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...doctors and reformers who pioneered U. S. psychiatry, Benjamin Rush showed the greatest ingenuity, Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried...
Like everything else in the life of Ian Anderson-Brüning since he left Germany in 1935, last week's appointment went unnoticed by the German press. Exile Brüning, who is critical of present-day Germany but not bitter, resembles Exile Napoleon Bonaparte only in that he is currently writing his memoirs. At Harvard, where he delivered a series of Godkin lectures on Germany last year, Herr Brüning will next term be a full-fledged faculty member. As such he will give a course on international economic policies, tutor a few advanced students, draw...
Though many a present-day author incites to political action, few have practised what they preach. One of the few is André Malraux (Man's Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell the tale. Britisher Bates's first two books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct...
...Victorians for 50 years the career of six-foot, black-eyed, hot-headed Sir Richard Francis Burton seemed more fabulous than anything discovered, by present-day readers in T. E. Lawrence. But to plain readers today his name means next to nothing. Now, 30 years after the last serious biography of "England's neglected genius," readers are offered a well-written account of the greatest Orientalist of his day, speaker of over 20 languages, uncompromising enemy of Victorian conventions, first Englishman to enter Mecca, first to explore Somaliland, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, famed swordsman, author of 40-odd books...
...Chinese masterpieces have been written, time out of mind. In 1917, when China's civilization began to come rapidly apart, plain speech (pai-hua} began to be literarily respectable, is now the accepted written language for China's literates. To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories...