BOOKS Most Fascinating Case in Modern Times THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. By Douglas Woodruff. Farrar, Straus. $4.75. THE TICHBORNE IMPOSTOR. By Geddes MacGregor. LipNncott. $3.95. By JAMES...
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The Prodigal Son on the American Scene
THE DAY THE MONEY STOPPED. By Brendan Gill. Doubleday. $2.95.
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FEW BIBLICAL parables are as popular in America as the story of the...
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Critics' Choices for Christmas ANTHONY BAILEY THE Acceptance World. By Anthony Powell. Farrar. $3.50. Mr. Powell may well be the finest novelist writing in England today and his sequence, "The...
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BOOKS Little Nobleman, Great Saint, Continued Paradox ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA. By Leonard Von Matt and Hugo Rahner, S.J. Translated from the German by John Murray, S.J. Regnery. $6.50. By...
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BOOKS Contemporary Criticism in the Georgian Manner BEYOND THE DREAMS OF AVARICE. Russell Kirk. Regnery. $4.50. By FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN M R. RUSSELL Kirk was d.~scribed not long ago as...
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BOOKS Power in the Third Age of the Middle Earth THE LORD OF THE RINGS. III Vols.: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. By J. R. R. To)kien. Houghton Mifflin...
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Selected Splendor for MacArthur MacARTHUR: HIS RENDEZVOUS WITH HISTORY. By Courtney Whitney. Knopf. $6.75. By HAROLD C. HINTON G ENERAL MacArthur was wrong: there is at least one old...
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Critics' Choices for Christmas ELIZABETH BARTELME THESE are among the books I have most enjoyed during the past year: Marianne Moore's Predilections (Viking, $3.50), a collection of...
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BOOKS Lost Personalities in a Modern Setting CARDS OF IDENTITY. By Nigel Dennis. Vanguard. $3.75. By ANTHONY BAILEY W HEN this very amusing and provocative book appeared in England some...
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BOOKS The Despair and Hope of Modern Man THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS. By Albert Camus. Knopf. $3.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON A T the beginning of The Myth ol Sisyphus, Albert Camus describes the modem...
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BOOKS The Sicilian World of Giovanni Verga MASTRO-DON GESUALDO. By Giovanni Verga. Translated by D. H. Lawrence. Grove. Cloth: $3.50. Paper: $1.45. By JAMES GREENE T HERE were two Italies...
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BOOKS The Poet Revealed to His Friends THE CORRESPONDENCE OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AND R. W. DIXON. THE LETTERS O'F GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS TO ROBERT BRIDGES. Edited with notes and...
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