Books: Books of the Week

SKETCHES IN CRITICISM—Van Wyck Brooks—Button ($3). Commonsensible commentary on U. S.

letters by one of the junior deans of U. S. critics.

GIVE Us HEROES—David Cort— Liveright ($2). High-powered, ambitious second novel.

SELECTED POEMS OF L. A. G.

STRONG—Knopf ($2). By the novelist-author of The Garden.

GUIDE THROUGH WORLD CHAOS —G. D. H. Cole—Knopf ($3.75). A 570-page economic treatise by one of Britain's foremost economists.

ENDOCRINE MEDICINE (4 vols.)— Dr. William Engelbach—Charles C.

Thomas ($35).

GROVER CLEVELAND—Allan Kevins —Dodd, Mead ($5). Full, authoritative.

THE HISTORY OF PIRACY—Philip Gosse—Longmans, Green ($3.50).

The late Sir Edmund Gosse's son is an...