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...AMERICAN LIFE (1607-1776)-William Chauncy Langdon -Scribner ($3). Patterned on Peter Quennell's History of Everyday Things in England and based on the theory that everyday things are more truly, permanently significant than extraordinary things, this book by a well-known director of historical pageants and historian for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. describes the furniture, clothes, houses, dishes, industries et al. of the U. S. Colonial period. Two more volumes are to come. Numerous illustrations and contemporary drawings...
Unlike another recent art historian, Hendrik Willem van Loon (TIME, Oct. 4), Critic Cheney has stuck to the visual arts and has in fact written about them, not confining himself to their "background."' Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
Such was the epilogue which the foremost living historian of medicine, Professor Ernest Sigerist of Johns Hopkins University added to a book on Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union* published last fortnight. But to the anxious minds of orthodox U. S. doctors, Historian Sigerist's dictum was prologue to a blood-curdling new excursion into the practice of medicine which the U. S. Government initiated last week...
...historian and antiquarian the almanac is invaluable. As the practical earmark of a basically practical age, it reflected the life and manners of the colonial period. The almanac was, as it were, the tone of American life until 1800. When the number of colonial printing presses multiplied and the cost of publication dropped as a result, the almanac lost its influence and significance. When it became a relic, it was used ignominiously...
Usher is somewhat more kindly, but he feels that the elaborate statistics adduced by Sorokin do not, on the whole, support his argument. As a historian, Usher has little sympathy with Sorokin's method of ideal types which he believes better adapted to short essays than to extended treatises...