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Thus Aldous Huxley introduces The Complete Etchings of Goya (Crown; $3.50), the first inclusive collection in book form. The new Goya reproduces, mostly in their original size, the 268 brutal, sometimes nether-worldly scenes which Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist...
...unusually low price. Along with noted poets (Eliot, Auden, Hardy, Yeats, etc.) are examples from the lesser known (Roy Campbell, James Agee, etc.). The prose writings are also various: Churchill on Dunkirk, stories by Henry James, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith, essays by Aldous Huxley and E. M. Forster, letters by John Jay Chapman, etc. Author Maugham steps in from time to time with offhand comments...
Articles are written by experts, who get a scholar's rate of 2? a word. Included with the Britannica essays of Macaulay, Scott and Stevenson are eminent moderns: Henry Ford (Mass Production), Albert Einstein (Space-Time), Julian Sorell Huxley (Courtship of Animals), George Bernard Shaw-who accepted $68.40 for 3,420 words on Socialism...
Among present-day Bates disciples are Mrs. Bates and Optometrist Harold Peppard of Manhattan. Novelist Aldous Huxley was so much helped by the Bates method that he wrote a book about it (The Art of Seeing...
Dualists have classically insisted that .a dead man differs from a live one by the loss of a soul. But, says Huxley, a dead body is not the same as a living body, the chemical conditions are different: "If you substitute oil for acid in the battery of your automobile, no current will pass." The electric eel can light a lamp; less visible, but none the less real are the currents which accompany all vital activity. In the same manner, "all the activities of the world stuff are accompanied by mental as well as material happenings...