Recent Books

CLANSMEN -- Ethel Boileau -- Dutton ($2.50). Pretentious history of a landed Scottish family, treating exhaustively the amorous career of a solid young scion, who is likely to interest the reader much less than he does the author.

IN THE FULNESS of TIME--Gertrude Capen Whitney -- Bruce Humphries ($2.50). Adventures of a great-souled Georgia spinster among a group of Pennsylvania Quakers caught in the toils of a mystical mystery. A string of crystal beads and a seeress play important, if incomprehensible, parts in this fictionized revelation of Truth.

KNOCKOUT -- Charles Francis Coe -- Lippincott ($2). Fight-addicts may enjoy this saga of an honest boxer who keeps his heart pure in a crooked game.

STORIES OF THREE DECADES--Thomas Mann--Knopf ($3). The collected stories (24 in all) of Germany's greatest living writer, dating from 1897 to 1929, with a preface by himself.

Non-Fiction

A NOTE ON LITERARY CRITICISM--James T. Farrell--Vanguard ($2.50). The creator of Studs Lonigan berates the reigning Leftist critics for their failure to acknowledge the "refreshment-value" of literature, insists that criticism must be "rationally established," not "absolutized and fixed.''

MEXICAN INTERLUDE--Joseph Henry Jackson--Macmillan ($2.50). Informal account of an automobile tour of Mexico, offering the prospective traveler much useful advice on hotels, roads, restaurants, entertainment.

Verse

SIR GALAHAD AND OTHER RIMES-- Christopher Ward--Simon & Schuster ($2). A few hilarious jingles in an otherwise mildly amusing collection of parodies.

SELECTED POEMS--Wilbert Snow--Edwin Valentine Mitchell ($2.50). Serious verse on many aspects of life along the Maine seacoast.

THE GOOSE ON THE CAPITOL--Leonard Bacon--Harper ($1.50). In light satiric vein, Poet Bacon airily smites the political hydra of a Presidential year.

Murders

THREE DIED BESIDE THE MARBLE POOL --Carl M. Chapin--Crime Club ($2). Well-written, closely reasoned yarn about a deaf hero's exploits in untangling a skein of gory complexities with the aid of teletype and microphone.

X. JONES OF SCOTLAND YARD--Harry Stephen Keeler--Dutton ($2.50). A wordy, almost interminable, brain-addler is this sequel to The Marceau Case, presented as a complete dossier of photos, letters, cables, clippings.

PRESIDENT Fu MANCHU--Sax Rohmer --Crime Club ($2). The green-eyed, long-nailed Chinese, by pressing varicolored buttons, hypnotizing his pursuers, flooding the U. S. with alchemical gold, almost succeeds in foisting an Italian dictator upon a witless nation.

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