Recent Books

OLD MAN GREENLAW -- Kenneth Payson Kempton -- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). An amiable tale of crotchety down-East characters, complete with quirks, cranks, wiles.

IN DUBIOUS BATTLE -- John Steinbeck -- Covici, Friede ($2.50). Strike melodrama, fought with a fairly straight Left. Much more impressive performance than his overrated Tortilla Flat.

THE BALCONY -- Adrian Bell -- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Minor-keyed, well-written story of English childhood; easier to take than Proust but not nearly so effective.

DARBY AND JOAN -- Maurice Baring -- Knopf ($2). Superficially serene tale of an aristocratic Englishwoman, by the aristocratically serene English novelist.

BUTCHER BIRD -- Reuben Davis -- Little, Brown ($2.50). Tough black plantation stuff, showing what a good man's love will do to sublimate a hip-swinging cinnamon-colored wench into a fiction heroine.

Non-Fiction

HELL BEYOND THE SEAS -- Aage Krarup-Nielsen -- Vanguard ($2.75). Ghosted account of life in the penal colony of French Guiana, illustrated by grisly photographs.

LIBERALISM FIGHTS ON -- Ogden L. Mills -- Macmillan ($1.50). A trumpet-blast for the G. O. P. by that famed liberal, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury.

PREFACE TO THE PAST -- James Branch Cabell -- Me Bride ($2.50). Story of his literary life, mostly made up of revised prefaces to his collected works, by an ageing tenant of an ivory tower.

THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN -- AND ITS CURE -- John Erskine -- Bobbs-Merrill ($1.50). A wisecracking college professor's saline solution to the feminine problem.

NEVER SAY DIE -- John Paton -- Longmans, Green ($2.50). The engaging autobiography of an Aberdeen Scot, onetime general secretary of Britain's Independent Labor Party from which he resigned in

1934-PERSONAL PLEASURES -- Rose Macaulay -- Macmillan ($2.50). Belle-lettristic essays, mostly brief, on many subjects by a sharp-penned writer.

TWENTY-TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING -- United Feature Syndicate ($10). Hand-printed edition of the hitherto unpublished letters which were sold at auction in Manhattan last April for $40,000, were afterwards reprinted in the Woman's Home Companion.

MARY TUDOR -- Beatrice White -- Macmillan ($6). A scholarly attempt to prove that "Bloody Mary" was really "piteous, persecuted, harassed, suffering"; a reply to the monstrous regiments of John Knox's accusations.

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