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Books: Books of the Week

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SITTING BULL—Stanley Vestal— Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). Author Vestal calls his subject the “most misrepresented” American.

THE CAUSES OF EVOLUTION— J. B. S. Haldane—Harper ($2.50). One of Science’s most popular clarifiers makes it clearer.

MEMOIRS OF THE COMTE DE TILLY —Farrar & Rinehart ($4). 18th Century (not Rabelaisian) reminiscences of an amorist, thoroughly introduced by Havelock Ellis.

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY—Charles Xordhoff & James Norman Hall— Little, Brown ($2.50). October Book of the Month. (Reviewed next week.)

SMITH—Warwick Deeping—Knopf ($2.50). Simple story of a workingman’s struggle, by the author of Sorrell & Son.

ELLEN TERRY’S MEMOIRS—Edith Craig & Christopher St. John— Putnam ($3.75).

GEORGE GERSHWIN’S SONG-BOOK— illustrated by Alajalov—Simon & Schuster ($5).

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