Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Hungary's Negroes Apparently the Hungarian idea of minority...
...Perhaps because you have no Middle American ads you are at liberty to print the views of a man equally noncompelled to write what the folks want to hear...
...Yet even a casual search among the pages of Modern Language Notes and Publications of the Modern Language Association during the 1910s and '20s would contravene these allegations...
...Nancy F. Wilson Correction Two words were inadvertently dropped in the typesetting of Gus Tyler's "Muskie vs...
...Durham, N.C...
...Fruman attributes this reticence in part to the "overwhelmingly nationalistic" bias of literary scholarship...
...Your reviewer chose to accentuate several issues as newly uncovered or freshly revealed, e.g., Coleridge's plagiarism from the German "Romantic" philosophers and his "disturbance...
...March 20), and a proofreader's correction only compounded the error...
...my emphasis that Coleridge's debt to the Germans is "notorious though still vastly underestimated" (italics added), and that Fruman provides the most definitive proof of Coleridge's charlatanism, ''only fitfully alleged on so grand a scale heretofore...
...The journal's claim that the Gypsies' existence "in a minature form begins to resemble that of the American Negro" because "they do not work . . . they do not go to school, they do not adapt to the customs and culture of their environment" reveals more about the xenophobia of Hungary's majority culture than about the Gypsy minority's shiftlessness...
...Incidentally, in a later paper...
...As many of your readers know, Lovejoy was not only a distinguished philosopher but also an innovator in the History of Ideas...
...But Thomas Land's quotation from the New Hungarian Quarterly ("Gypsies* Hard Road...
...As for "peer" reviewing...
...At the same time, he notes differences between Coleridge and the Germans, as in "Dejection, an Ode," which point up the fact that, whatever his real problems, Coleridge produced works of great imagination and beauty...
...1948...
...New York City Frank N. Trager Professor of International Affairs, New York University Edward T. Chase replies: Mr...
...The dependence of Coleridge upon the German philosophers concerned him at least as early as 1916...
...Gypsies "fail at their work" not because "set working hours and quotas are unfamiliar concepts for them" but because heterogeneity is an unfamilar concept in a Marxist-Leninist state...
...for example, an incomplete collection of A. O. Lovejoy, Essays in the History of Ideas, The Johns Hopkins Press...
...The review of Straw Dogs ("Violence with a Difference," NL, February 21) was Simon at his best?cogent, analytical, thoughtful, interpretive, and far more relevant to and perceptive of Peck-inpah's work than any piece to date...
...John Bieiesz Coleridge Credenitals I was surprised that The New Leader decided to publish a review of Norman Fru-man's Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel (Edward T. Chase, March 6...
...Hungary's Negroes Apparently the Hungarian idea of minority "assimilation" is much the same as ours?make them be just like us...
...he wrote that Fruman "may well have forced an irreversible change in English literary history...
...The sentence in the third paragraph reading "Edmund Muskie's rivals arranged for the Florida primary to precede the New Hampshire balloting . . ." should of course have read "tried to arrange...
...Possibly he confused my discussion with others, which may explain his misreading of it????to wit...
...It is a specialist's book that requires a peer's review????the kind of book normally taken up in the so-called "learned journals...
...notably the New York Times as the lead in its Sunday Book Review plus a rave by the daily's nonspecialist reviewer...
...Admittedly, the United States may not have traveled very far along the road to equal opportunity with respect for diversity, but at least intolerance is not at the very heart of our system...
...Dorothy Morrill, writing from Hood College in the 1920s, and myself as a young philosophy instructor in Lovejoy s department at Johns Hopkins in the early '30s????worked on Coleridge's "indebtedness," "translations" and "plagiarisms" from Kant, the Schlegels, Schelling, Jacobi and others, especially in Lectures on Shakespeare, Aids to Reflection, Biographia L'tteraria, etc...
...Trager may find comfort in the fact that I once was a university English teacher and devoted one year to writing a 350-page study of Coleridge ????hardly in Fruman's class, but then Fruman has written a surpassingly good book...
...Chicago, III...
...Coleridge and Kant's Two Worlds" (1940), Lovejoy is critical of those who would exculpate Coleridge of German indebtedness, e.g., Muirhead in Coleridge as Philosopher ( 1930...
...And doubtless he was astonished that the mass media reviews featured it...
...Trager was pleased...
...I trust, as well as "surprised" that The New Leader did not abandon Fruman's fine book to the "learned journals...
...Let us sometime reread John Livingston Lowes' study of Coleridge, The Road to Xanadu, published in 1927...
...March 20) points to an important difference...
...Citations of early scholarly detections of Coleridge's plagiarism, incidentally, could go back to Coleridge's lime...
...Lesser academics????e.g...
...Simon Thanks for not being a straw dog, for your continuous publication of John Simon's film column...
...Nixon: An Early Reading" (NL...
Vol. 55 • April 1972 • No. 7
