Books: Guidebook to a World

DANGER! KEEP OUT—Edward J. Nichols—Houghton Mifflin ($2.50).

To a large part of the world which reads books, the immense world which functions behind the high woven wire fences of U.S. industry is almost as cryptic as the canals on Mars. First-Novelist Edward J. Nichols makes that world so lucid, so human, so interesting, that Sinclair Lewis' accolade seems none too generous: "I don't know any other novel that gets so deeply into this new and battling way of living that we call Industrialism."

The plant through whose intricacies Author Nichols guides the reader is an oil refinery in a suburb south of Chicago....

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