FATHERLAND FAREWELL!Gosta Larsson Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Solid novel about Swedish working-class life before the War, centring on the great emigration to the U. S. Its well-studied hero is an ambitious young engineer who struggles against his lower-class destiny, tries unsuccessfully to escape it.
NOBODY'S IN TOWNEdna Ferber Doubleday, Doran ($2). Two novelettes one about a Midwesterner married to a New York socialite, the other about rich New Yorkers who complain bitterly of the hardships of a Pullman trip over the route taken by their pioneer ancestordemonstrating, with Ferber dummies and sound...
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