Mentions

THE WAY IT WAS WITH THEM--Peadar O'Donnell--Putnam ($2.50). Simple, powerful narrative of Irish islanders, in poignant detail of workaday living, and occasional drama of the wild surrounding sea.

MATORNI'S VINEYARD--E. Phillips Op-pehheim--Little, Brown ($2). Realistic international intrigue of 1940, Riviera the stake, tennis player the tool, masterly double of Mussolini the imminent background.

MONEY FOR NOTHING--P. G. Wode-house--Double day, Dor an ($2). Funny as ever, Wodehouse embroils in disarming foolishness a U. S. senator who therefore sells oil stocks, a fat rich man who nevertheless gets pinioned at dawn on a windowsill, and others still.