Recent Books

Fiction WARD EIGHT--Joseph F. Dinneen-- Harper ($2.) Story of the rise, reign and death of an Irish political boss in Boston, written in a jerky, staccato style. The author is a Boston newspaperman who is now being threatened with suit for libel by Massachusetts' Governor James M. Curley.

KING COLE--W. R. Burnett--Harper ($2.50). Fast-moving melodrama revolving around six pre-election days in an Ohio State campaign, with a central character a liberal Governor who turns into a demagog and Red-baiter to keep his post.

THE STONES AWAKE--Carleton Beals-- Lippincott ($2.50). The long, descriptive, awkwardly-written chronicle covering the affairs of a beautiful, sympathetic Mexican peasant girl, Esperanza, from the Diaz regime of 1910 to the present. Her adventures include two love affairs, widowhood, direct or indirect participation in many a revolution.

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