Recent Books

STRANGE GLORY--L. H. Myers--Earcourt, Brace ($2). Tragic triangle story of the deep South, by an author whose trilogy (The Root and the Flower) was called "ultra-Proustian."

MORNING OF LIFE--Kristmann Gudmundsson--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Hardbitten, cold-climated tale of love, hate and a tough winter; by an Icelandic author who has been translated into a dozen languages.

THE EARLIEST DREAMS--Nancy Hale-- Scribner ($2.50). Fifteen short stories in minor key by a writer especially adept in dealing with feminine emotions. Author Hale writes with keen perception; at times, as in the title story, reaches a high poetic plane.

GOLDEN PEACOCK--Gertrude Atherton --Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An entertaining account of intrigue and adventure among the ruling cliques of Augustan Rome. The story, told by Pomponia, irrepressible ward of the poet Horace, manages to be more convincing than many a modern yarn.

JAMAICA INN--Daphne du Maurier-- Doubleday Dor an ($2.50). The granddaughter of Trilby's author tells the tale of a hard-headed young woman who becomes involved in a series of hair-raising crimes on the British moors of a hundred years ago.

IT WON'T BE FLOWERS--Judith Kelly-- Harper ($2). In this provocative first novel, Author Kelly presents with earnestness and frequently with hysteria the dilemma of a beautiful young Bostonian who enjoys her wealth but deplores its implications. Author Kelly has an irritating trick of bearing down on her favorite adjectives: The heroine is "sleek," "sly," "vivid" and "expensive."

Non-Fiction

CALIFORNIA IN THE FIFTIES--Introduction and Explanatory Text by Douglas S. Watson--John Howell: San Francisco ($10 to $150). Rare collection of 50 early lithographs (1855-1861) of California, beautifully reproduced in a limited edition (1,000 copies). Collectors should jump at it. Famed U. S. Printer Edwin Grabhorn supervised the book's typography, design.

THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY--Harry L. Shapiro--Simon & Schuster ($3). Anthropologist Shapiro, who went to Pitcairn Island to find out how heredity worked out in an isolated community whose ancestors are all known (TIME, March 11, 1935), makes his report.

GEORGE ELIOT--Blanche Colton Williams--Macmillan ($4). The product of years of careful research, this biography treats every aspect of the great feminist's life and works. Author Williams devotes particular attention to George Eliot's life with Lewes, explaining much of her writing in terms of that relationship which so shocked the Victorian world. Although some of the detail is dull, the book as a whole is written with charm and perception, should be the last word on George Eliot for some time to come.

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GALS-WORTHY--H. V. Marrot--Scrlbner--($5). Galsworthy's good friend and great admirer presents an exhaustive study of the life and writings of the late Nobel Prizewinner. Over 800 pages, complete with family trees and photographs. A handy reference for Forsyte-followers.

DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA--George Slocombe--Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Scholarly life of the illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who stopped the Moslems at Lepanto in 1571. For those who like their history in stern, stiff doses.

THE GARDEN DICTIONARY--edited by Norman Taylor -- Houghton Mifflin ($16.25). In the 900 pages of this handbook the winter-emerging gardener will find the answers to all his vernal questions. Beautifully illustrated, carefully indexed.

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