Best Books

Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year. Readers can now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give as presents. Following is a list designed to be helpful:

FICTION

ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS--Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck--Day (2 vol.; $6.50).

ANN VICKERS--Sinclair Lewis--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

ANTHONY ADVERSE--Hervey Allen-- Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

THE BIRD OF DAWNING--John Masefield--Macmillan ($2.50).

THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS--Lady Murasaki--Honghton Mifflin ($3.50).

CARR--Phyllis Bentley--Macmillan ($2).

THE COLOURED DOME--Francis Stuart --Macmillan ($2).

DARK HAZARD--W. R. Burnett--Harper ($2.50).

DEATH IN THE WOODS AND OTHER STORIES--Sherwood Anderson--Liveright ($2).

FLUSH--Virginia Woolf--Harcourt, Brace ($2).

FULL CIRCLE--John Collier--Appleton ($2).

GOD'S LITTLE ACRE--Erskine Caldwell--Viking ($2.50).

GREAT CIRCLE--Conrad Aiken--Scribner ($2).

IN TRAGIC LIFE--Vardis Fisher--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

KETTLE--Gustav Eckstein-- Harper ($2.50).

KINGDOM COMING--Roark Bradford-- Harper ($2.50).

LAMB IN HIS BOSOM--Caroline Miller--Harper ($2).

THE LAST ADAM--James Gould Cozzens--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

MEN OF GOOD WILL: VOLUME ONE-- Jules Romains--Knopf ($2.50).

NO MORE TRUMPETS--George Milburn--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

ONE MORE SPRING--Robert Nathan-- Knopf ($2).

PETER ABELARD--Helen Waddell--Holt ($2.50).

PITY IS NOT ENOUGH--Josephine Herbst--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

SOLAL--Albert Cohen--Dutton ($2.40).

SOUTH MOON UNDER--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings--Scribner ($2).

TIME, FORWARD!--Valentine Kataev--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).

TO THE NORTH--Elizabeth Bowen--Knopf ($2.50).

TROPICAL WINTER-- Joseph Hergesheimer--Knopf ($2.50).

WINNER TAKE NOTHING--Ernest Hemingway--Scribner ($2).

THE WOODS COLT--Thames Williamson --Harcourt, Brace ($2).

YESTERDAY'S BURDENS--Robert M. Coates--Macaulay ($2).

NON-FICTION

THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD--Bernard Shaw --Dodd, Mead ($1.50).

ANDREW JACKSON, THE BORDER CAPTAIN -- Marquis James -- Bobbs-Merrill ($3.75).

THE ARCHES OF THE YEARS--Halliday Sutherland--Morrow ($2.75).

ARCTIC VILLAGE--Robert Marshall-- Smith & Haas ($3).

THE AMERICAN PROCESSION--Agnes Rogers & Frederick Lewis Allen--Harper ($2.75).

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS -- Gertrude Stein -- Harcourt, Brace ($3.50).

THE BOOK OF TALBOT--Violet Clifton --Harcourt, Brace ($3.50).

CECIL RHODES--Sarah Gertrude Millin --Harper ($3.75).

CHARACTERS & COMMENTARIES--Lytton Strachey--Harcourt, Brace ($3).

THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- Edited by Laurence Stallings--Simon & Schuster ($3.50).

THE GREAT OFFENSIVE--Maurice Hindus--Smith & Haas ($3).

THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT-- Viking ($5).

THE JOURNEY OF THE FLAME--Antonio de Fierro Blanco--Houghton Mifflin ($3).

THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE--J. W. N. Sullivan--Viking ($2.75).

THE MAN OF THE RENAISSANCE--Ralph Roeder--Viking ($3.50).

MARIE ANTOINETTE--Stefan Zweig-- Viking ($3.50).

MELLON'S MILLIONS--Harvey O'Connor --Day ($3).

NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT--Storm Jameson--Knopf ($2.50).

OVER HERE, VOL. v OF OUR TIMES-- Mark Sullivan--Scribner ($3.75).

POOR SPLENDID WINGS--Frances Winwar--Little, Brown ($3.50).

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME--H. G. Wells--Macmillan ($2.50).

THE SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY--Oxford (2 vol.; $18).

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH--Vera Brittain --Macmillan ($2.50).

TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING--Maurice O'Sullivan--Viking ($2.50).

THE TWO FRANKLINS--Bernard Fay-- Little, Brown ($3.50).

VINCENT VAN GOGH--Julius Meier-Graefe--Harcourt, Brace ($3).

WAR MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE --Little, Brown (2 vol.; $4 each).

THE YEARS OF THE LOCUST (AMERICA, 1929-1932) -- Gilbert Seldes -- Little, Brown ($3).

VERSE

A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS--Ezra Pound--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).

GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS-- Robinson Jeffers--Random House ($2.50).

SELECTED POEMS OF ARCHIBALD MACLEISH--Houghton Mifflin ($3).

TALIFER--Edwin Arlington Robinson-- Macmillan ($1.75).

THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS --William Butler Yeats--Macmillan ($2.50).

MURDER

THE AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY--Ellery Queen--Stokes ($2).

THE CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS-- Erle Stanley Gardner--Morrow ($2).

THE DRAGON MURDER CASE--S. S. Van Dine--Scribner ($2).

DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE--Barnaby Ross--Viking ($2).

MURDER MUST ADVERTISE--Dorothy L. Savers--Harcourt, Brace ($2).

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