Book Notes
Croquet: An Annotated Bibliography
from the Rendell Rhoades Croquet Collection.
By Nancy L. Rhoades. (Metuchen, NJ:
Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. xx + 214p.; illus-
trations, bibliography, appendix.)
Today, croquet might appear a quaint, insignificant
game in an environment dominated by
professional football, baseball, and basketball.
But this annotated bibliography
underscores croquet's position of prominence among
American sports in the years following
the Civil War, as well as its revival in the past
twenty years. Nancy L. Rhoades based
this enlightening book on the croquet-related
collection of the late Rendell Rhoades,
now housed in the Rutherford B. Hayes
Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio. The
bibliography is organized according to the
source of the croquet image or
information, from rule books to fiction, patents to sheet
music, etiquette manuals to trade cards.
The pungent annotations give the reader a clear
idea of both the substance and style of
each citation. Read cover-to-cover, the book pro-
vides, in miniature, a history of
croquet's meteoric rise as entertainment and obsession
followed by its precipitous decline as
the public's taste shifted to lawn tennis.
The Strong Museum
Christopher Bensch
Sports in Cleveland: An Illustrated
History. By John J. Grabowski.
(Bloomington
and Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 1992. xii + 150p.; illustrations, index.) An
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History project, this splendidly illustrated work will appeal
to all sports fans, both from within and
without Cleveland, but especially to those old
enough to remember when the Indians were
perennial contenders for the American
League crown. But Grabowski does not
limit his coverage to baseball, as he includes
football (remember those early Paul
Brown teams?), sleigh racing, trotting, auto racing,
tennis, roof-top tennis (see page 21 for
this YWCA donation to the sports world), golf,
hockey, track events, basketball, and
bowling. Grabowski's text is informative--espe-
cially a number of short biographical
sketches-and his illustrations well chosen. The
book is a fine addition to Cleveland
history.
Ohio Historical Society Robert L. Daugherty
Distinguished Shades: Americans Whose
Lives Live On. By Louis Filler. (Ovid,
Michigan: Belfry Publications, Inc.,
1992. vii + 278p.; illustrations, index.) In reexam-
ining the careers of 56 extraordinary
Americans, historian Louis Filler presents new
information on men and women of various
social and ethnic origins whose lives were,
as Filler notes, truly great. Filler, a
widely respected historian, carefully explains in his
introduction that Distinguished
Shades "is not a guide to distinction or to past figures
who seem to lean toward present
interests, but rather a guide to methods by which past
or present lions can be given place to
assert their qualities for good or evil." Among his
diverse collection of luminaries are
several individuals with Ohio associations, includ-
ing William Burnham Woods, a native of
Newark who rose to become Supreme Court
Justice, E. W. Scripps, father of the
penny post newspapers and the United Press
International (UPI), and Arthur Ernest
Morgan, creator of the Miami Conservancy
District, a landmark flood control
system that served as a model for TVA, of which he
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HISTORY
became first chairman. In the final
analysis Distinguished Shades is not a simple ency-
clopedic listing of all that is known,
but is instead a provocative and at times question-
ing portrait of selected American lives
as they really were.
Ohio Historical Society Steve
Gordon
Due to the July 1992 State of Ohio
budget cuts, Ohio History has been forced to cut
back the number of pages in its fiscal
year 1993 issues, thus reducing and delaying the
number of book reviews we can publish.
We apologise to our readers who faithfully
follow the journal, to our reviewers who
make an effort to turn in timely and thoughtful
reviews, to our authors whose worthy
books will either be reviewed years after their
initial publication or not at all, and
to the publishers who kindly supply the works for
review. Unfortunately, such cuts mean
that reviews of many worthwhile publications
could not be available to our readers.
The journal has received, and returned, the fol-
lowing publications:
Affectionately, Rachel: Letters from
India, 1860-1884. Edited by Barbara
Mitchell
Tull. (Kent: The Kent State Univesity
Press, 1992. xv + 351p.; illustrations, notes,
bibliography, index.)
A Guide to Cleveland's Sacred
Landmarks. By Foster Armstrong,
Richard Klein, and
Cara Armstrong. (Kent: The Kent State
University Press, 1992. xii + 332p.; illustra-
tions, notes, glossary, bibliography,
index.)
Amish Roots: A Treasury of History,
Wisdom, and Lore. Edited by John A.
Hostetler.
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1989. xv + 319 p.; illustrations,
chronology of Amish history; notes on
selected contributors, index.)
Anthology of Western Reserve
Literature. Edited by David R.
Anderson and Gladys
Haddad. (Kent: The Kent State University
Press, 1992. xi + 312p.; bibliography,
index.)
Aspects of Early North American
Metallurgy, Occasional Paper 79.
Edited by M.L.
Wayman, J.C.H. King, and P.T. Craddock.
(London: The British Museum Press,
1992. 144p.; tables, charts,
illustrations, notes, references.)
Between Memory and Reality: Family
and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870-1970.
By Jane Marie Pederson. (Madison: The
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xvi +
314p.; illustrations, maps, tables,
notes, appendixes, bibliography, index.)
Charles Burchfield's Journals: The
Poetry of Place, Edited by J. Benjamin
Townsend.
(Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1993. xxvi + 737p.; illustrations,
notes, genealogical charts, maps,
chronology, selected bibliography, index.)
From the Heart of Crow Country: The
Crow Indians' Own Stories. By Joseph
Medicine Crow. (New York: Orion Books,
1992. xxii + 138p.; illustrations, index.)
John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter
of the Warren Court. By Tinsley E.
Yarbrough. (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1992. xvi + 395p.; notes, biblio-
graphical note, index.)
John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of
Thirty Years, 1777-1807. Edited by
Oressa
M. Teagarden and Jeanne L. Crabtree.
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992. xvii +
187p.; illustrations, notes,
bibliography, index.) REPRINT.
Letters from New France: The Upper
Country, 1686-1783. Translated and
edited by
Joseph L. Peyser. (Champaign: The
University of Illinois Press, 1992. xv + 248p.;
illustrations, tables, appendixes,
bibliography, index.)
Letters from the Front, 1898-1945. Edited by Michael E. Stevens. Volume 1 of Voices
Book Notes 79
of the Wisconsin Past series. (Madison: The State Historical Society of
Wisconsin,
1992. xii + 175p.; illustrations, notes,
suggestions for further reading and location of
original letters, index.)
Liberalism and American Identity. By Patrick M. Garry. (Kent: The Kent State
University Press, 1992. 224p.;
notes, bibliography, index.)
Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt
Udall, Plural Wife. Edited by Maria S.
Ellsworth. (Champaign: The University of
Illinois Press, 1992. xiv + 296p.; illustra-
tions, notes, appendices, bibliography,
index.)
NASA Engineers and the Age of Apollo.
Compiled by Sylvia Doughty Fries.
(Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, 1992. xx +
216p.; notes, appendices, index.)
Nativism & Slavery: The Northern
Know Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s. By
Tyler Anbinder. (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1992. xv + 330p.; illustra-
tions, notes, appendix, bibliography,
index.)
Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the
West. By William L. Shea and Earl J.
Hess.
(Chapel Hill: The University of North
Carolina Press, 1992. xiii + 417p.; illustra-
tions, notes, bibliography, index.)
Reminiscences of a Private: William
E. Bevens of the First Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.
Edited with an introducation by Donald
E. Sutherland. (Fayetteville: The University
of Arkansas Press, 1992. xxix + 282p.;
illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography,
index.)
Rites of Conquest: The History and
Culture of Michigan's Native Americans. By
Charles E. Cleland. (Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press, 1992. viii +
333p.; illustrations, notes,
bibliography, index.)
Shipping Literature of the Great
Lakes: A Catalog of Company Publications 1852-
1990. Compiled by Le Roy Barnett. (East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press,
1992. ix + 165p.; illustrations, tables,
appendixes, bibliography, index.)
Social Work and Social Order: The
Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities,
1889-1930. By Ruth Hutchinson Crocker. (Champaign: The University
of Illinois
Press, 1992. x + 347p.; illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index.)
The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life
and Times of Huey P. Long. By William
Ivy
Hair. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1991. xvi + 406p.; illustra-
tions, notes, bibliography, index.)
The Naval War of 1812. A Documentary
History. Volume II: 1813. Edited
by William
S. Dudley, Christine F. Hughes, Tamara
Moser Melia, Charles E. Brodine, Jr., and
Carolyn M. Stallings. (Washington, D.C.:
Naval Historical Center, 1992. xlv +
779p.; illustrations, notes, index.)
The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in
America. By Marilyn Irvin Holt.
(Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
248p.; illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay,
index.)
The Park and the People: A History of
Central Park. By Roy Rosenzweig and
Elizabeth Blackmar. (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1992. xi + 623p.; illustra-
tions, notes, index.)
The Polish Experience in Detroit. By Joseph A. Wytrwal, (Detroit, Michigan: The
Endurance Press, 1992. x + 538p.;
illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.)
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. By James N. Giglio. (Lawrence: University Press
of Kansas, 1991. x + 334p.; notes,
bibliographical essay, index.)
The Spirit of 1848: German
Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil
War. By Bruce Levine. (Urbana: The University of Illinois
Press, 1992. xiv + 378p.;
tables, appendix, notes, select
bibliography, index.)
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The Transformation of Western
Pennsylvania, 1700-1800. By R. Eugene
Harper.
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1991. xx + 273p.; notes, index.)
To Build in a New Land: Ethnic
Landscapes in North America. Edited by
Allen G.
Noble. (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1992. x + 455p.;
illustrations, charts, maps, tables,
glossary, notes, references, contributors, index.)
Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark
Hoffmann Case. By Richard E. Turley,
Jr.
(Urbana: The University of Illinois
Press, 1992. viii + 519p.; notes, index.)
Women of the West. By Cathy Luchetti and Carol Olwell. (New York: Orion
Books,
1992. 240p.; illustrations, appendix,
chronology, footnotes, bibliography, photo-
graphic sources, acknowledgements.)