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...existent in Your Child Is Normal, by Dr. Grace Adams, published last week.* A psychologist whose 15 years of experience include research at Cornell University, social work among Southern mill children and psychiatric treatment of rich "problem children" in Manhattan, Dr. Adams is married, childless. Her book is a guidebook to children, "a unique, interesting and likable class of human beings." Her advice to parents is never dogmatic. Interspersed with references to numerous moppets whose behavior has been minutely observed and recorded by psychologists, it may lead impartial readers to conclude that children are a terrifying breed, that successfully applying...
...popularity he showed that in the long run U. S. readers, though they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune...
...still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold in the last 70 years, now number 30,000. Rio Grande, neither a guidebook nor a history, is something of both, covers in simple anecdotal style a big country, a spacious time. The easy-rambling narrative overtakes and passes historical figure after figure, never stays long with any: Indian Pope, the King Philip of the Southwest; Uncle Dick Wootton, who traveled 5,000 miles...
Northernmost point of New York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line...
...literary scene, when he is through with it, looks just about the same, though the literati look more real. For modern writers like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passes he has not much to say; prefers Hemingway, Frost, Edna Millay. The book is a reliable and compendious guidebook, though its readers will sometimes suffer from a discomforting suspicion that its author's opinions will never wither from lack...