Recent Books

JILL SOMERSET--Alec Waugh--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Rambling story of a middle-class English girl, who avoids the political conflicts that split her family, the moral chaos that engulfs her sister, keeps herself occupied raising three children and fighting off rivals for her husband.

THE RETURN OF THE WEED--Paul Horgan--Harper ($2). A cycle of six lyric short stories dealing with the tenants of some desolate New Mexican ruins--an abandoned mission, a crumbling hacienda, deserted farm houses, a filling station-- making a slight but effective book, well-illustrated with lithographs by Peter Kurd.

THE SHIPBUILDERS--George Blake--Lippincott ($2.50). Well-knit tale, a little on the sentimental side, about the decline of Glasgow shipbuilding as it hit a humane employer and a group of his one-time employes.

UNEQUAL To SONG--Charles Martin--Stackpole ($2.50). Promising first novel that contains good portraits of Cajuns from the Teche country of Louisiana, weak portraits of a tough banker and a drunken composer, a confused story about their clash of wills.

THE GLORY Is DEPARTED--Alexander Lernet-Holenia--Harper ($2.50). Between drinks a jittery Austrian ex-cavalry officer relates his adventures in the Balkans during the last weeks of the World War, including a love affair with the beautiful protegee of an archduchess, a mutiny drowned in blood, a narrow escape from his own and British troops.

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