Monday, Feb. 21, 1938

Recent Books

THE WILD GOOSE CHASE--Rex Warner --Knopf ($2.75). A lengthy, parabolic fantasy about three brothers who go into a far country to chase the symbolic Wile Geese. English Author Warner admires the mystical novels of Franz Kafka. Publisher Knopf believes that this book is perhaps another Gulliver's Travels. Hard boiled readers will find it like the curate' s egg.

BROOKS Too BROAD FOR LEAPING-- Flannery Lewis--Macmillan ($2.50). A sensitive, well-written story of a seven year-old's small-town world of 1918; b) the promising youthful author of Suns Go Down.

U. S. A.--John Dos Passes--Harcourt Brace ($3). One volume, 1,500-page edition of Dos Passes' trilogy: Forty-Second Parallel, 1919, The Big Money.

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