Books: Love and Politics

THE STREET OF THE FISHING CAT— Jolan Foldes—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).

With an uneven novel of the Philadelphia underworld, Steps Going Down, John Mclntyre won the $4,000 prize as the U. S. entry in a complicated international literary sweepstakes known as the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition (TIME, Sept. 7, Oct. 26). Sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart, Eric Pinker & Adrienne Morrison, the Literary Guild, Warner Brothers and by publishers in ten other countries, the All-Nation's Competition carried a first prize of $19,000. This grand prize was won by a Hungarian woman, onetime...

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