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...Press is now planning to print "The Quest for Peace" by William E. Rappard, the eminent Swiss political scientist. A study of De Quincey's "Opium Eater," by John C. Metcalf, was published last Friday...
...Press has been migratory. It was first established on the second floor of Wadsworth House, then moved to the basement of University Hall and finally come to a halt in Randall Hall. Since 1932 the executive offices have been located in the little yellow clapboard house at 38 Quincey Street...
...larger, thicker paper, with the imprint: Norwegian Publications, Oslo, Norway. Another Salop success was a 1,136-page volume titled Five Sinners and a Saint priced at $1.69. Inside this new literary package readers discovered six time-worn staples-the autobiographies of Madame P'ompadour, Benvenuto Cellini, De Quincey, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, St. Augustine. Another time Salop bought an out-of-date civics book. When it did not sell, he dressed it up in a fancy jacket, sold out the edition...
SELECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY-Edited by Philip Van Doren -Random House ($3.50). Generous, nicely packaged, freshly kept sample comprising about one-eighth of the English Opium-Eater's 17-vol. works...
Since calibre of adventure rather than fluidity of style has been the criterion for the excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies...