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Books: Ignazio Silone, one of the last of the good old anti-totalitarians, has done Emergency Exit, a collection of essays including one on his break with Communism (Harper, November, $5.95)…. Henry Miller’s lifelong affair with the brush produced To Paint Is To Love Again as well as lots of paintings, twenty of which are reproduced in color in a handsome new edition of the book (Grossman, $10)…. New anthology of that old hippie, Vachel Lindsay: Adventures in Rhyme and Design contains the pamphlet Rhymes to Be Traded for Bread, cartoons from The Village Improvement Parade, all of Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, more, more (Eakins Press, $7.95).

George F. Kennan’s Democracy and the Student Left started as a provocative anti-New Left magazine article; is now expanded to fill a book (Harper $5.75; Bantam paperback, November, 95 cents)…. At last, after years of lawsuits and other obstructions by the subject’s family, Francis Russell’s new book is on its way: The Shadow of Blooming Grove—The One Hundred Years of Warren Gamaliel Harding (McGraw-Hill, November, $10; less if you belong to Book-of-the-Month Club—adv.)…. Other biographies: Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman, by the late Maj. Gen. U.S.G. Ill (Morrow, February, $12.50); Sinatra: Twentieth-Century Romantic, a depthy thing by Arnold Shaw (Holt, October, $5.95).

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Books: Ignazio Silone, one of the last of the good old anti-totalitarians, has done Emergency Exit, a collection of essays including one on his break with Communism (Harper, November, $5.95)…. Henry Miller’s lifelong affair with the brush produced To Paint Is To Love Again as well as lots of paintings, twenty of which are reproduced in color in a handsome new edition of the book (Grossman, $10)…. New anthology of that old hippie, Vachel Lindsay: Adventures in Rhyme and Design contains the pamphlet Rhymes to Be Traded for Bread, cartoons from The Village Improvement Parade, all of Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, more, more (Eakins Press, $7.95).

George F. Kennan’s Democracy and the Student Left started as a provocative anti-New Left magazine article; is now expanded to fill a book (Harper $5.75; Bantam paperback, November, 95 cents)…. At last, after years of lawsuits and other obstructions by the subject’s family, Francis Russell’s new book is on its way: The Shadow of Blooming Grove—The One Hundred Years of Warren Gamaliel Harding (McGraw-Hill, November, $10; less if you belong to Book-of-the-Month Club—adv.)…. Other biographies: Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman, by the late Maj. Gen. U.S.G. Ill (Morrow, February, $12.50); Sinatra: Twentieth-Century Romantic, a depthy thing by Arnold Shaw (Holt, October, $5.95).