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Russell Fraser

Nonfiction

Summer 1968

Science and Poetry

By Russell Fraser

Thales of Miletus, the ancient astronomer and geometrician, is notoriously an absentminded man. Contemplating the stars, Thales fails to notice the ditch at his feet. He tumbles in the ditch. […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1967

Uniquely Amphibious

By Russell Fraser

Henry James: A Reader’s Guide by S. Gorley Putt. Cornell University Press, $6.95. In his exhaustive and closely written Reader’s Guide to Henry James, Gorley Putt, the director of the […]