Recent Books

THREE WOMEN--Hazel Hawthorne-- Button ($2.50). Although the author strains coincidence to interweave her characters--three girls who are respectively intellectual, conventional and wild --and bears down over-heavily on stream-of-consciousness technique, she writes with considerable realism and sensitivity, particularly succeeds in evoking the neurotic repercussions of the Civil War.

THE DAUGHTER -- Bessie Breuer -- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). In Memory of Love Author Breuer wrote brashly but not brilliantly about a love affair from the male viewpoint. This time, no less candidly but with more social intent, she describes the painful affair (shared by her cynical mother) of an inhibited, literary virgin at a Florida winter resort.

THE PAST MUST ALTER--Albert J. Guerard--Holt ($2.50). Divorce tragedy, ranging through Iowa, California, Paris, a Swiss sanatorium, as seen through the eyes of an editor's precocious ten-year-old son. A first novel, written at 20, by the precocious, 23-year-old son of Stanford's Professor-Literary Critic Albert L. Guerard.

MEMORY OF YOUTH--Vilhelm Moberg --Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A sturdier Swedish Little Man, What Now? about a successful Stockholm magazine editor, turned sour on city life, who muses for 322 of the novel's 405 pages on his frustrated but retrospectively happy peasant youth.

Non-Fiction

HELLO AMERICA!--Cesar Saerchinger-- Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). First mikeside account of transatlantic news broadcasting, by the radio impresario who in 1930 originated the idea. An informative volume, packed with anecdotes that are frequently more interesting than the broadcasts of Saerchinger's celebrated clients. Illustrated.

Ox MY OWN--Mary Knight--Macmillan ($3). Lively memoirs of a successful woman foreign correspondent, until eight years ago a stay-at-home Atlanta girl. No oracle on world affairs, her book reflects the nerve, nervous energy and Southern charm that got her to the top so quickly.

BE LOVED No MORE--Arthur Bernon Tourtellot -- Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Life of Fanny Burney--friend of Johnson, Garrick and Burke, author of the famed Evelina and lady-in-waiting to George III's crocodile-mouthed Queen Charlotte. A sound enough biography, though the writing could be livelier.

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