Texas & Berlin THE LEANING TOWER AND OTHER STORIES Katharine Anne Porter Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (1944) Edited by Martha Foley Houghton, Mifflin ($2.75).
Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was...