--- description: 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... title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 19, 1934 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 19, 1934 by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 19, 1934 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 19, 1934 5:00 AM CUT 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891272/fiction-recent-books-nov-19-1934/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891272/fiction-recent-books-nov-19-1934/"},"headline":"Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 19, 1934","datePublished":"1934-11-19T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-19T19:49:12.332Z","description":"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...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6891272/fiction-recent-books-nov-19-1934/","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/6891272/fiction-recent-books-nov-19-1934/","name":"Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 19, 1934"}}]}] ```