Foreign News: Best Books

Tempting, newsworthy is a book just promised to U. S. readers by smart Ray Long who used to edit Cosmopolitan. In London last week Publisher Long said that he actually possessed a signed contract binding Josef Stalin and Maxim Gorky jointly to write a book for him.

Dictator Stalin will write the part called Russia Today (75,000 words). Novelist Gorky will edit these words and write the part of the book called Stalin's Life.

"Stalin will explain the hardships that have been endured in Russia" prophesied Ray Long, "and will tell what has been done...

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