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as a metaphorical locus for loyalty and stability" (106). In order to maintain this view, he must downplay evidence to the contrary, such as Stella's musings on the generations of women who went almost mad searching for meaning in the drawing-room clocks. Walshe reads this merely as demonstrating "the one drawback to this house of peace, loyalty and safety in a time of war and of suspicion" (107). Walshe's chapters are the most poorly edited of the volume, the whole of which could have used another round of copyediting, and include three misspelled characters' names. This brief and careless treatment is inadequate for three of Bowen's most critically acclaimed novels. In Walshe's second contribution he discusses The Little Girls for one and a half pages before moving on to Eva Trout, though Eva Trout is the focus of O'Toole's chapter. Since A World of Love also receives its own chapter, anyone glancing at the table of contents would conclude erroneously that A World of Love and Eva Trout are considered Bowen's most important novels. Other oddities in the collection's structure are the presence of two articles about ghosts and haunting in Bowen's short stories and of two articles about Bowen's reception and place in literary criticism. A more coherent structure with emphasis on the major novels would have made this collection more useful to Bowen scholars and to students in courses on Bowen, British women's modernism, or Anglo-Irish literature.