Monday, Mar. 12, 1934

Books of the Fortnight

THE BEAUTY OF ENGLAND--Thomas Burke--Me Bride ($3). Companionable guide to the English countryside, by the author of Limehouse Nights.

SACRIFICE--Norah C. James--Covici, Friede ($2.50). Novel of suburban realism by the British author of Sleeveless Errand, Jealousy, et al.

BELLY FULLA STRAW--David Cornel Dejong--Knopf ($2.50). Earnest, heavy tale of the Americanization of a Dutch family.

WHILE ROME BURNS--Alexander Woollcott--Viking ($2.75). Mostly reprinted pieces from Quipnunc Woollcott's page in The New Yorker.

BLACK RIVER--Carleton Beals--Lippin-cott ($2.50). Novel by a noted friend of Latin America and murderer of the King's English.

TOWARD THE FLAME--Hervey Allen--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Re-issue (first published 1926) of a first-rate war diary, by the author of Anthony Adverse.

Miss OGILVY FINDS HERSELF--Rad-clyffe Hall--Harcoitrt, Brace ($2.50). Short stories by the author of the famed Well of Loneliness.

CAN WE LIMIT WAR? -- Hoffman Nickerson--Stokes ($2.75). A reactionary adds his dogmatic voice to the quarrel about peace.

THE IDEA OF NATIONAL INTEREST--Charles A. Beard--Macmillan ($3.75). Survey of U. S. diplomacy by a first-rate analytical skeptic.

THEY HAD THEIR HOUR -- Marquis James--Bobbs-Merrill ($2.75). Dramatic episodes in U. S. history, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

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