Books of the Week

THE MAID SILJA--F. E. Sillanpaa-- Macmillan ($2). Story of a Finnish girl's rise and decline, with a background of the War against the U. S. S. R.

HISTORY OF EUROPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY--Benedetto Croce--Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Collected lectures of Italy's famed philosopher.

CHARACTERS & COMMENTARIES--Lytton Strachey--Harcourt, Brace ($3). Selections covering 30 years of the late Strachey's essays, containing several never before printed.

THE TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING-- Ursula Parrott -- Longmans, Green ($2.50). "My big book," says Authoress Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss).

THE PILGRIM OF THE APOCALYPSE-- Horace Gregory--Viking ($1.50). Life of the late D. H. Lawrence by a U. S. poet who was not one of his quarrelsome friends.

PAST MASTERS -- Thomas Mann -- Knopf ($2.50). Collected lectures on Wagner. Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Freud et al. by Germany's foremost novelist.

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