Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 10, 1934

LITTLE ORVIE — Booth Tarkington — Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Tribulations of a U. S. seven-year-old; Maestro Tarkington at his funniest, best, most authoritative.

Non-Fiction

WAR MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: VOL. IV (1917)—Little, Brown ($4). England’s War Prime Minister continues the lucidly aggressive account of his stewardship; this instalment centres around his quarrels with the British High Command.

EUROPEAN JOURNEY — Philip Gibbs — Doubleday, Doran ($3). Famed British journalist feels the people’s pulse in seven European countries.

CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER — Beatrice Chanler—Liveright ($3.50). Romantic biography of an almost forgotten figure, by a socialite scholar.