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Often a number of publishers seem to get the same idea at the same time. This season several books on two very different Roosevelts will be coming out. On Eleanor (her 75th birthday) : On My Own, by the lady herself (Harper); Mrs. R., by Alfred Steinberg (Putnam); Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life in Pictures (Duell). On Theodore (the 100th anniversary of his birth): Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edward Wagenknecht (Longmans); The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, by Stefan Lorant (Doubleday); T. R., Champion of the Strenuous Life, edited by W. G. Johnston (Farrar); and from Scribner a reissue of his Autobiography. James Burnham will review the series on Eleanor Roosevelt; John Chamberlain, the series on Theodore.

Note on the progress of education in the mid-twentieth century: Columbia University Press reports: “When our Fall, 1958, catalogue came in, we asked a clerk to send a copy to every author in it. We just got back from England the one that had been sent to Edmund Burke, . . . marked ‘Deceased 9th July, 1797.’ ”

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Often a number of publishers seem to get the same idea at the same time. This season several books on two very different Roosevelts will be coming out. On Eleanor (her 75th birthday) : On My Own, by the lady herself (Harper); Mrs. R., by Alfred Steinberg (Putnam); Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life in Pictures (Duell). On Theodore (the 100th anniversary of his birth): Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edward Wagenknecht (Longmans); The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, by Stefan Lorant (Doubleday); T. R., Champion of the Strenuous Life, edited by W. G. Johnston (Farrar); and from Scribner a reissue of his Autobiography. James Burnham will review the series on Eleanor Roosevelt; John Chamberlain, the series on Theodore.

Note on the progress of education in the mid-twentieth century: Columbia University Press reports: “When our Fall, 1958, catalogue came in, we asked a clerk to send a copy to every author in it. We just got back from England the one that had been sent to Edmund Burke, . . . marked ‘Deceased 9th July, 1797.’ ”