Books: The Editors Like

WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME by Robert Penn W arren. (Random House, $3.50.) Romantic tale of nineteenth-century Kentucky, remarkable for its characterizations and for its passionate moral explorations within the framework of melodrama.

LITTLE BRITHCHES by Ralph Moody. (Norton, $3.00.) The plucky and endearing account of a boyhood on a dry Colorado ranch, 1906 to 1909. This is how the Moodys really lived.

THE VEXATIONS OF A. J. WENTWORTH, B.A. by H. F. Ellis. (Little, Brown, $2.50.) The madcap adventures of an English schoolmaster— what he does to the boys, and they to him — told with superb understatement by the Literary Editor of Punch.

CAST A COLD n EYEby Mary McCarthy. (Harcourt, Brace, $2.75.) Satiric short stories, witty and brilliantly worded, by one of the deadliest females of the literary species.

THE LEGACYby Nevil Shute, (Morrow, $3.00.) The love story, more tender than tough, of little Jean Paget, a British typist who was captured by the Japanese and who, after her liberation, goes to Australia to thank the man who saved her life. She finds him.

THE LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI by Louis Fischer. (Harper, $5.00.) Magnetism comes through this uneven biography of a prophet and his paradox — the saintly truth-seeker; the shrewd politician; the showman in a loincloth; the youthful libertine and lawyer.

THE EMERGENCE OF LINCOLNby Allan Nevins.

(Scribner’s, 2 vols, $12.50.) Dr. Nevins, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, reappraises on the big meticulous scale the four fateful years between Buchanan’s election and Lincoln’s first inauguration.

NELSON THE SAILOR by Captain Russell Crenfell. (Macmillan, $3.00.) The best and most vivid short account of Nelson’s leadership, aggressiveness, and independence that has yet been written.

SELECTED WRITINGS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS edited by Henry Steele Commager.

(Random House. $5.00.) Two novels. The Rise of Silas Lapham and AModern Instance; Howells’s memoir of his childhood,A Boy’s Town; and My Mark Twain. This solid old Burgundy has more life to it than is commonly supposed.

AN EDITH WHARTON TREASURY edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, $5.00.)The Age of Innocence, three novelettes, and eight short stories which please the taste like a soft Bordeaux.

THE SHORT STORIES OF CONRAD AIKEN.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, $5.00.) Best known as a poet, Conrad Aiken is an accomplished and original shortstory writer. Written in the twenties and thirties, these tales, like a very dry Chablis, are for the demanding palate.