THE TREE OF LIBERTYElizabeth Page Farrar & Rinehart ($3).
It is practically impossible for anyone who has hit the jackpot of a slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of wistful abstinence (particularly trying because meanwhile Macmillan hit an even bigger pot with Gone
With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for...
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