Recent Books

BACKGROUND FOR VENUS--James Laver --Knopf ($2.50). Patchy, mildly entertaining story of London art, artists, models, dealers and double-dealers.

AMERICAN FAMILY--Faith Baldwin-- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Well-meant but uninspired three-generation family novel (1862-1917).

BETTER THINK TWICE ABOUT IT--Luigi Pirandello--Dutton ($3). Thirteen short stories by the 1934 Nobel Prizewinner.

Non-Fiction

PASSING JUDGMENTS--George Jean Nathan--Knopf ($2.50). Another volume of critical essays by a famed bachelor, onetime second fiddle to H. L. Mencken.

SINCE 1914--J. H. Landman--Barnes & Noble ($1.50). Handy political handbook of the post-War world, in tabloid size, arrangement, format.

THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY--Rexford G. Tugwell--Columbia University Press ($3). The handsomest of the Brain-Trusters adds his alto to the chorus of Administration authors; a more finished performance than his antiphonal responses to the Senate Committee.

SOLD OUT TO THE FUTURE--Roy Hilton --Harper ($2.50). An argument against posterity, by the novelist author of Nitchey Tilley.

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