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December 1955 Issue
- 24 Articles
Bugles and a Tiger
John Masters
, pp. 33-41
Adventure on India's Frontier
The Way the New India Thinks
Aubrey Menen
, pp. 42-45
Christmas Eve at Chartres
Winifred Hare
, pp. 46-47
Billingsley's Bird Dog
Dillon Anderson
, pp. 48-51
The Bounds of Space and Time
Donald H. Menzel
, pp. 52-57
How Long Will the World Last?
The Blue Image
Crary Moore
, pp. 58-61
A Story
Hark, Hark, the Lark
Marie de L. Welch
, p. 62
Creating a School
Agnes Hocking and Ernest Hocking
, pp. 63-66
The Army Invades the Wichita Mountains
Clark C. Van Fleet
, pp. 67-68
Books and Men
[+]
Dr. Flesch's Cure-all
(Review)
Virgil M. Rogers
, pp. 69-71
Why Johnny Can't Read, by Rudolf Flesch
Why Johnny Can't Read
by Rudolf Flesch
[+]
The Spoiled Honeymoon
(Review)
Robert Graves
, pp. 72-83
Winter in Majorca, by George Sand
Winter in Majorca
by George Sand
Atlantic Bookshelf
[+]
The Peripatetic Reviewer
(3 Reviews)
Edward Weeks
, pp. 84-87
An Episode of Sparrows
by Rumer Godden
Love, Death and the Ladies' Drill Team
by Jessamyn West
The One-Eyed Poacher and the Maine Woods
by Edmund Ware Smith
Books the Editors Like
, pp. 88-91
[+]
Reader's Choice
The Edge of the Sea, by Rachel L. Carson
(7 Reviews)
Charles J. Rolo
, pp. 92-97
The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel L. Carson
The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
by Edmund Wilson
The Jewish Sect of Qumran and the Essenes
by Andre Dupont-Sommer
The Dead Sea Scrolls
by Millar Burrows
Cards of Identity
by Nigel Forbes Dennis
A Charmed Life
by Mary McCarthy
Cash McCall
by Cameron Hawley
[+]
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The Fabulous Originals, by Irving Wallace
(4 Reviews)
, pp. 98-99
The Fabulous Originals
by Irving Wallace
The Inmost Leaf
by Alfred Kazin
The Fifteenth Century: From Van Eyck to Botticelli
by Jacques Lassaigne and Giulio Carlo Argan
Historical Inevitability
by Isaiah Berlin
[+]
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Theodore Turtle, by Ellen MacGregor
(21 Reviews)
Margaret Ford Kieran
, pp. 100-102
Theodore Turtle
by Ellen MacGregor
Play With Me
by Marie Hall Ets
Dancing in the Moon
by Fritz Eichenberg
Snow Birthday
by Helen Kay
The Princess and the Woodcutter's Daughter
by Winifred Bromhall
The Tailor's Trick
by Rosalys Haskell Hall
Thumps
by Hetty Burlingame Beatty
Mikko's Fortune
by Lee Kingman
Davy Crockett
by Walter Blair
Columbus
by Ingri D'Aulaire and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Plug-Horse Derby
by Emma L. Brock
Donkey Detectives
by Lavinia R. Davis
The Rabbit's Umbrella
by George Plimpton
The Wicked Enchantment
by Margot Benary-Isbert
Rosemary
by Mary Stolz
Junior Intern
by Alan E. Nourse
Borghild of Brooklyn
by Harriett H. Carr
The Wound of Peter Wayne
by Leonard Wibberley
Hostess in the Sky
by Margaret Hill
West Point Plebe
by Colonel Red Reeder
Treasury of Christmas Songs and Carols
by Henry W. Simon
Accent on Living
Nirvana Heights
Charles W. Morton
, p. 103
Toyland Revisited
Charles Einstein
, pp. 104-105
Lament of the Wife of a Psychoanalyst
Sonya Saroyan
, p. 106
Martya the Dog-Lover
Joseph Henry Jackson
, p. 107
Hitchhiking in Europe
Louis McIntosh
, p. 108
Wonder Fabrics Make Me Wonder
C.S. Jennison
, p. 108
Renewals If Needed
John M. Conly
, pp. 109-118
They Shall Have Music
Cover paiting of John Masters
James Avati
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