Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 9, 1936

ROSE DEEPROSE—Sheila Kaye-Smith— Harper ($2.50). The fateful story of a healthy English farm girl who at 26 has unwittingly caused the death of her mother, her dearest friend, her idiot child, the suicide of her husband.

COURTHOUSE SQUARE—Hamilton Basso —Scribner ($2.50). Deftly written novel about a novelist who sickens of New York intellectual life, returns after ten years to his birthplace in a small Southern town, narrowly escapes lynching when he disturbs fellow-townsmen's ideas about Negroes.

THE WAR GOES ON—Sholem Asch— Putnam ($3). Laid in post-War Germany, this well translated chronicle of...

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