Book Review| October 01 1960 Putnam’s Capricorn Books Putnam’s Capricorn Books. Among the growing number of excellent paperback books, this series, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, offers rather unusual subjects in reasonably attractive and useful form. Some recent titles: White, T. H., The Bestiary: a Book of Beasts (with, as the blurb says, “more than one hundred and twenty-five marvellous illustrations”) at $1.45; Wain, John, Living in the Present (the first printing in the U. S., we believe, of this English novel), $1.25; Symonds, John Addington’ classic, The Revival of Learning, $1.45; Whitehead, Alfred North, Symbolism, its Meaning and Effect, 95 cents; Tolstoy, Leo, Last Diaries, ed. Stilman, Leon, $1.35; Moscati, Sabatino, Ancient Semitic Civilizations, $1.65; Lovejoy, Arthur O., Essays in the History of Ideas, with a foreword by Don Cameron Allen, first published by Johns Hopkins Press for the History of Ideas Club of that university, $1.45; a fetching collection of Various Fables from Various Places, ed. di Prima, Diane and illustrated by Bernard Krigstein, $1.15; and Nashe, Thomas, The Unfortunate Traveller, ed. by Berryman, John, with illustrations by Michael Ayrton, $1.15. South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (4): 593–594. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-59-4-593 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Putnam’s Capricorn Books. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1960; 59 (4): 593–594. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-59-4-593 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press1960 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.