Recent Books

3 TIMES 3--William Saroyan--Conference Press ($2.50). Nine "stories," each "explained" in an introductory note, by the daring young man who was the U. S. literary trapeze sensation of 1934. Author Saroyan is "delighted to announce that this book is not worth two dollars and fifty cents. An autographed copy of this book is not worth two dollars. ..." Readers whom Saroyan does not make mad will find 3 Times 3 worth reading.

BARREN METAL--Naomi Jacob--Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud.

Non-Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY--A. S. W. Rosenbach--Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers at $37,500.

BERMUDIANA--Ronald John Williams & Walter Rutherford--The Bermudian Publishing Co. ($3). Beautiful photographs and alluring text put this 200-page brochure in a class equalled only by the midwinter bathing suit displays on Fifth Avenue.

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