Books of the Fortnight

PRIVATE WORLDS--Phyllis Bottome-- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Hospital novel by an author who, for some reason, sells.

EASTER SUN--Peter Neagoe--Coward McCann ($2). Story of incoherent but passionate Rumanian peasants; the garlic school of fiction.

THE VOYAGE--Heinrich Herm--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A luxury liner strikes a floating derelict and the characters wilt like dress shirts. Good second-rate thriller made slightly indigestible by Teutonic philosophizing.

THE WIFE--Helen Grace Carlisle-- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Novel by the author of Mother's Cry about marriage, adultery, reunion in Manhattan. Just about as dreary as it sounds.

IN SIGHT OF EDEN--Roger Vercel-- Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). First-rate yarn about Breton cod-fishermen off the Greenland coast. A French prize novel that for once was well worth translating; with little pictures by Rockwell Kent.

SO STOOD I--Jane Culver--Houghton Mifflin ($2). Promising first novel about a dreamy girl waking up from nursery-tale religion.

THE VALIANT WIFE--Margaret Wilson --Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) How a U. S. privateer captain landed in Dartmoor Prison in 1812, and how his Quaker wife got him out; supposedly founded on fact. Romantic but not first-rate.

MOJAVE -- Edwin Corle -- Liveright ($2). Western short stories, in which the quality of the sandwich varies but is somewhat ham in flavor.

MAN WITH FOUR LIVES--William Joyce Cowen--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Brashly blurbed as a horror story, even more brashly compared with others; a silly book.

Non-Fiction

MEMOIRS OF VINCENT NOLTE--G. H. Watt ($2.50). Reprint (first U. S. edition 1854) of one of the chief sourcebooks of Anthony Adverse.

JAMES JOYCE & THE MAKING OF ULYSSES -- Frank Budgen -- Smith & Haas ($2.50). Friendly close-up of the Irish author by a painter who knew him in Zurich; with a summary of Ulysses, an unveiling of Work in Progress.

THE CRUCIFIXION OF LIBERTY--Alexander Kerensky--Day ($2.75). The onetime head of the Russian Government gives his side of the case, not without dust and heat, adding one more stone to the defensive-memoir pile.

I WAS A GERMAN--Ernst Toller--Morrow ($2.75). Autobiography of a Socialist playwright and Jew, now in exile.

SANTA ANNA--Frank C. Hanighen-- Coward-McCann ($3.50). Full-length biography of the "butcher of the Alamo."

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