Books: Good Books: Jun. 25, 1923

The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion:

IN DARK PLACES—John Russell— Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son—a tropical grafter fights to the death so no one may rob his superiors but himself—criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats—and so on....