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- Trade Winds
  Fon W. Boardman, Jr.
  , pp. 6-11
- Literary Crypt, pp. 12-14
- Education of a Commentator
  John Mason Brown
  , pp. 15-16
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  The Far East (19 Reviews)
  Harold H. Fisher
  , p. 17
  Our Asian Destiny
  1. The Struggle for Indochina, 1940-1955 by Ellen J. Hammer
  2. The United States and Japan by Edwin O. Reischauer
  3. The United States and China by John K. Fairbank
  4. The United States and India and Pakistan by W. Norman Brown
  5. Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao by Benjamin I. Schwartz
  6. Moscow and Chinese Communists by Robert C. North
  7. The Red Flag in Japan by A. Rodger Swearingen and Paul Langer
  8. Soviet Policy in the Far East, 1944-1951 by Max Beloff
  9. Soviet Russia and the Far East by David J. Dallin
  10. The Progress of Underdeveloped Areas by Bert F. Hoselitz
  11. Southeast Asia in the Coming World by Philip Warren Thayer
  12. The Future of Underdeveloped Countries by Eugene Staley
  13. Americans and Chinese: Passages to Differences by Francis L.K. Hsu
  14. In the Minds of Men by Gardner Murphy
  15. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
  16. The Meeting of East and West by F.S.C. Northrop
  17. The Taming of the Nations by F.S.C. Northrop
  18. Asia and the West by Maurice Zinkin
  19. Asia and Western Dominance by K.M. Panikkar
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  Art History (17 Reviews)
  S. Lane Faison, Jr.
  , p. 18
  Pathmaking Our Artistic Heritage
  1. A History of Spanish Painting by Chandler Rathfon Post
  2. Goya's Caprichos by Jose Lopez-Rey
  3. Thomas Jefferson, American Humanist by Karl Lehmann
  4. The Pocket Book of Great Drawings by Paul J. Sachs
  5. Rembrandt: Life and Work by Jakob Rosenberg
  6. David to Delacroix by Walter Friedlaender
  7. Albrecht Durer by Erwin Panofsky
  8. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures by Erwin Panofsky and Abbot Suger
  9. Early Netherlandish Painting by Erwin Panofsky
  10. Studies in Iconology by Erwin Panofsky
  11. Principles of Chinese Painting by George Rowley
  12. The Enduring Art of Japan by Langdon Warner
  13. The Art and Architecture of India by Benjamin Rowland
  14. Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death by Millard Meiss
  15. Parmigiano: His Works in Painting by Sydney J. Freedberg
  16. Van Gogh by Meyer Schapiro
  17. Paul Cezanne by Meyer Schapiro
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  Political Science (16 Reviews)
  Peter H. Odegard
  , p. 19
  Man as a Political Animal
  1. Presidential Nominating Politics in 1952 by Paul T. David, Malcolm Moos, and Ralph M. Goldman, ...
  2. The Political Philosophy of Hobbes by Leo Strauss
  3. Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
  4. Inevitable Peace by Carl J. Friedrich
  5. The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy by J.L. Talmon
  6. Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
  7. The New Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin
  8. Administrative Behavior by Herbert A. Simon
  9. The Administrative State by Dwight Waldo
  10. Politics Among Nations by Hans J. Morgenthau
  11. The Political System by David Easton
  12. The Governmental Process by David B. Truman
  13. Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups by V.O. Key, Jr.
  14. The People's Choice by Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet, ...
  15. Ballot Behavior by Louis Hyman Bean
  16. The Future of American Politics by Samuel Lubell
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  The Classics (17 Reviews)
  C.A. Robinson, Jr.
  , pp. 20-21
  Digging Our Classical Past
  1. The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World by Michael I. Rostovtzeff
  2. Roman Rule in Asia Minor by David Magie
  3. The Greeks in Bactria and India by W.W. Tarn
  4. The Oxford Classical Dictionary by M. Cary, A.D. Nock, J.D. Denniston, W.D. Ross, and J. Wight Duff, ...
  5. Troy, Vol. I by Carl W. Blegen, John L. Caskey, and Marion Rawson, ...
  6. Mycenae: An Archaeological History and Guide by Alan J.B. Wace
  7. Portrait Sculpture by Evelyn B. Harrison
  8. The Athenian Tribute Lists by Benjamin Dean Meritt, H.T. Wade-Gery, and Malcolm Francis McGregor, ...
  9. A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
  10. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
  11. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture by Werner Jaeger
  12. The Architecture of Ancient Greece by William Bell Dinsmoor
  13. The Iliad of Homer by Richmond Lattimore and Homer
  14. The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome by Andrew Alfoldi
  15. A History of Science by George Sarton
  16. The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by Otto Neugebauer
  17. The Magistrates of the Roman Republic by T. Robert S. Broughton
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  Sociology (51 Reviews)
  C. Wright Mills
  , p. 22
  IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
  1. Ancient Judaism by Max Weber, Hans H. Gerth, and Don Martindale
  2. The Religion of China by Max Weber
  3. General Economic History by Max Weber
  4. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization by Max Weber
  5. Conflict, and the Web of Group-Affiliations by Georg Simmel
  6. The Sociology of Georg Simmel by Kurt H. Wolff and Georg Simmel
  7. Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Emile Durkheim
  8. The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim
  9. The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca and Arthur Livingston
  10. Political Parties by Robert Michels
  11. Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim
  12. Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction by Karl Mannheim
  13. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
  14. Absentee Ownership, Business Enterprise in Recent Times by Thorstein Veblen
  15. Oswald Spengler: A Critical Estimate by H. Stuart Hughes
  16. The Republic by Plato
  17. Power and Society by Harold D. Lasswell and Abraham Kaplan
  18. Politics, Economics, and Welfare by Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom
  19. An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal, Richard Sterner, and Arnold Rose
  20. Behemoth by Franz L. Neumann
  21. Japan's Emergence as a Modern State by E. Herbert Norman
  22. Social Order and the Risks of War by Hans Speier
  23. A History of Militarism by Alfred Vagts
  24. The Makers of Modern Strategy by Edward Mead Earle, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert, ...
  25. The Problem of Leisure by Henry Durant
  26. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
  27. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
  28. American Capitalism by John Kenneth Galbraith
  29. Religion in Twentieth Century America by Herbert Wallace Schneider
  30. Educational Wastelands by Arthur E. Bestor
  31. The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 by Edward H. Carr
  32. Is Anybody Listening? by William H. Whyte, Jr.
  33. Community Power Structure by Floyd Hunter
  34. Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd
  35. The Social History of Art by Arnold Hauser
  36. Studies in European Realism by Georg Lukacs
  37. Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry by Harry Stack Sullivan
  38. The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry by Harry Stack Sullivan
  39. The Neurotic Personality of Our Time by Karen Horney
  40. The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, and Daniel J. Levinson, ...
  41. Prophets of Deceit by Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Guterman
  42. A Study of Interpersonal Relations by Patrick Mullahy
  43. A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
  44. Hellenism and the Modern World by Gilbert Murray
  45. The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies by Herbert J. Muller
  46. Social Philosophies of an Age of Crisis by Pitirim A. Sorokin
  47. Meaning in History by Karl Lowith
  48. The Protestant Era by Paul Tillich
  49. The New Society by Edward Hallett Carr
  50. The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, Reuel Denney, and Nathan Glazer
  51. Capitalism and Socialism on Trial by Fritz Sternberg
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  The History of Ideas (25 Reviews)
  Franklin L. Baumer
  , p. 23
  Men with Ideas
  1. Ideas and Men: The Story of Western Thought by Crane Brinton
  2. Main Currents of Western Thought by Franklin Le Van Baumer
  3. Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge by Karl Mannheim, Ernest Mannheim, and Paul Kecskemeti, ...
  4. The Idea of Nature by Robin G. Collingwood
  5. The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1800 by Herbert Butterfield
  6. The Idea of Nationalism by Hans Kohn
  7. Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism by J. Salwyn Schapiro
  8. The Myth of the State by Ernst Cassirer
  9. The Renaissance in Historical Thought by Wallace K. Ferguson
  10. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer
  11. Diderot and Descartes by Aram Vartanian
  12. Essays in the History of Ideas by Arthur O. Lovejoy
  13. Romanticism and the Modern Ego by Jacques Barzun
  14. Oswald Spengler: A Critical Estimate by H. Stuart Hughes
  15. Leopold Ranke: The Formative Years by Theodore von Laue
  16. Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb
  17. The Faith of Reason by Charles Frankel
  18. Meaning in History by Karl Lowith
  19. Christianity and History by Herbert Butterfield
  20. Dream and Reality by Nicholas Berdyaev
  21. The Courage To Be by Paul Tillich
  22. Decadence by C.E.M. Joad
  23. "Modernism" in Modern Drama by Joseph Wood Krutch
  24. Christianity, Past and Present by Basil Willey
  25. The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, Reuel Denney, and Nathan Glazer
- The University Publisher and the Lady, p. 24
  An Editorial
- Letters to the Editor, p. 25
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  The Hucksters' Forebears (Review)
  Charles Morrow Wilson
  , p. 26
  The Old Country Store, by Gerald Carson
  1. The Old Country Store by Gerald Carson
- The Author: Gerald Carson
  Bernard Kalb
  , p. 26
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  Notes on a Tower of Strength (Review)
  Mark S. Watson
  , p. 27
  Secretary Stimson: A Study in Statecraft, by Richard N. Current
  1. Secretary Stimson: A Study in Statecraft by Richard N. Current
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  A Fresh Evaluation of No. 26 (Review)
  John D. Hicks
  , p. 28
  The Republican Roosevelt, by John Morton Blum
  1. The Republican Roosevelt by John Morton Blum
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  Uncle Lewis (Review)
  Carlos Baker
  , p. 31
  The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, by Roger Lancelyn Green and Lewis Carroll
  1. The Diaries of Lewis Carroll by Roger Lancelyn Green and Lewis Carroll
- Broadway Postscript
  Henry Hewes
  , p. 32
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  The Movies: Mr. Houseman's "Executive Suite" (Review)
  Arthur Knight
  , p. 33
  Executive Suite (1954 Film), by Robert Wise
  1. Executive Suite (1954 Film) by Robert Wise
- TV and Radio
  Goodman Ace
  , p. 34
- Music to My Ears
  Irving Kolodin
  , p. 35
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  No Time for Timidity (Review)
  Brand Blanshard
  , p. 36
  Realms of Value, by Ralph Barton Perry
  1. Realms of Value by Ralph Barton Perry
- Sometimes Scholarship Sells
  William Murray
  , pp. 36-37
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  The Great Danger (Review)
  Claude M. Fuess
  , p. 38
  Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent, by Henry Steele Commager
  1. Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent by Henry Steele Commager
- Just Published
  Whitney Balliett
  , p. 39
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  Enigma of the West (Review)
  Saul K. Padover
  , p. 40
  Toward Understanding Germany, by Robert H. Lowie
  1. Toward Understanding Germany by Robert H. Lowie
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  Who's a Loser? (Review)
  Bruce Catton
  , p. 41
  General Jo Shelby, Undefeated Rebel, by Daniel O'Flaherty
  1. General Jo Shelby, Undefeated Rebel by Daniel O'Flaherty
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  Mexican War Hero (Review)
  J. Merton England
  , p. 42
  General William Jenkins Worth: Monterey's Forgotten Hero, by Edward S. Wallace
  1. General William Jenkins Worth: Monterey's Forgotten Hero by Edward S. Wallace
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  Seminole Fighter (Review)
  J. Merton England
  , p. 42
  Journey Into Wilderness, by James Rhett Motte and James F. Sunderman
  1. Journey Into Wilderness by James Rhett Motte and James F. Sunderman
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  White Men vs. Red (Review)
  Harold M. Hyman
  , p. 43
  Southern Indians: The Story of the Civilized Tribes, by Robert S. Cotterill
  1. Southern Indians: The Story of the Civilized Tribes by Robert S. Cotterill
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  The Yen for Florida (Review)
  Harold M. Hyman
  , p. 44
  Florida Fiasco, by Rembert W. Patrick
  1. Florida Fiasco by Rembert W. Patrick
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  Jeffersonian in Michigan (Review)
  J. Merton England
  , p. 44
  Mr. Jefferson's Disciple, by Frank B. Woodford
  1. Mr. Jefferson's Disciple by Frank B. Woodford
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  Texas in the Raw (Review)
  Thomas D. Clark
  , p. 44
  Galveston Island, or A Few Months Off the Coast of Texas, by Willis Winslow Pratt and F...
  1. Galveston Island, or A Few Months Off the Coast of Texas by Willis Winslow Pratt and Francis C. Sheridan
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  Pennsylvania Justice (Review)
  James F. Hopkins
  , p. 45
  Justice George Shiras, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Associate Justice of the United States Supre...
  1. Justice George Shiras, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1892-1903 by George Shiras III
- Booked for Travel
  Horace Sutton
  , pp. 46-60
- Literary I.Q., pp. 61-65
- Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 1049, pp. 66-68
- Cover Drawing
  Douglas Gorsline