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THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume 11, Number 3 Fall, 1990 Table of Contents Henry James and the Ethical Moment. By Myler Wilkinson.............................................153 The Incredible Floating Man: Henry James's Lambert Strether. By Reginald Abbott..............................................176 Sibyls, Seekers, and Sacred Founts in the Tales of Henry James. By Larry A. Gray................................................189 Ironies of Loss in The Finer Grain. By Richard S. Lyons.............................................202 Review of Adeline R. Tintner, The Book World of Henry James: Appropriating the Classics and The Pop World of Henry James: From Fairy Tales to Science Fiction. By Frances Murphy Zauhar.............213 Review of Brenda Murphy, American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940. By William W. DemasÃ-es............................220 Review of Benjamin Newman, Searching for the Figure in the Carpet in the Tales of Henry James: Reflections of an Ordinary Reader. By Richard P. Gage..............................................223 Index to Volume 11.........................................................226 From the Editor The James boom goes on, and I return to the editorship after a sabbatical year with immense gratitude to Veronica Makowsky for the splendid job she did as Acting Editor and with dismay at our big backlog of accepted but not yet published articles. Professor Makowsky, I am very happy to report, has agreed to relinquish her former post as Associate Editor and to become Co-editor. As for the backlog, I would like to follow the example of my colleague James Olney; as a general rule he takes nothing for the Southern Review that cannot be brought out within a year. Our lag time at the moment is about eighteen months. Lack of funds precludes our adding an extra issue to an annual volume to try to compress that lag, though we may add extra pages to one or more of the issues in volume 12 (1991). Until the backlog is reduced, we can scarcely help subjecting new submissions to intensified editorial scrutiny. I am calling for two special kinds of contributions, nevertheless. First, as forecast in this column last spring, the Henry James Society will sponsor a series of books on James, to be published by the AMS Press with the Society's imprint. For the most part, these will be original critical and scholarly works of high quality, though we may also decide to include in the series facsimile editions of works by James himself, with new scholarly introductions, as well as out-ofprint classics of James criticism. I will serve as General Editor of the series; no manuscript will be accepted, however, without review by at least one other person drawn from a series editorial board. The AMS Press is devoted to publication and distribution of scholarly books and facsimiles; AMS publishes, for instance, the standard bibliography on the eighteenth century, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, one of the sponsored publications of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Submissions and queries should be addressed to me here at the HJR. Second, we are eager to compile a list of persons interested in reviewing new books on Henry James for the HJR. Next to our backlog, what has distressed us most in reviewing the operations of the journal is the pace at which we have been getting out book reviews. Although we have taken steps to streamline our book review procedures in the editorial office, our biggest problem has been recurrent long delays in hearing from persons to whom we have written offering books for review, many of whom decline. Hence our desire to develop a list of people who would welcome invitations to review books. Finally, we offer here the following announcements and updates: James Society Meetings, 1990: 1990 James Society President William R. Macnaughton will preside over two Society sessions at the Chicago MLA meeting in December. The first, Cultural Criticism on Henry James, will be held from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, December 28, in the Hyatt Regency, Columbus Hall K & L, and will include four papers: "Visions, Practice, and Achievement: The Structure of Henry James's Early Career," by Bonney MacDonald; "Degeneration and Feminism: Cultural Determinations Shaping Character in Henry James's The Bostonians," by Wendy Graham; "Henry James and the Discourse of Anti-Semitism," by Jonathan Freedman; and "Civilization...

The First Children's Literature? The Case for Sumer

The First Children's Literature? The Case for Sumer Gillian Adams (bio) Children's literature, as the term is generally understood today, cannot be said to exist before the eighteenth century and the advent of printed books marketed to children for their enjoyment. Some scholars, however, believe that works from earlier periods routinely associated with children, even if their purpose is didactic or they were not written specifically for children, can also be classified as children's literature. Standard bibliographies of children's literature begin with texts from the medieval period; in addition, recent scholarship has focused on medieval and renaissance literature associated with children.1 In fact, works just as closely associated with children are to be found at a much earlier period, in the oldest written literature so far recovered in any significant quantity, the Sumerian. This investigation of the Sumerian child's literary world will describe these works and attempt to demonstrate how they reflect certain values found in Sumerian culture as a whole and how they are an important means for transmitting those values to the more influential members of Sumerian society. Extant Sumerian literature consists of more than thirty thousand lines of text found in over five thousand tablets and fragments. It was composed by a people who lived in Mesopotamia (now the southern half of Iraq), between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. By the fourth century B.C., the Sumerians had developed an urban society organized into nine city-states headed by kings, who in turn were supported by a powerful priesthood and the scribal bureaucracy needed to administer an agricultural economy based on an elaborate, state-centered irrigation system. Although the earliest literary documents date from around 2400 B.C., before the conquest of Sumer and neighboring areas in 2334 B.C. by Sargon of Akkad, most of the texts discussed here come from the time of the Sumerian renaissance, which was ushered in by the founding of the Third Dynasty of Ur in 2112 B.C. The end of the Sumerian period and the [End Page 1] beginning of the Babylonian are marked by the accession of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, to the throne in 1792 B.C. Nevertheless, the culture of Mesopotamia, if not the language, remained predominantly Sumerian, and Sumerian language and literature continued to dominate the school curriculum until about 1000 B.C.2 I Songs and lullabies provide the first literary experiences for many children. A "chant," purported to be created by the wife of Shulgi, a ruler of the Third Dynasty of Ur, is the first lullaby known, according to Samuel Noah Kramer (History 327).3 Apparently troubled by the ill health of one of her sons, the Queen begins (trans. Kramer, History 329-31): U-a a-u-aIn my ururu-chant may he grow big,In my ururu-chant may he grow large,Like the irina-tree may he grow stout of root,Like the shakir-plant may he grow broad of crown. After several lines she continues: Come Sleep, come Sleep,Come to where my son is,Put to sleep his restless eyes,Put your hand on his painted eyes,And as for his babbling tongue,Let not the babbling tongue shut out his sleep. She goes on to promise her son lettuce and cheeses to make him feel better and toward the end of the chant wishes he may have a family, food, happiness, and the good will of the gods: May the wife be your support,May the son be your lot,May the winnowed barley be your bride,May Ashnan, the kusu-goddess be your ally,May you have an eloquent guardian angel,May you achieve a reign of happy days,May the feasts make bright your forehead. [End Page 2] This lullaby fulfills the definition of the genre in the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, "a song or chant designed to soothe babies or young children to sleep," and predates by at least a thousand years the Roman lullaby "Lalla, lalla, lalla" there referred to (326). The Oxford Companion adds that the beginning of the term is said to derive from "lu" and "la"; the Sumerian lullaby begins...

Index of official publications (verzeichnis amtlicher druckschriften): A specialised bibliography of the Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt

The author, who is in charge of the section of the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt, which produces the standard bibliography of official West German publications, describes the library's function as a depository of official publications produced at all levels of government. She outlines the manner in which the Index of Official Publications (Verzeichnis amtlicher Druckschriften) is compiled and its form of arrangement. Plans for automating its preparation are briefly dealt with. Difficulties in the changeover from a manual system using its own rules of entry, to an automated one using rules based on the international cataloguing code, are mentioned with some weaknesses in the latter being pinpointed. The article concludes by briefly surveying the subscribers of the Index and their attitude to proposed changes in its form.

Hydrogen safety: an annotated bibliography of regulations, standards and guidelines

Current federal regulations applicable to the manufacture and maintenance of hydrogen equipment and to the distribution of gaseous and liquid hydrogen in the United States are summarized and presented in a table of regulatory references. A similar table of references is presented for nonmandatory standards and guidelines pertinent to hydrogen safety and hydrogen facilities/equipment specifications. These two tables concisely summarize the best available information that has been published in industry, universities and government agencies for the safe production, storage and handling of hydrogen.

Varieties of American Indian Autobiography

Published autobiographies by Native Americans constitute a small but significant part of American literature. Standard bibliographies usually identify some fifty works, almost all of which have been published since 1900.1 Although some of these are virtually impossible to locate, having been printed in small runs at obscure places, many titles-My People the Sioux, Black Elk Speaks, and The Way to Rainy Mountain among them-are widely known. Indian autobiographies deserve our attention not only because they are truly and indisputably American or because, as Luther Standing Bear said about his own story, No one is able to understand the Indian race like the Indian.2 They also represent a diverse and complex literary genre, one that obliges us to consider the nature of autobiographical expression in traditional Indian cultures, the role of outside white influence in the recording of personal experience, and the ultimate esthetic as well as documentary value of the work. To these weighty considerations we must also add the obvious fact that public autobiography (printed autobiography, that is, not traditional forms like family stories or informal personal expression in journals and correspondence) has served different functions for its creators and their people at different times. To some extent it is even possible to examine Native American autobiographies historically as an index to changing Indian attitudes towards their own cultures and their relationships with white civilization.

Humphry Davy—An Alleged Case of Suppressed Publication

In a letter found not long ago in the Institute of Electrical Engineers and recently republished in the new edition of Faraday's correspondence, certain allegations are made about difficulties experienced by Humphry Davy in getting his work published in Napoleonic France. These allegations have been repeated in the standard Davy bibliography and are believed by at least one other Davy scholar known to the author. A new biography of Faraday makes much of this supposed incident and suggests a comparison with Stalinist Russia. No doubt the letter will continue to be quoted and the story believed until someone takes the trouble to examine the situation more closely.

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1971

For some years scholars and nonspecialist readers interested in the Brownings have felt the need for a supplement to that truly remarkable and invaluable volume, Robert Browning: A Bibliog raphy, 1830-1950 by L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northup, and Robert Pearsall (1953; hereafter, for the sake of brevity, cited as BNP). In Boyd Litzinger and K. L. Knickerbocker's The Browning Critics (1965) we were given a checklist of Robert Browning scholarship for the period of 1951 through May 1965; and of course by con sulting the standard annual bibliographies and the checklists pub lished regularly in the Browning Newsletter, it was possible (albeit time-consuming) to track down the more important titles. Never theless, what many have longed for is a supplement to BNP that would measure up to the original in depth, accuracy, and compre hensiveness.

Guidelines for the Reporting of Numerical Data and Experimental Procedures.

General recommendations are made about the reporting of data and experimental procedures. These are intended as instructions to authors of papers in which quantitative physical and chemical data are reported. There is included a bibliography of standards documents and more detailed guidelines.

Literary Art in Defoe's Tour: The Rhetoric of Growth and Decay

IT IS TWENTY YEARS since Godfrey Davies opened an article with the stark judgment, None of the larger works of Defoe has received so little actual attention as the Tour.' This comment remains as accurate today. In the last two decades we have had the first collection of Defoe's letters, the standard bibliography, and one major biography-quite apart from a growing critical debate on the novels. This makes it all the harder to justify scholarly neglect of the Tour.2 Apart from anything else, A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26) represents the author's mature literary artistry. Coming where it does in the canon, it draws on something more than his accumulated experience as reporter, spy, and social observer. It derives, too, from the creative enterprises which had occupied Defoe in the preceding five years. The truth is that the Tour functions in a more rewarding and inward fashion than has been generally recognised. Defoe gives us abundant documentation of English life, certainly. But the interest of the Tour is not confined to the social and economic data it provides. The book deploys the resources available to a great imaginative writer, and it supplies less a picture of Britain than a vision of nationhood.

THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS: DESIGNED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

In 1830 a long-forgotten printer published a small chapbook by an unknown author bearing the title The Book of Accidents; Designed for Young Children. This small paper-covered book, which remains unlisted in any of the standard bibliographies of children's books, contains a number of lessons written for children illustrating in both prose and woodcut some of the pitfalls to which children are liablefalling out of a window, falling out of a coach, playing with firearms, crossing streets, tumbling down stairs, and so forth. Although written almost a century and a half ago, many of our readers may find these lessons more effective—and I suspect a good deal more engaging—than most of the contemporary accident prevention pamphlets written for children. The appearance in 1830 of a children's book concerned with accidents may come as a surprise because, to my knowledge, none of the standard pediatric texts contained such information until the turn of the century.

The Printed Editions and the Text of the Works of Fray Íñigo de Mendoza

Fray Inigo de Mendoza, reputedly Isabella's favourite preacher, is also one of the most important poets of the latter half of the fifteenth century; but no critical edition of his works exists, and no one to my knowledge has yet made a critical examination of the existing materials for it. A recent article by Antonio Perez Gomez has cleared up some difficulties by unravelling the confusion of errors surrounding the first two editions of Mendoza's Vita Christi; but since these errors are all too liable to be perpetuated by the continued use of works such as the standard bibliographies, and since I have some comments to add, I shall not apologize for beginning again at the beginning while pursuing the story further.

French Canadian Names

Louis Hemon's delightful novel, Maria Chapdelaine, there is an interesting paragraph concerning personal names among French Canadians that should interest onomatologists. The piquancy of the names of persons used by the author in the development of his Htory is commented upon as follows: In the Province of Quebec there is much uncertainty in the spelling and the use of names. A scattered people in a huge half-wild country, unlettered for the most part and ,vith no one to turn to for counsel but the priests, is apt to pay attention only to the sound of names, caring nothing about their appearance when written or the sex to which they pertain. Pronunciation has naturally varied in one mouth or another, in this family or that, and when a formal occasion calls for writing, each takes leave to spell his baptismal name in his own way, without a passing thought that there may be a canonical form. Borro,vings from other languages have added to the uncertainties of orthography and gender. Individuals sign indifferently Denise, Denije, or Deneije; Conrad or Conrade; and men bear such names as Hermenegilde, Aglae, Edwige. This perfect little cameo of the lifeways and thoughtways of rural French Canadians is no less interesting for its numerous examples of Canadian French place namesa thousand names piously bestowed by peasants from France on lakes, on rivers, (and) on the settlements of the new country. The author obviously enj oys these names as much as his readers should: Ho,v sweet to hear these names ... 'Vhere can one (better) find the happy music of the French names? This tenderly fictionalized ethnography of folk life is now easily available in an inexpensive paperbound edition, as a Doubleday Image Book (D40), Garden City, N. Y., 1956 (translated by W. H. Blake, with the above quotations from pp. 46, 182-3). The present edition of this popular Catholic classic is in at least its 25th reprinting in English translation since 1921. It is a novel of unusual interest to students of names, but, so far as I have noticed, goes unmentioned in the standard bibliographies of onomatology.

Reference Tools for Ethnomusicology

thnomusicology today claims to be an independent discipline, independent though closely allied to musicology at large, anthropology, folklore, and possibly also linguistics, psychology, sociology, and even further: literature, history, physics, physiology, and others. In the last twenty years, there has appeared a stream of publications -journals, texts, histories-which underscore this claim to independence, and though some representatives of this field deplore what appears to be a splintering and a tenency to overspecialization, there is no doubt that the amount of material in ethnomusicology-here I am thinking of raw material for research, published material, as well as human personnel--is now so large that it must be handled in a fashion separate from other disciplines. Furthermore, while ethnomusicology has often been treated as a subdivision of musicology, anthropology, or folklore, this association has not always supplied the methodological integrity required, nor has it made possible the kind of relationship between raw material and methodology which is desirable. The need for reference tools in ethnomusicology is one of today's important problems. I should like to survey some of these needs, not necessarily with the idea of stimulating immediate action, for some of the tools I contemplate can certainly not be manufactured for decades to come. But I want to focus attention on the fact that the amount of published material and of knowledge in ethnomusicology is today so large that reference works of various sorts are badly needed and should be planned. It is at this point that the bibliographic and classificatory skills of the librarian could be of great value to the ethnomusicologist. I should like to discuss briefly bibliographic tools, source catalogs, dictionaries, and encyclopedic works. Bibliographic control of ethnomusicological publications has always been difficult. Articles and essays appear in the media of many different disciplines, and materials useful for research are sometimes in the disguise of casual travel reporting and general entertainment. The lack of definite boundaries for ethnomusicology is also problematic; are we to include the music of primitive cultures only, or also the music of Oriental high cultures? And how about folk music? In this paper I should like to make the definition as broad as possible. But this problem stood in the way of Jaap Kunst, the third edition of whose Ethnomusicology (The Hague, 1959), is certainly the best attempt at bibliographic control of the field. Kunst comes close to being exhaustive in material on primitive music, except for what may have appeared in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern European countries. On Oriental music he is also very inclusive, but in the field of European and New World folk music he admittedly covers only some of the more important works. Kunst's third edition also constitutes a beginning of a Western European union list of ethnomusicological publications. Most ethnomusicologists will probably be satisfied with Kunst's listing as a standard bibliography, except for folk music. The problem now is to establish control of currently appearing materials, for especially in Eastern Europe and Asia the amount of publication is increasing. Our journal Ethnomusicology, makes a brave attempt to present current bibliography, but it is dependent on random contributions by subscribers. Music Index now indexes regularly some of the periodicals devoted primarily to ethnomusicology. But a large number of publications is still omitted, since ethnomusicology is not the primary aim of Music Index. What is needed, evidently,

THE DOCUMENTATION OF MADAGASCAR

Madagascar is undoubtedly a country of great interest, yet it is often thought that there is very little literature on the subject. The fact is, however, that the amount is considerable, as is shown by the number of the last item in the standard bibliography of Madagascar—14,978.

A Bibliography of Jacques Maritain: 1910–1942

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JACQUES MARITAIN: 1910-1942 Compiled by RuTH BYRNs T HE first section of this bibliography lists the writings in French and English of Jacques Maritain from 1910 to November, 1942. The arrangement is by years. Directly after each annual heading books and parts of books by M. Maritain are listed in alphabetical order according to titles. Articles, also listed in alphabetical order according to titles, follow the listings of books and parts of books. Prefaces by M. Maritain to the books of other authors are then Hsted according to the authors' names. Translations from French to English are noted but the bibliography does not include translations of M. Maritain's works in the many other languages into which his writings have been rendered. A small number of his works which originally appeared in Spanish are included in the bibliography. The second part of the bibliography lists articles and other works about M. Maritain for the same period. The arrangement of this part of the bibliography is alphabetical according to the names of the authors. This part of the bibliography also includes only (with a few exceptions) articles in French and English. Book reviews written by M. Maritain and reviews of his books by others are not included in either section of the bibliography . Likewise, newspaper reports of addresses by M. Maritain are not included in the bibliography nor are statements which he signed as a member of a committee or as one of a group of signers. Every reasonable effort was taken to make both sections of the bibliography complete and accurate. The items were checked with standard bibliographies and periodical indices as well as with the bibliography of Maritain printed in The Catholic Library World, May, 1942, and with a selected, unpublished 22 345 346 RUTH BYRNS bibliography of M. Maritain's writings prepared by Miss Lois Byrns of the University of Wisconsin. Nearly all of the books and nearly all of the articles listed were examined personally by the compiler. In some cases it was not possible, at this time, to secure a copy for examination. However, in spite of this effort, it is likely-because of the many difficulties in completing a bibliography such as this one-that there are omissions and errors in this Maritain bibliography . Readers who discover omissions or errors are requested to send a notation of the missing items or the mistakes to the compiler of the bibliography. PART I WRITINGS OF JACQUES MARITAIN 1910 TO NoVEMBER 1942 HHO 1. " LE NEO-VITALISME EN ALLEMAGNE ET LE DARWINISME." Revue de Philosophie. 6: pp. 417-441. 1910. 2. "LA SCIENCE MODERNE ET LA RAISON." Revue de Philosophie. 6: pp. 575-603. 1910. In Antimoderne, 19~~. See item ~~. pp. ~9-68. 1911 3. "L':EvoLUTIONNISME DE M. BERGSON". Revue de Philosophie. 19: p. 467 f. 1911. 1913 4. " L'ESPRIT DE LA PHILOSOPHIE MODERNE. I. LA REFORME cARTESIENNE." Revue de Philosophie. 24: pp. 601-625. 1913. La premiere des quatre conferences donnees sous ce titre en avrilmai , 1914, a l'Institut Catholique de Paris. 5. "L'INTUITION. Au SENS DE CONNAISSANCE INSTINCTIVE OU n'INCLINATION." Revue de Philosophie. 23: pp. 5-13. " Fragment d'une des le~;ons sur la philosophic de Bergson et la philosophic chretienne." 6. "LA PHILOSOPHIE DE M. BERGSON ET LA PHILOSOPHIE CHRE- A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JACQUES MARITAIN 347 TIENNE." Cours et conferences de Ia Revue de Philosophie a l'Institut Catholique de Paris, 1913. "... qui paraitront prochainement dans la Bibliotheque de Philosophie experimentale...." See item 7, below. 1914 7. LA PHILOSOPHIE BERGSONIENNE: ETUDES CRITIQUEs. Paris: Riviere, 1914. 2ieme edition, revue et augmentee, Paris: Bibliotheque de Philosophie , 1930. See item 74, below. 8. " L'ESPRIT DE LA PHILOSOPHIE MODERNE. II. L'INDEPENDANCE DE L'ESPRIT." Revue de Philosophie. 25: pp. 53-82. 1914. ". . . la seconde des quatre conferences donnees sous ce titre en avril-mai, 1914, a l'Institut Catholique de Paris." 9. "LALIBERTE INTELLECTUELLE." 1914. In Antimoderne, 1922. See item 22, below, pp. 71-109. 1918 10. "LA PHYSIQUE DE LA QUANTITE ET LA REVOLUTION CARTESIENNE." 1918. In Reflexions sur ['intelligence et sur sa vie propre, 1924. See item 36, below, pp. 174-201. 11. PREFACE to...

The National Book Council

IT was a wise statesman who said that we must educate our masters, the democracy of to-day, and the National Book Council's latest report, 1938–39, is full of a well-backed forward movement with a new Consultative Committee designed to promote more book-reading. At present, the public libraries are used by about 15 per cent of the population, which remain in ignorance of the chances they have to improve their knowledge, or at least get sound information about their hobbies and the special line of reading they prefer. "Four to Fourteen" for young people has already become a standard bibliography, and "Summer Holiday Reading", a select list of new books, has led to demands beyond the large number printed. Such guides through the present overgrown jungle of books are essential to-day.