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Brunner's first series of Gifford lectures was delivered at Scotland's St. Andrews University in 1947, and published last year. Published last week was his second series of lectures-Christianity and Civilization, Part 2 (Scribner...
...literary world shook with a double-barreled report: 1) Ernest Hemingway's first book since For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) would be out in March, and 2) Hemingway had been close to death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that...
...been spent teaching. In time, as founder of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom became famous. Maharajas called him in for advice; the Viceroy invited him to tea; both high- and low-caste Indians became his students. Last week, in a rambling autobiography-Sam Higginbottom, Farmer (Scribner; $3)-the 74-year-old missionary tells his story...
BAXTER BERNSTEIN (239 pp.)-Stephen Seley-Scribner...
...LIFE OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (592 pp.) -Ralph L. Rusk - Scribner...