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These are some of the conclusions about animal behavior reached by the late G. Kingsley Noble, onetime curator of experimental biology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and now published by his widow and longtime coworker, Ruth Crosby Noble, in The Nature of the Beast (Doubleday Doran, $2.75). A few of the book's assertions were established by experiment. Readers are asked to accept the rest on faith in the Nobles' long observation and deductive powers. Some other Noble findings...
...scientists, as distinct from textbook writers, have sometimes been highly readable writers. Proof of it is available this week in a new collection of the history-making but seldom-read writings of 100 of the world's greatest scientists. It is The Autobiography of Science (Doubleday, Doran; $4), edited by Forest Ray Moulton, secretary of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, and Justus J. Schifferes. By & large, this anthology bears out its editors' assertion that "good science makes good reading." Three cases in point...
...PRISONER - Ernst Lothar -Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). In a U.S. prison camp an Austrian P.O.W. faces death at the hands of his fellow prisoners when he reveals the story of his own betrayal by Nazi false witness and treachery. Convincing disillusionment with plenty of suspense in the telling...
SOME OF THESE DAYS-Sophie Tucker-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Sophie's rise from burlesque "coon singing" to Ziegfeld stardom and Hollywood makes a rowdy and sentimental tale of yesterday's show business...
PHILADELPHIA, HOLY EXPERIMENT-Struthers Burf - Doubleday, Doran...