Recent Books

CONCERT PITCH--Elliot Paul--Random House ($2.50). Subtle, simply written novel of the post-War Paris musical world, brilliantly dramatizing the doom of the virtuoso, the dissonant emergence of a new machine age; by the author of last year's distinguished surprise bestseller, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town.

THE DARK COMMAND--W. R. Burnett --Knopf ($2.50). Lickity-split romance against a background of Kansas-Missouri border fighting; by the author of Little Caesar. A supplementary four-page leaflet explains who his Confederate villain was in real life, makes better reading than much of the novel.

LAND WITHOUT MOSES--Charles Curtis Munz--Harper ($2.50). As savage as Erskine Caldwell's, and more comprehensive, this picture of Southern sharecroppers, by a Texas newspaperman, gives the South a clear lead in producing its own severest critics.

JOURNEY TO THE WEST--Darwin L. Teilhet--Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery.

WINGED PHARAOH--Joan Grant--Harper ($2.50). Poetic first-person narrative about a co-ruler and priestess during Egypt's First Dynasty, described as a Golden Age of justice and the arts, in which the instructions in the Book of the Dead are carried out as casually as cooking recipes.

A PRAIRIE GROVE--Donald Culross Peattie--Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Lush essay on an island grove of the Illinois prairie, with informative flash backs on its prehistoric bird & animal life, less original glimpses of its pioneer days.

Non-Fiction

A MIRROR TO GENEVA -- George Slocombe--Holt ($3). Expert characterizations of such League of Nations heroes as Briand, Stresemann, Eden, written with the polite air of a chairman introducing the speakers of the evening.

THE EDUCATION OF A DIPLOMAT--Hugh Wilson--Longmans, Green ($2.50). Pleasantly written, diplomatically reticent reminiscences of the present U. S. Ambassador to Germany, covering the period from 1911 to the entry of the U. S. into the War, embassy experiences in Lisbon, Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin.

SAVAGE SYMPHONY--Eva Lips--Random House ($3). Forthright account by the wife of Anthropologist Julius Lips (The Savage Hits Back) detailing the steps by which Nazis forced her husband from his post as director of the Museum of Ethnology in Cologne, then into exile--by searches, denunciations, cooked-up charges, a steadily intensifying atmosphere of fear.

TWO SOLDIERS--Edited by Wirt Armistead Gate--University of North Carolina Press ($2.50). The diaries of 26-year-old Robert Campbell of the Union Army and 33-year-old Confederate Captain Thomas Keys, who fought on opposite sides around Atlanta. Campbell's diary is brief, unilluminating, but Keys, who had been a newspaper editor, wrote vividly of the battles of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, of a journey through Union country to visit his wife & children at Helena, Ark.

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