Sunday's Notes

Jan Freeman,"Clever Horses," Boston Globe, 12 April, and Geoffrey K. Pullum,"50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice," CHE, 17 April, note that on Thursday we'll celebrate a half century of Strunk's and White's bad advice.

Paul Richard,"Tiny Treasure Offers Secret That Inspires," Washington Post, 11 April, closely examines Giulio Clovio's"The Lamentation" which is in"Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art," an exhibit at the National Gallery in Washington.

Miranda Seymour,"This Blessed Plot," NYT, 10 April, reviews Andrea Wulf's The Brother Gardners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession.

Walter Isaacson,"A Delicate Balance," NYT, 10 April, reviews Richard Beeman's Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution.

Michael O'Donnell,"They Fought the Law," Nation, 8 April, Fred Strebeigh's Equal: Women Reshape American Law.

U. S. History Notes below the fold ...

Thomas J. Sugrue,"The Hundred Days War: Histories of the New Deal," Nation, 8 April, reviews H. W. Brands's Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adam Cohen's Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America.

John Leland,"The Mad Ones," NYT, 10 April, reviews Harvey Pekar, et al., The Beats: A Graphic History, Paul Buhle, ed.

Charles R. Morris,"Genealogies of Morals," NYT, 12 April, reviews Richard John Neuhaus's American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile.

Jack Miles,"The Believer," NYT, 12 April, reviews James Carroll's Practicing Catholic.