MARCHING! MARCHING! Clara Weatherwax
John Day ($1.90).
A STONE CAME ROLLING Fielding
BurkeLongmans, Green ($2.50).
By last week, middle-class U. S. readers had been subjected to enough proletarian novels to know what to expect when they opened a new one. They knew that the proletarian-heroes would be heroic, the capitalist-villains villainous; that in many a purple passage minor characters would hold forth like major prophets; that the gloriously tragic defeat of the heroes would leave its ineradicable Marx. Readers of Marching! Marching! and A Stone Came Rolling found them obedient to this pattern.
Though Clara Weatherwax spent her infancy in a papoose basket...
