Briefly Noted

Although not written by alumni or faculty authors, three recently published books should have special interest for Dartmouth oriented readers. With the 150th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case coming up next year, there's bound to be renewed interest in the life and work of Daniel Webster, Class of 1801; and an interesting book to start with is the new Daniel Webster &The Supreme Court by Indiana University historian Maurice G. Baxter (Amherst, Mass.: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1966. 265 pp. $6.75). Another alumnus-attorney is the special concern of legal historian John Phillip Reid, Professor of Law at N.Y.U., who has written a biography of Charles Doe, Class of 1849, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court for twenty years. The book is entitled Chief Justice: The Judicial World ofCharles Doe (Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard University Press, 1967, 489 pp. $12.50). The third book, and also very readable, is a biography of George Ticknor, Class of 1807, and is entitled George Ticknor andthe Boston Brahmins (Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard University Press, 1967. 289 pp. $6.95). The author of this intellectual biography of the man who "reigned as the acknowledged autocrat of patrician Boston society" is David B. Tyack, Associate Professor of the History of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana.