Books: Aestive Pretties

THE ROAD TO NOWHERE—Maurice Walsh—Stokes ($2.50). LONDON BRIDGE is FALLING—Philip Lindsay—Little, Brown ($2.50).

Last week some vacationers packed into suitcases the worthy books they had no time to read last winter. But more were content merely to tuck under their arms a book or two of romantic light fiction that would serve to while away a train journey or fill in a rainy day. Of such aestive pretties, The Road to Nowhere and London Bridge is Falling are fair samples.

Donn Byrne died in 1928 but Maurice Walsh carries on in Donn Byrne manner. Author...