follow will deviate from convention (p. xiii). Indeed, the conventional narrative has had very little to say about the subject of this biography. Few other than a small handful of specialists know much about Shields Green other than that he was one of the five African Americans enlisted by John Brown in his 1859 strike against Harpers Ferry and that he followed Brown to the gallows. Although Green was an actor in one of the most exciting dramas in American history, the documentary record provides only a "skeleton-thin account" of Green's life (p. xvi). DeCaro frankly admits that he has not identified enough source material to write a definitive, much less substantive, biography of the heroic man nicknamed Emperor and remembered by his friend Frederick Douglass in the same breath as Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner as "glorious martyrs for the cause of the slave" ("Men of Color to Arms!," Douglass' Monthly, March 1863). However, the author's exhaustive research did suggest that the available record may be yet incomplete and that scholars may eventually be able to piece together more about the life of Shields Green. Thus, DeCaro offers The Untold Story of Shields Green "as a kind of narrative inquiry"; it is as full a sketch as he is able to draw from the known sources, with "dotted lines" in the direction of what merits follow-up and away from what does not (p. xviii). The author's first chapter considers traditional assumptions about Shields Green and, from the uneven sources, establishes his actual name, his status as a literate free man in antebellum Charleston (and residences elsewhere prior to 1859), and his age. Shields Green came to meet abolitionist John Brown through Frederick Douglass, and chapter 2 contains the most extensive account presented by any historian to date of Green's enlistment in John Brown's cause and Douglass's role in that process. In chapter 3, DeCaro paints a fascinating picture of the raiders' living environment in the Kennedy farmhouse, the base from which Brown's raiders staged the Harpers Ferry attack. Though this chapter is mostly speculative, the author's use of the limited source material brings out Green's experience very well. Chapter 4 shifts to the raid itself. Here, [End Page 389] DeCaro undertakes a close consideration of the often-overlooked narrative of the event by Osborne Perry Anderson, the only African American raider who lived to tell the tale and someone who vividly recalled Green as a brave freedom fighter. Chapter 5 recounts Green's emotional last days, from his capture at Harpers Ferry to his final moments on the Charlestown gallows. Chapter 6 represents DeCaro's quest to determine which of the few surviving images best represents Green, followed by a brief epilogue that traces the Emperor's place in the historical memory of the Harpers Ferry raid through Reconstruction and the late nineteenth century. DeCaro anticipates and even invites criticism that he knows will follow the publication of this book. It asks more questions than it answers and often leaves the reader wanting more—more details, more certainty, more direct connections than dotted lines. Yet DeCaro presents enough evidence about the life of Shields Green to convincingly place him "among the most radical vanguard of the black antislavery movement" (p. 22). This book shines as a narrative inquiry and will undoubtedly succeed in encouraging further research into the life of Shields Green, a most worthy...

African Photographer J.A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial

African Photographer J.A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial

Shelf-life estimation and quality of resistant bananas to black leaf streak disease during ripening

Black Leaf Streak Disease (BLSD), also known as Black Sigatoka, is considered the most important banana leaf disease worldwide, because it reduces, in average (↓), both yield (↓ 38%) and postharvest banana green-life (↓ 40%). The control of this disease requires weekly applications of fungicides, which increase the economic and environmental costs for banana production, especially in a few countries in Latin American, which account for over 80% of total banana traded internationally. However, frequent fungicide spraying leads to rapid evolution of fungicide-resistance fungal strains that cause disease-control failures. This work aimed to evaluate the shelf-life and postharvest quality of three genotypes of banana (Musa spp.) resistant to BLSD. Survival analysis methodology was used to estimate shelf-life using the Log-Rank test. Postharvest quality included variables such as peel weight, pulp weight, soluble solids, total sugar, starch, total chlorophyll and total carotenoids. The best results were highlighted by BRS Tropical including a high shelf-life for green life (GL) phase of 22.28 days, followed by BRS Vitória (13.45 days). BRS Platina presented the lowest GL phase (11.23 days). BRS Tropical presented a highest yellow life (YL), including good postharvest quality at end of ripening as soluble solids (25.53°Brix), total sugars (13.73 g 100 g−1) and starch (1.32 g 100 g−1). Results suggest that BRS Tropical, which presented a longer shelf-life (27.85 days), may be indicated for exports purposes as well as in natura consumption. Due to the short shelf-life, BRS Vitória and BRS Platina were more suitable for processing industry.

Experimental approaches for agro-ecological management of black leaf streak in dry and humid tropical conditions

Black leaf streak (BLS), caused by the phytopathogenic fungus Pseudocercospora fijiensis, leads to leaf necrosis and often to a substantial reduction in fruit yield. It also causes the fruit to ripen early by reducing the time between harvest and the beginning of natural ripening, called green life (GL). The usual method of control is by spraying fungicides, but this type of management is challenged worldwide due to the high costs, regulation of products, environmental concerns and the development of resistance. Integrated pest control is an alternative management method based on the combination of agronomic practices that can slow down the development of the epidemic, and limit damage to the fruit. Two experiments were conducted in the Dominican Republic and Martinique, to evaluate the performance of an innovative prototype cropping system with no chemical control. This system is based on optimal growth management, to reduce stress and enhance the leaf emission rate, combined with the systematic removal of necrotic parts of the leaves, which strongly limits ascopore sporulation and reduces the effect of BLS on GL. Depending on the conditions and cycles, the reduction in bunch weight with the prototype system versus chemical control ranged from O to 15%. Bananas were harvested at the same physiological age in the prototype and in the control. The bananas harvested from plants with as low as zero leaves left at harvest retained a good aptitude for conservation, with up to 40 days of GL, on average. The limited impact on fruit weight observed suggests that physiological compensation phenomena through remobilization of resources inside the plant (stem, bunch, suckers) occur. Above all, the removal of necrotic leaves prevented a significant negative effect on early fruit ripening when the bananas were harvested at the correct physiological age, and enabled export of the fruit despite the small number of leaves remaining on the plant at harvest. These results offer perspectives for the development and transfer of alternative practices to chemical control.

Jacob Green’s Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age, by S. Scott Rohrer

Jacob Green's Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age, by S. Scott Rohrer. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xiv, 304 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). S. Scott Rohrer's of New Jersey Presbyterian minister Jacob Green is a welcome addition to the subject of religion in the American Revolution. Interest in this important subject has grown immensely since the analyses of Jerald C. Brauer in the 1970s, thanks to the work of Patricia Bonomi, Thomas Kidd, Mark Noll, Nancy Rhoden, and William Sweet, among others. Studies in this area typically focus on religious movements, church evolutions, doctrinal debates, and their connections to revolutionary culture, without dwelling specifically on the personal dimension of history. Rohrer's book contributes to bridging the gap by putting flesh in that realm of ideas. core interest of this lies in the way it brings forth the richness and complexity of the minister's life experience while still embracing the wider historical picture. Students and general readers will appreciate the fascinating details and interesting twists and turns of Green's career. They will certainly be led to reflect not only on how the connection between religion and revolution played out in Green's life, but also on whether he was motivated mostly by religious tenets or worldly pursuits. comes in three parts in a standard chronological arrangement. Part I covers the world of Jacob Green as a student, pastor, and father. It highlights his religious angst during his boyhood and student years at Harvard, and delves into the dilemmas arising from the connection of predestination, free will, and political activism. It also describes the challenge of balancing duties at the head of a church and of a numerous family, and the contentious relations Green had with his congregation over his salary, life style, and subsidiary occupations. Part II focuses on Green's engagement for the Revolution at the local and national levels as a polemicist, revolutionary, politician, and host to rebel forces. Part III takes up his post-Revolutionary activities as a religious and social reformer. structure features a novelty. Each chapter ends with a short aside devoted to The Loyalist down the Road, Anglican minister Thomas Bradbury Chandler. Rohrer intends the parallel as an alternative biography (p. xii), a contrasting foil to put Green into sharper focus and to show that the impact of religion in the era of Revolution was not uniform. two-tales approach may be appreciated by the general reader or the undergraduate student who is discovering the field; however, it may be considered a distracting and superfluous side show by the specialist who will not find much that enhances the understanding of Green, especially as the parallel lives do not intersect in any dynamic manner. book is a good example of how important it is to study second-tier leaders of the American Revolution. It succeeds in illuminating Green's multiple roles and motivations, his ethics and inconsistencies, his accomplishments and shortcomings, his struggle to reconcile spiritual beliefs and worldly concerns, and the constant interplay of his Calvinist tenets with the wider circles of family, church, community, state, and nation. …

Effect of different levels of Sigatoka disease severity on banana pulp colour and early ripening

Bananas are usually harvested at a green preclimacteric stage prior to sale. The preclimacteric phase is called green life (GL), which is defined as the number of days between harvesting and initiation of the natural ripening process. Sigatoka disease (SD) has previously been shown to influence the postharvest behaviour of banana fruit. This work was set out to determine whether there is a relationship between the level of SD severity and the extent of the effects on banana quality as characterized by several pomological traits, especially pulp colour. In an experiment conducted with fruits harvested at a constant physiological age, our results showed that SD had a major effect on the percentage of fruit ripening in the field and on fruit weight, but not on fruit diameter. We showed too that pulp colour was greatly affected by SD; when severity increased, pulp colour parameters were modified – L* (lightness) decreased, a* (axis red to green) and b* (axis yellow to blue) increased, giving a more greyish pulp colour, with less green and more yellow and red. These results may enable the development of a method for controlling fruit quality, by measuring pulp colour in the field, in order to reduce post-harvest losses.

Relation between the severity of Sigatoka disease and banana quality characterized by pomological traits and fruit green life

Banana fruit are typically harvested at a green preclimacteric stage prior to sale. The green life (GL), which is defined as the number of days between harvesting and initiation of the natural ripening process, is important for harvesting, shipping and marketing. Sigatoka disease (SD) has previously been shown to influence the postharvest quality of banana fruit. The present study was conducted to determine (1) whether there is a relationship between the level of SD severity and the banana quality as characterized by several pomological traits and fruit green life, and (2) whether there is a level of SD severity that is acceptable for fruit exporting. In an experiment conducted with fruit harvested at a constant physiological age, our results showed that the disease decreases fruit GL. Based on the relationship established between SD severity and GL, it is possible to define an acceptable disease level threshold corresponding to a specified GL. Additionally, we found that high SD infections caused a reduction in fruit weight but did not affect fruit size. Possible explanations are discussed.

NECROTIC LEAF REMOVAL: AN EFFECTIVE METHOD TO LIMIT THE GREEN LIFE SHORTENING EFFECTS OF SIGATOKA LEAF SPOT DISEASE IN BANANAS

ISHS VII International Symposium on Banana: ISHS-ProMusa Symposium on Bananas and Plantains: Towards Sustainable Global Production and Improved Use NECROTIC LEAF REMOVAL: AN EFFECTIVE METHOD TO LIMIT THE GREEN LIFE SHORTENING EFFECTS OF SIGATOKA LEAF SPOT DISEASE IN BANANAS

Effects of Black Leaf Streak Disease and Sigatoka Disease on fruit quality and maturation process of bananas produced in the subtropical conditions of southern Brazil

Banana fruits are harvested at the green-mature stage (pre-climacteric) in order to allow sufficient time for transport and marketing. The time between the harvest and the initiation of the natural ripening process is called green life (GL), which is closely correlated to physiological age. Sigatoka Disease (SD; also called yellow Sigatoka) and Black Leaf Streak Disease (BLSD; also called black Sigatoka) are the main foliar diseases affecting banana production. The aim of this work was to investigate the influence of these diseases on banana GL and postharvest behavior in subtropical conditions (southeastern Brazil). The results showed that both diseases shortened the banana’s GL when compared to control bananas of the same physiological age. Moreover, fruits from infested plots showed higher values of CO2 (+100% for SD and +300% for BLSD) and C2H4 production (+30% for SD and +60% for BLSD) at the climacteric peak. BLSD caused 40% reduction in fruit weight. Fruits from plants with a high degree of SD or BLSD undergo an altered maturation process.

Sigatoka disease reduces the greenlife of bananas

Sigatoka disease (SD) of bananas is caused by the pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella musicola Leach. This disease provokes necrotic lesions on leaves and serious infestations can lead to a substantial reduction in the leaf area of infected plants and thus to yield losses. In addition to these effects on yield, SD was found to have an impact on fruit quality, especially because exported bananas ripen prematurely. In the present work, a plantation survey and experiments have been conducted in Guadeloupe (FWI) to assess the effect of this disease on the greenlife of bananas harvested at a constant physiological age, as measured in degree-days (dd). Our results revealed that bananas harvested at 900 dd from plants with high Sigatoka disease severity had normal diameter growth, but a shorter greenlife (GL) than bananas harvested from uninfected plants. These results indicate that SD is directly responsible for the reduction of banana greenlife since the reduction of GL could not be attributed to the harvest of fruits at a more advanced physiological age (dd). Furthermore, a correlation was noted between SD severity and GL. The potential physiological mechanisms involved are also discussed.

Pre-harvest growth and development, measured as accumulated degree days, determine the post-harvest green life of banana fruit

SummaryWe aimed to define a more robust indicator for banana harvest date that ensures an optimal fruit green life (GL). Our hypothesis was that development rather than growth would account for GL more accurately. To this end, five indicators were compared: one related to fruit size (i.e., growth, expressed as the diameter of fruit); two related to fruit age [i.e., development, expressed as the age of fruit measured in the number of days or in degree days (°Cd) from inflorescence emergence]; and two related to metabolism during maturation (i.e., the concentrations of malate and citrate in the pulp). Different treatments (e.g., fruit removal, leaf shading, bunch bagging, defoliation, water deficit, and flooding) were applied to modify the fruit growth rate. On different dates between the emergence of the inflorescence and harvest, fruit GL and the five indicators were measured. The results showed that there was a decreasing exponential relationship between GL and accumulated °Cd from inflorescence emergence (r2 = 0.77). This was more reliable than the relationships between GL and fruit diameter (r2 = 0.39), or between GL and fruit age, expressed in days (r2 = 0.39). Relationships were also established between GL and malate or citrate concentrations, but they were not sufficiently reliable to estimate GL. The results illustrate that GL is related to fruit development, and that °Cd is a more reliable criterion for harvest date than the number of days, or fruit diameter, because it is less sensitive to different fruit growth rates. Banana growers in the French West Indies usually use fruit diameter and age in days to determine harvest date. However, they face problems of fruit ripening during transportation. The use of °Cd as an indicator may help to determine the optimum harvest date more accurately.

Legacy in flight: processing the Marlon D. Green collection

PurposeTwo graduate LIS students interested in archival studies describe their first effort processing a manuscript collection belonging to Marlon D. Green, the first African American commercial airline pilot in the US.Design/methodology/approachThe students locate introductory readings and seek the advice of professional archivists to organize the collection and write a finding aid that describes its contents. The novice archivists explore issues of appraisal, arrangement, description and preservation of items in the collection, and discuss the challenges archivists face in organizing collections objectively.FindingsThe students find organizing a manuscript collection to be a surprisingly collaborative and social process. Learning about Marlon Green's life directly from his family members gives the student archivists the advantage of knowing the context of his papers, which helps them order and group items more effectively.Practical implicationsArchivists will benefit from researching a collection's subject thoroughly at the beginning of the process. Collaborating with other archivists on processing collections may help archivists test and hone their methods and achieve greater consistency. The paper is an informal case study about organizing a manuscript collection or collection of family papers.Originality/valueThe discussion of an archivist's role may be useful to novice and student archivists or LIS professionals who have in their care a collection of papers that must be organized and described.

Out of the box: Group rethinks ECMO transport for girl's sake

Looking at the equipment attached to this 6-year-old child in the pediatric ICU of Children's Hospital San Diego was unsettling to even the most experienced caregiver. Little Zoe Green's life completely depended on the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit that was taking the place of her failing heart.

George Green: An Enigmatic Mathematician

The mathematics developed by George Green has been widely applied in modern physics and quantum electrodynamics yet his life has remained something of a mystery. There is no reference to him in the main volumes of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography: he is belatedly and briefly included in the Supplement of 1976. The bicentenary celebrations of his birth in 1993 focused increasing attention on the man who gave the world Green's functions. This MONTHLY has already published an authoritative account [3] of Green's first and seminal publication, An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism, which examined in some detail his use and development of mathematical sources. What is presented here is a short survey of Green's life and an examination of the circumstances and the social environment in which he lived. The great problem is the lack of material concerning Green. His output was small; ten papers including the Essay, written in the space of eleven years, amounting to less than 250 pages of print. There are no manuscripts, no working papers, no diaries, no memorabilia. There are a dozen letters to his patron, but no replies. There is no portrait or photograph. There was no established family house for his common-law wife, Jane Smith, and their seven children, and when the last, Clara, died in 1919, the family was thought to be extinct. The few official facts of Green's life were established and published by H. G. Green (no relation) [5]. His paper included two valuable letters written in 1845 by Green's cousin and brother-in-law, William Tomlin, and Edward Bromhead, his patron. In the 1970s Green's letters to Bromhead came to light-the only information extant in Green's own hand, the only testimony to his mathematical thought and the only revelation of his personality. Green died at the age of forty-seven, just at the time when his work was about to be recognized: in consequence he established no reputation in his lifetime. Green was born in 1793 and died in 1841. He was the only son of a Nottingham baker, who prospered sufficiently to extend his bakery business and build his own mill in the nearby village of Sneinton. Later he built a family house next to the mill; he acquired further property and died in 1829, sufficiently affluent to allow his son George to live on his income for the rest of his life. At fourteen George was apprenticed to his father's mill manager, William Smith, father of Jane. He found his duties as a miller irksome but as the only son he was obliged to work for his father. By the age of eight he had shown a passion for mathematics, such that his father sent him to an expensive town school, Robert Goodacre's Academy, but he left the following year and started work in his father's bakery. Nothing more is known of George Green's life for certain until he reached the age of thirty and became a member of the Nottingham Subscription Library. No other serious library facilities existed in Nottingham at this period, but the Subscription Library was in effect a gentlemen's club, housed in the elegant

The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian England by Anthony Brundage (review)

REVIEWS Anthony Brundage. The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing ofHistory in Victorian England. Westport: Greenwood P, 1994. xiv + 184. $87.00 CDN. Social history has a long tradition ofbeing new, dating back to Voltaire and beyond. It has always affected a certain Cinderella role, virtuously speaking up for the people despite their exclusion by the oppressive establishment of elite-oriented political, military and diplomatic historians. The role is a bit hard to play today, as the young historians of the 1960s who embraced social history in a big way have now risen by seniority to the establishment's commanding heights. But oppressed or not, social history has always been the route to best sellerdom. Macaulay knew this; so did his grand-nephew, G.M. Trevelyan. And so did John Richard Green, though he had to sell the copyright of his Short History of the English People for an advance of some £500. Fortunately his publisher, Alexander Macmillan, was a gentleman, tearing up the original contract and substituting a royalty arrangement when the book took off with sales of 32,000 in its first year alone. It eventually went over half a million and remains in print one hundred twenty years later. When a survey asked the first batch of Labour party M.P.s in 1906 what books had most influenced them, the two historians most frequently mentioned were first Macaulay, and second, Green. It was Green who coined the phrase "drum and trumpet history," still a favorite put-down of conventional history among social historians who have barely heard of him — their tradition of being new perhaps making them less mindful of their forbearers than they should be. Anthony Brundage's useful book is the first serious study of Green. The story of Green's life, well if briefly told here, reads like an unlikely combination of a Trollope and a Hardy novel. Like Jude the Obscure, Green was of working class origins, but unlike Jude he made it into Oxford on a scholarship and into the Church of England priesthood. He pursued his clerical vocation in London's East End Reviews175 slums, permanently damaging his health by his earnest exertions which included seeking out victims of the 1866 cholera epidemic. He was assisted here by local prostitutes, in whose lives he took an interest, noting that of those he surveyed "Some had been driven by sheer want, others by gaiety and the attractions of high wages, others by the 'independence' of the life. I did not find one case of seduction" (38). Green left his slum ministry, partly it seems because of some unspecified sexual guilt. When Green's wife attempted to recover from his friends her husband's letters for Leslie Stephen's published collection, they held some back out of delicacy. Brundage has restored some details of Green's life left out by Stephen for similar reasons, but the unrecovered letters are still tantalizingly missing. Interestingly, Green's siblings were involved in sexual scrapes from which their elder brother helped them to avoid Hardyesque consequences. His sister, brought up in the country, gave birth to an illegitimate child and would not allow it to be baptized. "A magnificent girl, but skittish and hard-mouthed" — so Green described her, rather like a horse auctioneer — she was eventually married by him to one of his Cambridge-educated friends. His brother was expelled from Oxford for having sex with a pawn broker's servant, but Green managed to get him into Cambridge. Long on the lookout for a suitable wife, Green light-heartedly described his requirements to a friend in terms which made him sound like a combination of Mr. Pooter and Mr. Casaubon. But here too, fortunately, Trollope prevails over Hardy. Eventually he found Alice Stopford, a clever, passionate, and energetic partner, researcher, amanuensis and co-author with whom during the six happy years of their marriage he cranked out enormous quantities of work before dying of tuberculosis in 1883 at the age of forty-five. What kind of historian was Green? Brundage is anxious to rescue him from the slur of amateurism, which has often been linked to the practice of social history...

A southern life: letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom , an authentic drama of black life. Among his other Broadway productions were Native Son and Johnny Johnson . From the 1930s onward, Green created fifteen outdoor historical productions known as symphonic dramas, thereby inventing a distinctly American theater form. These include The Lost Colony (1937), which is still performed today. Laurence Avery has selected and annotated the 329 letters in this volume from over 9,000 existing pieces. The letters, to such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, and others interested in the arts and human rights in the South, are alive with the intellect, buoyant spirit, and sensitivity to the human condition that made Green such an inspiring force in the emerging New South. Avery's introduction and full bibliography of the playwright's works and first productions give readers a context for understanding Green's life and times.

The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis. |A collection of works by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Paul Green (1894-1981), including short stories, essays, letters, plays, and a selection from The Lost Colony. An introduction outlines Green's life and work.

George Green, 1793–1841

As a mathematician, George Green is among the immortals; as a man he sank back almost at the moment of his death into the obscurity from which he had startlingly emerged. From a volume of studies published in 1946 as a tribute to George Sarton, Mr. Gwynedd Green, of University College, Nottingham, has separated a biography of the miller-scholar who graduated as fourth wrangler at the age of forty-four, nine years after the private publication of an incomparable masterpiece. Property is located, wills are transcribed, correspondence between Kelvin and Crelle is reproduced, and there are notes on every traceable name in Green's family tree and on all but eight of the fifty-two subscribers to the printing of the famous “Essay”; bibliographical information is thorough, but mention should surely have been made of the collected edition of Green's papers which was prepared by Ferrers for Caius in 1871 and reproduced photographically in Paris in 1903. The circuihstances of Green's life both in Nottingham and at Cambridge have been investigated once for all from local sources with an industry beyond praise, and if a condescending patron and a resentful daughter are more vivid in the story than the central figure himself, this is because no contemporary portrait or character sketch has been found and the author does not attempt imaginary reconstructions. It is sad to learn from a note added in manuscript that the mill in which Green laboured and studied was reduced to a shell by fire in July last.