Recent Books

ROSE DEEPROSE--Sheila Kaye-Smith-- Harper ($2.50). The fateful story of a healthy English farm girl who at 26 has unwittingly caused the death of her mother, her dearest friend, her idiot child, the suicide of her husband.

COURTHOUSE SQUARE--Hamilton Basso --Scribner ($2.50). Deftly written novel about a novelist who sickens of New York intellectual life, returns after ten years to his birthplace in a small Southern town, narrowly escapes lynching when he disturbs fellow-townsmen's ideas about Negroes.

THE WAR GOES ON--Sholem Asch-- Putnam ($3). Laid in post-War Germany, this well translated chronicle of a Jewish family ranges from bankers to Communists, by the author of Three Cities.

EGGS AND BAKER -- John Masefield -- Macmillan ($2.50). The Dickens-like story of a deeply religious baker in a small English town of the 1870's who, influenced by a theatrical radical leader named Engels, agitates against slum conditions, is driven out of business, goes to jail for throwing an egg at the judge who condemns two poachers to death.

Non-Fiction

DRUMS IN THE BALKAN NIGHT--John I. B. McCulloch--Putnam ($3). A seasoned U. S. honeymooner in the Balkans since 1934 amateur Journalist McCulloch recalls his experiences in a chatty omnibus devoted to his sightseeing, anecdotes of political figures, his interviews with King Boris, the late Venizelos, Dowager Queen Marie.

THE FUTURE OF LIBERTY -- George Soule--Macmillan ($2). A reasoned challenge to Right and Left advocates of dictatorship, by a pioneer advocate of U. S. "social-planning."

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