MELVILLE'S EPIC The Ishmael Complex PATRICK F. QUINN IT HAS been suggested by Malcolm Cowley that the great literary achievement of the last thirty years in this country has not been any...
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BOOKS Ten Who Would Have Changed America AMERICAN DEMAGOGUES: TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Reinhard H. Luthin. Beacon. $5. By WILL HERBERG T HE demagogue, like the word we use to designate...
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Critics' Choice for Christmas VIVIAN MERCIER A N unusually large number of books of lasting worth have appeared this year; I hope to read them all eventually. Those that have not yet come my...
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The Catholic Lessons to be Learned from the Past POLITICS OF BELIEF IN NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCE. By Philip Spencer. Grove Press. $6. By ERWIN W. GEISSMAN O NE of the knottiest...
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DOORS The Argument for a "Condition of Liquidity" THE LIMITS OF FOREIGN POLICY. By Charles Bud'on Marshall. Holt. $3. By GEORGE W. JAEGER T O the long row of books on foreign affairs which...
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BOOKS The Absurd Hero Who Ceases To Be Funny THE RELIC. By Eta de Queiroz. Translated by Aubrey F. G. Bell. Introduction by Francis Sfeegmuller. Noonday. $3.50. By JOHN EDWARD HARDY THE absurd...
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BOOKS The Poet's Eye Glancing from Earth to Heaven POETS AND MYSTICS. By E. I. Watkln. Sheed & Ward. SS. By ERWIN W. GEISSMAN I CAN recall first coming across Watkin's books as an...
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BOOKS "The Greatest European Poet of BAUDELAIRE: A S+udy of His Poe+ry. By Martin Turnell. New Directions. $5. By WALLACE FOWLIE T O his earlier studies on the French classical theater...
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