Recent Books

CALL IT FREEDOM--Marian Sims--Lippincott ($2.50). Southern romance about a middle-class divorcee who broke herself of ten-year marriage habits on a circumspect male diet.

A CARDINAL OF THE MEDICI--Susan Hicks Beach--Macmillan ($3). Long (411-page), impressively documented novel of the Medici, related as the reminiscences of the nameless mother of bastard Ippolito, a Cardinal at 19, whose precocious career was terminated at 25 by poison.

THE WIND FROM THE MOUNTAINS-- Trygve Gulbranssen -- Putnam ($2.50). Sweetly sombre, epic-proportioned Norwegian romance of a century ago, whose chief characters--a patriarchal landowner, his only son, and beautiful, talented daughter-in-law--become legendary while striving for a harmonious family life.

THE TREE FALLS SOUTH--Wellington Roe--Putnam ($2). How a hard-working Kansas dust-bowl farmer evolved into a radical; a dramatic, convincing first novel.

Non-Fiction

BLOOD ON THE MOON--Linton Wells-- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Autobiography of an ex-Hearst foreign correspondent whose tales of wars, revolutions, ingenious out-wittings of the world's great clip along like an oldtime movie serial.

HENRY OF NAVARRE-Marcelle Vioux-- Dutton ($3.50). Well-spiced biography of Henry IV, saluting the talents and good luck which enabled him to survive the machinations of his mother-in-law. Catherine de Medici, the rigors of his large-scale lovelife, overexposure to Catholic armies.

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)--Pitirim A. Sorokin -- American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization.

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