Books: Rediscovered Continent

THE ALL-AMERICAN FRONT — Duncan Aikman—Doubleday, Doran ($3).

SOUTHWARD Ho!—William LaVarre—Doubleday, Doran ($3).

THE GREAT NATURALISTS EXPLORE SOUTH AMERICA—Paul Russell Cufrighf—Macmillan ($3.50).

If the lost continent of Atlantis had risen streaming from the sea, it could scarcely have attracted more public interest in the U. S. than South America has in the past few years. FORTUNE led the journalistic rediscoverers with a series of articles in 1937-39. In 1938 the Fascist Menace began to loom, Carleton Beals wrote The Coming Struggle for Latin America, and Cordell Hull survived Round One at the Lima Conference....

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