Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 9, 1936

DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY—Emil Ludwig—McBride ($3 ). Biography of Czechoslovakia's Grand Old Man, Thomas G. Masaryk, by the prolific German journalist-biographer.

THE SCHOOL OF FEMININITY—Margaret Lawrence—Stokes ($3.50). A study of women writers, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf.

WHAT is COMMUNISM?—Earl Browder —Vanguard ($2). The General Secretary of the Communist Party, U. S. A., speaks his official piece.