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...John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George...
...activities to the nation's public schools. The Rutherford, N.J. Board of Education approved a Gideons offer to give copies of the New Testament, bound with the Old Testament Books of Psalms and Proverbs, to public-school children whose parents made written requests. But a Jewish father, Bernard Tudor, backed by the American Jewish Congress, and a Catholic parent, Ralph Le Coque (who later withdrew from the case), contested the plan in court and obtained a temporary injunction. This week the New Jersey supreme court unanimously made it permanent...
...Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A; penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...
...professor of History at Harvard, with the agreement that he could teach and still have time to tend to Radcliffe. He accepted, wound up his Chicago affairs, and was inaugurated in October of 1943. He still teaches one course each year and gives a graduate seminar in the Tudor and Stuart periods of English history...
...Deathbed Succession. What Mary faced was a state of "open war." Who, exactly, led and organized "the policy of persecution" with which Mary retaliated. "we do not know," writes Author Prescott. But the burning of heretics, "a principle taken for granted" in Tudor England, now began on a scale never known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump...