BOOKS BRIEFLY
BOOKS BRIEFLY The Impact of Science on Society, by Bertrand Russell (Simon and Schuster. 114 pp. $3). Here are lively, shrewd, and provocative talks on the problems and the hopes which scientific...
...Besides treating the legal background, they describe the experiences of war objectors in the non-combatant forces of the Army, in unpaid conscript labor camps, and in federal prisons...
...Giant in Chains, by Barrows Dunham (Little, Brown...
...William Faulkner: a critical study, by Irving Howe (Random House...
...6.75...
...674 pp...
...Both authors sympathetically reappraise a distinguished Confederate whose views on Reconstruction and belligerent temperament cast a shadow over the days when he was Lee's "War Horse...
...The volume covers a frequently neglected but important aspect of recent American history and deserves a careful study by all those who are concerned with civil liberties...
...Conscription of Conscience, the American State and the Conscientious Objector, 1940-1947, by Mulford Q. Sibley and Philip E. Jacob (Cornell University Press...
...He illuminates the choices between stable peace and chaos, birth control and starvation, democracy and slave labor and offers some unexpected ideals for man and society...
...210 pp...
...King's suspicions of Japan date back to a minor altercation with Japanese railroad officials in 1903, but since the publication of this book he has publicly advocated the rebuilding of the Japanese Navy and a complete blockade of the Chinese coast to end the Korean War...
...2.50...
...Marshall must bear equal blame with Admiral Stark...
...The style itself—one not common with philosophers ¦— is enough to recommend the book...
...This book is to be read by those practical skeptics who wonder what application the art of philosophy has to the politics of everyday living...
...Viewing Faulkner against the greater intellectual achievement of European writers like Proust and Joyce, he nevertheless approaches the novels, especially The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in Aug~ ust, with sympathy and respect...
...460 pp...
...An eminent sociologist uses the method of comparative social anthropology to culture—its initiators, myths, heroes, and the relationships between cultures...
...Here we have 21 sermons preached by Davies from his influential Unitarian pulpit in Washington, D. C. These messages, geared both to the harsh realities of our day and to hope, are refreshingly free from ecclesiastical cant...
...The Temptation To Be Good, by A. Powell Davies (Farrar, Straus...
...Fleet Admiral King: a naval record, by Ernest J. King and Walter Muir Whitehill...
...Here are lively, shrewd, and provocative talks on the problems and the hopes which scientific technology (more than scientific thought) presents for the future...
...Modern Nationalities, by Flor-ian Znaniecki (University of Illinois Press...
...3.95...
...Sanger writes an above-average Civil War military history whose clear tactical descriptions atone in part for the inadequate maps...
...203 pp...
...He sees hope for world peace if the inevitable expansionism of national cultures is channeled into aesthetic-cultural creativity, strengthened by cooperation with other cultures...
...6.50...
...Always clear, reflective, and reasonable, Howe's book first gives order to the Yokna-patawpha chronicle and traces the history of Faulkner's Southern conscience, and then examines theme, structure, characters, and style in the major novels and stories...
...Russell ranges from superficial remarks on the history of science to stimulating if not always novel comments on the impact of technology on war, politics, and society...
...On the subject of Pearl Harbor King dares to suggest that Gen...
...James Longstreet: Soldier, by Donald Bridgman Sanger and Politician, Officeholder and Writer, by Thomas Robson Hay (Louisiana State University Press...
...196 pp...
...Prevented by a dearth of personal papers from clearly establishing Longstreet's character, Hay competently traces the general's post-war career as a Republican party hack...
...Norton...
...6.50...
...Treatment of the wax years adds but few revelations...
...He finds Faulkner highly fertile in incident and characterization, an important moralist except when he moralizes, and at his best a great writer...
...His hypotheses are not...
...262 pp...
...The authors of this thorough and revealing study present clearly and in detail the story of conscientious objectors in World War II...
...The writer, no dispenser of easy formulas, points the way toward serenity via ethical struggle and the survival of mankind via practical, global applications of brotherhood morality...
...Dunham writes with humor, and his style is easy to read and understand...
...580 pp...
...Dunham has done a remarkable job of translating his own philosophy as well as those of several other schools into pedestrian application...
...new and tend to overemphasize the role of the intellectual elite, but the analysis is detailed and well documented...
...The wartime commander of American naval forces tells his life story in a volume which provides a fine example of the strength and weakness of the professional naval outlook...
...3.75...
Vol. 17 • July 1953 • No. 7
