O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1937—Edited by Harry Hansen—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collection of 21 stories, notable for Stephen Vincent Benet's modern folk tale, The Devil and Daniel Webster (first prize), for Robert Coates's violent story, The Fury (third prize), for first-rate examples of the work of William March, Jesse Stuart, Robert Penn Warren.
EZEKIEL—Elvira Garner—Holt ($1.50). An unpretentious children's book about "a lil' cullered boy, an' he names Ezekiel," who lives in Sanford. Florida with "he Pappy and he Mammy an' he Sister Emancipation an' he brudder Lil' Plural an' Assafetida, de baby." Although he and his family do not live up to the glorious promise of their names, Ezekiel has enough adventures in 39 pages to make the book one of the unexpected best sellers of the season.
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WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER—Alexan-der Woollcott — Viking ($3). A 1,056-page prose anthology designed for hostesses whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments.