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Published this week is a sharp-minded investigation of the American religious paradox. In Protestant-Catholic-Jew (Doubleday; $4) Jewish Author-Scholar Will Herberg maintains that both the religiousness and the secularism of the American people derive from much the same sources, and have combined to give the U.S. a religion...
...Wouk is no tractmonger. He is first and last a topnotch storyteller, and his readers know it. Marjorie seemed slated to be a runaway bestseller. It was the unanimous choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club judges for September, and the publishers, Doubleday, took the hard-headed gamble of an initial printing of 100,000 copies...
...Doubleday, $5, written and edited by LIFE Promotion Writer Stanley Rayfield...
...Meistersinger as the waspish Beckmesser. But perhaps the most remarkable music critic of all time, a man who later made his mark in wider literary fields, was George Bernard Shaw. A new selection from his weekly criticisms for London's The Star and The World (Shaw on Music; Doubleday Anchor Books; 95?) proves that Critic Shaw did not have to be wrong to be memorable. Half a century later, his musical opinions on the whole stand up better than his political theories, white his style ought to put most contemporary critics to shame...
DESTINATIONS (320 pp.) - Georges Simenon-Doubleday...