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...Ille Pu proves to be a Latinist's delight, the very book that dozens of Americans, possibly even 50, have been waiting for. For the weary pedagogue, home from The Gallic War, it provides surcease of solecism and a welcome chuckle. It might even make a suitable Latin text in a progressive school...
...text of the "Good Book" is a series of eager letters from those who believe. Each of the letters asks for specific gifts, and one of the most popular choices this year is something called "The Cape Canaveral...
...piece. Mr. Holden succeeds in encasing a particularly unwieldly sentiment in a tight and carefully plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden's ideas; and the entire poem (to commit sacrilege upon a hallowed text) is an admirable illustration of how a banal thought may be garnished with the irregular combinations of fanciful invention, until the product may be read with greatest pleasures of sudden wonder...
...Time of Trouble. Many Protestant theologians are critical of the formal rigidity of the natural law theory; neither they nor the Jews find the stock Biblical proof-text from St. Paul convincing.* Others, notably Karl Barth, reject the Thomist theory of analogy on which the natural law stands; in fallen man, they hold, sin has shattered God's image, and since the Garden of Eden he has had no direct knowledge of God's reason or his will without revelation. Many Protestants distrust the whole Scholastic tradition, which they feel keeps man from direct contact with...
...WONDERS of LIFE on EARTH, by the Editors of LIFE and Lincoln Barnett 300 pp.; $12.50), is an ambitious panorama of evolution. In hundreds of startling photographs and drawings, supported by a sound text, the history of bird fish, plant, insect and animal life is made exceptionally clear...