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Criminal justice and drugs: The unresolved connection : edited by James C. Weissmann Kennikat Press Corporation (90 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York 11050), 1982, 204 pp., hardcover—$27.50

Criminal justice and drugs: The unresolved connection : edited by James C. Weissmann Kennikat Press Corporation (90 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York 11050), 1982, 204 pp., hardcover—$27.50

Colonial Nonfiction: On the Road to Literary Awareness

Charles Berryman. From Wilderness to Wasteland: The Trial of the Puritan God in the American Wilderness. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1979. 214 + ix pp. Wayne Franklin. Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. 252 + xiii pp. Steven E. Kagle. American Diary Literature 1620-17')'/. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. 203 pp. Donald P. Wharton. In the Trough of the Sea: Selected American Sea-Deliverance Narratives. 1610-1766. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979. 295 + xxi pp. When a culture lacks confidence in its literary accomplishments it suffers a sort of cultural paranoia that directs all critical attention toward a limited range of generic forms. The lyric poem, the novel, the drama, the long verse narrative—these forms and few others have proven the vehicles of previous great literature in English; hence, so the thinking goes, when an exceptional work surfaces, it surely will find expression in one of these genres. During this initial diffident period, which may last for centuries, nonfiction will almost certainly be ignored and considered of mere pragmatic utility, without esthetic or literary interest. But once convinced of the value of its imaginative literature, the culture is free to indulge itself in this nonfiction which, although among the first writings to emerge from a society, is the last to be examined by literary scholars. Put under critical scrutiny, exploration accounts, private diaries and travel narratives loom up as significant aids to the comprehension of subsequent and more highly evolved forms of expression; records that had once appealed solely to the historian begin to intrigue the man of letters, not only as examples of cultural and literary history, but as intrinsically important works possessing self-contained rhetoric, language and form.

John Mayfield. <italic>Rehearsal for Republicanism: Free Soil and the Politics of Antislavery</italic>. (National University Publications Series in Political Science.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1980. Pp. 220. $17.50

John Mayfield. Rehearsal for Republicanism: Free Soil and the Politics of Antislavery. (National University Publications Series in Political Science.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1980. Pp. 220. $17.50 Get access Mayfield John. Rehearsal for Republicanism: Free Soil and the Politics of Antislavery. (National University Publications Series in Political Science.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1980. Pp. 220. $17.50. Jean H. Baker Jean H. Baker Goucher College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 86, Issue 4, October 1981, Pages 928–929, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/86.4.928 Published: 01 October 1981

Essays in Law and Politics

Essays in Law and Politics Wormuth Francis Dunham, Essays in Law and Politics. Nelson Dalmas H. Sklar Richard L., eds. Port Washington, New York and London, Kennikat Press, 1978. vii, 274 pp. $16.50. Tony Freyer Tony Freyer Associate Professor of History University of Arkansas, Little Rock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1981, Pages 185–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/844644 Published: 01 April 1981

The Depression in the Southwest. Edited by Donald W. Whisenhunt. Port Washington, NY: The Kennikat Press Corp., 1980. Pp. ix, 162. $15.00.

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Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 129 says in his nine-line epilogue, knowledge will be increased if there ever is the time of the end. Until then "whoever persists in the pursuit of first principles appears fated to run to and fro merely" (p. 274). The material presented in the book is most interesting in terms of the theme. We are first shown how Newton's philosophy emerges in large part from the millenarianism of Joseph Mede and Ralph Cudworth, and how the contentions of Newton and his followers express some of this conviction of the immediacy of the end of history. Next, the study of Bentham and the Mills portrays their secular form of millenarianism that will bring about the redemption of the human race. As the Utilitarian movement faded out, that of the Oxford Hegelians presented a new way to save mankind. And, as we know, this was followed by the work of G. E. Moore, Russell, and Whitehead, each seeking a new basis for solving the problems of understanding the world. Quinn shows us how, in each case, these great movements failed to achieve their goals, and faded away. Russell, the most optimistic of twentieth-century thinkers, ended up saying that "'all human knowledge is uncertain, inexact, partial." The scholarship in the study of these movements is quite thorough, although it is limited tO only published sources (and there must be a good deal of manuscript material that would be relevant, such as Russell's papers.) The sources are given at the back of the book but are not often connected with specific quotations or statements. Instead, they contain the material that appears over a few pages. This may not be helpful if one wants to look up a single point and ten books are given as references. Is the book convincing? The four vignettes point up the sad story of how philosophical confidence fails to bring about a major change for the better in human knowledge or affairs. If we generalize from the four English cases to most of the modern movements in philosophy in Europe and America, and see in them this same feature--that they are millenarian or Messianic and that their expectations have not been fulfilled--then what have we learned? One thing is that modern philosophies have in part taken over the role of earlier Jewish and Christian theologies. Insofar as they have assumed such a role, they seem to have gone through the fate of most Messianic and millenarian theories, namely, that they have been unable to bring about the realization of their expectations. In the theological cases, it is presumably because only God knows when the end of days will occur, and only God can make it occur. The failure of the philosophical cases may need an explanation rooted in human and physical nature, and such an explanation may not rule out the possibility of some future philosophical movement being justified in its confidence. Quinn's book is very stimulating, informative, and provocative. Seeing the course of philosophical movements as moral dramas may help in providing another, important perspective, and it may lead to our having somewhat less confidence in these movements as possible ways to truth. RICHARDH. POPKIN Washington University Charles F. Howlett. Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace. New York: Kennikat Press. 1977. Pp. 180. $12.50. American liberalism's romance with American pragmatism early in this century probably suffered its greatest setback with John Dewey's well-publicized supp~rt of this country's aggressive involvement in World War I. Writers such as Randolph Bourne and Norman Thomas, otherwise sympathetic to Dewey's philosophical project, considered this either a perversion of the notion of social intelligence as an instrument of human progress or indicative of a fundamental flaw in the Deweyan notion of intelligence itself, and publicly castigated Dewey for his apparent lack of 130 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY insight. The dual facts that Dewey at the time thought the war in Europe would encourage the realization of his internationalist ideals, and that he later rejected war entirely as an instrument of social reconstruction, have not ameliorated the still widely held view that the native American philosophy...

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume IV, 1771 to 1800 ed. by Francess G. Halpenny

other is a valuable contribution to our understanding of him, as well as a powerful plea on his behalf. NOTES 1 Kathleen Cobum, Inquiring Spirit, revd. ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979)3 P- 152 R. W. Emerson, “The American Scholar,” in Lewis Mumford, ed., Essays and Jour­ nals (Garden City, N .Y.: Doubleday, 1968), p. 38. 3 Biographia Literaria, ed. J. Shawcross, 2 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1907), 1, 160. 4 “Preliminary Essay” in Aids to Reflection, ed. James Marsh (Burlington: 1840, rpt. Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1971), p. 10. 5 On the opposite principle, the positive value for science of a Coleridgean “suspension of disbelief,” see Gerald Holton, The Scientific Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), p. 71. 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), p. xxviii. 7 Published as The Self Conscious Imagination (London: Oxford University Press, 1974)• a n t h o n y jo h n harding / University of Saskatchewan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume IV, 1771 to 1800, general editor Francess G. Halpenny (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979). lvii, 913. $35.00 “The publication of a dictionary of Canadian biography that would rank with the other great biographical dictionaries of the world” is well on its way to achievement. If we were now faced with the old popular allegation that Canada has no history, we would have ample evidence for refutation in numbers 1 to iv. The record now covers the earliest recoverable biographical information about “Canadian” persons who died before 1800. The history of Canada in this vital form reaches back into the past over more than three centuries, running concurrently with that of the United States, and comple­ menting the records of many centuries of British and French imperial history. If size and weight were the only criteria of achievement, Volume rv would still be impressive. Like numbers 1 to m it is heavy, not suitable for reading in bed: its more than a thousand pages, handsomely bound in red, contain over five hundred biographical articles, lavishly provided with bibliographi­ cal data, appendices, and indexes. Designed to deal only with those men and women who died between 1771 and 1800, this volume, nevertheless, yields numerous facts about their pre-1771 careers, even as early as the first part of the eighteenth century. Cross-reference is inevitable and often enj'oyable. 496 In addition to illuminating the past, Volume iv covers a period of very sig­ nificant transitions: the end of the French régime, the effects of war and settlement in the Maritimes, the introduction of British rule in Quebec, the brief period of an almost continental British North America (until the American War of Independence), the coming of the Loyalists and the loyal Indians, and the political, social, and religious consequences of these changes. Popular, and even educational, misunderstanding of our past is gradually yielding to the pressure of facts. The last three or four decades have seen new forces of intellectual energy. A careful response by writers, publishers, and readers to the evocative question, “Why not in Canada?”, has inspired more than one Canadian scholarly project of national and international significance. A late start among scholars has been turned into an advantage : the editors of this Dictionary have benefited, not only by financial support and by their own initiative and expertise, but also by the knowledge and research of an extraordinary number of historians, biographers, and bibliog­ raphers who have grown up in our new scholarly environment. All but a few dozen of the 255 contributors (French and English) to Volume iv have Canadian addresses, and some of those who work abroad are probably of Canadian origin. We did not know that we had so many experts: we are proud of them, and happy to know where to find them. Brought together by the genius of Francess Halpenny, Marcel Trudel, and their predecessors, they are demonstrating that Canada is now in the main stream, along with Brit­ ish, French, and American scholarship. The scholarly standards are, indeed, high, but the Dictionary is not a reference work only for academics. As a matter of policy, readability is a primary concern. Liveliness in writing has been encouraged, and the excite...

More Guides to Yoknapatawpha

Cleanth Brooks. William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. 445 + xviii pp. Elizabeth M. Kerr. Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's "Little Postage Stamp of Native Soil. "New York: Fordham University Press, 1976. 284 pp. Elizabeth M. Kerr. William Faulkner's Gothic Domain. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1979.264 pp. Evans Harrington and Ann J. Abadie, eds. The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: The Actual and the Apocryphal. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1977. 212 + xii pp. Evans Harrington and Ann J. Abadie, eds. The Maker and the Myth: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1977. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1978. 169 + xiv pp. Evans Harrington and Ann J. Abadie, eds. Faulkner, Modernism, and Film. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. 199 + xv pp. The conclusion of Cleanth Brooks's study, begun with William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963), is an event in Faulkner scholarship and criticism. Rereading the first book, one is disappointed to find that it is not as intense as one remembered, for it suffers like so much writing on Faulkner from more paraphrase of stories than seems necessary. Here is of course the problem of a book's audience; the undergraduate and general reader are not likely to know all the Faulkner canon, and since Faulkner's work is so important as one whole the critic is often compelled to summar- ize. But there are now enough general introductions to Faulkner, of which Brooks's two books may be the best (though I would prefer Olga Vickery's for just the main novels), and from now on all Faulkner critics ought to eschew every word of summary,that is not essential to the point being made.

The United States and Six Atlantic Outposts: The Military and Economic Considerations. By Edward W. Chester. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press Corp., 1980. Pp. vii, 260. $17.50.

The United States and Six Atlantic Outposts: The Military and Economic Considerations. By Edward W. Chester. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press Corp., 1980. Pp. vii, 260. $17.50.

Edward W. Chester. <italic>The United States and Six Atlantic Outposts: The Military and Economic Considerations</italic>. (National University Publications Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1980. Pp. xi, 260. $17.50

Edward W. Chester. <italic>The United States and Six Atlantic Outposts: The Military and Economic Considerations</italic>. (National University Publications Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1980. Pp. xi, 260. $17.50

David E. Nye. Henry Ford: “Ignorant Idealist.” (National University Publications Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1979. Pp. ix, 147. $12.50

Journal Article David E. Nye. Henry Ford: “Ignorant Idealist.” (National University Publications Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1979. Pp. ix, 147. $12.50 Get access Nye David E.. Henry Ford: “Ignorant Idealist.” (National University Publications Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1979. Pp. ix, 147. $12.50. Frank W. Fox Frank W. Fox Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, October 1980, Page 999, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/85.4.999 Published: 01 October 1980

Thresholds of Reality: George Santayana and Modernist Poetics (review)

278Philosophy and Literature plots the self's journey through the negation of repression, conflict with society, and failure to see oneself and others clearly, to a new sense of "selfhood" where negations are recovered and affirmed. (Tolstoy's Levin discovers the joys of threshing wheat, Jane Austen's Emma discovers she wants to marry after all, etc.) In the post-modern period the focus again shifts, this time from the self to language. Now the negations are the linguistic negations of Derrida and Saussure, and the escape from the endless, hollow web of linguistic "différance" (Derrida's neologism) is the new "negative" affirmation of deletion or erasure, delivering us in Beckettian silence from the endless repetitive turning of our objectless language. Post-modern literature, rejecting nineteenth-century romantic notions of plot and character, explores the meanderings of "langue" and dreams of its eventual overthrow in a new scientific language (Robbe-Grillet), or a non-language of the future. At the end, jarringly out of sequence, Kurrik tacks on a short section on tragedy concentrating on Greek drama. There is no central thesis or recommendation in Negation and Literature. Instead, it is a survey of philosophical views combined with a series of literary interpretations, and it often reads like a series of notes waiting to be made into a book. The unstated and interesting suggestion is that the shape of literary thought is itself philosophical, and that there is no hard dividing line between, on the one hand, philosophical works like Hegel's Phenomenology or Dewey's Psychology, and literature on the other. With a few lapses (a brief misleading section on Chomsky, and less than justice done the great master of negation, Hegel), the short summaries of philosophers are clear and accurate and the literary readings are illuminating and readable. Of course, more, much more, could be done, but then too, it is necessary to begin by breaking the surface. University of Wisconsin, WhitewaterAndrea Nye Thresholds of Reality: George Santayana and Modernist Poetics, by Lois Hughson; xii & 180 pp. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1977, $12.50. Santayana, it might be claimed, is the philosopher most significant for understanding the transition between the Victorian order troubled by disorder and the modern disorder in search of order. This book, an expansion and extension of an earlier essay in the American Quarterly, concentrates on the "vital philosophy" expressed in verse and rather ignores the academic philosophy, with the large exception of The Sense of Beauty. The sources are primarily Sonnets and Lucifer, on which this is surely the best commentary to date. This choice of focus can be justified from The Life of Reason. What Professor Hughson has done is to show the personal and cultural problems that led Santayana to ask "whether chaos or order lay at the beginning of things." Shorter Reviews279 Although she deals with naturalism and transcendentalism, she does not relate naturalism to the view that all begins in chaos, as James claimed of experience, with seeds developing vital patterns. Nor does she relate naturalism to the alternative position, called by Santayana "dialectical," that order is eternal; that is, that there must be a principle prior to becoming, as Royce argued. Hughson has ignored the usual history of American philosophy on the ground that Santayana was first a poet and then a philosopher who had been a poet, though one might object to this on the ground that Santayana had written an excellent philosophical treatise, Lotze's System of Philosophy, just prior to the 1890s. The key to understanding Santayana, she argues, is that he experienced conversion (metanoia). That is, his "Catholic" stress on the free contemplative spirit followed from his disillusionment with naturalism. According to Hughson, Santayana's philosophy springs from the necessity for cultural and for personal order; but the modes of ordering diverge sharply. In The Sense of Beauty, we read of two ways to harmony, one "to unify all the given elements, [resulting] in the beautiful; the other to reject all recalcitrant elements, [resulting] in the sublime." Although Santayana's ideal culture is inclusive, his personal life was one of exclusion. Nature has a place in it for all sorts of life. Santayana...

W. DUNCAN REEKIE and MICHAEL H. WEBER. Profits, Politics and Drugs. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979. DUANE F. STROMAN. The Quick Knife: Unnecessary Surgery. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1979

W. DUNCAN REEKIE and MICHAEL H. WEBER. Profits, Politics and Drugs. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979. DUANE F. STROMAN. The Quick Knife: Unnecessary Surgery. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1979

Science and technology: An agonising reappraisal

Technology and Sector Choice in Economic Development. Gerard K Boon, The Hague: Sijthoff & Noordhoff. 1978. 313 pp. np Appropriate Technology: technology with a human face. P D Dunn, London: Macmillan. 1978. 220 pp. £6.95. £2.50 pb Unemployment and the Multinationals: a strategy for technological change in Latin America. Stephen H & Douglas A Hellinger, New York: Kennikat Press. 1976. 158 pp. £10.00 Appropriate Technologies for Third World Development. Edited by Austin Robinson, London: Macmillan. 1979. 417 pp. £20.00 Science, Technology and Economic Growth in the Muslim World. Ziauddin Sardar, London: Croom Helm. 1977. 215 pp. £7.95 Science, Technology and Economic Growth in Developing Countries. Edited by G E Skorov, Oxford: Pergamon. 1978. 211 pp. $18.00 Technology Transfer and Change in the Arab World. Edited by A B Zahlan, Oxford: Pergamon. 1978. 506 pp. $48.00

Books in Brief

Abstract Abstract A Long Way Together: A Personal View of Ncte's First Sixty-Seven Years by J. N. Hook. Urbana, III.: National Council of Teachers of English, 303 pages, $9.50. Children's Secrets by Thomas J. Cottle. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 273 pages, $10. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan And Urban Schooling by Ronald D. Cohen and Raymond A. Mohl. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 216 pages, $15. Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools by Ann Swidler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 199 pages, $12.50. Legislated Learning: The Bureaucratization of the American Classroom by Arthur E. Wise. Berkeley: University of California Press, 219 pages, $10.95. Families and Communities as Educators edited by Hope Jensen Leichter. New York: Teachers College Press, 246 pages, $11.95 hardcover; $7.95 paperback.

Law and order in American history : edited by Joseph M. Hawes. National University Publications (Kennikat Press Corp., 90 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York 11050), 1979, 184 pp., hardcover—$15.00

Law and order in American history : edited by Joseph M. Hawes. National University Publications (Kennikat Press Corp., 90 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York 11050), 1979, 184 pp., hardcover—$15.00

Essays on the Constitution of the United States. Edited by M. Judd Harmon. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1978. Pp. 202. $12.95.)

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Sharon harley and rosalyn terborg-penn, editors. The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images. (Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1978. Pp. xiii, 137. $12.95

Journal Article sharon harley and rosalyn terborg-penn, editors. The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images. (Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1978. Pp. xiii, 137. $12.95 Get access Harley Sharon and Terborg-Penn Rosalyn, editors. The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images. (Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1978. Pp. xiii, 137. $12.95. A. Elizabeth Taylor A. Elizabeth Taylor Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, October 1979, Page 1138, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/84.4.1138 Published: 01 October 1979

<sc>william c. lehmann</sc>. <italic>Scottish and Scotch-Irish Contributions to Early American Life and Culture</italic>. (Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1978. Pp. viii, 232. $9.95

Journal Article william c. lehmann. Scottish and Scotch-Irish Contributions to Early American Life and Culture. (Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1978. Pp. viii, 232. $9.95 Get access Lehmann William C.. Scottish and Scotch-Irish Contributions to Early American Life and Culture. (Series in American Studies.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1978. Pp. viii, 232. $9.95. Duane Meyer Duane Meyer Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, June 1979, Pages 843–844, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/84.3.843-a Published: 01 June 1979

Immigrants and the City: Ethnicity and Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Community. Dean R. Esslinger, Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1975, 156 pp.

Immigrants and the City: Ethnicity and Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Community. Dean R. Esslinger, Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1975, 156 pp.