Best Books

Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year Readers may now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give. Following is a list of the outstanding-ing books of 1936:

ABSALOM, ABSALOM!--William Faulkner--Random House ($2.50).

A TIME TO REMEMBER--Leane Zugsmith--Random House ($2).

THE BELLS OF BASEL--Louis Aragon-- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

A WORLD I NEVER MADE--James T. Farrell--Vanguard ($2.50).

THE BIG MONEY--John Dos Passos-- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

BITTER VICTORY--Louis Guilloux--McBride ($2.50).

CLUTCH AND DIFFERENTIAL--George Weller--Random House ($2.50).

COURTHOUSE SQUARE--Hamilton Basso --Scribner ($2.50).

DAYS OF WRATH--Andre Malraux-- Random House ($1.75).

DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK--Walter D. Edmonds--Little, Brown ($2.50).

THE EARTH TREMBLES--Jules Remains --Knopf ($3).

EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN -- Arnold Zweig--Viking ($2.50).

EYELESS IN GAZA--Aldous Huxley-- Harper ($2.50).

GONE WITH THE WIND--Margaret Mitchell--Macmillan ($3).

GREEN LAURELS--Donald Culross Peattie--Simon & Schuster ($3.75).

THE HOUSE IN PARIS--Elizabeth Bowen --Knopf ($2).

IN DUBIOUS BATTLE--John Steinbeck-- Covici, Friede ($2.50).

KIT BRANDON--Sherwood Anderson-- Scribner ($2.50).

THE LAST PURITAN--George Santayana --Scribner ($2.75).

THE OLIVE FIELD--Ralph Bates--Dutton ($2.50).

RODEO--R. B. Cunninghame Graham-- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

SANFELICE--Vincent Sheean--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

THE SECRET JOURNEY--James Hanley --Macmillan ($2.50).

SHERSTON'S PROGRESS--Siegfried Sassoon--Doubleday, Doran ($2).

STORIES OF THREE DECADES--Thomas Mann--Knopf ($3).

THE THINKING REED--Rebecca West-- Viking ($2.50).

Non-Fiction

AMERICAN LABOR STRUGGLES--Samuel Yellen--Harcourt, Brace ($3.50).

THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE -- H. L. Mencken--Knopf ($5).

AN AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY--Victor Heiser--Norton ($3.50).

AN AMERICAN TESTAMENT -- Joseph Freeman--Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

A NEW AMERICAN HISTORY--W. E. Woodward--Farrar & Rinehart ($4).

ARCTIC ADVENTURE: MY LIFE IN THE FROZEN NORTH--Peter Freuchen--Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50).

AUDUBON -- Constance Rourke -- Harcourt, Brace ($3).

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF G. K. CHESTERTON --Sheed & Ward ($3).

BRANDEIS: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN IDEAL--Alfred Lief--Stackpole ($3)

DRAMATIS PERSONAE--W. B. Yeats --Macmillan ($2.50).

FRIEDRICH ENGELS--Gustav Mayer-- Knopf ($3.50).

FROM A SURGEON'S JOURNAL--Harvey Gushing--Little, Brown ($5).

GENERAL SMUTS (Vols. i & 2)--Sarah Gertrude Millin--Little, Brown ($3.50 each).

THE GENTLE SAVAGE--Richard Wyndham--Morrow ($3.50).

HAMILTON FISH: THE INNER HISTORY OF THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION--Allan Nevins--Dodd, Mead ($5).

THE HISTORY OF THE HAYMARKET AF-FAIR--Henry David--Farrar & Rinehart ($4).

IMPERIAL HEARST : A SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY --Ferdinand Lundberg --Equinox Cooperative Press ($2.75).

INSIDE EUROPE--John Gunther--Harper ($3.50).

JEFFERSON IN POWER -- Claude G. Bowers--Honghton Mifflin ($3.75).

JOHN REED -- Granville Hicks -- Macmillan ($3.50).

JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES-- James Boswell --Viking ($5).

THE LETTERS OF MRS. HENRY ADAMS-- Edited by Ward Thoron--Little, Brown ($5).

THE LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE--Joseph Hone--Macmillan ($3).

THE LIVING JEFFERSON--James Truslow Adams--Scribner ($3).

MOVERS AND SHAKERS--Mabel Dodge Luhan--Harcourt, Brace ($5).

NO PEACE WITH NAPOLEON!--General de Caulaincourt--Morrow ($3).

RICH LAND, POOR LAND--Stuart Chase --Whittlesey House ($2.50).

ST. HELENA--Octave Aubry--Lippincott ($5).

SOVIET COMMUNISM : A NEW CIVILIZATION?--Sidney and Beatrice Webb--Scribner ($7.50).

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIALISM -- John Strachey -- Random House ($3).

TRAVELS IN TWO DEMOCRACIES--Edmund Wilson--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

THE WAR IN OUTLINE--Liddell Hart-- Random House ($2).

WHY KEEP THEM ALIVE?--Paul de Kruif--Harcourt, Brace ($3).

WORLD POLITICS: 1918-1936 -- R. Palme Dutt--Random House ($2.50).

Verse

THE ASSASSINS--Frederic Prokosch-- Harper ($2).

A TIME TO DANCE--C. Day Lewis-- Random House ($1.75).

COLLECTED POEMS OF T. S. ELIOT--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

FLOWERS OF EVIL--Charles Baudelaire --Translators: Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon--Harper ($2.75).

MORE POEMS--A. E. Housman--Knopf ($2).

THE OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN ENGLISH VERSE--Edited by W. B. Yeats-- Oxford ($3-75).

THE PEOPLE, YES--Carl Sandburg-- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

PUBLIC SPEECH--Archibald MacLeish -- Farrar & Rinehart ($1).

Criticism

THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND-- Van Wyck Brooks--Button ($4).

PHOENIX: THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE--Edited by Edward D. McDonald--Viking ($3.75).

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