Recent Books

STILL IS THE SUMMER NIGHT--August Derleth--Scribner ($2.50). Dramatic story of two brothers' love for one woman (conclusion inevitable), fluently told against an interesting background of smalltown Wisconsin life in the 1880s.

THE STRANGER PRINCE--Margaret Irwin--Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Long, brightly costumed historical romance detailing the career of Rupert the Devil, most feared Cavalier fighter in England's Civil Wars.

RORY AND BRAN--Lord Dunsany--Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId.

Non-Fiction

THE MARCH OF JAPAN--Edgar Lajtha--Stokes ($3). A useful primer on still-unfamiliar Japan, her social, political and economic paradoxes, by an observant Hungarian journalist. Illustrated with photographs.

GREY OF FALLODON--George Macauley Trevelyan--Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Tender biography of England's Liberal Foreign Minister (1905-1916) whose vocations were birds and fishing, his avocation, politics.

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