March 1953 Issue, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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- Personal & Otherwise, pp. 4-17
- Letters, pp. 18-22
- What Do the Democrats do Now?
  John Fischer
  , pp. 23-29
- Northeaster
  Elizabeth Enright
  , p. 30
- The Great Mokusatsu Mistake
  William J. Coughlin
  , pp. 31-39
  Was This the Deadliest Error of Our Time?
- Saying Good-By to a Child
  Sara Van Alstyne Allen
  , p. 40
- Artists in Uniform
  Mary McCarthy
  , pp. 41-49
  A Story
- The Easy Chair
  Bernard DeVoto
  , pp. 50-53
  Twenty-Hour Vigil
- Russia and the West
  Arnold J. Toynbee
  , pp. 54-57
- Any Subcommittee Listening?, p. 58
- Revolution in Clothes
  Fessenden S. Blanchard
  , pp. 59-64
- England's Country Houses
  C.V. Wedgwood
  , pp. 65-73
  A Heritage and a Problem
- Taft-Hartley and the Test of Time
  Benjamin Rathbun
  , pp. 74-80
- Indigenous Girls
  Donald R. Depew
  , pp. 81-85
  A Story
- Little Men and Flying Saucers
  Loren C. Eiseley
  , pp. 86-91
- Portraits from Memory
  Bertrand Russell
  , pp. 92-93
  IV: Sidney and Beatrice Webb~Sidney Webb
- That New-Fangled Idea Conservation, p. 94
- After Hours
  "Mr. Harper"
  , pp. 95-98
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  New Books (20 Reviews)
  Gilbert Highet
  , pp. 99-105
  African Sculpture Speaks, by Ladislas Segy
  1. African Sculpture Speaks by Ladislas Segy
  2. African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel, and James Johnson Sweeney, ...
  3. The Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson
  4. The Letters of Samuel Johnson by R.W. Chapman and Samuel Johnson
  5. The Best Butter by Jean Dutourd
  6. The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
  7. Half a Dollar Is Better Than None by Nicholas Diminno
  8. Neely by Walter Karig
  9. When the Gods Are Silent by Mikhail Soloviev
  10. Empress of Byzantium by Helen A. Mahler
  11. Movable Feasts by Arnold Palmer
  12. Illustrated English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
  13. Acton's Political Philosophy by George E. Fasnacht
  14. Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb
  15. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
  16. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. Spring in Spain by MacKinley Helm
  18. Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark
  19. The Singular Preference by Peter Quennell
  20. Jan at the Blue Fox by Ronald F.H. Duncan
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  Books in Brief (9 Reviews)
  Katherine Gauss Jackson
  , pp. 106-109
  I and My True Love, by Helen MacInnes
  1. I and My True Love by Helen MacInnes
  2. Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates
  3. Landfall by Helen R. Hull
  4. A Good Man by Jefferson Young
  5. The Challenge by Phyllis Bottome
  6. My Dear Timothy by Victor Gollancz
  7. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall
  8. The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frederic Dumas
  9. The Wonderful World of Books by Alfred Stefferud
- The New Recordings
  Edward Tatnall Canby
  , pp. 110-114
- Cover
  Tom Frank