Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN PAUL JONES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Morison is not at his best when his hero (who at one time served Catherine the Great as Rear Admiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones) is ashore, but in describing the fighting at sea, Morison has no superior in the...
THE HOUSE OF INTELLECT, by Jacques Barzun. An uneven but provocative attack on mass culture and mass education, in the name of old-fashioned discipline and logic.
ELIZABETH THE GREAT, by Elizabeth Jenkins. A string of brilliant miniatures of the Queen who said of herself: "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by Simone de Beauvoir. France's existentialist termagant. Jean Paul Sartre's first lady of the Left Bank cafés, is at least as candid as she is philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising...
Chin P'ing Mei ends Hsi Men's story here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi...