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Book Reviews

Spring 1952

National Traits and Mythology

By Paul Radin

The Spaniards in Their History by Ramon Menendez Pidal. Translated by Walter Starkie. Norton. $3.00 Ever since the romantics it has been customary to delineate a civilization in terms of […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1949

What Is Anthropology?

By Paul Radin

Personality In Nature, Society, And Culture by Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry A. Murray. Knopf. $6.00. Mirror For Man by Clyde Kluckhohn. Whittlesey House. $3.75.  Some two generations ago the great […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1947

Gentleman Historian

By Paul Radin

A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee. Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D. C. Somervell. Oxford. $5.00. It is in periods of crisis that thinkers have always taken stock […]