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The Anatomy of Satire (1962)Gilbert Highet
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Ancient History (Review) Gilbert Highet
Freedom of Speech in the Roman Republic, by Laura Robinson
- Freedom of Speech in the Roman Republic by Laura Robinson

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Ancient History (Review) Gilbert Highet
The Gates of Dreams, by Ernest L. Highbarger
- The Gates of Dreams by Ernest L. Highbarger
The American Historical Review, July 1942, p. 828

Another SolutionGilbert Highet
A Story

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Armistice (Review) Gilbert Highet
Aftermath, by Jules Romains
- Aftermath by Jules Romains

The Art of Teaching (1950)Gilbert Highet
7 Reviews, 3 Readable

The Classical Tradition (1949)Gilbert Highet
Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
8 Reviews, 3 Readable

A Clerk of Oxenford (1954)Gilbert Highet
Essays on Literature and Life
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

Explorations (1971)Gilbert Highet
1 Review, 1 Readable

Books and the Arts
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The Greek Historians (Review) Gilbert Highet
The Greek Historians, by Francis R.B. Godolphin
- The Greek Historians by Francis R.B. Godolphin



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How Rome Lived (Review) Gilbert Highet
Daily Life in Ancient Rome, by Jerome Carcopino
- Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino

How to Live with ChildrenGilbert Highet
Problem parents need a psychologist as urgently as their kids do

I Wuz RobbedGilbert Highet

The Immortal Profession (1976)Gilbert Highet
The Joys of Teaching and Learning
2 Reviews

Books and the Arts
J.P. Popo, EsquireGilbert Highet

Juvenal the Satirist: A Study (1954)Gilbert Highet
1 Review

Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)Gilbert Highet
5 Reviews, 1 Readable


The Migration of Ideas (1954)Gilbert Highet
1 Review, 1 Readable


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New Books (16 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Fiction, History, Fun
- Giant by Edna Ferber
- Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper
- Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson
- The Big Change by Frederick Lewis Allen
- The Skin by Curzio Malaparte
- Midcentury Journey by William L. Shirer
- A Declaration of Faith by Herbert Agar
- Smith's London Journal by H. Allen Smith
- The Best Cartoons from Punch by Marvin Rosenberg and Bill Cole
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead
- One-Upsmanship by Stephen Potter
- The Best Humor Annual by Louis Untermeyer and Ralph E. Shikes
- No But I Saw the Movie by Peter De Vries
- Grenadine's Spawn by Robert C. Ruark
- Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham
- I Go Pogo by Walt Kelly

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New Books (9 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Some New, Some Perennial
- Great Books of the Western World by Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- You, the Jury by Mary Borden
- The Man on a Donkey by H.F.M. Prescott
- Prisoner of Grace by Joyce Cary
- Beyond the High Himalayas by William O. Douglas
- Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
- The Diary of George Templeton Strong: 1835-1875 by Allan Nevins, Milton Halsey Thomas, and George Templeton Strong, ...


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New Books (17 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Hail and Farewell
- Such, Such Were the Joys, and Other Essays by George Orwell
- The Intruder by Helen Fowler
- Naked Hollywood by Weegee and Mel Harris
- Prince Bart by Jay Richard Kennedy
- Jan at the Blue Fox by Ronald F.H. Duncan
- The God of the Witches by Margaret Alice Murray
- Divine Horsemen by Maya Deren
- The World and the West by Arnold J. Toynbee
- The Lot of Her Neighbors by Bonner McMillion
- Watch Night by Walter B. Lowrey
- Stay Away, Joe by Dan Cushman
- Voices in the House by John Sedges
- Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney
- The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
- The American Thesaurus of Slang by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark
- The World of Silence by Max Picard
- The Writer in America by Van Wyck Brooks

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New Books (14 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
New Wine, Old Bottles
- Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H. White
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- One by David Karp
- The Canyon by Jack Schaefer
- The Marmot Drive by John Hersey
- The Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux
- Mimesis by Erich Auerbach
- The Pogo Papers by Walt Kelly
- Except the Lord by Joyce Cary
- Cockney Communist by Charles Henry Darke
- The End of the Week by Virginia Chase
- The Broken Penny by Julian Symons
- A Taste of Our Time
- Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise by George T. Eggleston


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New Books (11 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
The Taming of the Nations, by F.S.C. Northrop
- The Taming of the Nations by F.S.C. Northrop
- The Mind of East Asia by Lily Abegg
- Crowd Culture by Bernard Iddings Bell
- The Republic and the Person by Gordon Keith Chalmers
- The Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals by Peter Viereck
- Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Illustrated English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
- The Last Resorts by Cleveland Amory
- The Scandalmonger by T.H. White
- The American Twenties by John K. Hutchens
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

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New Books (15 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
You Shall Know Them, by Vercors
- You Shall Know Them by Vercors
- A Dog's Head by Jean Dutourd
- The Singer, Not the Song by Audrey Erskine Lindop
- The Passionate Land by Geoffrey A. Wagner
- Study in Power by Allan Nevins
- King George the Fifth by Harold G. Nicolson
- Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man by Virginia Cowles
- The Diplomats, 1919-1939 by Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert
- What Is History? by V. Gordon Childe
- Decline of the Roman Empire by F.W. Walbank
- Heresy, Yes--Conspiracy, No by Sidney Hook
- The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
- The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 by Robert Musil
- Good Morning, Young Lady by Ardyth Kennelly
- The Dark Angel by Mika Waltari

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New Books (17 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Kingfishers Catch Fire, by Rumer Godden
- Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
- The Financial Expert by R.K. Narayan
- I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
- The Strange Case of Alger Hiss by William Allen Jowitt
- The Enormous Radio, and Other Stories by John Cheever
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann
- Seven and a Half Cents by Richard Pike Bissell
- The Emperor's Lady by F.W. Kenyon
- The Fair Bride by Bruce Marshall
- The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- A Window on Red Square by Frank Rounds, Jr.
- The True Voice of Feeling by Herbert Read
- The Root of Europe by Michael Huxley
- Pastels by Degas by Douglas Cooper and Degas
- 1066 and All That~~Ten Sixty-Six and All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman

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New Books (20 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
African Sculpture Speaks, by Ladislas Segy
- African Sculpture Speaks by Ladislas Segy
- African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel, and James Johnson Sweeney, ...
- The Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson
- The Letters of Samuel Johnson by R.W. Chapman and Samuel Johnson
- The Best Butter by Jean Dutourd
- The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
- Half a Dollar Is Better Than None by Nicholas Diminno
- Neely by Walter Karig
- When the Gods Are Silent by Mikhail Soloviev
- Empress of Byzantium by Helen A. Mahler
- Movable Feasts by Arnold Palmer
- Illustrated English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
- Acton's Political Philosophy by George E. Fasnacht
- Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Spring in Spain by MacKinley Helm
- Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark
- The Singular Preference by Peter Quennell
- Jan at the Blue Fox by Ronald F.H. Duncan

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New Books (12 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
The Outsider, by Richard A. Wright
- The Outsider by Richard A. Wright
- The Hour Awaits by March Cost
- Stephania by Ilona Karmel
- In the Wet by Nevil Shute
- The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
- Rembrandt: Selected Paintings by Tancred Borenius and Rembrandt
- Benjamin Britten by Donald Mitchell and Hans Keller
- Maurice Ravel by Victor I. Seroff
- Music-Makers by Roland Gelatt
- Elements of Metaphysics by Alfred Edward Taylor
- Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research by C.D. Broad
- Corpus of Joe Bailey by Oakley M. Hall
The Harpers Monthly, May 1953, pp. 96-102

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New Books (18 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
The Offshore Light, by Pamela Frankau
- The Offshore Light by Pamela Frankau
- Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger
- The Enchanted Cup by Dorothy J. Roberts
- The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
- In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
- Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett
- All Done from Memory by Osbert Lancaster
- The Best Humor from Punch by William Cole
- The Best of H.T. Webster by H.T. Webster
- The Tattooed Sailor, and Other Cartoons from France by Andre Francois
- Ideas and Places: The Golden Horizon by Cyril Connolly
- By Land and by Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
- Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred Whipple, Willy Ley, and Cornelius Ryan, ...
- The Sky Block by Steve Frazee
- Jutland Cottage by Angela Thirkell
- A Handful of Blackberries by Ignazio Silone
- Mandrake Root by Frederic Wakeman
- A Sunset Touch by Howard Spring

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New Books (12 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck, by John Steinbeck
- The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
- The Third Angel by Jerome Weidman
- Private Interests by Nigel Balchin
- Quackery in the Public Schools by Albert Lynd
- Teen-Age Gangs of New York by Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Fabian of the Yard by Robert Fabian
- The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
- Dead Man in the Silver Market by Aubrey Menen
- Michelangelo by Ludwig Goldscheider
- The History and Treasures of Westminster Abbey by L.E. Tanner
- Vatican Art by Karl Ipser

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New Books (10 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Too Late the Phalarope, by Alan Paton
- Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
- Portrait of Andre Gide by Justin O'Brien
- Lafcadio's Adventures by Andre Gide
- The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo
- Tolstoy: A Life of My Father by Alexandra Tolstoy
- Westward the Sun by Geoffrey Cotterell
- Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin
- Time and Time Again by James Hilton
- Icebound Summer by Sally Carrighar
- A History of Christianity by Kenneth Scott Latourette

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New Books (9 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Now Flows from Then
- Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
- Complete Stories by Erskine Caldwell
- The Honeyed Peace by Martha Gellhorn
- The Passionate North by William Sansom
- Lincoln McKeever by Eleazar Lipsky
- Psychological Reflections by C.G. Jung and Jolande Jacobi
- The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society by Robert M. Hutchins
- Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools by Paul Woodring
- Educational Wastelands by Arthur E. Bestor

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The New Books (7 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Welcome Spring
- Moscow by Theodor Plievier
- The Confidential Clerk by T.S. Eliot
- Bhowani Junction by John Masters
- God's Country and Mine by Jacques Barzun
- The Desperate Hours by Joseph Arnold Hayes
- Peter Domanig in America: Steel by Victor White
- The Royal Family by Pierre Berton

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Despotism and Liberty
- The Nazarene Gospel Restored by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro
- The Fall of a Titan by Igor Gouzenko
- Art Under a Dictatorship by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt
- Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg
- American Ways of Life by George R. Stewart
- India: Paintings From Ajanta Caves by Madanjeet Singh
- The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
- The Lost Island by Graham McInnes

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The New Books (18 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Darkness and Light Divide the Course of Time
- Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson
- The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
- Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
- The New Partisan Reader, 1948-1953 by William Phillips and Philip Rahv
- The One-Track Mind by Deems Taylor
- The Itinerant Ivory Tower by George Evelyn Hutchinson
- Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty
- The Antioch Review Anthology by Paul H. Bixler
- 1001 Poems of Mankind~~One Thousand and One Poems of Mankind by Henry Willis Wells
- The Oracle by Baltasar Gracian
- The Esquire Treasury by Arnold Gingrich
- The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
- Thurber Country by James Thurber
- The Second Tree from the Corner by E.B. White
- The Glass of Fashion by Cecil Beaton
- James Reynolds' Ireland by James Reynolds
- The University of Utopia by Robert M. Hutchins

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The New Books (15 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Life and Health, Disease and Death
- The Black Swan by Thomas Mann
- Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
- Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
- Traveler's Cheque by Jerome Weidman
- The Spanish Temper by V.S. Pritchett
- The Land of Italy by Jasper More
- Assisi and Umbria Revisited by Edward Hutton
- Europe: A Journey with Pictures by Anne Fremantle and Bryan Holme
- Snow Crystals by Ukichiro Nakaya
- Chinese Art by Leigh Ashton and Basil Gray
- The Paintings of J.A.D. Ingres by Georges Wildenstein and J.A.D. Ingres
- The Conquest of Don Pedro by Harvey Fergusson
- The Fugitive Eye by Charlotte Jay
- The Quality of Mercy by Robert Carson
- Brief Candles by Manning Coles


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The New Books (10 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
- A Man and Two Gods by Jean Morris
- The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu
- Boldness Be My Friend by Richard Pape
- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
- The Little Stockade by Natalie Anderson Scott
- She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes

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The New Books (17 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Whales, Gypsies, Children
- Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
- In Sara's Tents by Walter Starkie
- The Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca
- Child with a Flower by Elda Bossi
- The Measure of Man by Joseph Wood Krutch
- The Transformation of the Scientific World View by Karl Heim
- Bless This House by Norah Lofts
- A Pride of Lions by John Brooks
- The White Knight by Alexander L. Taylor
- The Caroline Affair by C.H. Gibbs-Smith
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- Persona Grata by Cecil Beaton and Kenneth Tynan
- The Old Country Store by Gerald Carson
- A Time to Laugh by Laurence Victor Thompson
- The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert
- Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
- Perdu by Paride Rombi
The Harpers Monthly, May 1954, pp. 94-103

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The New Books (4 Reviews) Gilbert Highet
Sound snd Fury
- A Fable by William Faulkner
- William Faulkner: A Critical Study by Irving Howe
- The Tangled Fire of William Faulkner by William Van O'Connor
- The World of William Faulkner by Ward L. Miner


People, Places, and Books (1953)Gilbert Highet
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Poet and Public (Review) Gilbert Highet
Ronsard: Prince of Poets, by Morris Bishop
- Ronsard: Prince of Poets by Morris Bishop

Poets in a Landscape (1957)Gilbert Highet
5 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Powers of Poetry (1960)Gilbert Highet
3 Reviews, 1 Readable


The Scholar Cornered
The Scholarly LifeGilbert Highet

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Sinews of Peace (Review) Gilbert Highet
An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, Vol. V, by Tenney Frank
- An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, Vol. V by Tenney Frank


Talents and Geniuses (1957)Gilbert Highet
The Pleasures of Appreciation
4 Reviews, 1 Readable

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The Thinking Mask (Review) Gilbert Highet
The Spirit of Moliere, by Percy Chapman
- The Spirit of Moliere by Percy Chapman

Books and the Arts
Thou Tellest Me, ComradeGilbert Highet

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Titanic Genius (Review) Gilbert Highet
Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy, by Gilbert Murray
- Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy by Gilbert Murray

U.S.S. JezebelGilbert Highet
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