Books: Words in a Sentence

THEN SHALL THE DUST RETURN—Julian Green—Harper ($2.50).

In this book Paris-born American Julian Green, now an expatriate in the U.S., publishes a novel which is very possibly the last he will ever write on what is his home soil—a novel which takes him mentally into a new land of mysticism.

Like Henry James and T. S. Eliot, both more English than birth could have made them, Julian Green is a natural Frenchman. For most of his life France was his chosen home and French the language in which he chose to write his dark, elegantly...