The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion:
SOMEWHERE AT SEAJohn Fleming WihonDutton ($2.00). A salty, foam-flecked collection of short stories for those who love the seaor Joseph Conrador both. Stories not alone of wrecks and lighthousesthough those are not absentbut a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against...