What America Should Be Reading
THE DAYS OF OFELIA BY GERTRUDE DIAMANT $2.75
An American archaeologist measuring skulls in Mexico City has her measurement taken by a delightful Mexican family. A cheerful book, full of understanding.
THE TEST AND THE UNJUST BY JAMES GOULD COZZENS $2.50
A novel built squarely and honestly about a murder in a Connecticut village, the racketeers who did it, the native sons who tried the case, and the townsfolk who listened. Tangy, dryly humorous writing which rings true.
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK BY LOUIS BROMFIELD $2.50
A highly colored novel of how conquered Paris fights back, whose melodrama is balanced by the fact that the author knows and cares.
VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER BY MAJOR ALEXANDER P. DE SEVERSKY ' $2.50
A fighting thesis on Air Power Unemployed; the biggest eye-opener in tactical thinking our side has produced.
CITY LAWYER BY ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS $3.00
Lively, realistic, and impulsive is this record of a New York lawyer who made good.
ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY BY HELEN MACINNES $2.50
John Buchan would have admired — and might have written — this adventure story about the Unvanquished in Brittany. A good thriller.
JAPAN RIDES THE TIGER BY WILLARD PRICE $2.50
A veteran journalist, long resident in the East, tells us some home truths about the New Order in Asia. Timely and informative.
THE RAFT BY ROBERT TRUMBULL $2.50
The recording of what three spunky American aviators went through during their thirty-four days’ ordeal on a raft eight feet by four.
AND NOW TOMORROW BY RACHEL FIELD $2,75
New England character as the mills run down. Authentic and very human in its delineation of the mill town and the heroine, who is deaf, but not to labor.