Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 20, 1936

THE TAVERN — Marguerite Steen —Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Romantic realism revolving about a Spanish innkeeper and his wife who thought they hated each other. Again Author Steen has written an almost, not quite, very good book.

RAIN ON THE JOB—Kathleen More-house—Lee Furman ($2.50). A melodrama of the North Carolina mountaineers, full-flavored with their antique parts of speech.

STAR-WAGON—Peggy Wood—Farrar & Rinehart ($2). First novel by a onetime stage star: the adventures of a professional couple in Manhattan and Hollywood. A little too wise-crackly but very cheerful.

DAUGHTERS OF ALBION—Alec Brown—Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Lengthy left-wing chronicle novel, an indictment of the middle class: “Picture of a doomed world, of a class whose place has vanished.”

THE GREEN LION—Francis Hackett—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Story of Ireland in the days of Parnell, by the Irish biographer of Henry VIII and Francis I.

SHADOWS FLYING—John Evans—Knopf ($2.50). A tale of inverts, tastily written, by the son of Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos).

WE THE LIVING—Ayn Rand—Macmillan ($2.50). Story of the younger generation in Russia during the early years of Soviet rule; Communist-sympathizers will find it annoying, Whites heartening.

THE SIXTH BEATITUDE—Radclyffe Hall —Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). A year in the life of an English slum family, by the author of the famed invert-novel, The Well of Loneliness.