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...bestseller lists, said S.R.L., reporting bookstores are not weighted as to sales volume. "Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list...
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE (128 pp.)-T. S. Eliot-Harcourt, Brace...
MIST ON THE WATERS (250 pp.)-F. L. Green-Harcourt, Brace...
...still a wretched one, and the recovery rate in U.S. mental hospitals is not "appreciably higher" than it was 50 years ago. Albert Deutsch, medicine and social welfare columnist of the New York Star, has made an angry survey of state mental hospitals, The Shame of the States (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Deutsch gives most such hospitals big black marks: for neglect, overcrowding, inadequate treatment, lack of simple decencies...
Last week a remarkable book called The Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt Brace; $3), the autobiography of a young poet who became a Trappist monk (TIME, Oct. 11), was a bestseller in its fifth printing. Thomas Merton's book was not designed to entertain; it does not offer readers escape-or tips on how to be popular or successful. In fact, the popular and successful reader may be made most uncomfortable by The Seven Storey Mountain. A sample of the book is its description of New York City's Negro quarter, Harlem...