Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

More June Titles: Martin Green argues in Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire (Basic Books, $15) that the works of Scott, DeFoe, Twain, Cooper, Kipling, and Conrad were a major source of inspiration for the British and American imperialist politicians who sought rapaciously to extend the influence of their respective nations over the world. . . . Peter Stansky, the British historian, has written a biography called Gladstone: A Progress in Politics (Little, Brown, $9.95) in which he concludes that Disraeli was wrong in finding his great opponent a dangerous hypocrite. … In Freud and the Problem of God (Yale, $8.95), Hans Kung treats the psychoanalyst’s militant atheism as merely “a dogmatic claim.” … In Rickenbacker’s Luck: An American Life (Houghton Mifflin, $12.95), Finis Farr pursues the story of Eddie Rickenbacker from child to ace to chairman of Eastern Airlines.

Patrick Carr and the editors of Country Music Magazine have put together The Illustrated History of Country Music (Doubleday, $14.95). … To descend a lev el or two, Joshua C. Taylor’s book, The Fine Arts in America (Chicago University Press, $15), treats of their development from the seventeenth century to the present. Taylor is head of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Collection of Fine Arts; his book is preceded by an obliging introduction written for it by Professor Daniel Boorstin, head of the Library of Congress and a noted historian. . . . Robert Darntpn’s The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (Harvard, $20) is a fascinating volume about the development of M? Diderot’s famous project.

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More June Titles: Martin Green argues in Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire (Basic Books, $15) that the works of Scott, DeFoe, Twain, Cooper, Kipling, and Conrad were a major source of inspiration for the British and American imperialist politicians who sought rapaciously to extend the influence of their respective nations over the world. . . . Peter Stansky, the British historian, has written a biography called Gladstone: A Progress in Politics (Little, Brown, $9.95) in which he concludes that Disraeli was wrong in finding his great opponent a dangerous hypocrite. … In Freud and the Problem of God (Yale, $8.95), Hans Kung treats the psychoanalyst’s militant atheism as merely “a dogmatic claim.” … In Rickenbacker’s Luck: An American Life (Houghton Mifflin, $12.95), Finis Farr pursues the story of Eddie Rickenbacker from child to ace to chairman of Eastern Airlines.

Patrick Carr and the editors of Country Music Magazine have put together The Illustrated History of Country Music (Doubleday, $14.95). … To descend a lev el or two, Joshua C. Taylor’s book, The Fine Arts in America (Chicago University Press, $15), treats of their development from the seventeenth century to the present. Taylor is head of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Collection of Fine Arts; his book is preceded by an obliging introduction written for it by Professor Daniel Boorstin, head of the Library of Congress and a noted historian. . . . Robert Darntpn’s The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (Harvard, $20) is a fascinating volume about the development of M? Diderot’s famous project.