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REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA (205 pp.)-Jacques Maritaln-Scribner...
SOME CAME RUNNING (1,266 pp.)-James Jones-Scribner...
...Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...
...have laughed at being compared in any way to the old masters. Not Ovid or the Apostle John, but men such as Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne inspired his brush. He painted for children chiefly-half the time for the publishing house of Scribner, which has sold some 1,700,000 of his "Illustrated Classics," from Treasure Island (1911) to The Yearling (1939). Thirteen are still in print, and the set as a whole is a living monument to a magnificent artist...
...competition with better-heeled fiction magazines, the Atlantic-which helped pioneer the short story-has long been forced to search for stories by new and inexpensive writers, and has started many U.S. authors on the road to fame. Example: in 1927, after Cosmopolitan, the old Scribner's, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's had all turned down a brutally succinct short story about a crooked prizefighter, it was accepted by Staffer Edward Weeks, now editor of the Atlantic. Titled Fifty Grand, it was the first story by Ernest Hemingway to be published in a general-circulation U.S. magazine...