Recent Books

MISS MARVEL--Esther Forbes--Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An agreeable little story of a New England girl who began a correspondence with an unknown Montana resident, was startled when he appeared in her home town.

THE VALLEY--Nathan Asch--Macmillan ($2.50). Collection of well-written sketches laid in a run-down Connecticut farming region where old settlers, immigrants, New York artists and wealthy suburbanites come together.

THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH-- Morley Callaghan--Random House ($2.50). Long, slow novel, written in Morley Callaghan's familiar and muffled prose, of the relationship of father and son.

THE GREEN CORN REBELLION--William Cunningham--Vanguard ($2). Grim and unusual novel based on a tragically futile uprising of Oklahoma farmers in 1917. written in a manner reminiscent of the work of Erskine Caldwell.

THE GINKGO TREE -- Cora Jarrett -- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A gothic tale of the struggle of a son and his malignant father, by the author of Night Over Pitch's Pond.

Non-Fiction

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS--George Seldes--Bobbs-Merrill ($2.75). A rambling but effective attack on U. S. newspapers, charging coloring, distortion or suppression of vital news, containing some enlightening instances of journalistic malpractices as George Seldes encountered them during his career as correspondent.

SECRETS OF THE WHITE LADY--Captain Henry Landau--Putnam ($3). Story of a great Belgium spying organization, of more than a thousand individuals, which operated during the War with the loss of only live members condemned to death, eventually provided the Allies with 75% of all information coming from occupied Belgium.

OLIVER HAZARD PERRY--Charles J. Button--Longmans, Green ($3.50). The first biography since 1840 of the hero of the battle of Lake Erie, whose victory prevented the establishment of an English stronghold beyond the Mississippi.

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