Recent Books

PERILOUS SANCTUARY--D. J. Hall-- Macmillan ($2.50). Adventures and soulful taming of a lusty, hot-headed English fugitive among New Mexico's flagellant sect of Penitentes. Another example of the Southwest's inevitable incitement to mystical riot in English writers.

VICTORIA FOUR-THIRTY--Cecil Roberts --Macmillan ($2.50). Quiet, almost inaudible novel about a dozen passengers who leave London to make the Orient Express and all keep their seats. Nearest thing to a connecting link between them is the car couplings.

DUET IN DISCORD--Elizabeth Garner-- Knopf ($2). Unblushing but tastefully written tale of the Caribbean love-affair between a 43-year-old English woman and a youthful, deceptively virile writer, as told by the bitterly frustrated woman.

THE MAKING or A HERO--Nicholas Ostrovski--Dutton ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiographical novel about a Red cavalryman in the Russian civil war; the author dictated the story while blind and paralyzed, died soon after.

THE UNHOLY CITY--Charles G. Finney --Vanguard ($2). Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus of Dr. Lao.

NIGHT BETWEEN THE RIVERS--R. L. Duffus--Macmillan ($2.50). What a one- night New York City general strike did to the cocktail party of a beautiful interior decorator; dubious political prophecy but pleasant enough melodrama about New York intellectuals.

Non-Fiction

THE STORY OF DICTATORSHIP--E. E. Kellett--Dutton ($1.75)-Brief, heated survey of the world's No. 1 tyrants since Biblical times, who serve the English author's thesis that "Indifferentists," not Tories or Reds, are the ones to blame.

INTEGRITY: THE LIFE OF GEORGE W. NORRIS--Richard L. Neuberger & Stephen B. Kahn--Vanguard ($3). First full-length biography of Nebraska's famed Senator, written from a viewpoint this side of idolatry, but only just.

LORD BOTHWELL AND MARY QUEEN OF

SCOTS -- Robert Gore-Browne -- Doubleday, Dor an ($4). A spirited attempt to clear the evil name of Mary's third husband. Lord Bothwell's assault marriage after murdering Husband No. 2, his callous treatment of wives and mistresses were only black protestant lies inspired by his genius as a Border fighter, says this hot-collared biographer.

CHARLES KINGSLEY--Margaret Farrand Thorp--Princeton University Press ($3). Amiable biography of the Victorian novelist-preacher-reformer who became the Queen's chaplain and paragon. Macmillan's most profitable novelist, he is little known today except as the author of The Water-Babies.

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