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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
...Murder), for twelve years Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, is Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 51, one of England's three most urbane and influential Catholic priests.* Published in the U. S. this week was Monsignor Knox's latest book, Let Dons Delight.†. To many a reader, Catholic and non-Catholic, this work will bring delight. To others, including many U. S. Catholics who find it difficult to comprehend the lightheartedness and apparent irreverence of their European coreligionists, the book will be shocking...
...layman on his own ground, discussing the material in the light of modern psychology, modern philosophy, and modern literary thought. He does not seek to glorify or debase but merely to explain in terms of modern thought what these "Classics of Christian Devotion" were trying to say. The reader is left to judge for himself whether what was said was worth saying...
...books which Dean Sperry discusses, such as Theologia Germanica or Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, are not very familiar to those outside the Church. Consequently, while Strangers and Pilgrims was meant primarily to be a book of criticism, it will serve many lay readers as an excellent introduction to these masterpieces. Delving into a primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each of these works...
...Reader Stockman is right. Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, first appeared in Godey's Lady's Book...