Recent Books

THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS--Edited by Alexander Laing-- Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

An 846-page anthology of spook stories, illustrated by Lynd Ward including W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw, Wilkie Collins' The Haunted Hotel, four selections from A. E. Coppard, others from O. Henry, Maupassant, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce.

Non-Fiction

THE FINAL STRUGGLE: COUNTESS TOLSTOY'S DIARY FROM 1910--Oxford ($2.50).

Countess Tolstoy's version, with footnotes and preface by her son, of her husband's tragic last months, the bitter quarrels which ended in her nervous breakdown, his final desertion, planned for 30 years.

BERNARD SHAW, FRANK HARRIS & OSCAR WILDE -- Robert Harborough Sherard -- Greystone ($3.50).

Shaw was loud in praise of Frank Harris' Oscar Wilde ; His Life & Confessions. When shown this heavyhanded, 308-page expose of Harris' work as half-invention, half-plagiarism of Author Sherard's own biography, Shaw commented: "Harris' Wilde is far more interesting than the real Wilde."

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