New Books from the
Harcourt, Brace Spring List
Alexander's Path
by FREYA STARK. "A really magnificent book.
It
is a bril–
liant inspiring account of a journey along the coastline of
Turkey and roughly follows the armies of Alexander the
Great."-London
Daily E xpress.
With photographs and
drawings by the author.
$6.75
The Sacred and the Profane
by MIRCEA ELIADE. The significance of religious myth,
symbolism, and ritual within life and culture. "Combines
delight yielded by form of expression and instruction com–
ing from originality and freshness of vision. In all these
respects the book is a masterpiece."-DR.
JAMES LUTHER
ADAMS,
Professor of Christian Ethics, Harvard Divinity
School
$4.50
The Night of the Hammer
by NED O'GORMAN.
The Lamont Poetry Selection for
1958. His deft and original imagery pours out like water
from a tilted glass, his vocabulary is extensive, his language
in the main hard, but brilliant and
rich."-Baltimore Sun
$3.75
Ladies'Day
AN ENGLISH VERSION OF THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
BY ARISTOPHANES
by DUDLEY FITTS. Once more Dudley Fitts gives us a
comedy by Aristophanes in a version as contemporary as
last night's Broadway opening yet miraculously true to the
original.
$4.00
Art Through the Ages
HELEN GARDNER and the Department of the History of
Art, Yale University. A completely new edition of a classic
world history of art that ref lects the cur r ent standards of
art scholarship. 8 pages of full-color plates; 824 black-and–
white illustrations, 505 of them new to this edition. $8.95
A History of Western Morals
by CRANE BRINTON. "Impressive and fascinating . . .
The book is exciting because it is constantly questioning,
constantly holding up long accepted judgments to new ex–
amination and then discarding or using them."
-Dan Wakefield, Book Find Club News
$7.50
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