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...Protestantism's foremost theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr.*has written a thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title-most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses his word advisedly. Not so final as tragedy, not so hopeless as pathos, the ironic view is a Christian study of the "unconscious weakness" by which classic American strengths and virtues have subtly developed into shortcomings...
Died. Charles E. Scribner III, 62, since 1932 head of the staid publishing house founded in 1846 by his grandfather; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Despite the house's distinguished list of authors (e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe), Scribner officially insisted that "by far the most important thing" it ever published was its 1928 Dictionary of American Biography...
TRAIL DRIVING DAYS (264 pp.)-Dee Brown & Martin F. Schmitt-Scribner...
...York World dubbed him) was about to get a lift. A book review helped to do it, mostly because the reviewer was President Theodore Roosevelt. His young son Kermit had sent him the revamped edition of Robinson's first book, and the excited T.R. prodded Scribner's into reissuing it. In his review in the Outlook, T.R. foreshadowed many a Robinson admirer since by admitting: "I am not sure I understand Luke Havergal; but I am entirely sure I like...
...even took on some professionals. Some of them are ex-editors of magazines which Wallace had once "digested," and which later died. Kenneth W. Payne came from the North American Review, at 61 is now executive editor of the Digest. The managing editor, Alfred S. ("Fritz") Dashiell, came from Scribner's. After the Review of Reviews and the Literary Digest folded, Howard ("Skipper") Florance, who had edited both, came over; as senior editor, he now runs the "planting" of Digest-originated articles in other magazines. Other ex-editors who joined Wallace: Business Week's Marc Rose, American Mercury...