Books: Prize Novel

HONEY IN THE HORN—H. L. Davis— Harper ($2.50).

Shortly before the turn of the century, the last frontiersmen surged through the plains and valleys of Oregon in a vast tidal movement without precedent in U. S. history. Cities and railroads were built before the Indians had been pacified; industrialization was developed before the country was fully explored; the passage of history that in other sections of the West was spread over generations was here compressed into little more than a decade. Last week Harold L. Davis won the seventh $7,500 Harper Prize...