--- description: OLLIE Miss — George Henderson — Stokes ($2.50). All-Negro novel, well and simply told. THE SCARLET BEAST—Francis Gerard— Longmans, Green ($2.50). Allegedly historical romance... title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 25, 1935 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 25, 1935 by [TIME](/author/time/) Feb 25, 1935 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Feb 25, 1935 5:00 AM CUT OLLIE Miss — George Henderson — Stokes ($2.50). All-Negro novel, well and simply told. THE SCARLET BEAST—Francis Gerard— Longmans, Green ($2.50). Allegedly historical romance about the Punic Wars; a silly book. SEASON TICKET—Margaret lies—Harper ($2). Competent but uninspiring first novel about English season-ticket-holders (U. S.: commuters). WILD PASTURES—Rex Beach—Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Modestly described by its publishers as “a novel of romance and swift adventure,” by an old hand. ERNESTINE TAKES OVER — Walter Brooks—Morrow ($2). Story in the late Thorne Smith tradition but well above the average. So BRIEF THE YEARS—Natalie Sokoloff —Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Adventures of a girl who was in wide circulation among the Bolsheviks. HIGHLAND NIGHT—Neil M’. Gunn— Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of the eviction of the Highlanders from their glens in the early 19th Century. CALL IT SLEEP—Henry Roth—Ballon ($2.50). A first novel, the story of three years in the life of a sensitive Jewish slum-child, told with painstaking and pain-giving fidelity to slum dialect, slum neuroses. Non-Fiction THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE—Marvin Lowenthal—Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An autobiography of the famed French essayist pieced together from his own essays, letters, etc. THINGS TO LIVE FOR—Francis Stuart— Macmillan ($2.50). Disconnected chapters from the life of the mystical young Irish author of Pigeon Irish, The Coloured Dome. THE FOOL OF LOVE—Hesketh Pearson— Harper ($3.50). Sympathetic, lively biography of the late great Essayist William Hazlitt. PARTNERS IN PLUNDER—J. B. Matthews & R. E. Shallcross—Covici, Friede ($2.50). Another “Consumers’ Research” book, charging certain U. S. industries with racketeering methods, principles. THE POPULAR PRACTICE OF FRAUD— T. Swann Harding—Longmans, Green ($2.50). Examination of fraud in U. S. food, drugs, cosmetics, real estate, etc. LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPRESSES— Jacques de Serviez—Wm. H. Wise & Co. ($2.90). Reprint of an 18th Century translation, introduction by Robert Graves. THE AMAZING MADAME JUMEL—William Gary Duncan—Stokes ($3). The career of the Providence streetwalker who became Mrs. Aaron Burr, caused the duel between Burr and Alexander Hamilton. UNROLLING THE MAP—Leonard Outhwaite—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75)-Brief history of exploration (2750 B.C.-1935 A.D.), graphically illustrated with 56 maps. Verse COLLECTED POEMS—C. Day Lewis— Random House ($2.50). Poems and an essay by another young English paladin, peer and pal of Poets W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender (see below). VIENNA — Stephen Spender — Random House ($1.25). Poem on the Viennese Socialist uprising of January, 1934 by a much-touted English poet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6753825/fiction-recent-books-feb-25-1935/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6753825/fiction-recent-books-feb-25-1935/"},"headline":"Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 25, 1935","datePublished":"1935-02-25T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T15:26:02.572Z","description":"OLLIE Miss — George Henderson — Stokes ($2.50). All-Negro novel, well and simply told. THE SCARLET BEAST—Francis Gerard— Longmans, Green ($2.50). Allegedly historical romance...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6753825/fiction-recent-books-feb-25-1935/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6753825/fiction-recent-books-feb-25-1935/","name":"Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 25, 1935"}}]}] ```