Recent Books

Fiction

THE FOUNDRY--Albert Halper--Viking ($2.50). This second novel by a young "proletarian" whose Union Square won him a Guggenheim Fellowship tells of workers and bosses in an electrotype foundry.

THE NAKED TRUTH AND ELEVEN OTHER STORIES--Luigi Pirandello--Button ($3). Collection of short and long tales by the Italian virtuoso of the theatre and the continental novelet, boxed and attractively bound.

FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN--Elliott Merrick--Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North (1933).

Non-Fiction

HITLER: WHENCE AND WHITHER?--Wickham Steed--Review of Reviews ($1.50). Impersonal but succinctly critical resume of Hitler's life and program by an oldtime English editor who thinks that, despite its faults, the Treaty of Versailles represents the soundest territorial order that has existed in Europe in modern times.

THESE HURRYING YEARS--Gerald Heard --Oxford ($3). Fascinating reading by a distinguished English author, editor, liberal, who is convinced that "something has happened," but who, doubtful of specific formulas, confines himself to a mixture of the minutiae with the larger aspects of that "something."

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