Search

This article presents information on the book "Weatherman," edited by Harold Jacobs. Harold Jacobs' book is narrow and unsatisfactory. This is not to say, however, that it is without value within limits it sets for itself. Arranged chronologically, the material in Weatherman consists of most of the significant papers, leaflets and articles produced by the organization Weatherman itself; a collection of critical essays by some of Weatherman's best known friends and enemies on the Left; and Harold Jacobs' analysis of Weatherman and revolutionary strategy, which may be found in the introductory paragraphs to various sections.

This article discusses the book "Problems of the Pacific, 1933. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Banff, 1933." There are two papers in this volume by Chinese delegates, which deserve special mention. One, by Gideon Chen, is entitled "Chinese Government [Nanking] Economic Planning and Reconstruction," the other is "The Agrarian Problem in China," by Chen Han-seng. Gideon Chen's report seems to have been one of the chief propaganda bids for foreign capitalist loans and investments in China.

The article presents information about the book "From Thirty Years With Freud," by Theodor Reik. This is a collection of papers which have previously been published elsewhere, in full or in part. The layman might find them not too enlightening, while the professional psychoanalyst is supposed to be acquainted with the data offered. One might regret that Reik did not follow through his intention of giving the reader an intimate portrait of psychologist Sigmund Freud's scientific personality. Evidently the time is not ripe for a true appraisal of Freud as a person and a leader, his death is of too recent date.

The article presents book reviews for "The Wayward Pressman," by A. J. Liebling, and "Four in America" by Gertrude Stein.

This article focuses on the book "Discovery," edited by, among others, Vance Bourjaily. It first appeared in 1953. Anyone unhappy about American writing today should be heartened by reading "Discovery." He may not find anything absolutely first rate, but neither will he doubt the vigor and resourcefulness of the work. In less than three years "Discovery" has published 70 stories, some of them much longer than conventional periodicals print, 89 poems, and a dozen pieces of non-fiction. Besides, it has discovered 17 new writers.

This article presents a list of various books. Some of them are, "A Passage in the Night," by Sholern Asch, "The Writer in America," by Van Wyck, "Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843- 1870,'' vol.1, by Leon Edel, "The Journals of Lewis and Clark," edited by Bernard DeVoto, and others.

Reviews several books. "History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850," by James Ford Rhodes; "Historic Doubts As to the Execution of Marshal Ney," by James A. Weston; "Municipal Government in Great Britain," by Albert Shaw.

This article discusses the book "Scenery Then and Now," by Donald Oenslager. Oenslager has too acute a sense of theatrical presentation to become a pious revivalist. With all his enthusiasm for the accepted glories of the theaters past, he has no interest in academic resuscitation. "Convention in art," he points out, "is flexible experiment tightened by constant practice into common procedure." Historic methods of staging plays may open up a new world of invention for the scene designer if he will put its ancient traditions to new uses. Being a first-rate scene designer, he treats scenery as part of the dynamics of production, as only one element in putting a play over.

The article reviews several periodicals including "Scribner's Magazine" and "Woman," and the book "Badminton Library," by Horace G. Hutchinson, Arthur Balfour and Merry Andrew Lang.

The article presents information about two books on Russia. "Russia Today: What Can We Learn From It?," by Sherwood Eddy; "Moscow, 1911-1933," by Allan Monkhouse. Eddy, unceasing truth-seeker and reformer, is primarily interested in unearthing in Russia's Communist philosophy those aspects from which he believes the United States can learn and benefit. Monkhouse will be remembered as one of the British engineers tried in April 1933, by Soviets for espionage and sabotage, is obviously no friend of the present Soviet regime.

The article presents information about the book "Letters to the New Island," by William Butler Yeats. To those familiar with Yeats's `Autobiographies" the literary notes which he contributed in eighties and nineties to a Boston and a Providence journal have largely a historical interest. The substance of them is in the "Autobiographies," transmuted by time and taste to something richer and finer than what appears in these youthful letters. Yet there is a certain fascination in discovering the first prick of those ideas which were to have so unexpected a flowering and one finds here as there the man of imagination and of wit, the mystic and the lover, the poet and the patriot.

The article presents information about the book "The Hour of Decision," by Oswald Spengler. Spengler, like so many other historians, seems to confound his own person with that of the Deity, the book has a special profundity for it is the wordless idea which the Prussian has in the blood by inheritance that gives permanence to the future and it is this wordless idea which Spengler, as one who charts the future, would express. In the course of art argument composed of an admirable series of non sequiturs, Spengler finds occasion to dismiss the age of rationalism of which the present is a part and with it those arrogant urbanites who insist upon the use of intelligence.

The article presents information on various books. "Pioneer's Progress," by Alvin Johnson is an autobiography of a great educator and rugged personality, a reservoir of vitality and optimism whose energy overflowed into many fields. T.H. White, author of the book "Scandalmonger," is a contemporary Englishman who has written novels, a curiously savage nature book called "The Goshawk," and at least one previous study of the eighteenth century. The book "This Was Publishing," by Donald Sheehan is an admirable study of problems and practices of book publishing from the Civil War to the First World War.

The article presents a list of books, both fiction and nonfiction, published in the third week of April 1915 including "The City of Pleasure," by A. Bennett, "Arabia Infelix and The Turks in Yamen," G.W. Bury, and "The Charmed Spectacles," by M.E. Craigie.

This article discusses the book "Sardinian Brigade," by Emilio Lussu. Lussu's book is the testimony, unvarnished by nationalist rhetoric, which Italy deserved and which was sought in vain for many years. Lussu fought the war as an officer of one of the most gallant Italian brigades, made up almost entirely of soldiers recruited from Sardinia. Hence the title of his book "Sardinian Brigade." He was decorated many times for acts of valor and enjoyed the most exceptional good luck, since in three and a half years of active fighting he was wounded seriously only once while soldiers and officers around him died like flies.

Presents a list of books. "Victoria's Heir: The Education of a Prince," by George Dangerfield; "The Reconstruction of Europe: Talleyrand and the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815," by Guglielmo Ferrero; "Thinker Versus Junker," by Will Schaber; "Evening in Spring," by August Derleth; Others.

Presents several nonfiction books on politics and socio-economic issues. "Five and Ten," by John K. Winkler; "The Beloved House," by Thomas Waterman; "Old Tippecanoe," by Freeman Cleaves; "A Mary Webb Anthology," edited by H. B. L. Webb; Others.

This article presents information several books. In the book "Oxford Companion to the Theatre," edited by Phyllis Hartnol, the stress is on the stage rather than on literature, and there is a vast amount of technical information about theaters, actors, stage machinery and theatrical custom. The book "The Human Group," by George C. Homans, talks about small groups, their structure, problems and leadership. Although Homans writes with simplicity, straightforwardness, and a refreshing freedom from jargon, his method of presentation is repetitious and dull. The book "General Charles Lee: Traitor or Patriot?," by John Richard is a detailed and interesting biography of the eccentric English adventurer who became a general in the service of the colonies.

This section offers news briefs related to marketing including the increase in nonfiction articles according to market researcher Lloyd H. Hall, the entry of Dow Chemical Co. into the consumer market and the call by the Painting & Decorating Contractors of America for new marketing methods.

The article presents information about the book "Kemmerer on Money," by Edwin Walter Kemmerer. This little volume of barely 200 pages, the amplification of a series of articles which the author contributed to the New York Sun, is much the best book on money for the general reader that has appeared during the present depression. There were good a priori reasons for believing that it would turn out to be just that. For Kemmerer, who has acted as official financial adviser to the Philippine government, to Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Poland and China, has had more practical experience in setting currencies on their feet that any other man living and he writes very simply and lucidly.

The article presents information about the book "Torch and Crucible: The Life and Death of Antoine Lavoiser," by Sidney J. French. Antoine Lavoisier was one of the truly great minds in the development of scientific thought. By wresting chemistry from the mysticism that had held it in thrall since the time of Aristotle he earned the title of the father of modern chemistry and profoundly altered the concept of the universe. He was also one of the remarkable group of academicians whose liberal philosophy cleared the way for the French Revolution. Before now all books about Lavoisier have dealt with him either as a scientist or as a historical figure. French attempts to fuse the two images, to unite in one person elements that make Lavoisier such a striking figure.

The article presents information about the book "The Works of George Herbert," edited with a commentary by F.E. Hutchinson. There abides the spirit of a very great man, one of the few who have been able to make the great renunciation of the immediately desirable for the enduringly precious. Herbert was born to privilege, to honor and influence, to the exercise of power over lives of his fellow men. He heard ancestral voices calling to war and to the silken silence of courtly halls. Though they faded, voices were never quite still.

The article previews several investments-related books published as of November 15, 1929, including "The Wade Review," "A Third of a Century of Sound Investments" and "Corporation Earnings."

This article presents information on two books. The book "Young America 1830-1840," by Robert E. Riegel, covers the tempo of everyday life in America. One can read of extensive population movements, the growth of the factory with its effect on farm life, the mushrooming of railroads, the multiplication of canal, the increasing employment of women, the rise of the newspaper and numerous other changes in life of the average American. In the book "Bowery to Bellevue," by Emily Dunning Barringer, a simple straightforward story gives an interesting picture of the period when Dunning was appointed to the staff of Gouverneur Hospital and became New York's first woman ambulance surgeon.