And an essay praises hyperfiction for blurring the role of writer and reader.

Some of its information is shocking to an American: one essay, for instance, praises the courage of the Soviet writer Aleksandr Kuprin, who died in 1937, for daring to write about Jews, a forbidden subject in the Soviet Union.

An essay by V. O. Pechatnov on the Democratic Party in the 1930's elicits mostly praise from John M. Allswang, professor of history at California State University in Los Angeles.

Alexandra, a Russian girl whose essay praised Lincoln as "kind, unselfish and thoughtful," grew up to become Alex Werner, a complicated, compassionate New Yorker who lived to give.

Without naming Mr. Polo, the essay praised the collection and collector, showing the crown Mr. Polo had donated.

The same essay praises the "idealism" of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

An essay lavishly praises antitrust law, which maintains open competitive markets with a minimum of government interference.

Scafidel's 1975 essay on Sue King's use of realism praised "Old Maidism" for its "realistic, unsentimental look at one of the institutions of society."

The essay praises Sir Walter Raleigh as a flawed but heroic figure, who failed to use his heroic character to heroic ends.