May 1951 Issue, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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- Personal & Otherwise, pp. 6-21
  Mostly about our contributors
- Letters, pp. 22-28
- Why We Irritate Our Allies
  James Reston
  , pp. 29-34
- The British Disagree with Us
  Ernest Borneman
  , pp. 35-42
- People Leave Skulls with Me
  Loren C. Eiseley
  , pp. 43-49
- The Easy Chair
  Bernard DeVoto
  , pp. 50-53
  Spring Clearance
- Can Science Make Sense?
  Joseph H. Spigelman
  , pp. 54-59
- Seer
  Rolfe Humphries
  , p. 60
- Jasper
  Emma Smith
  , pp. 61-63
  A Story
- Thin Partitions
  James Michie
  , p. 64
- The Festival Year
  Paul Moor
  , pp. 65-69
- What Is Maturity?
  Carl Binger, M.D.
  , pp. 70-77
- Even Pure Women Do It, p. 78
- The German Booby Trap
  John Fischer
  , pp. 79-82
- Bush Boy, Poor Boy
  James Aldridge
  , pp. 83-91
  A Story
- Mrs. Mac of Barnard
  Anne L. Goodman
  , pp. 92-100
- Fame, Fame, Fame
  Leonard Lyons
  , pp. 101-104
- Night-Music
  Clellon Holmes
  , p. 105
- After Hours
  "Mr. Harper"
  , pp. 106-109
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  New Books (16 Reviews)
  Charles Poore
  , pp. 110-114
  The New American Classics
  1. After the Lost Generation by John W. Aldridge
  2. Return to Paradise by James A. Michener
  3. Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
  4. Peace Can Be Won by Paul G. Hoffman
  5. The Burned Bramble by Manes Sperber
  6. Russian Purge and the Extraction of Confession by Frederick Beck and William Godin
  7. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. I by Elting E. Morison and Theodore Roosevelt
  8. The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Malcolm Cowley and F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
  10. Festival by J.B. Priestley
  11. Farm Wanted by Helen Train Hilles
  12. The Weekend Gardener by Dorothy H. Jenkins
  13. A First Book of Tree Identification by Matilda Rogers
  14. How to Get It from the Government by Stacy V. Jones
  15. Tale of a Foolish Farmer by George Sessions Perry
  16. A Practical Guide for the Beginning Farmer by Herbert Austin Jacobs
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  Books in Brief (7 Reviews)
  Katherine Gauss Jackson
  , pp. 115-122
  The Nice American, by Gerald Sykes
  1. The Nice American by Gerald Sykes
  2. Judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler
  3. The Hill of Fortune by Robert Wernick
  4. The Loved and the Lost by Morley Callaghan
  5. Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
  6. Charlie Chaplin by Theodore Huff
  7. Terror in the Streets by Howard Whitman