Recent Books

THE FRUIT SIGNERS--Algernon Blackwood--Button ($2.50). Fantasy of a little girl who lives with her father and her black cat, peoples her house with pleasant imaginary companions.

LAND OF WOMEN--Baroness Katherina von Dombrowski--Little, Brown ($2.50). Slowly paced historical novel of 19th-Century Paraguay, dealing with the love affair of a dictator who led his country into a war that reduced the population from 1,300,000 to 221,000.

SALUTE TO APHRODITE--Rearden Conner--Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Irish melodrama laid in the days of the Fenian conspiracies, revolving around a powerful peasant Don Juan.

Non-Fiction

AMERICAN MESSIAHS--The Unofficial Observer--Simon & Schuster ($2). Timely appraisals of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and other politicians, by the anonymous author of The New Dealers.

CREATING THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL--Harlan Hatcher--Farrar & Rinehart ($3). A broad academic survey of contemporary novelists from William Faulkner to Albert Halper, together with an explanation of current techniques and trends.

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