RECENT & READABLE

PATRICK HENRY AND THE FRIGATE'S KEEL--Howard Fast--Duell, Sloane & Pearce ($2.50). Twelve stories of frontier life and Revolutionary incident told by the author of The Unvanquished and Citizen Tom Paine with convincing authenticity.

THEY WALK IN DARKNESS--Ellen C. Philtine--Liveright ($2.50). In New York's fictional Farland State Hospital for the insane, a young doctor and his artist wife find disillusionment in the venality of staff doctors and mistreatment of patients. Dickensian revelations that will inevitably recall the shocking conditions uncovered by Governor Dewey's investigations.

DAYSPRING--Harry Sylvesfer--Appleton-Century ($2.75). An introspective, cynical anthropologist finds salvation in studying New Mexico's self-flagellating Penitentes. Sophisticated, mystical, inconclusive.

General

SOME OF THESE DAYS--Sophie Tucker--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Sophie's rise from burlesque "coon singing" to Ziegfeld stardom and Hollywood makes a rowdy and sentimental tale of yesterday's show business.

GOODBYE, PROUD WORLD--Margaret Emerson Bailey--Scribner ($3). Teacher-poetess-journalist Bailey describes with intelligent lack of sentiment her childhood in Providence and the benevolent influence of a gentle professor father and a charming, spirited mother.

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