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The House of Life
By Mario Praz.
Translated by ANGUS DAVIDSON. Outwardly a
description of the rooms and furnishings of the ancient flat in Rome
where Mr. Praz has lived for thirty years,
this
unique autobiography is
inwardly a reflection of the spiritual and intellectual odyssey of its dis–
tinguished author-scholar, essayist, and art historian. A bust of Laura
by Canova brings
to
mind a trip through an English country house;
a mirror, an unhappy love affair. Of particular interest are his recollec–
tions of life in Rome during World War II.
Illustrated.
$10.00
Music Observed
By B. H. Haggin.
This volume brings together the best writing of one
of America's most celebrated music critics, who has won a loyal follow–
ing among people who appreciate honest, literate, critical awareness.
Beginning with 1929 and progressing to 1964, the essays are arranged
chronologically-a continuous record of the New York music scene dur–
ing the period. Haggin writes with deep appreciation of the artists who
have meant most to him, but he deals devastatingly with inept musical
performances and with those artists whose reputation he considers in–
flated. His range of interests includes jazz recordings and the ballet. $6.50
Slavery
in
the Cities: The South, 1820-1860
By Richard C. Wade.
Slavery has usually been treated as a rural
institution; this study, for the first time, examines its urban manifestations
in the antebellum cities of New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston,
Richmond, Louisville, and St. Louis. Mr. Wade shows how segregation,
both in law and custom, began in the cities a decade before the Civil
War. "An admirable and illuminating study ... will require the re–
vision of numerous generalizations."--C. VANN WOODWARD. "Adds
another panel to Mr. Wade's impressive panorama of the American
city."-.ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
$6.75
The Republican Party: 1854-1964
By George H. Mayer.
Telling for the first time the complete story of
the Republican party, Mr. Mayer provides an engrossing account of a
continually changing organization: its triumphs, defeats, personalities,
and the issues that have divided or united it. "Professor Mayer is some–
thing of a rarity among historians and political scientists in that he not
only has studied the behavior of the political animal but delights in it.
He has almost the gusto of an H. L . Mencken. This is an informative and
often amusing, but always unimpassioned book."-LEON STOLZ,
Chicago
Tribune
$9.75
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