Recent Books

CANDY--L. M. Alexander--Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Prize novel ($10,000) of Negro life on a South Carolina plantation.

NEVER ANY MORE--Nancy Hale-- Scribner ($2). Story of three girls on an isolated Maine island and how their feminine natures unfolded; slight but good.

CALICO SHOES AND OTHER STORIES-- James T. Farrell--Vanguard ($2.50). Tough stuff masquerading as short stories.

SHADOWS OF THE SUN--Alejandro Perez Lugin; trans. by Sidney Franklin--Scribner ($2.50). Bullfighting novel by a late Spanish journalist, translated by a U. S. matador.

Non-Fiction

42 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE--Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover--Houghton Mifflm ($3.50). The ex-Chief Usher of the White House tells all. Scrappy but good reading.

TAMES G. ELAINE--David Saville Muzzey--Dodd, Mead ($4). Authoritative life of a onetime political idol, by one of the better-known U. S. historians.

RETREAT FROM GLORY--R. H. Bruce Lockhart--Putnam ($3).Further frank up-&-down autobiography by the author of British Agent.

MORE HARBOURS OF MEMORY--William McFee--Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Contemplative reminiscences of a seagoing author.

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