Fiction: Recent Books: May 31, 1937

CALL IT FREEDOM—Marian Sims—Lippincott ($2.50). Southern romance about a middle-class divorcee who broke herself of ten-year marriage habits on a circumspect male diet.

A CARDINAL OF THE MEDICI—Susan Hicks Beach—Macmillan ($3). Long (411-page), impressively documented novel of the Medici, related as the reminiscences of the nameless mother of bastard Ippolito, a Cardinal at 19, whose precocious career was terminated at 25 by poison.

THE WIND FROM THE MOUNTAINS— Trygve Gulbranssen — Putnam ($2.50). Sweetly sombre, epic-proportioned Norwegian romance of a century ago, whose chief characters—a patriarchal landowner, his only son, and beautiful,...