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Essays and addresses, 1946-56. Major work on areas of current dis-
cussion $1.25
M32. Morris R. Cohen. A PREFACE TO LOGIC. $1.25
M33. Roger Fry VISION AND DESIGN. Cogent essays on painting,
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A57. Aristophanes FIVE COMEDIES: The Birds, The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Wasps, The
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A14. Alain-Fournier THE WANDERER. Beautiful, evocative novel of adolescence. Infused
with a luminous quality, alive with characterization, and with profound psychological penetra-
tion, it is a classic of modern French literature. .75
A36. Bernard Berenson AESTHETICS AND HISTORY. The summation of a lifetime of re-
flection on the problems of aesthetic judgement by the greatest living authority on Italian art.
Here are his guiding principles, dramatic and humanistic. .85
A28. Henrik Bergson THE TWO SOURCES OF MORALITY AND RELIGION. The cosmic
struggle of the force and will of life for richness and complexity thru and beyond matter. A
great discussion by Bergson of his epochal concept of creative evolution. Moral obligation-
static religion--dynamic religion-mechanics and mysticism. .85
A44. John B. Brebner THE EXPLORERS OF NORTH AMERICA: 1492-1806. Frorn Colum-
bus to Lewis and Clark. A classic account--by far the best ever written of the opening of the
rew hemisphere-of one of the great adventures in human history. 1.25
A65. Jacob Burckhardt THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. The brilliant study of
one of the great ages of transition in world history when the classic, pagan Roman Empire
was replaced by the Christian, Oriental Roman Empire. 1.25
A41. E. A. Burtt THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE. The scien-
tific thinking of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and their contemporaries. .95
A52. Ernst Cassirer THE MYTH OF THE STATE. Beginning with a cogent analysis of the
nature of myth, it traces the history of rational thought about the state beginning with Plato,
and finally we can see in Carlyle, Gobbineau, and Hegel the background of the irrational
political myths of our day which provide the ideological and psychological setting for modern
dictatorship. A testament of wisdom. 1.25
M34. Edward Glover FREUD OR JUNG?
.$1.25
A53. Anton Chekhov PEASANTS AND OTHER STORIES.
1.25
A62. Colette MY MOTHER'S HOUSE and THE VAGABOND. Two stories demonstrating
her unique talent for translating passion directly into literary terms. .95
A76. Fustel de Coulanges THE ANCIENT CITY. The religious, civil, and legal institutions
of ancient Greece and Rome-the society of their cities in the earliest stages of their his-
tory. A religion of only dimly understood rites which dominated every aspect of life was
the basis of their civic-ness. .95
A67. Tobias Dantzig NUMBER: THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE. "This is beyond doubt the
most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics that has ever fallen into my hands,"
Albert Einstein. The almost impossible task of telling the story to the mathematically untrained
layman, performed remarkably well, readable, accurate. f .95
A77. Roger Fry TRANSFORMATIONS. Critical and speculative essays on art with 48 pages
of illustrations. He argues a unique response to esthetic experience. 1.45
A7. Andre Gide LAFCADIO'S ADVENTURES. One of the most original and influential works
of modern fiction and also one of the funniest. .75
A8. Francisco de Goya THE DISASTERS OF WAR. His macabre etchings. 1.25
A9. Franz Kafka AMERIKA. His famous novel about the USA.
.95
A10. Alfred Kazin ON NATIVE GROUNDS. A study of American prose literature from 1890
to the presents Slightly abridged, with a new postscript. 1.25
A38. H. D. F. Kitto GREEK TRAGEDY. A literary study.
1.25
A40. F. R. Leavis THE GREAT TRADITION. A study of the English novel by one of the
two or three most jnfluential (and controversial) modern critics. .95
A39. D. H. Lawrence SEA AND SARDINIA, plus selections from TWILIGHT IN ITALY.
Penetrating travel writing of high literary merit provides a background for insight into Law-
rence himself, the passion of his moral sense. Remarkable prose. .85
A40. Samuel Lubell THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS. Rev. ed. .95
M35. Christopher Dawson MAKING OF EUROPE $1.35
M36. Donald F. Tovey THE FORMS OF MUSIC $1.35
M. E. M. Forster ABINGER HARVEST. Essays of import $1.25
M2. Jacob Burckhardt FORCE AND FREEDOM $1.35
M3. Irving Babbitt ROUSSEAU & ROMANTICISM $1.35
M4 Joseph Schumpeter IMPERIALISM AND SOCIAL CLASSES. On areas
of modern conflict $1.25
M5. August Aichorn WAYWARD YOUTH. Classic study $1.25
M6. Eric Bentley THE PLAYWRIGHT AS THINKER $1.25
M7. Herbert Read PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN. ART $1.35
M8. Jacques Maritain CREATIVE INTUITION IN ART AND POETRY.
Very important discussions on poetry, music, painting, and philosophy.
$1.35
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I MG 1. Evelyn Underhill MYSTICISM. A study (perhaps the study)I
( in the nature & development of Man's spiritual consciousness. I
( MG 2. G. G. Coulton MEDIEVAL PANORAMA. The English scene
I from Conquest to Reformation. Profusely illustrated with contem-
porary woodcuts. With over 800 pages this is the largest of all the
( Meridian Giants.
'MG 3. Jane Harrison PROLEGOMENA TO THE STUDY OF GREEK I
RELIGION. A primary source, a pioneer and monumental work for I
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I owes much to this book. With many illustrations in the text. I
( MG 4. Stanislavski MY LIFE IN ART. One of the greatest men in I
the theatre that ever lived in this inspiring and articulate biography I
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MG 5. Mario Praz. THE ROMANTIC AGONY. An acute analysis I
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( MG 6. Heinrich Zimmer PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA, edited by Jo- I
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philosophic systems, including Yoga and Buddhism. 12 plates, 687
pages.
MG 7. A. E. Taylor PLATO: THE MAN AND HIS WORK. Taylor
is the ideal interpretor of Plato. The book, a detailed commentary on
the whole of Platonic writings, is also a pilot for the least experi-
enced traveller thru a great region of the spiritual life of man. New.
I ML 1. Samuel Dill ROMAN SOCIETY-FROM NERO TO MARCUS
I AURELIUS. A comprehensive picture of social, cultural, and reli
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I ML 2. Oskar Seyffert DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES,
I revised by Nettleship and Sondys. The monumental, heavily illus-
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I pioneering work in the social and cultural reconstruction of the reli-
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M9. Eduard Zeller OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSO-
PHY. An excellent survey $1.25
M10. Jean Piaget THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT OF THE CHILD.
A sound, pioneering study. $1.35
Ml. Wm. Empson SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY $1.25
M12. Lord Acton ESSAYS ON FREEDOM & POWER $1.25
M13. Allen Tate THE MAN OF LETTERS IN THE MODERN WORLD:
SELECTED ESSAYS, 1928-1955 $1.35
M14. Van Wyck Brooks THE ORDEAL OF MARK TWAIN. The Ameri-
can humorist in the Gilded Age. $1.25
MI5. Bronislaw Malinowski SEX AND REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SO-
CIETY. Origins of culture $1.25
M16. William James PRAGMATISM plus 4 essays on THE MEANING
OF TRUTH. $1.25
M17. Croce HISTORY AS THE STORY OF LIBERTY $1.35
M18. NEW DIRECTIONS 15. International anthology of new paths in
prose and poetry. $1.35
M19. Lionel Trilling MATTHEW ARNOLD $1.35
M20. A. C. Bradley SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY $1.35
M21. Denis de Rougemont THE DEVIL'S SHARE $1.25
M22. Joseph Campbell THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. Study
of symbol, myth, religion $1.45
M23. S. Runciman BYZANTINE CIVILIZATION $1.25
M24. John M Keynes ESSAYS & SKETCHES IN BIOGRAPHY. Men of
THE GREEKS AND THEIR GODS
W. K. C. Guthrie
"an exceedingly rich book"
BP2................1.75
BP 27. Arnold Rose THE NEGRO IN AMERICA. The authorized condensation of Gunnar
Myrdal's monumental study of our major social problem, "The American Dilemna." As Myrdal
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done, and true to the spirit of therwhole undertaking." A must volume, and one we very much
commend. You will not regret my recommendation. $1.45
BP 28. Soren Kierkegaard ATTACK UPON "CHRISTENDOM." First of the modern existen-
tianists, this is Kierkegaard at his witty, satirical, stinging best. A wonderful resume of his
whole life work and the best introduction in one volume to his thought. $1.45
BP 29. A. R. Hall THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, 1500-1800; THE FORMATION OF
THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE. Dr. Hall, Lecturer in the History of Science in the
University of Cambridge writes with the authority of careful scholarship. Here is his "character
study" of the course of events of 3 critical centuries, a knowledge of which is indispensable
for comprehending the present situation. Trustworthy, factual. $1.45
BP 30. Andre Malraux THE CONQUERORS. The greatest practicioner of the journalistic
novel in Europe; one of the four important writers of modern France with Proust, Valery, and
Gide;. and of course a foremost scholar and art critic. This fine novel was written contemporan-
eously and is of the same piece with Man's Fate. A narrative of a few months spent at the head-
quarters of the Kuomintang in Canton with an oddly terrifying cumulative effect, here is history
seized at the moment of its formation. A great, yet scarcely-known novel at our time $1.25
BP 31. Eric Bentley WHAT IS THEATRE? The best critic at present writing in the English
language, the incomparable Eric Bentley comments on the two Broadway seasons, 1955 and
1956 .. . plus 32 "non reviews" in which he brilliantly discusses problems of life and the thea-
tre . . . plus much other material including a major discussion from which the book is titled. 1.75
SP 32. Arnold Toynbee THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. The first historian to create our
modern consciousness of the industrial revolution, presented here thru his major, pioneering
work. Toynbee died at the age of 30-his world-famous nephew carries on the name and the
tradition and is here represented thru the forward to this volume. This classic is still as much
alive as ever . . . the first (and a masterly) conceiving of the Industrial Revolution as a single,
great historical event. $1.25
BP 33. BEST SHORT PLAYS, 1955-56, ed. by Margaret Mayorga. Ten plays including new
ones by Archibald MacLeish, Arnold PerI, Reginald Rose, and Tennessee Williams, plus 4 major
articles on drama and the stage. $1.V
BP 34. Lionel Trilling A GATHERING OF FUGITIVES. A new collection of those razor-
edged short pieces for which Lionel Trilling has become internationally famous. Ranging from
a discussion of the quality of Zola and a new consideration of Dickens to notes on David Ries-
man and Freud's final credo, there are 17 chapters in all. The author has been professor of
English at Columbia since 1931. $1.75
BP 1. Albert Schweitzer AN ANTHOLOGY. . Important selectiohs from his writings. $1.45
BP 3. Raymond Aron THE CENTURY OF TOTAL WAR. Able diagnosis of the world's pros-
pects based on acute analysis of our times from Sarajevo to Cold War by Europe's wisest voice
on contemporary affairs. Incisive argument, felicitous phrase. $1.50
A51. Gilbert Murray FIVE STAGES OF GREEK RELIGION.
HELLAS: A SHORT HISTORY
OF ANCIENT GREECE
C.-E. Robinson
BP 8...............1.25
.95
A81 Friedrich Nietzsche THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY plus THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS.
New trdris. of 2 famous works, his 1st book plus one of the last. .95
A82. Henri Pirenne MEDIEVAL CITIES. Revival of trade and urban life in 10th and 11th
centuries, ending the Dark Ages and opening the period of Medieval civilization. Combines
simplicity with erudition, imagination wth accuracy. .95
A16. Dayd Riesman THE LONELY CROWD, abridged by the author. .95
A58. David Riesman SELECTED ESSAYS FROM JNDIVIDUALISM RECONSIDERED .95
A73. George Santayana CHARACTER & OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES. .75
A53. Bernard Shaw SHAW ON MUSIC. Selections from his music criticism .95
A9. A. E. Taylor SOCRATES, THE MAN AND HIS THOUGHT.
.65
A47. D. A. Traversi AN APPROACH TO SHAKESPEARE. The most fruitful and balanced
criticism of Shakespeare to appear in our timel A new approach. .95
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THEINEW FALL TITLES
A84. Charles Baudelaire THE MIRROR OF ART. His most important critical studies of
art. With 84 illustrations. A singularly valuable work. 1.45
A85. Edmund Wilson A LITERARY CHRONICLE: 1920-1950. 440 pages of essays and
reviews on contemporary writers and events by our greatest living critic. 1.25
A86. William Petersen, ed. AMERICAN SOCIAL PATTERNS. 5 studies by key modern
American sociologists on interracial housing, union democracy, etc. .95'
A87. Wylie Sypher, ed. COMEDY. Includes LAUGHTER by Henri Bergson, AN ESSAY I
ON COMEDY by George Meredith, plus an introduction and appendix by the editor titled I
THE MEANING OF COMEDY. All in one great Anchor volume. .95 1
A88. Erwin Schrodinger WHAT IS LIFE?-AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ESSAYS. A Nobel
prizewinning physicist examines modern science in the light of its history and in the famous
title essay examines the problem of human life from the point of view of quantum physics.
To call this book provocative is to understate the case. .95
A89. Henri Frankfort THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION IN THE NEAR EAST. A major
contribution to modern archeology. With 51 illustrations. * .85 I
A90. ZEN BUDDHISM: SELECTED WRITINGS OF D. T. SUZUKI. William Barrett has 0
selected Suzuki's major writings on Zen, one of the great challenges to Western Religion.
Suzuki is the recognized leading exponent and authority. .95
A92. THE DEAD SEA SCRIPTURES IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION, translation, commen-
ttary, and notes by Theodor H. Gaster. The only complete translation in English of the fabu-
lous scrolls themselves, with an exhaustive comparative index showing the passages from I
the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. .95
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A63. Helen Waddell THE WANDERING SCHOLARS. The life and art of the lyric poets of
the Latin Middle Ages, plus 0 full selection in the original and in translation of the heritage
of Latin song they left behind. Scholarly and delightful. 1.15
A75. Arthur Wgley THREE WAYS OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT CHINA. In the Fourth
Century B.C. three conflicting views in Chinese philosophy received classic expression-the
Taoist, Confucianist, "Realist." Today they sound remarkably modern. .85
BP 4. Leslie Fiedler AN END TO INNOCENCE. Thirteen brilliant essays on culture and pol-
itics. Controversial, stinfulatig, and powerfully provocative. $1.25
BP S. George Orwell HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. A milestone in the violent education' of
modern man. Spanish Civil War, the Communists, the anarchists . ..,and Orwell. $1.25
BP 6. Bertram Wolfe THREE WHO MADE A REVOLUTION. This is the biographical his-
tory'of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin. A major study of Russian history. $1.95
BP 7. Ernst Cassirer THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. His famous study in
excellent translation. Intellectual history at its most penetrating and profound. $1.45
BP 9. Martin Buber BETWEEN MAN AND MAN. What Niebuhr, Maritain, Tillich, and
Berdyaev are debating in Christian philosophy, Buber is doing from the standpoint of Judaism.
He examines the philosophies of Heidegger, Kierkegoard, Scheler, Marx, Nietzsche, and others
and shows how political and religious dogma serve each other. $1..25
BP 10. Herbert Read ENGLISH PROSE STYLE. Expert discussion of the elements of good
prose by a great English critic. Revised edition, up-to-date, fresh examples. $1.25
BP 11. Simone Weil THE NEED FOR ROOTS. Her passionate answer to the problem of how
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now, Simone Weil has become a legend and her writings are regarded as a classic document of
our period." Preface by T. S. Eliot. $1.45
BP 12. Sidney Hook THE HERO IN HISTORY. With intelligence and humor he evaluates the
outstanding theories of society in modern times from Hegel, Spencer, and Engels to Mosca,
Pareto, and Michels, knocking theories of determinism into a cocked hat. $1.25
BP 13. Lewis Mumford THE HUMAN PROSPECT. An original volume containing his best
writing in literature, people, art, philosophy, architecture, and society. $1.45
BP 14. Julien Benda THE BETRAYAL OF THE INTELLECTUALS. Incisive, devastating crit-
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BP 15. Johan Huizinga HOMO LUDENS. A study of the play-element in culture. perhaps
the most important book in the philosophy of history in our century, preparing the ground for
Toynbee, Sorokin, Weber, and even Camus $1.25
P 16. Richard Hofstadter SOCIAL DARWINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT. Goes to the root
of the massive struggle between the Welfare State and Rugged Individualism. $1.45
BP 17. Elie Halevy THE GROWTH OF PHILOSOPHIC RADICALISM. Locke, Newton, Hume,
Bentham, Adam Smith, Mill, Ricardo, Burke, and many others discussed magnificently. $1.95
BP 18. Arthur koestler THE INVISIBLE WRITING. Autobiography. Perceptive self-exam-
ination of the fearful pilgrimage which led to his savage repudiation of Communism. -. $1.45
BP 19. Sigmund Freud DELUSION AND DREAM. As Ernest Jones writes about this book:
"One of the three of Freud's writings to which the word 'charming' can most fittingly be ap-
plied . . . written with such delicacy and beauty of language as to rank high and to compel ad-
miration for its literary qualities alone." 3 other essays added too. $1.45
BP 20. F. L. Lucas GREEK POETRY FOR EVERYMAN. The great Greek poets in a new trans-
lation from Homer clear thru to the Roman and Early Byzantine. Maps, tables, notes, etc. $1.75
BP,21. J. F. Jameson THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION CONSIDERED AS A SOCIAL MOVE-
MENT. A landmark in American historiography pointing a new direction in research. - .85
BP 22. Roland H. Bainton THE REFORMATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Masterly
compression of a century's almost chaotic detail in a crisp and lively style. His scholarship is
never obtrusive. Contemporary woodcuts set off the text. $1.45
BP 23. , Eric Bently THE DRAMATIC EVENT. More excellent essays on the theater. $1.25
BP 24. Freya Stark PERSEUS IN THE WIND. Reflective essays of rare ability by author of
Valleys of the Assassins. $1.25
BP 25. Walter Bagehot PHYSICS AND POLITICS. "It is the first important attempt to
bring out whatever implications Victorian science, especially Darwinism and the new ethno-
graphic writings of Tylor and Lubbock, possessed for the study of the political community .
one of the few first-rate minds in social science," Max Lerner. $1.25
BP 26. W. W. Tarn ALEXANDER THE GREAT. . Tarn is our century's greatest scholar of
Alexander and his world, this is his major work. .95
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science, economics, politics
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M25. Walter Kaufmann NIETZSCHE
$1.45
M26. M. C. D'Arcy MIND AND HEART OF LOVE $1.35
M27. Woodrow Wilson CONGRESSIONAL GOVERNMENT. A viable
study in American politics.
$1.25
M28. C. G. Jung 2 ESSAYS ON ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY. Essen.:
tial core of Jung's system $1.35
M29. THE WRITINGS OF MARTIN BUBER. Selected and edited by
Will Herberg. A complete guide to Buber's thought. $1.35
M30. J. Barzun. BERLIOZ AND HIS CENTURY $1.45
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