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...PRIVATE DIARIES OF STENDHAL (570 pp.)-Edited and Translated by Robert Sage-Doubleday...
...ALMANAC OF LIBERTY, by William O. Douglas (409 pp.; Doubleday; $5.50), is remarkable chiefly because it takes one of the year's pleasantest publishing ideas and turns it into a bore. Almanac-browsing is a lost pleasure to most Americans, and this attempt to revive it looks promising-until the reader actually starts to browse. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, prolific writer about his rambles in the Far East, has struck off 366 little devotional essays on American liberty for the "common man's" year (which seems always to be leap year). Author Douglas almost immediately slogs...
...Edna Woolman Chase, who at 77 has spent 59 years on the magazine, most of them as Vogue's editorial boss and arbiter of good taste. Last week, with an assist from her actress-author daughter Ilka Chase (Past Imperfect), Editor Chase published her autobiography, Always in Vogue (Doubleday; 381 pp.). In it she spins a rich, half-century history of the world of high fashion that revolved around her magazine, in which one must "be always at the summit of everything that is elegant, modern, beautiful, cultured...
...dull academic he claims to be. His book, Mankind So Far, which deals with such a complex topic as human evolution, is so lucid and light that it has sold over 20,000 copies. This sale is a incase for a scientific none that Doubleday was also happy to snap up his two subsequent books, The Heathen, a study of primitive religious, and Back of History, the history of humans, published this year...
...Lonely Crowd (373 pp.)-with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer-Yale ($4). Others: Faces in the Crowd (741 pp.)-Yale ($5); Thorstein Veblen (209 pp.)-Scribner ($2.75); The Lonely Crowd (349 pp.)-Doubleday (95?); Individualism Reconsidered (507 pp.) -Free Press...