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BOOKS On Mary McCarthy's Advance to Farther Frontiers SIGHTS AND SPECTACLES. By Mary McCarthy. Farrar, Straus. $3.50. By RICHARD HAYES M ISS MARY McCarthy, whose disenchantment is private...
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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 A Joyous, Unorthodox Search for Freedom THE ROAD. By Harry Martinson. Translated by M. A. Michael. Reynal and Co. $3.50. By JACK PATTERSON IT IS likely that few readers in this country...
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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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BOOKS A General's Vision of Greatness THE CALL TO HONOUR: War Memoirs, Vol. 1. By General Charles de Gaulle. Viking. $5. By M. A. FITZS1MONS G I3NERAL de Gaulle has avenged his political...
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And Ever the Twain Shall Meet THE HONORABLE PICNIC. By Thomas Raucat. Translated by Leonard Cline. Decorations by Lorraine Combs. Viking. $3.50. By WILLIAM DUNLEA F OR the sake of...
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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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Thomas Mann's Last Novel CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN. By Thomas Mann. Translated by Denver Lindley. Knopf. $4.50. By HENRY POPKIN F ELIX Krull embodies equally the qualities of...
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Stories from the Spirit of this Age THE COLLECTED STORIES. By Isaac Babel. Edited and translated by Walter Morison. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Criterion. $5. By HENRY POPKIN I SAAC...
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A Guidebook to Modern Literature THE MODERN WRITER AND HIS WORLD. By G. S. Fraser. Criterion. $3.95. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. T HE s u, bject of this long, crowded volume is, the...
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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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BOOKS Humanity and Ideology in the Novel THE SEIZURE OF POWER. By Czeslaw Milosz. Criterion. $3.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON U NDERSTANDABLY enoug~h, politics have been the subject matter of a...
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BOOKS An Examination of the World of Letters THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS. Essays on Various Writers. By Louis Kronenberger. Knopf. $3.75. By VIVIAN MERCIER O NE may classify writers...
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BOOKS An Appraisal of a Decade of American Writing THE TWENTIES. By Frederick J. Hoffman. Viking. $6. By HENRY POPKIN A DVANCING from show business to the academy, the revival of the...
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