Books: Reminders

THE JOURNEY UP—Robert Hichens— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

As ONCE YOU WERE—A. S. M. Hutchinson—Little, Brown ($2.50).

Robert Hichens' The Garden of Allah, published in 1904, when he was 40, has sold about a million copies. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson's If Winter Comes, published in 1921, when he was 42, sold 558,649 copies in the U. S. alone. Last week their latest novels (Hichens' 36th, Hutchinson's tenth) served chiefly as reminders that these once tremendously popular novelists were still alive. They also served as reminders that best-selling novels, while still frequently inexplicable, now show a...

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