THE FORBIDDEN GROUNDNeil H. SwansonFarrar & Rinehart ($2.50).
If contemporary U. S. historical romances were priced according to the research expended in giving them authentic backgrounds, they would cost a fortune. Kenneth Roberts, in writing a book like Northwest Passage, requires "upward to three tons of assorted reference books," goes to incredible lengths to determine whether, for example, the moon was or was not shining in some wilderness outpost on a certain night 150 years ago. But when he comes to write his narrative, long stretches of it are merely spurious love story,...
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