Recent Books

THIS WAS IVOR TRENT--Claude Houghton--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A trick novel about a four-dimensional man who is a walking prophecy of some super-race of the future. Superman Ivor Trent has keener perceptions than most humans, and a way with women.

NO QUARTER GIVEN--Paul Horgan-- Harper ($2.50). The author won the 1933-34 Harper prize with The Fault of Angels, his novel of Rochester, N. Y. and the Eastman-endowed opera there. His new novel also moves in musical circles with the usual allotment of squabbling artists. A composer, who has settled in Santa Fe, New Mex. for his health, struggles to complete his symphony, but his wife has social ambitions that conflict with work.

THE HARSH VOICE--Rebecca West-- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Four ironic novelettes by the aging enfant terrible of literary London. Three turn on the comic interplay of differing conceptions of love, one on murder.

ROMANY--Lady Eleanor Smith--Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Gypsy wildness and English country life in a novel that is about one cut above The Sheik.

THE ELAGHIN AFFAIR AND OTHER STORIES--Ivan Bunin--'Knopf ($2.50). The Nobel Prize winner digs into his trunk for a new collection of short stories. Some of them go back to 1911.

AUNT MARGOT AND OTHER STORIES-- Doris Peel--Houghton Mifflin ($2). Gently humorous short stories, some told from a child's viewpoint.

Non-Fiction

A WINTER DIARY AND OTHER POEMS-- Mark Van Doren--Macmillan ($1.90). Verse, lyrical, bucolic, metaphysical, by the author of The Transients.

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