Books: Trilogy's End

A HOUSE DIVIDED—Pearl S. Buck—Day ($2.50).

Last year Mrs. Buck interrupted her labors on her Chinese trilogy, which began with the best-selling Good Earth and continued into Sons, to write the story of an elemental Chinese woman, The Mother. Now she has returned to complete the trilogy with a novel that many a reader will consider below the level of her best work.

A House Divided quits the Chinese hinterland of peasant and warlord for an unnamed treaty port and for the life of a Chinese student in the U. S. Wang Yuan, son of...

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