Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 27, 1937

JOHN CORNELIUS—Hugh Walpole—Doubleday, Doran ($3). Lengthy, first- person novel purporting to be the life story of a famous writer (1884-1921) and friend of Walpole. Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery.

WE ARE TEN—Fannie Hurst—Harper ($2.50). Ten recent short stories in Fannie Hurst's deep-breaking, broad-bosomed style, about murder, marriage, young love.

THE DEPTHS & THE HEIGHTS—Jules Romains—Knopf ($3). Vol. VI of Romains' monumental novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of...

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