Not since 1911 has there been a serious study of the development of Rembrandt's methods in his etchings. Now, in this two-volume work, Christopher White examines Rembrandt's development of the medium he made so much his own, analyzes the technical, stylistic, and iconographic features of selected works, and discusses their significance and place in Rembrandt's work as a whole. The distinguishing feature of this study is the analysis of different states of the etchings, usually considered the exclusive preserve of the print connoisseur. In many cases, and particularly in Rembrandt's, the artist's prints are as revealing of his working procedure as are X-rays of his oils, and the author, former Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, traces the relationship of the etchings to the master's drawings. Through his penetrating study and analysis of the etchings we become and armchair witness of the artist's struggles and desires and are given a unique opportunity to observe him at work. The separate volume of plates contains more than 340 etchings, exactingly reproduced, with catalogue notes; the second volume offers over 200 ages of commentary on selected etchings. This work is not just another catalogue of Rembrandt's prints it is a scholarly and valuable contribution to an understanding of the artist and of the art of etching.

Rembrandt As an Etcher; A Study of the Artist at Work.

Arts & Photography

Christopher White

History & Criticism

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Henry Vaughan was one of the major seventeenth-century metaphysical poets, noted for his originality and the range and intensity of his spiritual intuitions. This concordance, prepared with the aid of a computer, allows detailed analysis of his most significant and enduring collection of poems, Silex Scinillans. A valuable research tool, the volume will be an important addition to reference libraries, as well as to that of the scholar or linguist.

Concordance to Vaughan's Silex Scintillans

Imilda Tuttle

In the past decade there has been a tremendous growth of interest in the literature of British Commonwealth countries, yet the standard histories of English literature have never given more than passing attention - if any - to works produced outside Britain and the United States. This new series, inaugurated with the volume on Australia and New Zealand described below, has been initiated to fill a longstanding need; future volumes will survey the literatures of Canada, the Caribbean countries, Africa, and Asia.

The Literatures of the British Commonwealth: Australia and New Zealand

Literature & Fiction

Reid, John Calvin

Wilkes, G. A.

Both a critical interpretation and a concordance to the allusions in five representative Woolf novels, this book shows that her allusiveness is not mere embroidery but is a functional aspect of her style, contributing to plot action, setting, characterization, theme, and structure.Woolf's novels--like the works of Joyce, Eliot, or Tom Stoppard--become richer when a key is given to their many-layered allusiveness. This is often indirect, as when Woolf paraphrases Plato, Virgil, or Pope; often direct but obscure, as when she refers to a comic character named Jorrocks from an 1838 popular novel. A key is needed by most readers in an era when the shared body of literary knowledge--including myth, the Bible, Shakespeare--has largely disappeared.Dr. Schlack's five critical chapters focus on a cross section of the Woolf canon: the three singular, unclassifiable novels (Jacob's Room, Orlando, The Waves), one 'novel of fact' (The Voyage Out), and one 'novel of vision' (Mrs. Dalloway). The second part of the book provides, for each of the five novels, an alphabetical list of authors, titles, and fictional or legendary characters used by Woolf, with page references to the novels and explanatory comments. This is followed by a valuable bibliography of works by and about Woolf.Virginia Woolf wrote--and should be read, Dr. Schlack maintains--'as if literature were a dense and richly imagined world of continuing presences, echoing and re-echoing down the corridors of our minds.'

Continuing Presences: Virginia Woolf's Use of Literary Allusion

Beverly Ann Schlack

This book is written for everyone who wants to know more about fiddling -both oldtime and bluegrass - and about the people who keep an old folk art very much alive. Some readers will follow the author and his partner, Bob Doyle, and learn to fiddle - or to fiddle better. Some will follow Matthew and Bob and their mentor, Sam Bayard, and learn how to start collecting folk tunes. All readers will learn to listen more keenly whether as players of other instruments, square dancers, callers, and enjoyers - by catching the enthusiasm of the colorful and dedicated folk artists introduced here. Bob and Matthew started with a desire to learn fiddling, partly for fun and partly for ideas lobe used by a band they were forming. This desire led them into the Buffalo Valley, a central Pennsylvania farm region where the fiddler's art is esteemed, and to close acquaintance with well-known fiddlers there.In their quest the author and his partner found that the fiddler's art is bound up with his tunes - and his personality. This discovery led them to collect tunes both for their own value and for insights into fiddlers' tastes and styles. A major development in the Buffalo Valley has been the introduction of the bluegrass style as a complement to the oldtime style.The elements of the book are: discussions of bowing and fingering techniques, illustrated with diagrams; transcriptions of favorite Buffalo Valley tunes, with comments on ornamentation and repertoire; and introductions to leading area fiddlers, with emphasis on their experiences and lore. To enhance authenticity, much of the exposition is in the form of dialogues transcribed from interview tapes. Photographs show the fiddlers in action as well as the character of their surroundings. A glossary explains special terms.Learning the Fiddler's Ways will be of interest and value to members of folk music and dance groups, to students of folklore, and to the growing number of people who attend folk festivals as observers or participants.

Learning the Fiddler's Ways (Keystone Books)

Guntharp, Matthew G.

Music

Shows picture postcards from various Pennsylvania scenes as taken between 1900 and 1930. Buildings and bustling town scenes, schools, businesses, trains, recreation, reunions, family outings and more.

A Pennsylvania Album: Picture Postcards, 1900-1930 (Keystone Books)

History

Miller, George

Americas

Learning the Fiddler's Ways

Matthew G. Guntharp

The threefold purpose of this book is to arouse the reader's interest in excellent novels that have been neglected or misjudged or that deserve fresh exploration; to demonstrate criticism that seeks to share the wisdom and pleasure derivable from superior novels; and to show how such novels - in their loyality to the complexity of human experience - provide an antidote to the dangerous narrowness of dogman, ideology, and chic ideas.The novelists discussed in Fiction as Wisdom include the relatively unknown (William Hale White); the celebrated who are represented here by undervalued works (George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Mann's The Holy Sinner); the newsworthy with still fluctuating reputations (Mary McCarthy, Saul Bellow) and the universally admired (Goethe, Dostoevsky, Gide). Exploring the novels for their wisdom as well as their artistic power, the author shows them dramatically testing attitudes- religious, moral, political- that are central to our culture. Of Professor Stock's earlier treatment of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Thorton Wilder wrote that 'you have pointed out beauties and structural elements that had escaped me.' A previous version of the chapter on Gide's The Counterfeiters was called by Henri Peyre 'one of the most acute studies yet presented.' Lionel Trilling wrote that the study of Hale White has 'grace, vivacity, justness, and wisdom.' Thomas Mann, Saul Bellow, and Mary McCarthy praised Professor Stock's analyses of their work- the last saying, 'It's certainly the best study that has been done on me. '

Fiction As Wisdom

Stock, Irvin

An exploration of the interaction between American Catholic missionaries and the mainland Chinese, this book challenges many old and new assumptions. The impact on both sides was not always as desired or expected - nor as perceived from the United States. Despite many good works, mainly in education and medicine, the missionaries had to learn to live with the perennial hostility of the majority of Chinese. From early in the 19th century until midway through the 20th, the chief link between the world's most populous nation, China, and the young nation that became the world's strongest, the United States, was the missionary. Until World War I most of the American missionaries to China were Protestants, but as European Catholics deserted their mission stations to fight in the global war, the Vatican insisted that American Catholics go to China. While some volunteered, many went under duress. American Catholic missionaries operated hundreds of schools and scores of dispensaries, clinics, and hospitals, teaching tens of thousands of Chinese to read and write and giving medical care to hundreds of thousands. Although some Chinese good will resulted from this benevolence, most Chinese resented the relatively affluent lifestyle of the missions and the willingness of the missionaries to summon foreign gunboats to protect their safety and authority. Unintentionally the missionaries often contributed to revolutionary impulses.Both the Nationalists and the Communists in China endeavored to destroy all foreign missions - a pattern of destruction continued by Japan and, ironically, the U.S. Air Force. When Red China clashed with Americans in Korea, the few remaining American Catholic missionaries were expelled, ending four decades of mission activity in bitterness and sorrow. The legacy of this experience is mixed for all concerned; yet the People's Republic of China has invited French Jesuit professors of medicine to return and conceivably might extend this invitation to American Catholics.

China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary

Thomas A. Breslin

Religion & Spirituality

Was Johnny Reb more romantic than Billy Yank, and Billy more enlightened? Historians have long debated what essential differences there were between the North and the Old South at the time of the Civil War, but their investigations have relied exclusively on the tools of their own discipline. This book examines the same question through the methods of social science. Rather than conjecturing about the attitudes and values of the period, the author has taken a large sample of primary documents and evaluated their differences by means of content analysis. The sample consists of 100 diaries and more than 300 collections of letters written by officers and enlisted men from all states in the Civil War. Excerpts from these documents provide a fascinating glimpse of the period, but the most important conclusions result from Dr. Barton's statistical analyses, which by turns support and refute commonly held notions of how Northerners and Southerners viewed themselves and each other.The book begins with a discussion of the letters of one soldier to illustrate the general nature of the sources and the kind of revealing information they contain. Subsequent chapters detail the varying viewpoints of noted historians and the ways in which their theories can be tested, after which the results of the content analyses are presented and explained. A concluding chapter discusses the special insights that anthropology and sociology can contribute to an understanding of the Victorian era in America.

Goodmen: The Character of Civil War Soldiers

Michael Barton

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