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Motor Scrapbook (Clymer Motors, $1.50). To Americans for whom an automobile is a 20th Century work of art and its evolution a nostalgic memory, Floyd Clymer's modest scrapbook is a must.
U.S. Ecstasies. Fussing around affectionately among these memories, it one day occurred to Floyd Clymer that other people might enjoy them too. So he began to paste them together to make his book. In it the automobile evolution is traceable in illustrations of 250 cars and motorcycles, mostly dating from...
Manhattan Publisher William Warder Norton rarely wears a hat, rarely publishes fiction. He wants books which will win scholarly praise. In Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million he had a best-seller (200,000 copies) which won the praise of such mathematicians as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell...
Interglossa. A chapter on the evolution of the alphabet opens the book; a section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it. Author Bodmer reviews the efforts to create such an auxiliary, beginning in 1661, when Aberdeen's George Dalgarno invented his Universal Character and Philosophical Language...
¶ "It is a commonplace that Russian collectivism originated in a country which was in a backward phase of technical and political evolution. It is also, and conspicuously, true that it originated in a country which was in a backward phase of linguistic evolution. . . . There is no royal road to...