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eA Library The Boston Letter from eAthenteum

No. 90 SEPTEMBER 1988

... Into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

AT was certainly where we unhappy Bostonians seemed to have fallen in July and August, along with most of the rest of the country, of course. Even the thick-walled Athenreum, reasonably comfortable in summer seasons past, fell a rapid victim to the torrid invasion of 1988. The staff was heroic, if wilted, and surely deserves our chorus of THANKS! The Print Room became quite a popular resort, seeming almost alpine in comparison to the rest of our building. Perhaps, if sumn1er 1989 confirms that we have indeed entered the era of the "Greenhouse Effect," the Trustees might consider additional air-conditioned areas, say the Read­ ing Room? Well, we trust that by the time this issue of Items reaches you we shall all have cooled down considerably and be experiencing a truly delightful autumn!

August ( 1989) Closure

This seems the appropriate place to pass on the Director's first (and early) noti­ fication that the Library will be closed for inventory during August 1989, as it has been for several Augusts in the recent past. Specific information will be given in a later notification, but we may assume that Reference Service will be available by telephone, that books may be charged out and returned during certain stated hours, and that the Book Mailing Service \Vill function as usual. We can all agree that these inventories have much improved the condition of our collections and the proper shelving thereof. Trustees It is a pleasure to announce the election of Mr. Bayard Henry, a longtime Propri­ etor of the Athenreum, to the Board of Trustees. Educated at Milton Academy and 2 ~ Princeton University, Mr. Henry was a naval officer from 1954 to 1956. After mili­ tary service he joined the State Street Bank and Trust Company's Credit and Loan Division, becoming Group Vice President in 1968. He is currently Corporate Di­ rector / Trustee/ Consultant of the Transatlantic Capital Corporation and Transat­ lantic Investment Corporation, of which he was President from 1979 to 1985. Mr. Henry serves as Director or Trustee of many companies and institutions and is Presi­ dent of the New England Forestry Foundation. His experience, expertise, and great concern for the Athenreum will be valuable additions to the combined strength of our Trustees as they make the decisions that will affect the future of our institution. We welcome him and wish him well. Trustee Emeritus George Caspar Romans has presented a gift of his latest book, The Witch Hazel: Poems of a Lifetime (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1988). This is a fascinating volume-very personal in nature, it touches upon a vari­ ety of topics with great technical proficiency and considerable lyricism. There are also some elegant translations. Much wit and wisdom is to be found here; we enjoyed particularly the rather quixotic humor of "Seascape with Figures" on page 136.

New Postcards

If you haven't already purchased a dozen or so, take a moment to look at the very attractive new postcards now available on the display table opposite the Front Desk. Our favorite is the one that depicts the beautifully refurbished second floor.

Painting And speaking of refurbished areas, we understand there is HOPE that the delayed restoration and painting of the fifth floor might be undertaken next summer. Nothing, of course, will translate hope into reality faster than new or additional contributions to the Paint Fund, and approximately $200,000 is required. That the fifth floor, perhaps the architecturally most unified and interesting space in our building, should join the second floor in newly revealed and restored splendor is, \Ve think, of great importance to all of us v..·ho appreciate and enjoy the Athe­ nreum. Give generously, and this particular result of your generosity will give plea­ sure and satisfaction for decades. Paint samples are in place and will soon be joined by possible light fixtures to be installed in alcoves.

Artists of the Book-1988: A Facet of Modernism

1'his outstanding exhibition of prints, original drawings, plates, artists' books, and fine bindings was a great success tills summer. Copies of th\.! excellent catalogue with Peter \Vick's fine introduction are still available. Originated by the Boston Athenreum with generous support frotn the Travelling Exhibitions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, ArtistJ of the Book \vi11 be on view at several n1uscu1ns and cultural centers across the countrv beginning at the American Craft Museun1 (New York City) Novcn1bcr 11, 198S, and ending at the Toledo Museu In of Art (Toledo Ohio) in the fall of 1989.

Ogden Codn1an and the Decoration of 11 ouses

This exhibition will open at the National Acaden1y of Design in New York City on December 3, 1988, and will be on view at the Athenreum frotn February 13 to April 15, 1989, before its final appearance at The Octagon in Wa5hington D.C.. from May 1 to June 30. In conjunction with the travelling exhibition, the Athenreum, in association \Vith David R. Godinc, is publishing a collection of scholarly essays exarnining the role of Ogden Codn1an as an influential architect and decorator. This publication will be a 224-page hardbound book with 177 black-and-white illustrations, 26 color plates, a chronology, a complete list of commissions, and a selected bibliography.

Harpsichord

Recently, longtime friend and benefactor Ariel (Mrs. Frederick G.) Hall most generously gave a harpsichord to the Boston Athenreum. This splendid instrument was built in 197 5 by the noted harpsichordist Carl Fudge, who has been building keyboard instruments for the past 25 years. Comn1issioned by Mrs. Hall, his Opus 21 was copied after the 1620s Ruckers harpsichord in the Yale collection of key­ board instruments. The case decorations by Sheridan Gern1ann were copied from the 18th-century Pascal Taskin harpsichord, which is in the Victoria and Albert Museun1, London. Mrs. Hall has supported many events here in recent years. Interested in the history of England, she has given a series of lectures on Englishwomen of the 18th century. The titles of these three talks were: "Blue Stockings and Black Sheep" on Mrs. Hes­ ter Thrale Piozzi and Fanny Burney; ''The Strange Lives of Three Duchesses" on Harriet Mellon, Duchess of St. Albans, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, and Georgiana, Fifth Duchess of Devonshire; "Love's Labour's Lost: Wives out of Wedlock" on Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Lady Emma Hamilton, Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert, and Queen Caroline of Bruns\vick. Mrs. Hall sponsored a talk by Rosamond Bernier, \vho spoke on her friendship \vith Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henry Moore. She also helped make possible the appearances at the Athenreum of Jessica Mitford, Helene Hanff, and of Robert Fizdale, who spoke on Misia Sert. Mrc;. Hall ha gi\·en etchings and bookplates done by her husband, the artist Frederick G. Hall. 4 ~ Among other concerts, she recently sponsored one devoted to vocal music of the Baroque and Rococo. Ariel Hall has played the harp since childhood. She \Yas \Vith the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as the San Antonio Symphony for many years. Her generosity to the Boston Athenreum is greatly appreciated, and in recog­ nition of this it has been decided that the Summer Musical Evening series next year ( 1989) will be devoted to the music of the harpsichord. Concerts \Vill be held on Tuesdays: May 2, June 6, and July 11. Artists and programs are to be announced later. Tea

That very popular event, Wednesday Afternoon Tea (3: 30-5: 30) at the Athe­ nreum, will begin for the Season on October 5, 1988, and continue through May 31, 1989. There will be a contribution of $5.00 per person.

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Michael Wentworth, our Curator of Painting and Sculpture, has written an article which we are pleased to include here.

The Savoyard Boy

When Thomas H. P. Whitney gave the handsome picture of a boy seated on a wall that now hangs in the first floor reading room at the Athenreum, both the name of the artist and the subject of the painting had been forgotten. A note in a nineteenth century hand attached to the back of the canvas supplied a useful provenance and at least suggested a point of departure, saying that the picture was the replica of a work painted for the King of Portugal in the 1850s, had been commissioned from the artist for Mrs. Abram Clark Bell of New York, and was then the property of Sophie Hurlbert Dumaresq, Mrs. Bell's niece (and later Mr. Whitney's grandmother), but it was silent about the artist. The style of the picture, a relaxed and painterly brand of realism more typical of the Low Countries or Dusseldorf than of mid­ century Paris, also suggested a direction for study, although any clues about the ori­ gin of the materials themselves had been obliterated sometime in the past when the canvas was relined and remounted on stretchers of American manufacture \Vhich can only be said to post date their patent in 1884. It would be imprecise to say that the name of the artist had been lost, since the picture is signed with a perfectly obvious if grandly illegible flourish and dated 1859 in the lower left corner. The signature had long been hesitantly deciphered as Magel­ stein, a name unrecorded in any biographical dictionary, but a deductive trip through C41~ 5 the alphabet with a copy of the Thieme-Beeker KUnstler-Lexikon has established the M to be an Hand the artist to be the Danish painter, Paul Hagelstcin ( 1825-1868). Born in the duchy of Holstein, then seemingly an inalienable Danish province Hagelstein studied painting at the Royal Academy School in Copenhagen and \vould send work to its annual exhibitions for the rest of his life. He found an important early patron in the powerful Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijis family. painting a \Vholc group of portraits for Christian, Count Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijis in the late 1840s and early 1850s and later in the Danish Royal Family itself~ painting Prince William. brother of the Princess of Wales and the Empress of Russia, to mark his election to the throne of Greece as George I in 1863. Hagelstein was also popular for pictures with subjects taken from sixteenth century Danish history (King Christian \Vas especially fond of them), and for sentimental genre pictures like the one Mr. \Vhitney gave the Athe­ nreum. He is sometimes thought to have lived in London in 1859, the year the Whit­ ney canvas is dated (at least he exhibited at the British Institution and gave an address in Berners Street in the catalogue), and he died at Brussels in 1868 \vhen he was only forty-three years old. With so limited a knowledge of his life, it is difficult, ho\vever tempting, to specu­ late on the connection of the Whitney picture \vith one in the Royal Collection at Lisbon. The notes attached to old pictures are often more reliable than not, and Hagelstein was clearly familiar at court. The King of Portugal in question was prob­ ably Ferdinand II ( 1816-1885), King-Consort to Maria II da Gloria. Born a prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and cousin to Prince Albert, he is said to have possessed excellent taste and been devoted to the fine arts (either quality, if not a Coburg bent for domestic comfort, may have prompted the wido\ved monarch to marry the opera singer Elise Hensler, a Boston girl and the daughter of a tailor in Carver Street, \Vho had captured his heart over the footlights at the San Carlo in the 1860s). It might also have been his second son, Louis I ( 1838- 1889), who had a large collec­ tion of contemporary painting and sculpture in his private rooms at the palace of the Ajuda, but he didn't become king until 1861 or hit his stride as a collector until a decade after the note says the picture was already in the royal collection. Unfortu­ nately, neither the National Museum at Lisbon nor the Braganza archives at the Pa\O de Vila Vi\OSa have found any reference to Hagelstein in their records and so the question must hang fire for lack of documentation. Too fe'v pictures by Hagelstein can be assembled to formulate an accurate idea of his style, but there are enough titles listed in exhibition and sales catalogues to suggest his subject matter, and it is safe to say that the Whitney picture is typical of what must have been one of his most popular specialties. Juvenile mendicants of one sort or another \\·ere clearly favorites, and their Italian bias suggests that Hagelstein, like so many Danish artists before him, must have visited Rome and meditated on his impressions for the rest of his career. Works with titles like The Little Flower Girl and The Italian Beggar Boy were once to be met in the sales room sometin1es brought together in pairs. and a picture \Vith the same subject as the Whit- 6 ~ ney canvas, The Savoyard Boy, even found its way to the Chicago Interstate Indus­ trial Exposition in 1876, where it was lent by one J. Russell Jones. Savoyards are unfamiliar and even a bit puzzling as a subject today, but until the end of the nineteenth century they were common enough, and their artistic descen­ dants are still quite recognizable in the etiolated saltimbanques of Picasso's blue and rose periods or the fading Roman beggars of Berman or Tchelitchew. They reached the height of their popularity in the 1830s and 1840s with the swarm of gypsies, brigands, pifferari, itinerate clowns, vagabonds, and urban guttersnipes that \Vere to meld in the 1860s in the general defranchisement of a generic bohemia, but they had a long and independent history of their own. Hagelstein came to them when they were going ever so slightly out of fashion, but his clients were clearly more conserva­ tive than most. High in the Italian Alps, Savoy was as glacially inhospitable as it was topographi­ cally beautiful, and seemingly from the beginning of time generations of Savoyards had been forced to leave their homes and wander across Europe in the winter in search of employment. It has been suggested that in the late eighteenth century as much as two-thirds of the entire male population was huddled together in foreign cities in the desperate attempt to save enough of their pitiful earnings to return to their families in the summer and tend their relentlessly unproductive farms. It is hardly surprising that they gained a reputation for sobriety, good behavior, and cheerful courage in adversity that slowly won them the admiration of their employers and exploiters alike. Sons accompanied their fathers and were often indentured out for the season under terms little better than slavery. They were especially useful as chimney sweeps, a trade that came to be associated almost exclusively with them, but it was as wandering performers that they most often came to the attention of the arts. Watteau was probably the first artist to detach individual Savoyards from the anonymous types familiar in those popular engravings of picturesque occupations published as the "cries" of various cities, and at least a dozen drawings record per­ sonal variations on the traditional costume of Savoy, proudly just a hair's breadth from disintegration into a bundle of rags and topped with a limp round bonnet, or document Savoyard performances. They were simple enough: equipped with a hurdy­ gurdy or a flageolet and a rudimentary magic lantern, peep-show, or a performing marmot (a bushy-tailed rodent like a woodchuck that travelled about in a box), the Savoyard displayed his tricks or had the marmot take a turn \Vhile he made a little music to accompany its capers, then collected \Vhatever coins were forthcoming, and n1ovcd on. Hagelstcin's Savoyards arc both resting, but the performance is easy to recon­ struct. It is more difficult to imagine the number of \Vandcring Savoyard boys there must have been \Vhen the picture was painted. London seems to have been especially popular 'Nith them, and the wail of the hurdy-gurdy, as mournful as any bagpipe, must sometimes have sounded continually on the \Vind. It drove many people nearly to distraction: Verdi was sure one had been posted on every street corner to torn1ent him with his own music. He \vas a special case, but his reaction docs suggest that IIagelstein would not have lacked models if we postulate a season in London in 1859 and an English origin for the Whitney Savoyard Boy. A legend of filial piety and patriotic devotion· a little \\'anderer toiling cheerfully along a rocky path; a child in an age that worshiped childhood as a natural paradise: Hagclstein's Savoyard boy carries a lot of baggage \Vith him besides the mannot in the box. It gives him sentimental immunization against the dark associations that clung like n1iasma to street people and produced a shudder of distaste that the nine­ teenth century could never quite control in the face of poverty and failure. An hour in one of a thousand slums would have dispelled any lingering doubts Hagelstein and his patrons might have harbored about the joy of childhood and the deserving poor, but that was hardly the point. Laundered by myth and given the safe removal of art itself, this Savoyard boy is an icon for the upper classes-an honest, dutiful beggar "worthy" of sympathy, charity, and a few gentle tears. It is, perhaps, a religious picture of a kind, and it must have been immensely comforting when it was painted, diffusing anxiety with iconic distance and social tension \Vith noblec;se oblige. If it is easy to be shrill or sarcastic about a picture like The Savoyard Boy, it is better to take it at face value and let guilelessness, virtue, and sentiment have their way. Linda di Chamounix, the most Biedermeier of Donizetti's operas (Miss Hensler n1ade her Boston debut in the title role), is set in a Savoy as transparently romantic as Hagelstein's Savoyard boy is socially one-dimensional: written in that strange serniseria genre so popular in the nineteenth century and so often found tedious today, it takes sentiment to the brink of despair and brings it back again \Vith a kind humanity that cannot fail to move all but the most hardened skeptic. Surely it is worth reading Hagelstein's Savoyard Boy by that soft light.

There will be a small exhibition concerning Hagelstein and Savoyards on view in the Reading Room for the next fe\v weeks.

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Exhibitions and Events

September 15-November 15, 1988. "Recent Print Room Acquisitions and the work of four notable nineteenth-century lithographers, Jo~eph E. Baker William Mor­ ris Hunt, David Claypool Johnstone, and John Perry 1\ewell." Another lively exhibition of prints from the Athenreum collection selected by Charles E. Mason, 1r., Honorary Curator of Prints.

Thursday. September 22, 5: 30 to 7: 30 P .!\f. Opening Reception. 8 Thursday, November 3, 6:00P.M. William Morris Hunt will give a talk on his grandfather and namesake, the artist William Morris Hunt. ovember 28, 1988-January 28, 1989. "Remember Thomas Stearns Eliot, Poet." An exhibition in commemoration of the 1OOth anniversary of Eliot's birth. A selection of first editions, letters, photographs, theater posters and memorabilia. This exhibition is sponsored by The Boston Company, Inc. Thursday, December 1, 5: 30 to 7: 30 P.M. Opening Reception. Sunday, December 4, 2:30 P.M. Staged reading of his play, "The Confidential Clerk." Thursday, January 12, 6:00P.M. Professor William Alfred of Harvard Univer­ sity \Vill give a talk, "Cadence as Meaning: Drama in Eliot." Thursday, January 19, 6:00 P.M. The actress Miss Irene Worth, a member of the original cast of The Cocktail Party) will give a talk, "Rehearsing with Mr. Eliot." NEW BOOKS OF VARlO US INTEREST SELECTED FROM THE FULL LIST OF ACCESSIONS

Art and Architecture

ARWAS, VICTOR. Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Nmeteenth Century: .. for comfort and affiu- Deco. ence." THE BIG PICTURE: MURALS IN LOS AN­ LISTER, RAYM OND. Samuel Palmer: H is Life GElES. and Art. BlANCHARD, PAULA. The Life of Emily Carr. MANET, JULIE Growing up with the lmpre ~ sion ­ BROUDE, NoRMA. The Macchiaioli: Italian ists: The Dtary of Julie ~1anet. Painters of the Nineteenth Century. MARSH, JAN. Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of BURN, LUCILlA. The Meidias Painter. T·emminity. CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI. Henri Cartier- NATIONAL MUSEU~1 OF \VOMEN IN THE Bresson in India. ARTS. CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE, 1872-1922: NORDLAND, GrRAlD. R.tchard Dtebcnkorn. BIRTH OF A METROPOLIS. NORTH AMERICAN PRINT CONfERENCP CULME, JoHN. The Jewels of the Duchess of TilE AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK IN Windsor. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. DUTCH AND FLI:MISH PAINTINGS FROM ORMOND, RICHARD. Franz Xa\cr Winterhalter. THE HERMITAGE. THE PUBLIC FACE OF ARCHITECTLRF · EZRA, K.A Tr. Art of the Dogon: Selections from CIVIC CULTURE AND PUBLIC SPACES. the Lester Wunderman Collection. THE RAILROAD IN AMFRIC'AN ART: RFP­ GALEANO, EDUARDO H. Century of the Wind. RESENTATIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL THE GRAPHIC ARTS AND FRENCH SOCI- CHANGE. ETY, 1871-1914. SAINT-PRALLE, N1KJ DE. Ntki de Saint Phallc: HICKS, DAVID. Style and Design. Bilder, Figuren, Phantastische Garten. HUDSON, KENNETH. Museums of Influence. THOMAS BURKE MEMORIAL WASHING­ JACKSON-STOPS, GERVASE. The Country House TON STATE MUSEUM. SPIRIT AND AN­ Garden: A Grand Tour. CESTOR: A CENTURY Of- NORTHWEST KOSTOF, SPIRO. America by Design. COAST INDIAN ART AT THE BURKE MU­ LEES-MILNE, JAMES. Venetian Evenings. SEUM:. LEIGHTON, ANN. American Gardens of the V ARNEDOE, KIRK. Gustave Caillebotte.

Belles Lettres, Poetry, and Criticism

ALBEE, EDWARD. Conversations with Edward FUENTES, CARLOS. Myself with Others: Se­ Albee. lected Essays. ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. The Sherwood Ander­ ROMANS, GEORGE CASPAR. The Witch Hazel: son Diaries, 1936-1941. Poems of a Lifetime. BARKER, WENDY. Lunacy of Light: Emily HULL, GLORIA T. Color, Sex & Poetry: Three Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor. Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. CALVINO, lTALO. Six Memos for the Next Mil­ KELLY, RoBERT. Not This Island Music. lennium. KENNER, HUGH. A Sinking Island: The Mod­ CATHER, WILLA. Willa Cather in Person: In­ em English \Vriters. terviews, Speeches, and Letters. LITERATURE AND THE BODY: ESSAYS ON CORDING, RoBERT. Life-List. POPULATIONS AND PERSONS. CUADRA, PABLO ANTONIO. The Birth of the LIVES ON THE LINE: THE TESTIMONY OF Sun: Selected Poems, 1935-1985. CONTEMPORARY LATIN Al\.fERICA . AU­ CUNNINGHAM, VALENTINE. British \Vriters of THORS. the Thirties. LONGENBACH, JAMES. Stone Cottage: Pound, THOMAS, BROOK. Cross-e}.amination of Law Yeats, and Modernism. and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and LOPEZ, BARRY HoLSTUN. Crossing Open Ground. Melville. MERWIN, W. S. The Rain in the Trees: Poems. TO LIVE AND TO \VRITE: SELECTIO S BY PIERCY, MARGE. Available Light JAPANESE \VOMEN WRITERS, 1913-1938. PRONZINI, BILL. Son of Gun in Cheek. THE TROUBLED FACE OF BIOGRAPHY. REYNOLDS, DAVID S. Beneath the American TWAIN, MARK. ~1ark Twain's Letters. Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the VENDLER, HELEN HENNESSY. The Music of Age of Emer5on and Melville. What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics. SHAPIRO, ALAN. Happy Hour. WALKER, ALICE. Living By the Word: Selected S\1ITH, VALERIE. Self-discovery and Authonty Writings, 1973-1987. in Afro-American Narrative. WHARTON, EDITH. The Letters of Edith Whar­ SO LOTAROFF, TED. A Few Good Voices in My ton, 1874-1937. Head: Occasional Pieces on Writing, Editing, WILBUR, RicHARD. New and Collected Poems. and Reading My Contemporaries. WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. .

Biography

ACKERMAN, RoBERT. J. G. Frazer: His Life HALL, MICHAEL G. The Last American Puritan: and Work. The Life of Increase Mather, 1639-1723. ALLEN, HELENA G. Sanford Ballard Dole: Ha­ HARDIE, DEE. Views from Thornhill: Of Fami­ waii's Only President, 1844-1926. ly, Farm, and Other Fancies. BE TLEY, JoANNE. Hallie Flanagan: A Life in HENRIKSEN, LouisE LEVITAS. Anzia Yezierska: the American Theatre. A Writer's Life. BROWNELL, WILL. So Close to Greatness: A HONAN, PARK. Jane Austen: Her Life. Biography of William C. Bullitt. HOWARTH, PATRICK. George VI: A New Biog­ BUCHANAN, PATRICK J. Right from the Be- raphy. • • gmnmg. JACOB, FRAN~Ois. The Statue \Vithin: An Au­ BUCKLE, RicHARD. George Balanchine, Ballet tobiography. Master: A Biography. JUDIS, JOHN B. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron BUSH, GEORGE. Looking Forward. Saint of the Conservatives. BUSH, GEORGE. Man of Integrity. KAZAN, ELIA. Elia Kazan: A Life. CHING, FRANK. Ancestors: 900 Years in the Lue KENNEY, CHARLES. Dukakis: An American of a Chinese Family. Odyssey. CLARKE, GERALD. Capote: A Biography. MAcDONAGH, OLIVER. The Hereditary Bond~­ CLEARY, BEVERLY. A Girl from Yamhill: A man: Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829. Memoir. MADDOX, BRENDA. Nora: The Real Life of COHN, RoY M. The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. Molly Bloom. DONALDSON, Scorr. John Cheever: A Biog­ MENKES, SUZY. The Windsor Style. raphy, MILES, DUDLEY. Francis Place, 1771-1854: The EDWARDS, RUTH DUDLEY. Victor Gollancz: A Life of a Remarkable Radical. Biography. MONETTE, PAUL. Borrowed Time: An AIDS ENGELMA~, LARRY. The Goddess and the Memoir. American Girl: The Story of Suzanne Lenglen MOSS, RALPH W. Free Radical: Albert Szent- and Helen Wills. Gyorgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C. FITZGERALD, PENELOPE. Charlotte Mew and NEAL, PATRICIA. As I Am: An Autobiography. Her Friends: \Vith a Selection of Her Poem~. POCOCK, ToM. Horatio Nelson. GALLUP, DoNALD CLIFFORD. Pigeons on the ROLLYSON, CARL E. Lillian Hellman: Her Granite: !\.ternaries of a Yale Librarian. Legend and Her Legacy. GAY, PETF..R. Freud: A Life for Our Times. SCHAR THORST. GARY. The Lost Life of Hora­ GELDERMAN, CAROL W. Mary McCarthy: A tio AJ,ger, Jr. Life. SCHWARZ, JORDA ~ A. Liberal: Adolf A. Ber.le GO 1BRO\VICZ, Wnor.o. The Diary. and the Vision of an American Era. J l

LONJMSKY, NICOLAS. Perfect Pitch: A Life VON IIOFF\.fA1 , 'lCHOLAS. itizcn Cohn. Story. WALTON, St.SANA. \''illiam \\'alton: Behind the STA VERT, GI.!OfiFRPY. A Study in Southsea: Facade. The Unrcvealed Life of Doctor Arthur Conan WARREN, RoLAND Lnsun. !\1ary Coffin Star­ Doyle. buck and the Early Hbtory of Nantucket. STREET, Lucm. An Uncommon Sailor: A Por WASSFRSTEIN, BERNARD. The Secret Li\'c of trait of Admiral SJr William Penn, English N.l­ Trebttsch Lincoln. val Supremacy. WESCHLER, LAWRP"lCP Shapin ky's Karma, VAN DI.:.R IIEUVEL, GERRY. Crowns of Thorns Bogg~'s Bills, and Other Truelifc Tales. and Glory: Mary Todd I incoln and V.lrina WI I ITf, CHARLES ED\\ ARD. The Beauty of Holi­ Howell Davis, the Two First Ladies of the Civil ness: Phoebe Palmer as Theologian, Re\ivali~t , War. Feminist, and Humanitarian.

Children's Books

BAKER, LESLIE A. The Third-story Cat. POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlcmouse. DE PAOLA, TOMIE. The Parables of Jesus. ROHMER, HARRIET. The InvisJble Hunters: A GOODE, DIANE. Rumpty-Dudget's Tower. Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nica­ HASTINGS, SeLINA. Peter and the Wolf: Based ragua. on the Orchestral Tale by Sergei Prokofiev. SNYDER, DIANNE. The Boy of the Three-year IIOGROGIAN, NONNY. The Cat Who Loved to Nap. Sing. STEPTOE, JoHN. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: KITCHEN, BrRT. Animal Numbers. An African Tale. LATTI~10RE, DrnoRAH NouRSE. The Flame of WALDMAN, CARl. Encyclopedia of Native Peace: A Tale of the Aztecs. American Tribes ~1AZER, NoRMA Fox. After the Rain. WILLIAMS, Vr:RA B. Stringbean's Trip to the PAULSEN, GARY. Hatchet: A Novel. Shining Sea. PERL, LILA. Don't Sing before Breakfast, Don't YOLEN, JANE. Owl Moon. Sleep in the Moonlight: Everyday Superstitions YOLEN, JANE. Picnic with Piggins. and How They Began.

Fiction

ADAMS, RICHARD. Traveller: A Novel. DRANOW, JoHN. Life in the Middle of the Cen­ ALCORN, ALFRED. Vestments. tury: Two Novellas. ALLEN, CHARLOTTE VALE. Dream Train ELLIOTT, SUMNER LocKE. Waiting for Child- AUCHINCLOSS, Louis. The Golden Calve~ hood. BACHMANN, INGEBORG. The Thirtieth Year: ENGEL, MoNROE. Statutes of Limitations Stories. FORD, RICHARD. Rock Springs: Stories. BAl. LARD, J. G. The Day of Creation FRANZEN, BILL. Hearing from Wayne: And BECKETT, l\1ARY. Give Them Stones. Other Stories. BFRBEROVA, NINA NIKOLAEVNA. The Accom- GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. Love in the panist. Time of Cholera. BOYD, WILLIAM. The New Confessions· A GIBBONS, KAYE. Ellen Foster: A NoveL Novel. GIBSON, Mn.Es Hotel Plenti. CAREY, PFTER. 05car and Lucinda. HASLUND, EBBA. Nothing Happened. CARRERE, EMMANUEL. The ~1ustache. HOFFMAN, ALICE. At Risk. CHUTE, CAROLYN. Letourneau's Used Auto HOGAN, DESMOND. A New Shirt. Parts. KADARE, ISMAIL. Chronicle in Stone. COLLINS, MICHAEL. Red Rosa: A Novel KEN"'lEY, SUSAN. Sailing. COOKE. ELIZABETH. Complicity: A No' el KIFLY. BENEDICT. A Letter to Peachtree and DAITCH, SUSAN. L.C. Nine Other Stories. K.Ln-;KOWITZ, JEROME. "Short Season" and PLANTE, DAVID. The Native. Other Stories. ROBINSON, RoXANA. Summer Light. LAIDLAW, BREIT. Three Nights in the Heart of SAGAN, FRAN~OISE. Dear Sarah Bernhardt. the Earth. SALAMON, JuLIE. White Lies: A Novel. LEE, C. Y. China Saga: A Novel. SALTER, JAMES. Dusk and Other Stories. LEO~ARD, EL~ORE. Freaky Deaky. SAROYAN, WILLIAM. Madness in the Family: LOE\VE~, PAUL. Butterfly. A New Collection of Stories. McMURTRY, LARRY. Lonesome Dove: A Novel SATTA, SALVATORE. The Day of Judgment. rv1ICHENER, JAMES A. Alaska. SHAMMAS, ANTON. Arabe~ques. OZOUF, ~foNA. Festivals and the French Revo­ SILLITOE, ALAN. Out of the Whirlpool. lution. SMILEY, JANE. The Greenlanders. PAGNOL, MARCEL. The Water of the Hills: Jean SPARK, MURIEL. A Far Cry from Kensington. de Florette & Manon of the Springs: Two Nov­ SULZER, JAMES. Nantucket Daybreak. els. SUSKIND, PATRICK. The Pigeon. PENMAN, SHARON KAY. Falls the Shadow. TREFUSIS, VIOLET. Echo. PIRA "DELLO, LUIGI. The Late Mattia Pascal. WHITE, EDMUND. The Beautiful Room Is Empty. PLAIN, BELVA. Tapestry. WIESEL, ELIE. Twilight.

Mystery and "Thrillers"

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. A Double Life: Un- KAMINSKY, STUART M. A Fine Red Rain: An known Thrillers. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery. BABSON, MARIAN. So Soon Done For. KING, FRANCIS HENRY. Frozen Music. BARTH, RICHARD. Deadly Climate. KING, STEPHEN. It. BIEDERMAN, MARCIA. Post No Bonds. KOEJ'I.iiG, JosEPH. Little Odessa. CATANACH, J. N. White Is the Color of Death: LANGTON, JANE. Murder at the Gardner. A Mystery. LEWIS, J . R. Men of Subtle Craft: An Arnold COLBERT, JAMES. No Special Hurry. Landon Novel. CONSTANTINE, K. C. Joey's Case. LOGAN, MARGARET. Deathampton Summer. DOHERTY, P C. The Cro\\n in Darkness. MATHIS, EDWARD. Another Path, Another GALLISON, KATE . The Death T ape. Dragon. GARDNER, JOHN E. Scorpius. McALEER, JoHN J. Coign of Vantage, or, The GARDNER, JoHN E. The Secret Houses. Boston Athenreum Murders. GOSLING, PAULA. Hoodwink. MORICE, ANNE. Design for Dying. GRAFTON, SUE. "C, is for Corpse: A Kinsey PARKER, RoBERT B. Crimson Joy. Millhone Mystery. ROSEN, RICHARD DEAN. Saturday Night Dead. GRAFTON, SUE. "E, is for E\idence: A Kinsey SIMENON, GEORGES. Uncle Charles Has Locked Millhone My-,tery. Ilirnself In. GREENBERG, J oA~NE. Age of Consent. SMITH, JoAN. A Masculine Ending. HA~1MOND. GERALD. The Executor. SYL"\ESTER, MARTIN. A Lethal Vintage. HILLERMAN, T ONY. A Thief of Time. ULAtvf, ADAM BRUNO. The Kirov Affair: A HILTON, JoHN B uxTo~. Displaced Per~on. Novel. HOU TON, RoBER!'. The Fourth Codex.

History

ADVICE AFI"ER APPOMATTOX: REPORTS BLOCKSON, CHARLES L. The Underground FOR ANDRE\V JOHNSOI , 1865-1866. Railroad. IBLER, CHARLES H. Kenyan Communities in BOYDSTO , JEANNE. The Limits of Sisterhood: the Age of Imperialism: The Central Region in The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and the Late Nineteenrh Century. \Voman's Sphere. A TDERS01 , IARTTN. Rc.,•olution. BUITEN\VIESER, ANN L. Manhattan, \Vater- Bound: Planning and Developing .tvfanhattan 's NICOLLE, DAVID. Arms and Armour of the Cru­ Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the sading Era, J 050-1350. Pre ent. OZOUF, !vlONA. Festivals and the French Revo­ CARNOCIIAN, W. B. Gibbon's Solitude: The lution. Inward \Vorld of the Historian. PEMBLE, JonN. The !\teditcrranean Pa~sion: CAUTE, DAVID. The Year of the Barricade : A Victorians and Edwardians in the South. Journey through 1968. PHILLIPS, MARK. The Memoir of !\farco Pa­ CHENEVJX TRENCH, CIIARLI!S. Viceroy's renti: A Life in Med1ci Florence. At'ent. PIERSEN, \VrLUAM DILLON. Black Yankees: CROSBY, ALFRED W. Ecological Imperialism: The Development of an Afro-American Subcul­ The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. ture in Eighteenth-Century New England. FONER, ERIC. Reconstruction: America's Un­ POWERS. Bon. Cowboy Country. finished Revolution, 1863-1877. ROSSABI, MORRIS. Khubilai Khan: His Life and GALEANO, EDUARDO H. Century of the Wind. T1mes. GOUBERT, PIERRE. The Course of French I Tis­ ROWEN, HFRBP.RT HARVEY. The Princes of Or­ tory. ange: The Stadholders in the Dutch Republic. HASl INGS, MAX. The Korean War. THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE J\1f::.DlTERRA­ HEALY, DIANA DIXoN. America's First l ad1es: NEAN, 1915-1918. Private Lives of the Presidential Wives. SCHWARl Z, RoBERT M. Policing the Poor in HUNTER, ALVAH FOLSOM. A Year on a Moni­ Eighteenth-Century France. tor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter. SIMPSON, CHRISTOPHER. Blowback~ America\ JENNINGS, FRANCIS. Empire of Fortune: Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect~ on the Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Cold War. Years' War in America. SMITH, GRAHAM. When Jim Crow Met John JEWIIT, JonN RoDGI:RS. The Adventures of John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II R. Jcwitt: Captive of Maquinna. Britain. KIERNAN, V. G. The Duel in European His­ STEVENS, JosePH E. Hoover Dam: An Ameri­ tory: Honour and the Reign of the Aristoc­ can Adventure. racy. STRAIT, JERRY L. Vietnam War Memorials: An LASH, JosEPH P. Dealers and Dreamers: A New Illustrated Reference to Veterans' Tributes Look at the New Deal. throughout the United States. MARINO, JoHN A. Pastoral Economics in the SUTHERLAND, DANIEL E. The Confederate Kingdom of Naples. Carpetbaggers. ~1cPHERSON, JAMES M. Battle Cry of Free­ VERBRUGGE, MARTHA H. Able-bodied Wom­ dom: The Civil War Era. anhood: Per~onal Health and Social Change in ~tERRILL, NANCY CARNAGm. Exeter, New Nineteenth-Century Boston. Hampshire, 1888-1988. WARREN, W. L. The Governance of Norman MORGAN, EDMUND SEARS. Inventing the Peo­ and Angevin England, 1086-1272. ple: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in Eng­ WEART, SPENCER R. Nuclear Fear: A History land and America. of Images.

Music

LA\VRENCE, VERA BRODSKY. Resonances, 1836- TYSON, ALAN. Mozart: Studies of the Auto­ 1850. graph SLores. SACHS, HARVEY. Music in Fascist Italy. \VAG. ER, RICHARD. Selected Letter!> of R1chard Wagner 14 ~ Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion

DECONSTRUCTION AND PHILOSOPHY: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the THE TEXTS OF JACQUES DERRIDA. Church. JENSON, RoBERT W. America's Theologian: A POP PEL, ERNST. Mindworks: Time and Con­ Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards. scious Experience. JONATHAN EDWARDS AND THE AMERI- TOULOUSE, TERESA. The Art of Prophesying: CAN EXPERIENCE. New England Sermons and the Shaping of Be­ LOr-;GFORD, FRANK PAKENHAM, EARL OF. Saints. lief. MAURER, CHARLES. The World of Newborn. WALTER, E. V. Placeways: A Theory of the PELIKAN, JAROSLAV JAN. The Excellent Empire: Human Environment.

Social Issues, Education, Government, Law

ALDRICH, NELSON W. Old Money: The Making KOTZ, NicK. Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Poli­ of America's Upper Class. tics, and the B-1 Bomber. CADWALADER, GEORGE. Castaways: The Peni­ THE MASSACHUSETTS MIRACLE: HIGH kese Island Experiment. TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC REVI­ CHACE, JAMES. America Invulnerable: The TALIZATION. Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star MOYNIHAN, DANIEL P. Came the Revolution: Wars. Argument in the Reagan Era. DOUGLAS, WILLIAM 0 . The Douglas Letters: REGAN, DONALD T. For the Record: From Wall Selections from the Private Papers of Justice Street to Washington. William 0. Douglas. SHEEHY, GAIL. Character: America's Search FRIEDMAN, NORMAN. The US Maritime Strate­ for Leadership. gy. SMITH, HEDRICK. The Power Game: How GOODMAN, PAUL. Towards a Christian Re­ Washington Works. public: Antimasonry and the Great Transition SPEAKES, LARRY. Speaking Out: The Reagan in New England, 1826-1836. Presidency from inside the White House. GUTMAN, RoY. Banana Diplomacy: The Mak­ STALKER, JoHN. The Stalker Affair. mg of American Policy in Nicaragua, 1981- WOLFF, LARRY. Postcards from the End of the 1987. World. HOUGH, JERRY F . Russia and the West: Gorba­ ZUBOFF, SHOSHANA. In the Age of the Smart chev and the Politics of Reform. Machine: The Future of Work and Power. KNIGHT, AMY W. The KGB, Police and Poli­ tics in the Soviet Union.

Miscellaneous

ART AND CARTOGRAPHY: SIX HISTORI­ CARPENTER, TERESA. Missing Beauty: A True CAL ESSAYS. Story of Murder and Obsession. BILL, JAMES A. The Eagle and the Lion: The CHARLESWORTH, GEOFFRFY. The Opinion­ Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations. ated Gardener: Random Offshoots from an Al­ BLU\1El\BERG, HANS. The Genesis of the pine Garden. Copernican World. D'EMILIO, JOHN. Intimate Matters: A History BRUCK, CONNIE. The Predators' Ball: The of Sexuality in America. Junk-Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked DEAN, JONATHAN. Watershed in Europe: Dis­ Them. mantling the East-West t-..1ilitary Confrontation. CAMPBELL, T oNY. The Earliest Printed Maps, EMBODEN, WILLIAM A. Leonardo da Vinci on 1472-1500: Describing the tap!> Listed in Mar­ Plants and Gardens. cel Des tombe~·s "Catalogue de!> cartes gravees EVANS, PETER G. H. The Natural History of au XVc siecle'' of 1952. Whales & Dolphins. ~ 15 russELL, PA UL. Thank God for the Atom ings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in Bomb and Other Essays. the Eighteenth Century. GARDNER, GrRALD C. The Censorship P apers: MORDDEN, ElHAN. The HolJy,-..·ood Studios: Movie Censorship Letters from the Hays Office, } louse Style in the Golden Age of the Movies. 1934-1968. MORRIS, MARY. Nothmg to Declare: ?\tcmoi~:-. GONCHAROV, IVAN ALEKSANDROVICH. The of a Woman Tra\eling Alone. Frigate Pallada. MOSS, CYNTHIA. Elephant Memories: Thirteen HANSEN, ERIC. Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Years in the Life of an Elephant Family. across Borneo. PERN, STEPHflN. The Great Divide: A Walk HAWKING, S. W. A Brief History of T1me: through America along the Continental Otv1de. From the Big Bang to Black H oles. PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SOCIPTY 1'\l NINE­ JOHNSON, LADY BIRD. Wildflowers across TEENTH-CENTURY Al\1ERICA. America. ROTHCHILD, JoHN. A Fool and His Money: KOCII, RoBLRT. F~says of Robert Koch. The Odyssey of an Average Investor. LOW, SusANNE M . An Index and Guide to Au­ SEDGWICK, JOHN. The Peaceable Kingdom: A dubon's Birds of America. Year in the Life of America's Oldest Zoo. MATOS MOCTEZUMA, EDUARDO. The Great THEROUX, PAUL. Riding the Iron Rooster: By Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenoch­ Tram through China. titlan. WOLF, EDWIN. The Book Culture of a Colonial MAYALL, DAVID. Gypsy-travellers in Nineteenth­ City: Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers of Century ~ociety. Philadelphia. McDONNELL, JosEPH. Gold-tooled Bookbind- ZABAR, ABBIE. The Potted Herb.