Putnam’s Capricorn Books
. Among the growing number of excellent paperback books, this series, published by
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
,
New York
, offers rather unusual subjects in reasonably attractive and useful form. Some recent titles:
White, T. H.,
The Bestiary: a Book of Beasts
(with, as the blurb says, “more than one hundred and twenty-five marvellous illustrations”) at $1.45;
Wain, John,
Living in the Present
(the first printing in the U. S., we believe, of this English novel), $1.25;
Symonds, John Addington’ classic,
The Revival of Learning
, $1.45;
Whitehead, Alfred North,
Symbolism, its Meaning and Effect
, 95 cents;
Tolstoy, Leo,
Last Diaries
, ed.
Stilman, Leon, $1.35;
Moscati, Sabatino,
Ancient Semitic Civilizations
, $1.65;
Lovejoy, Arthur O.,
Essays in the History of Ideas
, with a foreword by Don Cameron Allen, first published by
Johns Hopkins Press for the History of Ideas Club of that university
, $1.45; a fetching collection of
Various Fables from Various Places
, ed.
di Prima, Diane and illustrated by Bernard Krigstein, $1.15; and
Nashe, Thomas,
The Unfortunate Traveller
, ed. by
Berryman, John, with illustrations by Michael Ayrton, $1.15.
South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (4): 593–594.
