Recent Books

TIME TO KILL--Rearden Conner-- Knopf ($2.50). Character study of a pathological killer, written with lurid evocations of the bloody details, by the author of Shake Hands with the Devil.

SEVEN RED SUNDAYS--Ramon J. Sender --Liveright ($2.50). Wild and powerful novel of the Spanish revolutionary movement, by a young novelist who has come to be regarded as one of the most promising in Spain, and who dedicates his book to the anarchosyndicalists, "dreaming of a strange state of society in which all men are as disinterested as St. Francis of Assisi, bold as Spartacus, and able as Newton and Hegel."

A TIME TO REMEMBER--Leane Zugsmith--Random House ($2.00). Skillful novel about a strike in a department store, complete with clear portraits of cashiers, shoe-salesmen, harassed employers, unwilling informers, unromanticized union leaders, weakened by a too simple picture of the daily routine of a large store.

Non-Fiction

MOHAMMED--Essad Bey--Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth.

VITAL PEACE--Henry Wickham Steed --Macmillan ($2.75). Grave discussion of the towering menaces of war, in which the author attempts to make the struggle for peace bold, heroic, adventurous, a "creative risk" worth taking.

LETTERS TO AN ARTIST--Vincent van Gogh--Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them.

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