Recent Books

EMMA--Louis Paul--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Doughy romance about a restless wife who runs away to make her fortune in the sandwich business; by an author who once wrote an 0. Henry Memorial Prize short story, now tries vainly to write a prize movie.

NOTHING Is SAFE--E. M. Delafield-- Harper ($2.50). The problems of a hypersensitive boy and his robust sister in a post-divorce world. Readers in search of a better buy may read Margaret Kennedy's Together and Apart.

BUCKSKIN BRIGADES--L. Ron Hubbard--Macaulay ($2). Indignant tale about the Northwest fur trade, featuring a white hero who fought on the side of the Blackfeet Indians.

Non-Fiction

ESCAPE TO THE PRESENT--Johannes Steel--Farrar fy Rinehart ($2.50). Reminiscent of E. Phillips Oppenheim, the auto-biography of an exiled German journalist and onetime spy, who here admits that his sensational dispatches (including a scoop on the Nazi Blood Purge of 1934) have "rested on pretty nearly nothing but analysis and intuition."

SINGLE TO SPAIN--Keith Scott Watson--Duiton ($2). Light report by a young English journalist who joined the International Column in Spain, soon transferred to press corps to warm his cold feet.

THE PROFITS OF WAR--Richard Lewin-sohn--Button ($3). A Frenchman's lucid survey of war profiteering since Caesar's day. Henceforth, he concludes, taking the profits out of war means eliminating indirect business profits: munitions-makers are already subdued to where they do not want war, only a precarious peace.

CHURCH AND STATE--Ryllis Alexander Goslin--Foreign Policy Association (35-c-). Skillfully condensed to posterlike effectiveness, salient facts regarding the Church crisis in Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Mexico.

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