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Sounds disgustingly highbrow--doesn't it? Years ago I had a small list of favorite reviewers, who were really helpful--Do you remember the late Robert Morss Lovett? & there was the still flourishing Joseph Wood Krutch, my colleague at Columbia, who retired to the Arizona desert some years ago, & does beautiful books on wild life & the balance of nature, & so on. About all I read nowadays is the Herald-Trib-BookWeek-the Nation-The American Scholar-now & then the Saturday Review & the New Statesman. But I do remember that some of the most intelligent reviews of books I have written came from newspapers here & there through the country, &, in England, provincial papers. The review you sent me aroused the reflection--rather usual, after reading book reviews--that the reviewer hadn't read the book. He