Recent Books

THE CROOKED CORONET--Michael Arlen--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Since the resounding splash of The Green Hat (1924) seven books have dropped more or less silently from Author Aden's pen. There is no reason why his latest should cause more of a splash than its predecessors. A collection of connected short stories (whimsically called "legends"), it describes a housemaid's dream of gilded ladies and ornate gentlemen, pursuing, amid the glint of diamonds and the smoke of fine cigars, their exquisitely sophisticated pleasures.

RICOCHETS -- Andre Maurois -- Harper ($2). Twenty-five charmingly polite, ironic short stories in the best Maurois manner.

Non-Fiction

PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT IN CENTRAL EUROPE--M. W. Fodor--Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Marcel Fodor, 47-year-old Hungarian, for many years Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the New York Evening Post, takes a correspondent's-eye-view of the Danube and Balkan countries, pounces on numerous unknown and little-known facts.

EVERYDAY THINGS IN AMERICAN LIFE (1607-1776)--William Chauncy Langdon --Scribner ($3). Patterned on Peter Quennell's History of Everyday Things in England and based on the theory that everyday things are more truly, permanently significant than extraordinary things, this book by a well-known director of historical pageants and historian for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. describes the furniture, clothes, houses, dishes, industries et al. of the U. S. Colonial period. Two more volumes are to come. Numerous illustrations and contemporary drawings.

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