MEN IN CHAINSThomas RyanRandom House ($2.50).
Whatever Thomas Ryan's failings, he does not lack for ambition. In ten stories, prologue and epilogue, he tries to nail Man to the map in terms of his leading forms of bondage and self-martyrdom. There are quite a few writers more maturely qualified for such a task but disregard of that fact is one of Ryan's naive virtues, which he shares with most first and some second-rate writers. So in spite of its inadequacies, his rawboned, cornfed volume carries much to be respected in itself.
His first four stories are ancient history; 1) a martyred pathfinder, before...
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