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Beyond the Campus. But Phelps was moving on to greater extramural triumphs. He helped transform book reviewing from a scholarly exercise for the cognoscenti into an evangelical service for the man who reads while he runs. In 1922 he launched his "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, each month thereafter glowed with enthusiasm for the most wonderful book of the month (or year or decade...
...Gould reported last week that Scribner's is interested in a fragment of his Oral History. Says Joe: "Willkie called his book One World. Mine will be called A Million Worlds. There are as many worlds as there are people, each having his own world. " Asked whether he liked his own world, Joe said: "I haven't decided...
THOMAS WOLFE'S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER-Scribner...
...LIEUTENANTS, Vol. II - Douglas Soufhall Freeman - Scribner ($5). Volume I of Author Freeman's massive work of the Confederate warriors (Lee's Lieutenants, TIME, Oct. 26), closed with the aftermath of the Seven Days' battles. Volume II takes the reader from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson. Other famous "lieutenants" included are James Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions...
...Party had ganged up on the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for May, Mark Aldanov's novel The Fifth Seal (Scribner's; $3). The Daily Worker opened the attack with a letter demanding that the club withdraw the novel as "subtly and viciously anti-Soviet." Then the machinery started turning whereby the Party gets a wide assortment of innocent bystanders and fellow travelers to forward the assassination. Labor unions, civic groups and authors received unsigned memorandums, urging protests; many obliged. Protests were made by Sculptor Jo Davidson, Artist Rockwell Kent, Poet Alfred Kreymborg, Poetess Genevieve...