ALERT READERS

--are not permitting the season to slip by without having read or planned to read books designated by the best current criticism as:

Light and Pleasant

The Torrents of Spring--Ernest Hemingway ($1.50).

The "Chicago school" of fictionists richly parodied.

0 Genteel Lady!--Esther Forbes ($2). A charming, witty, philosophical comedy of mid-Bostonian manners.

The Splendid Shilling -- Idwal Jones ($2). A Welsh-gypsy lad roams California goldfields.

Count Bruga--Ben Hecht ($2). Grimy but exuberant.

Topper -- Thome Smith ( $2). Suburban humor of a high order. The facilities of TIME'S book department are at its readers' disposal.

To order the above, or any other books, inclose a check or cash to the Book Editor, making plain to whom you wish your purchases sent.