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Arguing that typed exams would considerably reduce their work load, and at the same time put all students on an equal competitive level, almost every tutor reached in a random check strongly favored the use of typewriters...
...books about Blake appear each season. Critically, none has bettered Albert Roe's profound study of the artist's illustrations for Dante, published in 1953 (Princeton University; $20). But the new Complete Writings of William Blake (Nonesuch Press-Random House; $12.50) fills a basic need. Most spectacular is a 2-ft.-high volume of Blake's illustrations for the Bible, sponsored by the Blake Trust and distributed in the U.S. (by Philip Duschnes) at a stiff $95 a copy...
Even the proudest firms are titans leaning on the tots. At Grosset & Dunlap, children's books comprise two-thirds of the firm's publishing operation; 35% of Random House's sales volume is estimated to be in juveniles; fully $13 million of Simon & Schuster's $18 million gross last year came from books for kids...
...alone. Francesco burned a few of the papers and took the rest (for a small fee) to the Italian military intelligence. "I was certainly not qualified," he writes modestly, "to select the material, all of which seemed to me absolutely incomprehensible." But by choosing a few dispatches at random each day, he proved a great help to Italian strategy. "It was," he declared, "child's play...
VERLAINE: FOOL OF GOD (394 pp.)-Lawrence and Elisabefh Hanson-Random House...