Books: Pincus Wins

ONE HAPPY JEW—Nat J. Ferber—Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The Marmelsteins lived in the ghetto of a small Galician town, but Papa Mayer worked away at his grocery, traded and saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer—Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed...