From: msmorris@watsci.UWaterloo.ca (Mike Morris)
Subject: Christmas Wish Fulfillment
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:57:48 GMT

                            Tuesday, the 22nd of December, 1992

Martha usually avoids getting me books for Christmas. Because I
buy them anyway, or because she'll claim (exasperatedly) she doesn't
know what we have. Anyway, it means that when we were just down to
Indianapolis for a quarterly board meeting (the family business---don't
know what it says about The Economy, but it's the first time
we've managed a Christmas bonus in three, four years) and a short
visit with family, I managed to hit Borders twice. Here's what I got:

      _Autobiography_, J.S. Mill
      _Shih-Ching: The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius_, tr. by 
                Ezra Pound
      _Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus_, R.M. Rilke, tr. by
                A. Poulin, Jr.
      _The Book of Images_, R.M. Rilke, tr. by Edward Snow
      _Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays_, Michael Oakeshott
      _The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an
                Ancient Greek Warship_, J.S. Morrison and J.F. Coates
      _Ancient Mystery Cults_, Walter Burkert
      _Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial
                Ritual and Myth_, Walter Burkert
      _Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist_, Walter Kaufmann
      _The Aeneid of Virgil_, tr. Allen Mandelbaum
      _An Autobiographical Study_, Sigmund Freud
      _Beyond the Pleasure Principle_, Sigmund Freud
      _Civilization and its Discontents_, Sigmund Freud
      _The Ego and the Id_, Sigmund Freud
      _Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis_, Sigmund Freud
      _The Future of an Illusion_, Sigmund Freud
      _Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego_, Sigmund Freud
      _Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety_, Sigmund Freud
      _Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis_, Sigmund Freud
      _Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious_, Sigmund Freud
      _Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood_, Sigmund Freud
      _On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement_, Sigmund Freud
      _An Outline of Psychoanalysis_, Sigmund Freud
      _The Psychopathology of Everyday Life_, Sigmund Freud
      _The Question of Lay Analysis_, Sigmund Freud
      _Totem and Taboo_, Sigmund Freud
      _The Interpretation of Dreams_, Sigmund Freud
      _Early Psychoanalytic Writings_, Sigmund Freud
      _Moses and Monotheism_, Sigmund Freud
      _Strong Poison_, Dorothy L. Sayers
      _Have His Carcase_, Dorothy L. Sayers
      _Gaudy Night_, Dorothy L. Sayers
      _Busman's Honetmoon_, Dorothy L. Sayers
      _Otto of the Silver Hand_, Howard Pyle
      _The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions_, Howard Pyle
      _The Story of Kind Arthur and His Knights_, Howard Pyle
      _The Wind in the Willows_, Kenneth Grahame, ill. by Ernest H. Shepard

There were also some more nondescript children's books---mostly Thomas
the Tank Engine, but also a Disney _Aladdin_---, and some Wee Sing tapes.

The Pound I was glad of, because I just finished both his and
Arthur Waley's translations of Confucius. I've been reading lots
of Rilke this year, and Poulin counts as yet another translator.
The Snow-translated _Book of Images_ is new for me (outside of
the occasional poem which has been anthologized by another translator),
and I quite enjoyed both of Snow's volumes of Rilke's _New Poems_, so
I'm looking forward to this one.

The Walter Kaufmann I count as a find. I've had my eyes open
for it for a year or two now (ever since I argued here with
Roger Lustig, and he strongly recommended it).

Also, Michael Oakeshott responds to a recommendation I've been keeping
from Keith Morgan for awhile.

Mikhail probably planted the suggestion which led me to get the
Burkert. I usually comb the classics shelves for interesting volumes
anyway, and I happened to see these. I didn't find Burkert's _Greek
Religion_, which is what Mikhail had directed me to to look at regarding
_mania_, but both these look interesting. 

_The Athenian Trireme_ was pure whimsy.

Speaking of which, the 4 Sayers volumes were to replace 4
copies which are so well-thumbed (by my wife) that they are
in danger of self destructing. I'm hoping to launch into Sayers
over the holidays.

The Freud from _An Autobiographical Study_ to _Totem and Taboo_
are all wine-red paperbacks, many of them quite thin. They are
labelled ``The Standard Edition'' (means translated under the
direction of James Strachey), and all have ``Sigmund Freud: A Brief Life''
by Peter Gay as an introduction. I count 16 here, and if I look
inside the front cover, I see I'd be missing _The Complete Introductory
Lectures on Psychoanalysis_, _On Dreams_, and _New Introductory
Lectures on Psychoanalysis_. That would seem to make 19 total
volumes in ``The Standard Edition'', which puzzles me somewhat
since it also says on the same page: 
              THE STANDARD EDITION 
         OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF
                 SIGMUND FREUD
                  24 VOLUMES
Fiona? Anyway, I figure that your (Fiona's) name-that-book mystery
post of items from the index of one of these was the whetstone for
inducing me to want to read them.

The thing I was especially looking for, and didn't find any of,
was Ransome. And this despite a huge children's and young adult
section. Locally, I had picked up 9 of the 12 ``Swallows and
Amazons'' series in Puffin paperback. I am still missing
_Winter Holiday_, _Pigeon Post_, and _Great Northern?_ (volumes
4, 6, and 12). What was funny was that I asked about them at the
information desk, and the clerk looked them up on the computer
(I assume this is the same as ``Books in Print''?) and she found
only 3 or 4 of the 12 Ransome volumes were available, none of them
in the (cheap) Puffin edition I had just found them in in Canada.
I went ahead and ordered the ones I wanted when I got back here.

We totaled up US$376 in books when we crossed back into Canada at Windsor,
which, although it is admittedly extravagant, is not even close to our
record.
     
                     Mike Morris
            (msmorris@watsci.uwaterloo.ca)