Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 22, 1934

HENRY FOR HUGH—Ford Madox Ford —Lippincott ($2.50). Sequel to The Rash Act; Author Ford considers it “the best piece of work I have yet done.” THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND — Waldo Frank — Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank’s novels of “mystical realism,” this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy— a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST—Marcel Proust—Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust’s magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE—Sarah Gertrude Millin— Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God’s Stepchildren. Non-Fiction

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—Branch Cabell—McBride ($2.50). Letters to vari-ous historical characters, by the now well-known ghostwriter for the late James Branch Cabell. To MY SONS—Harold Bell Wright— Harper ($2). A household word writes his autobiography for his sons, with a few thousand other readers in mind.