Recent Books

Fiction THIS is YOUR DAY--Edward Newhouse--Furman ($2.50). "First novel of American Communist Party life," the pure Red romance of a youthful New York organizer in the Farm Belt, by a 25-year-old "Old Bolshevik" who got his start at 7 as class delegate to a school "soviet" in a Budapest suburb.

APRIL--Vardis Fisher--Doubleday, Doran ($2). Idyll of a fat, poverty- stricken farm girl with princess yearnings; Idaho's novelist-laureate in a comic Valentine vein.

THE MOONS RIDEOVER--Carl Zuckmayer--Viking ($2.50). Smoothly written, movingly sentimental, pleasantly profound tale of a temperamental household of castle-dwellers in the Austrian Tyrol.

Non-Fiction

AMERICA: A REAPPRAISAL--Harold E. Stearns--Hillman Curl ($3). Vociferously sunny testaments to the American way of life, by the famed longtime Paris expatriate, author of The Street I Know.

MEET YOURSELF AS You REALLY ARE--Prince Leopold Loewenstein &. William Gerhardi--Lippincott ($2). A Freudian parlor game, the ingenious patent of an amateur psychologist and a sometimes witty English novelist (Memoirs of a Polyglot, Resurrection).

ELEANOR or AQUITAINE--Melrich V. Rosenberg--Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Routine but interesting first English biography of the 12th Century "Queen of the Troubadours and of the Courts of Love" whose political intrigues relieved her not only of royal husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, but also of her favorite son, Richard the Lion-Heart.

ESCAPE TO THE TROPICS--Desmond Holdridge--Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). Fresh account, with photographs, of a blissful experiment in "savagery, barbarism and civilization" at bargain prices on the island of St. John, V. I., by a newlywed pair who fled New York to escape the big corporations, the political rabies of their Depression-time friends. On a side trip into Dutch Guiana Author Holdridge found warm, if contradictory clues to the fate of Paul Redfern, the lost flyer, but lacked money to follow them up.

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