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GOLD RUSH ALBUM (239 pp.)-Edited by Joseph Henry Jackson-Scribner...
...CHRISTMAS TREE (212 pp.]-Isabel Bolton-Scribner...
RUDOLPH: THE TRAGEDY OF MAYERLING (244 pp.) -Count Carl Lonyay #151; Scribner...
What Is Psychiatry? What exactly, is this science that all the fuss is about? In one of his three books* published this year (You and Psychiatry, Scribner, $2.50, written in collaboration with Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull), Dr. Will has given a textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take...
Freeman was 29 with a Ph.D. in history when New York Publisher Charles Scribner asked him to do a one-volume biography of General Lee. Freeman delivered it to Scribner's son 19 years later (January 1934*) in four volumes. At that, he got it done only by putting himself on his present rigorous timetable in 1926. Said Scribner: "This is a formidable job. We will have to sell 4,000 sets to break even." Freeman's reply: "I'm cheatin' you, man!" To date Scribner's has sold 35,000 sets...