Recent Books

ROBINSON OF ENGLAND--John Drink-water--Macmillan ($2.50). Thoroughly dull English novel, an innocuous tale of three children who spend their winter holiday discussing English history with their writer-uncle; the last Drinkwater completed before his death in March.

THE TIDE OF TIME--Edgar Lee Masters--Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Author of Spoon River Anthology tells again, this time in a lengthy novel, the history of a Midwestern community, tries to show "how good human material can be swept by the tide of tine into shallows and onto shoals."

THE SHORT STORIES OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD--Knopf ($3.50). All the finished (73) and unfinished (15) stories of the Australian-born writer who has been compared to Russia's Chekhov, now for the first time collected in one volume; with an introduction by her relict, John Middleton Murry.

PASTORAL--Eleanor Green--Doubleday, Dor an ($1.75). Brief, comprehensive, sensitively written account of a year two young lovers spent to good purpose in the Wisconsin countryside.

Non-Fiction

THE LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN--Robert Burnett--Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing.

SAVAGE CIVILIZATION--Tom Harrisson--Knopf ($4). Engrossing, pro-native history of the New Hebrides islanders; its thesis: that savages can be understood by whites. Though he lived with the natives, Author Harrisson confines his own adventures to his narrative's final seventh.

NEW LETTERS IN AMERICA--edited by Horace Gregory--Norton ($2). The American Caravan reborn, introducing new writers of fiction and verse, mostly American; of interest chiefly to other writers.

AMERICAN STUFF--An Anthology--Viking ($2). Creative work of sincerity but varying merit, done by 66 WPA artists and writers from 20 States (in their spare time). Veterans include Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Claude McKay, Vincent McHugh, Harry Kemp.

EUROPE IN ARMS--Liddell Hart--Random House ($2.50). Captain Hart, British military expert who wrote The War in Outline, surveys Europe's armies, predicts the next war will "begin in confusion and end in chaos."

ZEPPELIN--Captain Ernst A. Lehmann--Longmans, Green ($3). History of lighter-than-air craft by the commander of the ill-fated Hindenburg. Foreword and final chapter by Commander Charles E. Rosendahl describe the disaster. Well illustrated.

THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST--Raymond L. Ditmars--Macmillan ($2.75). The Curator of Mammals and Reptiles at the New York Zoological Park writes informatively, amusingly of his adventures with the animals. Copiously illustrated.

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