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The American Scholar • 71 Years, 284 Issues, 6,139 Articles, 43,357pp
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The Revolving Bookstand
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Twenty outstanding books of the previous quarter
The American Scholar, Autumn 1953, pp. 492-501
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The Pursuit of Happiness (1953)
    Howard Mumford Jones
    5 Reviews
  2. Rebel Thought (1953)
    Herbert Faulkner West
    1 Review
  3. The Life of the Past (1953)
    George Gaylord Simpson
    An Introduction to Paleontology
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. Evolution in Action (1953)
    Julian Huxley
    6 Reviews, 2 Readable
  5. Sugar Country (1953)
    Joseph Carlyle Sitterson
    The Cane Sugar Industry in the South, 1753-1950
    2 Reviews
  6. Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 (1953)
    Adlai E. Stevenson
    6 Reviews, 2 Readable
  7. Down in the Holler (1953)
    Vance Randolph and George P. Wilson
    A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech
    2 Reviews
  8. A Mingled Yarn (1953)
    H.M. Tomlinson
    Autobiographical Sketches
    3 Reviews
  9. Shanghai Pierce (1953)
    Chris Emmett
    A Fair Likeness
    2 Reviews
  10. Letters of Sherwood Anderson (1953)
    Howard Mumford Jones, Walter B. Rideout, and Sherwood Anderson, ...
    8 Reviews, 4 Readable
  11. Francis Thompson and Wilfrid Meynell: A Memoir (1953)
    Viola Meynell
    3 Reviews
  12. Henry James, Vol. I (1953)
    Leon Edel
    The Untried Years, 1843-1870
    9 Reviews, 2 Readable
  13. Mallarme (1953)
    Wallace Fowlie
    2 Reviews
  14. The Gypsy Ballads (1952)
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Romancero Gitano
    5 Reviews
  15. The Financial Expert (1953)
    R.K. Narayan
    8 Reviews, 4 Readable
  16. You Shall Know Them (1953)
    Vercors
    11 Reviews, 2 Readable
  17. The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 (1932)
    Robert Musil
    A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails
    17 Reviews, 4 Readable
  18. Children Are Bored on Sunday (1953)
    Jean Stafford
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  19. The Echoing Grove (1953)
    Rosamond Lehmann
    8 Reviews, 1 Readable
  20. The Light in the Forest (1953)
    Conrad Richter
    6 Reviews, 2 Readable
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