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Brief Comments

Twenty-eight outstanding books of the previous quarter

The American Scholar, Spring 1954, pp. 246-252

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    Winter 1954 Issue = 17 Articles
    1. Some Observations on Intellectual Freedom by David Riesman, pp. 9-24
    2. A Note by Archibald MacLeish, pp. 25-26
    3. Education for Privacy by Marten ten Hoor, pp. 27-42
    4. Souls Among Masterpieces by Wallace W. Douglas, pp. 43-55
    5. To a Quaker Lady by Jon Swan, p. 56
    6. Alaskan Summer by F. Fraser Darling, pp. 57-69
    7. Advice to the Lost by Hannah Kahn, p. 70
    8. The Loud-Voiced Victory by David Cort, pp. 71-82
    9. The Cardinal Virtues by Max Eastman, pp. 83-89
    10. State Parties and National Politics by W.T. Laprade, pp. 90-102
    11. Under Whatever Sky by Irwin Edman, pp. 103-105
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      Behaviorism with a Vengeance by Abram Kardiner, pp. 106-109 - 1 Review
      1. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin, ...
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      Frankly of the Earth by Donald N. Bigelow, pp. 110-113 - 1 Review
      1. The Golden Age of Homespun by Jared van Wagenen, Jr.
    14. [+]
      Furred and Winged Actors by Paul A. Zahl, pp. 114-117 - 1 Review
      1. Icebound Summer by Sally Carrighar
    15. [+]
      A Vital Human Occupation by Louis Simpson, pp. 118-119 - 1 Review
      1. Poetry and the Age by Randall Jarrell
    16. [+]
      Brief Comments, pp. 120-126 - 25 Reviews
      1. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province by Perry Miller
      2. Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation by David Riesman
      3. The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
      4. American Scholarship in the Twentieth Century by Merle Curti
      5. The Sermons of John Donne by George R. Potter, Evelyn M. Simpson, and John Donne, ...
      6. Andrew Jackson: His Contribution to the American Tradition by Harold C. Syrett and Andrew Jackson
      7. Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American Tradition by Perry Miller
      8. Benjamin Franklin by I. Bernard Cohen
      9. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Julian P. Boyd, Lyman H. Butterfield, and Mina R. Bryan, ...
      10. The Bonanza Trail by Muriel Sibell Wolle
      11. The Big Picture by David Cort
      12. From Lenin to Malenkov by Hugh Seton-Watson
      13. The World Between the Wars: From the 1918 Armistice to the Munich Agreement by Quincy Howe
      14. The Selected Letters of Lord Byron by Jacques Barzun and George Gordon Byron
      15. Lelia: The Life of George Sand by Andre Maurois
      16. Katherine Mansfield: A Biography by Antony Alpers
      17. Tolstoy: A Life of My Father by Alexandra Tolstoy
      18. Purple Passage: The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie by Madeleine B. Stern
      19. Period Piece by Gwen Raverat
      20. Art in the Ice Age by Hans-Georg Bandi, Johannes Maringer, and Hugo Obermaier, ...
      21. Making a Poem by Melville Cane
      22. Brother to Dragons by Robert Penn Warren
      23. Ten Burnt Offerings by Louis MacNeice
      24. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
      25. Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
    17. The Reader Replies, pp. 127-130
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    Spring 1954 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. A Modest Proposal for the Case and Use of Subversives by Alan Valentine, pp. 137-145
    2. Above and Below by Melville Cane, p. 146
    3. Something...At Night by David Morton, p. 146
    4. A Wonder in the World by Jon Swan, p. 147
    5. Concert by Jon Swan, p. 148
    6. Whom Shall He Welcome? by Jon Swan, p. 148
    7. Lines to a Color by Laura Lake, p. 149
    8. Lines to a Friend by Lincoln Fitzell, pp. 149-150
    9. The Practice of Biography by Harold Nicolson, pp. 151-161
    10. Sinclair Lewis by Frederick F. Manfred, pp. 162-184
    11. My Great-Grandmothers Were Happy by Priscilla Robertson, pp. 185-196
    12. The Future of Books in America by Lester Asheim, Knox Burger, and Harold Guinzburg, ..., pp. 197-215
    13. Under Whatever Sky by Irwin Edman, pp. 216-219
    14. [+]
      The Eye and the Mind by Morris Weitz, pp. 220-223 - 1 Review
      1. The Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux
    15. [+]
      A Bleak and Powerful Bestiary by Hiram Haydn, pp. 224-227 - 1 Review
      1. The Marmot Drive by John Hersey
    16. [+]
      The Creative Person and the Creative Process by Norman Kelman, pp. 228-231 - 1 Review
      1. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. II by Ernest Jones, M.D.
    17. [+]
      Strange New World by Henry Nash Smith, pp. 232-235 - 1 Review
      1. The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Bernard DeVoto, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark, ...
    18. [+]
      Minutiae and Unrefined Ore by Asher Lans, pp. 236-245 - 1 Review
      1. The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes, Vol. I by Harold L. Ickes
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      Brief Comments, pp. 246-252 - 28 Reviews
      1. The Temper of Western Europe by C. Crane Brinton
      2. Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H. White
      3. Modern China's Foreign Policy by Werner Levi
      4. The China Tangle by Herbert Feis
      5. How Russia Is Ruled by Merle Fainsod
      6. Russian Assignment by Leslie C. Stevens, Vice Admiral, U.S.N. (Retired)
      7. Christianity, Diplomacy and War by Herbert Butterfield
      8. Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
      9. James Madison: Secretary of State, 1800-1809 by Irving Brant
      10. A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
      11. Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
      12. Academic Procession by Ernest P. Earnest
      13. Educational Wastelands by Arthur E. Bestor
      14. Vermont Tradition by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
      15. Circle of the Seasons by Edwin Way Teale
      16. The Best of Two Worlds by Joseph Wood Krutch
      17. The Word on the Brazos by J. Mason Brewer
      18. The World's Rim by Hartley Burr Alexander
      19. Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin by O.E. Jennings
      20. Boswell on the Grand Tour by Frederick A. Pottle and James Boswell
      21. Freedom and Fate by Stephen E. Whicher
      22. Southern Renascence by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and Robert D. Jacobs
      23. Selected Works of Sacheverell Sitwell by Sacheverell Sitwell
      24. Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken
      25. Gardeners and Astronomers by Edith Sitwell
      26. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
      27. The Lying Days by Nadine Gordimer
      28. Love is a Bridge by Charles Bracelen Flood
    20. The Reader Replies, pp. 253-258
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    Summer 1954 Issue = 16 Articles
    1. American Thought by Max Lerner, pp. 265-280
    2. Pages from the Autobiography by Ellen Glasgow, pp. 281-293
    3. Penny-Wise by Rose Burgunder, p. 294
    4. Conservation Is Not Enough by Joseph Wood Krutch, pp. 295-305
    5. In Praise of Diversity by Phyllis McGinley, pp. 306-309
    6. Rembrandt by Paul Leroy, pp. 310-320
    7. A Glimpse of Incomprehensibles by George W. Corner, pp. 321-331
    8. On First Looking into America by Ian Wilson, pp. 332-340
    9. Rebuilding American Cities by Nathaniel S. Keith, pp. 341-352
    10. Under Whatever Sky by Irwin Edman, pp. 353-355
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      Crises in Education by George N. Shuster, pp. 356-357 - 1 Review
      1. Essays on Education by A. Whitney Griswold
    12. [+]
      A Passionate Self-Appraisal by Leo Lerman, pp. 358-359 - 1 Review
      1. A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf
    13. [+]
      The Introduction to Evil by William Michelfelder, pp. 360-361 - 1 Review
      1. The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
    14. [+]
      American History in Miniature by DeLancey Ferguson, pp. 362-365 - 1 Review
      1. The Old Country Store by Gerald Carson
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      Brief Comments, pp. 366-375 - 24 Reviews
      1. God's Country and Mine by Jacques Barzun
      2. Company Manners by Louis Kronenberger
      3. Man's Unconquerable Mind by Gilbert Highet
      4. But We Were Born Free by Elmer H. Davis
      5. On Education and Freedom by Harold Taylor
      6. Scenes and Portraits by Van Wyck Brooks
      7. The Second Tree from the Corner by E.B. White
      8. The Manner is Ordinary by John La Farge
      9. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921 by Isaac Deutscher
      10. The People of South Africa by Sarah Gertrude Millin
      11. Rum Jungle by Alan Moorehead
      12. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
      13. Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
      14. New Letters of Berlioz, 1830-1868 by Hector Berlioz
      15. The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert by Francis Steegmuller and Gustave Flaubert
      16. The Gentleman of Renaissance France by William Leon Wiley
      17. The Finer Tone by Earl R. Wasserman
      18. John Keats: The Living Year by Robert Gittings
      19. Beyond Criticism by Karl Jay Shapiro
      20. The Desert Music, and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
      21. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
      22. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
      23. The Cobweb by William Gibson
      24. Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West
    16. The Reader Replies, pp. 376-386
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    Autumn 1954 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. Editorial by Hiram Haydn, pp. 393-394
    2. Lord Melbourne and the Young Victoria by Lord David Cecil, pp. 395-404
    3. Per Legem Terrae by Erwin N. Griswold, pp. 405-418
    4. Just a Few Bricks in the English Glasshouse by Reginald Reynolds, pp. 419-429
    5. The Victims by Gene Baro, p. 430
    6. Tango by Joanne de Longchamps, p. 431
    7. The Pier by Joanne de Longchamps, p. 432
    8. To You and You by Melville Cane, p. 433
    9. Uncle Sam and the Farmer by Henry C. Taylor, pp. 434-448
    10. The New Radio Astronomy by Bart J. Bok, pp. 449-458
    11. The Courts and Juvenile Delinquency by Irving Ben Cooper, pp. 459-466
    12. Arthur Griffith: Irish Statesman by Padraic Colum, pp. 467-478
    13. Under Whatever Sky by Irwin Edman, pp. 479-481
    14. [+]
      Dante and the Modern Idiom by Edmund Fuller, pp. 482-483 - 1 Review
      1. Dante's Inferno by John Ciardi and Dante
    15. [+]
      An Examination of Negro Education by Priscilla Robertson, pp. 484-487 - 1 Review
      1. The Negro and the Schools by Harry S. Ashmore
    16. [+]
      Delightful and Instructive Colloguies by Richard Huett, pp. 488-491 - 1 Review
      1. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead by Lucien Price and Alfred North Whitehead
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      A Punitive Expedition by Henry Wenning, pp. 492-493 - 1 Review
      1. Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
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      Brief Comments, pp. 494-504 - 12 Reviews
      1. Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent by Henry Steele Commager
      2. The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith
      3. Bleeding Kansas by Alice Nichols
      4. European Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Paul Hazard
      5. The Measure of Man by Joseph Wood Krutch
      6. Bottle in the Sea by Albert Leon Guerard
      7. The Origins of Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud, Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernst Kris, ...
      8. The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
      9. Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
      10. The Widows of Thornton by Peter Taylor
      11. A Seed Upon the Wind by William Michelfelder
      12. The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
    19. The Reader Replies, pp. 505-508
    20. Volume Index, pp. 509-514
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