Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 29, 1936

SUMMER WILL SHOW—Sylvia Townsend Warner—Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection of 1848.

CHOOSE A BRIGHT MORNING—Hillel Bernstein—Stokes ($2). In a worthy successor to L'Affaire Jones, Satirist Bernstein flits gracefully from light comedy to stinging irony, never wavering from his determination to ridicule...