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...boldly set out in 1926 to get anthropological data on criminals. His trained field workers spent three years collecting it, and another nine years were spent at Harvard analyzing it. Now Anthropologist Hooton is ready to release his findings. The Harvard University Press is to publish a huge technical monograph in three volumes for scientists. For laymen, many-sided Dr. Hooton last week published a shorter and simpler book, Crime and the Man* which put the salient facts of his investigation in lighter form...
Living in isolated Indian villages from British Columbia to Panama, intrepid Investigator Densmore has collected some 2,500 Indian songs and written 20 books about them. Most of the books have been published by Washington's august Smithsonian Institution. Last week the latest of them, a monograph entitled Nootka and Quileute Music, started rolling through the Institution's presses...
...years ago Philadelphia's Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology managed to raise a few opossums in captivity. This year 285 young were born on its farm. From his study of these. Edward McCrady Jr. last week published a monograph on The Embryology of the Opossum, which brought to an end one controversy, may well start a few more...
...such level of eloquence and penetration as James's monograph, Author Armstrong's biography is nevertheless written with care and understanding. Her subject is a "natural," and, thanks to the fact that she quotes liberally from Fanny Kemble 's own vivid journals, the result ably suggests the reanimating qualities that inspired James's enthusiasm...
...Lougee is young (Andover 1932) and quite sincere. He declares that he doesn't follow any particular "ism" of art; rather does he try to utilize all of them in his creations. He uses a now technique which he calls his monograph medium on some of his pictures. On others he uses the air-brush, brought into the public eye by George Petty of "Esquire" fame. These techniques combined with a now method of employing pastel colors produce amassingly well-excented sketches...