Oxford University Press
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The Man from New York
JOHN QUINN AND HIS FRIENDS
By
B. L. REID,
Mount Holyoke College.
An exciting exhibit in the New York
Public Library of the John Quinn Memorial Collection has intensified interest
in this remarkable man who, when he died in 1924, was the twentieth century's
most important patron of living literature and art. "Mr. Reid ... has organized
a mass of material in exemplary fashion . Believing that another life of John
Quinn will not soon be forthcoming (and there is no need for one now), he has
made the record as full and inclusive as possible."-THoMAS LASK,
N . Y. Times.
16 pages of halftones.
$12.50
T:he Founding of a Nation
A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1776
By
MERRILL JENSEN,
University of Wisconsin.
It is " 'something of a miracle'
that so labyrinthine a narrative and so formidable a task of analysis could be
made as coherent and readable as Mr. J ensen has made it, never scanting details
and yet never losing his way, or his reader, among them. This can only be the
result of sheer mastery of the incredibly rich materials available for that momen–
tous period, joined with a penetrating judgment of men and events and a superb
narrative style."-LvMAN H. BUTTERFIELD, The Adams Papers
$13.50
The Operas of Puccini
By
WILLIAM ASHBROOK,
Indiana State University.
"Mr. Ashbrook's wealth
of research has exposed any number of important and unfamiliar facts relating
to the gestation and often painful birth of the Puccini masterpieces. . . . What
I enjoyed most in the book ... is his unfailing sensitivity to beauty, his own
beauty of language, the beauty of the music he is able to reveal and the beauty in
the many analogies he summons to throw more light on his subject."-MRS.
JOHN
DEWl'I"r PELTZ, Metropolitan Opera Archives.
100 musical examples, frontispiece.
$7.50
"The Best Men"
LIBERAL REFORMERS IN THE GILDED AGE
By
JOHN G. SPROAT,
Lake Forest College.
"Mr. Sproat's solid, literate analysis
helps greatly at last to place
into
perspective that long-puzzling
shift
from Radical
to Liberal Republicanism."-HARoLD HYMAN, Rice University. "His dissection
of the so-called liberal mind of the late 19th century is the fullest and most
in–
sightful that I know.... It throws light not only on the period directly discussed
but also on the problems of our own day."-JOHN A. GARRATY, Columbia
University
$7.50
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