TJhe fllodoj&nguage^ssoriatton oj America

ORGANIZED 18 83 
INCORPORATED 1900

Officers for the year 1952
President: Albert C. Baugh, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4 
First Vice President: Casimir D. Zdanowicz, University of Wisconsin, Madi­

son 6
Second Vice President: Henry W. Nordmeyer, University of Michigan, Ann 

Arbor
Executive Secretary: William Riley Parker, J<iew York University, New York 3 
Treasurer: John H. Fisher, New York University, New York 3

Executive Council
For the term ending 31 Dec. 1953

Merritt Y. Hughes, University of Wisconsin, Madison 6 
Kemp Malone, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18, Md.

Ira O. Wade, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

For the term ending 31 Dec. 1953
Douglas Bush, Harvard University, Cambridge 38, Mass.

Henry Grattan Doyle, George Washington University, Washington 6, D. C. 
Donald A. Stauffer, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

For the term ending 31 Dec. 1954
Hayward Keniston, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
H. W. Victor Lange, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Carl F. Schreiber, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

For the term ending 31 Dec. 1955
C. Grant Loomis, University of California, Berkeley 4

Justin M. O’Brien, Columbia University, New York 27 
A. S. P. Woodhouse, University of Toronto, Toronto $

Staff

Assistant Editor: Robert E. Taylor, J^ew Yor/( University; Assistant to the 
Executive Secretary: Donna Rowell; Assistant to the Treasurer: Ruth 

Olson; typists: Naomi Taylor and Trudy Kalbfleisch

Trustees of Invested Funds
George Henry Nettleton, Yale University 

William Albert Nitze, University of Chicago 
LeRoy Elwood Kimball, tyw York University, Managing Trustee

The 1953 Meeting is scheduled to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, 
on 17, 38, and 39 December



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Melville’s Quarrel with God
By LAWRANCE THOMPSON. The author argues that Melville, 
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Jane Austen
Irony as Defense and Discovery

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through the great novels, to Sanditm.

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French Painting
Between the Past and the Present: 

1848*1870
By JOSEPH C. SLOANE. A study of the subject matter of French 
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