Books: Solvent

ROPE OF GOLD—Josephine Herbst—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).

In 1934 critics called Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits one of the best novels of the year, ranked it and its predecessor, Pity Is Not Enough, just below the novels of John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social era.

Rope of Gold avoids the Depression, skips to 1933-1937, a period which has ruined even more novels...

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