Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 29, 1934

Fiction THE TAKING OF THE GRY—John Mase-field—Macmillan ($1.75).

England’s prolific Poet Laureate writes a rousing tale of a Latin American revolution, in which all the best parts are filled by Anglo-Saxon hearts of oak.

FLORIAN—Felix Salten—Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The career of a prize Austrian stallion parallels the last years of the Habsburg Empire. A sentimental but appealing story.

THE FOOLSCAP ROSE—Joseph Herges-heimer—Knopf ($2.50). Historicalnarrative of the rise & fall of Pennsylvania paper-manufacturers, 18th to 20th Centuries, made to seem significant by Author Hergesheimer’s silkily persuasive style.

A WORLD IN BIRTH—Romain Rolland— Holt ($2.75). Fifth & last instalment of Author Rolland’s modern French epic, The Soul Enchanted.

Non-Fiction

VIENNA DIARY—Naomi Mitchison— Smith & Haas ($2). An English novelist’s account of Vienna just after the late Socialist rising.

HER MAJESTY ELIZABETH — Marie Louise, Countess Larisch von Wallersee-Wittelsbach— Doubleday, Doran ($3). Another royal testimonial, this one about the late Empress of Austria.

PEACE WITH HONOUR—A. A. Milne— Button ($2). A whimsical, sentimental author comes out strong for disarmament.

RUSSIA’S IRON AGE—William Harry Chamberlin—Little, Brown ($4). Fruit of 12 years’ observation of the Soviet experiment, by the Russian correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor.

THE LETTERS OF GAMALIEL BRADFORD —Edited by Van Wyck Brooks—Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Companion volume to the Journal of the late patriotic litterateur.

A TIME TO KEEP—Halliday Sutherland —Morrow ($3). More reminiscent papers by the Scottish doctor who wrote The Arches of the Years.

THE SECRET WAR—F. C. Hanighen— John Day ($2.75). Story of the fight for the world’s oil wells, by one of the authors of Merchants of Death.