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The Architecture of Migration: Log Construction in the Ohio Country, 1750–1850 by Donald A. Hutslar

302 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE century art criticism, and, in his prefatory essay, Charles Brownell rightly stresses Latrobe’s debt to the tradition of “the Picturesque.” The unprepared reader, or even the reader familiar only with La­ trobe’s professional work as an architect or engineer, should be ad­ vised that what is in store here is a great deal more than a collection of conventional travel pictures. There is, for example, the extraor­ dinary drawing “Breakfast Equipage” (no. 6), a witty evocation of the miseries of a transatlantic passage, rendered in the trompe l’oeil “letterrack ” mode later practiced by the American artists John Peto and William Harnett. There are a number of fine botanical and zoological drawings, most accompanied by the careful observations of Latrobe the amateur naturalist. (The best of these is a drawing of “Masons” [no. 20], a species of wasp that entombs live spiders for later con­ sumption. Latrobe remarks: “I have been often shocked and distressed at the Scenes of cruelty and misery that seem to form part of the System of nature; but I scarce ever saw so dreadful a contrivance of torment as appears to be employed by the Masons against the poor Spiders; if we may reason upon their feelings from our own.”) La­ trobe’s gifts as a draftsman did not, by and large, extend to the human form, but this did not stop him from making several genre pictures, often with trenchant social content—for example, his depiction of two slaves at work under the menacing eye of a white overseer (no. 42). In addition to his gifts for observation, Latrobe also possessed a re­ markable talent for invention. In an innocuously titled sketch, “Sholl’s tavern Clarksburg” (no. 118), Latrobe somehow contrived to get the first elephant ever brought to the United States into a nocturnal setting illumined by the ghostly light of the great Comet of 1811! Or did he really witness this incredible scene? Obviously, then, the pleasures of this volume are many and varied. The final one might best be described as the pleasure of nostalgia, of the sweet sadness of entering a time past. As John Van Horne, one of the book’s contributors, reminds us, only a bare handful of views and structures have remained as Latrobe drew them. Knowing now the extent of the changes wrought on these places familiar to most of us east of the Mississippi makes us all the more grateful for this invaluable legacy of respectful and patient drawings. Brian Horrigan Mr. Horrigan is a historian and writer currently with the U.S. Information Agency. The Architecture ofMigration: Log Construction in the Ohio Country, 17501850 . By Donald A. Hutslar. Athens: Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1986. Pp. vii + 558; illustrations, notes, appendixes, bibliog­ raphy, indexes. $50.00. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 303 Perhaps the most useful advice I received in architectural design studio was the admonition that I should never tell the jury what I thought was wrong with my design—I could rest assured they would find more than enough faults on their own. I can think of no better advice to pass along to Donald A. Hutslar, who opens his book with a lengthy introductory statement detailing the flaws in his work, even titling one section “Errors.” And, true to the above principle, it would not have occurred to me to criticize as he does his photographs or his failure to document every log building in Ohio. Indeed, I have my own list of questions and problems. But I would prefer not to dwell on what this book is not. It is an extremely detailed study of log architecture in Ohio, with special emphasis on early illustrative and descriptive material and an ex­ haustive discussion of the many forms, uses, and details of log build­ ings investigated over a twenty-year period. What began as a casual pastime in 1966 evolved into an admirable and dogged pursuit of documents and buildings that illustrate the evolution of a major build­ ing form in preindustrial Ohio. Drawing on a wealth of documentary resources, Hutslar begins with a summary history of the early exploration and settlement of...

A Prefatory Essay on the Future Administration of Human Services

A Prefatory Essay on the Future Administration of Human Services

Morals and Applied Behavioral Research: A Prefatory Essay

Morals and Applied Behavioral Research: A Prefatory Essay

"De Facto Copyright"? Fielding's Works in Partnership, 1769-1821

FIELDING'S Works (1762) is a highly selective representation of his total oeuvre, omitting ten of his twelve political, social and legal pamphlets, most of his periodical essays, and almost all his poetry. The emphasis is on his novels, which occupy about three quarters of the Works, and his dramas, which account for nearly all the rest. For these exclusions, the editor, Arthur Murphy, pleads in his prefatory Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry that they were not deemed of a colour with works of invention and genius.1 Hogarth's frontispiece portrait, however, propounds the same editorial program much more deftly. It shows Fielding in the last months of his life, Aetatis XLVIII. Beneath him is a symbolic litter of objects representing his achievements in Law (on his left hand) and in Literature (on his right). These are divided by the sword of a gentleman and justice of peace, the pen and ink of a professional writer, and, in the background, the Scales of Justice. The Scales

A Poetics of Psychoanalysis: "The Lost Object: Me"

Translator's Note: This article is excerpted from Nicolas Abraham's L'corce et le noyau (Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1978), with the permission of Maria Torok. It is being published simultaneously in Psychoanalytic Inquiry (forthcoming 1984). The Hungarian-born French philosopher's and psychoanalyst's works are being systematically introduced to the English-speaking scholarly community. Diacritics has devoted half of a special issue (Spring 1979); the University of Minnesota Press has recently commissioned the translation of Abraham's and Torok's Cryptonymie: Le Verbier de l'Homme aux loups (Paris: AubierFlammarion, 1976); and the Georgia Review has published the English translation of Jacques Derrida's prefatory essay, Fors, to Cryptonymie (Spring 1977). The original title of the essay, L'objet perdu-moi, has been supplemented here by A Poetics of Psychoanalysis to underscore its contribution to both psychoanalysis and literary theory. The essay offers a privileged entry into Abraham's works in that it puts forward a theory of fiction in the place of the psychoanalytic subject. The type of fiction outlined here is not based on the workings of the unconscious or the illusion of an imaginary self, it is the result of a loss. In setting up the fiction of being another, the subject creates himself as a dialogue or, more precisely, as a system of analogical references to a fictitious other. The status of the subject becomes poetic in that the dialogic structure can only be recognized through linguistic acts. The essay thus implies a dia-logic theory of readinga subject or a text may be read through to another text which is its own fictitious (and concealed) system of reference.

Poe and Baudelaire: Translations

Edgar Allan Poe. Seven Tales, with a French Translation and Prefatory Essay by Charles Baudelaire. Ed. W. T. Bandy. Schocken Books: New York, 1971. 245 pages. $10.00.

Editors' Introduction

This double issue of Soviet Education features the educational role of law in the Soviet Union. The topic was initially suggested by the writing of Professor Harold J. Berman of the Harvard Law School, which identified an educative function as the primary goal of Soviet law (see, in particular, Justice in the USSR: An Interpretation of Soviet Law, rev. ed., 1963, Part 3, and "The Educational Role of the Soviet Court," The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, January 1972, Vol. 21, pp. 81-94; Professor Berman is also the author of Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure, 2nd. ed., 1972). The editors are especially grateful, therefore, to Professor Berman for his contribution of the following prefatory essay defining the meaning and the importance of the several educational roles of Soviet law represented in the articles which were selected by the editors for translation in Soviet Education.

An Historical Atlas of China. By Albert Herrmann. New Edition. General Editor, Norton Ginsburg. Prefatory essay by Paul Wheatley. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1966. xxxii, 88 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index, List of Chinese Characters, n.p.l. $12.50.

An Historical Atlas of China. By Albert Herrmann. New Edition. General Editor, Norton Ginsburg. Prefatory essay by Paul Wheatley. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1966. xxxii, 88 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index, List of Chinese Characters, n.p.l. $12.50. - Volume 26 Issue 4

S. H. Butcher: Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, with a critical text and translation of The Poetics, With a prefatory essay on Aristotelian Literary Criticism by John Gassner. Pp. lxxvi+421. New York: Dover Publications, 1951. Paper. 1.95.

S. H. Butcher: Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, with a critical text and translation of The Poetics, With a prefatory essay on Aristotelian Literary Criticism by John Gassner. Pp. lxxvi+421. New York: Dover Publications, 1951. Paper. 1.95.

Some Interrelations between the Literary and the Plastic Arts in 16th and 17th Century England

In the year 1695, toward the end of his career, the English poet John Dryden published a prose translation of the Latin poem De Arte Graphica, by Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy with notes translated from the French of Roger de Piles. For this work Dryden composed a prefatory essay called a “Parallel of Poetry and Painting,” which has received scant attention from scholars and critics of English literature. George Saintsbury gave the essay short shrift, remarking only that it “has an accidental interest of a curious kind” in that Dryden tells us that it occupied him for twelve days, “and we are therefore able to calculate his average rate of working, since neither the matter nor the manner of the work betokens any extraordinary care, nor could it have required extraordinary research.” Saintsbury might have softened his strictures, or at least leavened them with some humor, by quoting Dryden's own modest words that follow the statement that the essay was “begun and ended in twelve mornings”; for Dryden adds, “...

Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case-Histories. By Dr. Alfred Adler, edited by Philippe Mairet, with a Prefatory Essay by F. G. Crookshank, M.D., F.R.C.P. London: Kegan Paul, 1929. Demy 8vo. Pp. xxxvii + 168. Price 8s. 6d.

Problems of Neurosis: A Book of Case-Histories. By Dr. Alfred Adler, edited by Philippe Mairet, with a Prefatory Essay by F. G. Crookshank, M.D., F.R.C.P. London: Kegan Paul, 1929. Demy 8vo. Pp. xxxvii + 168. Price 8s. 6d. - Volume 76 Issue 314

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Book reviewed in this article:(i) The Case of Miss R. The Interpretation of a Life Story. By Alfred Adler. Translated by Eleanore and Friedrich Jensen, M.D.(ii) Problems of Neuroses. A Book of Case Histories. By Alfred Adler, with Prefatory Essay by F. G. Crookshank, M.D., F.R.C.P.Experiments with Handwriting. By Robert Saudek, Ph.D.Sex and its Mysteries. By George Ryley Scott.

The Value of Science . By H. Poincaré, Member of the Institute of France. Authorized Translation with an Introduction, by George Bruce Halsted, Ph.D., F.R.A.S. With a Special Prefatory Essay. Pp. iv + 147. New York, The Science Press. 1907.

<i>The Value of Science</i> . By H. Poincaré, Member of the Institute of France. Authorized Translation with an Introduction, by George Bruce Halsted, Ph.D., F.R.A.S. With a Special Prefatory Essay. Pp. iv + 147. New York, The Science Press. 1907.

Newman's Politics of Aristotle - The Politics of Aristotle : with an Introduction, two Prefatory Essays, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. L. Newman, M.A., Hon. Litt . D. Cambridge, Fellow of Balliol College, and formerly Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Vol. III Two Essays. Books III., IV., and V. Text and Notes. Pp. xlvi,

Newman's <i>Politics of Aristotle</i> - The Politics of Aristotle : with an Introduction, two Prefatory Essays, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. L. Newman, M.A., Hon. Litt . D. Cambridge, Fellow of Balliol College, and formerly Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Vol. III Two Essays. Books III., IV., and V. Text and Notes. Pp. xlvi,

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Reviews of Books The ‘Politics’ of Articles. With an introduction, two Prefatory Essays, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. L. NEWMAN M.A., Hon. Litt. D., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Vols. III, IV. (Oxford: Calendron Press. 1902.) R. D. HICKS R. D. HICKS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XVIII, Issue LXXI, July 1903, Pages 533–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XVIII.LXXI.533 Published: 01 July 1903

Newman's Politics of Aristotle - The Politics of Aristotle with an Introduction, Two Prefatory Essays and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. L. Newman, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, and formerly Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Vol. I. (pp. xx., 580) Introduction to the, Politics. Vol. II. (pp. lxvii., 419) Prefatory Essays. Books I. and II.

Newman's Politics of Aristotle - The Politics of Aristotle with an Introduction, Two Prefatory Essays and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. L. Newman, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, and formerly Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Vol. I. (pp. xx., 580) Introduction to the, Politics. Vol. II. (pp. lxvii., 419) Prefatory Essays. Books I. and II. - Text and Notes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1887. 28s. - Volume 2 Issue 4

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VIL.—NEW BOOKS Get access The Politics of Aristotle. With an Introduction, two Prefatory Essays and Notes Critical and Explanatory by W. L. NEWMAN, Fellow of Balliol College and formerly Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. Pp. xx., 577; lxvii., 418. Mind, Volume os-XIII, Issue 50, 1 April 1888, Pages 283-b–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/os-XIII.50.283-b Published: 01 April 1888

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New Books Get access The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art. Translated from the German, with Notes and Prefatory Essay. By BERNARD BOSANQUET, late Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. , 1886. Pp. xxxiii., 175. Mind, Volume os-12, Issue 45, 1 January 1887, Page 134, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/os-12.45.134a Published: 01 January 1887