Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 9, 1935

Non-Fiction

NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD— Gordon Enders with Edward Anthony— Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Interesting account of an enterprising U. S. aviator who grew up on the border of Tibet at the time of the Younghusband expedition, became an intimate adviser of the Panchen Lama. The book is filled with plausible explanations of international intrigue over Tibet, contains 64 unusual photographs. THROUGH FORBIDDEN TIBET—Harrison Forman — Longmans, Green ($3.50). More romantic record of the journey of a young U. S. airplane salesman in China who was attracted to Tibet by stories of a mountain higher than Everest, and by accounts of vast gold fields that also lured Gordon Enders. Two of Harrison Forman’s companions were killed by Chinese bandits. MARCH HARE—Elsa Smithers—Oxford ($3). Quiet autobiography of a native of the South African Republic who lived through the Boer War, several gold rushes, knew many of the South African notables of her day. THROUGH MY OPEN DOOR — Lucia Whitney—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of the ten-year illness of a well-known U. S. novelist who writes under a pseudonym, gives her impressions of the affairs of her friends as they appeared to an emotional, poetic, bedridden observer.