THE GREEN-ROOM (Continued from page v1) THUR KYLE DAVIS, JR., is a member of the English department of the University of Virginia, and ALLEN W. PORTERFIELD is now at the University of West Virginia. JOHN CALVIN METCALF and JAMES SOUTHALL WILSON are on the editorial staff of THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW. ΝΑTHANIEL WRIGHT STEPHENSON is the author of many books; among them, "Lincoln," "An Autobiography of Lincoln," and "Texas and the Mexican War." Contributions should be accompanied by postage for return and addressed to THE EDITOR OF THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, 8 West Lawn, University, Virginia. The University of Virginia and the Editors do not assume responsibility for the views expressed by contributors of signed articles. All letters relative to advertising and other business matters should be sent to F. STRINGFELLOW BARR, Managing Editor PUBLICATION AND EDITORIAL OFFICE: 8 WEST LAWN UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA PETER QUINCE, HIS PAGES "If we offend, it is with our good will"-Peter Quince. T HE writer of a regular column isn't much better than a blurb writer. I, Peter Quince was born in an ink-well and the desire that gave me birth was the managing editor's who was greedy to help the publishers sell more books. None the less I hope that my pen will remain sharpened by discrimination. But the books pile up so high on the table I sit by that-well, sometimes I think I've no more brains left than Nick Bottom. I've been reading Viscount Grey's Fallodon Papers (Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.50). England still believes in statesmen who read-and can write. Seven occasional papers make up the little book, ranging from fly-fishing and wildfowl at Fallodon to thoughts on public life and Wordsworth's "Prelude" for topics. The Viscount takes some pride in recalling that Wordsworth was John Morley's favorite poet and is his own. Which reminds me that Francis W. Hirst, the Englishman whose fine life of Jefferson was reviewed in THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY'S pages not long ago, has written an amazingly big book on the Early Life and Letters of John Morley (Macmillan, 2 vols. $10.50). It looks juicy. Lord Grey in his chapter on "The Pleasures of Reading" puts poetry first and novels next; not bad. System in writing is the brain-preserver of commonplace minds; but for a page or two I'll tell my beads in Viscount Grey's order. A book that has intrigued me that's a "proud word" I run into when I'm dodging most artfully!—is Cale Young Rice's Selected Plays and Poems: Definitive Edition (Century Company). Over twenty earlier books have been drawn upon in the selection of the poet's best work. Mr. Rice is a poet of wide range and sure workmanship. Some day he may blunder into fame. Another poet whose lovely "The HomeComing" appeared in THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY and now Every Intelligent Person Should Know of the INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD EDITED BY C. K. OGDEN With the publication of the first fifty volumes of the International Library, this series has established itself as the most important modern collection of books in Psychology, Philosophy and the allied sciences. A FEW OF THE TITLES: THE MEANING OF MEANING By C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards A study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism. Revised Edition. $3.75 THE PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM By I. A. Richards "The most important contribution yet made to the rehabilitation of English criticism." Criterion, London. THE MENTALITY OF APES $3.75 By W. Köhler "Worth all the theorizing ever written as to the nature of our ancestors." George A. Dorsey, New Republic. $4.50 THE GROWTH OF THE MIND By K. Koffka An important book on child psychology joining up with the results of THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT OF THE CHILD Harcourt, By the employment of a novel method, M. Piaget has been enabled to offer a completely new version of the child's mind. Brace & Co. Please send me free of Name Street $3.75 There are forty-five other equally important and valuable books at present in this series-among them two volumes on Savage Society by B. Malinowski, three remarkable works by the late Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, and standard works such as C. G. Jung's "Psychological Types," Alfred Adler's "Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology," and Hans Vaihinger's "The Philosophy of 'As If'." For complete details use the attached coupon. You can order your books through the Virginia Quarterly Book Service. |