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Some Notable 
Spring Books 
FICTION 
BULLIVANT AND THE LAMBS. 
By I. Compton-Burnett. Knopf. 
$3. ■ ' 
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. 
By Allan Baton. Scribner’s. $3. 
FOUR STUDIES IN LOYALTY. By 
Chirstopher Sykes. Sloane, $3. 
THE HEART OF THE MATTER. 
By Graham Greene. Viking. $3. 
THE IDES OF MARCH. By 
Thornton Wilder. Harper. $2.75. 
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By 
Norman Mailer. Rinehart. $4. 
THE TIME IS NOON. By Hiram 
Haydn. Crown. $3.50. ^ 
RAINTREE COUNTY. By Ross 
Lockridge, Jr. Houghton Mifflin. 
$3.75. 
THAT WINTER. By Merle Miller. 
Sloane. $3. 
NON-FICTION 
THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: 
SUPPLEMENT TWO. By H. L. 
Mencken. Knopf. $7.50. 
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL. By 
Arnold J. Toynbee. Oxford. $3.50. 
FOLK SONG: U. S. A. By John A. 
Lomax and Alan Lomax. Duell, 
Sloan and Pearce. $6. 
THE GATHERING STORM. By 
Winston Churchill. Houghton 
Mifflin. $6. 
THE GREAT REHEARSAL: THE 
STORY OF THE MAKING AND 
RATIFYING OF THE CONSTI¬ 
TUTION OF THE UNITED 
STATES. By Carl Van Doren. 
Viking. $3.50. 
JAMES MADISON, THE NATION¬ 
ALIST, 1780-1787. By Irving 
Brant. Bobbs-Merrill. $6. 
JEFFERSON, THE VIRGINIAN, 
1743-1784. By Dumas Malone. 
Little Brown. $6. 
THE JOURNALS OF ANDRE 
GIDE. Vol. II. 1914-1927. Knopf. 
$ 6 . 
MALABAR FARM. By Louis Brom- 
field. Harper. $3.75. 
THE MEMOIRS OF CORDELL 
HULL. 2 vols. Macmillan. $10.50. 
NEW SONG IN A STRANGE 
LAND. By Esther Warner, 
Houghton Mifflin. $3.50. 
ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN PEACE 
AND WAR. By Henry L. Stim- 
son and McGeorge Bundy. Har¬ 
per. $5. 
OUR PLUNDERED PLANET. By 
Fairfield Osborn. Little Brown. 
$2.50. 
THE STILWELL PAPERS. By 
General Joseph W. Stilwell. Ed¬ 
ited by Theodore H. White, 
Sloane. $4. 
STRANGER IN THE EARTH. By 
Thomas Sugrue. Holt. $4. 
TOLSTOY AS I KNEW HIM. By 
Tatyana A. Luzminskaya. Mac¬ 
millan. $5. 
A TREASURY OF JEWISH 
FOLKLORE. Edited by Nathan 
Ausubel. Crown. $4. 
THE TWO WORLDS OF MAR¬ 
CEL PROUST. By Harold 
March. University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania Press. $3.50. 
THE UNITED STATES AND 
CHINA. . By John King Fair- 
bank. Harvard. $3.50. 
WASHINGTON WITCH HUNT. 
By Bert Andrews. Random 
House. $2.50. 
WITH MUCH LOVE. By Anne 
Green. Harper. $3. 
Summer and 
Autumn 
ANTHOLOGIES AND COL¬ 
LECTED WORKS 
A CHILMARK MISCELLANY. By 
Van Wyck Brooks. Dutton. $4.50. 
The cream of Mr. Brooks as 
literary critic and historian, se¬ 
lected passages of appreciation 
and portraiture from many vol¬ 
umes. 
A FIRESIDE BOOK OF YULE- 
TIDE TALES. Edited by Edward 
Wagenknecht, Bobbs-Merrill. $4. 
Another anthology of Christ¬ 
mas legends and stories from 
the literature of many countries. 
FREEDOM AND ORDER. By the 
Right Honourable Anthony Eden. 
Houghton Mifflin. $5. 
Selected speeches from the 
war years by the present deputy 
leader of the Conservative party. 
THE GOLDEN LAND: ANTHOL¬ 
OGY OF LATIN-AMERICAN 
FOLKLORE translated, with 
running comments and notes by 
Harriet de Onis. Knopf. $4. 
Useful for scholars, but de¬ 
signed primarily for the general 
reader interested in imaginative 
writing. 
100 YEARS AGO: AMERICAN 
WRITING OF 1948. Edited by 
James P. Wood. Funk and Wag- 
nalls. $5. 
Thoreau, Lowell, Poe, Bayard 
Taylor, Horace Mann and oth¬ 
ers less known. 
ST. NICHOLAS ANTHOLOGY. 
Edited by Henry Steele Com- 
mager. Random House. $5. 
A gift.book for your children 
to enjoy—if they can manage to 
pry you, loose from it. 
THE WORLD FROM JACKSON 
/ just want to say that I’m perfectly willing to serve as treasurer , provided every penny 
doesn’t have to come out exactly even” 
A cartoon by Helen Hokinson from, “When Were You Built?” 
SQUARE: A NEW ORLEANS 
READER. Edited with notes by 
Etolia S. Basso with an intro¬ 
duction by Hamilton Basso. Far¬ 
rar, Straus. $4.50. 
Visitors and natives and nov¬ 
elists describe a city and its 
charms in a chronological an¬ 
thology. 
VIRGINIA READER. Collected 
and with an introduction by 
Francis Coleman Rosenberger. 
Dutton. $5. 
From the first voyages of dis¬ 
covery through the formative 
years down to writers of our 
times, such as Ellen Glasgow 
and Karl Shapiro. 
AMERICAN SCENE 
AMERICA THROUGH BRITISH 
EYES. Compiled and edited by 
Allan Nevins. Oxford University 
Press. $6. 
From Dickens,* Trollope and 
Fanny Kemble down to Lord 
Tweedsmuir, with a newly added 
panel covering the last twenty 
years. 
and present charms of a civilized 
city. 
NORTHERN FARM: A CHRONI¬ 
CLE OF MAINE. By Henry 
Beston. Rinehart. $3. 
Soothing, sylvan notes by an 
admirer of nature and melodious 
prose; the record of a year on 
the land. 
SOUTH SHORE TOWN. By Eliza¬ 
beth Coatsworth. Macmillan, 
$2.75. 
Poetic tribute to the remem¬ 
bered charms of Hingham—its 
homes and churches and harbor, 
its history and legends. 
THE SOUTHERN COUNTRY ED¬ 
ITOR. By Thomas D. Clark. 
Bobbs-Merrill. $3.50. 
Growth and influence of the 
rural weekly in the South from 
the Civil War to the present. 
THIS IS SAN FRANCISCO. By 
Robert O’Brien. Whittlesey 
House. $3.75. 
Folklore and history, past and 
present, enthusiastically blended. 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND 
! ..* MEMOIRS 
AMERICANS FROM JAPAN. By} 
Bradford Smith. Lippincott. $5.? ANT HILL ODYSSEY. By Wil- 
The story of the Nisei, with 
their background in Hawaii and 
on the west coast; their experi¬ 
ences at war-time relocation 
centers and in the islifcds of the 
Pacific. 
AMERICAN ME. By Beatri 
liam H. Mann. Little, Brown. 
$3.50. 
Autobiography of the director 
of the National Zoo, an eminent 
naturalist who got his start with 
a circus. 
SsOTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJA- 
“ Well , if it isn’t Dave Cottrell! Well, don’t just stand there 
in that driving rain, Dtive—GO HOME! 
A cartoon by Follette from “Best Cartoons of the Year 1948” 
Griffith. Houghton Mifflin. $3. 
Eleven stories about Mexican 
Americans, our fourth largest 
racial minority, supplemented by 
discussion of the social and 
economic factors the stories 
illustrate. 
ANYTHING BUT LOVE. By Eliza¬ 
beth Hawes. Rinehart. $2.75. 
The author of “Why Women 
Cry” has discovered why women 
buy—because they read ad¬ 
vertisements, listen to the radio 
and swallow other types of 
spinach. 
THE BIG DIVIDE. By David 
Lavender. Doubleday. $4. 
Past and recent history of the 
Southern Rockies, from Yellow¬ 
stone to Santa Fe, with photo¬ 
graphs. 
THE INVERTED MOUNTAINS: 
CANYONS OF THE WEST. 
Edited by Roderick Peattie. Van¬ 
guard Press. $5. 
The Grand Canyon is the 
most photographed and visited, 
but the Bryce and Zion Can¬ 
yons are impressive rivals. 
IT’S AN OLD NEW ORLEANS 
CUSTOM. By Lura Robinson. 
Vanguard Press. $3. 
A lively account of the past 
MIN RUSH. Edited by George 
W. Corner. Princeton University 
Press. $6. 
The celebrated eighteenth 
century physician and signer of 
the Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence. First complete, unexpur¬ 
gated edition. 
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOL 
BLOOM. Putnams. $3.50. 
Life story of a real estate spec¬ 
ulator and theater manager who 
went into politics and—at sev¬ 
enty-eight—is in the top-rank of 
Congressional leaders. * 
THE BEST OF TIMES. By Lud¬ 
wig Bemelmans. Simon and 
Schuster. $3.95. 
Rambles through postwar Eu¬ 
rope by a writer and artist with 
warmth, wit and perception. 
THE DIARY OF PIERRE LAVAL. 
With an Introduction by Josee 
Laval, Countess R. de Chambrun. 
Scribners. $3.50. 
The Vichy Prime Minister de¬ 
fends his acts. 
F. D. R.: HIS PERSONAL LET¬ 
TERS. Volume II: 1905-1928. 
Edited by Elliott Roosevelt. 
Duell, Sloan and Pearce. $5. 
Covering his marriage, early 
law practice, t entry into politics, 
experiences in World War I, and 
his long illness followe 1 by his 
election as Governor of New 
York. 
FOOTLIGHTS AND HIGH¬ 
LIGHTS. By Crosby Gaige. Dut¬ 
ton. $4. 
Urbane autobiography of a 
Broadway producer of hits and 
misses, now relaxing as a lim¬ 
ited - edition publisher, herb 
grower, food consultant and 
wine connoisseur. 
FRANZ KAFKA: The Diaries of 
Franz Kafka, 1914-1923. Edited 
by Max Brod. Schocken. $3,75. 
Concluding volume of a jour¬ 
nal in which the dilemma of the 
' man and artist is illuminated. 
FAMILY CIRCLE. By Cornelia 
Otis Skinner. Houghton Mifflin. 
$3.50. 
Charming memories of a for¬ 
tunate girlhood by *the daughter 
of Otis and Maud Skinner. 
GANDHI’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
By Mohandas K. Gandhi. Public 
’ Affairs Press. $5. 
In which one of the great 
leaders of the twentieth century 
examines himself with frankness 
and humility. 
GOLDEN OPINIONS. By Richard 
L. Tobin. Dutton. $3. 
Essays and vignettes of child¬ 
hood, character sketches and 
news stories, by a New York 
newspaperman. 
GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM. By 
Elliott Merrick. Macmillan. $3. 
What you can do on a Ver¬ 
mont farm and what a Vermont 
farm does to you, a wife and a 
Buick. 
JOHN GOFFE’S MILL. By George 
Woodbury. Norton. $3. 
Restoration of a gristmill built 
two centuries ago—a project to 
which New Hampshire neighbors 
contributed humor as well as 
helping hands. 
JUNGLE MAN. By Major P. J. 
Pretorius. Dutton. $3.50. 
Living dangerously and zest¬ 
fully for half a century as a jun¬ 
gle trail blazer and big-game 
hunter. 
HAROLD BAUER, HIS BOOK. 
Norton. $3.75. 
Memories of a Victorian child¬ 
hood, student days in Paris and 
a brilliant career as concert 
pianist. 
IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEAS¬ 
URE. By Emily Kimbrough. 
Dodd, Mead. $2.50. 
Hazards of a lecture tour on 
the clubwomen cultu 
appropriately 
Helen E. Hokinson. 
HARVARD YARD IN TH1 
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE ^EEKLY BOOK REVIEW, DECEMBER 5, 1948 
A Guide to the Outstanding Books of 1948 
Selected From Late Summer and Fall Lists With Reminders of Important Earlier Titles 
