Recent Books

Fiction

SOLOMON, MY SON!--John Erskine-- Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Moderately amusing story, given a newsy slant by occasional reference to labor trouble and taxation.

THE UNCROWNED KING -- Baroness Orczy -- Putnam ($2). Expert historical romance by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, dealing with a supposed career of the lost Dauphin.

THE FARM AT PARANAO--Laurence Kirk --Doubleday, Doran ($2). Quiet English story of a girl who migrated to Brazil to be married, the gradual development of her love for her stranger husband.

THE BAZALGETTES--Anonymous--Harper ($2.50). A girl who vowed to marry the first man who asked her; a clever but frail parody of the Victorian novel.

Non-Fiction

TEMPEST OVER MEXICO--Rosa E. King --Little, Brown ($3). Stilted but interesting reminiscences of the Zapata revolution, written by an Englishwoman who owned the largest hotel in Cuernavaca.

WAR CLOUDS IN THE SKIES OF THE FAR EAST -- Tom Ireland -- Putnam ($2.75). Sober, highly documented analysis of Japanese expansion, and a critical discussion of U. S. Far Eastern policy.

OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE--Will Durant --Simon & Schuster ($5). A 1,000-page history of the Orient, with expositions of its religious beliefs and descriptions of its art; the first part of a history of civilization which is to run to five volumes.

Is THE NAVY READY? -- F. Russell Bichowsky--Vanguard ($3). Curious critical study of U. S. Naval equipment and personnel, largely made up of quotations from naval officials.

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