Book Reviews : Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays by Douglass Adair. Edited by TREVOR COLBURN,with a Personal Memoir by CAROLINE ROBBINS and a Bibliographi cal Essay by ROBERT E. SHALHOPE. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company,1974. Pp. xxxv,315. $14.95.)

Book Reviews : Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays by Douglass Adair. Edited by TREVOR COLBURN,with a Personal Memoir by CAROLINE ROBBINS and a Bibliographi cal Essay by ROBERT E. SHALHOPE. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company,1974. Pp. xxxv,315. $14.95.)