Books of the Week

THANK YOU, JEEVES! -- P. G. Wodehouse -- Little, Brown ($2). Funnyman Wodehouse finally rewards a faithful servant by making him the hero of a full-length novel.

THE DEATH SHIP -- B. Traven -- Knopf ($2.50). Yarn of a U. S. sailor on a gun runner; hard-boiled but a little overripe.

THE LAST PIONEERS -- Melvin Levy -- King ($2.50). Adventures of a Russian Jew against the background of a thinly-disguised seaport on Puget Sound.

QUEEN'S CAPRICE -- George Preedy -- King ($2.50). Romance about Alary Queen of Scots by the popular author of General Crack.

Non-Fiction

GENTLEMAN OF VIENNA--Count Hans Wilczek--Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Pre-War reminiscences, for those who still like The Blue Danube.

THE SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE-- George D. Lyman -- Scribner ($3.50). Written in a tiresomely slapdash manner, but a mine of information about the bonanza days at Virginia City.

AFTER STRANGE GODS--T. S. Eliot-- Harcourt, Brace ($1.25). Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia. Only old Eliotelians need apply.

THE QUEEN AND MR. GLADSTONE-- Philip Guedalla--Doubleday, Doran ($5). A generous selection from the correspondence of two indefatigable letter-writers, edited and introduced by a 19th Century specialist.

HOW ODD OF GOD--Lewis Browne-- Macmillan ($2.50). An attempt to explain how God came to choose the Jews, by one of them.

HEROIC LIVES -- Rafael Sabatini -- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Richard Coeur de Lion, Francis of Assisi, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh et al.

WHAT MARX REALLY MEANT--G. D. H. Cole--Knopf ($2). An interpretation of Marx for the layman by a famed British economist.

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