BOOKS The Marshal of the Marne Foch: A Biography, by George C. Aston. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.00. WHILE this is the biography of the leading military character of modern times, and...
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COMMONWEAL THE December 25, 1929 BOOKS Modern Italy A History of Italy, z87z-z9z5, by Benedetto Croce; trans- lated by Cecilia M. Ady. Oxford: Clarendon Press. $5.o0. C ROCE has...
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580 THE COMMONWEAL October 10, 1928 BOOKS The Status of Crime The Repression of Crime, by Harry Elmer Barnes. New York: George H. Doran Company. $2.50. The New Criminology, by Max...
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September 12, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 465 BOOKS Mr. Ludwig Speculates Genius and Character•, by Emit Ludwig. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.50. IN THE introduction of the...
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BOOKS A Pageant of the Past Memories of Manhattan, by Charles T. Harris. New York: The Derrydale Press. $10.00. MR. CHARLES TOWNSEND HARRIS gives us in an interesting volume his...
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First and Last Things The Nature of Deity, by J. E. Turner. New York: The Oxford University Press. $3.50. New Studies in Mystical Religion, by Rufus M. Jones. New York: The Macmillan Company....
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Strangers in the Gate Immigration Restriction, by Roy L. Garris. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.00. I HIS book contains a great deal of useful information ar•^ ranged in convenient form....
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The Passionate Prophet Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee, by J. Brooks Atkinson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. HENRY THOREAU might be considered a pioneer of that American frontier, the open...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo—Miguel Cervantes, by Han Ryner; translated from the French by J. H. Lewis. New York: Harcourt. Brace and Company. $2.y5WHAT a fascinating book this is! As moving as a...
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Crime and Custom in Savage Society, by Bronislaw Malinotvski. Netv York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.23. PROFESSOR MALINOWSKI'S stay with the Trobrianders, a typical Melanesian population in...
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BOOKS 8hort Talks with the Dead, by Hilaire Belloc. New York: Harper and Brothers. $3.0o. T HERE are only two ways in which a book of essays by Hilaire Belloc might be adequately revlewed....
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This Believing H/orld, by Lezvis Brozone. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. T HIS is a book in the Van Loon tradition, written in a turgid, would-he impressive style, and...
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