Books: Books of the Fortnight

GAY LIFE—E. M. Delafield—Harper ($2.50). More lightly ironic realism by a housewives' rightful favorite.

IDA ELISABETH—Sigrid Undset—Knopf ($2.50). Story of modern marriage guaranteed complete in one volume, by the prolific authoress of Kristin Lavransdatter.

OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA—Alice Tisdale Hobart—Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Novel of Americans in China, by an authoress who supposedly knows both.

100.000 WHYS—M. Ilin—Lippincott ($1.50). A trip around an ordinary room, with handy grown-up answers to puzzling childish questions, by the author of New Russia's Primer.

OUT OF MY HEAD—Margaret Fishback —Button ($2). More light verse by the lightly...