Recent Books

OLLIE Miss -- George Henderson -- Stokes ($2.50). All-Negro novel, well and simply told.

THE SCARLET BEAST--Francis Gerard-- Longmans, Green ($2.50). Allegedly historical romance about the Punic Wars; a silly book.

SEASON TICKET--Margaret lies--Harper ($2). Competent but uninspiring first novel about English season-ticket-holders (U. S.: commuters).

WILD PASTURES--Rex Beach--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Modestly described by its publishers as "a novel of romance and swift adventure," by an old hand.

ERNESTINE TAKES OVER -- Walter Brooks--Morrow ($2). Story in the late Thorne Smith tradition but well above the average.

So BRIEF THE YEARS--Natalie Sokoloff --Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Adventures of a girl who was in wide circulation among the Bolsheviks.

HIGHLAND NIGHT--Neil M'. Gunn-- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of the eviction of the Highlanders from their glens in the early 19th Century.

CALL IT SLEEP--Henry Roth--Ballon ($2.50). A first novel, the story of three years in the life of a sensitive Jewish slum-child, told with painstaking and pain-giving fidelity to slum dialect, slum neuroses. Non-Fiction

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE--Marvin Lowenthal--Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An autobiography of the famed French essayist pieced together from his own essays, letters, etc.

THINGS TO LIVE FOR--Francis Stuart-- Macmillan ($2.50). Disconnected chapters from the life of the mystical young Irish author of Pigeon Irish, The Coloured Dome.

THE FOOL OF LOVE--Hesketh Pearson-- Harper ($3.50). Sympathetic, lively biography of the late great Essayist William Hazlitt.

PARTNERS IN PLUNDER--J. B. Matthews & R. E. Shallcross--Covici, Friede ($2.50). Another "Consumers' Research" book, charging certain U. S. industries with racketeering methods, principles.

THE POPULAR PRACTICE OF FRAUD-- T. Swann Harding--Longmans, Green ($2.50). Examination of fraud in U. S. food, drugs, cosmetics, real estate, etc.

LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPRESSES-- Jacques de Serviez--Wm. H. Wise & Co. ($2.90). Reprint of an 18th Century translation, introduction by Robert Graves.

THE AMAZING MADAME JUMEL--William Gary Duncan--Stokes ($3). The career of the Providence streetwalker who became Mrs. Aaron Burr, caused the duel between Burr and Alexander Hamilton.

UNROLLING THE MAP--Leonard Outhwaite--Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75)- Brief history of exploration (2750 B.C.-1935 A.D.), graphically illustrated with 56 maps.

Verse

COLLECTED POEMS--C. Day Lewis-- Random House ($2.50). Poems and an essay by another young English paladin, peer and pal of Poets W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender (see below).

VIENNA -- Stephen Spender -- Random House ($1.25). Poem on the Viennese Socialist uprising of January, 1934 by a much-touted English poet.

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