Recent Books

GLORY'S CHILDREN--Hilton Brown-- Knopf ($2.50). Less like The Forsyte Saga than a thick family album, the story of a hard-headed Scotch ex-sailor who founds an industry and a large family in India, neither of which turns out well.

UNDER ONE ROOF--Ruth Eleanor McKee--Doubleday, Doran ($2). One reasonably peaceful Thanksgiving Day in a Los Angeles family composed of parents, a neurotic librarian, a teacher with heart trouble, a grass widow, a college girl, a high-school boy, an automobile salesman.

Non-Fiction

THE LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE--Joseph Hone--Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of -L-68,000 which he deposited in three London banks in mortal fear of Communists. Famed for his self-confessed seductions, he dropped more than one hint confirming rumors of his sexual impotence, but threatened to vindicate his virility through the public courts. A onetime Irish Nationalist, he later served a term as sheriff, brooded over his neglect by the English aristocracy, became so agitated when finally given an audience in 1930 with the Prince of Wales that his nose bled violently.

PAMELA'S DAUGHTERS--Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham --Macmillan ($3.50) Study of the changing status of women as disclosed by analysis of heroines of fiction from Richardson and Fielding to Vina Delmar and Nalbro Bartley (The Premeditated Virgin). A spirited, unusual book.

PEARY--William Herbert Hobbs--Macmillan ($5). A frosty account of Admiral Peary's eight polar expeditions, in which the author's partisanship is concentrated on riddling Dr. Cook's rival claim as discoverer of the North Pole.

ELIZABETH FRY--Janet Whitney--Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone.

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