THE BARONESS Ernst Wiechert Norton ($2.50). An embittered German veteran, thought dead for 20 years, returns to the estate in East Prussia where he had lived as a child. How the unbelievable Baroness induces him to accept tranquillity is told in a wandering, moony style. Never a bright or a real moment; 100,000 copies sold in Germany.
Non-Fiction
PURITANS IN THE SOUTH SEAS Louis B. Wright and Mary Isabel Fry Holt ($3). A pleasantly acid record of missionary adventures among the Polynesians, from the first Tahitian mission in 1797 to the...
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