Recent Books

OUT OF CHAOS -- Ilya Ehrenbourg -- Holt ($2.50). Another we'd-die-for-the-dear-old-steel-plant novel; of the same order but not nearly as good as Kataev's Time, Forward! (TIME, Nov. 13).

SEVEN MEN CAME BACK -- Warwick Deeping -- Knopf ($2.50). What happened to seven British veterans in post-War England.

Non-Fiction

ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL--ed. by Anna Robeson Burr-- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys.

PEOPLE AT WORK--Frances Perkins-- Day ($2.50). Madam Secretary of Labor's report of how labor is protected in the U. S.

UNDERSTANDING THE BlG CORPORATIONS

--Editors of FORTUNE--McBride ($3). Readable and authoritative surveys of U. S. industries, reprinted from FORTUNE.

MEN, FISH AND BOATS--Alfred Stanford--Morrow ($3). One hundred fifteen action photographs of North Atlantic fishing. Boat-lovers and fishermen will want this.

EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND POLITICS SINCE 1815--Erik Achorn--Harcourt, Brace ($5). Big (879 pp.) history, "new style," of Europe from 1815 to 1933, with special emphasis on post-War Europe.

GOLDSWORTHY LOWES DICKINSON--E.

M. Forster--Harcourt, Brace ($3). Full-length biography of a great scholar-humanist, by the author of A Passage to India.

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