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Iona A. Opie •ï¿½9 Books
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1952)
by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
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    Erudite Nonsense (Review)
    Ben Redman
    The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    1. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    The Saturday Review, February 9, 1952, pp. 41-43
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    Literary Sampler (5 Reviews)
    Excerpts and Jottings from New University Press Books
    1. Showboats: The History of an American Institution by Philip Graham
    2. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    3. Medical Biographies by Philip Marshall Dale
    4. Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work by Donald Sutherland
    5. No Dudes, Few Women by Elizabeth Lester Ward
    The Saturday Review, June 14, 1952, pp. 21-22
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    Briefly Noted (6 Reviews)
    General
    1. The Indigo Bunting by Vincent Sheean
    2. The Scalpel of Scotland Yard by Douglas G. Browne and E.V. Tullett
    3. By the Waters of the Danube by Alexandra Orme
    4. The Melville Log by Jay Leyda
    5. The Dance Has Many Faces by Walter Sorell
    6. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    The New Yorker, February 9, 1952, pp. 101-103
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    New Books (16 Reviews)
    Charles Poore
    The Pleasures and Perils of Discovery
    1. Pleasures of Music by Jacques Barzun
    2. Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics, 1902-1952 by Edward L. Throm
    3. A Little Treasury of British Poetry by Oscar Williams
    4. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    5. Winds of Morning by H.L. Davis
    6. Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque
    7. Master Spy by Ian G. Colvin
    8. The Pattern of Responsibility by Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy
    9. The Peculiar War by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
    10. The Face of War by Charles Jones and Eugene S. Jones
    11. Bill Mauldin's Army by Bill Mauldin
    12. Behold Virginia! The Fifth Crown by George F. Willison
    13. The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
    14. Beds by Reginald Reynolds
    15. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    16. The Lost Childhood, and Other Essays by Graham Greene
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1952, pp. 105-108
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    Brief Comments (23 Reviews)
    Twenty-nine oustanding books of the previous quarter
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. III by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. Life in America by Marshall B. Davidson
    3. Bradford of Plymouth by Bradford Smith
    4. Strange Lands and Friendly People by William O. Douglas
    5. The Forrestal Diaries by Walter Millis, E.S. Duffield, and James Forrestal, ...
    6. The Melville Log by Jay Leyda
    7. The Peron Era by Robert J. Alexander
    8. North with the Spring by Edwin Way Teale
    9. Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill
    10. Gods, Graves and Scholars by C.W. Ceram
    11. Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
    12. Incredible New York by Lloyd R. Morris
    13. Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts by John Chester Miller
    14. A Treasury of Western Folklore by B.A. Botkin
    15. The Citizen Decides by Ralph Barton Perry
    16. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. III by Elting E. Morison and Theodore Roosevelt
    17. Union Bay: The Life of a City Marsh by Harry W. Higman and Earl J. Larrison
    18. Under Whatever Sky by Irwin Edman
    19. Pleasures of Music by Jacques Barzun
    20. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    21. Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post
    22. Civil Liberties Under Attack by Clair Wilcox
    23. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 by C. Vann Woodward
    The American Scholar, Spring 1952, pp. 242-258