Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year. Readers can now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give as presents. Following is a list designed to be helpful:
FICTION
ALL MEN ARE BROTHERSTranslated from the Chinese by Pearl S. BuckDay (2 vol.; $6.50).
ANN VICKERSSinclair LewisDoubleday, Doran ($2.50).
ANTHONY ADVERSEHervey Allen Farrar & Rinehart ($3).
THE BIRD OF DAWNINGJohn MasefieldMacmillan ($2.50).
THE BRIDGE OF DREAMSLady MurasakiHonghton Mifflin ($3.50)....
