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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 An Idealist's Vision of Our Contemporary Distress IN THE NAME OF SANITY. By Lewis Mumford. Harcourt, Brace. $3.75. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, Jr. M R. Mumford is filled with what he himself...
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BOOKS Finding an Epicurean Basis for a Victorian Culture THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP: A study of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and their Circle. By J. K. Johnstone. Noonday....
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BOOKS The Monastery As an Enduring Challenge THE MONK AND THE WORLD. By Walter Dirks. Davld McKay. $3,E0. By FRANCIS SWEENEY T HIS is a brilliant essay on monasticism vis-~t-vis the world,...
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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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