Spring 1956 Issue, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

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- The Place of Thought in American Life
  Daniel J. Boorstin
  , pp. 137-150
- The Judgment of the Birds
  Loren Eiseley
  , pp. 151-160
- 48 B.C.
  L.F. Gerlach
  , pp. 161-162
- The Myth of Asia
  John Steadman
  , pp. 163-175
- Lullaby to Myself
  Erika Renon
  , p. 176
- Thoughts in a Small-Town Library
  Granville Hicks
  , pp. 177-192
- Orwell: History as Nightmare
  Irving Howe
  , pp. 193-207
- If You Don't Mind My Saying So
  Joseph Wood Krutch
  , pp. 208-211
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  The Enigmatic Corsican (Review)
  Geoffrey Bruun
  , pp. 212-213
  The Mind of Napoleon, by J. Christopher Herold and Napoleon
  1. The Mind of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold and Napoleon
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  Under Whatever Sky (Review)
  Saxe Commins
  , pp. 214-219
  The Uses of Philosophy, by Irwin Edman
  1. The Uses of Philosophy by Irwin Edman
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  Verbal Chess Game (Review)
  Abram Kardiner, M.D.
  , pp. 220-225
  Eros and Civilization, by Herbert Marcuse
  1. Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
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  Microcosm of Contemporary Poetry (Review)
  Hazard Adams
  , pp. 226-237
  Poets of Today II, by John Hall Wheelock
  1. Poets of Today II by John Hall Wheelock
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  Brief Comments (28 Reviews) , pp. 238-252
  Twenty-seven outstanding books of the previous quarter
  1. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 by Gordon A. Craig
  2. Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought by Ernest J. Simmons
  3. Japan's Modern Century by Hugh Borton
  4. Cities in the Wilderness by Carl Bridenbaugh
  5. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh
  6. Three Presidents and Their Books by Arthur Bestor, David C. Mearns, and Jonathan Daniels, ...
  7. Tinkers and Genius by Edmund Fuller
  8. Architecture, Ambition and Americans by Wayne Andrews
  9. The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States by Richard Hofstadter and Walter P. Metzger
  10. Academic Freedom in Our Time by Robert M. MacIver
  11. Facts to a Candid World by Oren Stephens
  12. Further Speculations by T.E. Hulme and Sam Hynes
  13. The Letters of George Santayana by Daniel Cory and George Santayana
  14. Cells and Societies by John Tyler Bonner
  15. On the Track of Prehistoric Man by Herbert Kuhn
  16. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson
  17. The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows
  18. The Nez Perces by Francis Haines
  19. The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
  20. Hogarth's Progress by Peter Quennell
  21. Victorian People by Asa Briggs
  22. The Rungless Ladder by Charles H. Foster
  23. Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time by Germaine Bree
  24. The Stature of Theodore Dreiser by Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro
  25. Japanese Literature by Donald Keene
  26. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Thomas Herbert Johnson and Emily Dickinson
  27. Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography by Thomas Herbert Johnson
  28. Painted Lace and Other Pieces by Gertrude Stein
- The Reader Replies, pp. 253-258