Books: Yes, No, Perhaps

NEW FRONTIERS—Henry A. Wallace— Reynal & Hitchcock ($2).

THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY—Herbert Hoover—Scribner ($1.75).

FREEDOM VERSUS ORGANIZATION—Bertrand Russell—Norton ($3.50).

It is small news when a professional writer publishes another book, but in this second year of the U. S. New Deal it is news when a busy Secretary of Agriculture and an ex-President of the U. S. each write one. Secretary Wallace dictated his 83,000 words into a dictaphone, finished the first draft in three months. Ex-President Hoover simmered over his...

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