Dartmouth Authors
Franklin Folsom '28, Some Basic Rightsof Soviet Citizens. Progress Publishers (Moscow), 1983. 166 pp., cloth. This book examines the main rights of Soviet citizens guaranteed by the constitution of the U.S.S.R. The author gives a comprehensive analysis of these rights, examining them within their historical development, and, using experiences encountered during his visits to the Soviet Union, shows how they are implemented in practice. (Available from Imported Publications, 320 West Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60610.)
Alexander A. McKenzie '32, WorldRecord Wind: Measuring Gusts of 231Miles an Hour. Mount Washington Observatory (Gorham, NH), 1984. 36 pp., paperback. The wind speed recorded at the Mount Washington Observatory on April 12, 1934 is the greatest ever measured. The author was one of three observers present on the occasion and he has drawn upon the meteorological records of the day as well as other sources of information to present this account of an extraordinary experience.
Richard N. Campen '34, ChautauquaImpressions: Architecture and Ambience. West Summit Press (Chagrin Falls, OH 44022), 1984. 142 pp., paperback. The cover of the book quotes some memories of the unique Chautauqua experience: "the power and appeal of coming together to study, worship, create and play ... a serious and studious picnic on a gigantic scale," and with thousands of words and hundreds of pictures Richard Campen has captured as wide a range of views of that experience as anyone could wish for. The phenomenal variety of the cottage architecture is splendidly recorded here.
Richard C. Schneider '35 at al. editors, Correlative Neurosurgery. Charles C. Thomas, 1982. 1669 pp., 2 volumes, cloth. The third edition of this classic work is recorded here because it represents a dramatic expansion and revision of earlier versions, bringing under consideration for the first time such subjects as computed tomography, radionuclide studies, chemotherapy, and central nervous system infections. Dr. Schneider is an emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Stanford L. Luce '45, A Glossary of Celine's Fiction. University Microfilms International, 1979. 322 pp., paperback. And (with William K. Buckley) A HalfCentury of Celine: an Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982. Garland Publishing, 1983. 366 pp., cloth. Celine's novels, scandalous and influential, have been so widely translated and their power so frequently acknowledged that these two books are bound to prove deeply beneficial to students at all levels. The Glossary is invaluable in guiding the reader through works that are full of words seldom found in standard dictionaries; and the Bibliography makes very apparent how increasingly intense is the interest taken in this controversial writer. Dr. Luce is professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Robert Heussler '46, Completing aStewardship: The Malayan Civil Service, 1942-1957. Greenwood Press, 1983. 435 pp., cloth. The author, whose obituary appeared in the April issue, had already written the definitive study of British Rule in Malaya, and in this sequel he dealt with the process of British disengagement from Malaya and Singapore during an era of Asian nationalism. What gives the book its special flavor is the concentration on the principal British participants, as people: their activities, outlooks, assumptions and responses to the indigenous population are all sympathetically recorded.
James Smith Rudolph '47, Make YourOwn Working Paper Clock. Harper & Row, 1983. 40 pp., paperback. Talked about on "All Things Considered," described by Isaac Asimov in his introduction as "a timepiece Galileo would have given his eyeteeth to own," the clock you can make from the pages of this book is an improved version of one that James Smith Rudolph found in a little old bookshop while a graduate student in Paris in 1947, the last of a stock that had somehow survived the war years. It takes patience and care, but it also provides all kinds of satisfaction. And it really does work!
Charles E. Soule '56, Disability IncomeInsurance: The Unique Risk. Dow Jones-Irwin, 1984. 239 pp., cloth. This is a handbook for professionals in the insurance industry, explaining for them the concepts, risks and patterns of activity peculiar to the disability income sector of their business. The author makes clear that compared to most other major sectors, this one is in a fluid state: "The unknowns are still enormous; the flexibility of contract language unbounded; the premium differentials . . . substantial and in some instances dangerous." Every aspect of the subject is covered, from its early history to the most recent developments.
Fredric V. Bogel '65, Literature and Insubstantiality in Later Eighteenth-Century England. Princeton University Press, 1984. 248 pp., cloth. A professor of English at Cornell, Dr. Bogel considers the writings of men as various as Burke, Boswell, Gray, Johnson and Sterne in terms of a point of view which emerges from the study, described by the author as one that shows us "that the world, properly known, may amount to less than we had hoped it would." A distinguished commentator has described the book as "one of the most important studies of its period in recent years . . . written with wit, imagination, and great intellectual force."
Lawrence S. Ebner '69, et al., PesticideRegulation Handbook. Executive Enterprises Publications, 1983. 463 pp., paperback. The first federal pesticide legislation was enacted in 1910; like all successor laws it tried to strike a satisfactory balance between the benefits and the risks of pesticide use. By now, however, the field is incredibly crowded and the subject extraordinarily complicated; in the circumstances this first comprehensive manual has a special usefulness. Mr. Ebner is an environmental law expert in a Washington, D.C. firm which has pesticide law among its major areas of specialization.
