Books: Books of the Week

BEVERIDGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA—Claude G. Bowers—H ought on Mifflin ($5). A dull biography of a second-rate great man. Literary Guild choice for September.

SIR WALTER SCOTT—John Buchan —Coward-McCann ($3.75). Shorter and more readable biography than Lockhart’s, pat for the Scott centenary.

THE FORTRESS—Hugh Walpole— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The third and next-to-last in Walpole’s series about the Herries family of Cumberland.

SECRET LIVES—E. F. Benson— Doubleday, Doran—($2).

THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT—H. L. Mencken—Knopf ($1.50). Reprints of Mencken’s newspaper reports of the Republican and Democratic Conventions.

THE SCANDAL MONGER — Emile Gauvreau—Macaulay ($2). See p. 26.

A NEW DEAL—Stuart Chase— MacMillan ($2.50). See p. 38.