Books: Done to a Turn*

A JEW in LOVE—Ben Hecht—Covici, Friede ($2.50). In this book Ben Hecht has created a character who may well cause many a reader to fling the book from him in too precipitate disgust. Coming to know people is not always a pleasant experience and Author Hecht's creature seems at first a repulsive caricature. But the caricature grows into a portrait, the creature into a personality who is as interesting as he is unpleasant. Many an author would give his eyeteeth to be able to approximate the Hechticvitality. Jo Boshere (real name: Abe...