Books of the Week

THE TRAGEDY OF TOLSTOY--Countess Alexandra Tolstoy--Yale University Press ($3). Tolstoy's daughter (whom the Press lately rediscovered on her farm in Pennsylvania--TIME, Feb. 20) gives her version (more sympathetic than her mother's) of the late great Russian's last years.

THE FIRST LOVER--Kay Boyle-- Smith & Haas ($2). Fourteen short stories.

LOSE WITH A SMILE--Ring Lardner--Scribner ($1.50). More letters of a rookie ballplayer by the one & only Ringgold Wilmer Lardner.

OUTSIDE EDEN--J. C. Squire-- Knopf ($2.40). Eleven stories by the London Mercury's editor.

BANANA BOTTOM--Claude McKay --Harper ($2.50). Novel of Jamaica Negroes by one of them who later lived in Harlem.

UNDER THE FIFTH RIB--C. E. M. Joad--Dutton ($3.75). Autobiography of a belligerent British professor.

A MAN NAMED LUKE--March Cost--Knopf ($2.35). Pretentious novel, compared by the publishers to their best-selling The Fountain.

SIDNEY LANIER--Aubrey Harrison Starke--University of North Carolina Press ($5). Life of a once well-known U. S. editor-poet.

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