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...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...
...first issue went to 12,000 subscribers-more or less. No one will ever know just how many, because the mailing wrappers for the first three issues got so mixed up that some subscribers got three copies of Vol. 1, No. 1, and some got none at all. Its printing standards were about those of a French provincial newspaper in 1910, and the pictures, in the words of Robert Benchley, "looked as if they had been engraved on pieces of bread." At the start we did not have even one salaried advertising salesman, for the chances of selling enough advertising...
...solemn questioning of the optimistic view that human evil is due merely to human ignorance is being conducted by Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr of New York City's Union Theological Seminary. In Vol. I (Human Nature, TIME, March 24, 1941) of his work The Nature and Destiny of Man, Dr. Niebuhr found the roots of sin in pride and self-righteousness. In his second volume, Human Destiny (Scribner; $2.75), Dr. Niebuhr examines past and present interpretations of history...
Most of them do not know it, but U.S. taxpayers own a new magazine. Late this month, after preliminary experimenting that produced a trial issue last September, presses begin to grind out Vol. I, No. 2 of what may well become the Government's biggest publication: Victory, a frankly propagandistic picture magazine. Its publisher: the Office of War Information. Though U.S. citizens own it and are paying for it, they will never see it according to OWI; Victory is to be distributed overseas only...
...Vol. Ill of Science in Progress (a collection of Sigma Xi lectures); Yale University Press...