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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). The Letters of William James, discussed by Alfred Kazin, Leon Edel...
...Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George Meredith); and a few actually enlarged their subjects' dimensions (Betty Miller's Robert Browning, David Magarshack...
...GHOSTLY TALES OF HENRY JAMES (765 pp.)-Edited by Leon Edel-Rutgers...
...except for a few sickly sketches in the Hawthorne manner but without the Hawthorne skill, James, wrote few ghost stories until he was 48. Then he burst out with a spate of them. Editor Leon Edel speculates that this middle-aged absorption in the supernatural helped James compensate for the critical and popular rejection of his later novels and dismally unsuccessful plays ; in the ghostly stories, James could work off his resentments, regrets and anxieties...
...half mile was taken by John Edel-man with a time of 2:1.2, with Bernie O'Brien just nosing out Yale's Bill Goedecke for the second. The mile was another of the Bulldog's scarce firsts, being won by Francis Martin in 4:47. Dave Groshong came in second...