Recent Books

SOUTHERN ALBUM -- Sara Haardt -- Doubleday, Dor an ($2). Some of the South's ghostlike old ladies & gentlemen, their uneasy children and still clear-eyed grandchildren, followed through heart-changing incidents in good stories, by the late wife of H. L. Mencken who writes a preface.

AS THEY REVELED -- Philip Wylie -- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nine pseudo-people go through a summer of bright marital exchanges, puzzled drinking, and Connecticut's best boredom. NOT TOO NARROW . . . NOT TOO DEEP -- Richard Sale -- Simon & Schuster ($2). What might happen if Charles Rann Kennedy's Servant in the House were put into Stephen Crane's Open Boat with ten escaped convicts. The result will not even please Buchmanites.

Non-Fiction

I WAS A SOVIET WORKER -- Andrew Smith-- Dutton ($3). A U. S. Communist, employed for five years in an electrical equipment factory at Leningrad, tells of his disillusionment with the Stalin regime. Completely one-sided, the book relates incident after incident to show that Russian workers are not paid enough to live on, that Russian industries are shame fully disorganized and inefficient.

T. E. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA -- Charles Edmonds -- Applet on-Century ($1.50). A sane but unenlightening resume of Lawrence's life, pieced out from letters and other sources where Lawrence himself skimped.

PUNCH'S PROGRESS -- Forman Brown -- Macmillan ($2). Lightly amusing narrative of trouping with marionettes, by one of the founders of the group which later be came known as the Yale Puppeteers.

RUSSIAN SOMERSAULT -- Igor Schwezoff --Harper ($3.50). The head of a ballet school in Amsterdam tells of his life in Russia during the Revolution and after. Son of an English-Russian mother and a German-Russian father, Dancer Schwezoff had to perfect his plies between visits from the police. Written with little art, Russian Somersault won the $5,000 Hoder & Stoughton autobiography prize in England.

THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE (1917-1919) -- Major General James G. Harbord -- Little, Brown ($5). A detailed account of the organization of the A. E. F. and the use of U. S. troops during 1917 and 1918, by General Pershing's Chief of Staff. Military reminiscence and military history combined to illuminate the paper work behind the infantry.

AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MISCELLANY -- edited by Louis Kronenberger--Putnam ($3). Nine selections from the poetry and prose of the Age of Reason, with an introduction pointing out how little the present age has in common with it. Sterne, Blake, Sheridan, Gibbon, Walpole, Swift, Pope, Gay and the Earl of Chester field serve as examples.

GUINEA PIGS NO MORE -- J. B. Mat thews -- Covici, Friede ($2). A summary of the case already made by consumer organizations, with arguments for a "use" theory of value and for the creation of a Federal Department of the Consumer.

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