Recent Books

LUCY GAYHEART--Willa Cather-- Knopf ($2). The story of a small-town musician who fell in love with a famed singer; a weepy book in which five of the important characters die like flies in the last few chapters.

THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?-- Horace McCoy--Simon & Schuster ($2).

The nightmare of a marathon dance, with the central character a girl who begs to be killed, until at last her partner obliges her.

Non-Fiction

AMERICA FACES THE BARRICADES--John L. Spivak--Covici, Friede ($2.50). Misleadingly titled collection of sober reports on conditions and states of mind among the unemployed, California migratory workers, Southern sharecroppers and other distressed groups, written by one of the ablest of U. S. radical journalists.

PRESIDENT MASARYK TELLS His STORY --Karel Capek--Putnam ($2.50). Recollections of the aged President of Czechoslovakia, interspersed with opinions on morals, the raising of children, education and democracy--an exciting and important career made dull and platitudinous in the telling.

I WAS HITLER'S PRISONER--Stefan Lorant--Putnam ($2.75). The prison diary of the editor of a non-political humorous weekly: he was jailed, humiliated, robbed, but not otherwise mistreated, as part of a campaign to wreck his paper for the benefit of Nazi rivals.

THE MEMOIRS or COUNT APPONYI-- Macmillan ($2.50). The unsensational life of a distinguished Hungarian statesman who was galvanized into ineffectual activity at the Peace Conference and during the post-War years.

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