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...Merritt Ives produced some 8,000 lithographs, of which some 7,500 survive as nostalgic relics of 19th-Century Americana. From the largest private collection of Currier & Ives, owned by Harry T. Peters, Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, a volume of reproductions (Doubleday, Doran; $5) has now been published. The color plates are not as good as they might be but the book gives an excellent cross section of the flaming disasters, idyllic farm scenes, sentimental moralities, spanking race horses, political cartoons, Mississippi steamboats and vigorous frontier scenes which Currier & Ives bequeathed...
VICTOR HUGO-Matthew Josephson-Doubleday, Doran...
...penny broadsides, hawked by old men & women on street corners, or in dime songbooks. As the nation's customs, styles, manners and morals changed, so did its songs. Much of the song history of the U.S. since the Civil War is told vividly (sometimes leeringly) in Lost Chords (Doubleday, Doran; $3.50) by a Manhattan newspaperman and man-about-town, Douglas Gilbert...
Said Herbert Hoover fortnight ago: "The American people must begin to think of the problems of peace. And it must think in a far larger frame than ever before." In a thoughtful, 295-page book, The Problems of Lasting Peace (Doubleday Doran; $2), Hoover and veteran Diplomat Hugh Gibson provide a sense-making frame to help clarify post-war thinking...
...delirium tremens fatal? Does whiskey drinking cause cirrhosis of the liver? Will too much liquor cause insanity? These and other fascinating questions are answered in Alcohol Explored (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), a new popular book published last fortnight by famed Yale Physiologists Howard Wilcox Haggard, Elvin Morton Jellinek. Highlights...