Dartmouth Authors

Lawrence Danson '64, Max Beeibohmand "The Mirror of the Past," Princeton University Library, 1982, 77 pp., cloth. This volume both presents for the first time the text of Beerbohm's "satire masquerading as science fiction, caricature pretending to be a fact, a sentimental comedy and a comedy about sentimentality, an experiment in the baffling relationships between art and life, image and reality," and offers a helpful commentary on both book and author. (Available only from the Rare Book Division of the Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 at $15.00.)

E. Ted Chandler, M.D., and Robert L.Bloomfield '73, M.D., The ForemostPhysician, the Farseeing Physician, Harbinger Medical Press (Winston-Sa-lem, NC), 1983, 87 pp., cloth. A fictional account of a Greek student's passage into the band of Asclepius which provides, in the dialogue between pupil and teacher, insights into the practice and the spirit of medicine, and confirms that which is admirable there.

Professor Brenda Silver, editor, Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks, Princeton University Press, 1983, 384 pp., cloth. Virginia Woolf was from her childhood far more than the "common reader" she later named herself. The thousands of entries in the 67 volumes of her reading notebooks, "windows into Woolf's mind," as the editor calls them, "trace the growth of the dreamy young reader into a major figure in the intellectural history of the twentieth century." A volume for the researcher and scholar rather than the general reader, it nevertheless offers much to delight and inform the Woolf aficionado.

Well on its way to selling 100,000 copies, A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean '24 has been reissued by the University of Chicago Press in a new "gift edition" illustrated with 15 color photographs by Joel Snyder of Maclean's beloved Big Blackfoot River, and containing a new essay by the author.

Victor Whitlock Jr. '39 has published a book of some 90 poems, Short Groupsof Words from Jordan Cove, a few of which reflect upon student days in Hanover, many more upon family, friends, and a precious place on Long Island Sound. Copies at $5.95 may be obtained from the author at 226 Shore Road, Waterford, CT 06385.

The most recent revision by Wilton S.Sogg '56, and his colleagues Hill and Rossen, of a volume in the "Smith's Review Series" is the fourth edition of Torts (West Publishing Company, 1983, 320 pp., paper). Like its many companions it offers law students an excellent brief summary of the principles of law for a major subject in law school curricula and bar examinations.