Volume 11, Number 5 · September 26, 1968
The Fruits of the MLA: I. "Their Wedding Journey"
By Edmund Wilson
Their Wedding Journey
by William Dean Howells, edited by John K. Reeves
University of Indiana (Center for Editions of American Authors), 276 pp., $10.00
The New York Review of January 18, 1967, contained an article by Mr. Lewis Mumford called 'Emerson Behind Barbed Wire,' in which he reviewed The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by five scholars and published by the Harvard University Press. Mr. Mumford attacked this edition on the ground that it included too much material which Emerson had wanted destroyed and that it presented this material in a totally unreadable text, the editor of which, by resorting to twenty diacritical marks, had made it look like something between an undecoded Morse-code message and a cuneiform inscription.
Review, 6302 words
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