Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 20, 1936

THE TAVERN — Marguerite Steen —Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Romantic realism revolving about a Spanish innkeeper and his wife who thought they hated each other. Again Author Steen has written an almost, not quite, very good book.

RAIN ON THE JOB—Kathleen More-house—Lee Furman ($2.50). A melodrama of the North Carolina mountaineers, full-flavored with their antique parts of speech.

STAR-WAGON—Peggy Wood—Farrar & Rinehart ($2). First novel by a onetime stage star: the adventures of a professional couple in Manhattan and Hollywood. A little too wise-crackly but very cheerful.

DAUGHTERS OF ALBION—Alec Brown—Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Lengthy left-wing chronicle novel,...