Books: Women's Words

AND I'D Do IT AGAIN—Aimee Crocker (Princess Galitzine) — Co-war d-McCann ($3).

SHADOWS LIKE MYSELF—Clara Longworth (Countess de Chambrun)—Scribner ($3.75).

LIFE WAS LIKE THAT—Mary Doyle— Houghton Mifflin ($2.75).

QUEEN OF HEARTS—Isaac Goldberg— Day ($2.50).

Last season fashions in autobiography inclined toward the long, earnest, semiphilosophic reminiscence of foreign correspondents, with such works as Vincent Sheean's Personal History, Walter Duranty's I Write as I Please and Negley Farson's The Way of a Transgressor reaching a best-selling popularity. Now the trend seems to be toward candid memoirs by international ladies of fashion who, after long...

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