Books: Delta Doings

GREEN MARGINS—E. P. O'Donnell— Houghton Mifflin ($2.50).

Last week about 50% of the 165,000 members of the Book-of-the-Month Club received, in addition to the regular October choice of the organization, a special "book dividend" in the form of a Bible. Designed to be read for its literary interest rather than as divine revelation, the Book-of-the-Month Club's Bible, edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, proved to be a fat, well-printed volume with wide margins, connected narrative passages and texts arranged in prose and poetic sequences rather than in the traditional numbered chapters and verses of...