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...

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