Books of the Week

BEVERIDGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA--Claude G. Bowers--H ought on Mifflin ($5). A dull biography of a second-rate great man. Literary Guild choice for September.

SIR WALTER SCOTT--John Buchan --Coward-McCann ($3.75). Shorter and more readable biography than Lockhart's, pat for the Scott centenary.

THE FORTRESS--Hugh Walpole-- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The third and next-to-last in Walpole's series about the Herries family of Cumberland.

SECRET LIVES--E. F. Benson-- Doubleday, Doran--($2).

THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT--H. L. Mencken--Knopf ($1.50). Reprints of Mencken's newspaper reports of the Republican and Demo cratic Conventions.

THE SCANDAL MONGER -- Emile Gauvreau--Macaulay ($2). See p. 26.

A NEW DEAL--Stuart Chase-- MacMillan ($2.50). See p. 38.

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