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BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY? Aldous Huxley??? Harper...
...SCIENTIST AMONG THE SOVIETS? Julian Huxley???Harper ($1.75). Test-tubing Communism...
Music AT NIGHT?Aldous Huxley??? Fountain Press...
ESSAYS IN POPULAR SCIENCE? Julian S. Huxley???Knopf ($4). "There is a danger," says the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think at all." Hence?and because the layman, while he is knowing and kindly towards an atom or electron when he meets one, is embarrassed by sperms and ova and benighted as to chromosomes?hence another volume of popular biology...
ALONG THE ROAD?Aldous Huxley???Doran ($2.00). Not a very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still...