Recent Books

MAIN LINE WEST--Paul Horgan--Harper ($2.50). Tale of a sporty drummer of horse-&-buggy days in the Midwest, of his wife and son who tried to do better. More ambitious than Author Horgan's prize-winning The Fault of Angels but not as entertaining.

THE HILL--Eleanor Green--Doubleday, Doran ($2). Very short first novel of a middle-class family seen through the searching eyes of one of them, a just-grown-up girl. A refreshing contrast to such books as Josephine Johnson's ornate Now in November, Pulitzer Prizewinner for 1935, The Hill is well written, but in prose.

TUDOR GREEN--W. B. Maxwell--Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame).

THEY SELDOM SPEAK--Leland Hall--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Two generations of Maine gentlemen farmers; not so good a job as his best-selling Salah and His American.

UNTIL I FIND--Edgcumb Pinchon--Knopf ($2.50). Sturdy, vivid semi-autobiographical tale of a boy's adventures on the Isle of Wight and in the New Forest in Victorian times. Gypsy firesides to which the boy's own Gypsy blood entices him and an ancient school where he learns singlestick and archery provide the picaresque background for adolescent rebellions and escapades.

Non-Fiction

ARCTIC ADVENTURE--Peter Freuchen--Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Book about Eskimos, by a man who settled among them, married an Eskimo woman (TIME, Nov. 25). Book-of-the-Month Club choice for April.

ALDOUS HUXLEY--Alexander Henderson--Harper ($2.50). A critical biography of a writer who, Author Henderson thinks, has not been taken as seriously as his work warrants.

OBITER SCRIPTA--George Santayana--Scribner ($2.50). Collection of scattered lectures, essays, reviews by the onetime Harvard philosopher whose first novel (The Last Puritan, TIME, Feb. 3) made him a best-seller at 72.

DESERTS ON THE MARCH--Paul B. Sears--Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Originally published by the University of Oklahoma Press last November, now republished by Simon & Schuster, this book gives a fascinating factual account of how deserts drift and spread, what can and is being done to stop them in the U. S.

MIRROR OF CHINA--Louis Laloy--Knopf ($2.75). Impressions of Chinese life, written by a Western scholar (Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Paris) who knows the language and the people.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.