Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 13, 1934

THE BALLIOLS—Alec Waugh—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Pre-War family novel, from the suffrage movement to the Great War, by the lesser of the Waugh brothers.

So RED THE ROSE—Stark Young— Scribner ($2.50). Civil War novel, by a champion of the old South and other lost causes.

BLUE PLATE SPECIAL—Damon Runyon —Stokes ($2). Thirteen short stories of Manhattan's Roaring Forties, by one who knows them and has the ability to express them.