Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938

Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS—Marcos Spinelli —Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer.

Considering his lush beginnings, European schools later do a pretty good job on him.

Born in the Matto Grosso jungle, 32-year-old Author Spinelli, now a U. S. citizen, draws on his own boyhood for good jungle descriptions.

VOICES IN THE SQUARE—George Abbe —Coward-McCann ($2.50). First novel,

as awkward as a young colt: a nostalgic account of how everything turns out all right for virtually everyone in a little New England town in the 1920s.

STOREVIK—Gøsta af Geijerstam—Dutton ($2). Life on a Norway fjord: a bucolic Scandinavian approximation to the simplicity and fresh charm of Mrs. Roosevelt’s column, My Day.

Non~Fiction

SUWANNEE RIVER—Cecile Hulse Matschat—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Best of the Rivers of America series (previous volumes: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi) Suwannee River more than lives up to its folk-song fame. (Although Stephen Foster never saw the Suwannee, a stone to his memory stands at its source.) Author Matschat describes the primitive, fantastic swamp country of Georgia and Florida, the swamp folk and their legends, like a naturalist with poetic imagination.

UNTO CAESAR—F. A. Voigt—Putnam ($3). A long, weary argument by the Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, urging Britain to rearm, for the end of the world is at hand.