Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 19, 1934

GALLYBIRD — Sheila Kaye-Smith — Harper ($2.50). Tale of 17th Century England, complete with black magic; sequel to The End of the House of Alard and Superstition Corner.

THE END OF A CHILDHOOD — Henry Handel Richardson — Norton ($2.50). Short stories by Australia’s No.1 woman novelist, Henrietta Richardson, including new chapters on the Mahonys (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony}.

A MAN OF PURPOSE—Donald Richberg —Crowell ($2). Reprint of an early novel come back to plague its Brain-Truster author.

Recommended Murders

THE BLIND BARBER — John Dickson Carr—Harper ($2).

THE POWER TO KILL—Robert Hichens —Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

THE CHIANTI FLASK — Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes—Longmans, Green ($2).

CREEP SHADOW ! — A. Merritt — Crime Club ($2).

Non-Fiction

THE NEW DEMOCRACY — Harold L. Ickes—Norton ($1.50). Another Cabinet member speaks his piece on the New Deal.

ERASMUS—Stefan Zweig—Viking ($3). Short but masterly biography by the author of Marie Antoinette.

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG — Maurice H. Weseen—Crowell ($2.50). Over 15,000 up-to-date U. S. slang words and expressions defined and classified by a professional lexicographer.

A GUIDE TO MODERN POLITICS—G. D. H. Cole & Margaret Cole—Knopf ($3). Handy handbook on current political systems of all nations by a studious married pair who also collaborate on murder stories.

SUN YAT-SEN—Lyon Sharman—John Day ($3.50). Full-dress biography of China’s Washington.

DOSTOEVSKY—Avrahm Yarmolinsky — Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). First-rate life of Russia’s great novelist, by the Chief of the Slavonic Division of Manhattan’s Public Library.