Summer 1953 Issue, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR

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- An Atlantic Curtain?
  William G. Carleton
  , pp. 265-280
- Three American Philosophers
  George Santayana
  , pp. 281-284
- Emerson's Tragic Sense
  Stephen E. Whicher
  , pp. 285-292
- Party Line History
  Anatole G. Mazour
  , pp. 293-303
- Sojourn
  Frances Colvin
  , p. 304
- Small Experiment in Civilization
  Brooks Atkinson
  , pp. 305-311
- Poems
  Walter H. Eaton
  , pp. 312-314
  On the Recent Dead
  Concert Piece
  Sweeney, Rising to the Occasion
- The Range of the Normal Heart Rate
  Paul D. White
  , pp. 315-322
- The Life and Death of Words
  Dwight L. Bolinger
  , pp. 323-335
- Old Song
  Lincoln Fitzell
  , p. 336
- The Making of a "Communist"
  Bradford Smith
  , pp. 337-345
- Some New Forty-Niner Letters
  Mary Ormsbee Whitton
  , pp. 346-360
- Under Whatever Sky
  Irwin Edman
  , pp. 361-363
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  An Event in Literary Scholarship (Review)
  James Holly Hanford
  , pp. 364-367
  The Sermons of John Donne, by George R. Potter, Evelyn M. Simpson, and John Donne, ...
  1. The Sermons of John Donne by George R. Potter, Evelyn M. Simpson, and John Donne, ...
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  A Magnificent Mixture (Review)
  Evelyn Eaton
  , pp. 368-373
  The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
  1. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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  Blizzards and Prairie Roses (Review)
  Stewart Holbrook
  , pp. 374-375
  The Buffalo Wallow, by Charles Tenney Jackson
  1. The Buffalo Wallow by Charles Tenney Jackson
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  A Twenty-Nine Year Exchange (Review)
  Asher Lans
  , pp. 376-377
  Holmes-Laski Letters, by Mark DeWolfe Howe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Harold J. Laski,...
  1. Holmes-Laski Letters by Mark DeWolfe Howe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Harold J. Laski, ...
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  Brief Comments (19 Reviews) , pp. 378-381
  Nineteen outstanding books of the previous quarter
  1. My Host the World by George Santayana
  2. Education and Liberty by James Bryant Conant
  3. Always the Young Strangers by Carl Sandburg
  4. The World and the West by Arnold J. Toynbee
  5. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by Roy P. Basler, Mario Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd A. Dunlap, ...
  6. The Letters of Samuel Johnson by R.W. Chapman and Samuel Johnson
  7. The Writer in America by Van Wyck Brooks
  8. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson
  9. The Man Whistler by Hesketh Pearson
  10. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
  11. The Mormon Village by Lowry Nelson
  12. The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frederic Dumas
  13. The Wonderful World of Insects by Albro Gaul
  14. Possums by Carl Hartman
  15. Spring Birth, and Other Poems by Mark Van Doren
  16. Willa Cather: A Critical Biography by E.K. Brown and Leon Edel
  17. A Good Man by Jefferson Young
  18. The Plantation by Ovid Williams Pierce
  19. The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
- The Reader Replies, pp. 382-386