Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 3, 1935

YOUNG RENNY—Mazo de la Roche—Little Brown ($2.50). A return to the early days (1906) of the Whiteoak family, 18 years before the prizewinning, pace-setting Jalna.

THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL—John Blakeney (with a foreword by the Baroness Orczy)—Washburn ($2.50). In the form of a full-dress biography, Author Blakeney tells all that is left to tell about the Scarlet Pimpernel.

THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY—Louis Golding—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Kidnapping, black magic, the Mafia, love and other forms of pursuit; in short, a story half-fantasy, half-thriller.

Non-Fiction

CHALLENGE TO DEATH—Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.—Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against war.