Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 24, 1935

THE DARK GLASS—March Cost—Knopf ($2.50). Long, blurred. English novel of spiritual rebirth on All Souls’ Eve, by the author of A Man Named ‘Luke.

LANDTAKERS—Brian Penton—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A story of pioneers in Australia, politics and exile, laid in a harsh environment; a powerful, realistic first novel.

SENTENCED TO LIFE—Mary Agnes Ham-ilton—Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Rambling political romance revolving around an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate a British Foreign Secretary.

Non-Fiction

HAMPTON AND HIS RED SHIRTS—Alfred B. Williams—Walker, Evans & Cogswell ($2.50). Detailed narrative of the end of carpetbag rule in South Carolina, a valuable document of Reconstruction days. The late author was a member of the Red Shirts and a friend of Wade Hampton.

THE ECONOMICS OF INFLATION—H. Parker Willis, John M. Chapman and others — Columbia University Press ($4.50). Symposium on the theoretical and practical aspects of inflation, with contributions that include a survey of inflation in current economic literature, inflation and overproduction, as well as studies of foreign trade and securities.