Books: Seedtime & Harvest

As THE EARTH TURNS—Gladys Hasty Carroll—Macmillan ($2.50). Farmers have it hard, but some of them, luckily for the rest of society, like the life. U. S. newspaper readers know that George Bernard Shaw was not far wrong when he told a Manhattan audience last month that U. S. farmers are in "armed revolt." But readers of As the Earth Turns will be reminded that farmers' lives are long, farms' lives longer; that depression and prosperity come and go but farming goes on forever. As the Earth Turns, May choice of the Book-of-the-Month...