Books: Last Words

THE HILLS BEYOND—Thomas Wolfe —Harper ($2.50).

When the late, sometimes great Thomas Wolfe died he left the manuscripts of The Web and the Rock (TIME, June 26, 1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940), and two huge packing cases which contained, along with "pots and pans, old shoes . . . discarded hats," etc., about a million words. His friend and editor Edward C. Aswell, having put the two novels into shape, got busy with the contents of the packing cases. The Hills Beyond, announced as the last of Wolfe's books, is the result. A scrupulous job of...