THE LAND OF PLENTYRobert Cantwell Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).
Hard-shelled old conservatives glare askance at today's young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty....