Books Life's Simplicity Time out of Mind, by Rachel Field. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. HERE are 462 pages packed with sensuous beauty, pungent and sometimes profound folk...
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BOOKS Cynical History European Civilization and Politics since 1815, by Erik Achorn. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $5.00. THIS impressive history by Mr. Achorn is a large, complex and...
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THOUGHTS ON A SCHOOL By CORTLANDT VAN WINKLE SITUATED in Rhode Island overlooking the beauti-ful waters of Narragansett Bay, with Prudence Island in the distance, is a preparatory school for boys...
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BOOKS Initiation Geoffrey Chaucer, by John Livingston Lowes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.50. DURING the last quarter of a century American scholars by right of high achievement and by...
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BOOKS Lincoln's Successor The Critical Year, by Howard K. Beale. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $5.00. IN THE reweighing of the historical evidence of that bitter period which Claude...
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306 THE COMMONWEAL July 16, 1930 BOOKS Uncaptured Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer; translated into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. New York: Longmans, Green...
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October 23, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 649 BOOKS Blake the Philosopher Blake and Modern Thought. by Denis 8aurat. New York: The Dial Press. $4.00. ~. LAKE'S peculiar usefulness in our...
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A Chaucer Handbook, by Robert Dudley French. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. $2.00. THIS handbook of Professor French sums up and clarifies the best and most recent findings of Chaucerian...
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Understanding America, by Lanffdon Mitchell. New York: Georffe H. Doran Company. $3.50. IN HIS Understanding America, Mr. Langdon Mitchell follows the middle of the road, a course that is usually...
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