Recent Books

IN PRAISE OF LIFE--Walter Schoenstedt --Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of what it was like to be young in post-War Germany, by a 29-year-old exile who well remembers his half-starved childhood, and how the Nazis rose to power.

IN THE FINE SUMMER WEATHER -- Catherine Whitcomb -- Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental.

Non-Fiction

THE PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 5 Vols.--Ran- dom House ($15). Dating from the New York Governorship to January 1937. with introductions and annotations, a total of 3,493 pages in all. A 14 1/4-pound shelf-filler, five trunkfuls of vigorous cliches, these handsome volumes have been widely hailed by critics as a successor to the monumental, unread papers of Woodrow Wilson.

THE FIGHT FOR LIFE--Paul de Kruif-- Ear court, Brace ($3). Front-line description of the latest developments in the war against maternal mortality, tuberculosis, syphilis, infantile paralysis. Strategist as well as war correspondent. Author de Kruif fears the battle will be lost (fine armaments, men and sulfanilamide notwithstanding) without a unified command, universal draft, merciless war on the enemy within--poverty and commercialism.

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