Books: Romains (Cont'd}

THE EARTH TREMBLES—Jules Romains —Knopf ($3). When last week the fifth volume of Jules Romains' super-novel (Men of Good Will—TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.) appeared, no one knew how many more were to come. Even Author Romains himself could not or would not say how nearly he had brought his big job to completion. Readers who had watched this literary skyscraper rise from its foundations were still unable to agree whether it actually was to be a skyscraper, a museum, a prison or what. Skeptics still cocked a wary eye at the construction,...