Walden Two novel reviews Skinner work in depth
A reviewer analyzes B F Skinner's Walden Two, praising its scholarly tone and behavioral engineering premise. The piece notes the communal, merit-based governance, reduced work hours, and indoctrination via positive reinforcement, while acknowledging counterarguments and labeling it provocative rather than light reading.
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Mid-West
Christ
Walden Two
Skinner
Socrates
T. E. Frazier
Lively Book on Hounds by a Favorite Writer
After half a century of following hounds in New York's Adirondack region Pred Streever presents a volume of observations on wallleys and gaze hounds. Streever, a noted sports columnist and hound breeder, surveys breeds and lines, mixing lore with current hunting practice and listing foundations of famous fox and coon lines.
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New York
Adirondack Mounain
Pred Streever
Courtship of Varina Howell in a Missouri author’s novel
A Missouri writer portrays Varina Howell in a historical romance about her youth and Jefferson Davis. The work traces 1843 to 1844 Natchez plantation life, blending on the spot research with chronicle style and ample character portraits.
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Varina Howell
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Missouri
Natchez
Earch
Jin
Laski’s The American Democracy A sharp European view of US culture
Irving Levitias reviews Harold J. Laski’s The American Democracy, praising its broad analysis of American civilization as business driven. The critique highlights two cultural patterns from Jefferson to Roosevelt and Adams to Hamilton, the call for a labor party, sparse liberal journals, and Laski’s critique of Time and Reader’s Digest. It notes disagreements, especially on Henry James and atomic policy, but lauds the book’s contribution to American thought.
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Harold J. Laski
Alexis de Tocqueville
Andrei Siegfreid
Laskin
Laski
America
Jefferson
John Taylor
Andrew Jackson
Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Adams
Alexander Hamiltton
Francis Lieber
William Graham Summer
Dupont de Nemours
Laski J
the Nation
The
New Republic
Saturday Evening Post
Time Magazine
Reader’s Digest
Henry James
Max Eastman
World Without Visa Review Reflects Fearful France
The 1940 novel World Without Visa by Malaquais portrays Marseilles after France fell, depicting fear, horror, and refugees amid Gestapo brutality. The critic praises its graphic, subjective vision of victims and politics, noting the author’s plain prose and strong unsettling mood.
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Marseilles
France
Gestapo
United States
Schutz
St. Joseph
Malaquais
Andre Gide
Mal’raux
Maurics
Sartre
Dos Passos
Hemingway
Germany
la Belle France
Europe
van H.R
Francis Thompson Item Literary Criticisms Review
Newly discovered collection by Francis Thompson with critical essays on great authors. Rev Terence Connolly notes a nineteenth century poet and scholar’s insights. Published by Dutton priced at 12.50.
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Francis Thompson
Dutton
Terence L. Connolly
Cat That Jumped Out of the Story and Other Tales
Excerpted children’s book items reviewed with Ben Hecht’s The Cat That Jumped Out of the Story and Stubby the Little Train That Ran Away. Illus by Peggy Bacon and Dirk. Noted are fantasy feline plot and a citybound train tale with color illustrations and a Florida Everglades mystery for teens.
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Ben Hecht
Peggy Bacon
John C. Winston Company
Philadelphia
Catarinka
Itzel
Bitzel
Catalinka
Stubby
Norman Christensen
Dirk
Fideler Company
Grand Rapids
You and Psychiatry by Menninger and Leaf review
A lay friendly guide that explains psychiatry and its methods. It covers the psychiatrist visit, psychoanalysis, hypnosis and shock therapy in clear terms for general readers.
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You
William C. Menninger
Munro Leaf
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York
Cabell Works Reprint Opens With The Witch Woman
Reprint of James Branch Cabell’s The Witch Woman from Farrar Straus debuts at $2.50. Ettarre, famed beauty from the wastes beyond the moon, ensnares young men causing earthly and cosmic discontent. Cabell’s fairy-tale figures appear familiar, reflecting humanity with humor and satire.
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James Branch Cabell
Farrar Straus
Ettarre
Wastes Beyond
Moon
Earth
Mr. Cabell
Treasury of American Superstitions reviewed
Claudia de Lys catalogs hundreds of American beliefs with origins and spread. The book traces common myths from snake age by rattle to blue-eyed babies and sun drawing water, noting how folklore becomes widely accepted truth.
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Claudia de Lys
Philosophical Library
Miss de Lys
Youth in Crisis Dreadful Summit Novel by Ellin
Stanley Ellin’s first novel Youth in Crisis titled Dreadful Summit explores a boy’s sixteenth birthday night as he plans to murder a man who had caned his father. Suspense builds as moral costs and consequences unfold.
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Stanley Ellin
Simon and Schuster
Popular Titles Fiction and Nonfiction Highlights
A list of notable books from major publishers includes Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge and The Golden Hawk by Frank Baxter Dial Press plus Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr. and The Tiles of March by Thornton Wilder. Nonfiction items include Peace of Mind by Lyna Liebman Sexual Life in the Human Male by A C Kinsey, Civilization on Trial by Arnold Toynbee, Jim Farley’s Story by James Farley, Malabar Farm by Louis Bromfield and more.
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Elizabeth Goudge
Coward McCann, Inc
Frank
Dial Press
Raintree County
Ross Lockridge, Jr
Houghton “Watlin Company
Thornton Wilder
Harper & Bros
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Macmillan Company
Lyna L. Liebman
Simon & Schuste
Parents As a Bad Influence Review of The Road Through the Wall
A Cabrillo California neighborhood with sixteen to eighteen children reveals crossing generations and social tensions. The novel contrasts adult folly with youthful honesty as lives intertwine yet stay apart, with a praised but imperfect ending and notable warmth amid discord.
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Pepper Street
Cabrillo
Calif
Byrne
Roberts
Perlman
Merriam
Desmond
Donald
Williams
Terrel
Martins
Miss Fielding
Ransom-Jones
Mack
George
Chance
Shirley Jackson
Howard O'Brien Life and Death in His Columns
The 1947 Chicago Daily News columnist Howard Vincent O'Brien is remembered in a book collecting his Life and Death pieces. It covers his Chicago childhood, journalism career, and moving columns about family, death, faith, and thought, with tributes from peers who praised his wit and courage.
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Bath
Howard Vincent O'Brien
Chicago Daily News
Daily Grist
Chicago
Sunday Star
al Capone
Capone
O'Brien
Air Force
Donel O'Brien
The
Star
Robert J. Casey
Lloyd Lewis
Hal O'Flaherty
Howard
A Gaudy Adventurer in Early Louisville
Biographical novel on Drake Robertson known as Gaudy. An orphaned actor turned steamboat operator and playwright, his life on early Louisville fronts with women and wealth, marked by colorful dress and recurring love affairs. A brisk entertainment piece by Mark McMeekin.
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Drake Robertson
Louisville
Gaudy
Ortiz-Vargas features eight new poems in Sabado
Alfredo Ortiz-Vargas, associate Spanish professor at the University of Kansas City, publishes eight new poems as a full-page feature in Sabado May 15 issue from Bogota Colombia. Three essays on North American writers by Vargas appear in Clarin Buenos Aires.
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Alfredo Ortiz-Vargas
University of Kansas City
Sabado
Bogota
Colombia
Senor Vargas
Clarin
Buenos Aires
Maxwell Anderson
Theodore Dreiser
Eugene O'Neill
New Insect Guide Published By Doubleday Co
The Insect Guide is an illustrated manual for entomologists and amateurs prepared by Ralph B. Swain of the United States Department of Agriculture and published by Doubleday & Co Garden City New York. It runs 261 pages and includes many color and black and white illustrations.
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Ralph B. Swain
Doubleday & Co
Garden City
N. Y
Swain
United States Department of Agriculture
Winning Chess by Cherney and Reinfeld
A Simon and Schuster guide on perfecting attacking play in chess. Cherney and Reinfeld present strategies, examples, and practical tips for players seeking stronger offense and tactical prowess.
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Irving Cherney
Fred Reinfeld
Simon & Schuster
Home to the Hermitage profiles Andrew Jackson
Alfred Leland Crabb’s novel paints Jackson as soldier and president with a complex private life. The work centers on The Hermitage and Nashville and reflects Crabb’s Tennessee settings and past novels.
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Andrew Jackson
Nashville
Hermitage
Alfred Leland Crabb
Bobbs Merrill
Jackson
Crabb
Tennessee
Digger the Badger Faces Hunger and a Farmer
A tale from the Green Meadows follows Digger the Badger as hunger drives him from home. Farmer Brown's boy discovers Digger watching his house and cleverly corners the shy badger, forcing a tense scramble as Digger searches for an escape.
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Farmer Brown
Digger
Bowser the Hound
Digger the Badger
Boweser
Bowser
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