Recent Books

GALLYBIRD -- Sheila Kaye-Smith -- Harper ($2.50). Tale of 17th Century England, complete with black magic; sequel to The End of the House of Alard and Superstition Corner.

THE END OF A CHILDHOOD -- Henry Handel Richardson -- Norton ($2.50). Short stories by Australia's No.1 woman novelist, Henrietta Richardson, including new chapters on the Mahonys (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony}.

A MAN OF PURPOSE--Donald Richberg --Crowell ($2). Reprint of an early novel come back to plague its Brain-Truster author.

Recommended Murders

THE BLIND BARBER -- John Dickson Carr--Harper ($2).

THE POWER TO KILL--Robert Hichens --Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

THE CHIANTI FLASK -- Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes-- Longmans, Green ($2).

CREEP SHADOW ! -- A. Merritt -- Crime Club ($2).

Non-Fiction

THE NEW DEMOCRACY -- Harold L. Ickes--Norton ($1.50). Another Cabinet member speaks his piece on the New Deal.

ERASMUS--Stefan Zweig--Viking ($3). Short but masterly biography by the author of Marie Antoinette.

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG -- Maurice H. Weseen--Crowell ($2.50). Over 15,000 up-to-date U. S. slang words and expressions defined and classified by a professional lexicographer.

A GUIDE TO MODERN POLITICS--G. D. H. Cole & Margaret Cole--Knopf ($3). Handy handbook on current political systems of all nations by a studious married pair who also collaborate on murder stories.

SUN YAT-SEN--Lyon Sharman--John Day ($3.50). Full-dress biography of China's Washington.

DOSTOEVSKY--Avrahm Yarmolinsky -- Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). First-rate life of Russia's great novelist, by the Chief of the Slavonic Division of Manhattan's Public Library.

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