THE SINGLE HOUNDMay Sarton Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Plaintive first novel by a 26-year-old poetess, in which an aging spinster in a Belgian garden brings peace to a tormented young Englishman, emotionally ravaged by an affair with a married woman.
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THE STORY or RECONSTRUCTIONRobert Selph Henry Bobbs-Merrill ($5). Monumental, 633-page sequel to Author Henry's monumental Story of the Confederacy, restoring life and order to the drabbest, most fiercely confused period in U. S. history.
HELEN KELLER'S JOURNAL Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A rebuke to self-pitiers is this diary of 57-year-old Helen Keller...