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Niel Glixon

Book Reviews

Spring 1950

Figure, Carpet, and Whole Cloth

By Niel Glixon

Herman Melville: a Critical Study by Richard Chase. Macmillan. $4.50 The first two chapters—roughly one-third of the book—of Richard Chase’s Melville constitute one of the few masterly and original critiques […]